This Scene Wasn’t Edited, Look Closer At This 'Leave It To Beaver' Blooper

In the twilight of the wholesome 1950s, nestled in the cozy set of "Leave It To Beaver," a peculiar moment slips through, one that wasn't polished away in editing. Amid the staged laughter and scripted lines, there it is-a blooper that tells a tale all its own. It was a time when television was king, and "Leave It To Beaver" was its loyal subject, shaping American family ideals one episode at a time. Yet here stands an error, unnoticed or simply left in, defying the era's quest for TV perfection.
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This Scene Wasn’t Edited, Look Closer At This 'Leave It To Beaver' Blooper
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[@jay-day]

When"Leave It To Beaver" was produced, there was no such thing as internet, Netflix, or even a VCR. It was next to impossible for viewers to notice details like the license plate on the Cleaver car. Producers most likely used the car they had available, and it was highly unlikely a viewer would notice for the once a week the show originally aired.

[@jasonrodgers9063]

True. An episode would be seen once "first run", then at MOST a handful of reruns over a span of years. No way anyone would notice, much less care!

[@wlodell]

@jay-day. Your comment is important, and points out the fallacy of many comments here that reflect a naive or poor understanding of cultural history and technological developments of the country they grew up in. Even the narrative in different parts seem to exploit negative perspectives.

[@rosemaryallison9411]

I am 74 years old and I grew up with Leave It with Beaver. I loved it. It was a nice, clean show.

[@thefamouspeopleus]

The practical effects in classic TV never fail to fascinate! From fake bees to reused license plates, the ingenuity of old-school TV producers shines through. It's like peeking behind the curtain of television history. 📺✨

[@annmariep3468]

Always liked watching Leave it to Beaver. Wally was my favorite.❤️

[@A2D4]

June struck me as naive for being a mom of two boys ( which she also was in real life). Or maybe I shd blame the writers. For example: ‘Ward, do you really think Beaver would have stayed up in that tree till he died?’ ‘Ward, why would Beaver be carrying a box of mud?’ ‘Ward, why do the boys have to fight? Why can’t they get along like little gentlemen?’ ‘Ward, why would Wally and his friends want to go watch at the dancing school? They’re not taking dance classes.’ Even for the 50’s, those were sone pretty ridiculous lines….

[@barbaraparker6996]

So true. And l hated when she would say "Ward what would your father have done if you had done that"? She was funny and had a better sense of humor in the 1st two seasons.

[@lisagibson2975]

Ward and June were everyone's dream Mom & Dad.

[@shadowbear66]

How would you know speak for yourself

[@justlooking8683]

Yup, lots of kids that's all the had,we did not grow up evil.

[@lenorapalminteri1002]

I used to watch Leave It To Beaver back then, and still watch the reruns now!

[@marilynbrown5274]

The most wholesome show EVER!

[@SiccDeville]

to add to the height part of June Cleaver, i heard in other documentaries that she wore heals because Ward was so much taller than her. the part about her wearing heels because the kids were getting taller was news to me.

[@pauliedi6573]

June got this line past the censors” Ward, don’t be so “hard on the beaver”

[@leondillon8723]

HELL, Mich. right now the super bluenoses would find a double meaning with Beaver Cleaver.

[@Ease54]

With Mr. Rutherford's car in June's driveway so often, maybe HE should get a warning.

[@nickemanouil114]

I remember that, I watch it sometimes in the morning. Also Carrol Brady, "I'd rather smell like fish" in the episode where a woman wants Mike to design a perfume factory.

[@BluBlu777]

Things weren’t clear enough on TV back then to catch those strings bouncing around faces. Heck I was happy enough just being able to see people’s faces.

[@jay-day]

Eddie making a mistake on the title ofa book may or may not have been an error by the writers. But Eddie was constantly feigning a greater degree of maturity than he actually possessed when talking to adults.

[@timlabell]

Beaver was so cute when he was from the beginning then it progressed he got older kind of like kittens and cats. I think the star of the show was ward cleaver if that isn't the perfect example of everyone's father or at least how it should be.😅

[@automatedelectronics6062]

Let's talk a little bit about record player mechanics of the time. Belt???????? Record players of the time usually didn't use a belt. Most used an idler drive wheel. About the only record player(turntable) of the era which comes to mind was the Empire turntable. Those were large and fairly prominent. I don't see an Empire turntable anywhere. It would be expected that a idler-driven record player of the day might come to an abrupt halt as the power is disconnected. The sound would definitely fade away and when the power is turned back on, would fade back in after the turntable came back up to speed. This is one reason that tube-amplified juke boxes kept power on the tube filaments so that sound would start instantly when the needle dropped on the record.

[@tomhammer1784]

Back in the days of the Lone Ranger of the 50s when the lone ranger and Tonto rode out of town, it was usually the same scene in every episode. Because the episodes were a week apart, you couldn’t remember that scene. As an adult, I watch reruns almost 2 or three times a day of those episodes and now you can actually see the towns are basically the same, no matter where they were located in the script. What the likely they just use the same shoot for every episode rather than a refill refilm.

[@stevearmstrong4561]

Record players did not use belts in this time period. They used idler wheels that would promptly disengage and engage. The electronics were comprised of vacuum tubes. The song cutting off without winding down and restarting without winding back up again was plausible.They were true to the mechanics of the record players of the time.

[@leondillon8723]

13:54)An episode of "Happy Days" had Richie going to an USMC member's bachelor party. The footage came from "Love, American Style". 20:35)Before "Still The Beaver", Ken Osmond was shot 4 times in one incident. Medically retired from the LAPD.

[@automatedelectronics6062]

Movie? When the show started Wally was supposed to be 12 years old and the beaver 8. By the end of the series, Wally HAD aged 5 years, so, 5 + 8 adds up to 13, which is about correct for the Beaver being 14. So, yes, Beaver DID age. I guess that you didn't watch TV alot, or even movies? Scripts are often patterned after real life experiences. Plus, scripts are often written about current events and things to make the news. Especially in recent years, different shows revolve around the same situations which really happened in real life when the scripts were written. Speaking of introducing shows within other established shows, it's been happening for a very long time. Maybe one of the characters in the "pilot" caught on, so a show was created for that character. Speaking of the Simpsons, you realize that it started as a short animated part of the Tracy Ullman show. The rest is history. Where's the toilet tank? All I see is the lid for a toilet tank.

[@jonp3890]

When I was a kid, for the longest time I thought the beaver had gone off and gotten killed in the Vietnam War… 😂

[@MichaelScotto]

The final episode was in 1963. I’m not sure if any sitcoms were broadcast in color by then.

[@anniesizemore3344]

If you watch The Munster's where Igor the bat or Grandpa when he's a bat are flying around you can see strings holding the fake bats too. There's a episode of Bewitched where Tabitha's bottle floats upstairs to her. You can see the string holding it

[@RayPointerChannel]

Your recounts of this history are generalized but not specific to actuality. LEAVE IT TO BEAVER was on ABC. ABC just started color broadcasts in 1962 with select shows. LEAVE IT TO BEAVER was in its last season. Since all of the shows were filmed in black and white, there was no desire to go to color. What are "expensive cameras?" The same cameras were used. There was a thing called color negative film that could be used in any standard camera. This was no longer the days of Technicolor film cameras--and issue made possible with the introduction of the color negative film in 1947. There was talk of an expanded format going to NBC in color, but the plans were cancelled, partly because Jerry Mathers was interested in quitting and going to school full time. Regarding the license plate, the decision was simple. NO ONE noticed it, and the shows were not viewed back-to-back so that people could nit pick on such things. The same goes for the same calendar in the kitchen. It was a prop that made a suggestion. It was not that noticeable that anyone saw that it was the same calendar, nor did they care. Your attention was supposed to be on June Clever. It you weren't looking at her, there was something wrong with you. As for things like things being "edited out," there is no such thing in film editing. Continuity was generally consistent since there was a production person called a "Script Girl" whose job it was to observe what was in scenes and keep a record. Later on when the Polaroid Camera came along, the snap shots were used for accurate reference. When I saw this episode when originally aired, I was aware of the "wow" issue that results from shutting off the power to a phonograph. It actually would have been funnier if the rundown and start-up of the record had happened, but that would have given away the gag. The interruption makes it more of a mystery. Eddie making the mistake on the author of the book was on purpose. Eddie was always pandering to the Clever parents to appear polite and intellectual. And no, the writers did not have trouble combining reality and make believe. Many of the stories came from things that happened with the kids of the creators. The show was from the child's point of view, which was the key to the show.

[@robb7398]

Our TV screens were usually so small in those days we wouldn't have noticed details like what was on a calendar.

[@user-ym6lt1ms7y]

I'm 66 and we didn't get our first TV till I was 9, and even after we got one we weren't allowed to watch anything except 6 p clock news, star trek on Friday nite and Saturday cartoons so I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up and didn't watch this show till I was in my 40s, it was a great show as were a lot of shows back then. I'm retired now and catching up with the world of TV

[@robb7398]

I'm 66 and my parents had a TV since almost a decade before I was born, and growing up I could watch anything I wanted other than The Three Stooges - my mom thought they were too violent.

[@seanedwards569]

Harry Shearer? The Simpsons started as a short cartoons as part of the Tracy Ullman Show.

[@Snowboarder16]

I always liked Gilbert we were same age and kind of looked alike

[@pauliedi6573]

Were you also a jerk like him Just kidding

[@pauliedi6573]

I tried to find an interrupter

[@happycamper3278]

This was a great '50's show, and THEN when I grew up, it was Mary Tyler Moore...:)

[@pauliedi6573]

So it was the episode Leave it to Bee ver

[@FrankArce-of7zu]

🐝

[@j-bro894]

I loved Beave it to Leaver.

[@alansnow1129]

Lot of shows stayed black and white till 1965

[@Starswake]

The mother staying taller than her sons was weird.

[@annesummers09]

It looks like Wally was played by other actors. There is also a scene where 'Ward' is sitting on the couch and it is clearly not Hugh.

[@GaryTongue-zn5di]

No! AN other actor. Just one!

[@happycamper3278]

Hugh Beaumont was THE Dad!!

[@happycamper3278]

To clarify: Hugh Beaumont was THE Dad!

[@marcbahn5487]

Those were auditions and/or rehearsals.

[@uffda7039]

What was the pilot episode of Leave It to Beaver? It's a Small World The pilot, titled "It's a Small World", aired on April 23, 1957. It featured Casey Adams as Ward Cleaver, and Paul Sullivan as Wally Cleaver. Just fyi. When watching reruns this pilot plays as and episode. It might be found on KZbin to watch😊

[@kendrach3314]

First tv show to have a toilet in the bathroom

[@seethransom]

Why is Young Sheldon in black and white?

[@VirgilTStone]

Why do you watch it?

[@scottmckay9535]

Why didn't you mention Hugh Beaumont at the end? Guess dads don't matter, huh?

[@poetcomic1]

He had one stipulation in his previous portfolio "Does NOT like to work with children." As a matter of fact, the first year or so he is a little to grumpy and sour but mellows out by year 2

[@happycamper3278]

This was a great show...

[@marcbahn5487]

@@poetcomic1 I imagine it was quite a transition from film noir gangsters and detectives to best dad in town.

[@mirrortime]

That BEE was Real! Look close. It's been said Mathers got stung 3 times during the filming. Being somewhat allergic, Mathers was THEN given a fake bee.

[@user-ds6jv1om7n]

Wow! Well done you!

[@brucelawson642]

Who cares about minutia.😊

[@michaelharrington75]

Why are there two Beavers at 4:24? A young Beaver, and younger Beaver!

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

That's Jerry and his younger brother Jimmy Mathers. They look similar. But it's not a LITB scene. Something else. You can see Jimmy Mathers on several single episodes of different shows, including a Bewitched episode (Little Pitchers Have Big Fears) in which he was a kid who wanted to be on a baseball team, but his overprotective helicopter mom wouldn't let him. Btw, the name of the episode was a play on words, on the old saying, "Little pitchers/jugs have big ears." Itself, a play on words, meaning be careful what you say within earshot of kids because they hear more than you think. A traditional clay pitcher from ancient times, even if small, would have "big ears/handles" for carrying it around. Hope this helps.

[@jesseroggio7260]

I don't think that picture was from the series, you'll notice there's also a girl, and the parents are different. Might be Jerry Mather's real family.

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

@@jesseroggio7260 As I said, the younger boy is his little brother Jimmy Mathers.

[@SteveHartman-my9rg]

Who wears suits at supper time and she wore jewelry while washing dishes

[@user-wk7bl2kp5f]

I am78 and we did have to clean up and dress up for dinner. Ladies also changed their house dresses for dress up clothes and stockings. There was also sections in ladies stores for house dresses or as they were called morning dresses. It really eas a different world than kids! Moms dressed up in late afternoon even you were just staying home. Pearls around the neck were almost a must and they did not leave the house without a girdle and stockings. Girdles were a must no matter how thin you were. The 60s brought about many changes.

[@A2D4]

What about your OWN goofs in the narration?? You called the show a movie at one point, you called Dana’s book “The Mast”. You call the various mistakes “horrible”. That’s a little extreme …

[@SiccDeville]

20:45 he says Beaver but shows pictures of Wally.

[@pauliedi6573]

Eddie makes license plates now

[@happycamper3278]

In Heaven - great show!

[@pauliedi6573]

The show was the stupidest misrepresentation of life in the 50’s 60’s

[@orgafelaforeginatum]

Why?

[@poetcomic1]

I went to grade school in the fifties and school, the family around the dinner table, the mischief we got into.... its very familiar. The shows writers got a lot of their storylines from their own kids in real life.

[@marcbahn5487]

Anyone who was around at the time can vouch for its authenticity. Like me.

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

Who pissed in your Cheerios?