Growing up in the 60s this show was in syndication. A lot of my mom's friends drooled over "the Beaver" because he was "so cute." Even at the age of 4-5, I knew Beaver was an idiot. All of his actions were totally cringe-making to a real child (like the time he put the brussels sprouts in his shirt pocket. Like you do.) Older brother Larry was a complete pain the the neck, and never talked like any American boy I ever met, "on account of nobody really talks like that." Even at the age of 4-5, I always knew within 5 minutes how the episode was going to play out, crisis, denouement and all. Sadly, I was never wrong. My siblings and I preferred Eddy Haskell, who as Shakespeare put it, may not be a flattering honest man like Larry, but he was a plain dealing villain!
Review of Leave It to Beaver
