I've seen this episode several times and when I happened to catch it this morning, something interesting occurred to me. Penny's mother's went to the trouble to send invitations in the mail. Penny threw a fit because she sent one to Beaver. Beaver swore he wasn't going. June made a big deal of telling him to be polite and thank Penny's mother for a nice time. The party turned out to be held in the classroom at the end of the day and there was no sign of Penny's mother. It was just as if the party had organized itself. Penny put a few things in a box and her mother was picking her up outside. If the party was held at school, how could Beaver have "not" gone?
I think it was an easy way of getting out of making another set, but it didn't make sense.
I think it was an easy way of getting out of making another set, but it didn't make sense.