Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)

Farewell to Penny (1962)

Tony Dow: Wally Cleaver

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• [first lines] 

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : [reading an invitation, while in the kitchen]  'You are invited to a party at school for Penny. Three-thirty, Friday. Cake and ice cream will be served.' Signed - 'Mrs. Henry Woods.' You might as well throw this one away, Mom.

  June Cleaver : Now, why wouldn't he want to go to a party at school for Penny Woods?

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Well, in the first place - 'cause she's a girl. In the second place - 'cause Beaver says she's just about the creepiest girl in the whole school.

  June Cleaver : Oh, I think that's ridiculous. I wanted him to go because I think this is going to be a sweet little affair.

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Okay, Mom. But I think it's going to be one of those 'sweet little affairs' Dad's gonna have to beat him into going to.

• June Cleaver : Wally, I don't like you using words like 'flip' and 'ape'.

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : I'm sorry, Mom. I keep forgetting you're not a kid.

• Theodore Cleaver : Hey, Wally, you don't think she'll blab it all over the place what I said to her?

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Well, sure she's gonna blab it all over. She's a girl, isn't she?

• Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Gee, Beaver, did Mom & Dad *both* gang up on you about goin' to Penny's party?

  Theodore Cleaver : Yeah, well, Mom said we had to discuss it on account it was a farewell party, and then she started dragging all that stuff about me being polite and not hurting Penny's feelings, and then Dad started discussing it, and the next thing I knew, they discussed me right into going.

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Yeah, I know how it is. When they start dragging manners and politeness into it, you might as well give up!

• Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : I think you don't want Penny to move away on account of you kinda like her.

  Theodore Cleaver : Do you really?

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Well, sure. I'm no psychiatrist or anything, but I've seen enough of those Cary Grant movies to know how it works. Now, when he starts out yelling at Doris Day, ya always know he's gonna end up hugging her.

  Theodore Cleaver : Boy, Wally. This has really turned into a horrible mess, hasn't it?

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Yeah, but if you're gonna start getting mixed up with girls, you better get used to horrible messes.