My Brother's Girl
- Episode aired Apr 16, 1958
- 30m
Mary Ellen Rogers schemes to get unsuspecting Wally to ask her to the school dance, using her friendship with Beaver to get closer to his big brother.Mary Ellen Rogers schemes to get unsuspecting Wally to ask her to the school dance, using her friendship with Beaver to get closer to his big brother.Mary Ellen Rogers schemes to get unsuspecting Wally to ask her to the school dance, using her friendship with Beaver to get closer to his big brother.
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- TriviaWhile Beaver plays in Mary Ellen Rogers' basement with her dad's electric train layout, there is a close-up as the trains go through a tunnel, where "JC & BM Railroad", is painted over the opening. This is a tip of the hat to the writers and creators of the program, Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher.
- GoofsMary Ellen tells Beaver that there's Ginger Ale in the "Ice Box". An Ice Box was the predecessor to the refrigerator. It used ice that was delivered daily by an Ice Man to keep food from spoiling.
- Quotes
Theodore Cleaver: [Beaver confides in his Dad that he took Wally over to Mary Ellen Rogers's house, and they basically told him to get lost] You know, Dad, now it's all over with, I feel kinda silly.
Ward Cleaver: Well Beaver, I'll tell you something about women. They have a wonderful capacity for love and understanding. Their tenderness and their sweetness are all-encompassing. But at times, they do have a knack of making us men look very, very silly.
June Cleaver: [unknown to Ward or The Beaver, June has been listening] I heard that, Ward Cleaver!
Theodore Cleaver: Oh, hi Mom.
Ward Cleaver: Yeah, hi Mom.
June Cleaver: [annoyed] Hi. Ward, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, putting ideas like that in The Beaver's mind.
Ward Cleaver: Oh yeah? Do you know what Mary Ellen Rogers did? She used The Beaver in order to get Wally to take her to the dance tonight. And don't look so shocked, because it's exactly what you predicted she'd do.
June Cleaver: I'm not shocked. As a woman, I'm very proud of Mary Ellen.
Ward Cleaver: You mean you think women *should* act this way?
June Cleaver: It's the way women *have* to act. Well, if we sat around and waited until you men got interested in us and got good and ready to settle down and have families, why this whole continent of America would be nothing but buffaloes, jack-rabbits and grizzly bears.
The eighth grade is having a dance to try to get the boys and the girls together. Today there is so much teenage pregnancy that trying to get them together would never be something you'd try to do. But I digress. June is on the committee that is organizing the dance, so Wally is pretty much being forced to go. But he has a date all lined up - Eddie Haskell. The whole thing - the giggling conversations among the girls, the conversations among the boys, the parents calling other parents trying to arrange dates - is just so innocent 50s style. But underneath the surface a scheme is brewing.
Mary Ellen Rogers has set her cap for Wally, and she is planning to get him by using his little brother, Beaver. Remember that this is the old "grammar school" arrangement, where the first through the eight grades are in the same building. So Mary Ellen eats with Beaver every day, flatters him, invites him over to play with her dad's electric trains, all with a plan up her sleeve while Beaver seems to be having a bit of a crush on her. Complications ensue, and strangely enough, they are June Cleaver approved complications!
I wonder if Mary Ellen would have gone to all of this trouble if she knew it would take her twenty years to actually land Wally? To see what I mean by that statement, you'll need to watch the LITB movie made in 1983 entitled "Still The Beaver". It's out of copyright and available on youtube.
- AlsExGal
- May 3, 2024
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- Runtime30 minutes
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