Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)

Substitute Father (1961)

Tony Dow: Wally Cleaver

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Quotes 

• Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : [at the bottom of the staircase, calling upstairs]  Hey, Mom!

  June Cleaver : Yes, Wally.

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Could Eddie spend the night here?

  June Cleaver : Not while your father's away.

  Edward 'Eddie' Haskell : [dejected]  Boy. Everybody around here is wise to me. I might just have to move to a new town and start all over.

• Theodore Cleaver : [after hearing Beaver use a bad word in school, Miss Landers sent home a note asking a parent to come in with Beaver; he and Wally are trying to convince her to accept Wally as a substitute]  Well sure, Miss Landers. Last year, when I was a little kid, Wally caught me horsing around in Sunday school, and he told me how it was God's house, and people would think I came from a home where nobody had any respect for anything. He told me so good, I never did it again!

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Yeah, Miss Landers, and I told him on the way over here about using bad words, and how guys are only judged by what they say and what they do, and he could really understand it. Well, what I mean is, he's got that 'little kid' expression on his face all the time, but he's really not as goofy as he looks.

• Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : [Ward, who is leaving on a business trip, has just had a private talk with Wally outside, instructing him to be the man of the house in his absence; Wally comes back inside]  Mom, do you have the phone number at my high school?

  June Cleaver : Well I think so, why?

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Well, in case you fall down the stairs and break your leg or something, you can call me.

  June Cleaver : Oh.

  Theodore Cleaver : [Wally moves close to Beaver and inspects him]  What's the matter with you?

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Get upstairs and clean out your ears, you little pig!

  [Beaver ascends the stairs while staring at Wally in disbelief] 

• June Cleaver : Wally, look. I just think it's wonderful that you're being this conscientious, but I'm sure everything will be all right until your father gets home.

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : Yeah, I guess so, Mom. But he did tell me to watch everything and act like an adult. I've only been doin' it since this morning, and it's kinda creepy.

  June Cleaver : It does?

  Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver : I don't know how you guys can do it without laughin'!