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[David Von Pein]

Good example, Greg. I'd forgotten that one.

 

[Greg_S_H]

That's really about the only example I can think of. The show was pretty well opposite of risque. Possible second example:



"Ward, what would you have done if you had seen a boy Beaver's age pushing a doll carriage when you were a boy?"



"Why, we'd have clobbered him, of course!"

 

[george kaplan]

June: "Has anyone seen my Beaver?"

(OK, I don't know if she ever really uttered that line, but she could have.)

 

[Greg_S_H]

I don't know about that, but the "hard on the Beaver" line or some variation thereof really did happen.

 

[David Von Pein]

But neither of the above two examples would even have been considered "off base" or risque...because Theodore's nickname WAS, in fact, "Beaver".

It's only our dirty-old-man minds that bring the "risque" into the "Beaver" equation.

And I still think my earlier example ......

"When did she see YOU off your feet?"

...... would be by far the closest LITB would have come to a "censored" line. THAT line certainly has a tinge of "innuendo" in it.

 

[Mike Frezon]

I definitely have some risque thoughts of Barbara Billingsley from season one.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Diane Brewster--Miss Canfield, Beaver's original teacher--was stunningly beautiful. About in the same league with, say, Gene Tierney or Princess Grace, IMO. This photo doesn't do her justice: