The Boat Builders
- Episode aired Jan 15, 1959
- 30m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
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Wally's homemade boat capsizes with Beaver on board.Wally's homemade boat capsizes with Beaver on board.Wally's homemade boat capsizes with Beaver on board.
- Director
- Writers
- Joe Connelly(uncredited)
- Bob Mosher(uncredited)
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- TriviaWhile Ward is doing office work in the living room, June picks up a paper on his desk and asks what it is. Ward replies that it is a new survey they took at the office on women's marketing habits and he suggests to June to "look it over." This interaction could imply that he works for an advertising or marketing firm and he is also looking for her feedback.
- GoofsIt is obvious that Beaver deliberately tilts himself to tip the boat.
- Quotes
Chester Anderson: Now all we gotta do is get some skin to cover the boat.
Theodore Cleaver: There's no animals around here got that much skin.
Wally Cleaver: The Eskimos use seal skin. What are we gonna use?
Chester Anderson: Hey, my father's got an old raccoon coat. Maybe we could use that.
Tooey Brown: Aw, cut it out. Who wants a fuzzy canoe?
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This a good episode, but as in most LITB episodes.....
Taking everything on this episode into account, it is one of the better episodes on the Leave it to Beaver series. It is one of the funniest, and is very creative in general. Now, the character of June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) is a typical Mom of the 1950s and early 1960s variety. In general she is very loving, watchful, and involved in the lives of not only her husband, but, also her children - in this case two boys. That said, there are a few rather negative things about the character of June Cleaver, and that is she has an overblown tendency to nag at the boys for every little thing. She is also a worry-wart to the extreme. Those two attributes in this episode called the boat builders is at a very high level, even compared with other episodes in the Leave it to Beaver entire series. It seems like she just will not allow her children be children, but rather, she wants to control and also, in a sense dominate everything about them. I was born in the 1950s, and while there might have been some mothers back then that were controlling, dominating worry-warts, there weren't many of them. My late Mother certainly was not as controlling or dominating, or a worry-wart even close to the likes of June Cleaver. In a broad sense, the creators of the show, IMHO, went a bit overboard by creating an all-knowing, all-seeing mother in June Cleaver. That could and should have been toned down a lot. But, even with the negativity of June Cleaver, and also sometimes with Ward Cleaver, this was a good episode, and the series is also good - one of my all time favorites - bossy mother or not.
Please understand that this is NO REFLECTION on mothers in general - just on June Cleaver, and especially in this episode.
Please understand that this is NO REFLECTION on mothers in general - just on June Cleaver, and especially in this episode.
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- Runtime30 minutes
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