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* PetTheDog: Eddie gets a few chances to do this, such as when Beaver gets a stain on Wally's suit jacket and is unable to fix it before a school dance. Eddie sees the ruined jacket, laughs, but then notices Beaver's sad expression. Eddie ends up fast-talking Wally into wearing casual clothing to the event, which spares Beaver from getting found out and scolded.
* PickyEater: Describes Beaver in some episodes, most memorably regarding brussels sprouts in "Beaver Won't Eat."

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Eddie gets a few chances to do this, such as when Beaver gets a stain on Wally's suit jacket and is unable to fix it before a school dance. Eddie sees the ruined jacket, laughs, but then notices Beaver's sad expression. Eddie ends up fast-talking Wally into wearing casual clothing to the event, which spares Beaver from getting found out and scolded.
** The parents get in a few moments, too, when the show subverts their usual CantGetAwayWithNuthin formula. A particularly touching moment is in "Beaver's Short Pants," when June's elderly aunt insists on sending Beaver to school in an OutdatedOutfit that causes him to get bullied. Ward is caught between not undermining Martha out of respect for June and not wanting his son to get bullied. Beaver thinks Ward has taken Martha's side, when Ward pulls him into the garage on his way to school. He teaches Beaver how to cover up the OutdatedOutfit with his normal clothes, and tells him to reverse the process when he comes home so Martha won't notice. As an extra touch, he insists on taking Beaver's umbrella (which Martha made him take), with the excuse that "it looks like rain" and he'll need it. Beaver is visibly relieved at Ward's intervention.
* PickyEater: Describes Beaver in some episodes, most memorably regarding brussels Brussels sprouts in "Beaver Won't Eat."
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* MailOrderNovelty:
** In "Captain Jack," Wally and Beaver find an ad in a comic book for a pet alligator and send away for it. They imagine a full-grown gator being sent in the mail, and intend to keep it in their bathtub. What arrives is a baby in a shoe box, and what ensues is them trying to care for it without telling their parents. Eventually, their parents do find out and they make the boys give the alligator to a local reptile house.
** In "Beaver's Accordion," the family gets an order form for a free trial of accordion lessons, complete with accordion. Ward sees it as a scam and tosses the form, but Beaver fishes it out of the trash and with some convincing from Eddie Haskell, sends away for it. When it arrives in the mail, he's suddenly faced with the dilemma of being unable to return it before the five-day free trial is up and having to pay the exorbitant fee.
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The series debuted on Creator/{{CBS}} in 1957, then after one season it [[ChannelHop channel hopped]] to Creator/{{ABC}}, where it ran until 1963. A [[ReunionShow reunion movie]], ''Still the Beaver'', aired on CBS in 1983, which led to a subsequent series that aired on Creator/DisneyChannel (then in its infancy), Creator/{{TBS}} and syndication, eventually being retitled as ''The New Leave it to Beaver''. TheFilmOfTheSeries was released in 1997, featuring somewhat of a (then) present-day look at the Cleaver clan, albeit with a mild AffectionateParody vibe.

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The series debuted on Creator/{{CBS}} in 1957, then after one season it [[ChannelHop channel hopped]] to Creator/{{ABC}}, Creator/{{ABC|US}}, where it ran until 1963. A [[ReunionShow reunion movie]], ''Still the Beaver'', aired on CBS in 1983, which led to a subsequent series that aired on Creator/DisneyChannel (then in its infancy), Creator/{{TBS}} and syndication, eventually being retitled as ''The New Leave it to Beaver''. TheFilmOfTheSeries was released in 1997, featuring somewhat of a (then) present-day look at the Cleaver clan, albeit with a mild AffectionateParody vibe.

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