History YMMV / LeaveItToBeaver

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Near the end of [[TheFilmOfTheSeries the film]], Mrs. Cleaver finally tells Eddie Haskell to "cut the crap."
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Many, but of particular note is this one after the boys' trap for Lumpy gets Mr. Rutherford instead:
-->'''Wally:''' "We didn't mean to hurt Mr. Rutherford."
-->'''Beaver:''' "Yeah, we called 'meathead' and he came running out."
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Beaver (to Wally): "I'd rather do nothin' with you than somethin' with anyone else."
** And anytime Eddie does something nice.

-->'''Beaver:''' Larry gets a quarter for just being quiet when his dad gets home.
-->'''Ward:''' Well, that's not the way my father kept me quiet.
-->'''Beaver:''' Oh, yeah. You had a hittin' father, didn't you?

** Allan Manings wrote two episodes. Manings is best known as co-creator and producer of ''Series/{{One Day at a Time|1974}}''.

** Allan Manings wrote two episodes. Manings is best known as co-creator and producer of ''Series/OneDayAtATime''.

* DysfunctionJunction: Larry's family seems like a bit of a mess. Anytime he even mentions his family, he talks about "getting hollered at", and they openly say that his father hits him and his sister. His father seems to travel frequently and every time he's out of town, his mother acts like a basket case. There are also mentions of her getting nervous headaches when her children misbehave AND when they get disciplined. It's treated as a joke, but the longer you watch, the sorrier you feel for Larry. He's not a very bright kid but his home sounds like an unpleasant place, which may explain why he spends so much time at Beaver's house (something Wally comments on fairly often, 'gee, with the number of meals he's eaten here...' etc.)

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For ''The New Leave It to Beaver'' series. Due to legal issues, the revival series has never been released on DVD.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: ''Leave It To Beaver'' is what pretty much everybody (who wasn't there) thinks middle-class suburban life was like in the 1950s. The book ''The Way We Never Were'' by Stephanie Coontz begins with a takedown of shows like this: "Contrary to popular opinion, ''Leave it to Beaver'' was not a documentary."

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: ''Leave It To Beaver'' is what pretty much everybody thinks middle-class suburban life was like in the 1950s.

* DysfunctionJunction: Larry's family seems like a bit of a mess. Anytime he even mentions his family, he talks about "getting hollered at", and they openly say that his father hits him and his sister. His father seems to travel frequently and every time he's out of town, his mother acts like a basket case. There are also mentions of her getting nervous headaches when her children misbehave AND when they get disciplined. It's treated as a joke but the longer you watch the sorrier you feel for Larry. He's not a very bright kid but his home sounds like an unpleasant place, which may explain why he spends so much time at Beaver's house (something Wally comments on fairly often, 'gee, with the number of meals he's eaten here...' etc)

** And, of course, Eddie Haskell

* HilariousInHindsight: In one episode everyone was aghast that Beaver was actually selling water to people! Mind you, it wasn't so much that he took advantage of inside knowledge that the water main would be shut off or that he was selling it out of a bucket on his wagon, but mearly the fact that one person could be low enough to sell water to another person! How [[Creator/DennisMiller Evian spelled backwards]] of them!

* MemeticMutation: Not this show entirely, but it along with ''Series/FreshPrinceOfBelAir'' gave birth to the iconic line "DO I LOOK LIKE A WHITE GUY NAMED WARD!?" Spouted by Uncle Phil in reference to this show.

* MemeticMutation: Not this show entirely, but it along with ''Series/FreshPrinceOfBelAir'' gave birth to the iconic line "DO I LOOK LIKE A WHITE GUY NAMED WARD!?" Spouted by Uncle Phil in reference to this show.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[Series/PetticoatJunction Uncle Joe]] ran an alligator farm that Beaver and Wally visited in one of the first episodes.
** [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Floyd the Barber]] gave Wally his first shave.
** [[Series/HogansHeroes Major Hochstetter]] was a coniving milk salesman who used Wally as his stooge.

* TheDanza: Future DisneyChannel production regular Richard Correll as Richard Rickover
* DirectedByCastMember: Hugh Beaumont (Ward) helmed several episodes.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: In the 1983 made-for-TV movie it's revealed that Ward Cleaver passed away in 1977 at the age of 67. Ward's actor, Hugh Beaumont, had passed away in 1982 of a heart attack.

* MemeticMutation: Not this show entirely, but it along with ''Series/FreshPrinceOfBelAir'' gave birth to the iconic line "DO I LOOK LIKE A WHITE GUY NAMED WARD!?" Spouted by Uncle Phil in reference to this show.

* MemeticMutation: Not this show entirely, but it along with FreshPrinceOfBelAir gave birth to the iconic line "DO I LOOK LIKE A WHITE GUY NAMED WARD!?" Spouted by Uncle Phil in reference to this show.

* HiddenDepths: In one episode, June reveals that her Aunt has raised her from childhood.

* FetishFuel: In the movie version, Ward is excited by the sight of June vacuuming in heels and pearls.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Some of the DarkerAndEdgier episodes of the series, depicting alcoholism, divorce, and Beaver's Hispanic friend, are quite tame by today's standards.

* FetishFuel: In the movie version, Ward is excited by the sight of June vacuuming in heels and pearls.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Some of the DarkerAndEdgier episodes of the series, depicting alcoholism, divorce, and Beaver's Hispanic friend, are quite tame by to0day's standards.

* FetishFuel: In the movie version, Ward is excited by the sight of June vacuuming in heels and pearls.

** Indeed, Tony Dow ended up becoming so popular in the later seasons, that the writers started writing episodes in which Wally would get into the schemes and scrapes that Beaver would usually get into, with Beaver becoming more of an observational character.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Wally, in latter seasons.

** Not to mention Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford, bad girl Judy Hensler and even Gilbert Bates.