Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Barbara Billingsley: June Cleaver
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Quotes
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June Cleaver : Wally, where are you going?
Wally Cleaver : I'm going over to slug Eddie.
June Cleaver : That's no way to talk, this is Sunday.
Wally Cleaver : You're right, I'll wait 'til tomorrow and slug him in the cafeteria.
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Eddie Haskell : Gee, your kitchen always looks so clean.
June Cleaver : Why, thank you, Eddie.
Eddie Haskell : My mother says it looks as though you never do any work in here.
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Ward Cleaver : I'm going to change my clothes and finish painting those trash cans myself; the boys ran out on the job.
June Cleaver : Well dear you can't blame them too much, they went over to see the big fire at the lumber yard.
Ward Cleaver : Fire?
June Cleaver : Yes, they couldn't resist it, and after all they are just boys.
Ward Cleaver : Tom Corton's lumber yard?
June Cleaver : Yes, it's been on the radio. Why, they've called out fire companies from all over.
Ward Cleaver : Well it must be quite a fire.
June Cleaver : Yes, it must be.
Ward Cleaver : June, I wonder if you'd go out to the garage and put those brushes in some turpentine, I won't be too long. (Rushes out the back door.)
June Cleaver : Once a boy always a boy.
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[Ward has opened the car door for June to enter]
June Cleaver : Thank you dear. It's so sweet of you to be the thoughtful husband after all these years.
Ward Cleaver : You're very welcome. Besides the neighbors might be watching.
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June Cleaver : Eddie seems to know a lot about the law.
Wally Cleaver : Yeah, he told his father, in three years he's going over the wall.
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Ward Cleaver : Ah, June, Gilbert's always talking about his parents. Have you ever met them?
June Cleaver : Oh, I see her at the supermarket every once in a while. She seems like a calm sensible person.
Ward Cleaver : You can't really go by that. You might look the same way to her.
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[June has prepared a lovely dinner of barbecued pork ribs]
Ward Cleaver : Well, you boys are very quiet tonight. What are you thinking about?
Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver : I was just thinkin' what I'd do if I was a pig eatin' peoples ribs.
June Cleaver : Beaver, please.
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June Cleaver : Ward, I'm very worried about the Beaver.
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June Cleaver : Dear, do you think all parents have this much trouble?
Ward Cleaver : No, just parents with children.
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June Cleaver : Eddie, would you care to stay for dinner? We're having roast beef.
Eddie Haskell : No thank you, Mrs. Cleaver. I really must be getting home. We're having squab this evening.
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[Ward has arrived home from work and is reading the mail in the living room, unbeknownst to June and Wally who have just come down the stairs]
June Cleaver : Now Wally, I want you to go in the living room and pick up those orange peels that you left on the coffee table. If your father comes home and sees them he'll be in a terrible mood all through dinner.
Wally Cleaver : Yeah, I don't want him hollerin' at me again.
[June sees Ward in the living room, who has overheard their exchange]
June Cleaver : [sheepishly] Hello Dear. I was upstairs, I didn't know you were home.
Ward Cleaver : Oh yes, the monster has returned to his cave.
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Ward Cleaver : Let's face it, June, Wally and Eddie have been friends for four or five years now - nothing's ever really happed.
June Cleaver : But Eddie has that look about him that makes you think something's always about to happen.
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Ward Cleaver : It's that friend of Beaver's. You know, the one who always talks like he was just frightened by something.
June Cleaver : Whitey Whitney?
Ward Cleaver : That's it.
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[repeated line, when the boys come home late]
June Cleaver : You're home late, aren't you?
[repeated line, when Ward comes home early]
June Cleaver : You're home early, aren't you?
