Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)

More Blessed to Give (1963)

Tony Dow: Wally Cleaver

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• Wally Cleaver : [Wally is telling Beaver why he shouldn't have given an expensive gift to a girl he likes]  You don't go around givin' an expensive hunk of stuff like that to everybody you like!

  Theodore Cleaver : I know, Wally, but this is a different kind of likin'. It's not like Sunday School likin' or Ten Commandments likin'. It's a kind of likin' that, well, you know what I mean.

  Wally Cleaver : Sure, but... but Beaver, you're too young for that kind of likin'!

  Theodore Cleaver : Well, if I'm too young for that kind of likin', how come I've got that kind of likin'?

  Wally Cleaver : Search me. Maybe you've been seein' too many movies or somethin'. But, Beaver, feelin' this way about a girl at your age can get you in nothin' but trouble!

  Theodore Cleaver : But how can you get in trouble just feelin' good about somebody?

  Wally Cleaver : Well, 'cause at your age a guy can feel good about a dog or about basketball or about your parents or somethin'. But to feel good about a girl? That's murder!

  Theodore Cleaver : I never thought of that.

  Wally Cleaver : Look, Beaver, they have a rule in your school about kids not datin', don't they?

  Theodore Cleaver : Well, sure. But I'm not datin' her.

  Wally Cleaver : Well, yeah, but givin' her an expensive present like that is worse! It looks like you're in love with her or somethin'. And a guy in the eighth grade just can't look like he's in love with a girl in the eighth grade.

  Theodore Cleaver : Gee, I didn't think it was that bad.

  Wally Cleaver : Well, sure! You can't start actin' dumb and stupid about girls at least until you're in High School! A kid like you isn't supposed to go runnin' around like Frank Sinatra!