Where's Beaver? He's with Gilbert; and Beaver is waiting to watch a girl pass by. He has been doing this for five days, and Gilbert wonders if Beaver is in love. "Dunno," is Beaver's response. All he knows is even seeing Donna has an "effect" on him.
Somehow, we end up at a carnival, and at the ring toss Beaver wins a $20 girl's locket. Wally is there with Eddie, and Eddie offers Beaver a dollar, but Wally halts the transaction. Wally suggests Beaver give the locket to June, a good idea. Gilbert suggests Beaver give the locket to Donna, a better idea? Back home, Wally tells June that Beaver will be giving her a nice present. Beaver has already cut out pictures of himself and Donna from the yearbook and put them in the locket.
Next, he is waiting for Donna Yeager and gives her the locket. Donna is appreciative and gives Beaver a kiss on the cheek. Wally is stunned Beaver gave the locket to a girl, a girl he barely knows. Wally figures that somehow this will cause trouble. A boy in the eighth grade can't go around like Frank Sinatra. Oh, and June gets a present: a monkey on a stick. Not what she was expecting given the build up from Wally.
Mrs. Yeager admires the locket but Mr. Yeager says the gift has to go back. It is 14 carat gold, he didn't give his wife anything that expensive until they had been married for five years. As a father, he cannot allow his daughter to be influenced by some playboy. If she is unwilling to give it back, then her dad will handle it. Back at the Cleavers, Eddie spins a picture of what's going to happen now. According to Eddie, the father of the princess will turn into an angry king and send a dragon to devour Sir Beaver of Lancelot. Well, that doesn't happen, but it does get confusing.
A package arrives for Beaver, it's the locket. Beaver is upset, does this mean Donna doesn't like him? Later June finds the locket and jumps to an even bigger conclusion; she is outraged that Donna would send such an expensive gift to Beaver; her poor, sweet, innocent Theodore. She has sent Ward to confront Mr. Yeager, and make it clear his daughter can't send her son such luxuries. At the Yeager's, Ward is embarrassed to discover that he and June misread the who gave who the gift. Now he has to talk with Beaver.
Beaver explains the situation, and his feelings about Donna and how he is confused by his "reactions" to her. Ward is sympathetic to Beaver's first bout with pheromones. All Ward can offer is that it gets worse before it gets even more worse. Beaver is just somewhat relieved his dad "sorta" understands.
Eventually June gets the locket, and that seems to make everything fine again.
If nothing else, this episode shows just how "mores" have changed. Wally mentions how Mrs. Rayburn, the principal, has rules about eighth grade students dating, they don't period. Expensive gifts, completely forbidden. One of my colleague, a principal at a middle school, was really upset when every girl in the eighth grade became pregnant during the year. That "experience" helped him decide to change careers. My wife and I could add our own stories from our years in education, but this isn't the Penthouse Forum. This episode, however, really captures a brief period of Americana that I doubt we can ever recapture.
Somehow, we end up at a carnival, and at the ring toss Beaver wins a $20 girl's locket. Wally is there with Eddie, and Eddie offers Beaver a dollar, but Wally halts the transaction. Wally suggests Beaver give the locket to June, a good idea. Gilbert suggests Beaver give the locket to Donna, a better idea? Back home, Wally tells June that Beaver will be giving her a nice present. Beaver has already cut out pictures of himself and Donna from the yearbook and put them in the locket.
Next, he is waiting for Donna Yeager and gives her the locket. Donna is appreciative and gives Beaver a kiss on the cheek. Wally is stunned Beaver gave the locket to a girl, a girl he barely knows. Wally figures that somehow this will cause trouble. A boy in the eighth grade can't go around like Frank Sinatra. Oh, and June gets a present: a monkey on a stick. Not what she was expecting given the build up from Wally.
Mrs. Yeager admires the locket but Mr. Yeager says the gift has to go back. It is 14 carat gold, he didn't give his wife anything that expensive until they had been married for five years. As a father, he cannot allow his daughter to be influenced by some playboy. If she is unwilling to give it back, then her dad will handle it. Back at the Cleavers, Eddie spins a picture of what's going to happen now. According to Eddie, the father of the princess will turn into an angry king and send a dragon to devour Sir Beaver of Lancelot. Well, that doesn't happen, but it does get confusing.
A package arrives for Beaver, it's the locket. Beaver is upset, does this mean Donna doesn't like him? Later June finds the locket and jumps to an even bigger conclusion; she is outraged that Donna would send such an expensive gift to Beaver; her poor, sweet, innocent Theodore. She has sent Ward to confront Mr. Yeager, and make it clear his daughter can't send her son such luxuries. At the Yeager's, Ward is embarrassed to discover that he and June misread the who gave who the gift. Now he has to talk with Beaver.
Beaver explains the situation, and his feelings about Donna and how he is confused by his "reactions" to her. Ward is sympathetic to Beaver's first bout with pheromones. All Ward can offer is that it gets worse before it gets even more worse. Beaver is just somewhat relieved his dad "sorta" understands.
Eventually June gets the locket, and that seems to make everything fine again.
If nothing else, this episode shows just how "mores" have changed. Wally mentions how Mrs. Rayburn, the principal, has rules about eighth grade students dating, they don't period. Expensive gifts, completely forbidden. One of my colleague, a principal at a middle school, was really upset when every girl in the eighth grade became pregnant during the year. That "experience" helped him decide to change careers. My wife and I could add our own stories from our years in education, but this isn't the Penthouse Forum. This episode, however, really captures a brief period of Americana that I doubt we can ever recapture.
