Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)

School Play (1958)

Hugh Beaumont: Ward Cleaver

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• Ward Cleaver : Well - guess this is your big night, huh?

  Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver : Well, I guess so.

  Ward Cleaver : Well, sure. You got a big part in the play. All your friends are gonna be there. Expect you got some butterflies in your stomach, huh?

  Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver : How would they get in there, Dad?

• Larry Mondello : [discussing the upcoming Third Grade school play]  I just hope it's not one of those mushy plays where they've got kissing.

  Hubert Whitney : They're not allowed to have kissing 'til the seventh grade.

  June Cleaver : [later after the play, talking about the Beaver]  Ward, he was just wonderful.

  Ward Cleaver : He was the best canary I ever saw.

  Wally Cleaver : Yeah, I was waiting for him to fall on his face or something.

  Ward Cleaver : [heading backstage to congratulate The Beaver]  Come on, let's go back and get him.

  June Cleaver : You know, Ward, he was so sweet it almost makes up for not having a girl.

• Ward Cleaver : I thought Claude Bonnefield was the smartest boy in the class.

  June Cleaver : Well, he is, but it... a... seems he pinched a girl during rehearsal.

  Ward Cleaver : Third grade may have lost another Adophe Menjou.