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This is a very believable and relatable episode for sure. It can be very surprising to a young person what a big deal that fathers seem to make over things like losing tools,flat tires,broken windows,and the like. Kids usually learn the hard way that dads are very funny about stuff like this! Anyhow,our pals Beaver and Wally are starting on their next adventure. They hope to be raising chinchillas! On the strength of a comic-book ad,they take over the garage and start building wooden cages for the chinchillas. Dad Ward Cleaver is not happy about his garage being taken over for this open-ended project. He makes it clear that the garage must be cleaned out before he gets home from work,or else ! (The 'or else' is implied) The next day,the boys get sidetracked-and Ward comes home again to a garage full of a half-finished project. Mom June is strangely quick to make excuses for the boys,but both sons do have reasonably legitimate reasons for not doing what they promised... Then again,when Ward does arrive,the boys could have at least been outside working,but they weren't,and Mom June seems oddly eager to make excuses for them. At that very point in time,right there,(when Mom started making excuses for them) the boys should have caught their cue and got moving in a productive direction,but even then they don't exactly jump up and get to work,so of course Father Ward feels like he's being flim-flammed and tag-teamed. He's ticked-off big time. The boys are once again given the same task to do,ie clean out the garage already guys ! In the middle of all this,somehow the front drivers-side tire on the family car has attracted a board with a nail in it,right outside the of the garage/temporary shop,and it's surely from the construction project. Beaver starts tugging at this board,and the nail pulls out of the tire just as Wally says 'Hey!'. Then... Poof! all the air leaves the tire and now the boys have a flat tire on Dad Ward's car. Geez ! A good idea comes from Eddie Haskell,of all places. The boys remove the wheel,roll it to the gas station and return shortly with a fixed tire. They put the tire back onto the car in the nick of time as Father Ward was due home any minute. After all this,the secret gets out when Ward grabs an unattended,open telephone receiver and the person on the other end is Eddie Haskell,waiting for Wally ! Eddie hears a voice and blurts out something like "Did your Old Man find out about that crummy flat tire,Wally?" Right then and there,the game is up. Ward scares Eddie Haskell off of the phone quickly,and goes to chat with Wally and Beaver. Pretty soon,after Father Ward grills the boys and shakes them up a bit,the whole deal is let out in the open,and possibly,hopefully, everyone learned something. Ward was likely happy that his boys took the initiative to take the tire off and get it plugged,but he most likely double-checked the lugnuts to be sure they were tight enough,just in case. And as happy as Ward probably was about the boys taking the initiative to remove,get fixed,and re-install the tire,he doesn't want to encourage sneaking-around and subterfuge,regardless of the reason or planned outcome. Another awesome episode for sure!

After seeing an advertisement in the newspaper, Beaver wants to raise chinchillas to make money and Beaver is trying to interest Wally. Wally decides to help and does so by building cages in the garage. Ward isn't so thrilled because he can't pull his car into the garage. He gives the boys until the next day to clean up the mess, but when he gets home the next evening the garage is still a mess.

The next day is Saturday and Ward gives the boys orders that they can't go anywhere until the garage is cleaned up. Shouldn't be a problem as the boys are giving up the chinchilla business as each chinchilla costs over two hundred dollars.

Beaver is picking up wood when they discover Ward drove over a piece of wood with nails in it, now the car has a flat front tire. Wally figures they are in trouble for leaving the junk all around and not picking it up.

Eddie Haskell stops by to see Wally and aggravate June. Since June is cleaning, Eddie comments his mother has a cleaning lady as the Haskells are social leaders. Eddie is amused at the flat tire and has an idea: put the spare on and leave the bad one in the trunk. Neither Wally nor Beaver would stick their dad like that. Eddie then has a good idea, take the flat off the car and take it to the garage to be repaired.

The boys get the tire off the car but then it gets away from them and rolls through the town until they catch it. Fred Rutherford is working with Ward at the office and sees what looks like Wally and Beaver rolling a tire. Ward is sure they are cleaning the garage at home. The boys get the tire back on the car and everything looks jake(*) until Eddie calls and Ward intercepts the call and gets the "message." Ward knowing the truth asks Wally and Beaver how their day went, and they know the jig is up. (*) The boys admit what went on and explain they just didn't want to be called stupid again. Ward now feels bad and accepts he needs to watch what he says a Wally says words can sting a lot longer than a whipping. A punishment Ward has never used on either boy.

A good lesson that refutes the old saw (*) sticks and stones may break my bone but words will never hurt me. Regardless, all is well. At least until Beaver or Wally find another scheme to get involved with.

For the younger generation: looks jake means look OK; jig is up means the deception is discovered; old saw is a proverb. Lastly. Act in haste . . . means if you act without thinking of the consequence then you may find you have some regrets.