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Continuity mistake: In season 1 (1957), Beaver is in grade 2 and Wally is 13 and in grade 8. Tony Dow was born in April 1945 and Jerry Mathers in June 1948. This means that Beaver/Jerry would have been 9 and Wally/Tony Dow 12, with a 3-year age gap. In the last (6th) season, Wally is a senior which indicates that he must have failed a grade. Meanwhile, Beaver is in 8th grade. Interestingly, the actors were also 3 years apart in age. At age 12 in 1957, Wally should have been in 6th/7th grade, which is more consistent with him being a senior in season 6.

Rebecca Venter

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School Play - S2-E11

Visible crew/equipment: At the start, while Whitey is reading aloud about the school festival, there's a large chalk T-mark on the floor in front of the boy at the center, and a small T-mark on the floor between Whitey and Beaver. (00:00:45)

Super Grover

Beaver and Henry - S1-E37

Visible crew/equipment: Early in the morning, after Ward and Wally go downstairs to check the trap June walks out of the bedroom (a funny June moment), and when Beaver rushes out carrying the baseball bat, the moving boom mic casts a shadow in the top left corner of the screen. (00:04:20)

Super Grover

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Tenting Tonight - S1-E30

Visible crew/equipment: When Ward tells June he wants to take the boys to Friends Lake, for an overnight camping and fishing trip, as Ward heads for the staircase so he could tell the boys, he passes a c-stand, a piece of filming equipment visible at the right side of the screen. (00:08:25)

Super Grover

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Next Door Indians - S1-E29

Continuity mistake: After Ward puts a new lightbulb in the fridge June stares at the mess Ward made, and the scalloped range hood vent is conspicuously missing, but when Beaver walks into the kitchen, the hood vent is back in its proper place. (00:17:10)

Super Grover

The Clubhouse - S1-E11

Visible crew/equipment: After Eddie tells Wally that it once took his father two days to make a breadboard, when it cuts to Beaver walking into the kitchen, the curved chalk actor's mark is visible on the floor where Beaver stops. (00:09:35)

Super Grover

Eddie Haskell: Look Sam, if you can make the other guy feel like a goon first, then you don't feel like so much of a goon.
Wally Cleaver: I don't get that.
Eddie Haskell: Of course you don't. That's because you never went to kindergarten with a home permanent.

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Captain Jack - S1-E3

Trivia: The episode "Captain Jack" was the first time a toilet was shown on TV; the boys buy a baby alligator and Wally is shown putting it in the toilet tank. The network censors were so spooked by the thought of showing a toilet on television that they delayed the episode. And when the censors finally relented, the compromise allowed only the toilet tank to be shown, not the bowl.

Jeff Swanson

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