As a 66 year old married to a 67 year old I can honestly say we watch Leave it to Beaver every day (sometimes more than once or twice). Good old fashioned belly laughs and always a moral to the story, usually the Beaver teaching Ward a valuable lesson and June with that "see Ward I told you so" look on her face. Wally soooo cute. The entire cast was perfectly cast.
Eddie: Good morning Mrs Cleaver, my, you sure look ravishing today!!!! Is Wallace at home?? June: Yes Eddie, he's upstairs... Eddie: Hey, Beat it Squirt------ Hey Wally, let's go cruising down to Gibson's malt shop to pick up some chicks in your ol' man's car!!!!!!!
Eddie Haskell: May I say, That's a LOVELY pearl broach you're wearing today, Mrs. Cleaver! June Cleaver: Yes, Eddie, what is it? What do you want? As one of my acquaintances once put it, "Game recognizes game". I've often thought that June was the one character on the show (other than blatant sleazeball Eddie) who had a more....colorful history, shall we say. It's why she was always one step ahead of Eddie. She was still a good mom, don't get me wrong, and she loved her kids. But I'll bet when she was younger.....
My strongest memory of this show happened my dad attempted an objected lesson. He asked my brothers and me, "Why can't you boys behave like them?" I answered very honestly, "They have better writers." I do not remember anything after that.
Growing up that was my favorite TV program of all times my brother and I would not miss a single episode each and every week. We came from a broken home so the Cleaver family became our family. Our mother and father divorced when I was about five years old, my brother I moved to different parts of the country from time to time living with friends or family and then three years in military school, before I got out of high school I was in 12 different schools. I would not recommend what my brother and I went through. Made my brother rest in peace. He passed it'll be 12 years next month in March. Today is February 19th 2022. I am now 78 years old, how time flies.
I was born a month after leave it to Beaver came on in November 1957 and in kindergarten when it went off in 1963.i didn't remember much of it but have been watching it on reruns since the 1980s.
Favorite scene was when Bever got caught in the billboard with the bowl of soup. I was in college in the late 70's, a bunch of us watched Leave it to Beaver reruns before classes in the commons room. There was a volleyball court in between two buildings that we would play volleyball during class breaks. One time the ball was hit so high that it landed on the roof of the building. A classmate (I'll call him Nate) climbed up the rain downspout to get the ball. As he gets to the top, one guys yells "Hey Beaver, jusr put your foot on the ladies thumb !". Nate just about fell two stories from laughing so hard ... the rest of us where rolling on the ground laughing. Good memories !
When I lived in Boston in 1970 I visited a high school friend who went to Harvard. I was prepared to see him hard at work. He and his roommate watching Beaver at about 11:00 in the daytime.
Eddie Haskell was the most realistic wise guy kid ever to appear in a tv show. They've tried to recapture his type of character in many tv shows over the past 60 years, but the child actors come off more as irritating smart alecks instead of an Eddie Haskell who was brutal with his friends and Beaver, but respectful although insincere around adults. Never going see his kind again.
The best laugh was the show where the Beaver ran away. Ward comes home very concerned and asked June “where’s Wally?” June replies “Wally is searching all over town looking for Beaver”. 😮
The parents were "coming of age," too, learning (and teaching) parenting lessons. No vulgarity, characters who (mostly) respected each other, but not Pollyannish. Too bad our culture no longer recognizes, let alone values, the virtues demonstrated in this great TV show.
Ward Cleaver at no. 28? He should have been no.1. Watch all the shows and you'll not find a better movie or TV father image than that of the character Ward Cleaver.
Agreed he will always be number one in my heart as far as TV dads go. I have a funny story I used to belong to the Andy Griffith group, I put a comment on the group site that said I thought Ward Cleaver was a lot better Dad than Andy Griffith. Ward Cleaver never threaten to whip beaver like Andy did with Opie. I almost received death threats it was that bad I left the group immediately scared for my life LOL
Greatest sitcom of all time.. Hugh (Ward) should have been ranked # 1 in the greatest TV dads of all time.. This should be required watching for all families..
I agree 100% oh, I never had a real bad at home to grow up with, he was my TV father, and my make-believe father for my brother and myself. God bless the entire cast of Leave it to Beaver the greatest TV show ever in my opinion. Coming from a broken home taught me many many lessons in life how to treat people, and show respect to our elders, that I am one of currently. Today is February 19th 2022, I am 78 at this point.
Wish I had seen more of these shows prior to the arrival of my kids. Not so much in what he did but he way he handled problems and seem to try and think them thru before reacting.
Never took the tour, but have worked at Universal on many films and tv shows, so yes I've seen the Cleaver house as well as Grant Ave. Elementary, which is also on the backlot. I live close to Tony Dow, Not only have I seen him around town, but he and I spoke while sitting, waiting in our doctor's office. Have watched the show since it's beginning, and still love it to this day.
Have you ever seen the movie The Burbs? I was watching it what time it is one of my favorite movies I watch it over and over but anyway the street they lived on I thought this is strange it reminds me of something then I noticed Mayfield place on the street sign
@@antonfarquar8799 I agree! Our upbringing was everything completely the opposite of any tv family show in the 60’s and 70’s! Even the most dysfunctional!! How sad is that? You brought up a very good point! I loved them all for that very reason and just realized why 50 plus years later!!
I have it on now. On MeTV. I hope they just keep on running it. They usually run it from first show to the last and then start it all over again. Fine with me.
Since I was born in 58 I watched them as reruns. I loved that show! I remember getting up at 6:30 to watch it. It was the first program that came on in the morning after the test patterns to start the new day
The most impressive part of that entire show well they were actually two impressive points the way the mother and father Ward and June Cleaver handled difficult situations with the boys the second impressive point was how Wally always stuck up for his brother no matter how many times he goofed up and gave him good advice
Well the one thing that really impressed me about the show is Ward had the courage to admit when he was wrong and apologize to his kids. Never happened at my house.
Coming from a family of six kids, I had to laugh at that. Conflict resolution was administered via The Board of Education, which is why I'm the exceedingly nice man that I am today. Except when I'm not.
Hey don't give these wokesters any ideas , Ward wouldn't have ever married June but would conveniently show up once a month to get his cut of her welfare check and give the kids pointers on how to beat the 'system' Wally would be a crackhead and the beaver would be transitioning to the beavette .
@@thomaslanham3863 yes, shown up to get his fair share of the money an get a little bit, then comes the beatings and the ghetto talk while Lumpy and Eddie were smashin and grabbin at the jewelry store. Of course the proper now TV demographic non-mix of todays TV would be required for political correctness
@Marvin Carter 😳SAD⁉️ I have more fond memories of that line being talked about and I can still remember a great friend of mine Bob making fun of that line and his infectious laugh. He passed away on Mayday 2000 and I watch Leave it to Beaver most every day and Larry Mondello was just like Bob as a kid and that kid never wanted to grow up. I miss Bob but life goes on and will always cherish our friendship and the Leave it to Beaver show.
I still enjoy this show immensely. It's ethical, compassionate dynamic, the atmosphere of simple kindness --so rare in noisy, vulgar modern TV series--is captivating entertainment.
I remember the episode where Wally is cooking hamburgers and drops one on the floor. That's yours Beave! I have used that line many times in my life. Thanks Wally!
Loved it as a kid -- in actual age I'm five years younger than the Beaver. I think it had a strong influence on me. It gave great lessons about trying to grow up like big brother Wally, and the failures of clumsy Clarence and wise-guy Eddie.
What a wonderful show! One of my favorite episodes was "The Haircut"! Lol! Shout out to the boys' friends too! Eddie, Lumpy, Larry, Whitey, and Gilbert! What a bunch of funny characters they were. A timeless classic I'll forever be greatful for.
How about the episode where Wally got the " Jelly roll" greasy hair doo. His mother asks him " Wally, when are you getting rid of that hideous hair doo?".
@@pauliegirl11 Then Wally was in class with his hair doo, got bored and rested his head in his hand , messed up his greasy hair, and had the stuff on his hand as well.😂
Several years ago I saw an episode of Leave It To Beaver after not seeing it in decades. And more than anything I was amazed by the production value and perfection of the sets, lighting and music. It was as if it were movie quality. I am sure if you looked especially hard and picked a bad episode there were plenty of flaws but overall it reminded me of a 50's era A-list movie in production quality.
The best episodes were the ones when Wally and Beaver were little. As they reached puberty (especially Beaver) his voice grew deeper, and he wasn't as cute as when he was a little kid. I think that's another reason the show ended after 6 seasons. Great show, with wholesome characters and stories. In these crazy times, it lets you go back to a better time in our lives.
Jerry Mathers was about to enter High School in the fall of 1963 and made it clear to the producers he wanted out. The show itself was going to have to make major changes if it went to a Season 7. Beaver would be a Freshman at Mayfield High, while Wally, Eddie, & Lumpy would be Freshmen at State. So the producers knew the show would not have the brothers together and it wouldn't be what the series was originally intended to be. So, the producers basically were glad that Mathers was done with the series.
The writers from Leave it to Beaver later wrote for the Munsters. Butch Patrick as Eddie Muster was even told to deliver his lines like Beaver Cleaver.
The cast pretty much were lifelong friends. Lumpy was even the financial planner for most of his cast mates. Eddie who recently passed away was a an LAPD motorcycle cop.who was shot at at least once His character was so iconic my son who grew up on 1980’s reruns new exactly what I meant when I described on3 of his son’s friends as a little bit Eddie Haskill. I wasn’t a big fan as a kid but later learned that the world view was approached through the eyes of a small child , Wally served as an interpreter as he was stuck in adolescence. That keeps the premise timeless.
I sometimes watched the reruns in the 80s as a kid, and my mom used Eddie Haskell as a reference when she thought someone I knew was trying to be two faced or sneaky.
As a young person I watch Leave it to Beaver when I got older and retired I finally got to watch the entire series of Leave It to Beaver all of these things that you revealing to us I did not know at all it's absolutely incredible the different types of life that these people that did this acting for this series went through and on film June Cleaver and Ward Cleaver and the beaver and Wally we're absolute winners in everything and especially depicting a wholesome family life even though Beaver did tend to get in an awful lot of trouble the only person that played the part to the fullest was Eddie Haskell the part that Eddie Haskell played was absolutely brilliantly done by him so thank you for sharing all of that information I learned a lot from this documentary because a lot of this I did not know at all so thank you for letting me know and this is from a retired disabled veteran of the United States Navy
Everything begins with good writing and this show certainly had it. How many tv sit-coms have we seen that are almost always about the same thing (such as Bewitched and troubles with Larry and Darrin's job.) Thankfully Leave It To Beaver never fell into such a rut. It was almost always new and unpredictable, (always charming.) BTW, I liked Bewitched too but not nearly as much as the Beaver.
@@evelynbeveraggi8724 Bewitched could have been the sequel to the 1958 movie, Bell, Book and Candle. It wasn't. But you're right, the early episodes were better.
Watched the show from about 1958 to the end in 63. We didn’t have a TV until 58 and we only got one channel where we lived out in the boondocks. Saw the Cleaver house at Universal when I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in the early 70s.
I never get tired of these videos about the Beav. My childhood was a little on the gray side and Leave It To Beaver kind of became my surrogate life. I really didn't even start watching it until I was an adult. Still love watching it.
A BEAUTIFUL TIME IN AMERICA. GOOD MORALS.PROPER MANNERS ESPECIALLY TO THE SENIOR CITIZENS. AND NO HATRED TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS. ALL IN ALL A MORE TOLERANT AND CARING SOCIETY.
I went to universal studios when I was a kid and saw the Cleaver house. It was actually only a facade and in the same row of houses was the Munster house; believe it or not. I loved all of the characters; but my favorite was Eddie Haskell. Some of the other good family shows at that time were the Donna Reed show and The Real McCoys with Walter Brennon.
I took that Universal Tour back in '79 and recall vividly seeing the Munster house and the tour guide saying the Cleaver house was used for Marcus Welby. I actually ran into a work buddy and his girlfriend at Universal Studio as we were both on scheduled work vacation from a large company of about 14,000 employees at the location we worked at 2800 miles from home which also happened to be the hometown of Anne B. Davis who played Alice the live in maid on The Brady Bunch.
I always loved this show. Even now, just hearing the Beaver theme music gives me a happy feeling. Thanks so much for all this info. There's a lot of stuff I never knew. Well done.
05:16 "But then you have the time when Bever asked for a surfboard, suggesting beech access." I absolutely remember when the Beve and his friend hand-built a boat (I think it was partially made of a metal washtub and wood). Ward commented that there was no reason to be concerned because the ocean was "over 20 miles away". ... That was another "living near an ocean" reference.)
I am sure Beaver had access to beech trees in Mayfield. IMO, there is nothing wrong with setting a show in a fictitious town and keeping geographical references deliberately ambiguous and inconsistent.
I was skeptical about watching your video, being an enumerative list of secrets or whatever, but you rewarded me with an entertaining and informative compendium which, in the end, I was glad to have watched. Bravo! Keep up the good work!
One of my favorite episodes is the one where Ward finds out about the boys taking the car (Wally was driving by this time) to some place they were not allowed to go. After Ward lecture the boys, Beaver asks Dad how he found out about it but Ward wisely did not tell them. After Ward leaves the room Beaver jumps up and heads for the bathroom. Wally asks where he's going and is told that he's going to brush his teeth. Wally says something like "I thought you already did that" and the Beave replies: "No, I just wetted the brush but the way things are going, I better go and really brush my teeth".
Omg! I got your joke! There is a high school nearby that has a school mascot as a beaver and the girls from that school are pretty and wild so a running joke about eating beaver
06:30 Ward Clever... He probably was half my own current age at the time the shows were filmed. Yes if I could magically transport myself back to that place/time, I certainly would address him as "Mr Clever" and give respectful "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" answers. He will always be "Dad". 😅 😂 🤣
In season 3, episode 18, "Beaver's Library Book", they showed the Carnegie Library located in my hometown, Petaluma, CA. Really gave me an affinity for the program as I spent a huge amount of time in that library reading books like Highlights magazine in the kids' section.
My wife and i visited Hollywood over 10 years ago from Australia We did the universal studio tour and saw the house but the tour guide only mentioned it was used in desparate house wives program
I remember in the mid 80s a station aired the show everyday at 4pm. I had never heard of the show, but my father was off from work one afternoon and put it on, and I happened to be in the same room. Even though he went back to work the next day, watching the show every day at 4PM became a ritual for me.
Jerry Mathers' younger brother, James, played a boy with an overprotective mother in an episode of "Bewitched." He was Marshall Burns, nicknamed "Marshmallow."
The episode were Beaver ends up in the coffee cup on the billboard. That's the episode that stands out to me. Eddie was an awesome character and I grew up with kids like him. I do wish Beaver had got to punch him at least once.
I recall when show came on I was 7 or 8 yrs. Old. I’ve always love the show and too this day I’m still watching it. I guess it takes me back in time, the good old days. They can not be replaced.
Beaver out bushing a baby pram, Wally “ I better get out here before someone clobbers him!” June “ Ward what would you have done if you saw a kid pushing a pram?” Ward “ well I’d a clobbered him June.”
One of my favorite episodes is when Ward wants to take the family to Shadow Lake. Beaver and Wally protests because they would rather go to the show or hang out with Eddie! Ward wanted them to go camping, fishing, and explore in nature like he did as a kid. They went and the cabin was very rustic, had a pot belly stove and Beaver and Wally slept together. They giggled so much that Ward had to call them down. It reminded me of the simpler times when I was a young child in the '50s and '60s. I still watch Leave It to Beaver everyday on MeTV. It's almost like my devotional so to speak as it usually has a "life lesson" at the end of the program. This is one of my favorite shows of all time.
My absolute favorite episode is the one where Wally dates a more so "bad girl" that I think he met at the movies. After eating dinner at his house with the family he takes her to a bar. And she starts kissing him and he reacts with a "well gaahlee" it kills me every time. I'm shocked that made it past to film, it's definitely more than a chuckle moment. Haha
A correction on misinformation in the video that's intended for young people learning. The television series "Lassie" was situated on a farm in the American rural countryside. It did not take place in a suburban location as was described along with "My Three Sons" and "Leave It To Beaver."
Lassie wasn't suburban. The series took place on a farm. The Wonder Years is a better example as well as a great show portraying life from a kids eye view. My favorite Beaver episode was "The Haircut" Barbars Billingsley's look of total shock when she starts to remove the stocking cap from a sleeping Beaver's head and spies his "haircut" is a classic that all parents of young boys can relate to.
Very good. You're one of the few that caught the "Suburban" error and Lassie. Misinformation bugs me, and especially when it's presented to young people.
Wonder Years was "later"--I was thinking "Father Knows Best" would be a better example of this genre, than Lassie . Plus which I don't think the kid on Lassie even had a Dad, only him, Mom,and Grandpa & the dog ?
@@SailorAllanI would agree with that but if we limit to the 50's and 60's there was also Andy Griffith who had many touching moments with Ronnie Howard.
“Wally’s practical joke” is a funny episode, and the senior I care for loves to watch “The Dance Contest” & “Eddys Girl” “The Shave” and Wally’s Hair Comb” are good ones too .
The Munster house was and still is right down the street from the cleaver house. That universal lot is an actual neighborhood of houses that is fenced off from the general public but you can see the entrance from the highway and it looks like a regular neighborhood of homes.
All those houses were moved in the early 80's to a different part of the Universal lot. The street is nothing like it was then. They mixed the houses all up. The house they tell you is the Cleaver house is actually the house from the Leave it to Beaver movie. The original house is sitting by itself on part of the lot that is not on the tour , though it can be found on google maps.
I did the Universal tour in '79 and recall the Munster house down the street and the tour guide said the Cleaver home was also used for Marcus Welby. I didn't know the neighborhood was picked up and moved but I knew it was used for Desperate Housewives
Yes, I did go on the Universal Studios tour and I remember the Cleaver house as well as some of the other shows houses. Like most of the 60's t.v. shows "Leave it to Beaver" was great entertainment. Quoting The Late Bob Hope,"Thanks for the Memory."
@@cathymeyer3760 Not all for me. Beaver telling Ward and June Wally went into one of those beer joints episodes. Mostly the ones where the kids were too old type of episodes.
Up until the 1970's the dirtiest line ever used on TV was between Ward and June at the breakfast table. "You know Ward you were awfully rough on the Beaver last night".
One scene that always sticks in my mind was an early episode where it was the end of the day and Beaver and Wally were supposed to be taking a bath before bed. They were kneeling beside the bathtub nonchalantly talking about events and at the same time taking dirt out of a pants pocket and mixing it in the water to look like they actually did take a bath. I can't help but chuckle whenever I think of it. This show and others epitomized all that was good and decent in America at that time. I'm so glad I lived my childhood during this period, and I feel sorry for the kids currently being raised under the vile and decadent society we now live in.
I am 74 years old and still watch this show 5 days a week on METV. I agree with you whole heartedly. I tried to raise my 3 kids like Ward would do. NONE of them has ever been in trouble with the law, gotten a divorce, and all are church members. Children watch what their parents do--- so watch what you do!
The older I get? The "better" the show gets. Who can't relate to the "growing pains" of Beaver Cleaver? In fact, many of the sitcoms of today are nothing more than "footnotes" of shows like Leave it to Beaver.
I wasn't aware that Hugh Beaumont was actually a minister. I do remember him from an episode of "The Adventures of Superman," in which he'd portrayed a convict who'd done his time, but was held back by the stigma of his criminal background.
As a 66 year old married to a 67 year old I can honestly say we watch Leave it to Beaver every day (sometimes more than once or twice). Good old fashioned belly laughs and always a moral to the story, usually the Beaver teaching Ward a valuable lesson and June with that "see Ward I told you so" look on her face. Wally soooo cute. The entire cast was perfectly cast.
Eddie Haskell's trademark "schmoozing" of June Cleaver whenever he confronted her was flippin hilarious!
Everybody had an Eddie growing up. Love that phony prick.
I think Eddie Haskell was the first brownnoser. The actor who played him later joined a police department.
Eddie: Good morning Mrs Cleaver, my, you sure look ravishing today!!!!
Is Wallace at home??
June: Yes Eddie, he's upstairs...
Eddie: Hey, Beat it Squirt------
Hey Wally, let's go cruising down to Gibson's malt shop to pick up some chicks in your ol' man's car!!!!!!!
Eddie Haskell: May I say, That's a LOVELY pearl broach you're wearing today, Mrs. Cleaver!
June Cleaver: Yes, Eddie, what is it? What do you want?
As one of my acquaintances once put it, "Game recognizes game". I've often thought that June was the one character on the show (other than blatant sleazeball Eddie) who had a more....colorful history, shall we say. It's why she was always one step ahead of Eddie. She was still a good mom, don't get me wrong, and she loved her kids. But I'll bet when she was younger.....
Eddy Haskel was thought to be John Holmes, better known as Johnny Wadd. Which made that schmoozing even more hilarious long after the show ended.
I am 68 years old and I watch Leave it to Beaver as much as I can. There is two episodes every weekday morning
My strongest memory of this show happened my dad attempted an objected lesson. He asked my brothers and me, "Why can't you boys behave like them?" I answered very honestly, "They have better writers." I do not remember anything after that.
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funniest thing I ever read on RUclips 🤣🤣🤣
HAHAHAHAHA~!!! 200 points~!!
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I'll bet you don't!🤣
Growing up that was my favorite TV program of all times my brother and I would not miss a single episode each and every week. We came from a broken home so the Cleaver family became our family. Our mother and father divorced when I was about five years old, my brother I moved to different parts of the country from time to time living with friends or family and then three years in military school, before I got out of high school I was in 12 different schools. I would not recommend what my brother and I went through. Made my brother rest in peace. He passed it'll be 12 years next month in March. Today is February 19th 2022. I am now 78 years old, how time flies.
I was born a month after leave it to Beaver came on in November 1957 and in kindergarten when it went off in 1963.i didn't remember much of it but have been watching it on reruns since the 1980s.
Favorite scene was when Bever got caught in the billboard with the bowl of soup.
I was in college in the late 70's, a bunch of us watched Leave it to Beaver reruns before classes in the commons room. There was a volleyball court in between two buildings that we would play volleyball during class breaks. One time the ball was hit so high that it landed on the roof of the building. A classmate (I'll call him Nate) climbed up the rain downspout to get the ball. As he gets to the top, one guys yells "Hey Beaver, jusr put your foot on the ladies thumb !". Nate just about fell two stories from laughing so hard ... the rest of us where rolling on the ground laughing. Good memories !
Whitey was always tricking Beaver
When I lived in Boston in 1970 I visited a high school friend who went to Harvard. I was prepared to see him hard at work. He and his roommate watching Beaver at about 11:00 in the daytime.
That episode was on this morning !
Used to watch after school in the mid 70’s, preferred the stooges & Warner bros cartoons
What a great story
this show never gets old I watch it every morning takes me back when things were simple
i watch 2 episodes in the morning before i go to work
"Simple?" Or simply GRAND~?
Sure was simpler not the crap we have now to a great extent no courtesy and discipline nowadays total chaos
Eddie Haskell was the most realistic wise guy kid ever to appear in a tv show. They've tried to recapture his type of character in many tv shows over the past 60 years, but the child actors come off more as irritating smart alecks instead of an Eddie Haskell who was brutal with his friends and Beaver, but respectful although insincere around adults. Never going see his kind again.
Yes indeed. Eddie Haskell was the absolute King of Smarm!
And he didn’t die in Viet Nam. Urban legend debunked.
@@flouisbailey And he wasn't John Holmes the porn star. lol. Folks used to come up with all kinds of stories.
yea eddie was one of a kind nobody will come close to his carecter
@@flouisbailey He was shot up as an LA cop long time ago and died within the past couple of years.
I still watch it every weekday morning. 2 shows each day on MeTV. Thank you Jerry and the gang.
In the early 1960s, I must have watched every episode of this great sitcom! What a wonderful part of my childhood it was!
The best laugh was the show where the Beaver ran away. Ward comes home very concerned and asked June “where’s Wally?” June replies “Wally is searching all over town looking for Beaver”. 😮
To be able to return to those times would be the greatest thing to ever happen to this “evil world.”
The parents were "coming of age," too, learning (and teaching) parenting lessons.
No vulgarity, characters who (mostly) respected each other, but not Pollyannish. Too bad our culture no longer recognizes, let alone values, the virtues demonstrated in this great TV show.
well said.
AMEN to THAT! Society in general went into the toilet when the mid 60's hit and it's never gone anywhere but down hill since.
Leave it to Beaver is the greatest family comedy series in vintage television of all time Period!!!!!
Ward Cleaver at no. 28? He should have been no.1. Watch all the shows and you'll not find a better movie or TV father image than that of the character Ward Cleaver.
Well he was always really hard on the beaver 😂😂😂
agreed
My same thoughts! I had to look up who was #1…Cliff Huxtable 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Agreed he will always be number one in my heart as far as TV dads go. I have a funny story I used to belong to the Andy Griffith group, I put a comment on the group site that said I thought Ward Cleaver was a lot better Dad than Andy Griffith. Ward Cleaver never threaten to whip beaver like Andy did with Opie. I almost received death threats it was that bad I left the group immediately scared for my life LOL
Totally agreed!! Hands down he was the best of the best!
Greatest sitcom of all time.. Hugh (Ward) should have been ranked # 1 in the greatest TV dads of all time.. This should be required watching for all families..
I agree 100% oh, I never had a real bad at home to grow up with, he was my TV father, and my make-believe father for my brother and myself. God bless the entire cast of Leave it to Beaver the greatest TV show ever in my opinion. Coming from a broken home taught me many many lessons in life how to treat people, and show respect to our elders, that I am one of currently. Today is February 19th 2022, I am 78 at this point.
@@americanspirit8932 number one dad...Andy Griffith
He was a great dad
The SCTV parody was hilarious!
Wish I had seen more of these shows prior to the arrival of my kids. Not so much in what he did but he way he handled problems and seem to try and think them thru before reacting.
Never took the tour, but have worked at Universal on many films and tv shows, so yes I've seen the Cleaver house as well as Grant Ave. Elementary, which is also on the backlot. I live close to Tony Dow, Not only have I seen him around town, but he and I spoke while sitting, waiting in our doctor's office. Have watched the show since it's beginning, and still love it to this day.
Have you ever seen the movie The Burbs? I was watching it what time it is one of my favorite movies I watch it over and over but anyway the street they lived on I thought this is strange it reminds me of something then I noticed Mayfield place on the street sign
I like how Eddie's dad referred to Beaver by the wrong animal. "It's that Cleaver boy... what's his name, Gopher?"
Oh yeah😂😂😂😂😂I remember that
I still love this show. It was a stable family, for those of us that didn’t have that!
That is how I viewed the Brady Bunch so I get what you are saying completely .
You can say that again - It let us know that what my siblings and I were going thru was NOT normal!!!
No family is perfect in this world, but the Cleavers gave us something to strive for; a hope of a way that should be.
@@antonfarquar8799 I agree! Our upbringing was everything completely the opposite of any tv family show in the 60’s and 70’s! Even the most dysfunctional!! How sad is that? You brought up a very good point! I loved them all for that very reason and just realized why 50 plus years later!!
I have it on now. On MeTV. I hope they just keep on running it. They usually run it from first show to the last and then start it all over again. Fine with me.
Since I was born in 58 I watched them as reruns. I loved that show! I remember getting up at 6:30 to watch it. It was the first program that came on in the morning after the test patterns to start the new day
I liked the episode where Beaver wore short pants & kneesocks
The most impressive part of that entire show well they were actually two impressive points the way the mother and father Ward and June Cleaver handled difficult situations with the boys the second impressive point was how Wally always stuck up for his brother no matter how many times he goofed up and gave him good advice
Yeah, verealy, John Doe, you're preaching to the choir!
Well the one thing that really impressed me about the show is Ward had the courage to admit when he was wrong and apologize to his kids. Never happened at my house.
@@josephc.abbott6825 Maybe to you but to the later generations that didn't grow up with LITB, that's news...
. I liked it when she would say ward dont you think you were alittle ruff on the bever. 😋
Coming from a family of six kids, I had to laugh at that. Conflict resolution was administered via The Board of Education, which is why I'm the exceedingly nice man that I am today. Except when I'm not.
A wholesome show with morals that will never be replicated
Thankfully
Hey don't give these wokesters any ideas , Ward wouldn't have ever married June but would conveniently show up once a month to get his cut of her welfare check and give the kids pointers on how to beat the 'system' Wally would be a crackhead and the beaver would be transitioning to the beavette .
One night after a parent argument about punishing Beaver, the next day June did complain that Ward was too hard on the Beaver.
@@thomaslanham3863 yes, shown up to get his fair share of the money an get a little bit, then comes the beatings and the ghetto talk while Lumpy and Eddie were smashin and grabbin at the jewelry store. Of course the proper now TV demographic non-mix of todays TV would be required for political correctness
@Marvin Carter 😳SAD⁉️ I have more fond memories of that line being talked about and I can still remember a great friend of mine Bob making fun of that line and his infectious laugh. He passed away on Mayday 2000 and I watch Leave it to Beaver most every day and Larry Mondello was just like Bob as a kid and that kid never wanted to grow up.
I miss Bob but life goes on and will always cherish our friendship and the Leave it to
Beaver show.
It was one of my favorites back in the day !! When you are older than 70 you have seen a lot of great TV.
Human nature gravitating towards the vacuum in all of us needing to know what is good, the cry to know a Saviour, a God we can call Father ...
What a fantastic program, I can watch it over and over and it still makes me laugh. Excellent writing, directing & acting!!
I still enjoy this show immensely. It's ethical, compassionate dynamic, the atmosphere of simple kindness --so rare in noisy, vulgar modern TV series--is captivating entertainment.
The phrase , “ Dad’s going to give you the Business” or “you’re going to get the business “ still cracks me up.
The key thing about this show is, Ward Cleaver was a good Dad.
We dont have that on TV today.
Are you saying Al Bundy wasn't a good dad?!?!?!??!
I remember the episode where Wally is cooking hamburgers and drops one on the floor. That's yours Beave! I have used that line many times in my life. Thanks Wally!
-Hope U don't work 4 Burglar 👑.
I can recall an episode when Mrs Cleaver says to Ward 'you were a little rough on Beaver 🦫 last night weren't you'.
@@moriscoley5328 I still use that one to this day. Lol
@@moriscoley5328 you never know it because June's pearls didn't look Disturbed that night
I had a crush on miss beaver 👈. 😎
I’ve always thought Ward Cleaver, at least for the first two seasons, was the best Television Dad. Ever
Me too!
And the dad on my 3 sons.
Amen
June’s acting got worse...she became robotic. Yeah I’d like to have had Ward as a father. My asshole father a was in the AIR FORCE with BEAVER.
@@lenagrasso2701 Fred MacMurray was a big movie star. He was not just merely the dad on My 3 Sons.
One of my favorite TV series Leave it to Beaver. I think it was totally underrated!
Loved it as a kid -- in actual age I'm five years younger than the Beaver. I think it had a strong influence on me. It gave great lessons about trying to grow up like big brother Wally, and the failures of clumsy Clarence and wise-guy Eddie.
What a wonderful show! One of my favorite episodes was "The Haircut"! Lol!
Shout out to the boys' friends too! Eddie, Lumpy, Larry, Whitey, and Gilbert! What a bunch of funny characters they were. A timeless classic I'll forever be greatful for.
Gee Wally, do you think they will they will notice? Always had me rolling.
How about the episode where Wally got the " Jelly roll" greasy hair doo.
His mother asks him " Wally, when are you getting rid of that hideous hair doo?".
And then Beaver tried to comb his hair the same way! Lol! By then June had had it up to here, and finally put her foot down! Lol! Too funny!!
@@pauliegirl11 Then Wally was in class with his hair doo, got bored and rested his head in his hand , messed up his greasy hair, and had the stuff on his hand as well.😂
Lol! This is clearly the most hilarious episode! 😂
Several years ago I saw an episode of Leave It To Beaver after not seeing it in decades. And more than anything I was amazed by the production value and perfection of the sets, lighting and music. It was as if it were movie quality. I am sure if you looked especially hard and picked a bad episode there were plenty of flaws but overall it reminded me of a 50's era A-list movie in production quality.
You mean to say there are no bloopers in the leave It To Beaver episodes.. like shadows falling on their faces coming from the boom mics up above?
... Bud Abbott's uncle directed a number of the episodes.
If I recall correctly, TBS took a shot at reviving Leave It To Beaver.
I loved that show when I was a kid in the 50's.
The best episodes were the ones when Wally and Beaver were little. As they reached puberty (especially Beaver) his voice grew deeper, and he wasn't as cute as when he was a little kid. I think that's another reason the show ended after 6 seasons. Great show, with wholesome characters and stories. In these crazy times, it lets you go back to a better time in our lives.
I actually prefer the much older episodes like season 5 and 6
Jerry Mathers was about to enter High School in the fall of 1963 and made it clear to the producers he wanted out. The show itself was going to have to make major changes if it went to a Season 7. Beaver would be a Freshman at Mayfield High, while Wally, Eddie, & Lumpy would be Freshmen at State. So the producers knew the show would not have the brothers together and it wouldn't be what the series was originally intended to be. So, the producers basically were glad that Mathers was done with the series.
The writers from Leave it to Beaver later wrote for the Munsters. Butch Patrick as Eddie Muster was even told to deliver his lines like Beaver Cleaver.
You're having said that about Butch Patrick's lines is something I never realized but makes perfect sense when I think about it. Very good.
Wow
What's with Ward being number 28 on the list of greatest TV dads? If he wasn't number one, he was at the very least in the top 5
The cast pretty much were lifelong friends. Lumpy was even the financial planner for most of his cast mates.
Eddie who recently passed away was a an LAPD motorcycle cop.who was shot at at least once
His character was so iconic my son who grew up on 1980’s reruns new exactly what I meant when I described on3 of his son’s friends as a little bit Eddie Haskill.
I wasn’t a big fan as a kid but later learned that the world view was approached through the eyes of a small child , Wally served as an interpreter
as he was stuck in adolescence.
That keeps the premise timeless.
So funny that dumb Lumpy grew up to be a financial planner. I know that Lumpy was just a made-up character, but amusing never-the less.
I sometimes watched the reruns in the 80s as a kid, and my mom used Eddie Haskell as a reference when she thought someone I knew was trying to be two faced or sneaky.
Funny, when you call someone an Eddie Haskill they all know what you mean.
Freddie and Bomber Haskell! Eddie ran a construction company.
Watch it every morning . Takes me back in time , before our decline.
As a young person I watch Leave it to Beaver when I got older and retired I finally got to watch the entire series of Leave It to Beaver all of these things that you revealing to us I did not know at all it's absolutely incredible the different types of life that these people that did this acting for this series went through and on film June Cleaver and Ward Cleaver and the beaver and Wally we're absolute winners in everything and especially depicting a wholesome family life even though Beaver did tend to get in an awful lot of trouble the only person that played the part to the fullest was Eddie Haskell the part that Eddie Haskell played was absolutely brilliantly done by him so thank you for sharing all of that information I learned a lot from this documentary because a lot of this I did not know at all so thank you for letting me know and this is from a retired disabled veteran of the United States Navy
period
That might set the Guinness record for "longest run-on sentence" ever. 😅 😂 🤣
Hugh Beaumont should have been number one TV dad he was that good
Everything begins with good writing and this show certainly had it.
How many tv sit-coms have we seen that are almost always about the same thing (such as Bewitched and troubles with Larry and Darrin's job.)
Thankfully Leave It To Beaver never fell into such a rut. It was almost always new and unpredictable, (always charming.)
BTW, I liked Bewitched too but not nearly as much as the Beaver.
Bewitched , up to season 5 , we're these best!!!
@@evelynbeveraggi8724 Bewitched could have been the sequel to the 1958 movie, Bell, Book and Candle. It wasn't. But you're right, the early episodes were better.
Watched the show from about 1958 to the end in 63. We didn’t have a TV until 58 and we only got one channel where we lived out in the boondocks. Saw the Cleaver house at Universal when I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in the early 70s.
I never get tired of these videos about the Beav. My childhood was a little on the gray side and Leave It To Beaver kind of became my surrogate life. I really didn't even start watching it until I was an adult. Still love watching it.
My favorite character was Eddie Haskell. He should’ve had his own sit com.
My Favorite characters were
Lumpy Rutherford Frank Bank
And Penny Woods Karen Sue Trent .
He did, in a way: Bart Simpson is based on Eddie Haskell.
I watched this show so much growing up. Never got sick of it.
I introduced my 11 year old to the show- we are now waiting for season 6 to be in-stock- he loves it awesome classic
Get a ROKU. Leave it to Beaver and many other great shows are on it, and they're free! I watch Beaver every day now.
Absolutely loved this show as a kid. I still do today.
A BEAUTIFUL TIME IN AMERICA. GOOD MORALS.PROPER MANNERS ESPECIALLY TO THE SENIOR CITIZENS. AND NO HATRED TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS. ALL IN ALL A MORE TOLERANT AND CARING SOCIETY.
“No hatred taught in our schools.” Then how would you explain Little Rock High School back in’57?
Screaming using all caps while typing is annoying.
@@denasablotny8499
In this case, he wasn’t screaming. Just making a point that our modern society SUCKS!
@@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918
The racist south will never change. It’s the butthole of the U.S.A.
@@denasablotny8499 Perhaps he has a vision problem that makes it hard to see lowercase letters?
I love Leave it to Beaver! I watch them again on Facebook. Helps my depression.
Ward number 28 no way definitely in the top 5
My mother and I love this television show! My favorite episode is called Child Care. Puddin and Benji were adorable, and Puddin was a handful!
I went to universal studios when I was a kid and saw the Cleaver house. It was actually only a facade and in the same row of houses was the Munster house; believe it or not. I loved all of the characters; but my favorite was Eddie Haskell. Some of the other good family shows at that time were the Donna Reed show and The Real McCoys with Walter Brennon.
Eddie was a huge suck up. Never really liked him, unless he got a come-uppance.
I took that Universal Tour back in '79 and recall vividly seeing the Munster house and the tour guide saying the Cleaver house was used for Marcus Welby. I actually ran into a work buddy and his girlfriend at Universal Studio as we were both on scheduled work vacation from a large company of about 14,000 employees at the location we worked at 2800 miles from home which also happened to be the hometown of Anne B. Davis who played Alice the live in maid on The Brady Bunch.
I always loved this show. Even now, just hearing the Beaver theme music gives me a happy feeling. Thanks so much for all this info. There's a lot of stuff I never knew. Well done.
The episode where Beaver climbs up on the billboard and falls in the "bowl of soup" or whatever it was.
classic
I recall the episode he broke the passenger window of the family car and "Eddie" convinced him to just hide it by rolling down....Quality show!
Yeah really funny
That was always the episode I remembered the most!
That was the most expensive episode filmed in the series.
@@johnnyintrieri Never dreamed we'd still be talking about that episode in 2021
A lot of great information. Thank you for posting!
05:16 "But then you have the time when Bever asked for a surfboard, suggesting beech access." I absolutely remember when the Beve and his friend hand-built a boat (I think it was partially made of a metal washtub and wood). Ward commented that there was no reason to be concerned because the ocean was "over 20 miles away". ... That was another "living near an ocean" reference.)
I am sure Beaver had access to beech trees in Mayfield. IMO, there is nothing wrong with setting a show in a fictitious town and keeping geographical references deliberately ambiguous and inconsistent.
@@TnseWlms
You may be confused by the typo "beech access" which is actually *beach* access
I was skeptical about watching your video, being an enumerative list of secrets or whatever, but you rewarded me with an entertaining and informative compendium which, in the end, I was glad to have watched. Bravo! Keep up the good work!
One of my favorite episodes is the one where Ward finds out about the boys taking the car (Wally was driving by this time) to some place they were not allowed to go. After Ward lecture the boys, Beaver asks Dad how he found out about it but Ward wisely did not tell them. After Ward leaves the room Beaver jumps up and heads for the bathroom. Wally asks where he's going and is told that he's going to brush his teeth. Wally says something like "I thought you already did that" and the Beave replies: "No, I just wetted the brush but the way things are going, I better go and really brush my teeth".
The best line on tv was June telling ward to take it easy on the beaver.🤣🤣🤣
That is funny!
Omg! I got your joke! There is a high school nearby that has a school mascot as a beaver and the girls from that school are pretty and wild so a running joke about eating beaver
Never happened. However the narrator just said deep dive as this clip ended.
06:30 Ward Clever... He probably was half my own current age at the time the shows were filmed. Yes if I could magically transport myself back to that place/time, I certainly would address him as "Mr Clever" and give respectful "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" answers. He will always be "Dad". 😅 😂 🤣
I watch this show every morning from 8 to 9. I love the Leave it to Beaver show, the Andy Griffith show and a bunch more.
In season 3, episode 18, "Beaver's Library Book", they showed the Carnegie Library located in my hometown, Petaluma, CA. Really gave me an affinity for the program as I spent a huge amount of time in that library reading books like Highlights magazine in the kids' section.
Watch it every morning with my coffee love it
I'm retired now. Every morning I get up at 7:00 to watch two back-to-back episodes of Leave it to Beaver. Then I go back to bed.
God bless Nancy. May you have many more episodes of LITB & life as well..
Jerry hit the real estate business with such booming success. Like a giant band of bass drums leading the way. Boom boom boom!
My wife and i visited Hollywood over 10 years ago from Australia
We did the universal studio tour and saw the house but the tour guide only mentioned it was used in desparate house wives program
How soon they forget 😪
Poor training or a poor student.
I remember in the mid 80s a station aired the show everyday at 4pm. I had never heard of the show, but my father was off from work one afternoon and put it on, and I happened to be in the same room. Even though he went back to work the next day, watching the show every day at 4PM became a ritual for me.
I've watched Leave it to Beaver ever since it came on in the 50s
My dad and I watched this when it originally aired. Thanks Dad.
Jerry Mathers' younger brother, James, played a boy with an overprotective mother in an episode of "Bewitched." He was Marshall Burns, nicknamed "Marshmallow."
I grew up in that exact era with a younger brother. So the show always takes me back to my youth.
Good times great lessons not taught today
That has been my all-time favorite LITB scene for years. “Hand me that asbestos glove there son” 😂😂😂
The episode were Beaver ends up in the coffee cup on the billboard. That's the episode that stands out to me. Eddie was an awesome character and I grew up with kids like him. I do wish Beaver had got to punch him at least once.
I agree!!! Ward Cleaver absolutely should have been ranked at #1.
Remember asking my father why he couldn't be more like Ward and never beat my ass.
"That's television" he said. (o:
Ward wasn’t perfect. In fact June once said he was really hard on the beaver.
I recall when show came on I was 7 or 8 yrs. Old. I’ve always love the show and too this day I’m still watching it. I guess it takes me back in time, the good old days. They can not be replaced.
Beaver out bushing a baby pram,
Wally “ I better get out here before someone clobbers him!”
June “ Ward what would you have done if you saw a kid pushing a pram?”
Ward “ well I’d a clobbered him June.”
I still love this show and wish that Ward, June, and Wally were my family. We play the hand we are dealt though. 😊
"Leave It To Beaver" is a classic coming-of-age sitcom.
Wally: "Hey Eddie, you want a hunk of milk?" Classic!
That's hunk of cake.
Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher were also the comedic geniuses behind “The Munsters.”
Ken Osmond who played Eddie was on an episode of the Munsters
One of my favorite episodes is when Ward wants to take the family to Shadow Lake. Beaver and Wally protests because they would rather go to the show or hang out with Eddie! Ward wanted them to go camping, fishing, and explore in nature like he did as a kid. They went and the cabin was very rustic, had a pot belly stove and Beaver and Wally slept together. They giggled so much that Ward had to call them down. It reminded me of the simpler times when I was a young child in the '50s and '60s. I still watch Leave It to Beaver everyday on MeTV. It's almost like my devotional so to speak as it usually has a "life lesson" at the end of the program.
This is one of my favorite shows of all time.
My absolute favorite episode is the one where Wally dates a more so "bad girl" that I think he met at the movies. After eating dinner at his house with the family he takes her to a bar. And she starts kissing him and he reacts with a "well gaahlee" it kills me every time. I'm shocked that made it past to film, it's definitely more than a chuckle moment. Haha
Hugh Beaumont was a fantastic character actor and his portrayal of Ward Cleaver in the show is the best father figure of all time!!!!!
A correction on misinformation in the video that's intended for young people learning. The television series "Lassie" was situated on a farm in the American rural countryside. It did not take place in a suburban location as was described along with "My Three Sons" and "Leave It To Beaver."
I really don't remember seeing the show during its first run but I do remember seeing it in reruns throughout the '60s and beyond.
Lassie wasn't suburban. The series took place on a farm. The Wonder Years is a better example as well as a great show portraying life from a kids eye view.
My favorite Beaver episode was "The Haircut" Barbars Billingsley's look of total shock when she starts to remove the stocking cap from a sleeping Beaver's head and spies his "haircut" is a classic that all parents of young boys can relate to.
Very good. You're one of the few that caught the "Suburban" error and Lassie. Misinformation bugs me, and especially when it's presented to young people.
@@discerningmind Don't send your kids to public schools then.
Wonder Years was "later"--I was thinking "Father Knows Best" would be a better example of this genre, than Lassie . Plus which I don't think the kid on Lassie even had a Dad, only him, Mom,and Grandpa & the dog ?
@@SailorAllanI would agree with that but if we limit to the 50's and 60's there was also Andy Griffith who had many touching moments with Ronnie Howard.
@@discerningmind Well you won't have to worry about misinforming a young person, I'm 72. LOL
“Wally’s practical joke” is a funny episode, and the senior I care for loves to watch “The Dance Contest” & “Eddys Girl”
“The Shave” and Wally’s Hair Comb” are good ones too .
The Munster house was and still is right down the street from the cleaver house. That universal lot is an actual neighborhood of houses that is fenced off from the general public but you can see the entrance from the highway and it looks like a regular neighborhood of homes.
All those houses were moved in the early 80's to a different part of the Universal lot. The street is nothing like it was then. They mixed the houses all up. The house they tell you is the Cleaver house is actually the house from the Leave it to Beaver movie. The original house is sitting by itself on part of the lot that is not on the tour , though it can be found on google maps.
I did the Universal tour in '79 and recall the Munster house down the street and the tour guide said the Cleaver home was also used for Marcus Welby. I didn't know the neighborhood was picked up and moved but I knew it was used for Desperate Housewives
Yes, I did go on the Universal Studios tour and I remember the Cleaver house as well as some of the other shows houses. Like most of the 60's t.v. shows "Leave it to Beaver" was great entertainment. Quoting The Late Bob Hope,"Thanks for the Memory."
My favorite episode is Wally with his jelly roll hairstyle . Reminded me of Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever.
Great music when Wally entered the room also .
Yes, that music. The jelly roll episode was on just a few days ago. I have Beaver set to record twice a day. I just love every episode.
@@cathymeyer3760 Not all for me. Beaver telling Ward and June Wally went into one of those beer joints episodes. Mostly the ones where the kids were too old type of episodes.
Up until the 1970's the dirtiest line ever used on TV was between Ward and June at the breakfast table. "You know Ward you were awfully rough on the Beaver last night".
One scene that always sticks in my mind was an early episode where it was the end of the day and Beaver and Wally were supposed to be taking a bath before bed. They were kneeling beside the bathtub nonchalantly talking about events and at the same time taking dirt out of a pants pocket and mixing it in the water to look like they actually did take a bath. I can't help but chuckle whenever I think of it. This show and others epitomized all that was good and decent in America at that time. I'm so glad I lived my childhood during this period, and I feel sorry for the kids currently being raised under the vile and decadent society we now live in.
I am 74 years old and still watch this show 5 days a week on METV. I agree with you whole heartedly. I tried to raise my 3 kids like Ward would do. NONE of them has ever been in trouble with the law, gotten a divorce, and all are church members. Children watch what their parents do--- so watch what you do!
@@davidbrown-xk8zl well said.
The older I get? The "better" the show gets. Who can't relate to the "growing pains" of Beaver Cleaver? In fact, many of the sitcoms of today are nothing more than "footnotes" of shows like Leave it to Beaver.
That’s really true. I didn’t care for the misogyny (but it was the times) but I loved the show many years later as an 80s kid.
@@emmalancaster2013 Hiya Emma. That's how my wife feels! Thanx for your POV.
I remember it as a kid. Great show with great lessons.
Very nicely done! 👍🏻🙂
Shortly after the series ended, President Kennedy was assassinated and the country was irrevocably changed.
It's about to change again, for the better.
@@mariantreber8055 How in the world is that gonna happen?
@@howieduin915 MAGA man will be back
@@jimstand I hope and pray for that to happen, but the libs stole the election last time. What makes you think they won't do it again.
@@mariantreber8055 As long as Donald Trump wins the presidency in 2024 that was unconscionably stolen from him in 2020.
I wasn't aware that Hugh Beaumont was actually a minister. I do remember him from an episode of "The Adventures of Superman," in which he'd portrayed a convict who'd done his time, but was held back by the stigma of his criminal background.
It might interest you to know that post-"Beaver," Hugh Beaumont operated a Christmas tree farm in Minnesota.