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"The Haircut" is the closest holiday-inspired Leave It to Beaver episode
We'll never know what Thanksgiving at the Cleavers would've looked like, but we know Beaver was an angel in a school Christmas play.
Watching holiday-inspired episodes of your favorite shows can become a tradition.
Leave It to Beaver is a family-focused, situational comedy that will always be loved. With the series centered around a young child, you'd think there would be holiday-themed episodes throughout the production, but there are not. Christmas was briefly mentioned in one of the 234 episodes.
In the episode "The Haircut," Beaver had an issue with losing money. The young boy lost his lunch money three times in the same week. He was picked to play an angel in his school's play during their holiday festival, and Ward thought Beaver could use a nice haircut to look good on stage. To give Beaver a chance to be responsible, Ward sends him to the barbershop with money alone, although June doesn't think it is a good idea.
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Beaver lost the money and couldn't get the haircut. Wally attempted to fix his brother's problem by cutting his hair, and it came out horrible. Wally and Beaver put stocking caps on their heads to hide his new look and claimed that the cover-up was a part of a club initiation. The parents eventually found out, but they didn't punish the boys.
At the end of the episode, students at Grant Avenue are singing a Christmas carol, and as the camera pans to Beaver, he's wearing the same stocking cap to hide his horrible cut. "The Haircut" is the fourth episode of the first season and is a fan favorite for many reasons.
There's no explanation for why the classic sitcom stayed away from holiday-themed episodes. Maybe, since the focus was always Beaver and sometimes Wally, learning valuable life lessons, producers didn't feel the need to add them into the seasons. Or since airing schedules were less standardized than they are now, perhaps it just made sense to make episodes that could air any time.
Even without those types of episodes, viewers worldwide loved the show so much that many new productions came from it. There was the telemovie Still The Beaver and the sequel series The New Leave It to Beaver.
We'll never know what Thanksgiving at the Cleavers would've look like, but we have hundreds of episodes of pure comedy and lessons to indulge in.
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Here's a picture of my book.
My favorite seasons are 1-3 also, especially 1 and 2. I just think they are so much better than the later seasons.
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The definition of the word Herald is below:
What else could it be? 🎄🎄🎄
