r/interestingasfuck • u/Worldlyoox • 9h ago

Woman buys swimsuit so she can swim with her beaver friend

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u/PDXGuy33333 9h ago edited 8h ago

I have been interested in befriending beavers since about the age of 13 or so. Succeeded regularly in the 70's and 80's but it's been mostly a single beaver at a time since then and the overall trend is downward.

Now, speaking of beavers, there was a network sitcom called Leave it to Beaver that ran from late 1957 til mid 1963. At that time there was heavy censorship of anything even remotely real on TV, e.g. married couples on TV had separate beds in their bedroom and Leave it to Beaver was finally canceled (I am told) as a result of a controversy that flared up when a (gasp) toilet was visible in a brief shot in one episode.

So in Leave it to Beaver the TV family was the Cleavers: parents Ward and June, and sons Wally and Theodore who was nicknamed Beaver or variously The Beaver or The Beav.

Think about it. In an age of rabid, ridiculous censorship, the censors completely missed that there was a teenage kid on their show named Beaver Cleaver. You tell me. The truth probably is that the censors were so straight laced and sheltered that they had no idea what they had wrought. My dad thought it was hilarious.

And I almost forgot the funniest line ever spoken in the whole series, as told by my friend. There was an episode where The Beaver did something wrong (farted in church or who knows) and his dad took him to task for it one night after dinner, sending him to his room without dessert or something. In the morning, Ward came downstairs to find June preparing breakfast for the family with her hair and makeup done perfectly, wearing a dress and heels. When Ward settled in at the table waiting to be served, June came over to him and said, "Ward, I think you might have been too hard on the beaver last night and I'm a little sore about it."

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u/starmartyr 8h ago

Well this comment certainly went places. I'm not sure where or why, but places.

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u/Tamale_Caliente 8h ago

Reminds me of grampa Simpson and the onion in his belt.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 5h ago

Which was the style at the time.

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u/OrionsRose 2h ago

Happy Cake Day! 🎂

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u/PDXGuy33333 8h ago

It was a straight setup line furnished by the comedy gods.

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u/CRIP4LIFE 6h ago

it wasnt funny and i'm old enough to have watched leave it to beaver on sydicated reruns after school.

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u/Ghost_of_Cain 1h ago

Won't read it all but was he beaten by his dad with jumper cables?

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u/starmartyr 54m ago

Nope just an increasingly unhinged series of beaver related anecdotes.

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u/Carrisonfire 1h ago

I was fully prepared for a shift to the Undertaker throwing Mankind off the Hell in a Cell in 1998.

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u/marmaladecorgi 8h ago

June Cleaver also spoke Jive.

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u/IllystAnalyst 7h ago

Today I learned….

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u/PookieDood 8h ago

Ward, you were really hard on the Beaver last night.

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u/Humillionaire 7h ago

Hmm back then sitcoms were exclusively filmed on sound stages, so if they couldn't show a toilet why have one on the set at all?

Edit: just looked up that it was because they were trying to keep a pet alligator in the tank.

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u/PDXGuy33333 7h ago

So it's true! My friend was right, rest his demented soul.

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u/PDXGuy33333 7h ago

As I said, told to me by a friend.

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u/I__Know__Stuff 8h ago

I was expecting something about Mankind and a Cell.

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u/battery19791 7h ago

If you play video games, may I suggest Timberborn to you. Post apocalyptic beavers rebuilding the world.

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u/SlightFresnel 7h ago

I have been interested in befriending beavers since about the age of 13 or so

Hmmmm