Erwachsen müßte man sein Beaver the Athlete (1957–1963) watch online HD

They've used this theme before: Wally is a good athlete and Beaver stinks. Wally gets praised by his dad, and Beaver wants his father's approval.

Here it isn't as emotional as in other episodes and Ward goes out in the front lawn to help teach Beaver how to do somersaults. (He said he flunked the tumbling part of gym.) After hours of practice, Beaver has it down. This all started after Beaver came home with a "D" in gym. His other grades were very good and June praises him to the hilt, but Ward is disturbed with that "D," especially after Wally comes home with his first high school (athletic) "letter."

We next see the kids in Beaver's co-ed gym class. Beaver is going to show the teacher how improved he is in tumbling, but the coach switches gears and tells the kids they are going to get ready for their annual boys-versus-girls softball game. He has the kids taking turns hitting. Beaver looks horrible and then clowns around making all the kids laugh. Judy, perhaps the nastiest girl in the history of Mayfield schools, insults Beaver big-time, accusing our boy of clowning around just to disguise the fact he is awful. (Actually, she was right, for a change.)

Beaver relays what happened at gym class that night at the dinner table. Ward and Wally don't understand why Beaver was happy striking out and isn't competitive as they are, while June takes the opposite approach. You have two opposites here: the father being too tough on his non-athletic boy and the mother being over-protective and coddling him a little too much. Gee, it's a wonder Beaver wasn't a mental case.

Things get worse the next day in gym class as Beaver overdoes the comedy, and no one is laughing now. It even gets really bad when Judy shows him up. Beaver then disappears after school.

Where did he go? What's he doing? Well, I won't say so I don't spoil anything, but you know it's a happy and warm-feeling ending....not that there is anything wrong with that. The episode was very entertaining.

Beaver comes home all excited because he has a good report card and June is proud. Ward comes home and looks at it and says there is a D in physical education. Wally meanwhile is doing very well in sports. Ward asks Wally about Beaver's physical education teacher, and Wally remembers him as fair, even Beaver says he's fair. Beaver figures he got the D because he messed up in gym. Ward decides he will teach Beaver how to tumble. June asks that Ward doesn't try to teach Beaver because every time he does Beaver ends up crying. After enough effort though, Beaver seems to have the tumbling down.

At school Beaver asks to show the coach something--how he can tumble-- but the coach announces they are now going to prepare for the boy's vs girl's baseball game. To cover up for his poor hitting skills, Beaver starts hamming it up so everyone laughs.

At dinner, Wally gives Ward his first high school letter. Ward asks how Beaver did; Beaver says he had fun, he struck out four times and everyone laughed. Ward tries to get Beaver to understand competitive spirit but to no avail. At school the next day, Beaver finds out that now the kids aren't laughing with him but at him. Now it's not so much fun, especially as Judy Hensler can knock the ball out of the park. Worse, Beaver's friends mock him for playing baseball worse than a girl.

It's getting dark and Beaver is very late getting home from school, so June sends Wally and Ward out to look for him. They find him at the school playground where he is trying to hit a baseball. Just before bedtime, Beaver comes down to talk to Ward about his poor skills; and worse, tell him that Judy hit the ball better than any boy. Ward feels he might have put too much pressure on Beaver; but Beaver says no, it is his fault. Beaver figures you need to be good about something before you can fool around.

Beaver and Wally come home from school. Wally went over to watch Beaver play. When they get home, Beaver is all excited. The boys beat the girls and he had more hits than anyone.

Ward becomes a somewhat stereotype father for this episode in that he wants both sons to be good athletes; but has one natural athlete in the family, Wally, and one disappointing uncoordinated son, Beaver. Wally gets a lot of praise while Beaver is looked at oddly. Ward really tries to help Beaver become an athlete and somewhat grudging accepts Beaver as he is. The writers might have made a strong argument for individual worth but basically cop out at the end. I guess even they couldn't deal with a son who wasn't some sort of athlete.