Leave It to Beaver The Pipe (1957–1963) watch online HD

"Eddie Haskell" may be the famous character in this series for being a bad guy or a bad influence but a worse influence was "Larry Mondello" on Beaver. Larry was always urging "The Beave" to do the wrong thing and getting our boy in trouble.

This sentence that Larry utters to Beaver in this episode kind of sums it up: "If there's no one around to catch us, then it's all right to do."

Man, that kid (played by Rusty Stevens) was a real pain in the butt. Beaver was never good enough to ignore his bad advice, either, and thus wound up in trouble again - this time for smoking a pipe!! In addition, Ward and June think Wally is the guilty party, not Beaver.

However, the last few minutes there are some very profound truths said in this episode, really good stuff. There are always good moral lessons at the end of these episodes. I wonder if you see that in comedy shows on TV today?

The Rutherfords have been in Germany and have sent a gift to Ward, a carved Meerschaum pipe. It's really more of a curiosity than a useful pipe. The big mistake is Beaver shows the pipe to Larry Mondello who figures they can try the pipe because no one is in the house to catch them. And Beaver isn't a chicken, is he? Larry ties putting ground coffee in the pipe first. Ward is looking at the pipe and it looks a little used and has the odor of burnt coffee.

Larry shows up again and this time brings used cigarette tobacco. Beaver doesn't believe they should try the pipe, but Beaver falls for Larry's usual taunt, "are you a chicken". Neither boy feels particularly well after this attempt, And Larry has his second response, "you had better clean up the mess." Beaver tries soap and water and aerosol room cleaner to freshen the air. Ward again notices that someone has been smoking. Ward suspects Wally; June suspects Beaver.

Ward keeps eyeing Wally at diner waiting for Wally to confess to smoking. Ward tries to get at Wally by telling him the story of Pandora's box but the story doesn't have the hoped-for effect. Ward is disappointed that Wally didn't volunteer his attempts at smoking; he is planning to get the story out of Wally after homework is finished. Wally figures something is bothering Ward because of the Pandora story, but what? Ward confronts Wally, he wants Wally to confess what he did about the pipe. Downstairs, June is telling Beaver about how angry Ward is. Ward says he is going to ground Wally for the weekend. Beaver decides he better confess because he doesn't want Wally to be blamed for his escapades. Ward tells Beaver that he will be punished and that he will be call Larry Mondello's father.

Beaver says he tried smoking because adults are always saying things are bad, so kids figure if adults say something is bad, it's probably because it's good. There is some truth in that. I attended a Catholic school as a kid, and if the nuns hadn't insisted so many things were bad, we would never have tried any of them because we wouldn't have even considered those behaviors. I guess a lot of us lapsed Catholics can either thank or blame those nuns for starting us off on our journey to perdition.

I tell you, Beaver would have been so much better off if he just dropped hanging around Larry Mondello. Or at least learned to ignore that siren call of "Are you a chicken?"