Leave It To Beaver TV Series - Viewer Discretion now

[COPO]

Wow, from being a family show in the 50’s and 60’s and reruns to boot, the channel that plays the daily reruns has a viewer discretion advisory. I watched this as a kid and still do today and in every episode the Beaver or Wally always learned a lesson from their father Ward. Things sure have changed and not for the better IMO.

 

[Smokin'Joe]

I see the Leave It To Beaver reruns pop up on my guide while surfing. I am sure I saw every episode multiple times as a kid in the 70's. I have put it on a few times in recently as background TV while I'm working at my computer, but some of the episodes were pretty hit or miss. Some are decent, but some have been so dumb I end up changing to some other mindless station. Certainly back in the day, these were good wholesome TV with a lesson in every episode interwoven into the plot line. As for the Viewer Discretion, I have noticed that on one of the channels that runs Rifleman and Bonanza and a few older western TV shows as well. One, can't think of the name has Clint Eastwood, probably when he was in his 30's.

My how times have changed.

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[ULTM8Z]

Ironically the Leave it to Beaver generation won WWII.. today we're so fragile we cant even watch that show without people freaking out into the fetal position.

 

[Fbird]

Imagine MY THREE SONS.... a single dad with a MAN house keeper...never saw any hookers or cocaine. Charlie please call Sharmain to envite her for a FREAK OUT this weekend....lol

 

[Mitch_Z]

My OTA 24/7 cartoon channel shows disclaimers on cartoons prior to the 60's. Like Popeye and Speedy Gonzales

 

[kg2857]

A warning on leave it to beaver which is about as vanilla as can be. Too funny.

 

[1980RS]

Messing with the Beaver can be hazardous to you health

 

[FS87LT]

I watched those sit-coms when they were on the FIRST time in prime time tv, from the later 1950s onward. Then re-runs later on. ALWAYS a "life lesson" in every episode. "Three Stooges", too! Lots of good entertainment back then. And THEN came "All In The Family", which was ever more ground-breaking.

As "normal" as "Beaver", et al, might have been, I'm not sure if the modern watchers of those shows might read and UNDERSTAND what the disclaimers mean and why they are there. Certainly, "Quick Draw McGraw" getting kabonged or the things the "Three Stooges" or "Laurel and Hardy" did would land somebody in jail today, but we sure did laugh and giggle at that stuff back then. When I was in 5th Grade, some of my friends would replicate many "Three Stooges:" gags on each other. Teachers didn't like it, but we laughed about it. Same with Alex Caras slugging the horse in "Blazing Saddles".

Can't forget the ways that the coyote tried to stop the Road Runner. But never could. Or the social divides humorously-displayed in "The Beverly Hillbillies".

Back then, we could learn to laugh at ourselves as that's what the tv characters did. Now, it seems that everybody gets all "up tight" and wants to pull out a hidden hand gun rather than laugh at what is going on.

Yep, there were some shows about a "teen guy gone wrong" and what happened to them, too. No guns, just hot rods and stealing. Their world revolved around "their girl" and who she rode around with, as in real life.

FS87LT

 

[ssupercoolss]

i didnt watch that show but for a few hit or miss episodes, but what in that show could possibly need viewer discretion? or is that just the new label they slap on everything, like everything can cause cancer in California?

i did get a kick out of the fact my recent acquisition of my fathers train sets, the one wells fargo set had a bag labeled "Indians". i kind of thought that might not be so PC today with everybodys feelings and whatnot. lol.

 

[Zstar]

The woke world is still alive and well. The current crop of snowflake children (and adults) must be protected at all costs. Long live Wiley Coyote! Foghorn Leghorn would be aghast, "Boy, I say Boy, you can't say that!"