Leave It to Beaver: Wally's Weekend Job (1961)
Season 5, Episode 6
9/10
We should all have bosses as kind and diplomatic as Mr. Gibson
11 May 2024
Wally gets a weekend job working at Mr. Gibson's soda fountain at the local soda shop. Eddie Haskell is jealous, not because he wants a job, but because it's one more way for his father to unfavorably compare him to Wally - that Wally has a weekend job and he does not. On top of that the high school girls go to the soda fountain just to get an eyeful of Wally in his work outfit and swoon over him.

Eddie and Lumpy show up at the soda fountain one day and harass Wally at work, asking him for a complete listing of the kinds of ice cream and sandwiches that are offered there. Mr. Gibson sees what is going on and tells Eddie that before he orders he needs to pay up the fifty cents he owes him from the last time he was there. After that, Eddie doesn't have enough money to order anything and is showed up in front of the giggling high school girls a few seats down.

So Eddie plots his revenge - Through a fake phone call he sets up Wally to get caught at Mary Ellen's pajama party, where her dad has threatened to unceremoniously throw out any boy who would dare show up. Wally is just there to deliver ice cream and knows nothing about the party. Watch and find out how this works out.

Besides the main story of Eddie hating it when he is shown up to be a braggart and striking out in an underhanded way, there are some other good scenes, such as when Beaver and his two friends come to the soda shop thinking that they can get their ice cream on the house since Wally is Beaver's brother. Then there are June and Ward not wanting to mob Wally with family his first day on the job and deciding to wait a day instead.
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