Wally gets more than a little help from his dad and an understanding maitre'd when girlfriend Julie Foster picks a new, and very expensive, restaurant for their first dinner date.Wally gets more than a little help from his dad and an understanding maitre'd when girlfriend Julie Foster picks a new, and very expensive, restaurant for their first dinner date.Wally gets more than a little help from his dad and an understanding maitre'd when girlfriend Julie Foster picks a new, and very expensive, restaurant for their first dinner date.
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- TriviaWhen Wally decides to call The White Fox Restaurant to get an idea of their prices before his dinner date, he asks Beaver to get the phone number from the paper. Beaver reads out, "KLondike 2-3958." Writers of TV shows typically used numbers beginning with KLondike, since the equivalent of KL on the phone dial is 55, a non-existent "exchange," to avoid real people getting unwanted calls when numbers are heard on TV by millions of people. Later it became standard to begin all numbers with "555-" for the same reason.
- GoofsWally supposedly is driving himself and Julie to dinner at the White Fox which is impossible because he won't get his license yet until 2 episodes later.
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Wally Cleaver: [Wally calls the restaurant before his date, to get an idea how much it will cost] Hello? The White Fox? Um, I was just wondering about the price of your dinners. Just a minute.
Wally Cleaver: [to Eddie and The Beaver] He wants to know somethin' about 'a la carte' or 'table d'hote'.
Eddie Haskell: Never mind that French jazz, just ask him how much soup is.
Wally Cleaver: [back on the 'phone] Excuse me, sir, but, uh, how much is your soup? *Eighty cents!* How much is coffee? *Holy mackerel.* I mean, thank you, anyway.
Wally Cleaver: [off the 'phone] Wow, coffee's forty cents.
Theodore Cleaver: Wally, that's a dollar-twenty apiece. That's two-forty for both of ya. If you don't eat anything else, you just might make it.
Eddie Haskell: Listen, Squirt, no girl in the world is gonna settle for a liquid diet.
Wally Cleaver: Boy, oh boy.
Eddie Haskell: I hate to say this, Gertrude, but I think that somewhere in between the soup and the coffee, you're gonna get murdered!
The sixth season saw Beaver fully entered into adolescence, with all the turmoil that that implies; he was no longer the cute little kid of the first few seasons. Wally was growing into an admirable and very mature young man; but the floppy, flippant Wally of the earlier years was more endearing. The writing in the sixth season lacked the freshness and spontaneity of previous seasons, with a certain self-conscious cuteness in evidence from such details as the jazzed-up version of the opening theme. Ken Osmond's portrayal became more and more exaggerated just as Hugh Beaumont's and Barbara Billingsley's became stiff and humorless. There were still some great stories and situations - most of them involving Wally and his friends - but much of the show's charm and humor were gone. "Wally's Dinner Date" is an exception to all this, and remains one of the best episodes of the final season.
- MichaelMartinDeSapio
- Aug 23, 2015
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- Runtime30 minutes
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