Instead, watch Leave It to Beaver, and take a quick course in how kids really talked in the late 1950s and early ’60s. Anyone doing research on 1950s slang as used by teenagers should forget watching the darker images and edgier precepts presented in movies like West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause, or The Blackboard Jungle. That gave Wally and the Beaver a freshness and naturalness not found anywhere else on television. The writers would script out the kids’ lines and then let their own kids rewrite them as kids from that era would actually say them. One key to their appeal was the huge assistance they got from the writers.
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