Larry Mondello's Mom

[TheHappyBurgerMeister]

I can't believe how old Larry's mom is on the show. I mean she looks like she's his grandma. I know that he has an older brother that's married and an older sister and she would be a little older, but not THAT old. I saw her profile at IMDB.com and she was born in 1899 or something! So she was around 60 when the show was on.

[DarleneIllyria]

Madge was also on the first two seasons of 'Batman'. Her character name in Batman was Aunt Harriet.

[Jack1000]

Madge Blake was brilliant as Larry Mondello's mother! Her nervousness is hysterical! ( "Oh Larry! Why don't you do something bad for once when your father is home!") or when Ward reminds June how nervous Larry's mother can be the time that she thought Larry had run away and she had the police out looking for him, when all the time he had been home sleeping in the closet! LOL! She cracks me up, despite the fact that she looks old.

There is a very funny scene in the episode where Beaver and Larry go to a movie when Beaver is supposed to stay home because he spills ink in Ward's desk and Beaver wins a bicycle. It's cut from TV Land and I don't remember the dialogue exactly but Larry is with his mother on the front porch with Beavers' new bike. (The scene is right after Wally spots them coming home from the movie) and his mother goes, "Now Larry, I want to know where you got that bike!" and Larry makes up some story about how he was waiting by the curb and a big limosene pulled up, and a millionare came out and gave Larry a bike!" Larry's mother says something like "Oh! And I suppose the milllionare had the bicycle with him?" And Larry says, "Yea, instead of giving away a million dollars, he gives away bicycles!" Mrs. Mondello goes, "Larry! you get in the house right now! Oh, when your father gets home, he's gonna get to the bottom of this!" (She than starts poking Larry in the back as he runs into the house)

(Anybody remember this cut scene)

TV Land then picks up with the Cleaver's eating dinner and Mrs. Mondello calling them, Ward answers the phone, and she says, "Mr Cleaver, my husband doesn't feel that Larry should be keeping Beaver's bicycle."

Jack

[BrandonS]

Are they routinely cutting parts from the episodes? I was afraid they might be, because I know that small stations that purchase old shows often cut scenes to be able to accommodate a higher proportion of commercials. And if they are cutting the episodes down for running time, I wonder how severely they are doing so.

[tdr]

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Yes, I definitely remember that scene. It compares to when Larry and Beaver played hooky and were on television saying "I think our school got flooded....I think just our classroom got flooded...I think maybe just our 2 desks got flooded.."

Larry is referring to the television show, The Millionaire, where a super rich man, whose face is never seen, each week selects a person to give a million dollars to, with the only stipulation that they not reveal where their money came from. So each week is a study of whether the new millionaire is wise, foolish, or what, with their new fortune. So Larry says he met a man with a truckload of bycycles and "instead of giving away million dollars, this man gives away bicycles." Beaver, sucker that he always is, believes Larry when he says he won't tell where the bicycle really came from. They should have just swapped ticket stubs, so then Lary would have been the winner of the drawing, since Beaver knew his parents would not let him keep the bike anyway.

BTW, what ever happend to the 30-minute drama on television? The Millionaire...Twilight Zone...Death Valley Days...Dragnet...

[JaneTVFan]

Originally posted by WallyCleaverisaPimp
I can't believe how old Larry's mom is on the show. I mean she looks like she's his grandma. I know that he has an older brother that's married and an older sister and she would be a little older, but not THAT old. I saw her profile at IMDB.com and she was born in 1899 or something! So she was around 60 when the show was on.

I did the same thing! I just couldn't see this woman as being Larry's mom because she looked so old. Then I checked imdb and saw that she really was too old! She would have been about 51 years old when she gave birth to Larry!

[JaneTVFan]

Originally posted by tdr
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They should have just swapped ticket stubs, so then Lary would have been the winner of the drawing, since Beaver knew his parents would not let him keep the bike anyway.[/i]...

That's what I thought, too, at first. But then it occurred to me that there were all those witnesses in the theatre who saw Beaver win the bicycle. At some point, it would have gotten back to June and Ward that Beaver (and not Larry) had won the bicycle.

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by tdr
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BTW, what ever happend to the 30-minute drama on television? The Millionaire...Twilight Zone...Death Valley Days...Dragnet...

The Twilight Zone comes on the Scifi channel. I think they edit too much out, but at least its on. If you are a fan of TZ, you should buy the dvds if you want the complete episode. We have a TZ board on the boards now if you haven't stopped by the boards yet. Go through the Drama section to find it.

[Jack1000]

During the marathons for Twilight Zone. (Generally on New Years Day) they ran the epiosdes uncut (or at least they used to)

Jack