Leave It To Beaver,..

[Quantum12]

And just to add, this would make a fun thread: all the hidden symbolism in those old TV shows. And not all of it's stodgy patriarchal stuff. For example, "I Dream of Jeannie" is obviously a transsexual metaphor, about an "astronaut" who dreams of travelling to the moon, with a scantily-clad and attractive woman who only comes out when he's alone, who no one else can see, and who is able to grant him magical wishes....

How about Ernie and Bert? lol

[Maxmars]

How about Ernie and Bert? lol

I came to think that Cookie Monster was a metaphor for the modern money hoarder. 

I always though Bert and Ernie were just two guys... it never occurred to me that there was anything 'different' about them.

[UltraBudgie]

they represent the two sides of the developing child's mind, the simple childlike unfiltered ernie and the cognizant of adult responsibility bert, both 'living together' inside the childs mind. the confflict of wanting to stay young and playful and also be grown up and adult. their little house with two twin beds one on the left and one on the right. it is about that age when the left and right hemispheres of a childs brain begin each taking on a different personality. and just look at the different shape of their puppet heads. early subconscious entrainment in cognative dissonance perhaps. oh how they bickered. also very gay haha but that was left for the child to realize later.

[Quantum12]

I came to think that Cookie Monster was a metaphor for the modern money hoarder. 

I always though Bert and Ernie were just two guys... it never occurred to me that there was anything 'different' about them.

Cookie Monster for sure hoarded Money and Cookies lol.

The odd thing Ernie and Bert playing with rubber duckies in the tub lol.
P

[Quantum12]

I came to think that Cookie Monster was a metaphor for the modern money hoarder. 

I always though Bert and Ernie were just two guys... it never occurred to me that there was anything 'different' about them.

[Quantum12]

they represent the two sides of the developing child's mind, the simple childlike unfiltered ernie and the cognizant of adult responsibility bert, both 'living together' inside the childs mind. the confflict of wanting to stay young and playful and also be grown up and adult. their little house with two twin beds one on the left and one on the right. it is about that age when the left and right hemispheres of a childs brain begin each taking on a different personality. and just look at the different shape of their puppet heads. early subconscious entrainment in cognative dissonance perhaps. oh how they bickered. also very gay haha but that was left for the child to realize later.

I love all people! I am not bashing

[Sirius]

Bet Eddie even earned a dollar later in the day helping change tires.

[Quantum12]

Bet Eddie even earned a dollar later in the day helping change tires.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/B1zlFvdl.png]

Lolololololol! Where did you find that photo!

Yep he popped the tires on the way to school and made a killing on the way home lolol! You are funny! Perfect!

[Maxmars]

The Haskle kid stood as an example to my mind:  

An example of base manipulative insincerity... a closeted bully... a model of disingenuousness.  A "user" of people.
I thought that was the 'intent' of the character in the show. 
They never glamorized his behavior, and often showed it's contrast with the more stolid obliviousness of his buddy, for whom Eddie's behavior went right over his head. 

It became clear through the lens of 'the' Beaver... (I always found it weird that they referred to him that way... not "Beaver" but The Beaver.")

[Sirius]

Lolololololol! Where did you find that photo!

Yep he popped the tires on the way to school and made a killing on the way home lolol! You are funny! Perfect!

I made a GPT, it writes poems as backstories for characters and then draws it in a specific style...had an idea for a world building tool.  Now I use it to make random drawings like this one for memes.

Poem's are amazing things, it's codified information. A short poem is a long story.