Everyone Missed These Hilarious ‘Leave It To Beaver’ Bloopers

Jerry Mathers – As the kid brother in the episode who portrayed The Beaver, he was a well-known character. In 2024, he is still doing well and is 76 years old. People have sometimes wondered if he is anything like his former character.

He said: “Well, I got in a lot less trouble. But then again, I had a lot of people watching me all the time. Because when I was due doing the show, there were about 60 men and probably eight or nine women on the show these were lighting people and all the different things that they have to do to make a series. Between takes, when I wasn’t doing things, they would come out and we’d play — throw footballs, throw baseballs. It was like an extended family. There was a whole bunch of people, and they wanted me not to say, ‘I don’t want to be here anymore.’”

Auditioning – Jerry Mathers does speak about his audition for the role of Beaver. He said: “I came dressed in a Cub Scout uniform, so that should have been a big clue.”

As it turns out, he was heading for a Cub Scouts meeting after the audition and he wasn’t all that happy about auditioning. This shows creators were impressed with his innocence and natural charm so he got the job.

Apparently, Mathers was also concerned about missing the Cub Scouts meeting and he expressed that to the producers. They thought it was refreshing.

After he got the job, Cub Scouts was not really possible. He explains: “We had to go to school for three hours a day, and it could be chopped up, because we’d go out and if they’d shoot the original, the long shot, and then we’d do closeups. You were jumping in and out of school all the time, and you’d come back 20 minutes later and you study for maybe another 40 minutes, and then you have to do another scene or whatever.”