The Beaver Papers: The Story of the Lost Season

The Beaver Papers #1

by Will Jacobs, Gerard Jones

FIRST EDITION 1983 by Crown Publishers,paperback 110 pages

Genres: Humor, Fiction

108 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 1983

Reviews

[Ed Erwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short script summaries of the stories in lost season of "Leave it to Beaver". While these were written by some of the top talents, few have been able to see these episodes. While most are too obvious, I did chuckle at the episode written by Ingmar Bergman where June is constantly self-harming and screaming into the snow, as well as "Lady Cleaver's Beaver" in which June exasperatedly tries to get her son to understand the meaning of "Prick. Dick. Dong. Wang. Slab. Dink. Rod. Shaft. Tool. Meat. ... Your pink chimney. Your veined monument. Your Tom Johnson. Your beaver cleaver." It turns out no one on the show, including June's husband, has ever needed to refer to that so they have no word for it. And anyway, "Girls are icky."

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seriously, the more you've read in your life, the funnier you'll think this book is. Perhaps the ultimate compliment I can pay it is to say it's the kind of book that makes you want to read other books...

[G.M. Lupo · Rating 5 out of 5]

What if the world's literati led a movement to save Leave it to Beaver when it was canceled in 1963? This book asks and answers that question with hilarious results. It's not Shakespeare, Vonnegut, or Tennessee Williams, but it parodies all of them.

[Barri Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

ha ha ha! "Hey Wally, is Mom a fish?"

[Katie]

Of all the books I've read, this was one of them.

[Jay Clement · Rating 2 out of 5]

Funny concept, but I fear I'm not familiar enough with many of the spoofed authors. English majors will love it!

[Tony Sannicandro · Rating 4 out of 5]

This might just be the greatest book ever written since "Bored of the Ring".

[Tom Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you spent years and years and years after school watching reruns of Leave It Beaver, was 18 on the cusp of mysterious adulthood, had a fascination and keen interest to know and learn mid-20th Century art, culture and literature, and received this book for Christmas in 1983 you'd be convinced this book was written solely for you. I can't tell you how profoundly this book influenced me, reassured and guided me. My tribe. My people. It's funny and stupid as hell. I mean that lovingly.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

This satirical book is best if you have seen the TV show _and_ read or seen the books, plays and movies that the authors use to satirize the show. Unfamiliarity with either will severely reduce your enjoyment. That said, if you are familiar with the style and tone used in the short chapters, they can be extremely funny. The authors wisely keep each chapter to just a few pages, as the book could easily become tedious if the satires were longer.

[Brett Underwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fucking hilarious!!!!
My favorite was the treatment, "Beaver on a Hot Tin Roof".
Back in the mid-80s, I was in to National Lampoon. This book hit the spot.

[AZ Spencer · Rating 4 out of 5]

That was fun....