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Actress From The Pre-Irony Era Dies
"Her catchphrase — 'Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver'– became a slogan for an age without irony, before the social revolutions of the 1960s would change the way TV portrays the nuclear family forever.
-Poor Barbara Billingsley, having that line in her obituary. They didn't even mention the jive scene! Rest in peace, America's mom.
Aww- sad day for those of us whose Mom didn't vacuum the draperies in heels, pearls and crinoline while speaking jive. She went to the parent teacher conferences in a hat and gloves!
Jus hang loose, blood.
Cut me some slack, Jack!
Jive-ass dude ain't got no brains anyhow.
Nuts.
In her honor, I shall be hard on the beaver this evening.
Scrolly cancel our dinner plans.
Got your dinner right 'chere.
Irony began in 1964 and is enjoying its 47th season on the air!
Irony was invented by Vaughn Meader when he had nothing else going for him.
"Her catchphrase – 'Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver'- became a slogan for an age without irony, before the social revolutions of the 1960s would change the way we hear the word 'beaver' forever."
Fixed.
I'm not convinced that even then a lot of people looked askance at that catchphrase. They just repressed their chortles/cries of distress; it was the 50s.
Also, she was apparently the voice of Nana on Muppet Babies! OMG! My striped greens socks hang at half-mast on my calves today.
Nanny, not Nana. Nana is my grandmother (also apparently what Gavin McInnes calls his grandmother, which bugs me a little bit).
You're right, of course, and I knew I'd made a mistake as soon as I hit "Submit."
Also, one of the reasons I love The Awl: Muppet Baby pedantry!
The voice of Nanny outlived my real Nanny by almost two years. Rest in peace you classy ladies.
I hope Frank Bank (Lumpy Rutherford) doesn't come forward with remembrances of her as a 50's MILF.
She was forever rockin' that pearl necklace. Ward was a generous man.