Beaver's classmate Linda Dennison invites him to a girls-only birthday party. Wally attempts yet again to impersonate Ward on the phone to help him avoid attending. Ward drags him into the party, where the miserable kid wins a huge doll. As the girls are plotting to play post office with Beaver as the only boy, he escapes into Mr. Dennison's man cave which is loaded with hunting trophies, African tribal masks and a huge gun collection, presided over by Mr. Dennison (former movie heartthrob Lyle Talbot, real life father of later seasons' pal Gilbert and PBS documentarian, Stephen Talbot) who handily walks the razor's edge between a hen-pecked husband and suburban he-man. Beaver is suitably impressed, and Ward is chastised for failing to notice he was dumping the poor kid into a situation rife with childish sexual harassment.
Review of Party Invitation
