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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Did you know that Harry Shearer was the first Wally Cleaver? The pilot for Leave it to Beaver was titled *It's A Small World*. Shearer played Beaver's big brother in that episode before being replaced by Tony "Where is He Now?" Dow.

And, to re-connect back to the Simpsons:

"No, this is TONY Plow. You know, from Leave it to Beaver! Yeah, they were gay!"

Apparently, the writers fought vehemently with the censors at FOX to keep the line "They were gay" in the script. Afterwards, they looked back on it and wondered why! They felt it wasn't that good of a joke (and they were right).