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How did Theodore Cleaver get the name Beaver in the old TV show 'Leave It To Beaver'?

When Theodore was born, his brother, Wally (Tony Dow) tried to pronounce his new brother's name but ended up mouthing \"Tweeter\" which sounded like \"Beaver\" to his parents, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) & June (Barbara Billingsley) and so began the saga of Beaver Cleaver and the jokes about his name. Beaver's real name, Theodore was based on June's Aunt Martha's brother. Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), a wisecracking, insincere friend of teenager Wally Cleaver who called Beaver \"Squirt\" and \"Creep\" would greet him with taunts like \"Hiya Beaver, you gnaw down any trees today?\"

I read, in the last episode of the series, June tells Beaver "It kept coming out TWEEVER. In real life, one of the writers-Joe Connelly-had a shipmate in wwll called "The Beaver". and that's how he got the name, and from Beaver they got the name Cleaver. I also read where Joe Connelly said that one day he would use the name Beaver to name a character.

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