The majority of jokes about Leave it to Beaver have very little to do with the content.
Actually I wasn’t referring to all the “Beaver” jokes. BTW, June really did say to Ward, “You were a little hard on the beaver last night”. I always thought that was just a joke but I did see it in one episode.
What I mean is all the common bias which is portrayed constantly, about how incredibly unrealistic those old 1950’s sitcoms were, (and the subtle insinuation that they were actually evil) when the exact opposite is true.
Of course the modern ones with every sort of depravity are considered true to life. In a way they are right in that so many kids see these shows and assume that is proper behavior that they immitate it. In other words life is immitating art.