"Cross my heart and hope to spit..." - The most solemn oath of a freckle-faced
seven-year-old named Theodore Cleaver (Jerry Mathers), a.k.a. "the Beaver"
on the sitcom LEAVE IT TO BEAVER/CBS/ABC/1957-63.
Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver
TRIVIA NOTE: On the sitcom LAVERNE &
SHIRLEY/ABC/1976-83 Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney
(Cindy Williams) once sealed a promise by saying "Cross my heart/Hope to
die/Stick a needle/In my eye."
