 Episodes were budgeted at $30,000 to $40,000 each ($269,507.83 to $359,343.77 in 2018 dollars), making the show one of the most costly to produce at the time.High production costs were in part due to many outdoor scenes.The most expensive single episode, "In the Soup" (in which Beaver gets stuck in an advertising billboard with a gigantic make-believe cup of soup, curious as to how "steam" came out of the cup), was budgeted at $50,000.