Almost certain that they intended it to be read that way, it almost feels the show is more about Samantha trying to work around darrin than darrin being a good ole boy who has to deal with his mother in law
Darrin got the ZAP alright, except he didn't know it. This made for some fun. It was similar to the episode where Endora zapped Darrin again to make him speak Italian, and only Italian. He never learned that it's not a good idea to insult Sam's relatives, especially her parents. 🙂
This was the final episode to air in season 5 (although it was filmed in September 1968), and the final episode to feature Dick York. He collapsed on set on January 13, 1969, during filming of the episode "Daddy Does His Thing" (where Maurice turns Darrin into a jackass), and never returned. He had severe pain for years from a back injury he suffered during a movie shoot, and had become addicted to painkillers.
"While filming the fifth-season episode "Daddy Does His Thing", York fell ill: "I was too sick to go on. I had a temperature of 105, full of strong antibiotics, for almost 10 days. I went to work that day but I was sick. I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up, waiting to be called on the set. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten, and they tried to give me time to rest. I kept having chills. This was the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over. Then, while sitting on a scaffolding with Maurice Evans, being lit for a special effects scene: They were setting an inky - that's a little tiny spot[light] that was supposed to be just flickering over my eyes. That flickering, flickering flickering made me feel weird. And I'm sitting on this platform up in the air...and I turned to Gibby, who was just down below, and I said, 'Gibby, I think I have to get down.' He started to help me down and that's the last thing I remember until I woke up on the floor. That's about all I remember of the incident...and I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart".
It's so terribly sad the way Dick York had to leave the show and how he died. He seemed a lovely man. At least we can still watch him being very funny...something he was excellent at. I can't think of any other actor that can pull funny faces the way Dick did. Still cracks me up🤣😂😄
Actually, her Spanish was grammatically perfect, but her accent could have been a little more on point. Darrin sounded better when Endora made him fluent in Italian by turning him into a native speaker.
Classic, timeless comedy. I still watch this sitcom and I still get a huge laugh. 🤣😄😂 It was a genius concept with a magic cast. Very little is funny these days.
Anyone notice how strange is the set up between the TV set and the sofa the way they have they would have to turn their bodies to the right to watch it
The fact that he is called Darrin, so close to Darren the male version of Karen, is most appropriate. I don't know what Sam saw in that lout. He could become fluent in Spanish in two seconds but refuses it. Endora had the right name for him: Dumb Dumb.
The last time Endora tried to help him become fluent in a language, her spell worked a little TOO well. He spoke like a native Italian, all right -- a native Italian who didn't speak a word of English. Would YOU have trusted her to make you fluent in Spanish after that near-disaster?
Darren is not the male version of Karen. They merely sound similar. Both have an ancient history. "Darren is a masculine given name of uncertain etymological origins. Some theories state that it originated from an Anglicisation of the Irish first name Darragh or Dáire, meaning "Oak Tree". According to other sources, it is thought to come from the Gaelic surname meaning ‘great’, but is also linked to a Welsh mountain named Moel Darren." and Karen is a given name and occasional surname. In English, it is a feminine given name derived from the name Catherine, and it is also found in modern Africa, as well as in East Asia (particularly Japan). However, in other countries such as Iran and Armenia, it is a masculine name deriving from Middle Iranian. English Karen entered the English language from Danish, where it has been a short form of "Katherine" since medieval times. It became popular in the English-speaking world in the 1940s. The name Karen was one of the top 10 names for girls born in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, peaking as the third most popular girl's name in 1965. Variants include Caren, Caryn, Karena, Karin, Karyn, and others.
@@02chevyguy 1968, actually. The episode was originally supposed to take place during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, with Darrin and Samantha actually watching some of the competitions there while Darrin was also trying to land the client's account. That idea was scrapped, I think, because it was an unnecessary complication for such a straightforward story.
