... and BOOM.. my second all time favorite episode... so many good memories watching this series with my mom and dad.. I was a wee lad back in the mid 60's.
This made me laugh more than any other episode. I like the series more now than when I was younger. Guess it has aged like a fine wine ... and my outlook on life has matured a lot. ❤ Dick van Dyke and MTM are two of my most favorite performers! 💜
Alvy Moore as Mr. Handlebuck doing that sort of 'company man' role for the 1,000th time on TV! It was good to see him laugh at the end, he usually doesn''t get many chances.
Buddy's friend was in 3 episodes. This one, Buddy can you spare a job, as Jackie Brewster and The Sam Pomerantz Scandals, Where Rob does his Stan Laurel impression.
This show was amazing. LOL. I have seen this episode probably ten times through the years, and Morey Amsterdam STILL makes me laugh out loud. "Pickles"? Slams the phone down. LOL!!!!!
That's because television (and cinema) standards have steadily declined every year since the 1950's, to the point where there are no standards at all, in most cases.
Took me years to appreciate Buddy. When I was a kid he bugged me. This along with the one where people disappeared at e cabin are in my top 10 favorites. Oh, and the skiing accident.
At 12:42, Buddy's expression of wife voice.... At 13:59, Buddy's horror when he sit on the food... At 21:58, Buddy realized that he made an fool out of IRS...
Buddy's face @ 13:55 is priceless.😂😂😂😂😂 As is Rob's parody of Boris Karloff as Dr. Frankenstein @ 15:34. The (ahem!) universal standard of said "imitation" .
Everyone was always so nicely dressed even at home. No cargo shorts, t shirts, pajama bottoms, or flip flops. I miss when people cared about how they looked.
Many episodes of sitcoms in the 1950s and 1960s had morals attached to them to better educate their viewers. The moral in this episode is fairly obvious: Don't mess with Hank Kimball!!
Interestingly, Richard Deacon and Morey Amsterdam were actually good friends. In contrast, William Frawlev and Vivian Vance, who played Fred & Ethyl in I Love Lucy, couldn't stand each other.
Wiretapping, way before the era of Watergate. A show ahead of its time. I bet 18 minutes of tape were not missing from this show. This was unusually mean-spirited of Buddy, trying to prank Rob. Sally contributed to the ruse, by not jumping in and stopping the guys. But then she would have been labelled a party pooper.
I've never seen this episode and it's a zinger. Everyone is enjoying it. They don't write shows like they used to. Carl Reiner was a genius, but not his son Rob. Real meathead.
In real life, practical jokes are one of the very lowest forms of humor. Very few people consider them funny. But here it's the basis of one of the very funniest episodes!
