@@MissX33 No disrespect intended, I meant let the fun continue. Paul Lynde gifted us all with many laughs in many forms Movies, TV, Cartoon voices , Game Shows, Late night...etc.
@@skyone4950 Do you instruct people on how to breathe. You must be the life of a party. How can anybody exist without your deep intellect and knowledge? You must have an IQ way up in the eighties.
Samantha: I know a place where you can go. Arthur: Thanks Sammy but we haven't run out of our own ideas. Even when Paul Lynde paused in his lines, he made a funny line even funnier.
Maybe she zapped it dry, but I noticed that myself. I don't know why any witch or warlock would get the least bit flustered by water in the face, water over the head, a pie in the face, or any other mess. All they'd have to do is zap it away.
"How along are you going to go on with this masquerade?" This is as close to the issues of closeted gays on 60s TV. Actually, this entire episode involves closeted gays (if she finds out I'm a "joker" (homosexual) she'll'' drop me...").
I'm pretty sure Paul Lynde never had an actual girlfriend, I think for pretty obvious reasons (watch the old episodes of "Hollywood Squares", if you doubt me!) Anyway, he was gold in many ways-- and I have a healthy appreciation of him to this day! My favorite "Uncle Arthur" Bewitched episode involves Uncle Arthur teaching Darrin a spell for something. It goes: "Yaga-zoozy, yaga-zoozy, yaga-zoozy ZEM!" Darrin falls for it, nothing happens... freaking comic GOLD! (I was like 8 or 9 years old first time I saw that!). RIP Mr. Lynde.
I never really got this episode. There was nothing between Arthur and Aretha, at all. It would have made sense if she were as much of a jokester as he was.
Especially when you consider the fact that Arthur, unlike most of Samantha's relatives, doesn't actively dislike Darren. With the exception of Aunt Clara, all of Samantha's other relatives despise him to varying degrees. So, why is Arthur hooked up with an insufferable snob like Aretha?
3rd... I love when Uncle Aurther's Fiance' i trying to decide where to go on their Honeymoon...and Author suggests India and Riding Elephants ....and she says - she doesn't want to MIX with THOSE people.....and Samantha Says I KNOW WHERE You can GO! Hysterical....
Actually she says she doesn't want to be around 'untouchables'. In India due to the caste system even the other Indians don't want to be around these people. That's why they are referred to as 'untouchables'.
Paul was funnyy-as-all-hell on the classic Hollywood Squares Game show but there's no way in the world anyone would ever, EVERY BUY (no matter what character Paul was playing) -- that he was remotely interested in women much less would have a girlfriend or a wife LOL
Sam doesn't like mortal snobs. She likes witch snobs even less. Notice when she was about to suggest where they could go, and it aint the North Pole. It's a lot hotter. 🙂 Sam: "That's not the word I'd use."
Paul Linde has a girlfriend? That is a magic trick. It is interesting how often homosexuality is dealt w/ implicitly in this time period. Dr. Smith on Lost In Space is a case in point. Originally, when he was portrayed as a villain character he affects a waspy manner, then, when they want him to a more positive character he takes a more flaming type behavior. He becomes comic relief.
@Mike Schwinn Have you seen the pilot of earlier episodes? Originally, Lost In Space set a more adult serious tone. It was not -yet- meant for kids. People besides Gene Roddenberry were trying to get serious sci-fi on the air. Most producers & network executives still saw it as Buck Rogers child stuff. The network made them turn LIS into a childish bit of nonsense. In both the pilot & regular series Smith always had distinctly homosexual traits. The original Smith was a nasty, waspy, humorless villainous character. A perverse & cruel type villain who tries to sabotage the Jupiter 2 & kill all on board. He merely accidently gets trapped on board. As I said, later he is played more vampily & effeminately.
It was never implied that either Uncle Arthur or Dr Smith were of any sexuality. It wasn't relevant to their roles. Jonathan Harris (Smith) was not gay in real life - he had a wife and son.
@Mike Schwinn I was going to respond to Renee but I see you've handled her fairly well. I guess she is younger & doesn't understand how things were in more "closeted" times. Gay men used to call their wives (actual wives) their "beards." Maybe he bit the bullet & sired a son w/ her once; maybe it was a professional marriage, which used to be more common in Hollywood, where a young unsuccessful actress attached herself to a more successful homosexual actor. He got cover while she had economic security. Almost a less demanding version of a kept woman. At least a kept woman needed to earn her "keep" once in a while. I suppose a professional beard wife, one who enters into the relationship knowing, would be free to pursue her social life apart from the titular husband. If she got knocked up a couple of times in the process that would simply enhance the beard camouflage. I doubt our friend Renee understands the terms "wasp" or "flamer" relative to homosexual stereotypes. A wasp being an effeminate but emotionally cold or snipish character, commonly portrayed as villains. A flamer was an exaggerated homosexual w/ highly exaggerated effeminate qualities, usually played for comedic effects. Someone should do an examination of how homosexual stereotypes were played for either villain or comedic relief characters. If you look @ the original Dr. Smith character he was clearly & knowingly using waspy mannerisms to make his character unlikable as a villain. He then quite obviously switched to a flamer portrayal when Smith was turned into comedy relief.
@Mike Schwinn If you've ever seen the original pilot, Smith wasn't even in it. Someone had simply sabotaged (reprogrammed) the robot to destroy the ship on flight, while the family is in suspended animation. When the show was adopted for a regular series they decided, for some reason, to add the Smith character as an embodied villain for the family to play off. He simply was trapped on the ship after take off, by accident. Originally he pretended to simply be a technician for the space agency but the family figured out he was the cause of their problems. He was entirely waspish in that 1st episode but over time I guess Harris just began acting more like himself. That happens in episodic television. The actors create a character @ 1st but over time the real character of the actor sorta leaks through. The problem w/ having the villain trapped w/ them is why keep him around? They play off that question @ 1st as they originally try to exile Smith. The boy goes out & saves him. I have to wonder how having a small boy befriend a homosexual man was done knowing by the writers? It is all too obvious that the writers of this show were knowingly playing off of Harris' homosexuality. This is where the shift to him being flaming comic relief really comes. They had a similar problem w/ the villain Baltar on the original Battlestar Galactica. In that he is reduced to a kind of talking head by the Cylons. He was something of a waspy villain also. I guess waspy villains were meant to signify the unnatural treachery of the villain @ the time?
Well, Sony is in the process of bringing another BEWITCHED movie to the big screen. From reports, the movie will resume where the series left off. Maybe they'll cast Steve Carroll, if fans let Sony know when/if casting begins . Can't hurt. As Darrin said in WHAT EVERY YOUNG MAN SHOULD KNOW, witches are just like humans acting like any other mother/daughter. Of course, he said it in a burst of anger and he had a right. In this episode, we see witches have snobs in their ranks, too, and Sam has no more use for witch versions than she does for the human kind. I've read that the chimps in this episode made Dick Sargent and Elizabeth a bit nervous. If you'll notice, these chimps look larger and older than the ones used in earlier episodes. Chimps can be aggressive, even trained ones, and are much stronger than humans.
Uncle Authur with a girlfriend. Ok, I wonder how long the producers and directors had to talk him into going along with this storyline. They didn't fool anybody with this nonsense.
The character of Uncle Arthur was adopted by Star Trek as the character Q. Samantha and her relatives possess all the same powers as Q. The Q of Star Trek is a mischievous practical joker, just like Uncle Arthur. What Samantha called the Cosmic Cotillion is essentially the Q Continuum. I say, they're all the same species.
@@reelsoffortuneslotsplay4267 Yes, even John DeLancie is quoted as saying, "The character of Trelane has a lot of characteristics that are very much like Q." Of course, since all of the Q go by the same name, there are more than one of them.
Barbara Rhoades was all over the place in the '60s and '70s but never really moved off the B-list. Longest engagement she ever had was on "The Match Game". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rhoades
