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I loved when Sally would do those music numbers that showcased her deep voice and great delivery. Sally was unique for tv back then, not one-dimensional, ballsy and brassy but often so vulnerable and open.
We sometimes forget how talented she was even as a child star of the 30s. So much is shown through the musical but also through the drama which she they write for her. Good Job Sally, we miss you!
I love at 17:56 when Morey breaks for a second, nowadays they wouldn’t keep that in. Also just goes to show how much fun they were actually having doing this.
The "father of comedy"; I love Dick Van Dyke, but I don't know about that. Although I agree that he is a great comedian, there were one or two that came before him.
The Dick Van Dyke Show was/is such a fabulous show we still are so lucky to watch , checked all the boxes with Concept, Writing, Perfectly Chill Set Designs and Actors with Great Response Time and in Spot on Character at every changing moment. Smile, Laughter , Intense Feelings and Family.
You do realize he had nothing at all to do with concept, writing, blah, blah, blah, don't you? There was an entire production team for all that. He acted, he followed the script, he didn't do all those other tasks! It wasn't HIS show, it was his NAME on the show with him in the lead role. It was Carl Reiner's show, and Reiner hired a lot of very talented, good people (and some truly lousy writers) to do all the background work!
@@jb6712 wow. I never read past a message that starts with " You do realize" it reminds me to much of "Do you know who you are talking too" , I think Mel Brooks said this.
The “impromptu” dance routine by DVD and MTM was great! The DVD Show was among the few “adult“ sitcom‘s I enjoyed watching as a kid back in the day, even though I didn’t understand all of the humor; time overdue for a rewatch.
Thinly disguised excuse for the cast to show off their musical and dancing talents - and wow, they are the real thing! With Morley Amsterdam and Rose Marie you can see how their backgrounds in vaudeville gave them a level of versatility you'd rarely see in today's actors, while Dick and Mary's routine is flawless.
Amazing, that for the sake of the storyline, that even though the Petries had no idea they'd perform, they had their dance act down pat, as if they had practiced.
13:27 You know, I’ve known of this show from pop culture references. I’d heard that line before but didn’t know it came from here. You can even see on the time scroller that it’s one of the more viewed parts of the video. Amazing
Rose Marie started as Baby Rose Marie and started doing 'red hot mama numbers/ when she was five years old. She got a 7 year contract with NBC Radio beginning when she was 5 which makes her youngest contracted performer of that time. She always wore the black velvet bow in her hair, it was her trademark.
@@poetcomic1 Her book was wonderful too; 'Hold the Roses'. At the tender age of three, Rose Marie Mazzetta was entered in an amateur contest at New York City's Mecca Theatre. Her rendition of "What Can I Say Dear After I Say I'm Sorry?" won, and her 70-plus-year career was launched. She stayed "Baby Rose Marie" until she was well into her teens, singing in nightclubs, on vaudeville stages, on the radio, and in the movies. It was a glamorous but difficult life―she worked side by side with legends such as Al Jolson, Milton Berle, and W.C. Fields, and was watched over by "Uncle" Al Capone and his associates.
THANKFULLY! I'm 70, grew up with this show, always hated Rose Marie's harsh, grating singing voice, and hated the cello until I heard Stephen Sharp Nelson play it in 2016. I "fell in love" with the quality of his playing because he makes the cello sing and have a voice---not the clunky, heavy notes Amsterdam ground out of his instrument.Took nearly six decades to learn to like it, but now I do when I hear the many extremely talented young cello players of the 2020s.
He was 97 on Dec. 13. No, he's not the last living cast member. Larry Mathews, who played their loudmouth, obnoxious kid, is very much alive, as is the one who played as Freddy Helper, "Richie's" friend next door.
seeing this, Mary's incredible talents singing and dancing, what a shame these talents were never showcased on her own show at all. Great actress of course, but wow! Some storylines in the MTM show could have been developed/written to give her the freedom to do this, there! :)
Thankfully, I grew up watching these old shows when my parents were raising me and just miss the wholesome and actual great writing of shows of yesteryear. Now, almost all shows are garbage now.
What talent??? Everything was scripted, nothing was spontaneous. RM's singing voice was absolutely hideous and harsh, and Amsterdam's cello playing was a massacre of an instrument that can sound incredibly beautiful in the right hands, as the younger artists of the 21st century are showing. But, no, there was no "talent" on this show, just actors who followed a script.
My late mom used to wax nostalgic about nightclubs and mourn their loss. I just wish I could have experienced them. We would watch White Christmas, she would talk about places like Novello's, and I would wish I could jump into the screen and order a Champange Cocktail.
Rob looked so sad when his BBQ dinner was turned down, I felt sorry for him. For not rehearsing in the storyline, he and Laura sure sang and danced well at that club.Sally sang so well she should have made LPs.
“In other news, police today raided a house near the university, where they arrested 3 men and seized 2 pounds of top ground round with a street value of thirty-five thousand dollars.” [National Lampoon, on _The Missing White House Tapes._
@@sharone.langley2923 Good one. I forgot about that. With costumes and everything. You would almost think it was TV and not what it really was, just a typical American family living in New Rochelle , New York.
@@adamt1564 So true, and often overlooked, it was such a blessing to our generation to have seen Vaudevillians of that high degree of talent; people like Bob Hope, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, and Jack Benny. never to come again.
They say that the reason the DVD Show went off the air after 5 years was because Carl Reiner was exhausted from writing, Mary and Dick wanted to go on and do movies and it certainly could have gone on a few more years...which I think it should have stayed on the air for a few more years. However, let us not forget that the DVD Show aired during the time that President JFK was assassinated, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated....the mood of the country changed. We were not a happy idyllic place. In a matter of a few years the idealism of the 1950s and early 1960s came to a halt and america was reminded of the heartbreak of the real world...the real world that people hoped that they left behind when WW2 ended. DVD Show was the opposite of Bewitched. Whereas DVD ended after 5 years, Bewitched stayed long long after it should have gone off the air...after the premise of the show had long since been exhausted, long after the characters had become cliche and one dimensional, long after they recycled dialogue and even entire episodes (they milked that show for every penny they could get)....some episodes were practically the same episode except that the black and white episode was refilmed in color. DVD and MTM careers didnt zoom after the show went off the air. In fact, everything MTM did failed until the MTM Show premiered. DVD got so desperate for work that he joined the cast of the Carol Burnett Show where sadly he left because his talent really didnt fit that show. Its one of those sad sad stories with celebrities riding high in a hit show and they think that their are bigger better things to yet to come. Few are thankful enough being in a hit to think this may be their peak...this may be the best work their going to do...and they may not surpass it...or it might be a long time before they are part of another hit.
Dick has mentioned more than once that Marge Mullen the script girl had a file just for plot ideas, and he implied that there were quite a few in that file.
Expecting your coworkers to spend their weekends with you sounds really odd. After I work with people 40+ hours, I don't want to spend my free time with them!
That Paul Gauguin theory was brilliant. I bet Buddy looked exactly like him except maybe Gaugin was taller and French and wasn’t a TV comedy writer and looked more like Gene Wilder. Other than that it was perfect.
It didnt get much better than the DVD Show. Dick was an everyman. Everyone could relate to DVD and a lot of guys werent DVD but they saw a piece of themselves in his portrayal of Rob Petrie. MTM was absolutely magnetic as Laura Petrie. I liked Laura far more than Mary Richards though they were very similar characters. Buddy, Sally, Mel, Allan Brady, Millie, Jerry all perfectly cast. The writing was some of the best writing ever on TV. It was certainly a product of the 1960s but it is still modern today...and the clothes and furniture today are what we call classic midcentury modern. Everyone loved the musical shows when there was a chance for them to dance and sing. It wsnt an abrasive conflicted relationship like "I love lucy" or "The honeymooners." It wasnt a perfect relationship like "Ozzie and Harriet." Rob and Laura were very much a team..a team that had problems and worked together to solve them...Rob went to work...and then they had problems doing the creative writing for the "Allen Brady Show" and again they worked together as a team which is why even today this show is still fresh, clean, modern. You could say that we have gone backward because today we are constantly conflicted (man vs woman, race, ethnicity, sex, orientation, class, victim/oppressor, etc) and there isnt a lot of unity and teamwork. There was a time when society was built around faith, family, marriage, extended family, friends, community and there were certainly conflicts but people had manners and they tried to work together. There is much less of that today even though he have had 100 years of entertainment to see a reflection of ourselves and 75 years of the so called "self improvement" meme that became a part of our culture. We should be improving but instead we seem to be more conflicted and at war with others...the more we know and improve. A friend of mine made a very astute observation that we forgot about the early post-war western world. WW2 was so horrible and destructive that when the war was over...no one had to tell them that life was hard and unfair...they saw it and more in the war so when people went home after the war they did everything to create a sense of normalcy which their children saw as conformity and hypocrisy (which it wasnt). Thats what we see in the DVD Show...it was a fresh modern interpretation of idealic normalcy. The children of the postwar who saw everything as conformity and hypocrisy felt that gritty reality was the only way to portray realism and believability...which is of course untrue. Exaggerating gritty reality is just as unreal as exaggerating idealic normalcy.
WOW, your commentary is way over the top, it was just a 60's sitcom for fuck sake, it never set out to change the world, you're way too involved here, get help!!!
This show was hilarious. Some of the eps were like mysteries. I always wondered why Dick tripped over that huge ottoman at the starting theme. Couldn't he see it? Also he'd know it's there, it's in his house. I never saw one that big before. Rosemarie sang good and should have made LPs. I always wondered how Pickles looked and why she was called that.
Her name was Fiona and she said that everyone in her neighborhood named Fiona was called Pickles. When asked how many had that name, Pickles said just her. She was quite a character. Carl Reiner didn't like the opening of the first season, so he suggested that Dick should fall over the ottoman because it was an homage to the silent era where pratfalls were common. Dick was a big fan of Buster Keaton.
@@deedeegreen8338 They randomized the openings when he would trip and when he wouldn't. Later Carl found out people were actually doing pools, betting on whether he would trip the next week.
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You folks did a masterful job of restoring these shows.
I loved when Sally would do those music numbers that showcased her deep voice and great delivery. Sally was unique for tv back then, not one-dimensional, ballsy and brassy but often so vulnerable and open.
We sometimes forget how talented she was even as a child star of the 30s. So much is shown through the musical but also through the drama which she they write for her. Good Job Sally, we miss you!
He really is playing the cello. Just stunning!
Nowhere near the quality and sheer skill of certain cellists of the 2020's!
@@jb6712 He was a vaudeville performer. It’s impressive for then.
@@jb6712 don't be stupid.
Yes . Buddy took lessons from Morey Amsterdam.
@@jb6712 the total troll
Mary Tyler Moore was absolute knockout
She was my childhood crush...along with Trixie from Speed Racer. LOL. She looked so much better in this show than in her own.
Frankly, I'd love to see new shows like this one. The Dick Van Dyke show is still a favorite.
Dick is now 96 and still sharp. God Bless him. Mary is in heaven and dancing her heart out❤❤
98 y contando
Stirrups and Saddles!
One of my favorite episodes.
I love at 17:56 when Morey breaks for a second, nowadays they wouldn’t keep that in. Also just goes to show how much fun they were actually having doing this.
What did he break?
@@HansDelbruck53 in TV, break means to break character, by laughing or "something". If you were being an asshole, apologies for the explanation.
Rose also broke character because of that too.
I Love watching them dance! ! ! I could watch for hours and hours!
Here for the timeless fashion.
Laura’s wardrobe?
@@jillsmiley7701 all women
@Lina Zavala thank you Lina. ❤️
Yes!!
Don't forget the laughs 😂! Elephants🐘 never forget!
There’s so much hatred in the world but good comedy can really bring the world together.😊
Agreed! This show is timeless and sorry but the critics are idiots... it's STILL a fantastic show! 🥰🩷💛
America had a higher quality of talent.
What a great show.
Style and taste- man we can do better.
This is the best TV Show ever I miss the 60s . The Old Days were the best times ⏲️ period!!!!!!!!!
It’s a myth, stooge. This is a television show, it’s not live footage of the 60s.
love watching this late at night, so calm
This show was/is a Blessing to us all... so many decades of wholesome entertainment for several generations. Absolute perfection 🩷💛💚💙💜
Wow, just that last dance segment took a lot of time and talent to do. It looked effortless. Bravo cast !!!
Dick van Dyke is the father of comedy, great cast/show!!
The "father of comedy"; I love Dick Van Dyke, but I don't know about that. Although I agree that he is a great comedian, there were one or two that came before him.
Agree 110 Percent !!!!!!!
@@MrMenefrego1 Dick Van Dyke on this show also was good 😊 at setting up funny lines from other people.
@@MrMenefrego1 He himself would say that he sits at the feet of Stan Laurel.
@@MrJoeybabe25 *Indeed, he would; thank you for that intelligent comment!*
The Dick Van Dyke Show was/is such a fabulous show we still are so lucky to watch , checked all the boxes with Concept, Writing, Perfectly Chill Set Designs and Actors with Great Response Time and in Spot on Character at every changing moment. Smile, Laughter , Intense Feelings and Family.
You do realize he had nothing at all to do with concept, writing, blah, blah, blah, don't you? There was an entire production team for all that. He acted, he followed the script, he didn't do all those other tasks! It wasn't HIS show, it was his NAME on the show with him in the lead role. It was Carl Reiner's show, and Reiner hired a lot of very talented, good people (and some truly lousy writers) to do all the background work!
@@jb6712 wow. I never read past a message that starts with " You do realize" it reminds me to much of "Do you know who you are talking too" , I think Mel Brooks said this.
@@jb6712 2:2p
The 1st comment is spot on!!! One of the best shows of all time!!!
I remember this one sitting cross legged on the floor about 5 feet from our old black and white tv as a kid. Loved it then, love it now.❤
Rose Marie got her start as Baby Rose Marie....a child star singer. She was brilliant from day one.
Always loved this show. Grew up with it.
I still have a huge crush on her !!!! and Jennie !!
@@TOMAS-lh4er Sally or Laura?
Morley Amsterdam was a great cello player! Wow!
Loved Buddy and Sally. Thanks for posting these episodes. TV today is hard to watch
Rob n Laura r my favorite couple ever. They had great chemistry. Laura was young, beautiful. Rob was slim, tall, attractive. They are a good match.
Happy 98th to Dick Van Dyke!
The “impromptu” dance routine by DVD and MTM was great! The DVD Show was among the few “adult“ sitcom‘s I enjoyed watching as a kid back in the day, even though I didn’t understand all of the humor; time overdue for a rewatch.
Where has sophisticated, adult entertainment like this gone?
Love Rose Marie's singing
Why? Her voice was hideous--harsh and grating, the kind of voice that sounds as if someone smoked two packs of cigarettes a day all their life.
@jb6712 why are you even watching something( from all you rude comments) you obviously don't like??? Are you 10 ??
Rose Marie’s singing and style were beautiful and unique! 💕
Love alll the singing and dancing! MTM and DVD made a great couple. A bygone era...sigh.
Those two made a great couple ❤️ awwww the Good Old Days when things were just plain funny 🇦🇺 ❤️
Mary Tyler Moore really was a beautiful woman. Her and Dick Van Dyke channeling their inner Astaire and Rogers in this episode.
Thank you it was sweet. Not many things can be called such anymore.
live music with real instruments. man those were the days.
A lot of these clubs still exist, they are in NYC, LA, Chicago, Asheville, etc.
Love Rose Marie’s singing!
This was the best sitcom ever. Second best was the Mary Tyler Moore show. 🌹
Absolutely; great writing and versatile, multi-talented cast!
@@adamt1564 Mary Tyler Moore was on both shows.
So wholesome, unlike all the crap we have now.
"Wholesome." With all the lies and deceit going on, it was "wholesome"? What an odd way of looking at things.
Agreed❤
You got that right
TV is much better now.
Bluey is wholesome and a product of today, the good old days is a myth. There never was a country for old men.
Thinly disguised excuse for the cast to show off their musical and dancing talents - and wow, they are the real thing! With Morley Amsterdam and Rose Marie you can see how their backgrounds in vaudeville gave them a level of versatility you'd rarely see in today's actors, while Dick and Mary's routine is flawless.
Amazing, that for the sake of the storyline, that even though the Petries had no idea they'd perform, they had their dance act down pat, as if they had practiced.
I stumbled on this and I liked it - so much talent in one show!
I want to give props to the LIVE band in this segment. Yowzers.
Some real talent there.
DVD was truly one of the GREATEST entertainers in history.
IS!
He's still alive and fairly active, living in Malibu!
@@kristic4472 He is a incredible person in entertainment history.
and still is.
@@mrmesozoic1094 I only said "was" because at 97 years old he doesn't do much entertaining.
@@ralphfiligenzi6180 Oh yeah I know I just meant it in a respective way.
At 1:40 when Laura puts the frozen sirloin in the freezer the door doesn’t stay shut! 😅
Was looking for this comment! 🙂
You're very observant!
13:27 You know, I’ve known of this show from pop culture references.
I’d heard that line before but didn’t know it came from here.
You can even see on the time scroller that it’s one of the more viewed parts of the video. Amazing
actors who sing, dance, act, play instruments. Soooo good. Today’s actors can barely do one of those things. And we make them famous. 🤦🏼♀️
Laura’s little wave at Buddy and Sally tho 😂😂😂😂😂
What a talented cast. Wow.
I've seen this many times, but only now noticed the 'Jetsons' chairs at the dinette. I think, when the show finished, my local airport bought them...
The man plays a fretless cello... 😮😀 And Rose Marie belts great blues. They just don't make 'em like that anymore...
Aren't all cellos fretless?
@@marykolar7319 Live and learn ☺. Still, he's an excellent player.
Rose Marie started as Baby Rose Marie and started doing 'red hot mama numbers/ when she was five years old. She got a 7 year contract with NBC Radio beginning when she was 5 which makes her youngest contracted performer of that time. She always wore the black velvet bow in her hair, it was her trademark.
@@poetcomic1 Her book was wonderful too; 'Hold the Roses'. At the tender age of three, Rose Marie Mazzetta was entered in an amateur contest at New York City's Mecca Theatre. Her rendition of "What Can I Say Dear After I Say I'm Sorry?" won, and her 70-plus-year career was launched. She stayed "Baby Rose Marie" until she was well into her teens, singing in nightclubs, on vaudeville stages, on the radio, and in the movies. It was a glamorous but difficult life―she worked side by side with legends such as Al Jolson, Milton Berle, and W.C. Fields, and was watched over by "Uncle" Al Capone and his associates.
THANKFULLY!
I'm 70, grew up with this show, always hated Rose Marie's harsh, grating singing voice, and hated the cello until I heard Stephen Sharp Nelson play it in 2016. I "fell in love" with the quality of his playing because he makes the cello sing and have a voice---not the clunky, heavy notes Amsterdam ground out of his instrument.Took nearly six decades to learn to like it, but now I do when I hear the many extremely talented young cello players of the 2020s.
Love the cello playing.
We talked about Mary Tyler Moore was a dancer but also Dick Van Dyke also danced too.
Tag line:
_OK, go ahead, say it, say it._
Watched a lot of this show, nut never heard Sally sing. Wow
BACK WHEN YOU COULD WATCH TV…FUNNY AND CLEAN!!!! LEARN BETH DUTTON!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mary started as a dancer; she can move...
14:55 LMAO
not only that but it’s extremely conspicuous to just be one of the few people in a room with dark shades on.
Harmony. Great tune. Music by Jimmy van Heusen. Lyrics by Johnny Burke.
absolute briliiance.
I forgot Morey Amsterdam played the cello!
On this show Morey Amsterdam was so good 😂 as being out loud 🔊 funny 🤣.
Somebody needs to call the electrician to fix the freezer door. It will not stay shut, and there is steak inside.
Good old days
I believe that DVD is the last living cast member ( DVD is in his 90s now and I hope he makes it to 100 ! )
Ritchie também está
@@JoaoNeto-fw8im If you are referring to the child who played Ritchie than you are correct.
@@lilajagears8317 Exatamente.
He was 97 on Dec. 13. No, he's not the last living cast member. Larry Mathews, who played their loudmouth, obnoxious kid, is very much alive, as is the one who played as Freddy Helper, "Richie's" friend next door.
I don't think I ever seen a episode of DVD that rob didn't apologize to Laura for something.
MTM was a stunner.
good episode
seeing this, Mary's incredible talents singing and dancing, what a shame these talents were never showcased on her own show at all. Great actress of course, but wow! Some storylines in the MTM show could have been developed/written to give her the freedom to do this, there! :)
She is really sensational.
Thankfully, I grew up watching these old shows when my parents were raising me and just miss the wholesome and actual great writing of shows of yesteryear. Now, almost all shows are garbage now.
Rob wears a collar and tie even when casually dressed at home (and Herbie's Hiawatha Lodge)
So much talent, though I'm wondering why Laura slammed the freezer door shut early on, yet the door was never fully closed after that.
it's a prop freezer so it's not really a working freezer
@@billyfred4985 I know that, but even prop freezers look better when the door is not hanging open.
@@Marchant2 CDO much?
@@Marchant2 they wern't butt hurt over everything back then
Just like the one in many of our homes back in the day…
Laura is so lovely
No she a rat
...and then some!!!.
I'm a girl but I'm totally infatuated with her.
Nice dancing you didn't get to see that on the Mary Tyler more show
Very talented . Didn't need smoke and mirrors nor the stuck garbage of today.
What talent??? Everything was scripted, nothing was spontaneous. RM's singing voice was absolutely hideous and harsh, and Amsterdam's cello playing was a massacre of an instrument that can sound incredibly beautiful in the right hands, as the younger artists of the 21st century are showing.
But, no, there was no "talent" on this show, just actors who followed a script.
The heyday of the nightclubs. 1950's and 1960's. When my parents were dating, and then newly married.
My late mom used to wax nostalgic about nightclubs and mourn their loss. I just wish I could have experienced them. We would watch White Christmas, she would talk about places like Novello's, and I would wish I could jump into the screen and order a Champange Cocktail.
Rob looked so sad when his BBQ dinner was turned down, I felt sorry for him. For not rehearsing in the storyline, he and Laura sure sang and danced well at that club.Sally sang so well she should have made LPs.
Why didn't she make LPs? She sang great, in that 1940s style. I always liked this song.
I love the D**k Van D**e show!
that's DICK Van DYKE sensitive about DICK and DYKE are we?? knock off the woke shit, OKAY???
Six pounds of top sirloin. The cost would be astronomical today.
“In other news, police today raided a house near the university, where they arrested 3 men and seized 2 pounds of top ground round with a street value of thirty-five thousand dollars.” [National Lampoon, on _The Missing White House Tapes._
I think rob is genuinely worried about buddy and Sally getting into trouble
Oh how I miss good shows like this!
Mary Tyler Moore was such a babe
Oops. The freezer door didn't close.
Adjusted for inflation, that $42.50 that Sally and Buddy earned in 1966, is worth about $375.00 in 2023!
If Rose Marie's "I'm Gonna Love You' doesn't make you want to snuggle down with your mate, there's something wrong with you.
I got a nose like a banana 🤣
How come Dick Van Dyke was never on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Lucky Rob and Laura had a perfectly rehearsed act they could perform spontaneously like that. It’s almost unreal.
of course they did; haven't you ever been to dinner parties at their house? 🤩
@@sharone.langley2923 Good one. I forgot about that. With costumes and everything. You would almost think it was TV and not what it really was, just a typical American family living in New Rochelle , New York.
This show incorporates show-biz traditions harking back to vaudeville. Amazing.
@@adamt1564 So true, and often overlooked, it was such a blessing to our generation to have seen Vaudevillians of that high degree of talent; people like Bob Hope, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, and Jack Benny. never to come again.
@@MrMenefrego1 Good point! We can only hope that future generations of entertainers take a look at their ancestors' talents.
When I was very young and watching this, I thought Buddy and Sally were married to each other.
Laura if you dont CLOSE THAT FREEZER DOOR!!!!!
They say that the reason the DVD Show went off the air after 5 years was because Carl Reiner was exhausted from writing, Mary and Dick wanted to go on and do movies and it certainly could have gone on a few more years...which I think it should have stayed on the air for a few more years. However, let us not forget that the DVD Show aired during the time that President JFK was assassinated, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated....the mood of the country changed. We were not a happy idyllic place. In a matter of a few years the idealism of the 1950s and early 1960s came to a halt and america was reminded of the heartbreak of the real world...the real world that people hoped that they left behind when WW2 ended. DVD Show was the opposite of Bewitched. Whereas DVD ended after 5 years, Bewitched stayed long long after it should have gone off the air...after the premise of the show had long since been exhausted, long after the characters had become cliche and one dimensional, long after they recycled dialogue and even entire episodes (they milked that show for every penny they could get)....some episodes were practically the same episode except that the black and white episode was refilmed in color. DVD and MTM careers didnt zoom after the show went off the air. In fact, everything MTM did failed until the MTM Show premiered. DVD got so desperate for work that he joined the cast of the Carol Burnett Show where sadly he left because his talent really didnt fit that show. Its one of those sad sad stories with celebrities riding high in a hit show and they think that their are bigger better things to yet to come. Few are thankful enough being in a hit to think this may be their peak...this may be the best work their going to do...and they may not surpass it...or it might be a long time before they are part of another hit.
Dick has mentioned more than once that Marge Mullen the script girl had a file just for plot ideas, and he implied that there were quite a few in that file.
She didn’t shut the freezer door the whole way 😮😂
Expecting your coworkers to spend their weekends with you sounds really odd. After I work with people 40+ hours, I don't want to spend my free time with them!
They happen to be good friends as well.
I’d bet that your coworkers felt doubly about not spending time with you.
Laura doesn’t even acknowledge that there is an issue with Buddy and Sally.
Richard Deacon as Phil Arnold in the credits?
It does not say Richard Deacon AS Phil Arnold, it lists Richard Deacon and Phil Arnold.
@@mikeramsay3294 thank you. I didn’t catch that.
So funny
The kitchen scene around 6:00...Laura is really doing the Jackie Kennedy Look (that is meant as a compliment).
Even my mother emulated one of the last true Ladies to have graced the White House; Jackie Kennedy.
Actually she's doing the Laura Petrie look🤷🏼♂️🤓😎✌🏻
Unlike Jackie Kennedy, the ultimate, glamourous AIR HEAD, MTM had a functioning brain, RIP to both.
That Paul Gauguin theory was brilliant. I bet Buddy looked exactly like him except maybe Gaugin was taller and French and wasn’t a TV comedy writer and looked more like Gene Wilder. Other than that it was perfect.
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It didnt get much better than the DVD Show. Dick was an everyman. Everyone could relate to DVD and a lot of guys werent DVD but they saw a piece of themselves in his portrayal of Rob Petrie. MTM was absolutely magnetic as Laura Petrie. I liked Laura far more than Mary Richards though they were very similar characters. Buddy, Sally, Mel, Allan Brady, Millie, Jerry all perfectly cast. The writing was some of the best writing ever on TV. It was certainly a product of the 1960s but it is still modern today...and the clothes and furniture today are what we call classic midcentury modern. Everyone loved the musical shows when there was a chance for them to dance and sing. It wsnt an abrasive conflicted relationship like "I love lucy" or "The honeymooners." It wasnt a perfect relationship like "Ozzie and Harriet." Rob and Laura were very much a team..a team that had problems and worked together to solve them...Rob went to work...and then they had problems doing the creative writing for the "Allen Brady Show" and again they worked together as a team which is why even today this show is still fresh, clean, modern. You could say that we have gone backward because today we are constantly conflicted (man vs woman, race, ethnicity, sex, orientation, class, victim/oppressor, etc) and there isnt a lot of unity and teamwork. There was a time when society was built around faith, family, marriage, extended family, friends, community and there were certainly conflicts but people had manners and they tried to work together. There is much less of that today even though he have had 100 years of entertainment to see a reflection of ourselves and 75 years of the so called "self improvement" meme that became a part of our culture. We should be improving but instead we seem to be more conflicted and at war with others...the more we know and improve. A friend of mine made a very astute observation that we forgot about the early post-war western world. WW2 was so horrible and destructive that when the war was over...no one had to tell them that life was hard and unfair...they saw it and more in the war so when people went home after the war they did everything to create a sense of normalcy which their children saw as conformity and hypocrisy (which it wasnt). Thats what we see in the DVD Show...it was a fresh modern interpretation of idealic normalcy. The children of the postwar who saw everything as conformity and hypocrisy felt that gritty reality was the only way to portray realism and believability...which is of course untrue. Exaggerating gritty reality is just as unreal as exaggerating idealic normalcy.
WOW, your commentary is way over the top, it was just a 60's sitcom for fuck sake, it never set out to change the world, you're way too involved here, get help!!!
Harmony........Minneapolis and St. Paul. Where MTM becomes Mary Richards. Coincidence? Yeah, probably.
This show was hilarious. Some of the eps were like mysteries. I always wondered why Dick tripped over that huge ottoman at the starting theme. Couldn't he see it? Also he'd know it's there, it's in his house. I never saw one that big before. Rosemarie sang good and should have made LPs. I always wondered how Pickles looked and why she was called that.
Her name was Fiona and she said that everyone in her neighborhood named Fiona was called Pickles. When asked how many had that name, Pickles said just her. She was quite a character. Carl Reiner didn't like the opening of the first season, so he suggested that Dick should fall over the ottoman because it was an homage to the silent era where pratfalls were common. Dick was a big fan of Buster Keaton.
@@deedeegreen8338 They randomized the openings when he would trip and when he wouldn't. Later Carl found out people were actually doing pools, betting on whether he would trip the next week.