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A hard day's night episode

posted 8 years ago by jayhn1111
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I didn't like this one at all. So Russell gives this guy a key to his own house and doesn't find it the least bit necessary to tell his daughter that some stranger is going to just be barging in and staying over? I'm assuming he thought she'd be staying at a friend's house but still. This guy waltzes right in with a key and is walking all around the house like he owns it in Gidget's room and everywhere else. I got the impression that this guy was just an acquaintance and not a really close friend of Russell's. Also that whole bit with the neighbor was a little bizarre. I guess in a way that's cool that he went over there to make sure everything was ok. But in a warewolf mask?? Like it never crossed his mind for one second that walking around at night in the rain and peering into somebody's house looking like a wolf would freak somebody out. The guy with the key, the neighbor and Russell should've all been arrested out of sheer stupidity

[–] mactach 8 years ago

I don't see why you hate it so badly.

It was hilarious.

[–] jayhn1111 8 years ago

It's not so much hatred. I just thought it was silly and didn't find it funny.

[–] v_anzaldua 8 years ago

Yes, Russell Lawrence was under the impression that Gidget was staying over at Larue's while he was out of town--because that was what they had planned. He had no idea that Gidget and her friend would get into an argument that caused Gidget to come home. As for his friend, he was studying for an insurance exam and was concerned about hotel accommodations (he needed a good, firm bed to get a good night's rest); thus, Russell allowing him to stay at his house (and this friend was also under the impression that Gidget wasn't going to be home). In regard to the "werewolf" neighbor, he wanted to take off the mask before heading over to the Lawrence house but his wife wanted him to go over there ASAP, so he didn't have a chance to change out of his costume. All of this coalesced to create a misunderstanding (sort of the kind we would watch on "Three's Company" more than a decade later) and one very funny episode. It's a classic case of things not going exactly as planned--with humorous results.

But humor, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I thought it was funny, but to each his/her own.

[–] jayhn1111 8 years ago

I think Gidget herself made the comment that her father would've called to tell her had he invited somebody to stay over. But you are correct. To each his own. I felt this tied with the alligator episode as the worst episode in it's run.