I could watch them all over and over, but my favorites are
1. "Ego a Go-Go" where Gidget gives Richard Dreyfus (Durf the Drag/Durf the Surf) a makeover.
2. "Gidget's Foreign Policy" with the beautiful Brooke Bundy.
3. "Chivalry Isn't Dead" where Gidget and her friends (Barbara Hershey, Bonnie Franklin, etc) teach their boyfriends a lesson about taking them for granted.
My Ever Faithful Friend
"Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ."
The way Russ and Larue connect as friends is just beautiful.
Those are all great episodes. I like the one when she thinks her father has read her diary. Their exchange in one of the final scenes of the episode is kind of touching.
shareThe pilot- yeah! Definitely my favorite. Also love the one (maybe "Independence, Gidget Style?) in which her dad thinks she's working at a nightclub
Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me.
Oh I loved the pilot a lot too. It was so neat to see a comedy show like this with some dramatic moments like that. Her crying scene was so believable that I got emotional watching it. There is another one I cant recall where she got really worried when her dad wasnt home that she called the police pretending to be his mother. I think this is one where her father got mad at her for that and later there is an emotional scene between them. I believe she says something to him while crying about how worried she was that he might be dead or something and then he understands.
One episode that stood out to me for the humor is the one where she tries to learn to drive. When she is in the car with her brother in law she bumps into the car behind her which attaches that car to her bumper. THere is a dog in the drivers seat and while she is driving she looks in the mirror and says to John "Dont look now but there is a dog driving that car behind us" or something like that. I cracked up over that so much.
There was one episode when she was upset because her father was out late and she thought something bad may have happened to him since he'd usually call if he was going to be late. She started crying while telling him how worried she had been and it was very touching. She was already showing the acting chops that would one day win her 2 Oscars.
shareI have to say I love all of them, but "Chivalry Isn't Dead" is one of my favorites!
shareI've been watching reruns on "Comcast On Demand". One of my favorites that hasn't been mentioned is "Take a Lesson". Gidget ends up going in her PJ's with her friend and her family to pick up a used car in Pasadena. It stars Paul Lynde as her friend's father. He's great in it - very snide and sarcastic! (He loses patience with Gidget as they travel around in circles looking for a pay phone so she can let her dad know where she is...and then other disasters happen from there, with Lynde getting increasingly sorry he ever took Gidget along.) I think he's funnier in this episode than he was in any of the "Bewitched" episodes he guest-starred in.
shareAgree: Paul Lynde was really funny in that episode. Kind of like his character in "Bye Bye Birdie," but with all the redeeming characteristics removed.
shareAgreed, that episode with Paul Lynde is one of my favorites. He's so funny the way he chastises her for "going to Pasadena in your pajama's". Love Paul Lynde! I'm so sad that Gidget didn't last for several seasons, I still don't understand why, it was such a great show.
share"he is a man of dignity, even in his pajamas Herman take a lesson"
That's my favourite episode too Take a Lesson with Paul Lynde. Any show with Paul Lynde in it is always my favourites.
The other episode would be the gypsy curse one mainly because when they showed the reruns in the 80s that was always the one episode I remembered.
Great series
That was a great one too. I just watched it today. Was funny how he keeps commenting on her running around in her pajamas, in that classic Paul Lynde voice.
His wife, played by Jeff Donnell who was Gidget's mother in two of the movie versions too. I liked her too.