The Whole Larry /Darryl / Darryl Thing Had A Shelf Life...
...of maybe three episodes. Beyond that it was more annoying than funny.
Very bland show. Typical CBS programming.
One thing nobody acknowledges is how these three were really inspired by the Marx brothers. Larry was the Groucho of the group. And the other two were his Harpos.
So I am sure the writers figured that if the Marxes could build a whole career around it, they could build repeated subplots around this routine.
I bet CBS and the writers considered giving them a spinoff-- but I sincerely doubt a whole program featuring them as lead characters would have been very sustaining and that's probably why it was never attempted.
I’ll make this brief: you have to be an idiot to see The Marx Brothers in these clods. There were 5 Marx brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Gummo and Zeppo. The last 2 were dead weight, but Minnie Marx insisted they be, sometimes, included. Harpo was pure improvisation. S.J. Perlman, who wrote many of their scripts, said something like, “You write HARPO ENTERS, then he takes it from there.” Once, when filming a scene, Groucho turned to the screenwriters and said, “If you hear any of your lines, whistle.” The Marx Brothers are from a comedy era so far removed from your feeble comprehension that they might as well be Angels. No, The Larry bunch IS NOT the fucking Marx Brothers, cretin.
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