One of my favorite episodes is the one where Dick hosts Good Morning Vermont and his guest is the owner of the worlds smallest horse. Then people start calling in to claim that they have a smaller horse. Does anyone remember that one? What are your favorites?
shareHooligals and Puffians!
shareWhen Larry, Darryl and Darryl first take over The Minute Man Cafe. The person asked for rolls and the brother reached in his pocket and pulled out a roll.
share"Jumpin' Jerome Robbins! Without a choreographer we're pretty much dead in the water!" -- Michael (Peter Scolari) citing the name of "West Side Story" choreographer, Jerome Robbins, when Dick's gang, "The Hooligans" are facing off to rumble against the "Ruffians" and neither gang knows what to do since they've never rumbled before in their 40 years of gang rivalry.
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"What a lame gang." -- Dick Louden (Bob Newhart) upon listening to George, Jim, and Chester boast about their gang hijinks which included such feats as soaking peoples' windows with wet sponges.
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"As gang secretary, I'm checking the 'Will Attend' box." - Chester Wanamaker (William Lanteau) upon seeing the cordial invitation to a rumble sent on embossed stationary by the rival Ruffian gang.
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"Oh my! Does my jacket also say, 'Hooligals'?" -- Chester upon seeing the typo on everyone's gang jackets. It should have read "Hooligans", but George wrote the order form incorrectly.
Also from the Hooligals episode:
JIM: We picked up all the broken glass in the alley. This was nobody gets hurt.
DICK: Yeah. You wouldn't want to see anybody get hurt at a rumble.
My favorite episode is one that I by chance happened to tape!
I watch it at least twice a year and love it more each time.
I would love to find a dvd of it.
Dick decides after many hours of trying to write the next great "how to" book, that he finds his mind drifting to go to a dude ranch and be a cowboy in the West that he loved so much in all the novels he's read. Comic dissappointment ensues when he finds out that on that ranch, todays cowboys "herd cattle in a Toyota".
Also there's none of the "steak and biscuits" that he has be "hankering for", because, "..Sorry Laudon, it's salad night." . And when he rents the video "High Noon" for his bunk mates to see, they ask him "What's that about?"
Completely perfect for Bobs reaction shots of his disappointment. So many one liner jokes that I laugh for the entire 30 mins. I am very fortunate to have this video.
It was a Halloween episode - Chester ( I think he was a councilman) and his friend were Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. I just remember that they acted like them all the time - so the costumes were appropriate -I only ever saw the episode once but I remember I couldn't stopp laughing!
shareI was leaning towards this one as well...although I also love the episode with Tim Conway playing himself as a cheapskate.
shareThat's a great episode. I'd love to see it again. The parts I remember are when Dick wants to watch High Noon, the others want to watch The Muppets Take Manhattan, and when Dick leaves, the one guy is all sad and says "nobody can double-clutch like Loudon."
shareSo many great episodes to choose from:
- the first appearance of Larry and the Darryls
- the Halloween episode where "War Of The Worlds" was on TV and the town started to believe that aliens from Mars had attacked Vermont- and that Dick was one of them! The whole episode was brilliantly insane.
- Don Rickles getting his own talk show at the station, and Dick being forced to be his sidekick who Rickles would always humiliate on the air. "Pick on Dick! Pick on Dick!"
- "5 dollars to scratch my nose!"
does anyone recall which episode the "5 dollars to scratch my nose" came from?
That was my all time favorite! Now we just have to wait and see how fast these are going to be released to DVD... (since Season 1 is coming out in February (I believe - I saw that on Amazon.com)
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Ron G. from Sunny Orlando, Florida
It had noodle head in the title and involved a new England festival. Great episode.
Dini
I just watched that tonight.Season4 /episode 6-Locks,Stocks and Noodlehead. It was and excellent episode. It reminded me strongly of the Big Bang episode where Sheldon has a small table and chair set saying"Kittens $20.00"
shareYes... I know that TBBT episode well... you may say too well. (That was from Season 4.) I recently got rid of my DVD box sets of TBBT - that's all I wanted to watch for some strange bizarre reason. I liked the first three seasons before they gave all the guys girlfriends. So I'll just stick to the NCIS and CSI franchises.
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Ron G. from Sunny (& Hot!) Orlando, Florida
I liked the one where Dick had to take over for Pirate Pete while he was in the hospital & ended up getting his show cancelled! I also loved when Stephanie had her own sitcom "Seein' Double" (something like that). Hilarious!
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato
Ikillthreads (Tue Sep 25 2007)
I liked the one where Dick had to take over for Pirate Pete while
he was in the hospital & ended up getting his show cancelled! I
also loved when Stephanie had her own sitcom "Seein' Double"
(something like that). Hilarious!
That Pirate Pete thing was hilarious; I loved how sanctimonious
Dick was when trying to makeover the show, encouraging kids to
eat fruit and 'behave like little gentlemen.' A pirate!! And
Pete stabbing Dick in the butt with a saber was hilarious.
Anybody else like the one where Stephanie borrows Dick's car,
gets a bunch of tickets, and he was sentenced to community
service? Him angrily stalking her around the courthouse he was
painting was hilarious. Typical Stephanie 'explanation': "It
would be a lot easier to do the right thing if they made it
more fun, you know."
I can't really say, because there are alot I do not remember well enough. And probably more so because there are so many that are so good, it'd be too hard to pick. But any with Larry, Daryl, and Daryl were always great for me. But today is the 25th anniversary of Newhart, as it premiered on CBS on Monday night, October 25, 1982. I then watched it occasionally on CBS until its May, 1990 finale, and even more so in syndication from the mid 1980s into the early 1990s. And I really liked it overall, it became my 8th favorite TV series of all time. And happy 25th anniversary today!
"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park
The one I remember the most (aside from the final episode) was Dick was asked to attend and host an old fashioned auction. Next thing you know, he's playing auctioneer, delivering his lines with that classic Newhart style, saying "Ok, who, who wants to buy this? Do I hear one dollar. One dolly-ollar."
Not sure what episode but that had me cracking up...
I like the one when dick got kicked out of bed by Joanna. So he tried to sleep with George, but he talks in his sleep. "Ball Peen Hammer!" Then he ends up at the Darryl's, and they fold him up in the converta-bed.
shareThis is all totally from memory since I haven't seen the show since the 80s, but certainly the one with the introduction of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl. Perhaps it wasn't a great episode, but that scene was memorable. Around the same time I met someone who had a brother of the same name (no kidding) - they were stepbrothers. I also remember the one where George saw a UFO.
shareWhen Dick hosts a new segment called "Book Talk" and his first guest is a man who wrote a book about his adventures in the Amazon. Newhart's expression of disbelief when his guest brings up dinosaurs was priceless.
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