Nov 2, 2022
“It
May Look Like a Walnut” (February 6, 1963)
It’s not the first “weird” episode that a sitcom ever did, but it’s
probably the most famous: the second-season installment of The Dick
Van Dyke Show where it departed from the usual formula and became a
sci-fi B-movie. It turns out to be a dream, of course, but you
actually aren’t sure until the final moments, and it’s still one of
the stranger sequences you’ll ever see on a mainstream
sitcom.
This episode is not all that gay but it is the first of two pitches
for our next Patreon-exclusive show. Should we do a whole
ten-episode season of the weirdest episodes ever? We will be
putting it up to vote after next week’s episode, the other choice,
is live.
Listen to the mini-episode about the Dick Van Dyke Show's debatable
semen joke — and watch the scene here.
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Stuff to listen to:
Our previous Dick Van Dyke episode about the “seaman”
joke
The new Halloween episode of
Singing Mountain We Love Trash The Square Roots podcast
Stuff to watch:
Head of the Family, the failed Dick Van Dyke pilot
The
Tiny Toons parody of Dick Van Dyke (with Elmyra Tyler
Moore)
Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited
My Sister Eileen
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