While suffering from exhaustion at the office, Rob sees a flying saucer. Try as he might, nobody believes him.While suffering from exhaustion at the office, Rob sees a flying saucer. Try as he might, nobody believes him.While suffering from exhaustion at the office, Rob sees a flying saucer. Try as he might, nobody believes him.
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- TriviaThe vent that Rob hears the voice only appears in this episode.
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Rob Petrie: You uhny uftzed me.
Buddy Sorrell: Rob, I've done a lot of rotten things in my life. I never uhny uftzed anybody.
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IS UHNY UFTZ CONTAGEOUS? BEWARE!
This outstanding episode may very well have been inspired by the famous Exeter Incident that occurred a few weeks earlier (before it aired) at Kensington, New Hampshire.
The story goes that a teenager was hitchhiking back to his home late at night when he spotted a UFO in all its flashing glory. He immediately told police who, in fact, drove him back to the scene where they ALSO saw a large black space craft.
Amazing stuff. It's too bad there weren't any cell phones and cams back in the day!
Bottom line... why not have Rob see and hear a flying saucer? This is fun stuff, and Dick Van Dyke gives it his best shot, trying to convince everybody in the office he actually saw a UFO right outside the window. It's also a relatable story, regardless of the Exeter case, as most people who claim they saw something in the sky --at first -- are never taken seriously.
Rob is really in a mess, making him look like a kook with an overactive imagination. And he pulls it off soooo well.
Credit Carl Kleinschmitt for writing this classic, who wrote 9 episodes for the series, also writing many episodes for the JOEY BISHOP SHOW. Carl, who passed in 2022, had a long list of sitcoms, including THAT GIRL and GOMER PYLE. He knew his stuff.
I can also relate to what the last reviewer wrote about TV LAND cutting out a line from this classic episode, some years back. It's not unusual, but it is nevertheless annoying and could be due to censureship at the time, believing the line inferred "something else" .... OR..... they simply broke it off to play a commercial???
Of course, if the episode was aired in 1965 without cuts, why not today? Could be a management decision to not "insult" anyone, and I can't figure that one out --or just sloppy editing. ME TV is guilty of this (as of 2023), as they will cut some of their late show tv episodes (MANNIX, CANNON etc) or break them up at the end, to insert silly promos and commercials. That's when I get more pizza!
Recommended from SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 remastered dvd box set.
The story goes that a teenager was hitchhiking back to his home late at night when he spotted a UFO in all its flashing glory. He immediately told police who, in fact, drove him back to the scene where they ALSO saw a large black space craft.
Amazing stuff. It's too bad there weren't any cell phones and cams back in the day!
Bottom line... why not have Rob see and hear a flying saucer? This is fun stuff, and Dick Van Dyke gives it his best shot, trying to convince everybody in the office he actually saw a UFO right outside the window. It's also a relatable story, regardless of the Exeter case, as most people who claim they saw something in the sky --at first -- are never taken seriously.
Rob is really in a mess, making him look like a kook with an overactive imagination. And he pulls it off soooo well.
Credit Carl Kleinschmitt for writing this classic, who wrote 9 episodes for the series, also writing many episodes for the JOEY BISHOP SHOW. Carl, who passed in 2022, had a long list of sitcoms, including THAT GIRL and GOMER PYLE. He knew his stuff.
I can also relate to what the last reviewer wrote about TV LAND cutting out a line from this classic episode, some years back. It's not unusual, but it is nevertheless annoying and could be due to censureship at the time, believing the line inferred "something else" .... OR..... they simply broke it off to play a commercial???
Of course, if the episode was aired in 1965 without cuts, why not today? Could be a management decision to not "insult" anyone, and I can't figure that one out --or just sloppy editing. ME TV is guilty of this (as of 2023), as they will cut some of their late show tv episodes (MANNIX, CANNON etc) or break them up at the end, to insert silly promos and commercials. That's when I get more pizza!
Recommended from SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 remastered dvd box set.
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- Runtime30 minutes
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