The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4, Episode 10 - Pink Pills and Purple Parents - Full Episode

[@eric_d4073]

Love the flashback episodes. I still consider this the best written and best acted Sitcom of all time ! And to think it almost ended after the first year !

[@gils1930]

One of the best episodes; the scene where MTM slides down the chair to get her spoon. pure comedic genius!

[@preetakumar6593]

This is the funniest episode of the entire show IMO. Anyone who saw this in 1965 should've known Mary Tyler Moore was going to make it big in the industry one day.

[@rckkeller9437]

Completely agree.

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

She sacrificed her own child

[@preetakumar6593]

@@MeadeSkeltonMusic He was killed in an accidental gunshot. Don't pull nonsense out of your butt, and don't insult the grief of a mother.

[@garyfrancis6193]

@@MeadeSkeltonMusic What do you mean?

[@earnold1896]

​@garyfrancis6193 ...They mean for her career. She had her son very young. He died from a gunshot wound while he was young.

[@randilevson9547]

"Peas and carrots" become "keys and parrots" in Laura's pharmaceutically induced haze. Cute!!

[@DeweyHatcher]

This episode was mary tylor Moores best to show her comedian abilities

[@bluestrife28]

This is a unique version of Mary you don’t see too often and I’ve loved it for years. I just sought this episode out. This is Mary’s Vitameatavegimin moment. 🥰

[@randilevson9547]

MTM had a surprising gift for physical comedy. She wasn't called upon to do it very often, but this episode gave her a chance to shine. She was so funny!!

[@MrMenefrego1]

I admire MTM, but she lacks her own original sense of comedy. If you observe closely, you'll see that she emulates DVD in almost every way.

[@randilevson9547]

​@@MrMenefrego1 She could have done much worse for an inspiration.

[@nsme1965]

I like that Rob isn't afraid to stand up to his mother and refuses to allow her to insult Laura. Every child and partner should take the lesson.

[@HansDelbruck53]

As well as every lover.

[@homegown1234]

I did and stood up to my narcissist mother who didn't want me to marry the guy I was dating but what she wanted is someone to stay single so I could keep helping her financially for the rest of her lousy life. My mother was married but he was a bum but she didn't want to work. Nothing like keeping children that are adults single so they can continue to lean all the time on us daughters that were single.

[@MrGlobaldave1]

One of MTM best performances….. I don’t laugh that often and this was hilarious……😂😂😂

[@randilevson9547]

We all need inspirations to laugh, these days. We should try to find them wherever we can.

[@noobsshadow1369]

Laura taking too many "mother's little helpers" in 1964 was pretty risky for the time. But it's a hilarious episode and one of Mary Tyler Moore's best.

[@MrMenefrego1]

I believe "mother's little helpers" were Valiums; Those things helped Daddy too.

[@marcrubin8844]

Or in this case Millie's little helper

[@brightspacebabe]

She took sleeping pills on The Mary Tyler Moore Show too.

[@HansDelbruck53]

@@MrMenefrego1 Could have been Librium which was a popular sedative in the early Sixties. Valium came along later.

[@rckkeller9437]

Her facial expressions were so right on the mark. Such a great comedian.

[@bmyra]

She really is. Such a natural talent.

[@sval.8712]

"Vivian Fogel is a FINK!" 😂😂

[@ThrowbackDrummer]

“One for moo moo” 😂

[@CamilleGG451]

OMG right??!! 🤣🤣 The brilliant MTM!!

[@binkybearvevo6973]

@@CamilleGG451 oops I dropped my spoony Forky

[@brendandurham3817]

@@binkybearvevo6973 Sam, our daughter-in-law is a drunky.

[@YW2324]

Lol 😅 every time I watch it it's still hilarious 🤣

[@JanetDaley-solo]

The mere stating of that line, & picturing the scene, can send me into hysterics...

[@joankersting2358]

Face it mom. Broke me up!

[@corinaperez226]

I still remember the TV lineup back in the 70s when I was a kid. Good Times at 4, Gilligan's Island was next, then I Love Lucy, then Dick Van Dyke, then Leave it to Beaver, and finish off with Bewitched.

[@randilevson9547]

Rob's father was the kind of man that every new wife would want for a father-in-law. Kind, sweet, and down-to-earth. Rob's mother tried really hard.

[@edpurcell7322]

"Would you like to see the bedroom?" " NO!! "

[@nancyhowell4505]

😂😆

[@kellyhughart9600]

This is one of my favorite episodes. Mary Tyler Moore is hilarious in this! Keys and parrots! 😂 I was just telling my Mom that whenever we go shopping for groceries, and I find peas and carrots in the frozen food section, or if we're having peas and carrots as part of our supper, I think about this episode.

[@voyaristika5673]

I was in high school when this originally aired. I remember it because Laura was so funny after those pills kicked in. She really had me laughing, and still does!

[@FigaroHey]

"Face it, Mom." Every mother-in-law needs to hear that from her son!

[@binkybearvevo6973]

Lmao Lol

[@degmarlemos4746]

Absolutely!

[@davidlium9338]

Parrots and keys !

[@bettecummins8340]

I love this episode! ❤️ Rob's parents, Millie & Laura are endearing and hilarious. 🤣🥰

[@stephenstumbke1721]

I scream, you scream we all scream for ice cream 🤣

[@WeFrost62]

The beginning scene reminds me of an adult "Sesame Street" bit!

[@preetakumar6593]

15:43 to 16:07 is Ann Morgan Guilbert's brilliance.

[@connienania486]

Best episode ever written

[@sandy3482]

one of the very best - Millie is so funny

[@RicketyRobot00]

My favorite Laura episode.

[@bettycogswell9851]

Gosh I love this show.

[@MrMenefrego1]

Let's try and watch the language! 😉

[@James-dt7ky]

"Sam does that girl seem funny to you?" "You should be as funny as she is."

[@avaleakeough8236]

hysterical episode Mary is brilliant

[@mehmetokay7073]

Millie Helper: Dentist's wife; suburban pill pusher.

[@johnbowers1118]

Mary tyler moore at her funniest! Such a hilarious episode!

[@jdm1505]

"That's alright , dear. I can scrape it off." Isabel Randolph had some great lines!

[@randilevson9547]

"Oh Sam, grow up!"

[@ddruxman3579]

He couldn't hold it together when Vickie Lawrence and Tim Conway ad libbed him to the floor in the famous siamese elephants routine - how did he make it through this drunken Laura scene, unreal!!!

[@bloodgrss]

Well, remember this was what made the network. I'm sure there were outtakes of cracking up!

[@ddruxman3579]

@@bloodgrss Oh, no doubt! I'd love to see them!!

[@jb6712]

If you watch the scene closely during the elephant story, DVD's reaction is forced. Yes, his laughter was genuine, but he was pretty much told to "fall" to the floor because it would make the scene that much funnier...not that it needed help, Tim Conway having done a fantastic job of making everyone laugh by himself; it was Vicki Lawrence's response that made everyone "fall" down in laughter, of course. Also, that entire story was something TC came up spontaneously, it wasn't at all expected nor scripted in, so nobody knew what kind of cockamamy ending he would give it. This scene in the show with MTM was scripted, then rehearsed repeatedly, so DVD knew what to expect. Spontaneity combined with Tim Conway's totally unfazed delivery makes all the difference.

[@mrunning10]

"You should be as funny as she is." One of the best lines ever in a sitcom.

[@James-dt7ky]

"With her looks she doesn't have to cook."

[@redds7777]

My favorite episode.. one for Moo Moo 😂

[@sherryhook9066]

Moomoo and Daddy. The funniest episode. Lmao

[@MrMenefrego1]

~10:01, When I was a kid in the '50s we had a phone similar to the wall-mounted candlestick-style phone; (AKA "Pole Telephone") in that scene. We had a party line so even getting to make a call was a rareity. My father built a phone booth off of the kitchen so they could have privacy. Who knew that telephones would make such advancements that you can do everything a computer can do plus take photographs?! (I refuse to use one!) I feel sorry for young folks today who feel the need to spend the majority of their time staring down hunchback-style at their cell phones rather than with real people. I drove past a high school recently and nearly all of the students were heads down engrossed in their phones, only 2 of them were having a real old-fashioned conversation. We Baby Boomers were truly fortunate to be born during the most awesome and prosperous era in American history, the 1950s & 60s. It was a time when encountering a foreign car was a rarity, and we kids played outside until the streetlights came on, signaling it was time for dinner.

[@sanfrancisco89]

The flashback scenes would have been set in the mid 1950s, yet Laura's hair is all 1964.

[@randilevson9547]

"I think there's something wrong with..............That Girl." The introduction to Ann Marie.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

One of the best episodes

[@KazIrvani]

Love this show. Happy memories! Not that I’d have understood much of it as I was so young at the time! Thank you for posting these… ❤

[@sateeshmaharaj9730]

A perfect PSA for Prescription Medicines Are Dangerous... And shouldn't be screwed around with.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

I dropped my spoony 😂

[@FigaroHey]

I'm surprised the director didn't tell 'Rob's Mother' to sit with her knees together... 12:56

[@SHB59]

Panty peek 😮

[@randilevson9547]

Tranquillizers in those days were more like knock out pills.

[@esmeraldagems9487]

It's funny how guys seem to be confident that their parents just want to meet the wife and the mother in law wouldn't care how the house looks, or how the new daughter in law cooks. But it's like, that's your loving mom who raised you vs your new wife a complete stranger xD

[@hemlo7494]

This was the precursor to the Saved By the Bell episode, where Jesse gets hooked on pep pills.

[@chadbaxter5578]

“I’m so excited, I’m so excited, I’m so, scared “

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

"One for MuMu!!!!!😀😂😀😂

[@RevLeigh55]

The actor playing Rob’s father was born in 1908, but the actress playing the mother was born in 1889. She looks way too old to be Rob’s mother.

[@James-dt7ky]

She could be his grandmother.

[@leestamm3187]

Dick Van Dyke was born in 1925. Isabel Randolph, who played Rob's mother, was 36 in 1925, which is easily young enough to have been his mother. Tom Tully, who played his father, was 17 in 1925, just old enough to have been his dad.

[@peggywelty5139]

This reminds me when I met my in laws for the first time , they didn't like me either .

[@normgardner4560]

Ah Peggy - I'm sorry! Hope things got better with time!

[@randilevson9547]

We know all about what Laura served as side dishes for dinner, including the "keys and parrots." But we never did find out what she served as a main dish. I was just curious.

[@jackkircher1755]

The wine mixed with the prescription made her tipsy. DICK DID Q GREAT IMPERSONATION OF A DRUNCARD In a few episodes. Mary we pretty impressive herself. I livwcrhe day Laura calls her mother-in-law "Moo-moo"!

[@noobsshadow1369]

That's because Dick Van Dyke was an Alcoholic in real life. He struggled quite a bit with it most of his adult life. He even spent time in rehab at a hospital in 1972.

[@leestamm3187]

​@@noobsshadow1369MTM also had a drinking problem until teetotaling in 1984.

[@sunnyscott4876]

I've decided that I like Laura Petrie more than I like Mary Richards.

[@brendandurham3817]

Our daughter-in-law is a drunky.

[@soswezz]

What happened to the last actor who played Rob's father? The one who was fighting with Laura's father over the cemetery plots Why did they change him?

[@blockcl]

That was J. Pat O'Malley, a very popular character actor. He may have been unavailable that week.

[@bmyra]

They aren't big on continuity on this show.

[@tomsampson8084]

I have never understood why some costume designers felt the need to change military uniforms.

[@cacatr4495]

Maybe they were required to change them. After all, the real thing would belong to its own people.

[@preetakumar6593]

7:31 Why can't you? Just do it, it's very simple and satisfying.

[@barbaralonero4306]

That's funny medication doesn't have anything to do with your size and your weight and the fact that the Lora took two on top of each other might have been a reason for her to get so overdosed

[@mindyteddybear]

what bothers me about this episode is I think rob was wrong. taking Millie's pills was not the problem. it is first she had a head injury and was unconscious. then she over dosed on Millies pills and then she drank alcohol. if she just taken the right dose not all the other stuff she would not have such a reaction.

[@susanlong8978]

Its interesting.. sewing..just go married.. now she doesn't dance

[@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath]

“Buddy” is about as funny as Bob Hope

[@kristabrewer6736]

I'm gettin' SO SICK of these flashback episodes!!!

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Don't watch them then 👍

[@kristabrewer6736]

@@stephenstumbke1721 The ones that I give a thumbs down too (which is all the army one's), I don't!

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

MTM terrible actress

[@billnumber3324]

You misspelled "Amazing"

[@cacatr4495]

@@billnumber3324 😂

[@MrDefault08]

Agreed. MTM terrific actress indeed

[@capacola262743]

rob's parents are different in every episode.

[@FigaroHey]

Kind of like "families" in 2023...

[@jb6712]

I was thinking that same thing. And the woman who played his mother in this episode was the wife of a businessman who was Rob's sponsor/boss in a later episode---and she was portrayed almost the same way, as a humorless woman who kept everything uptight and upright. She also played as Ritchie's teacher in the episode where Rob is chosen "Father of the Week," but she had a great sense of humor in that one.