The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 2, Episode 24 - The Sam Pomerantz Scandals - Full Episode

[@just4music687]

Wow, Rose Marie was so lovely and talented. Would've loved to have seen her sing much more in this series.

[@jackkircher1755]

She had been singing since age three but there are very few clips of her singing. KZbin has one from when she was around 8. She was known as Baby Rise Marie.

[@robbriner9575]

Here we are in 2024 and Dick Van Dyke is 98 years old! (more than sixty years after this episode was filmed). Today I'm re-reading his 2011 autobiography, in which he generously talks about various episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show including this one. It's astonishing that these classic episodes are available on demand. What a gift!

[@jrubybowman]

Dick's the only one left and he's older than the hills. Wish there were great shows like this now days...thank goodness for film preservation!

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Still going though, was on the masked singer the other week

[@Darth_Skywalker66]

Richie is still alive too. (Im 29) . by far the best knee slappin tv show around. Roku channel has a channel strictly for the dick van dyke show. Nothing else.

[@garyfrancis6193]

These were a product of their time. The difference in attitudes and thinking in these show how much the culture has changed. Advances in technology did not make things better but gave the worst people a global audience.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Can't EVEN BEGIN to imagine the amount of rehearsal time they spent on "I am a Fine Musician".. it was flawless!

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

Van Dyke loved doing Stan Laurel and knew him personally. He did this impression trying to get everything perfect. He asked Stan afterwards how he did and Stan was very complimentary and then told him about 50 things that were wrong. He was a perfectionist about the character and Van Dyke didn't mind being corrected at all.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

Dick van Dyke's impression of Stan Laurel was great! He was fantastic!

[@bloodgrss]

And so nice to know he got advice from, and was a friend of, Laurel!

[@AlexandraK1]

Well, he still lives ... ;)

[@randilevson9547]

DVD has said that Stan Laurel was a huge inspiration to him, and I believe they became good friends.

[@jackkircher1755]

I watched L and H as a kid and loved them as well as the three stooges too

[@micheleterner0708]

Love the duet Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Be in Carolina

[@brigitteking969]

Notice that Rob and Laura could sing and dance at the same time. Loved the torch song that Sally sang.

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

Sally's song keeps popping into my head at random times of the day.

[@randilevson9547]

That song Sally sang was a huge hit for Tony Bennett in the 1950's.

[@just4music687]

LOVE Rose Marie, she is beautiful!

[@peterrice7739]

The characters from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" are like superheroes. Dick Van Dyke is a Superman among great American entertainers, a brilliant comic genius, a veritable song-and-dance man. And Mary Tyler Moore is his Wonder Woman. When Rob and Laura perform together, they are like Batman and Robin. They are truly a Dynamic Duo. And when Buddy and Sally team up with them, they become "The Fantastic Four". So let's hear it for one of the mightiest situation-comedy teams in television history, the cast from "The Dick Van Dyke Show".

[@adamt1564]

This episode has wonderful echoes of vaudeville and the versatile entertainers of a vanished era.

[@jrubybowman]

Rose Marie was in vaudeville in her early career - Baby Rose Marie

[@adamt1564]

@@jrubybowman And DVD was connected to Stan Laurel and Buster Keaton. I love that he honors his show-biz ancestors!

[@jb6712]

That was the whole idea.

[@kristabrewer6736]

The best part of the whole show was Stanley and Ollie That last song they did with the "instruments"; they did the exact same one on the Christmas Show

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

Versatile performers can do anything--when they are blessed with not only talent-- but genius.

[@cacatr4495]

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[@soswezz]

16:51 "I can't find it 🥺" was so funny and cute at the same time 😹😹

[@erwinprivatt1997]

These were the good ol' days when people in showbusiness were actually talented.

[@kathyfrejoles775]

We are watching this series. Now we have reached this season and this episode

[@scotnick59]

Sally really belts whilst singing!

[@kablouielouie]

And she doesn't wilt while whilsting.

[@chereecargill355]

Rose Marie had been singing since childhood.

[@jb6712]

Her voice was one of the most hideous ever. Too rough (smoker's voice), too harsh, too loud...just not a good voice, at least for a woman.

[@sunnyscott4876]

​@@jb6712She was a great torch singer.

[@evaschonfeld5752]

Wow, Kennedy was President, this was before America lost its innocence. I remember it well.

[@nancyhowell4505]

@ Eva Schonfeld Every time Kennedy is mentioned, it makes my heart ache remembering the shock and horror when it was announced at school. We were sent home, no school until after the funeral. Everyone glued to their TV sets. Another shock seeing Oswald murdered in real time on the TV. I was 11 years old, no one and nowhere was safe anymore. 😓💔

[@cacatr4495]

This episode aired March 6, 1963, 8 mos. prior. I was almost 3 when it happened, and I know where I was when we heard the announcement on television. I remember my parents' tears, and the following Monday, the funeral procession, the horse-drawn caisson and the riderless horse, and when John-John (my age) saluted. We didn't have the television on all the time that weekend, so we were fortunate not to see that other atrocity. I believe that was the first real-time event of its kind to be aired on TV. The whole thing, all of it, shocked the nation; everyone was so upset. Even going to the grocery store with my parents, it was easy to see that everyone was subdued and close to tears for the next couple of weeks. ~ In the years that followed, they showed the violent war action in Viet Nam on television (up close and graphic, horrible, as if it were a movie) during the dinner hour, and my parents turned the TV off because of it. Later, more bad things happened: it was a terrible decade, MLK and Bobby are remembered, Kent State and all the MIA bracelets that people began wearing. The culture was changing; there was a lot of grief and turmoil. We knew someone whose spouse-pilot was shot down and missing, never to return, and families were grieving the losses also of lost children to drug-overdoses, like the family up the street. There was so much upheaval. Everything changed that November of '63, but in reality, for that to happen, serious things changed long before, we just didn't know it then.

[@chilujamrich8435]

Innocent for who, exactly?

[@garyfrancis6193]

@@cacatr4495 Agree . I was 13 years old then. A decade pf assassinations brought and end to the simple optimism of the 1950’s. Where are we now?

[@cacatr4495]

@@garyfrancis6193 "Where are we now?" Trying to wrap our heads around what is going on now, at YT channels like *_Brush Junkie._*

[@susanlong8978]

I love pickles 💕

[@ironduke2000]

I wish she was in more episodes.

[@drewpall2598]

There were two ladies who played Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell. Joan Shawlee played Fionas "Pickles" Sorrell in three episodes. My Husband Is a Check-Grabber - episode aired Feb 13, 1963 The Sam Pomerantz Scandals - episode aired Mar 6, 1963 Divorce - episode aired Apr 10, 1963 Made numerous appearances in films and television from 1945 to 1984 Joan Shawlee March 5, 1926 - March 22, 1987 Barbara Perry who played Fionas "Pickles" Sorrell Sally Is a Girl - episode aired Dec 19, 1961 Where You Been, Fassbinder? - episode aired Mar 14, 1962 Made numerous appearances in films and on television from 1933 to 2017 Barbara Perry June 22, 1921 - May 5, 2019

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

She was conductor of the all girl band in Some Like It Hot.

[@rickjanuszkiewicz9901]

I don't think anyone sings this song better than Nell Carter Elvis & Carrie Underwood !! They sing with their whole heart and soul !!!

[@lollipop_real9020]

Huh?

[@thomaspresson9070]

Which song?

[@lavendarghostie]

8:31 "I Wanna Be Around" 12:00 "Carolina in the Morning" 21:29 "I Am A Fine Musician" I put links to which part of the vid each song is at! So you can skip to them if you want! Rose Marie's voice is so beautiful!!!!!!

[@terryp007100]

Anyone notice when Sally enters at 4:46 and says "Hi Mare" instead of "Hi Laura"? 😆

[@neilborden772]

Yes! I noticed that too. It was so natural that no one even flinched. 😂

[@Tmanaz480]

Can't cite the episode, but I remember one where Rob called Sally, "Ro."

[@milart12]

Haha Yeah, interesting.

[@maxhubmann1696]

Who sang it best 12:06 Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore- “The Dick Van Dyke Show” William Frawley & Vivian Vance- “I Love Lucy”

[@johnnymatheis1018]

landmark episode for all time TV with Laura at the end.

[@sarahbailes-moorhouse5611]

😂 😂 I Love This Video It Makes Me Laugh And Smile

[@TheMikester307]

One of the only times they made any references to topical political figures, and the scene with the comic was probably improvised. That's the great Lennie Weinrib, by the way!

[@fredkruse9444]

I was thinking the same thing. Back then, people hadn't been brainwashed to hate the other political party.

[@elizabetholiviaclark]

@@fredkruse9444 A percentage of any population of humans at any point on the timeline has seemed to me to be susceptible to suggestion. I would cite the citizenry's overwhelming attachment to the Pledge of Allegiance during that time as an example, although I'm not wanting to start a row. Children throughout this nation recited that pledge every morning in school. We did not question it. We were too young to really know the constitution, and it wasn't taught to us in detail in school anyway, but we weren't too young to be conditioned to blindly follow anything involving copious amounts of red, white, and blue. I would assert that such conditioning was the inadvertent set up for nefarious types who would come later, and who would know how to exploit that conditioning for the purpose of dividing us, or rather, dividing us further. And all after WV Board of Education v. Barnett (1943). From that time on, we should not have been incorporating that pledge anywhere, but that was a time when Barnett was not going to be taken seriously. it just wasn't going to happen.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

Wow! Henry Calvin sure was a dead ringer for Oliver Hardy.

[@markcadieux3445]

That's probably how he got the part. Stan was supposed to in the audience, but he fell ill and couldn't be there.

[@MrMenefrego1]

What was that little snippet all about from 1:39 to 1:42? I've never seen a bad edit in this show before, but that sure was a rough one! Oh well, I still love this show!

[@brocktree4]

I think it was because in the wide shot, the actor was blocked by Sally. I guess they caught it late and just edited that bit in instead of reshooting.

[@kablouielouie]

Sheesh!

[@jb6712]

Made decades before "body shaming" was a thing, and it was considered perfectly all right to make fun of any person's size. "Buddy" was saying, without using the actual words, that the hotel owner was very fat and large. Unfortunately, the script writers of the day were, as a whole (every genre of show back then) extremely insensitive regarding race, weight, religion.....the things we (most of us) strive to be most careful of today.

[@DD-wx3ho]

@@jb6712 Everyone’s so sensitive and they just need to lighten up.

[@milart12]

Mary Tyler Moore looked great in every single outfit that she wore.

[@breebooth1589]

Sally walks in and says “Hi Mar”. At about 5 mins in.

[@mf-qi8gn]

Sounds more like "Hi there"

[@jrubybowman]

I hear it - she definitely says "Hi Mare" like Hi Mary Tyler Moore - funny

[@randilevson9547]

​@@jrubybowman I heard it the same way.

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

Laura had pretty legs.

[@dianam9028]

Laura has a pretty everything.

[@johnbowman1076]

I noticed these early shows relied on a lot of side acts by Sally, Buddy, Laura's dancing, and Dick's physical humor. I think the later episodes had a lot more sophisticated adult humor. They just needed to find what worked best.

[@j.j365]

8:28 my favorite ❤️

[@andrewhorcasitasz1370]

Buddy was a lucky man Did pickles keep that maid costume 😎

[@jb6712]

It was just part of the show overall. "Buddy" and "Pickles" weren't married in real life, and very likely Joan Shawlbe (Pickles) did not keep the costume, having no need for it.

[@andrewhorcasitasz1370]

@@jb6712 i was talking about the characters lol

[@preetakumar6593]

During the dance number, there was a blooper in which while performing a step, Mary accidentally kicked off her shoe.

[@binkybearvevo6973]

Timestamp please

[@preetakumar6593]

@@binkybearvevo6973 It's in the blooper reel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/roq2d5qBYpqLi5I Here at 1:38

[@cacatr4495]

@@binkybearvevo6973 In the *bloopers >> it's not shown here. Mary and Dick laughed and laughed when the shoe went flying. 😂

[@vicrattlehead5051]

​@@binkybearvevo6973 kzbin.info/www/bejne/roq2d5qBYpqLi5I It's at 1:36

[@dyates6380]

I have to admit, as much as this was a wonderful, fantastic era for television, I always HATED when these sitcoms would air an episode about the cast "putting on a show" like this show and I Love Lucy and others who all, coincidentally, had an entire cast who "used to put on shows" somewhere like vaudeville or the army or wherever. I never watched those episodes.

[@creepycrawlers6950]

no one cares.

[@randilevson9547]

Your loss. Some of those "put on a show" shows were so great, and broke up the usual formula of those shows. They also allowed the actors to use some of their other skills that weren't usually showcased in the normal framework of the sitcoms.

[@IanForsythWestCoast]

These were my favourite shows, I search through KZbin looking for singing and dancing episodes.

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

Did you ever see I Love Lucy's 'Operetta' . One of the funniest of all.

[@belkyhernandez8281]

Sally can sing.

[@mf-qi8gn]

Of course she can sing! That's Baby Rose Marie... started when she was a child.... belting it out in Vaudeville and night clubs!

[@belkyhernandez8281]

@@mf-qi8gn good to know.

[@digitalwasabi2]

Pickles was pretty cute!!! Buddy married up.

[@MrLeglamp]

Wasn't Rob's other army buddy Saul's last name also Pomerantz?

[@blackmaxima]

I think it was Pomeroy.

[@MrDefault08]

What the heck is 1:38 all about haha

[@davidchavers5881]

As a kid, I saw THIS version of Laurel & Hardy before I saw the REAL Laurel & Hardy! 😅

[@Slickback420]

So what's the deal with the Hardy and Laurel sketch? Were they recreating one they actually did, or did they make one in inspiration of the duo?

[@jb6712]

Yes. In real life they did not precisely emulate a Laurel and Hardy routine. They couldn't do that without copyright infringement, but they could make up a routine closely based on something the old comedy duo did. I've seen the original skit, and this one isn't very far off from it.

[@Slickback420]

@@jb6712 do you know what the name of it is or where I can find it?

[@micahbush5397]

Have we ever actually seen Mel's wife? Also, isn't Brewster the same guy who insulted him so much that he was willing to hire Buddy back (although his name last time was Jackie instead of Danny)?

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

No on Mel's wife, Yes on the comedian.

[@animaniacsftw]

12:00

[@dianetaylor9209]

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[@JesusismyRock773]

Where is Ritchie??? And that is a different Sam than the one that was in the army with Rob.

[@PhillipZachgo-wd2bu]

Did the real laurel and Hardy do that routine? If they did, what was it in?

[@ggrarl]

I know the part where Ollie tells Stanley not to order anything because they don't have enough money, but Stan keeps ordering anyway, was used in two of their films: "Men O' War" and "Should Married Men Go Home?" (that same gag was also used by Abbott and Costello in their film "Keep 'Em Flying")

[@PhillipZachgo-wd2bu]

Thanks so much@@ggrarl

[@Lizzy514]

I love this show but detest soft shoe

[@deedeegreen8338]

I've never seen Laurel and Hardy, and I didn't think that skit was funny. It went on too long. I'm certainly no spring chicken. I am, though, too young to remember that duo. But I love the old time entertainers, such as Danny Kaye. I love song and dance performers.

[@kablouielouie]

ADHD maybe.

[@jb6712]

The original Laurel and Hardy routines were often around 7 to 10 minutes per skit, so this wasn't at all long for one of them. I've seen the original in reruns, and this one, while not a precise copy---copyright doesn't permit---was close enough to recognize the one Laurel and Hardy did. I never like L and H because "Oliver Hardy" was too abusive to "Stan Laurel," and it was very tiresome.

[@bmyra]

​@@jb6712 Same here. I don't enjoy L&H and didn't enjoy this. So I guess it was a good imitation.

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

No argument. Laurel & Hardy made a slow, methodical, almost ritualistic kind of comedy which is unlike anything that came before and raised film comedy to a high art and like some exquisite things it is not for everyone.

[@David-dr3jn]

Wow, look at her! In that tennis outfit, she is not overly sexualized and she was so classy! Not like women today oh wow... selfish and narcissistic and body count and options and lust of money and are today's celebrated prostitutes- Oh How do I meet someone like Laura?

[@carmelaszymanski8232]

I didn't find this episode funny at all. The end musician song couldn't make up for this at all

[@Ravenelvenlady]

Well, to each his/ her own. The acts at the end made it one of the best for me. Such talent!

[@jb6712]

None of the singing was worth hearing, but that's just my opinion. I'm multiple decades ago, and don't like much of what's called "music" today, but this "show" they put on...nobody sang anything worth listening to, nor were their performances particularly good as a whole.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Which clearly shows you have NO sense of humor what-so-ever!

[@joksal9108]

@@jb6712You have no taste whatsoever.

[@capacola262743]

pickles was all woman. she would have killed buddy in 5 minutes.