The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 2, Episode 30 - A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise - Full Episode

Rob drives himself beyond distraction trying to figure out whether Laura is going to throw him a surprise party for his birthday.
One of television's most celebrated shows, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" follows the misadventures of comedy writer Rob Petrie. Starring the legendary Dick Van Dyke and Emmy Award winner Mary Tyler Moore. Stream every episode of the iconic sitcom, free on FilmRise Television.
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[@allimkhan7540]

I miss the old days me and my father and grandmother use to watch this when the world was normal !!!!!!! God Bless Mary Tyler Moore 🙏 ❤️!

[@jb6712]

The world has never been normal, not ever, not since Adam and Eve chose to ignore God's instructions and by themselves turned the then-world upside down. Mankind has been nothing but full-on idiocy ever since.

[@midnight-user12]

✨️when the world was normal✨️

[@xxwhispersxx2856]

You do realize that there was the Cuban Missle crisis, and severe civil unrest at that time? The world was never normal.

[@angelkaty630]

So do I. Thank God and I mean that, that these good old days and stories are preserved for us to laugh and get lost in and remind us what life really should be about.

[@allimkhan7540]

@ANGELKATY I completely agree with your statement 110 percent well said. The only thing we have is the memories those memories are priceless. The world has changed so much its almost unbelievable.

[@bluestrife28]

I grew up on this on Nick at Nite, it still today makes me feel happy and safe and that things are okay. This is the kind of show that will live forever past all the dark vibes we have today.

[@earnold1896]

George and Mildred (the comedy) from UK was great. It's on youtube.

[@charlenevarada--Stargazer]

That surprise look of Rob's is priceless!

[@CatholicForever1]

He is such a good actor

[@randilevson9547]

Plot twists and turns until even the audience can't figure it out. Great ending. Genius!!

[@DebraMoses-r2l]

I ❤ Dick Van Dyke

[@darneyoung537]

I loved this show in the 60s and watching it again is like watching it for the first time ❤️❤️❤️

[@keithbannister9271]

Funny how most of the things discuss are still relevant here in 2023.

[@galespressos]

@@keithbannister9271 So true. The show is timeless! Young people can enjoy it and relate to it now as much as people who are older.

[@garyfrancis6193]

One of the best episodes.

[@susanlong8978]

What show that is MADE today will have such an amazing feel and the American Dream was exiting and REAL!! No swearing on TV respect and Funny 🤣

[@deborahhenry8980]

(know you meant "exciting") 😉 Yep!

[@NortelGeek]

Back before the motives to corrupt our wonderful American society...

[@jeffpendleton]

These kind of shows are greatly missed today.

[@bettycogswell9851]

Love this show. Been watching since the 60's. Thanks for uploading it.

[@markaguilar4566]

Dick Van Dyke is a good guy. Always has been.

[@sunnyscott4876]

Still is !

[@georgimihailov4906]

I am 31 years old and I love this show.

[@cbpaddingtonbear2606]

Me too!

[@docadams7099]

I'm 60 and I love it!

[@mrsbluesky8415]

The days when a season was at least 30 episodes. Nowadays we’re lucky to get 16.

[@76marji]

ikr❗

[@albertinirock4926]

And these 16 episodes are crappy!

[@PaulManzi-gy6kc]

and most of the shows today are just plain crap.

[@cottagechskitty]

Love how they upend the usual trope

[@elle5031]

One of my favorite shows......

[@richardeast3328]

Mine also.

[@heavencanwait421]

Nobody has a better fake cry than MTM. Love her.

[@shirleyminassian1547]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sunnyscott4876]

Oooh...Rob!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@albertinirock4926]

Oh, Rob!

[@kristabrewer6736]

On THIS episode! Usually her constant whining is very ANNOYING!!

[@richardeast3328]

@@kristabrewer6736 Because in the context of the show, she was faking Einstein.

[@marylorvick5390]

I'm so old I remember mohair sweaters-Sally's brings back great memories.

[@Marchant2]

A coordinated gift like that. What a great idea!

[@garyfrancis6193]

I’m 72 and watched these when originally broadcast. Laura makes me wish I had got married. I never did. Of course she would have looked like Mary Tyler Moore.

[@jb6712]

I'm 70, was married for nine years, and wish I'd never done it. Been divorced 40 years, and if I never get married again it'll be fine with me. And no one who holds that a woman has to look like MTM in her prime would want me anyhow, 'cause I sure as the world have never been anywhere near as beautiful as she once was.

[@judypasqualone3819]

Perfect surprise!!

[@midnight-user12]

I'm 20 and still hoping to get a good career like Dick Van Dyke.

[@benjonesthe3rd200]

Hey God answers prayers man , never too late , there’s a million women still out there

[@garyfrancis6193]

@@benjonesthe3rd200 To avoid.

[@marcrubin8844]

I'm not sure if most people know this. The reason that they sang "for he's a jolly good fellow" instead of "happy birthday " is because the show would have to pay the descendants of the writers of this song.

[@angelapowell790]

Love it, good job, Laura!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CatholicForever1]

So sweet to see them all in their PJs!

[@deborahhenry8980]

...and Another one of my Most Favorite Episodes of One of my Most Favorite Shows!!

[@ofthedifference]

What cute all-American fun! The good old days

[@amierichan7231]

Yeah, well, that is if you forget about the Richie's birthday episode that had to be filmed without an audience because JFK had just been killed. Or the fact that interracial marriage was illegal in more than a third of the states. Or segregation, things heating up in Vietnam. . .I love this show, but there is no such thing as the "good old days".

[@minivegana6516]

@@amierichan7231 Back then people had class NOT like nowadays.

[@amierichan7231]

@@minivegana6516 So you think having class is more important than integrated schools. To quote Miranda Priestly: It's not a question.

[@minivegana6516]

@@amierichan7231 All I know is that I LOVE ELEGANCE, PERIOD.🙏❤🕊

[@gemoftheocean]

@@amierichan7231 If someone gave you a million dollars you would find a reason to bitch and whine.

[@johnrobertson2749]

One of the best episodes so far!

[@kayliehutson02859]

So far? You know this show ended like 60 years ago, right? (I know you probably just mean so far that you've seen, I just thought it was funny the way you said it 😂)

[@lauraanderson2429]

This by far was the Best Episode with a total Surprise for everyone watching and Rob!

[@kristabrewer6736]

no it wasn't y far was the BEST episode, and you know it!

[@jackkircher1755]

This episode was brilliantly conceived and hilariously written. Too bad such brilliance all but totally disappeared bathe beginning of the birth of the new millennium

[@DouglasDurham-lq1bl]

I've watched this show for the past 35 years and I love it now more than ever. To meet him would be a dream come true. I live in Georgia and I doubt I will ever have the money to go to malibu Cali., But will continue to be a big fan of The Dick Van Dyke forever!

[@hipsterdoofus1026]

These characters are so sweet

[@flwrfan1752]

I have always loved this show.

[@kinsley7777]

thank YOU … ❤ Rob & Laura and company

[@minivegana6516]

I LOVE THIS SHOW!🙏❤

[@camickelson]

I do too!💖🙏

[@johnscott7195]

When it was just wholesome entertainment....

[@Wolverine12344]

I love dick van dyke and he is my favourite actor. I watch dick van dyke show all the time. God bless dick van dyke. ❤❤❤😂😂😂😂

[@cosygracegames]

Absolutely love this show 🙌🏻🙏🏻

[@peggywelty5139]

This was great , it reminds me when I gave a surprise party for a friend and he was as surprise as Rob , I had to do some tricks like Laura did . And at the end it was great .

[@suekelly840]

Poor little Richie is almost trampled when the gang rushes out to yell "Surprise!"

[@MedJayParis]

I just started watching this show to see what Ann Guilbert looked like. It’s really good actually ‘ I like it ❤

[@lifechanges557]

I would give anything to be able to go back in time. Those were the best times, shows, etc. Do not like today's world at all.

[@bluestrife28]

If you were as obsessive a watcher as me, you notice Nick edited for time and sometimes I hear a new line I never heard before, so many years later.

[@randilevson9547]

Ritchie always says exactly what is on his mind. The unfiltered words of children. Bound to get any nearby adult into trouble.

[@PauloHernandezXD]

3:33 Robs reactions in the background are fantastic, lol

[@henryponnefz1419]

Great show!

[@susanlong8978]

Remember when life was so Amazing and Good ❤️. USA 🇺🇸 Don't Give up ok??

[@keithbannister9271]

Okay 👌

[@amierichan7231]

Very interesting comment, given that in 1964, when The DVDS was in full swing, DVD read a statement about race relations in the US written by Rod Serling. I loved this show, still do. But assigning it the weighty role of representing "the good old days, when things were so much better", is something even its star would reject.

[@allimkhan7540]

Very True the old days were the best times in America 🇺🇸. I miss it so much when the world was normal. Everything today is so weird. Dick Van Dyke show was the best ever. The new generation would never watch a show like that.

[@susanlong8978]

"Grandpa Tell me Bout The Good ole Dayz!! "

[@elizabetholiviaclark]

Well, Let's see now. The sixties, ah yes. We had literacy tests to keep black people from voting; anti-miscegenation laws to keep races from intermarrying; Women were treated as second class citizens; Viet Nam, dioxins, Kent State, A Buddhist monk self-immolated; JFK, Dr.King, RFK, all in one decade. People were eating tuna salad in jello, for crying out loud.

[@jeromeblue3854]

I used to watch this every week when I was a kid. I thought it was pretty funny. Now when watch it I see that Sally, Buddy and Mel are hilarious, Laura is smart and sexy, and Rob is kind of a putz.

[@Evil.Totoro]

Such wholesome and feel good entertainment…. What madness is this.

[@frankmcfarlane-e8m]

ive seen the episode twice but forgot the ending!..twas like watching it for the 1st time

[@marinagallant1847]

Way to go, Laura

[@preetakumar6593]

Mary's fake cry is hilarious. Laura would've probably made a great actress, if she can fake cry so well enough to fool Rob.

[@susanfaulkner2304]

This was another good one!

[@globetrotter5800]

We'll, I didn't see that surprise coming... What a surprise! LoL

[@poetcomic1]

That must be the legendary but never seen 'Sadie Stein' in the middle on the right.

[@keithbannister9271]

Gary Francis, I know exactly what you mean about wanting to get married. I was too young to care about females when this show was airing, I did think she was extremely pretty. But my first TV crush was Marlo Thomas! She was the perfect girl friend, and truly one of the most beautiful women to ever grace American television. WOW 😲😲😲😲

[@76marji]

can anyone please tell me why "highway" was dubbed? every time i've watched this, it looks as if his lips say "surprise" (or something similar).🧐 thanx!

[@remmymafia3889]

The last thing an empty stomach needs after eight hours plus, of having had nothing ingested, is an acidic orange juice.

[@edpurcell7322]

That must have been Pickles at the end of the show!! Buddy kept putting his arm around her.

[@Marchant2]

Or maybe it was Pickles' best friend Banana Pepper.

[@chereecargill355]

That was Pickles although she wasn't credited.

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

​@@Marchant2😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TomAnderer]

Good eye. Never would have noticed that.

[@saran3214]

Mary was nice. She could have told Rob "So, you know how my little mind works, eh?"

[@dsscam]

Who the heck were all those other people? That's the real surprise.

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

Probably friends and neighbors.

[@kristabrewer6736]

🙄 you only have 2 sets of friends, do you?

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

@@kristabrewer6736 -Probably!😀🤣😀

[@evaschonfeld5752]

There is no tollbooth on the west side highway

[@amierichan7231]

Was there in the early '60's, though? Carl Reiner was very familiar with the area, and since he lived in New Rochelle, he would have known that commute.

[@evaschonfeld5752]

@@amierichan7231 no

[@MrGlobaldave1]

Funny episode. So who were the stand ins? Party crashers?

[@chereecargill355]

I love how natural Larry Matthews is. It's too bad he quit acting after this show was over.

[@xxwhispersxx2856]

He came back when they did the reunion episode in the nineties. I do think that was his last acting appearance tho.

[@dennisandry1632]

Richie did have some of the best lines to say too !

[@Alanb1980]

@@xxwhispersxx2856it was in 2004 when they did the reunion episode

[@hell-o-kitty24]

Classic American

[@Lizzy514]

Something flew out of Rob's mouth while he was eating

[@gracecash833]

Rob and Laura have a beautiful house

[@randilevson9547]

Always spotlessly clean, except for some of Richie's toys laying around.

[@maryeliason1504]

Nana from THE NANNY.

[@whatsamattayu3257]

The good days before the "pushing the envelope" phase turned the entire tv world into shock theatre for ratings.

[@michaelparks6120]

What a wonderful wife.

[@conlinsandy8980]

So was the look on Lora face

[@Wolfinger1935]

Does anyone know what that thing on the sink is?

[@amierichan7231]

I forget the name, but there are other comments in other social media about being familiar with the device. I think you could turn a dial for various kitchen sink functions.

[@dennisandry1632]

I noticed that too.

[@TheMWCmusic]

Shows like these, Green Acres, Hogan's Heroes, Twilight Zone etc etc SHOULD NEVER BE EDITED on regular tv for more commercials, that's like putting chocolate syrup on a Picasso!!!

[@SteveODonnell25]

They just do not make shows like this anymore

[@maddoxmortenson8009]

Holy shit! This show actually existed? I thought it was just a joke from Family Guy.

[@frankmcfarlane-e8m]

coin flip with silver dollars!..9:26

[@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922]

Whew! That was a lot of garlic for breakfast.

[@76marji]

😝

[@HaldaneSmith]

Richie was using the garlic press to crush his hard-boiled egg, not garlic. It was a bit confusing.

[@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922]

​@@HaldaneSmithoh yeah! Hahaha

[@wolfgangscorpio4125]

@4:43 min Coming up: that's seems to be an awful lot of garlic -- could anyone, not to mention a child, handle that? Not to mention the salt @6:13 min. 😂

[@BOBPortlandOr]

@ 6:41 Food comes out of Robs mouth

[@bobbettedavis9168]

Amen

[@randilevson9547]

Rob and Laura always seem to refer to Buddy and Sally as if they were a married couple. Buddy was married to Pickles, aka Fiona. Not Sally. They were work colleagues, not romantic partners.

[@randilevson9547]

The writers make it seem like Buddy and Sally are a married couple, always referring to them together. Pickles (Buddy's wife) is usually only mentioned as the butt of Buddy's "wife" jokes. Weird.

[@dennisandry1632]

I read once that when they were first assembling that great cast..Sally was hired and recommended Buddy to join the cast..maybe that's a part of it ?

[@Nyzackon]

Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam were already an act together. In-narrative, they worked on the show before Rob came in, so they're very close friends.

[@Vincent-ke5zn]

She saw you Rob

[@connienania486]

Todays shows make fun of parents and grand 11:13 parents.Roseanne abd Married with Chidren for examle.This series is a classic while always portraying all adults respecffully.Well maybe Mel Cooley the boss was ridiculed a little.But family was respected.

[@marinagallant1847]

Rob is SOOOO insecure

[@richardeast3328]

And you’re so nitpicking.

[@jeromeblue3854]

@@richardeast3328Not at all.

[@freyrsta1076]

MTM?

[@boozleky7674]

Wanda-vision? Is that you?

[@jb6712]

I like this episode---until they get to that hideous song! I've hated that, and "Auld Lang Syne" ever since I was a little child in the 1950s. Ugly, ugly songs!

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

I've never been crazy about "Auld Lang Syne", myself.

[@dave1283]

I hate Ritchie even more than Joey on "Shane".

[@richardeast3328]

Seems like someone needs some therapy.

[@lizlee6290]

And? You shared that lovely little tidbit why? (There's one in every crowd.)

[@dave1283]

@@lizlee6290 Because I can, same as you just shared YOUR little tidbit being triggered and traumatized by MY comment. (There's one in every crowd.)

[@lizlee6290]

@@dave1283 You're funny, "Because I can". What an astute non answer. Actually YOU sound triggered. We done here?

[@dave1283]

@@lizlee6290 And you with the 3rd grade "I know you are but what am I?" reply. 😂 Done? There is no "we". You were never started. Just a meddling blip.

[@somecallmeTim-wi6pr]

When Rob is questioning Laura about the birthday dinner at the breakfast table a piece of food flyes out of his mouth. Nasty.

[@sunnyscott4876]

***flies ***

[@golumfrog7840]

I hate Adults who WANT A BIRTHDAY PARTY Especially SURPRISE ONE,s

[@kristabrewer6736]

I'm sure you do 🙄