The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 2, Episode 5 - Hustling the Hustler - Full Episode

[@savannahgrace111]

Fun Fact: The ending was a complete accident! There was originally going to be a cut after Laura shoots with a professional making the shot. However, Mary Tyler Moore actually got the shot! That’s why she looks so shocked.

[@billcatcher2701]

100% true story! Way to go MTM.

[@bellerain381]

Just another jewel in her crown! ❤ she’s a real Queen!!

[@jujuoliver6959]

Is that a true story, amazing. After reading your comment I went back to look at her face and see how shocked she looked 😆. I love all these anecdotes from the making of these shows.

[@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy]

The balls are clearly perfectly set up for that shot.

[@dave1283]

🙄 Baloney! The balls were set in a position that no one could miss.

[@preetakumar6593]

The claps at the end when Laura strikes all the balls into the holes was my favorite part of the episode.

[@kelaidoscopekaleidoscope9871]

The only laugh track I'll ever accept.

[@CuriosityRover-y9l]

@@kelaidoscopekaleidoscope9871 I think it’s a live studio audience

[@mrsbluesky8415]

Rose Marie really had a nice singing voice. She also dressed beautifully.

[@judyjamison9860]

Funny thing…this basement is COMPLETELY different than the one in the episode where they bought the house, including the disappearance of the huge boulder that was there and couldn’t be removed! They even talked about how he wouldn’t be able to have a pool table!

[@FrankiesFancy]

If you watch the ep titled something like "My house is your house"...where Rob has to clear up a few things with his tax man and why he pays Jerry Helper $37.50 a year it's explained this issue. When Rob and Laura were looking for a house and they found the one they wanted but Millie and Jerry took it when they thought Rob and Laura didn't want it. Rob and Laura got mad about it but they all made up and decided to go look for another house but neither party wanted to split the $200 Jerry put down for the house so they call the realtor who tells them that the model house next door was for sale. They decide to let Jerry have the model house because it was $200 cheaper. Jerry's house is the one who got the rock because as Rob explained it, water ran down that rock and flooded both basements so they each paid the $37.50 per year to clear the water and seal the outside of the houses. Sorry if I didn't explain that better but watch that episode but that's why there's no big rock in Rob's basement...he took the cheaper house that didn't have the rock because of Jerry paying that $200 in cash and couldn't cancel the check to get out of it.

[@bernadettegraywashington4143]

HMM . INTERESTING . I'VE GOT TO CHECK THAT OUT .

[@kai223noa6]

The actor who played the pool shark is very good. He made the shot and had the cue ball in position for the next shot.

[@tonyrobles9070]

He also had great fundamentals! 👍😊 🎱

[@poetcomic1]

Phil Leeds (they used to say he had a face that was made for radio) is a pro at both low comedy or high drama. This is among my handful of favorite episodes.

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

He's one of my favorite charactor actors. (I first saw him on a Monkees episode.)

[@BlanketMan]

Bernie Class! He was a ne’er-do-well in that show, too, cheating Mike into paying him to publish one of Nez’s tunes.​@@southernoregoncatmom6519

[@joeblaumer2085]

It’s one of the few episodes I hadn’t previously seen. Wonderful. Great share!

[@anitagootee8474]

Laura's facial expression when she hits that last shot.😄 I wonder how often she had to practice it.

[@Gamelover254]

Fun fact, they got it first take which is why they were so genuinly surprised lol

[@JentschChris]

Yes...I just read something where they had a pro pool player standing by to make the shot and then they planned to cut away from Mary and edit it into the show later...

[@kristabrewer6736]

she didn't!

[@dizzidazegaming]

@@JentschChris Easiest payday of that pro's life!

[@MrMenefrego1]

That $300 bet back in 1962 is worth about $2,970.00 today. And the $900 that Buddy's brother would have won is worth about $8,882.00. No wonder they were so upset! 👀

[@marinazagrai1623]

I was thinking about the worth of the money back then too…peoples’ wages were much less, too. The episode which shows them buying their house showed the price for 1 story and 3 bedrooms at $27,7 which would have been expensive for the times, too. They also have 2 cars, so he must have been earning a lot.

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@marinazagrai1623 But you have to remember that the U.S. dollar has lost 90% of its value since 1961.

[@HansDelbruck53]

@@marinazagrai1623 I seem to remember the house was priced at $27,700 (which Rob thought was too high) and the mortgage being for 20 or 30 years.

[@knightlyjamz13]

Kind of irrelevant as to why they’re so unhappy…it was a lot of money then it’s a lot of money now.. inflation is one of those things where people can be like omg everything cost so much!! But the modern day living we’re in is one of the few examples where goods themselves are actually higher than they’ve ever been..if we had a financial system that worked chronologically..a gallon of gas would be 1.75 and a loaf of bread 50-70 cents..unfortunately it these days inflation is about quadruple to the the actual minimum wage. Side note: Our global debt is beyond a countable figure which wasn’t a thing in the times of this show..

[@knightlyjamz13]

@@MrMenefrego1 exactly what I just noted maybe not 90% but a damn good 60% or more..

[@vilewisher8786]

when rob threw all the darts into the wall i LOST it

[@stevenhudson7313]

One of my favorite episodes.

[@coleparker]

One thing about Morey Amsterdam is that he had his own TV show in 1949 with the Dumont TV Corporation.

[@LoneWombat2126]

I love the end!!! I don’t know why, but seeing Laura smug because not only did she beat Rob, but gets to see her Humphrey Bogart movie made me laugh out loud at it🤷‍♀️ and her own flabbergasted face at making that shot!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@AlisaKapanen]

yes 😎🤣💯 ok 🤣

[@connienania486]

A classic, loved the chemistry between cast

[@tonyrobles9070]

I'm a professional pool player (been playing the game for 45 years) and can definitely tell you the balls were set up for the shot she took. But... it still has to be struck correctly in order to execute the shot and Mary NAILED IT! Very well done and was fun to watch! 👍😊 🎱

[@generalmortars7557]

Someone should stitch MTM hitting that trickshot at the end to the Alien 4 scene where Sigourney Weaver scores a 3 point basketball throw. With her back turned.

[@jamesjhonson4568]

That hustle that Blackie pulled on Rob was a classic hustle, he should have picked up on it. Instead of eight ball, they should have played straight pool.

[@tonyrobles9070]

Straight Pool is the best game in my opinion! 👍😊 🎱

[@24Kevintendo]

Hello Everyone else who was led here from reddit!

[@chereecargill355]

That's some man cave Rob has.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Rob is a fool to bet that kind of money

[@kenherrera2819]

300 dollars was not chump change in the 60's! It had the buying power of more than 3-thousand dollars today!

[@caliscribe2120]

Blackie also played a somewhat shady character in an episode of the TV series The Odd Couple.

[@FrankiesFancy]

Phil Leeds also played on a couple of episodes of Roseanne in the 90s...one as the gay lover of "Leon" and one as an old woman in a wheelchair. The guy was quite versatile and always funny.

[@MisterBourgolini]

RIP to everyone except Dick Van Dyke.

[@muckymucks]

Soon.

[@osvaldonoda4368]

Where is the big rock in the basement?

[@coleparker]

Jerry and Millie bought that one.

[@kai223noa6]

Had a co-worker who bought a house and they left the rocks exposed in the basement. Kept expecting to see something jump out from behind the rocks.

[@elishevatimber6540]

@@coleparker Nope. Rob got 1st choice, so he gave the cheaper (non-rock house to Jerry & Millie. Also - remember that Rob had to pay Jerry a monthly sum cuz Rob's rock channeled water into Jerry's foundation so Jerry had to have it sealed every month and they split that cost.

[@coleparker]

@@elishevatimber6540 I respectfully disagree. The rock house was cheaper, you are right, Rob did pay for the damage done by the Rock. Also, if the Rock was there, Rob and Laura could not have put a pool table in their basement.

[@timothycole5266]

And a couple shows, suddenly they have a piano in the living room. lol

[@InsignificantSpeckOfDust]

In the last game with Blackie I'm pretty sure Rob sinks the 8 ball on the break (as well as another striped ball )...after Blackie makes the 8 ball during the first game on the break and he says "Hey! I got one in!...and Rob says "Yeah unfortunately it was the 8 ball" ...meaning Blackie lost the first game by doing that....later in the game after Blackie starts to sink balls you can clearly see the 8 ball is still on the table...after the camera cuts away.

[@wolfgangscorpio4125]

Oh, my! Buddy meets his match. #MoreyAmsterdam vs. #PhilLeeds. One is talking smoother than the other.

[@HansDelbruck53]

The balls on the pool table are set up wrong. The 8 ball goes in the middle of the rack, not on the corner, so it would be virtually impossible to make the 8 ball on the break, especially with a soft break.

[@tawnyaconnor4631]

Is his brother from Brazil where the guy got the character for Ned Flanders on Groundhog Day?

[@orellaminx3530]

Pool table in the basement, but eating boiled hotdogs.

[@timothycole5266]

Considering what a sloppy crooked and amateurish shot that was (wobbled the stick) and she still got them in is STILL amazing.

[@kenherrera2819]

$300 in 1962 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $3,082.71 today, an increase of $2,782.71 over 62 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.83% per year between 1962 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 927.57%.

[@dave1283]

WRONG! An 8 ball pocketed on the break is a win.

[@localneo-graphic4647]

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[@Chromwel-A]

23:54

[@ssoforlife]

I wonder how long it took to get that ending XD

[@Kmac005]

One take.

[@beckybooboo600]

One take, thats why Mary looks so shocked, they were going to have a pro come in to finish the take but she did it perfectly.

[@kristabrewer6736]

One !

[@sixcues]

8 Ball goes in the center of the rack not on the corner!!

[@stephenstumbke1721]

It's weird that he would randomly invite someone to his house for dinner, especially someone he has never met Didn't even phone ahead to tell Laura

[@Mrcool19771]

It was Buddys brother . That's why

[@pepeboy234]

I never served hot dogs to a guest for dinner. Dogs & beans are for kids and not adults; with the exception of a barbeque. In that case, a guest would have a choice of hamburgers, dogs or chicken and most the time the dogs are bratwurst.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Just don't pay him