The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 3, Episode 19 - Happy Birthday and Too Many More - Full Episode

[@randilevson9547]

More proof that Dick Van Dyke is so talented. Singing, dancing, and clowning around. He really seems to like being around kids, as in the 'Father of the Week' episode, in front of Richie's class. He has such a gentle way about him. Too bad that this episode didn't feature a duet with Rob and Laura singing and dancing together, with Laura in clown makeup as well. They were so good together.

[@shorty7363]

So Laura doesn't want Richie to blow up too many balloons because she doesn't want him getting dizzy and nauseated, but she was originally going to take him to Dizzy Land where he would get dizzy and nauseated.😂😂😂

[@girsharma2076]

lol ditto, in fact I thought Rob would've commented on that :)

[@YW2324]

Ya lol 😆.

[@MrMenefrego1]

That $100 for the kid's birthday party in 1964 is equivalent to almost one-thousand dollars in 2023! 😲

[@susannaCdonovan23]

That's close. The Dollar Tree used to be the Dime Store when I was a kid.

[@carriepoppy]

63 kids for $1,000?! A steal!

[@tiffanyspencer1082]

Lol I've watched this one a few times and only just now realized, every generation has their own version of "kids today etc....". The same generation of kids Rob was talking about are now the ones giving the same speech

[@wiseguymaybe]

I'm of that generation and I'm almost 70.

[@a.b.creator]

Buddy wore the same pajamas in the morning surprise birthday party for Rob in an earlier episode 😊

[@dsscam]

BTW: This episode was the first one filmed after JFK's assassination shortly after November 22, 1963. There was no live studio audience and featured a scene where Laura compared her family to the Kennedy family, which had to be re-dubbed later. The cast decided to go ahead and film the episode despite the tragic news and it aired in Mid December, 1963

[@rha101]

"Kids today don't appreciate anything." Sixty years later, nothing has changed:)

[@munkustrap2]

And never will 😔

[@mrsbluesky8415]

Funny that they had a dizzy land place for kids parties back then just like now. All the parties I had and went to in the 60s were at homes w games and prizes. Fun and everyone got a goodie bag.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i grew up during this period and i never had or went to any huge, extravagant birthday parties. it must've been a NYC elite kinda thing. i love this show. (this episode isn't one of their best, though.) i place it among the top three best american comedy tv-shows in history. along with the 50s "jack benny program" and the 90s "seinfeld." thanks for putting it on youtube.

[@YW2324]

Cool 😎

[@katyb2793]

It's happening today though apparently 😔

[@dsscam]

I love this show more than anything ever. If there truly is a heaven - I want to exist in this world with these people forever! And I want my dad (also a comedian) to appear with me- forever. He's already in heaven, hopefully, holding my spot as they all await the greatest entertainer ever- Dick Van Dyke (Happy 97th, sir Dick). Richie, of course, still has a long way to go too.

[@jb6712]

Nearly everyone is in for one big surprise where heaven and "hell" are concerned. A very, VERY big surprise. No, I'm not atheist, I'm very much a Christian, but one who knows, understands, and BELIEVES God's truths as He states them in His word.

[@dsscam]

@@jb6712 What's the surprise??? Pizza??????????

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@jb6712 Please, do tell, my friend.

[@shorty7363]

Nobody gets to heaven unless they accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. He paid our way to heaven by dying for our sins on the cross. Salvation is His gift to us. The gift is free, but it's only good if you receive it. Know Jesus = know heaven 💜 No Jesus = no heaven 🔥

[@dsscam]

Shorty73 - I am sure you know a lot because you have had the death experience but I know for a fact that there are plenty of Chinese restaurants and bagel places in Heaven where some of us hang out while we wait for all your people to be given the golden tickets. We are the Chosen Ones so our tickets come with a meal.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Dick as the clown reminds me of when he had to pretend to be a toy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Baron's castle.

[@shorty7363]

Oh my gosh, I instantly thought of that too when he started singing as a clown!😂😂😂

[@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922]

I saw this when I was a kid, and I wanted soooo badly to go to Dizzy Land. 😍🍦🎂🍧🍨🍰🍭

[@shorty7363]

You forgot some emojis. After you eat all that food and ride the rides at Dizzyland then you will be like: 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922]

@@shorty7363 😂😂😂

[@beccahermann5948]

He sang the Clown Song on an episode of Diagnosis Murder ❤

[@williampetersen9915]

And The Highway To Heaven episode "Wally."

[@Vincent-ke5zn]

Laura, I think you're dizzy for wanting 63 kids at a amusement park with only 2 chaperones

[@vincentsmit1935]

The elves will be there!

[@christiansirnam6286]

Wow, GREAT SHOW! Exposing material decadence in the mid '60s ...

[@brendabomba7367]

How ridiculous can you imagine that even today..shows got away with so much without so much thought 😂the good ole days television was all about amusement amusement and not legalities 🎉

[@sateeshmaharaj9730]

I wonder if they can get an immigrant caterer 🎉😂 The kinds would be in for a grand surprise 😜

[@stefano58100]

"Happy Birthday and Too Many More", was filmed on November 26, 1963, just four days after the assassination of President Kennedy

[@marinazagrai1623]

How on earth did Richie know 63 kids? He couldn’t have invited the entire 2nd grade (or whichever grade he was), meaning all the kids of his age…there was no way Laura would have agreed to this many kids (she would have been aware of his friends).

[@brightspacebabe]

I know. Maybe 10 or 15 kids. But then he wouldn’t want the expensive party?😂Makes it more grandiose I guess.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Remember, folks, this is fiction. Doesn't have to be totally realistic. Comedy often equals exaggerating.

[@cathy7135]

And remember-this was the height of the baby boom-I had 60 kids in my 1st grade class in 1962- still have the class picture. So they wouldn’t want to leave anyone out!

[@karenalbeck4043]

There were 30+ kids in my elementary school classes, and there were two classes of each grade. That's 60+ kids in Richie's grade at school

[@munkustrap2]

The people who think the numbers are inflated have to have been born well after this was made. I was born in '63 & the numbers are completely plausible to me. Especially at the age Richie is supposed to be. Two classes of 30ish in each class.

[@G.H._bunny]

Him ad the clown reminds me of Chity-Chity- Bang Bang where he pretended to be a toy.

[@amierichan7231]

I find the canned laugh track so distracting in this one. But they couldn't have a live audience in the last week of November 1963, of course.

[@MrMenefrego1]

When Sally said that she had to skip her 8th birthday because her family was poor, it brought to mind that I had never had a birthday party or gift until long after I had left home; I was in my 20s before my wife gave me my first-ever birthday party. To be honest, I felt like a damn fool, 🙄 I mean, a grown man receiving gifts, having people sing to him, etc., and for what; I didn't do anything special. - If anyone should receive gifts on a child's birthday, it's their mother! After all, she went through 9 months of misery, topped off with hours of agony just to give birth to the oblivious child! 😜 Seriously, though, why even bother with birthday parties? What do you folks that have had birthday parties and gifts all of your lives believe; are they a waste of time?

[@mrsbluesky8415]

It’s frivolous maybe but deep down I think we all want to be remembered on our birthdays.

[@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922]

We always have a taco feast and a birthday party for every one in our family, whatever age. Next Sunday is mine and my daughter-in-law's. Our birthdays are close together, and we're sharing our party. To us it's fun, and a reason to get together.

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922, I never thought of the: "a reason to get together" aspect. But then again, my family weren't people I ever wanted to get together with. But I'm happy you have worthy loved ones with which to share things! ❤

[@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922]

@@MrMenefrego1, thank you, sweetheart ❤

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922 I like you! 😀

[@garyfrancis6193]

$2 a child. That would be $25 to $30 a child today. In those days $2 an hour was a good job.

[@michaelcolors]

All of this situation (which probably happened in real life for the writers) was the beginning of the end of the US. I'm a blasted baby boomer, and I know what I'm talking about! WE ALL BECAME SO SPOILED ROTTEN THAT WE LOST SIGHT OF THE THINGS THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT IN LIFE!! If I were the Father, I would have made clear to the son that it was not his place to invite people to his birthday party w/o asking first! 🏋️

[@nopepper]

Exactly, he should have been told there would be no inviting anyone without permission, from the start. Both parents should have instilled this in him, re budget and what would be allowed. Richie should have been made to apologise and "uninvite" anyone his parents did not know about to learn a lesson about event management.

[@randilevson9547]

"I wanna neck." Who could turn that down?? What was Laura thinking??

[@sateeshmaharaj9730]

Can comedians separate their professional lives from home lives? If women like comedy and “laughy” people, why do comedians have an extremely high divorce rate and multiple marriages.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Funny episode

[@garyfrancis6193]

I have never seen this one. This episode was interrupted in filming by the assassination of JFK.

[@vincentsmit1935]

Max Calvada killed Kennedy!

[@nopepper]

Wow😢

[@esmeraldagems9487]

I think even back then, $100 for a kids party for 63 kids at Disneyland with all the fun stuff they have them do is a pretty good price. I think minimum wage back then was around $1. So like today's wage around $10hr and so it would be $20 per kid today. So If I'm calculating it right, with the buying power of $100 in 1960's it's like going to Disneyland today and only spending $1,200 today for a kids party. So yeah that's not a bad price at all.

[@jb6712]

It wasn't "Disney" land, it was "Dizzyland." They couldn't use or promote brand names back then.

[@Nyzackon]

"Only" $1200? 👀

[@esmeraldagems9487]

​@@jb6712oh yeah lol I guess I didn't catch it or I forgot he said Dizzyland. They do mention Disneyland in other episodes.

[@esmeraldagems9487]

​​@@NyzackonYeah looking at today in 2023/2024 with all the high inflation and all. My employer talks about taking his kids to Disney world and he says he has to pay $1k just to get tickets to get in the park. Not including hotel and travel fare. Or food and all the extras And we live in Florida. But this was 63 kids.

[@3dartistguy]

you can kinda tell the cast was in a kind of somber mood considering the tragic events that occurred shortly before the filming of this episode.

[@Vincent-ke5zn]

I hope you're hungry Laura

[@sateeshmaharaj9730]

Rich People spending 1000$(today's $'s).. Still cheapskates 😅

[@oldblackstock2499]

Well to do kids are not disorderly like that. But, of course, this is a comedy tv show.

[@karlamalcolm9249]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@marcrubin8844]

Bebai's kids invade the Petri's

[@robertdesantis729]

“We don’t die, we multiply”

[@catbriggs8362]

In today's Disneyland (as of April 2023), the averge entry price for kids ages 3-9 is $135 each. That's $8,370.00 for 62 of them.

[@tomgardner8825]

i grew up in the 60's in LA. i never had kids over for a party, and I never went to a party where there were mire than 8 or10 kids. this is normal. this episode was unrealistic.

[@raceandros5079]

Lance Collins 2 John 🕊️ Todd

[@sateeshmaharaj9730]

Blame Kamala & Biden 😂🎉

[@davidcarlson2152]

Larry Mathews never fit into the Dick Van Dyke show format. In most shows he's never even mentioned, or he makes a 30 second appearance in his bathrobe on the way to bed. Even in the few shows featuring him, like this one, he inexplicably spends 90% of the time off camera.

[@robertdesantis729]

But they have no problem hiring a 4 piece orchestra for a small dinner party

[@OnlyHim4Me]

I have got to admit I was disappointed with this episode for its lack of believability or creativity in a script concerning a birthday party. Did anyone else notice that even though balloons were mentioned for the birthday party, no balloons are seen at the actual party? No ice cream or cake is seen; the kitchen does not even have ANY snacks for a party anywhere to be seen! Laura mentions being hungry AFTER the party. Who has a party and does not provide FOOD for the guests?? No cookies, no peanuts, no potato chips for the kids?? No hot dogs nor hamburgers? Where is a pinata game or pin the tail on the donkey or ANY games planned for the children? Where are the party hats or anything pertaining to a BIRTHDAY PARTY?? Where are the balloon animals or anything to make it look like they cared to plan for their child's birthday??? And where are the PRESENTS? EVERY BIRTHDAY HAS STACKED PRESENTS SOMEWHERE! Where are the posters or decorations for a birthday? They do whole days of planning for the business but apparently have no time to plan a simple party for their son. Rob Petrie supposedly knows juggling and magic tricks, but we did not see that in this episode for his son's birthday. The clown act was a last-minute attempt to stave off total failure of the party but was not his best clown act and a dismal clown costume. This episode was a failure to me for its lack of imagination and creativity for this birthday script!

[@munkustrap2]

Geez...calm down 🙄

[@capacola262743]

i hate clowns.

[@poetcomic1]

As a comedian (Steve Martin?) said "I have always been afraid of clowns ever since I was a kid and went to the circus and a clown jumped up in the audience and stabbed my father to death."

[@garyfrancis6193]

I agree. It’s quite common to be afraid of clowns. I have never thought they were funny. To me they’re creepy. My brother was terrified of them as a kid. I don’t understand the mindset of people who think they’re funny. You would have to be simple-minded not to see the creepy element in them. Traditionally clowns were mimes and not allowed to speak in costume. Naturally Americans destroyed that tradition as they do everything else.

[@jb6712]

Me, too, and always have, despite one of my aunts having been a professional clown.

[@tiffanyspencer1082]

Same and not even seeing Dick in a clown costume is going to change that lol