Tuesday, April 23, 2013
What's going on here?
At 2:28, of this film of outtakes from Season 4 of the Bob Newhart Show, there seems to be some kind of William and Mary joke (by a guy wearing a W & M sweatshirt, no less). What's the story there?
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The Bob Newhart Show - The Complete Fourth Season (1972)
"Two of the funniest episodes ever are in this season with "Who Is Mr. X?", where Bob is ambushed by a morning talk-show host and is so flustered he reveals that one of his patients is a public servant. The other classic is "Over the River and Through the Woods", in which Bob gets out of a trip to Seattle over Thanksgiving by claiming that his patients need him. He ends up hosting a party with Jerry, Howard, and Mr. Carlin in which they all drink too much watching William and Mary's worst college football defeat, and make the funniest call for Chinese food ever recorded. I also very much like "Bob Has To Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve In The Hospital", and the title explains the plot to that one."
http://www.amazon.com/The-Bob-Newhart-Show-Complete/dp/B000G6BL7O
"Two of the funniest episodes ever are in this season with "Who Is Mr. X?", where Bob is ambushed by a morning talk-show host and is so flustered he reveals that one of his patients is a public servant. The other classic is "Over the River and Through the Woods", in which Bob gets out of a trip to Seattle over Thanksgiving by claiming that his patients need him. He ends up hosting a party with Jerry, Howard, and Mr. Carlin in which they all drink too much watching William and Mary's worst college football defeat, and make the funniest call for Chinese food ever recorded. I also very much like "Bob Has To Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve In The Hospital", and the title explains the plot to that one."
http://www.amazon.com/The-Bob-Newhart-Show-Complete/dp/B000G6BL7O
Evidently a Classic Episode:
"Jerry is a graduate of William and Mary, and his alma mater’s team has an important football game scheduled on Thanksgiving. He shares with his friends the William and Mary tradition of taking a swig from the jug every time the opposition scores. The opposition scores a lot in this particular game.
"The men gathered in the Hartleys’ apartment finish the day drunk, with a small frozen turkey still stowed away in the dishwasher (yes, the dishwasher).
"In order to counterbalance the abundance of alcohol in their system they order Chinese food. Bob calls the House of Hu and places multiple orders for Moo Goo Gai Pan. At the end of the program the bill comes to almost $100, a sizeable sum for take-out in 1975.
"The plot doesn’t sound like much, and it isn’t. What works in this episode, as it does in so many of the programs put out by the MTM production company in the 1970s, is the careful combination of writing and acting that makes the characters at once funny and very real."
http://www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com/?p=6156
"Jerry is a graduate of William and Mary, and his alma mater’s team has an important football game scheduled on Thanksgiving. He shares with his friends the William and Mary tradition of taking a swig from the jug every time the opposition scores. The opposition scores a lot in this particular game.
"The men gathered in the Hartleys’ apartment finish the day drunk, with a small frozen turkey still stowed away in the dishwasher (yes, the dishwasher).
"In order to counterbalance the abundance of alcohol in their system they order Chinese food. Bob calls the House of Hu and places multiple orders for Moo Goo Gai Pan. At the end of the program the bill comes to almost $100, a sizeable sum for take-out in 1975.
"The plot doesn’t sound like much, and it isn’t. What works in this episode, as it does in so many of the programs put out by the MTM production company in the 1970s, is the careful combination of writing and acting that makes the characters at once funny and very real."
http://www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com/?p=6156
FYI: Peter Bonerz aka Dr. Jerry Robinson (who had an active career as a TV director after the show) was a Marquette grad in real life. So far, I can find no real-life connection to William and Mary. But there must be one somewhere in the production.
WF--
Thanks for that! It's kind of odd to think that a little state school like W & M would worm itself onto the Bob Newhart Show, but there must be a reason...
It's true-- the writing for those shows was tremendous.
Thanks for that! It's kind of odd to think that a little state school like W & M would worm itself onto the Bob Newhart Show, but there must be a reason...
It's true-- the writing for those shows was tremendous.
The tradition of drinking from a jug every time the Opposition scores sounds like fun though! And considering how bad the Indians (now The Tribe) were in the 70's, I am sure some of our older fraternity brothers tried this. I am actually surprised this did not become a tradition at The College.
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