I watch 3 different classic TV series sitcoms 5 days a week with breakfast. Then Sundays I watch 3 more different classic TV series. By the end of a week I've watched one episode from 18 different classic sitcoms.

Monday's are the days I watch Ozzie & Harriet days, right after a My 3 Sons episode (everything I watch is on DVD (or thumbdrive in Ozzie's case) the 3rd and last classic sitcom I watch only on Mondays is the Real McCoys. Good luck seeing these if you rely on a TV station to show them. But that's another story.

This past Monday I saw the Ozzie show: 9.06 The Table and the Painting. Well Ozzie was his regular stuttering and hemming and hawing self (would never utter the word no) this time talking with Joe the new moocher neighbor. Joe makes some end table (which looks too good for him to have actually made, even with painted decorations on the side, Joe would never be able to do that) and Ozzie admires it, next thing you know Joe shoves it in Ozzie's face and orders him to take it while shoving them both out the garage door. Naturally Ozzie's response, "uh, well, uh Joe? Uh, really, I, uh, erb, uh, er, I, but, uh, erb, Joe? Joe? Uh, JOE!" as he's shoved out. Ozzie takes it home and it's not bad but O&H feel they're stuck with it.

Here's my point (finally) Ozzie by season 9 is now getting a little devious to make up for the fact he can't say no and mean it. He sneakily decides to push a silly looking painting he once did on Joe. Now he thinks he's gotten even for giving a crappy "Christmas" present he made back on to Joe.

I don't think the old Ozzie from earlier would have been so sneaky and devious to come up with a sneaky plan to get even with next door Big Mouth neighbor A, B, or C. He would just have mumbled to Harriet his complaints and suffered with it. Now by season 9 Ozzie is almost as sneaky as his lout neighbors.

In an unaired episode he was being coached by Joe, to be sneaky.

Ozzie can't say no. Like in the funny episode where Joe is out of town or something and Clara wants to show her visiting friend what a great guy Joe is, so she and Harriet say Ozzie is Joe, with all the accompanying gaffes. All Ozzie had to say would be, I won't do it! Of course, there would go the rest of the episode!

I haven't seen that episode yet, sounds good though (Oz pretending to be Joe). I made this point in the That Girl thread where they also seem incapable of saying no. As I said there are so many sitcoms (the many Bob Newhart programs, Dick Van Dyke, Hazel, Bewitched, practically everything) the main characters just won't say no which would solve all the problems and the show would be over with in one minute. This was probably an easy crutch for the writers to fall back on over and over, don't say no and you've got a whole show to deal with it.

14-1 The Tangled Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR3ddPiOK5w

I just re-watched it--it's laugh-out-loud funny--the further it goes, the funnier it gets.

I'm going to have to move this episode (14.1) up to the front of the watch list. Maybe this coming Monday I'll be watching. I do see though that it's a color episode, that's a good thing all by itself.