Let's face it, by TDVDS standards, TV today is trash. Oh sure, there are some good shows out there, but by and large, it's nothing Rob and Laura would sit around (with or without Richie) and watch. But oddly, the trashier the show, the larger the audience.
I got this idea from another thread, but let's see if we can come up with some DVDS episode synopsises (synopsi?) that would describe the plot in a "new millenium" way. For example, here's one from Artfiore1:
"A man, his wife and his co-workers breaking into and entering his boss' office in the middle of the night to steal something . . . "
And here's one of mine:
"A kid uses curse words at school, and writes them on the school blackboard"
Anyone else want to give it a try? The rule is, don't make any episodes up, you have to use what's already there, but described in a way in which today's TV audience would want to tune in! There are 158 episodes. Let's see how many we can come up with. (I hope no one finds this offensive. If so, we'll knock it off!)

Steve

Ok, here's one off the top of my head:

"Rob and Laura unwittingly set up two different girls on a blind date with their new neighbor - a man with a hidden, violent past! Will they find out in time to save their friends, or will the handsome, yet brutal maniac from next door do the poor girls in? Tune in this week to find out the chilling secret of 'The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer'!"

B&W "he-he, this is fun" fan

Originally posted by SawgrassSteve
I got this idea from another thread, but let's see if we can come up with some DVDS episode synopsises (synopsi?) that would describe the plot in a "new millenium" way. The rule is, don't make any episodes up, you have to use what's already there, but described in a way in which today's TV audience would want to tune in! There are 158 episodes. Let's see how many we can come up with. (I hope no one finds this offensive. If so, we'll knock it off!)

Steve

This sounds like fun! How about episode #1, The Sick Boy and the Sitter :
Rob comes home from work and, in typical male fashion, informs Laura that they have a formal dinner to attend that night! This leaves Laura scrambling to find a sitter at the last minute for a child she fears may be coming down with a cold and then when they get there, Rob leaves Laura standing in a corner while he hangs out with his friends and pretends to be drunk just to get attention.

What do you think, Steve? Does this sound new millenium ?
This is fun! It's funny that you started this thread because after your post yesterday, I thought it would be cool to do that with all of the episodes. Great minds think alike, eh?

Lolac :typing:


P.S. I'm really not a male basher! I'm just trying to sound, you know, New Millenium! :p

Let's try episode #2, The Meershatz Pipe : Buddy tries to undermine Rob's authority as Head Writer by making up a story about Alan giving him expensive gifts and inviting him to his house. This causes Rob to get seriously depressed and he takes to his bed. Laura, seeing Rob's weakened condition, takes advantage of him and challenges Rob to a "wrestling match" and further demoralizes her husband with her superior prowess in bed.

Lolac :blush:

Teacher's Petrie
Laura's writing teacher becomes obsessed with her. While left alone in class with him, he makes a play for her as she backs away from him. Upon finding out, Rob thinks about physically assaulting him but refrains from doing so.
The Petries return home, pondering whether to file sexual harassment charges against the teacher (okay, poetic license there).

Originally posted by Lolac


This is fun! It's funny that you started this thread because after your post yesterday, I thought it would be cool to do that with all of the episodes. Great minds think alike eh?

Apparently we do, Lolac!
Here's another:
A wife's openning of here husband's mail, and his responses to it, results a rift in their marriage, and an inflatable raft in their livingroom. (Ok, maybe thay can't all sound racey)

Steve

Ok, here's episode #3, "Jealousy": Rob begins working long into the night with a beautiful, sexy movie star. Laura begins to suspect Rob of being unfaithful to her after Jerry suggests that Rob may be doing more than "working late." :grineyes: Laura decides to catch Rob "in the act" and goes to the movie star's hotel room where she finds Rob and Valerie Blake sitting on the couch together and Rob has his arm around Valerie. To her shock, however, she also discovers Mel, Buddy and Sally in that hotel room with them. Quite a "cozy" evening, wouldn't you say?! Lolac

Where is everyone? :lookaroun It has been so quiet aroung here. We've heard from Doug Denoff on the other thread and only B&WFan and I have been around to be glad! Back to the New Millenium Dick Van Dyke Show: Episode 4 "Sally and the Lab Technician" :

Rob and Laura line Sally up with Laura's cousin and are distressed when Sally comes on as a dominatrix and Cousin Tom is completely submissive. They find out later that Tom really enjoyed the experience and couldn't keep his mind off Sally, even when he was at work. He came back for more the next day.


Hee hee! This is fun! Lolac :grineyes:

Great one, Lolac!
Here's on:
While pretending on the phone to be another man, Rob seduces Laura to have a secret rendezvous.

Steve

from "The Ghost of A. Chantz":
1. Rob, Laura, Buddy and Sally have a four-way in a motel room.
2. Rob and Buddy sleep together; Laura and Sally sleep together.
3. Mel comes out of the closet. (OK, he comes out from behind a mirror. So sue me!)

from "Laura's Little Lie"/"Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice":
After living together for...(Need I bother?)

from "Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth"
Laura goes on national television and airs confidential information about Alan Brady. As a result, Rob's career is nearly ruined.

LOL! TVgen62,
That was a scream!

Steve

Originally posted by TVgen62
from "The Ghost of A. Chantz":

3. Mel comes out of the closet. (OK, he comes out from behind a mirror. So sue me!)



This may be truer to life than you may think.

Originally posted by MTM1Fan




This may be truer to life than you may think.

MTM1Fan, Are you implying that Richard Deacon was gay?! On what do you base such a comment? Lolac


:(

Originally posted by Lolac


MTM1Fan, Are you implying that Richard Deacon was gay?! On what do you base such a comment? Lolac


:(

I may be wrong (I hope I am, to be honest) but I think I read somewhere that Richard was gay. But perhaps I'm thinking of another actor.

B&W "I'm not gonna even go any further on this one" fan

Here's another (thanks Kristen)
Through a day's unfortunate turn of events, a husband at his wit's end punches his nieghbor and his wife, and must deal with the consequences.

Steve

Originally posted by Lolac


MTM1Fan, Are you implying that Richard Deacon was gay?! On what do you base such a comment? Lolac


:(




From another website:

"In Boze Hadleigh’s book Hollywood Gays, he meets up with Richard, and asked him, "Do you imagine any segment of the public guesses that Richard Deacon is gay?" He (Deacon) shook his head. "Not even gays. Most would be surprised. Only because what you see on TV – a serious guy in a suit, unsmiling – isn’t how anyone thinks of gay males."

I've also heard that Richard hung around Paul Lynde a lot, who was a known homosexual. None of this matters, though. I mean, I've heard stories about Richard Deacon and people only had good things to say about him.

Originally posted by MTM1Fan





From another website:

"In Boze Hadleigh’s book Hollywood Gays, he meets up with Richard, and asked him, "Do you imagine any segment of the public guesses that Richard Deacon is gay?" He (Deacon) shook his head. "Not even gays. Most would be surprised. Only because what you see on TV – a serious guy in a suit, unsmiling – isn’t how anyone thinks of gay males."

I've also heard that Richard hung around Paul Lynde a lot, who was a known homosexual. None of this matters, though. I mean, I've heard stories about Richard Deacon and people only had good things to say about him.

Sigh. Some things you just don't want to know. It doesn't change anything. You just don't want to know it, that's all. I didn't know Paul Lynde was gay, either. Lolac

How about today's episode, #20 The Boarder Incident:

Buddy's wife is out of town. Buddy, being too helpless to take care of himself, moves in with Rob and Laura and proceeds to keep them up all night, eats them out of house and home and lets his dog destroy personal property. Then the ungrateful wretch has the nerve to tell them they are interefering with his way of life!

Lolac

Wait! I have to try one more! Episode 22, The Talented Neighborhood:

Some of the young boys in the neighborhood end up in Rob's bedroom.

Originally posted by Lolac
Wait! I have to try one more! Episode 22, The Talented Neighborhood:

Some of the young boys in the neighborhood end up in Rob's bedroom.

LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL!

Steven

Originally posted by B&W fan


I may be wrong (I hope I am, to be honest) but I think I read somewhere that Richard was gay. But perhaps I'm thinking of another actor.

B&W "I'm not gonna even go any further on this one" fan

RD said himself that he was gay in a book, believing correctly that the book would not be published until after he died. I think he said something about how he's the type that no one would suspect of being gay.
Jerry Paris also made a comment about RD's homosexuality, saying that he could've been more popular if he'd been more flamboyant like Paul Lynde or Charles Nelson Reilly instead of his own more dour persona.

The Bad Old Days: Male-chauvinist pig Buddy convinces sensitive husband Rob to stop treating Laura as his equal, leading Rob to dream of how rotten a pig he can be himself. (Well this may have been more contemporary 30 years ago.) :)