Sonny Tufts?

[Samme]

They played "Uhny Uftz" the other
day and there's something in there
that I've never understood and never will without someone's help. Does
the sound the flying saucer makes,
"uhny uftz," sound like the name
Sonny Tufts or the sound of his
voice? I knew he was some obscure
movie actor but I wouldn't know
him if I ever saw him. But Sally
says something to Rob about them
coming down here and the first
person they're gaonna ask for is
Sonny Tufts? But later Laura says
a flying saucer with Sonny Tufts
"voice." Which is it? And I love
this episode but the ending always
bothers me in that it breaks Carl
Reiner's rule of being true to life
more than any other. Did they suddenly invent an anti-gravity
device in 1965 that allows this
"toy" to fly with no wires or no
propellers? That was straight out
of Gilligan's Island stuff. But I
wouldn't have wanted to toss out a
otherwise great script either.

[BigBadBrady]

i have ALWAYS wondered that to0. i think
it's just another unexplained discontinuity.

[Lolac]

We need to put that on our nit-pick list!

Lolac

[hank18]

I think Sonny Tufts will be most well-known to viewers today as the "other man" in "The Seven Year Itch," starring Marilyn Monroe. He's the guy the husband keeps picturing seducing his wife while she's away.

If you haven't seen the movie check it out! It's a great summer flick (and it has the scene where Marilyn's dress blows up over her head on the subway grating.)

[David VP]

Did they suddenly invent an anti-gravity
device in 1965 that allows this
"toy" to fly with no wires or no
propellers?

Good point.

BUT -- then again --- how DID the Van Dyke Show crew make the "saucer" "fly"? Because we SEE it fly around the "toy laboratory" at the end of the "Uftz" episode. Do you see any wires or supporting device? I guess there must be some wires; but they did a nice job of hiding them, because I see none.

[algebra74]

There are wires, but they are very discrete about it.