The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series) Love Thy Other Neighbor (1966) User Reviews

Laura and Rob want Millie and Jerry to like the new neighbors...just not too much!

[planktonrules · 8/10 · 17 December 2023]

When the story begins, Laura and her new neighbor are reminiscing. Apparently she and Laura went to school together and now they are chatting away. When Millie comes, she feels like a third wheel and soon goes home. Additionally, she feels a bit angry and depressed...as it looks to her like Laura has a new best friend. Later, Jerry stops by and he, too, feels a bit left out when the Petries are entertaining these new neighbors.

Fortunately, the Petries soon realize that Millie and Jerry are feeling unloved and they plan some activities with all three couples. However, then something odd happens...Millie and Jerry start spending time with the new couple apart from Laura and Rob...and now the Petries feel left out.

This is a very good episode and I appreciate how although there were a lot of hurt feelings, everyone acted like adults and dealt with this in a nice, non-sitcom manner. Enjoyable and unusual...in a good way.

As real as possible.

[c7c7c7r · 9/10 · 15 December 2009]

This was the last 'regular' episode, before the "Gunslinger" finale. I felt like this was an attempt by the writers to depict the suburban world of the 60s as realistically as possible. It was their last shot, so why not? The subject matter is Surburban Angst. The dialog is very 'with it'. The new neighbor Fred Stagg comes over and is asked by Laura if she can mix him a drink. Very sophisticated for 1966. Fred and Jerry are Hi-Fi bugs, and they start "talking sound". They all go to see a play by 'Thornton Alsbury'--a fictionalized combo of Thornton Wilder & Edward Albie. On their night out, The Staggs end up abandoning the Helpers, and get a little drunk-which later they're 'absolutely sick about'. The whole episode could've been written by John Cheever. But you can tell the writers (McCraven & Kleinschmitt) don't want to get TOO highbrow so the whole episode ends with everyone giving the play they saw a Bronx Cheer. It makes me wonder how an extra season (probably in color) would have been.

Watch something else instead.

[rerunwatcher · 4/10 · 2 August 2022]

In the last two minutes or so, Jerry plays a tape of a song from the musical he and Millie just attended. The song goes something like "Mother, Mother tell me true, why do Moo Cows go Moo Moo? Why do horses go nay nay? Wait, what? The heck you say!". That is the highlight of this episode...enough said.