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The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 2, Episode 32

When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen (8 May 1963)

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Rob submits a sketch about a talking bowling pin which Alan Brady loves, but trouble arises when it is revealed that a rival comedian has already used that same material.

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A tired Rob comes home from work lamenting the fact that he, Buddy and Sally spent the entire day drawing a blank for Alan's comedy sketch for this week's show. When Rob asks Ritchie off the cuff "tell me a funny story", Ritchie tells him a story of a talking bowling pin and how it feels when the bowling ball is coming toward it. Rob thinks this idea would be perfect for Alan's sketch. What Ritchie fails to tell his father is that he saw that exact skit on the Uncle Spunky program, a local children's television show. Rob brings the idea to work, and Buddy and Sally love it. They pass the resulting script to Mel, who loves it and passes it on to Alan, who also loves it. So when Rob, Buddy and Sally find out the true source material of the idea and that Uncle Spunky is a sue-happy type of person, they have to find a way to get Alan to unlove the sketch as telling them that they are plagiarists, unwitting or not, may be grounds for dismissal. Alan, however, believes the best defense is a... Written by Huggo

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