The yorkie and the basset represent the personalities of the mothers-in-law who put their own taste for the right dog when Jerry and Susie decide they want one...a cocker spaniel. Both dogs that Kay and Eve pick out are adorable, although the basset is the more obviously loveable. Meanwhile, a series of driving incidents and increased ticket expenditures have the husband's demanding that their wives get eye tests and glasses. That results in them going to a magic shop to play a hysterical gag on the wives so they can get them to get the test. It's one of the funniest gags in the show's history.
Forgotten comic John Byner guest stars as "the pet police", demanding to see proof of rabies tests and a license. He's an acquired taste, one of those comics that you saw everywhere in the 60's and 70's but has disappeared out of the American culture. Prepare for the ooh's and ah's you'll have when you see the basset cuddling with Jerry. The gag of the unseen yorkie hopping in a duffel bag and the headless man going up and down the stairs is comic genius, and probably one of my favorite visual bits of humor in TV history.
Forgotten comic John Byner guest stars as "the pet police", demanding to see proof of rabies tests and a license. He's an acquired taste, one of those comics that you saw everywhere in the 60's and 70's but has disappeared out of the American culture. Prepare for the ooh's and ah's you'll have when you see the basset cuddling with Jerry. The gag of the unseen yorkie hopping in a duffel bag and the headless man going up and down the stairs is comic genius, and probably one of my favorite visual bits of humor in TV history.
