The 11th season had many poignant episodes that were a great depiction of the times and some that were incredibly warm-hearted. It's sad to see this horrible episode, they should've just tossed it in the garbage and shown a rerun. Demarest was not a great actor, not even a good one. He brought a great deal of grouchiness and negativity to the show, sometimes it was funny, but rarely. I basically never got over them canning Bill Frawley, I think them firing him contributed to his death. His purpose in life was gone. He was perfect in the caretaker role and his warmth and phenomenal talent added much joy to the show. Frawley's grumpiness was different, more subdued and clearly loving. Demarest came off as selfish, self-centered and inexcusably disagreeable, as he very much was in real life and definitely here in this episode.It just underlined "Charlie's" obliviousness to his never-ending intrusion to their lives. Basically the entire episode is about Charlie's old friend coming to town and goes after his girl so he leaves home and greatly intrudes upon his nephews, one living with his wife in a tiny dorm room the other with a wife and 3 children. "Charlie" may be a good cook and babysitter, but not much else.
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