Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home 

"Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home" is an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show starring Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, and Morey Amsterdam. To explain his annual $37.50 "friendship" check to Jerry, Rob tells his new accountant the story of how he and Laura found their new house.

Director:

Lee Philips

Writers:

Howard Ostroff, Joan Darling

Stars:

Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Dick Van Dyke	...	Rob Petrie
Rose Marie	...	Sally Rogers (credit only)
Morey Amsterdam	...	Buddy Sorrell (credit only)
Larry Mathews	...	Ritchie Petrie (credit only)
Mary Tyler Moore	...	Laura Petrie
Jerry Paris	...	Jerry Helper
Ann Morgan Guilbert	...	Millie Helper
Stanley Adams	...	Jack Parkly
Eddie Ryder	...	Bert Steele

Storyline

Rob's new tax accountant, Bert Steele, goes through Rob's returns and, among the receipts, finds a check to Jerry for $37.50, which Mr. Steele assumes is a medical deduction. Rob says it's not and calls the yearly-paid $37.50 "friendship" money. Back when Laura was newly pregnant with Ritchie, she and Rob knew they needed a bigger house and went house-hunting with Jerry and Millie, their best friends and neighbors in Willet Town. Laura found the almost perfect house an hour's drive away in Westchester County - perfect except for one rather large, approximately two-meter round, irremovable rock outcropping in the basement. Although the house was by far the best they'd seen up to that point, Rob and Laura - with a little convincing from Jerry and Millie (mainly due to its far distance from Willet) - decided initially not to buy the house, but the pressure of needing new digs before the baby came made them reconsider. An ensuing heated discussion between the Petries and the Helpers, ...

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Plot Keywords:

friendship | rock | accountant | neighbor | house hunting | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Family

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Certificate:

TV-G

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 March 1965 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Calvada Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

At the end, Rob says he bought the house with the rock in the basement, even though it prevents him from having a full size pool table; but, in "Hustling the Hustler" (season 2) Rob DOES have a full size pool table in his basement, and no boulder, and the layout of the basement is completely different.

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Quotes

Laura Petrie: How could you talk us out of something we didn't want?
Jerry Helper: Well, to make you fell better. If you wanted it, we wouldn't have talked you out of it. I mean, we don't go around talking people out of things they want.

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