Buz and Tod arrive in Harleyville where they deal with the town jinx.Buz and Tod arrive in Harleyville where they deal with the town jinx.Buz and Tod arrive in Harleyville where they deal with the town jinx.
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- TriviaTod shows no interest in the fishing taking place all during the episode, leaving it to Jonah and Buz to fish. In real life, Martin Milner was such an avid angler he hosted his own radio show, "Let's Talk Hook-Up".
- GoofsBeing filmed in Calabasas, California, everything has a southwest look to the terrain and nothing looks like the area around Kansas City, with the tall hills and mountains and southwestern brush. While filming locations were often not where they claimed, except in cities which couldn't be confused, the terrain was usually similar to where the story was supposed to take place. This is an exception.
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You Are Not Obsolete!
A reviewer incorrectly states this episode's slapstick comedy was "obsolete" in 1962. Nothing could be further from fact! Not only were The Three Stooges riding high on their comeback, Jerry Lewis was a major movie box-office draw; Red Skelton was enjoying continued TV success; this episode boasts a brief appearance by John Astin, then-soon to co-star on TV's I'm Dickens-He's Fenster, another throw-back to classic comedy. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) is an orgy of broad, physical comedy. The still-living Stan Laurel was awarded an honorary Oscar thanks partly to the revival movie archivist Robert Youngson presented in his popular compilations containing Laurel & Hardy among others. Bob Denver & Alan Hale imitated L&H on TV's hit, Gilligan's Island. Definitely this type of humor is a departure for Route 66, yet many a recent dramatic TV series has made one or more light-hearted episodes in contrast to more serious episodes. This one happens to boast two "old-school" greats. I'd have rated it a "9" if Joe E. Brown had been allowed his trademark wide-open mouthed "HEY!!!" Buster Keaton gets the lion's share of the hijinks in a nice continuation of his long-established cinema persona as the nearly luck-less sap who just can't seem to ever get a break. I liked his appearance here better than the Twilight Zone episode he starred in (speaking of serious TV shows to sometimes make a humorous departure or two).
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- scorchedear
- Sep 22, 2015
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