Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke recreated their roles from 'The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)' in two sketches. In one sketch Rob learns that Alan Brady is dead and Laura has gotten over exclaiming "Oh Rob!" The second sketch takes place in the future. In the first sketch Rob is asked to deliver Alan Brady's elegy at his funeral. When the surviving cast members got together in 2004 for "The Dick Van Dyck Show Revisited" , Alan Brady was alive and asked Rob and Sally in a similar plot to write his obituary.