I remember an episode of the show where Rob boobie-trapped the front door with a string full of empty cans, but I don’t remember why he did it. My husband doesn’t remember that happening at all, and he’s usually better with this than I am. Can anybody help? I can’t find a synopsis on IMDb that tells me anything like that.
Try: Long Night’s Journey into Day
I think it was Laura and Millie who booby-trapped the front door, when they were left “home alone” and became paranoid.
From what little I can find, I think you’re both right. I wish I could watch that one, but it doesn’t seem to be available except on the DVDs, so I guess I won’t be able to prove it. Not that it was really a disagreement, he just doesn’t remember it.
And it only came up because I told him we should string some cans across the door when we want some private time, in case one of the kids comes home early.
Thanks.
Don’t forget to fill up the closet with walnuts.
Are you sure it wasn’t Mr. Moose?
I just saw this a week or so ago.
The plot is The Petries and the Helpers are going camping but Laura has a cold (it sounded like Mary Tyler Moore had a cold for real). Laura is fine about being alone, but then Millie starts putting all sorts of ideas in her head. Millie gives her a parrot to keep her company and tells her to stack the cans by the door so it’ll be an alarm.
So Laura does this and the two families, minus Laura go camping.
Then Millie decides that she hates camping and the only fun part was Laura being on the camping trip with her, so at the first town she hops a train back home and the Men and the kids continue on.
Millie arrives and knocks but no one answers. Laura is taking a shower (Millie says “She’s so brave,” a *Pyscho * reference) and when Millie enters the house the cans fall over. (Laura: “You have a key to our house?”).
Then Millie and Laura procede to work themselves into a state of near hysteria for Laura and actual hysteria for Millie. (At one point Laura slaps Millie). So instead of going to bed, the ladies occupy their time by (after restacking the cans on the door) altering dresses, making toast, blaring the TV and Radio and leaving every light on in the house, to discourage burglers.
Laura is in the kitchen making toast when all that electricity blows a fuse sending Millie (in the living room) screaming into the kitchen where they’re both in total darkness.
The girls panic and head to the garage. Laura: “We’re gonna get in my car and drive out of here.”
Just then Rob comes home (he had seemingly caught Laura’s cold or something like that) and tried to call the girls to tell them but they didn’t hear the phone with all the music blaring.
So the girls are in the garage, but they can’t get out because the Petries, being Yuppies have an electric garage door opener. And since the electricity is out, Millie and Laura are trapped in the garage (It happend to Darrin and Samantha too).
Then they hear Rob open the front door and knock the cans down. “Oh Milllie,” says Laura, “there IS somebody in that house.” Millie screams to wit (to wit??) Laura says “Shut up or he’s gonna come in here and make us STOP screaming.”
Rob comes into the garage to fix the fuse and Millie conks him on the head with a trash can lid or something like that. Of course Rob is wearing a hat that he put his fish hooks on and now the fish hooks are imbeded in his head.
Everyone laughs and Rob and Laura are seen ready to go to bed, and then Millie jumps up from the floor between the bed, still scared to sleep alone.
That was great! I remember that episode, but you told it so vividly! I remember Laura’s scratchy voice.
I knew I could count on you guys.
Wait–how could Samantha Stephens get trapped in the garage? She has super-powers. She could have teleported out; she could have teleported the garage away; she could have teleported the whole house away; she could have turned the walls into cream cheese; she could have teleported a key into her hand; she could have struck the door with lightning; and that’s just off the top of my head.
Why do you look like Danny Thomas…?
What is a Danny Thomas?