Name that film AND name that unrelated episode of Dick Van Dyke!

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I figured I’d just make one thread for two things, though they are completely unrelated.

The first one is the easier one, I think.

There’s an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show where someone goes to a very avant garde sort of play and a dude runs into the audience carrying (if I remember correctly) a watermelon. Anyone know the episode?

Now for the more difficult one:

When I was at university, so sometime between 1989 and 2004, I saw a film. It was black and white and in Japanese with subtitles. It was extremely low-key, a story about, I think, a middle-aged married couple and perhaps their daughter? Maybe the daughter was getting married or having a child? It seems that something was changing for the couple, but I can’t really remember. It was gentle, sad, and funny, but I can’t remember anything else. Is this ringing any bells?

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There’s an episode in season five of DVD called Love Thy Other Neighborwhere the Petries and the Halpers have a falling out over their new neighbors, and the three couples end up at an avant-garde off-Broadway show. I think there were one or two other episodes that took a poke at the New York art scene, but I don’t remember a watermelon in any of them.

As for the film, I can’t help.

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I think “Love Thy Neighbor” is the show.

God Lord, you have not given us enough on the movie.

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I think it had a series of moving pictures, there were some people in it, and at the end there were credits. Does that narrow it down?

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The episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show is “Romance, Roses and Rye Bread”.

The play in question is called “Waiting for an Armadillo”.

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Yeah, that’s what I figured.

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Aha! Thanks! :slight_smile:

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My pleasure to be of assistance.
Just don’t eat the glowing walnuts. :slight_smile: