# Name that film AND name that unrelated episode of Dick Van Dyke! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543 "2010-07-22T01:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543/1 "2010-07-22T01:37:38Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543/2 "2010-07-22T02:05:09Z")
There’s an episode in season five of DVD called [Love Thy Other Neighbor](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559777/)where 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543/3 "2010-07-22T03:34:29Z")
I think “Love Thy Neighbor” is the show. God Lord, you have not given us enough on the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543/4 "2010-07-22T03:40:38Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > God Lord, you have not given us enough on the movie. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543/5 "2010-07-22T04:02:31Z")
The episode of **The Dick Van Dyke Show** is “Romance, Roses and Rye Bread”. The play in question is called “Waiting for an Armadillo”. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543/6 "2010-07-22T13:19:52Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > God Lord, you have not given us enough on the movie. Yeah, that’s what I figured. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543/7 "2010-07-22T13:21:52Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > The episode of **The Dick Van Dyke Show** is “Romance, Roses and Rye Bread”. > > The play in question is called “Waiting for an Armadillo”. Aha! Thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-film-and-name-that-unrelated-episode-of-dick-van-dyke/547543/8 "2010-07-22T14:54:32Z")
My pleasure to be of assistance. Just don’t eat the glowing walnuts. 🙂