User Reviews

Episodes like this make me annoyed with many aspects of the 'Laura Petrie' character. In this episode we have Laura wheedling an offer for her and Rob to spend the weekend at Millie's sister's lake-cabin when Millie and Jerry suddenly cannot go for some reason. Millie makes an offhand observation that on each of 3 previous offers for Rob and Laura to go to this lake-cabin,for some reason Rob has balked at the last minute so Rob and Laura have never actually made it to the lake yet. Laura brings the idea of a weekend at the lake to Rob,and suggests Rob take Friday off of work. Rob does not want to leave the rest of the crew at work 'in the lurch' by taking a day off with no advance notice just because Laura finagled an invitation to the lake-cabin. To make a long story short it is revealed that Rob has a 'mental-block' of sorts about going to the lake. Laura is worried half to death that this 'mental block' is some sort of major,marriage-ending crisis which is at the bottom of this hesitation by Rob. Rob eventually does chat with a psychiatrist and gets to the bottom of his issue and manages to go to the lake after all with his worrysome wife.

The problem that Rob had in his past was with a 'bully' at a different lake-cabin,but the basic problem seems to have followed him to this lake-cabin in the present day only now it is his wife Laura that 'bullies' him. Rob doesn't ever speak-up for himself in too many of these episodes so it is hard to take the Rob Petrie character seriously. All of these observations go to show what good writing and inspired acting went into the making of this show. If a character can annoy you or make you feel strongly this way or that way,I say it means that everyone involved with the show did a great job. This show had some excellent episodes,this was one of them. 85/100 solid episode.