Bub notices the boys go to Steve for all sorts of questions, but not him. One time when Chip asks his father about something and Steve says he doesn't know, Chip just stalks off saying, "Nobody knows" without even trying his grandpa.
This part of the story took at least 5 minutes of the show. It leads to the main plot, where Bub decides to go to night school to study American history so he can, perhaps, be more helpful to the boys. He winds up sitting next to a woman-about his age-and becomes a bit chummy with her. He exaggerates his show business past, vaguely making it sound like he was a bigger wheel in vaudeville than he was. A few weeks into the show and he is happily walking her to her car after class, thinking he wants to ask her out on a date-until the car she leads him to is a big limo and she even has a chauffeur.
So Bub feels like he has no chance with her, because she'll find out he wasn't so big in show business. But Steve convinces him that she probably expected him to add to his background and won't be troubled. Bub happened to see, and memorize, her phone number the first night so he decides not to wait a week until the next class, but call her up.
We see the mansion where she lives and learn that his wealthy friend, Margaret, is the housekeeper at this place. She answers the phone and figures from the voice who is calling, but since she has answered with the name of the owner, she is embarrassed to let him know her true story, so she tells him he got the wrong number. Recognizing her voice, Bub figures she doesn't want to talk to him. He later decides to apologize for making up things about his past and learns the truth and they are both happy to now be honest with each other.
It was a basic plot that wasn't great, but certainly wasn't bad. It was funny seeing Harriet MacGibbon in a role of a nice, friendly lady, instead of her Mrs. Drysdale character from The Beverly Hillbillies.
I wish to take issue with the earlier reviewer of this episode. First, he (she) wrote a four-sentence review. All he says about this episode is that he didn't warm up to it. He takes most of his review to criticize the series in general, saying, as so many do, that it was "predictable," and he got bored within the first five minutes.
We were over 5 minutes into this episode before Bub decided to go to night school. There is no way you could have "predicted" at that point that Bub would meet a woman, try to impress her, find out she's rich, and later learn she isn't. Many reviewers don't really know how to criticize a show, so the fall back on the favorite word "predictable" to substitute for any actual criticism of the script. In fact, 90% of a given script is NOT predictable and even some of the funniest episodes ever have 10% or more of that week's script that can be predicted-there has to be some logical, predictable conclusion.
Most shows have some predictability as they play out that week's script, but it's a matter of being able to guess something that will be revealed 2 minutes later, and being able to figure out the logical resolution to the situation as the show nears the end.
I try to be more specific than this reviewer when telling you why a given show was not funny to me. You can disagree, of course, but at least you'll have some understanding of why I didn't like it.
This show was a 7-decently good, not extra funny.
This part of the story took at least 5 minutes of the show. It leads to the main plot, where Bub decides to go to night school to study American history so he can, perhaps, be more helpful to the boys. He winds up sitting next to a woman-about his age-and becomes a bit chummy with her. He exaggerates his show business past, vaguely making it sound like he was a bigger wheel in vaudeville than he was. A few weeks into the show and he is happily walking her to her car after class, thinking he wants to ask her out on a date-until the car she leads him to is a big limo and she even has a chauffeur.
So Bub feels like he has no chance with her, because she'll find out he wasn't so big in show business. But Steve convinces him that she probably expected him to add to his background and won't be troubled. Bub happened to see, and memorize, her phone number the first night so he decides not to wait a week until the next class, but call her up.
We see the mansion where she lives and learn that his wealthy friend, Margaret, is the housekeeper at this place. She answers the phone and figures from the voice who is calling, but since she has answered with the name of the owner, she is embarrassed to let him know her true story, so she tells him he got the wrong number. Recognizing her voice, Bub figures she doesn't want to talk to him. He later decides to apologize for making up things about his past and learns the truth and they are both happy to now be honest with each other.
It was a basic plot that wasn't great, but certainly wasn't bad. It was funny seeing Harriet MacGibbon in a role of a nice, friendly lady, instead of her Mrs. Drysdale character from The Beverly Hillbillies.
I wish to take issue with the earlier reviewer of this episode. First, he (she) wrote a four-sentence review. All he says about this episode is that he didn't warm up to it. He takes most of his review to criticize the series in general, saying, as so many do, that it was "predictable," and he got bored within the first five minutes.
We were over 5 minutes into this episode before Bub decided to go to night school. There is no way you could have "predicted" at that point that Bub would meet a woman, try to impress her, find out she's rich, and later learn she isn't. Many reviewers don't really know how to criticize a show, so the fall back on the favorite word "predictable" to substitute for any actual criticism of the script. In fact, 90% of a given script is NOT predictable and even some of the funniest episodes ever have 10% or more of that week's script that can be predicted-there has to be some logical, predictable conclusion.
Most shows have some predictability as they play out that week's script, but it's a matter of being able to guess something that will be revealed 2 minutes later, and being able to figure out the logical resolution to the situation as the show nears the end.
I try to be more specific than this reviewer when telling you why a given show was not funny to me. You can disagree, of course, but at least you'll have some understanding of why I didn't like it.
This show was a 7-decently good, not extra funny.
