Pensamientos Acerca de Televisión
The Dick Van Dyke Show: “It May Look Like a Walnut”
This is one of the creepiest TV episodes I ever saw as a child. Indeed, as a child I found it to be way creepier because I was too young to realize how much of it was supposed to be a joke.
If nothing else, it is worth seeing just to see actor Danny Thomas dressed up like John Steed in 1963 -- long before most people in America ever heard of The Avengers.
Plus actress Mary Tyler Moore (who plays Laurie Petrie) gets to have one of the most memorable entrances that any TV character has ever had. You'll know it when you see it.
As for the actual plot... Rob and Laurie Petrie stay up and watch a bad horror movie about a race of alien invaders obsessed with walnuts. The obsession proves contagious -- even with people who did not see the same movie. Is it all a joke? Or something far more sinister...
The episode was made so long ago that its writers still considered it a novelty to reference the then-popular anthology series The Twilight Zone. Indeed, part of the fun of this episode lies in seeing how often they reference that show without actually referring to it by name.
The Dick Van Dyke Show: “It May Look Like a Walnut”
This is one of the creepiest TV episodes I ever saw as a child. Indeed, as a child I found it to be way creepier because I was too young to realize how much of it was supposed to be a joke.
If nothing else, it is worth seeing just to see actor Danny Thomas dressed up like John Steed in 1963 -- long before most people in America ever heard of The Avengers.
Plus actress Mary Tyler Moore (who plays Laurie Petrie) gets to have one of the most memorable entrances that any TV character has ever had. You'll know it when you see it.
As for the actual plot... Rob and Laurie Petrie stay up and watch a bad horror movie about a race of alien invaders obsessed with walnuts. The obsession proves contagious -- even with people who did not see the same movie. Is it all a joke? Or something far more sinister...
The episode was made so long ago that its writers still considered it a novelty to reference the then-popular anthology series The Twilight Zone. Indeed, part of the fun of this episode lies in seeing how often they reference that show without actually referring to it by name.
Labels: Danny Thomas, El Show de Dick Van Dyke, Extraterrestres, Mary Tyler Moore, Pensamientos Acerca de Televisión IX, Series de Televisión de Halloween I
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