The Bob Newhart Show: Bob and Emily had chemistry

Bob's secretary sold Jan Brady a brunette wig. Jan wore the wig to a party and everyone laughed.

I love this show. It's great to fall asleep too

r1...

I haven’t watched this show in so long. I love Bob Newhart, I’ll have to by revisit.

Marcia Wallace = Voice of Edna Krabapple

I totally agree, OP. They clearly enjoyed carnal relations at least a few times a week.

Remember the episode when Emily bought Bob an extremely expensive watch for his birthday with "their" money? Bob was bothered by the expense and the fact that Emily bought it with money that was mostly earned by him (at that point in the stores she was just an elementary school substitute teacher). And he made it very clear that it bothered him by bitching and moaning until Emily finally had enough.

Bob: *sigh* Were there any more surprises for me?

Emily: Well, there was... but you're certainly not getting it now.

And Suzanne Pleshette's way with the line made it clear exactly what she meant!

Pleshette was a true broad. I loved seeing her on talk shows. She was the perfect match for Bob.

Mary Frann was such a disappointing replacement for her.

See I’m going to have to rewatch both series. I didn’t mind Mary Frann back in the day. I just got sick of the Darryl brothers.

Peter Scolari and Julia Duffy were major assets to the second series.

[quote]I love this show. It's great to fall asleep too

I also love the show. And like you, I also enjoy falling asleep. Unless of course I’m operating heavy machinery.

Bob and Emily had chemistry, but not of the romantic kind. It was more like good friends.

He was eight years older than her but he always seemed more like 28 years older for some reason.

Bah—she was into him, for sure.

LOVED that show

I always wondered how Bob managed to get the gorgeous Emily

$$$$$

He was a rich therapist.

Moo goo gai pan.

Because he created the show, r15

R17 More Goo to go!

You guys might like this documentary about Newhart's and Rickles' friendship (best friends). Wives and children were very good friends, as well.

What career did Emily move on to after teaching elementary school?

[quote]What career did Emily move on to after teaching elementary school?

barmaid

Loved this show. Great cast and so funny. I did not enjoy the Vermont show and stopped watching after less than a season, and I wonder now if I was just disappointed it wasn’t enough like this one. (I saw the final scene, of course, and loved it.)

And, as a tasteful friend, whenever I think “apartment in the city,” Bob and Emily’s apartment immediately comes to mind.

The one where Bob found out that his IQ was lower than Emily’s was funny.

I love Pleshette because she was a great beauty but didn't behave like one. No bullshit, no glam-girl phony stuff.

For R24

Did anyone else notice that Mary Tyler Moore's 2nd apartment looked exactly like (floorplan) the Newharts' apartment?

R21 I think she became a school principal

No because it did not.

Yes r27, r29 is right. The biggest difference is, Mary’s second apartment flows from the entrance to stage left (viewer right), whereas the Hartley apartment goes both left and right from the door and living room. Their bedroom was stage right (audience left), whereas that little library and the kitchen were stage left (audience right).

It’s interesting that the Hartley kitchen was so small, almost a glorified nook. I guess it was because they were DINKs and the kitchen wasn’t a major focus of the household, like it would have been if Emily stayed home and took care of kids.

Although Mary’s FIRST apartment and the Hartley apartment shared something — the same set designer!

Thanks R26.

The Bob Newhart Show always gets credit for being the first to show a married couple sharing a bed, but Green Acres actually did it first.

The Vermont series has the single funniest television episode I’ve ever seen — “Murder at the Stratley.”

[Quote]Marcia Wallace = Voice of Edna Krabapple

It took me longer than I care to admit that Mrs Kra-bap-ple was a play on Mrs Krab-apple.

Miss Crabtree R34!

She's mine!

I had very sedate high school years. One of my Saturday night staples.

Moo goo gai pan, anyone?

[quote]Mary Frann was such a disappointing replacement for her.

Newhart's producers agree.

One of the EPs of the 1982 series said as much in his Television Academy interview: They wanted to go in a totally different direction than Suzanne Pleshette, and they got someone who didn't really add anything.

R37 Moo goo goo goo to go.

I always thought Bob and Emily had the most glamorous apartment on television in the 1970s. When my father and mother separated, my father got an apartment in downtown Minneapolis, and I was so disappointed it wasn't like the Hartleys'. I wanted it to have a balcony behind huge picture windows.

Mary Richards' second apartment was more reminiscent of One Day at a Time and Good Times, with that upstage hallway to the bedroom.

It was a shame that it was so derivative because her first apartment was so unique.

Just the name Mary Frann sounds so boring.

R/33 Bob Newhart deserves credit for a lot of things but not for being first to bed his wife in prime time. That would be Bewitched. Samantha was such a goer, even Dr. Bombay couldn’t fix Original Darrin Stephens’ back.

R43 - Darrin was a Dick.