My husband had been a bachelor for a number of years before we met and married, so he knew how to cook (and good too!) and maintain most of the house. When we married I took over the housework and weekday cooking, but he loved to cook on the weekends which gave me a break. It was also nice to have someone to team up with on certain chores like yard work. He would mow and I would trim the edges, prune bushes, and pull weeds. It's good for everyone in the house to divide up the chores, but doesn't mean a man can't cook or a woman can't do yard work or certain repairs. If you're going to raise children they need to know some basics to live on their own such as cooking, laundry/mending clothes and repairing things. You don't have to know how to change the oil in the car if you know where to take it and have it done.
This episode "The Bad Old Days" aired Apr 4, 1962. is amusing Buddy reads an article in a magazine about the decline of the American male, Rob starts to feel he does too much housework, yet on the Leave it to Beaver which aired from 1957 to 1963 shows Ward Cleaver often helping his wife June dry the dinner dishes.
The problem is when a wife does most of the tasks even when she tells her husband the children did their homework and I helped make sure they stay on schedule. My husband would come home and after dinner make him do flash cards as if the kids never did homework at all. When my son had a problem, he would ask his father in the evening, and he would blow up? He later blew up at me and told me to shut up? I had to tell him to calm down and he started to shout at me. I said, "enough" of your madness. I taught my son without his dad and later my ex-resented his action. However, I had enough of his abusive nature and divorce that miserable man. Only seeking benefit from his standpoint. I would never marry again because it doesn't pay to have a man to act up as if he is the only one that does anything for the family. I at times felt like an incubator and slave to do the wash and cook. I even sewed their clothes too. It doesn't make a woman want to repeat being a wife with that type of male attitude that behave as if he is lord and master but forget the wife is the queen of her castle too.
The male-centric selfishness that’s perpetrated is wankery from coffee house fops, generally folks work together to get shit done and don’t have time to ruminate the finer points of critical gender roles. Upper class twits with a pen and a peanut.
When I was married, when we both worked we both did chores (more like 70% female/30% male). When I wasn't working for 2 years I did everything inside and outside of the house and my husband only went to work. The "problem" came when I then got my own business and worked much longer hours then he did, butt I could never get him back into helping with anything.
Man, people in these comments need to lighten up and get a sense of humor. This is hilarious! They’re not condoning this time period, it’s just satire. Geez
No question. The entire dream sequence is not at all comedic. It's incredibly out of character for Rob to even fantasize of such a thing, given he loves his wife and son so much. Acting out that part must have been hard on both him and Mary because it was so unlike Rob and Laura.
@@poetcomic1 The one wonderful thing about that episode was the the beautiful rendition of You Nearly were mine by the singer (his name is slipping my mind at the moment).
I remember those days. There were two parents raising their children. Fathers worked and mothers were there with a treat when their kids came home from school. They went to PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) and their children got a good education. People believed in God and went to Church on Sunday. They took care of family members, socialized with neighbors and crime was something they watched on TV dramas. They took aspirins, not designer drugs. And did favors for each other, without being asked. They told the TRUTH and, if they lied (or seemed to), they felt guilty about it and made things right. We could use a good dose of the 60's these days...
don't remember any of that from the 60s, so you must have had some fantasy life. What's funny is that most of those folks on TV also had families, worked all day and still had kids as well. So you really did live in a fantasy.
Fans, cast and crew agree that this is the WORST episode of the entire series. Dick Van Dyke himself said ' I don't know what the hell we were thinking of when we made this,'
I don't see what's bad with this episode, looks like they're rather critiquing or making satire of how many people actually lived back then 60 years ago (as his characterdidn'tactuallywanttobe like that to women), this probably was a rather modern view.
@@teijaflink2226 If you look at it, in the end, his rationale is that those days were bad simply because the women wouldn't look very good in them. Which is a problematic message. In Dick's case, it was also because acting out the cruelty scenes was uncomfortable for him. It's also not quite like Rob to fantasize about being cruel to his wife and son.
Rampant disease with no controls such as vaccines. No Internet, no good, clear means of communications. Average wages for a blue collar worker making a "good" wage was about 40 cents per day six days a week. No washers and dryers, and laundry had to be all done by hand with exceedingly harsh soaps made of lye, which is caustic and deadly. Serious lack of education for the majority of the population, as well as lack of any real medical interventions of any kind at all. No dentistry as a practice, so teeth were typically rotted out of one's head long before a person turned 40. Most people didn't live past the age of 50 - 55, and that was considered to be a very old person. No Social Security, no welfare system---even if ours stinks today, it still affords some bit of financial help for some people. Extreme child labor with no laws to protect the children. Rampant abuse of women and children that neither group could do anything about because the whole governing body of society was male dominated, and the men felt it was their "right" to treat their wives and mistresses, and their children as chattel. It was, in short, one of the most hideous, horrendous, shameful times in American history---but you want those days back? Thankfully, God has not put you into any position of running this world!!!
Rob can help out when he gets home. But Laura needs to do most of those things herself. She has one child in school all day so she has leisure time. Rob works hard and has a commute. He needs downtime, not continuous chores. Richie can wash his own hair. I saw a woman act like Laura once, her husband left her for this very reason. Also seen women leave bummy husbands who contribute nothing. But Laura was wrong here, manipulative, not her usual character.
In reality, "Laura" could have gone out and gotten at least a part-time job, and still would have had lots of time at home to take care of it. She didn't have any hobbies, didn't do only but a tiny bit of hand stitching when it came to sewing, and as clean as the house already was, keeping it up with a little help from "Rob" would have been easy. Someone who has only one kid, no pets, no commitments outside the home, should be able to work something simple such as a Woolworth's lunch counter (thinking of the 60s, not today).
In one episode Rob mentioned the "cleaning service" to Laura.... Which episode? Can't remember. She had ppl come in and help her keep their home clean.
Probably wouldn't have been so for her, though. When I was married, the last thing I wanted was to have any kind of intimacy with any other man. Just the thought of it was repulsive.
despite the main argument here being about women's rights' benifit for men (and not women's rights' benifit for women, which you could think is important enough in itself) - and despite the fact that the show doesn't dare recognise stuff like the fact that lgbtq people exist - nevertheless, if this episode would've aired TODAY, not 60 years ago but today, still there d'be people saying it's far too progressive... after all, there's a woman character wearing pants! wokwness gone mad 😝
@@samgradyfilm women now run (and mismanage) everything. look how many, governors, senators, congressmen, judges, mayors, police chiefs, military leaders, cabinet members, CEOs are women. WAKE UP, sam! this wouldn't be a problem if they were qualified and did a better job than men, but they are NOT and they DON'T. why do you think the country is so backwards with all the "WOKE" BS?? that's ALL female thinking! how do you think BIDEN got elected??? DUUUUUHHHHH!!!!!!
My husband had been a bachelor for a number of years before we met and married, so he knew how to cook (and good too!) and maintain most of the house. When we married I took over the housework and weekday cooking, but he loved to cook on the weekends which gave me a break. It was also nice to have someone to team up with on certain chores like yard work. He would mow and I would trim the edges, prune bushes, and pull weeds.
It's good for everyone in the house to divide up the chores, but doesn't mean a man can't cook or a woman can't do yard work or certain repairs. If you're going to raise children they need to know some basics to live on their own such as cooking, laundry/mending clothes and repairing things. You don't have to know how to change the oil in the car if you know where to take it and have it done.
I learned a lot from this episode, men weren’t so bad back in this time period after all.
This episode "The Bad Old Days" aired Apr 4, 1962. is amusing Buddy reads an article in a magazine about the decline of the American male, Rob starts to feel he does too much housework, yet on the Leave it to Beaver which aired from 1957 to 1963 shows Ward Cleaver often helping his wife June dry the dinner dishes.
The problem is when a wife does most of the tasks even when she tells her husband the children did their homework and I helped make sure they stay on schedule. My husband would come home and after dinner make him do flash cards as if the kids never did homework at all. When my son had a problem, he would ask his father in the evening, and he would blow up? He later blew up at me and told me to shut up? I had to tell him to calm down and he started to shout at me. I said, "enough" of your madness. I taught my son without his dad and later my ex-resented his action. However, I had enough of his abusive nature and divorce that miserable man. Only seeking benefit from his standpoint. I would never marry again because it doesn't pay to have a man to act up as if he is the only one that does anything for the family. I at times felt like an incubator and slave to do the wash and cook. I even sewed their clothes too. It doesn't make a woman want to repeat being a wife with that type of male attitude that behave as if he is lord and master but forget the wife is the queen of her castle too.
The male-centric selfishness that’s perpetrated is wankery from coffee house fops, generally folks work together to get shit done and don’t have time to ruminate the finer points of critical gender roles.
Upper class twits with a pen and a peanut.
My husband is great but I still wouldn't get married if anything happened.
@@artheriamuldrow255 what?
When I was married, when we both worked we both did chores (more like 70% female/30% male). When I wasn't working for 2 years I did everything inside and outside of the house and my husband only went to work. The "problem" came when I then got my own business and worked much longer hours then he did, butt I could never get him back into helping with anything.
Where you married in the 1960's?
Abby Koop, *"butt"?* 😉
@@midnight-user12 Very good of you to help clean.
@@czoduqa Where not hen?
John 3:16-18 Romans 6:23
This is so funny. Rob has the weirdest dreams.
3:52 I sure agree, Sally!
19:55 If I become a ghost, this is how I want to appear to people. 😂
Man, people in these comments need to lighten up and get a sense of humor. This is hilarious! They’re not condoning this time period, it’s just satire. Geez
Still not funny.
@@jb6712 Whatever. 🙄 You must have sad life. It’s funny if you have a sense of humor. Wokesters have killed comedy.
@jb6712 it's hilarious, and I'm gonna watch it several more times because of you.
lol, I know, right
It wasn't HILAIOUS! but it very good episode!
@@buddyholleypoint9032 It wasn't HILAIOUS! but it very good episode!
The Twizzle episode was the biggest 'cringe' but this episode was Dick's least favorite because of even acting out the cruelty really bothered him.
No question. The entire dream sequence is not at all comedic. It's incredibly out of character for Rob to even fantasize of such a thing, given he loves his wife and son so much. Acting out that part must have been hard on both him and Mary because it was so unlike Rob and Laura.
As it should have the writers. They were not the brightest bunch in tv land, that's for sure.
not sure what you guys are complaining about. It happened to be a very good episode!
He might have also hated it because the sped-up scenes were unfunny and the whole episode sucked.
@@poetcomic1 The one wonderful thing about that episode was the the beautiful rendition of You Nearly were mine by the singer (his name is slipping my mind at the moment).
With a fake chin he could've played a live-action version of Snidely Whiplash.
If only Buddy could see America today!
I remember those days. There were two parents raising their children. Fathers worked and mothers were there with a treat when their kids came home from school. They went to PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) and their children got a good education. People believed in God and went to Church on Sunday. They took care of family members, socialized with neighbors and crime was something they watched on TV dramas. They took aspirins, not designer drugs. And did favors for each other, without being asked. They told the TRUTH and, if they lied (or seemed to), they felt guilty about it and made things right. We could use a good dose of the 60's these days...
Oh yes! Back to the times when women weren’t allowed to own anything, had no financial independence and were often abused.
@@SamiLo2This is what mind control looks like. You are completely propagandized. Women are unhappier than ever.
This is a tv show you smooth brain, it’s not raw footage of 1961. Those days are no different to today.
Watch some Mad Men, hehe.
don't remember any of that from the 60s, so you must have had some fantasy life. What's funny is that most of those folks on TV also had families, worked all day and still had kids as well. So you really did live in a fantasy.
Fans, cast and crew agree that this is the WORST episode of the entire series. Dick Van Dyke himself said ' I don't know what the hell we were thinking of when we made this,'
I don't see what's bad with this episode, looks like they're rather critiquing or making satire of how many people actually lived back then 60 years ago (as his characterdidn'tactuallywanttobe like that to women), this probably was a rather modern view.
@@teijaflink2226 If you look at it, in the end, his rationale is that those days were bad simply because the women wouldn't look very good in them. Which is a problematic message. In Dick's case, it was also because acting out the cruelty scenes was uncomfortable for him. It's also not quite like Rob to fantasize about being cruel to his wife and son.
@@teijaflink2226 There isn't! I loved it!
@@preetakumar6593 it’s a nightmare not a fantasy
I'm a fan and I can say this definitely was not the worst episode. Very few bad episodes and this wasn't one of them.
I want those days back
Gross
Rampant disease with no controls such as vaccines.
No Internet, no good, clear means of communications.
Average wages for a blue collar worker making a "good" wage was about 40 cents per day six days a week.
No washers and dryers, and laundry had to be all done by hand with exceedingly harsh soaps made of lye, which is caustic and deadly.
Serious lack of education for the majority of the population, as well as lack of any real medical interventions of any kind at all.
No dentistry as a practice, so teeth were typically rotted out of one's head long before a person turned 40.
Most people didn't live past the age of 50 - 55, and that was considered to be a very old person.
No Social Security, no welfare system---even if ours stinks today, it still affords some bit of financial help for some people.
Extreme child labor with no laws to protect the children.
Rampant abuse of women and children that neither group could do anything about because the whole governing body of society was male dominated, and the men felt it was their "right" to treat their wives and mistresses, and their children as chattel.
It was, in short, one of the most hideous, horrendous, shameful times in American history---but you want those days back? Thankfully, God has not put you into any position of running this world!!!
Predictive programming at its best
Rob can help out when he gets home. But Laura needs to do most of those things herself. She has one child in school all day so she has leisure time. Rob works hard and has a commute. He needs downtime, not continuous chores. Richie can wash his own hair. I saw a woman act like Laura once, her husband left her for this very reason. Also seen women leave bummy husbands who contribute nothing. But Laura was wrong here, manipulative, not her usual character.
In reality, "Laura" could have gone out and gotten at least a part-time job, and still would have had lots of time at home to take care of it. She didn't have any hobbies, didn't do only but a tiny bit of hand stitching when it came to sewing, and as clean as the house already was, keeping it up with a little help from "Rob" would have been easy.
Someone who has only one kid, no pets, no commitments outside the home, should be able to work something simple such as a Woolworth's lunch counter (thinking of the 60s, not today).
To be fair, Rob has a Really Fun job 😊
If Mr. Van Dyke didn't like it,I'm skipping this one and going to the next then. Thank you.
In one episode Rob mentioned the "cleaning service" to Laura.... Which episode? Can't remember. She had ppl come in and help her keep their home clean.
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My favorite thing to do would be kiss Laura
Probably wouldn't have been so for her, though. When I was married, the last thing I wanted was to have any kind of intimacy with any other man. Just the thought of it was repulsive.
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6:52 so true
Project2025....
I always hated this episode. It fell in line with the style of so many stupid 60s shows of the late 60s. Not funny at all.
I loved the shows mostly,
Except This is Terrible !!!
Slanderously Written/produced by sociopaths under the guise of comedy, is what I think.
despite the main argument here being about women's rights' benifit for men (and not women's rights' benifit for women, which you could think is important enough in itself) - and despite the fact that the show doesn't dare recognise stuff like the fact that lgbtq people exist - nevertheless, if this episode would've aired TODAY, not 60 years ago but today, still there d'be people saying it's far too progressive... after all, there's a woman character wearing pants! wokwness gone mad 😝
BENEFIT, not 'benifit.'
@@jb6712 TY :)
You have a satirical view on modern society, bordering on comedic 😂
Well, this one sure didn't age well.
Really, I thought it aged great. Showing that people have always complained about current society while ignoring the reality of the “good old days”.
@@lawrenceblunden428 um, with all the cruelty to the wife and son? The actors and writers all hated that episode, but realised how bad
@@amierichan7231 It shows the cruelty but also shows how it was wrong and not a good way to live.
Well women get beat up by men nowadays
Men get "beat up" by women, too. And it's BEATEN UP, not "beat up."
@@jb6712 First time I ever agreed with you in these comments. Women hit men all the time and never expect to get hit back.
@@jb6712Statistically, violence against women far outweighs violence against men.
It was more common back then and women had no options to leave like they do now
This very show has a episode about domestic violence.
Just a terribly conceived and badly written episode.
this was SIXTY years ago, and things have gotten worse for men EVERY year since then.
hahaha
@@scotnick59 i don't see anything funny about it.
how so
@@samgradyfilm women now run (and mismanage) everything. look how many, governors, senators, congressmen, judges, mayors, police chiefs, military leaders, cabinet members, CEOs are women. WAKE UP, sam! this wouldn't be a problem if they were qualified and did a better job than men, but they are NOT and they DON'T. why do you think the country is so backwards with all the "WOKE" BS?? that's ALL female thinking! how do you think BIDEN got elected??? DUUUUUHHHHH!!!!!!
I guess what goes around comes around. I don't know any bio men who'd give that up and be a woman.
IF YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE, ASK A GAY PERSON TO HELP, BECAUSE IT'S EASIER FOR THEM TO SEE THE MALE AND FEMALE POSITION.
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