If you only ever watch one episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show, watch the episode where they're waiting for their baby to be born. The blurb/description thing is that the son (Richie?) wants to know where he came from. I haven't laughed so hard at television since Monty Python uttered, in sloppy German, "Ja, in Bavaria, wo die Schafe selten Brillen tragen*." (I have no idea why their translators didn't think to say Bayern instead of Bavaria.) I haven't laughed so hard at physical comedy since the Marx Brothers' mirror scene in Duck Soup. It was so densely packed with physical and verbal comedy that I think I'd have to watch it about four times before I noticed everything!
*Yes, in Bavaria, where sheep seldom wear glasses
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