A traveling encyclopedia salesman (guest Dick Van Dyke) tries to peddle his wares at the home of a bickering couple (Carol and Harvey) · Guest Tony Randall performs "Madeira, M'Dear?" · Two men (Tony and Dick) argue over a $10 loan while on vacation in Hawaii · Dick performs "Ballin' the Jack" with the dancers · a couple (Carol and Tony) have an argument over body signals · A mini-musical based on the lyrics of Ira Gershwin.
Two Emmy-winning stars of Classic situation comedies, Dick Van Dyke (Rob Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Tony Randall (Felix Unger on The Odd Couple), are the guest stars for this ninth-season installment. In her opening chat with the audience, Carol gives one of her hilarious updates on what's happening in her favorite daytime serial, All My Children, and reveals that she's about to do a cameo appearance on the afternoon soap opera. "I've never been on a soap opera before, "she tells the audience, "but I've never been hooked on a soap opera before."She also reveals that, as a child, she first wanted to be an artist. Van Dyke returned to The Carol Burnett Show as a regular at the beginning of the long-running program's eleventh and final CBS season.
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