Home Is Where the Hurt Is

Name: Home Is Where the Hurt Is
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1974-12-21
Duration: 26 min
Rating: 7

Episode aired Dec 21, 1974
TV-PG
26m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

147

YOUR RATING

Peter Bonerz and Bob Newhart in The Bob Newhart Show (1972)

Comedy

Carol, distressed regarding visiting her Iowa home for the holidays, talks through her problems with Bob and Emily, keeping them from attending a Christmas Eve symphony celebration.Carol, distressed regarding visiting her Iowa home for the holidays, talks through her problems with Bob and Emily, keeping them from attending a Christmas Eve symphony celebration.Carol, distressed regarding visiting her Iowa home for the holidays, talks through her problems with Bob and Emily, keeping them from attending a Christmas Eve symphony celebration.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

147

YOUR RATING

4User reviews

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VetteRanger

Depressing

I never thought, as a big fan, I'd give any episode of The Bob Newhart Show a rating as low as a three, but they tried my patience with this script and they exhausted it.

There are very few attempts at real jokes here, and even they weren't clever enough to bring a real smile.

Carol is contemplating going home, but instead opts not to and shows up at Bob and Emily's Christmas Eve party, where she proceeds to regale them with stores of how everything that ever went wrong was, in her father's eyes, her fault.

Some of the stories are supposed to be bizarre enough to amuse by that quality alone.

Wrong.

The show is simply depressing and as a viewer, we got nothing from it. Drama should at least have a lesson or resolution, and this story provides neither.

9vitoscotti

Zany episode clicked all the way through.

A daring dark story to focus on Carol's miserable home life in Collinsville Iowa. Bill Daily was brilliant as Howard Bordon thinking the eggnog was spiked actually when it had root beer in it. A supposedly drunken Howard is quite the sight. What's up with Bob's black tuxedo, blue shirt, and tan overcoat for the symphony?

I was eager to see the episode considering all the bad reviews it got. I really enjoyed the episode..

A daring dark story to focus on Carol's miserable home life in Collinsville Iowa. Bill Daily was brilliant as Howard Bordon thinking the eggnog was spiked actually when it had root beer in it. A supposedly drunken Howard is quite the sight. What's up with Bob's black tuxedo, blue shirt, and tan overcoat for the symphony?

I was eager to see the episode considering all the bad reviews it got. I really enjoyed the episode..

Trivia
Actor Bill Quinn', who appears in this episode as Eddie, the mailman (as well as appearing as several other characters on the series), is Bob Newhart's father-in-law - father of Bob's wife, Virginia, commonly referred to by Bob, as 'Ginny' on many talk show appearances.