The Baby Affair
- Episode aired Nov 8, 1961
- 30m
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5.2/10
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Mrs G discovers that when it comes to rearing children, the answers are not always found in a book.Mrs G discovers that when it comes to rearing children, the answers are not always found in a book.Mrs G discovers that when it comes to rearing children, the answers are not always found in a book.
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With a grandson who is about two years old. Mrs Green wants to drop sociology and take up psychology instead.
Professor Crayton is having none of that as the term has started and it is too late to switch courses.
Mrs Green has read books on child rearing and taken up with new fangled psychological ideas. No dummy for the baby is the latest school of thought.
Her daughter Susan is not enamoured with her mother's views on raising a child. Especially when it comes to chastising a difficult child.
Maybe Mrs Green will learn a lesson that there is still some mileage in the tried and trusted ways.
This is the first episode I have caught and even for its time, it really is not even mildly funny. Just too cosy and formularised.
Professor Crayton is having none of that as the term has started and it is too late to switch courses.
Mrs Green has read books on child rearing and taken up with new fangled psychological ideas. No dummy for the baby is the latest school of thought.
Her daughter Susan is not enamoured with her mother's views on raising a child. Especially when it comes to chastising a difficult child.
Maybe Mrs Green will learn a lesson that there is still some mileage in the tried and trusted ways.
This is the first episode I have caught and even for its time, it really is not even mildly funny. Just too cosy and formularised.
Mrs. G asks Professor Cryaton if she can switch her course from sociology to psychology after becoming fascinated reading a book on child psychology. She wants to better understand her two-year-old grandchild, but the professor says it's too in the semester to change. Mrs. G is lent more child psychology books from new parents George and Irma upstairs. When she visits her granddaughter Mrs. G comes at odds with Suzy, Jerry, and Jerry's mother Jenny (Mae Questel, the unforgettable elderly, ditzy Aunt Bethany in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" and voice of Betty Boop) over child rearing. Jenny: "I don't have to read Freud to life a spoon of spinach." It culminates in an argument between Jerry and Suzy in which Suzy leaves. Mrs. G still doesn't relent in analyzing those around her, but begins questioning her actions.
While the comedy is still light, it's perhaps a bit more than the other early episodes to this point. The gooey, sentimental warmth isn't here, but in it's place is what I found to be an unlikable turn by Mrs. G's character. While Shirley Booth's "Hazel" showed you can have a successful series around a budding-in wisecracker, here the character is developed without dramatic warmth or comedic flair; it just kind of plods along.
While the comedy is still light, it's perhaps a bit more than the other early episodes to this point. The gooey, sentimental warmth isn't here, but in it's place is what I found to be an unlikable turn by Mrs. G's character. While Shirley Booth's "Hazel" showed you can have a successful series around a budding-in wisecracker, here the character is developed without dramatic warmth or comedic flair; it just kind of plods along.
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- 30m
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- 1.33 : 1
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