Summary: Never Bathe On Saturday

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Never Communicate Rob and Laura on Saturday In The Dick Van Dyke Show’s episode “Never Bathe on Saturday,” Laura and Rob Petrie venture on an amorous weekend getaway to see a play and enjoy each other’s company. Upon arrival at the hotel, Rob orders extravagant room service in an effort to seduce his wife, while she playfully suggests he put on a smoking jacket, an ascot and a moustache (Never Bathe on Saturday, 6:13). Laura capitalizes on this opportunity and decides to take a romantic bath, but accidentally lodges her big toe in the faucet of the bathtub. While Laura is trapped in the bathroom, Rob interprets her playful flirtation as genuine advice, dressing up in a smoking jacket and an ascot, and penciling on a moustache with Laura’s eyeliner. Halfway through creating his moustache, Rob is interrupted by the maid, which can be interpreted as the primary catalyst for the derailment of their weekend plans. Their playful attempts to seduce each other, while lighthearted, cause them a great deal of turmoil and frustration as a result of the hotel staff’s untimely entrances to easily misconstrued situations. I seek to demonstrate Rob and Laura as the prime sources of their own misfortune in the farce, …show more content…

Upon arrival home, Rob and Laura are obligated to retroactively inform their neighbor Millie why they have returned sooner than scheduled. Laura is particularly apprehensive to divulge the specifics of their affair because she has “never felt so silly in [her] whole life” (Never Bathe on Saturday, 21:50) for getting her toe stuck in a faucet. While it is particularly easy to view this as merely Laura feeling rightfully insecure about her carelessness, it is important to understand this humiliation is a direct result of both of their failures to communicate; Laura is recognizing the circumstances were entirely avoidable and fully

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