Go Tell the Birds and the Bees

Episode aired Nov 17, 1965
TV-G
30m

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7.1/10

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Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)

Comedy Family

Ritchie's been giving lectures to the other children at school about human reproduction - fanciful stories that prompt his teacher to summon Rob and Laura to discuss the matter.Ritchie's been giving lectures to the other children at school about human reproduction - fanciful stories that prompt his teacher to summon Rob and Laura to discuss the matter.Ritchie's been giving lectures to the other children at school about human reproduction - fanciful stories that prompt his teacher to summon Rob and Laura to discuss the matter.

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A sequel to "Where Did I Come From?."

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Dr. Gormsley: [reading Ritchie's version of reproduction] When a mommy and a daddy want a baby, they put a silver dollar under their pillow when they go to sleep at night.
Laura Petrie: A silver dollar under their pillow?
Rob Petrie: Oh, boy.
Dr. Gormsley: And when they wake up and find the silver dollar is gone, they know that Mr. Cabbage has been there.
Laura Petrie: Mr. Cabbage?
Dr. Gormsley: Mr. Cabbage takes the silver dollar to Esmeralda the queen tomato, and in front of the other vegetables...
Dr. Gormsley and Rob: [together] ... three broccolis and a radish...
Rob Petrie: [alone] ... Esmeralda plants a baby seed in a magic garden saying, "Starlight, star bright, we're gonna grow a baby tonight."
Laura Petrie: Rob!
Dr. Gormsley: Then this IS familiar to you, Mr. Petrie.
Rob Petrie: Oh, yeah, yeah. And on a... on a bright and sunny morning, nestled in a... in a nest of, uh, lettuce leaves, is a beautiful pink pumpkin.
Laura Petrie: A pink pumpkin?
Rob Petrie: Well, if it's a girl. Boys come in blue pumpkins.

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6/10

The birds and the bees, part two.

"Go Tell the Birds and the Bees" is like the previous episode in that it revisits material from earlier episodes. In this case, Rob lectures Ritchie about sex education a few seasons ago. Now, oddly, it's all about sex education again...which is a bit repetitive and confusing.

Laura has received a phone call from the school. It seems Ritchie has been lecturing his fellow students about sex...and he's been getting it all wrong. Again, this is odd as Rob talked to Ritchie about this in the episode "Where Did I Come From?". So, Rob has the sex talk again. Surprisingly, the next day, the school calls because Ritchie is still giving sex talks...with all the facts wrong. The school assumes Rob is a prude and didn't explain sex properly to Ritchie. So what is really going on here?

Both this and "Viva Petrie" make it seem as if the show is running low on ideas. In both cases, they revisited stuff from not especially memorable episodes and it just seemed unnecessary. Interesting...but unnecessary.