2x20 It May Look Like a Walnut! - The Dick Van Dyke Show Episode Guide

The Dick Van Dyke Show

- Episode 02x20

Episode: 02x20
Title: It May Look Like a Walnut!
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 051
First Aired: Feb. 06, 1963

Summary: After watching a late night science fiction movie, Rob has a dream that a walnut is out to steal his imagination and his thumbs.

Robert 'Rob' Petrie	played by Dick Van Dyke
Danny Thomas	played by Danny Thomas

	Season 2 / Episode 20: - It May Look Like a Walnut! Robert 'Rob' Petrie: Oh, what a nightmare! What a nightmare! I dreamed that I was a Twylo-ite. And that I lost my sense of humor and my thumbs! [kisses thumbs fervently] Laura Petrie: I dreamt that Danny Thomas was chasing me and throwing walnuts at me and every place he'd hit me I'd lose a thumb and grow an eye!
	Season 2 / Episode 20: - It May Look Like a Walnut! Robert 'Rob' Petrie: Danny Thomas put nuts in my hat!

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Producer Sheldon Leonard hated the story when it was presented as a script, thinking it was not funny and too strange, but gave the go-ahead for it to be filmed. Later, he acknowledged the popularity of the episode and said he had been wrong to think it would flop.
SPOILER: The scene where Laura rolls down the sea of walnuts from the closet was never rehearsed with the walnuts; the crew had to get the shot correct the first and only time walnuts were used, because it would take too long to reload the walnuts for another take.
This very popular entry in the series was a satire of _"Twilight Zone" (1959)_ and is famous for the scene where Mary Tyler Moore comes flying out of the closet on a sea of walnuts.

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