Comments on: Playing TV Bingo With The Dick Van Dyke Show https://popculturereferences.com/playing-tv-bingo-with-the-dick-van-dyke-show/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Sun, 29 Jan 2023 04:22:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Tim Pendergast https://popculturereferences.com/playing-tv-bingo-with-the-dick-van-dyke-show/#comment-7681 Sun, 29 Jan 2023 04:22:11 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=1500#comment-7681 TDVDS has a Game Show episode: Coast To Coast Big Mouth, a trapped in an elevator episode, with guest star Don Rickles, a Brush With Fortune episode where Rob inherits a desk. So close to the coverall! 😉

]]> By: Brian Cronin https://popculturereferences.com/playing-tv-bingo-with-the-dick-van-dyke-show/#comment-770 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:15:42 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=1500#comment-770 In reply to Brian Perler.

The first one. Dick Van Dyke Show followed a decade of TV sitcoms and at least a decade before that of radio sitcoms. It did not invent any sitcom cliches.

]]> By: Brian Perler https://popculturereferences.com/playing-tv-bingo-with-the-dick-van-dyke-show/#comment-765 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:00:35 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=1500#comment-765 I suppose the important question with something like Dick Van Dyke is: did it USE cliches, or did it do things that everyone else then copied, MAKING them cliches? (Like pointing out all the cliches in Shakespeare’s dialogue; they’re only cliches because of people quoting Shakespeare, but they weren’t cliches when he wrote them…)

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