S1.E26

Take a Lesson

Name: Take a Lesson
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1966-03-10
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Sally Field, Don Porter, Lynette Winter

Episode aired Mar 10, 1966
TV-G
30m

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

YOUR RATING

Sally Field and Beverly Washburn in Gidget (1965)

Comedy

Gidget gets lured out of the house, in her pajamas, to go on a surprise car buying trip to Pasadena. She then spends the whole trip stopping to call her Dad to let him know what's happening.Gidget gets lured out of the house, in her pajamas, to go on a surprise car buying trip to Pasadena. She then spends the whole trip stopping to call her Dad to let him know what's happening.Gidget gets lured out of the house, in her pajamas, to go on a surprise car buying trip to Pasadena. She then spends the whole trip stopping to call her Dad to let him know what's happening.

Director
- Jerrold Bernstein
Writers
- Frederick Kohner
- Ruth Brooks Flippen
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IMDb RATING

8.0/10

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Director
- Jerrold Bernstein
Writers
- Frederick Kohner
- Ruth Brooks Flippen
Stars

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Featured review

10/10

Paul Lynde

Paul Lynde absolutely steals this episode as the father of one of Gidget's friends who is obsessed with avoiding "the Valley" as he drives around 1966 Los Angeles in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to buy a car for his daughter. The plot is totally incidental though as it is just a gimmick to allow Paul Lynde to show off that faintly sneering delivery of his which never fails to make me laugh. At the end of the show his character "takes a lesson" from Gidget's father who can be classy even in his pajamas. This after all of us in the audience have "taken a lesson" from Mr. Lynde in the art of making the most mundane material very, very funny.

I have not seen all the episodes of the Gidget series but of the ones I have seen this is by far the funniest. Tune in and "take a lesson" in the difference between a comic (someone who says funny things) and a comedian (someone who says things funny) from one of the finest comedians ever to perform, Mr. Paul Lynde.

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In addition to playing Shirley's mother, Jeff Donnell also plays Gidget's mother in two earlier Gidget movies: Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and in Gidget Goes to Rome (1963).