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7/10
Improv With A Twist
DKosty12314 April 2011
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The husbands of the in-laws are trying once again to get them to stop butting in on their newly wed kids. It seems they have too much time on their hands. Somehow, Eve & Kay need something to keep them occupied. While their husbands aren't looking, they decide to get back into their singing and acting careers.

In order to do this, they find where there is a call for musical acts at a local night spot. When they show up there to rehearse, all the folks rehearsing are like half their age. The casting director turns out to be a young pre-Bunker Rob Reiner. He decides they can perform in the show if they can do Country Music.

The husbands are kept a secret of it until opening night and the act is a riot. Then Eve & Kay lose the roles because the show closes. Not a lot of great comedy here, but even when this show is in the lower tier it isn't awful.
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6/10
Kay and Eve certainly are "Marvy"!
mark.waltz1 June 2020
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Needing something to get them out of the house to stop interferring in Jerry and Suzie's marriage, Kay and Eve decide to put an act together to break back into show business. Having performed professionally before marrying Roger, Kay (her claim to fame Ossie Snicks), Kay does a great Bette Davis impression, while Eve goes from doing a dramatic Garbo scene to a musical Dietrich scene (both sounding hysterically the same), but end up doing a novelty country number in a musical revue consisting mostly of performers in their 20's. The director of the revue is none other than that future meathead, Rob Reiner, looking quite young without his signature huge mustache from later on.

The episode starts off with Kay and Eve basically taking over the garage apartment, moving everything around even as Suzie objects, and ends pretty much the same way. Debbie Watson is good in her reactions to trying to stop them from taking over, especially when she realizes that Herb and Roger without their wives are just as interfering and hanging on as their wives are. I wouldn't call this one of the better musical numbers created for a TV sitcom, but Eve and Kay's charm really sells it in spite of its seeming like something you'd see on Spike Jones or Hee Haw. My one issue is that I haven't been able to get their song out of my head since watching the episode over again.
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