I can't remember the episode title of this one (maybe someone can help me) but there was this one episode where the school cannon goes off and leaves Mr. Conklin temporarily deaf. Later, in his office, his hearing is back, but Connie thinks it's still gone and smiles as she oozes every comtemptous thing she's ever wanted to say to him ("overstuffed windbag," etc).
What's everyone else's favorite?
the released DVD [in combination with, "Life of Riley"] has 2 consecutive episodes from '55... "The Big Jump"[Mr. Conklin parachuting], and"The Home-Cooked Meal".... what is surprising to me concerning Eve's private life is that she was born in 1908.... didn't marry until 1952[just before series debut].... IMDB says 4 children- one natural... but in 1952... she would be a trifle old for her first child???It's possible, but...
shareI think this was called 'Board of Education Day' (also End of the Vacation on the radio notes), as it occurred at that time of the academic year.
I don't have a favorite episode so here are my favorite bits:
Language jokes in general
with Stretch:
Misss Brooks: 'whats on your...what do you want Stretch?
I can't think of one episode that I *didn't* find funny, the word play was excellent and is never used in today's shows; probably because nobody understands the construction of language well enough these days.
The teachers pay jokes are still valid
I'm not sure if the entire episode was that good, but my favorite scene from this show was the time Mr. Conklin was missing. Everyone had been looking for him, and they all got together to compare notes.
Walter: We looked everywhere. We even tried the morgue.
Miss Brooks: And?
Walter: No luck.
Ever since I was a kid my grandmother told me about the funniest show she had ever seen. She said it was an episode of Our Miss Brooks called Tether Your Elephants. She would try to tell me what the episode was about but she didn't get very far before she & my grandfather were laughing so hard they couldn't speak. For years I looked for Our Miss Brooks on VHS or DVD to find it for her when I finally found a bunch of episodes on DVD on Ebay. I bought it because one of the episodes listed was called The Hurricane. I figured that had to be it from the description she had told me in between hysterical giggles. I brought it over on her birthday 2 years ago & had to search episode by episode thru this homemade DVD that had a very simple menu that was not labeled to try & find it. So, we had to watch the first 5 minutes or so of each until we finally found it. I have never laughed so hard in my life. The episode is very funny but the sight of my grandmother laughing even harder than when she would describe to me was something I will always treasure. It is very funny, all about a misunderstanding when someone listens to the weather report from some other country on the radio that tells of a coming storm that is supposed to be horrendous & very dangerous. They think it's a local report & the storm is coming to their area & all kinds of funny things follow as they prepare for this killer storm. They finally realize the truth when they hear the announcer tell them to tether their elephants to keep them from being swept away in the storm. Very very funny show. I highly recommend this episode.
shareI never saw that episode but I heard an Old Time Radio version of this show. I had bought some cassette tapes of Our Miss Brooks and I would play them in the car when I was driving long distances. That particular episode was SO FUNNY that I had to pull over on the side of the road because I was no longer concentrating on my driving. I was laughing SO HARD I couldn't concentrate! Try buying the original radio version of this TV show. There are many episodes and they are very funny.
share"...tether your elephants..." OMG I LOL'ed just reading your description. How funny.
shareThat was so sweet of you to get for your grandparents. I bet they really appreciated it. That also sounds like a hilarious episode. OMB sorely needs to be restored and released on DVD--all the seasons.
shareThe episode we are talking about here was originally done on radio and is just as funny! At this posting, I believe both the radio and TV versions are available on YouTube.
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
My fave, which I saw only once in reruns, don't know the title. I think Miss Brooks falls asleep and dreams about what her life would be like married to Mr. Boynton. In her dream, they get married and have a daughter, Mr. Conklin and his wife have a late-in-life son. The adult daughter and son, played by Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, do a song and dance bit to Yes Sir That's My Baby, making up verses as they go along, to an older, bald Mr. Boynton. Chronologically, it would have been the 1970s(?), yet they're dressed as 1920's vaudeville performers. My sister and I sang that song around the house forever.
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