Probably because this was the first episode there was some Overacting especially by Elinor Donahue.
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Overacting
agbell193622 September 2020
Bud, The Gene Kelly Of Springfield?
StrictlyConfidential7 January 2021
(*Jim Anderson quote*) - "One boy couldn't possible make all that noise."
There's a formal dance coming up this Saturday night at the Springfield Country Club and, yes, Bud Anderson (who can't dance) will be in attendance.
Without telling his family what he's up to, Bud makes some serious efforts to teach himself to dance from an outdated book.
What happens as a result of this may amuse some viewers.
There's a formal dance coming up this Saturday night at the Springfield Country Club and, yes, Bud Anderson (who can't dance) will be in attendance.
Without telling his family what he's up to, Bud makes some serious efforts to teach himself to dance from an outdated book.
What happens as a result of this may amuse some viewers.
Decent start
NebraskanJoe27 July 2023
I discovered the entirety of Father Knows best was freely available on youtube, so I decided to give the series a watch and the first episode is pretty standard for 1950s television. Its a cute plot about the son being shy about learning how to dance, and the father finding a solution to the problem, which involves him teaching both his son and his date how to dance. It was cute and even ended on a nice joke on how the mom pointed out how "dated their dancing looked" and I thought that was fun. I thought it was cute both Bud and his date locked themselves in the basement out of pressure, and overall pretty standard from a sitcom perspective. Overall I think it was a great first episode to a show and introduced each of the characters pretty well, and even had an unironic "Leaping Lizards" line; which I appreciated.
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