Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, Rose Marie
You Ought to Be in Pictures - S5-E28
Deliberate mistake: The movie director tells everyone "ACTION!" Yet Rob stands outside the door and doesn't come in, then he says "uh...action?" Then Rob pokes his head in and asks Leslie "Did you say something?" In "Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra" Rob is the director of the play. He says "Action!" and then Harry (Bob Crane) does not come in on cue several times. Rob also calls Leslie "Liz". (00:15:35 - 00:16:20)
It May Look Like a Walnut! - S2-E20
Character mistake: Rob is having a nightmare, part of which involves the disappearance of his thumbs. When he finds Laura at home, the script calls for him to say, "I want you to help me get my thumbs back," but he actually says, "I want you to help me get my thumb backs." His thumbs are also still there but hidden (you can see a portion of them in one frame of the episode).
Laura Petrie: You wanna end up another Dwight Heatherton, go ahead.
Rob Petrie: Who's that?
Laura Petrie: Dwight Heatheron happens to be an excellent writer who is unknown because he gets no publicity.
Rob Petrie: Then how do you know him?
Laura Petrie: Oh Rob, he's famous.
Trivia: During the fourth season, actress Rose Marie suffered the tragic loss of her husband to whom she had been married for 20 years. Amidst her mourning, Marie felt that the grief and pain of loss was too much to bear and wanted to leave the show entirely, just before the fifth and final season. John Rich, one of the show's directors, was there to console her and convince her to come back and finish out the remainder of the show.
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