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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: A Date for the Colonel's Daughter (1964)
If you want to hear Jim Nabors sing...
...this is the episode to watch!
No one wants to date the boss's daughter...or the colonel's, for that matter. A search is conducted for an appropriate escort to the Enlisted Men's Ball, but there are no takers, neither among the officers, nor the men in the barracks.
Somehow, Gomer (being the most innocuous man that can be found) is selected for the honor, and finds himself taking the colonel's daughter to the dance. Pyle's date finds him kind and courteous and fun, and the two sneak out of the dull, boring dance and wind up on a porch swing in the middle of the night. Gomer sings a charming song that deeply moves both his date AND us out here in the audience (Jim Nabors wasn't known as a singer without good reason, and it's surprisingly beautiful to listen to!)
These two are obviously having a good time, and just as we are about to be treated to a rendition of "Rain, Come Wet Me 'Cause I'm Dirty, Dirty, Dirty!" the couple is busted by the date police. The colonel and his wife are angrily confronted by their daughter, who is sick and tired of being tied down and controlled by them. Gomer says goodnight, as his date thanks him for a nice evening together, and his part in helping her finally feel ready to get out from under her parents' thumbs and strike out for a life of her own choosing.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: Sergeant Carter, Marine Baby Sitter (1964)
As cute as a baby
It's may not be one of the episodes that will make you laugh aloud, but it will certainly bring a smile on your face.
Sgt. Carter has "big plans....big, big, BIG plans!" for his hot date in town- extensive and elaborate maneuvers are planned, and he can't wait. Instead, he winds up entangled in Gomer's attempts to help out a platoon-mate who is stuck with guard duty and can't get off the base and home to take care of his wife and sick baby.
After getting ever more deeply tied up in Pyle's never-ending "errand of mercy", it looks like Carter's date has given up on him- until Gomer brings her by, and she sees that she hasn't been stood up for another woman, but a tiny baby who can only sleep in the arms of the person he likes the best- yes, that's right, Sgt. Carter, Marine babysitter extraordinaire!
The sight of the big, tough, hard Marine with the little baby in his arms proves irresistible to Carter's girlfriend, and they decide to go out to a movie before the evening gets any older...but since the baby won't be quiet for anyone else, they all decide to make it a foursome for the drive-in, and the sergeant reluctantly takes the baby as ordered. As they depart, his date remarks that "this will be the first time I've ever gone to a drive-in with a Marine and felt perfectly safe..." No wonder- as Sgt. Carter "has the situation well in hand...!"
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: They Shall Not Pass (1964)
Another great episode
A great example of what comedy should really be like. It keeps you laughing from the beginning to the very end!
Out in the field for war games, Sgt. Carter almost immediately loses his platoon, mostly due to Gomer falling for an enemy trick. The umpire appears, tagging nearly everyone as "dead", and the sergeant is left with no one to capture and destroy an enemy-held bridge but himself...and Gomer, who he very much WISHES were dead ("PLEASE, sir, couldn't HE be dead?...I mean, I'D kill him...I mean, I'D tag him 'dead', sir...!")
Carter sends Gomer back carrying Eddie (the only one left alive but tagged as "wounded" and unable to walk), while he himself goes in after the bridge. But Gomer gets turned around, and winds up at the bridge, instead. Carter, who has somehow lost his explosives and is furious that Gomer is back, decides to carry Eddie home himself so he can pick up more explosives to knock out the bridge. He leaves Gomer to guard it, with strict orders to not let ANYONE by without the password.
A lieutenant shows up and demands to be allowed across the bridge. He's not wearing the enemy armbands, but without the password, Gomer won't let him pass. He steps into one of the rabbit traps Gomer has been building, and winds up hanging by his heels. Carter, returning, is horrified at the sight ("PYLE, is that a LIEUTENANT you've got strung up in that tree?"), immediately steps into one himself, and winds up hanging next to him. As they both angrily demand to be cut down, Gomer protests that he COULDN'T let anyone across the bridge, as it wasn't safe (he tosses a large stone into the middle of it & the bridge collapses into a pile of rubble- he had removed all the ropes from it to build his traps!) The umpire shows up again, tags the bridge destroyed, declares that the upside-down lieutenant is an enemy spy that will be tagged "captured and executed", and calls Gomer a 'good man', obviously skilled in jungle warfare...then winds up in a trap himself ("I didn't know how many of the enemy there'd be so I built a whole lot of these...")
Sgt. Carter and his men are awarded the coveted "Golden Boot" trophy for best platoon, and Carter asks that Pyle's contribution be officially noted. Gomer's platoon-mates gather around to congratulate him, asking how he did it- Gomer takes a misstep and winds up hanging upside-down, spouting the password, and declaring "gee, these things work good...!" Does is get any better than this?