Newhart - "World's Smallest Horse"

[CVargas]

omg I haven't laughed this hard is years. I seriously have tears streaming down my face. That Basset Hound with the saddle is too much.

[MDBellamy]

What a total scam! No curse words, no obscenity, no crudity, no nudity. How can ANYONE in their right mind pretend to claim that such a pathetic performance could possibly pass for HUMOR?

: )

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

Oh, I really should pay attention to the video titles. I thought that this one was captioned "World's Smallest Whore". You have to admit, that would pique your interest, however momentarily.

[paulyvi]

i cant STOP laffin!

...))

Pauly!

[chgw01]

"this is Dick Newton, saying good afternoon, and I'm sorry" hehe

[MarkVIILSC]

I seem to remember that after this incident, he shut himself up in his room and watched Mister Ed. (or perhaps, that's another episode)

[marinesnip]

God I miss this show!!

[onlyrock1]

This is CLASSIC Newhart here. I wish this show was still on the air.

[lowedt]

how do you know hes the worlds smallest horse?........look at em

[adamsteakknight]

At least it's small! ... NOT for a basset hound.

[Scrumpilump2000]

Anyone remember the episode when Dick was hosting an all-night telethon and he became all giddy from lack of sleep? That stood out for me as especially hilarious.

[paulyvi]

i am laffin so fuckin hard i just spit!

...))

[misy49]

@paulyvi I did the same thing! Its so inverse to his energy

[tuxguys]

Brilliant on so many levels...

And a fair evocation of what local public-affairs TV was before the digital age.

[eldorado61guy]

'How do you know he's the worlds smallest horse' ? 'Look at him" Haha

[tonhl]

I never saw that in italy,i just saw now on youtube....is simply AMAZING! ahahah i always watch it before going bed...makes my dreams better.. :) Thanks for putting it!

BTW wich year was this?

[xxlesslikeitsmathxx]

If the adorable Betty White can have a career resurgence, surely we can all band together and bring the great Bob Newhart back to everyone's attention?

[gilgamess]

@xxlesslikeitsmathxx Actually, Newhart has had a bit of a resurgence. Since 2001, he has worked on a variety of shows, doing a memorable turn on ER, as well as Desperate Housewives and The Librarian.

Like Woody Allen, he didn't record much (Allen made three albums, Newhart made seven), but what he left on LP alone would be the stuff of legend. More of "Newhart" on DVD, I say!

[xxlesslikeitsmathxx]

@gilgamess You're so right, but I won't rest till *he* is hosting SNL ;)

[onlyrock1]

@xxlesslikeitsmathxx he actually did host SNL..at least once in the 70's.

[jph3660]

These episodes where he had the TV show were the best of the series IMHO. It provided a whole extra cast of misfits and endless possibilities for Newhart's impeccable timing. God I miss this show!

[flowertrue]

Loved when he stuffed the phone under his seat cushion!

[west7productions]

worlds smallest horse- look at em.

[jksonny]

"Obviously, that's it."

[garyoa1]

I'd love to find the one with the astronaut and the crayons.

[WildHorses55555]

Hes soooo cute! The ACTUAL world's smallest horse on MY record, is Thumbelina, standing at 17 inches tall, and shes full grown. She is a Dwarf Miniature.

[msctech]

is it just me or does the director at the end sounds like Dick Clark? I've only watched snippets of the series.

[ardalsgirl]

LOL I love this show!!! Newhart is one of my favorite shows it's hilarious and this episode was so funny lol, and the horses and the dog are so cute too lol. :p

[rinsedpie]

garr that was funny..! wheres the rest..anymore out there?

[hiddeninthenight1]

This was hilarious!I dont get Hulu here in Uk, so please if someone could post full episodes of Newhart!Its been so long Ihave seen them.Watched the first wish there were more.

[bradchaz]

Loved this show (and the 70s Bob Newhart show too!). Does anyone have the episode of Newhart where Dick is going through a mid-life crisis and decides to go to work for a dude ranch? I think that episode was in one of the later seasons. That one is hilarious!

[cappucinokid100]

god im splitting me sides.

thank god for bob newhart....

havent giggled so much in years....

[imjunipernow]

Remember the one with the guy who went looking for dinosaurs?

[polytide50]

I thought this show was much funnier than the first Bob Newhart show

[cubeus19]

E.P.I.C.

[Armagedn12]

Funniest. Sitcom. Ever.

[leewoody09]

That was great! Thanks!

[19580712]

This was a great video of the show,thankyou

[360reason]

This video made me realize HOW BIG OF AN INFLUENCE Bob is...

[mdumas43073]

"This is Dick Loudon saying good afternoon, and I'm sorry."

God, I loved this show.

[cityhawk]

Couldn't agree more. Too much for words.

[7Rorschach7]

Does anyone remember when he interviewed that crazy man who said he had "clear pictures of dinosaurs".. and the guy held up a picture of a bunch of shadows.. and the guy started talking about aliens.. and Dick rushed the show off the air?

[imjunipernow]

OMG! That was the best. And the one where the guy came on talking about being an alien and waiting for the "Mother Ship"

[7Rorschach7]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes that was great!!!

[pigmypeople]

LOVED THAT ONE!

[redblackhockey]

The saddle on the basset hound is a touch of pure genius.

[myrnaturner]

Does anybody remember when Dick's show was called "BookTalk" ?

[GSTCPAMBA]

Newhart re-runs beat today's TV by a country mile.  I can't wait for season 2 on DVD!

[LPcustom76]

from clean, funny television the entire family can watch together, to two and a half men. yes indeed, america has turned it's back on God's morals and is marching straight to hell. and as you can see we are reaping it too.

[paulestorey]

God's morals?? would this be the same god in who's name torture, murder and countless other crimes have been committed?

Go live in Afghanistan under the Taliban to see where theocracy gets you. Oh, and if you don't like what is on TV and get desperate there is always the off button.

[emncaity]

Simplistically--and ideologically--put. I've read every "contradictions" treatise there is, and invariably it comes down to simplistic readings that avoid simple interpretive methods and that fail to take into account contexts of history, purpose, etc. Doesn't mean you have to want theocracy--I don't, for sure--but you have to be about as prejudiced as they are to talk this way.

[Humanicus]

There is no issue with interpretation in the case of:

"Thou shalt not kill" and "Kill all the Midians".

or

"I and my father are one" (John 10:30)

"My father is greater than I" (John 14:28)

Morality is not to be found in the Bible, or the Qu'ran or the Torah, but in the aggregation of thousands of years of human thought and argument. There is as much morality in the Iliad or Don Quixote but nobody comments about the lack of Homer's morals on youtube videos.

[emncaity]

In fact, there are issues of interpretation and even translation with the passages you cite. These are superficially posed "contradictions."

As to your larger point, I'd say real morality isn't really originated by any written code, although it can be _expressed_ that way. Sort of like how "I love you" is only a hint at what it really is. Or how a child's idea of a rule (don't touch the burners) is only a hint at something real (human skin isn't made that way).

[emncaity]

Also: I'd agree that being overnostalgic about how moral things used to be is nearly always false. Churched people were on both sides of issues like slavery and child labor, and still are. Some of the same people who lament the passing of "old-time morality" insist that God wants us to kill the entire Islamic world--just like fundamentalist Islamics say about Christians and/or the West. Seems to me it's an issue of fundamentalist backwardness, not religion or failing "morality."

[emncaity]

Anyhow...Newhart was (mostly) a funny show not because it came from an "older and more moral time," but because it starred a funny guy and was usually well written. Or at least that's how it seems to me. To my ear (and eye), there are way more good shows now than ever--yeah, a lot of crap-culture shows too, a lot of sleaziness and amorality, but to the degree that that's true, the problem is us, isn't it? If it didn't sell, it wouldn't be on.

[johannhowitzer]

The problem is always individual humans making mistakes, in my experience. When people tell me religion X contains a bunch of blind followers just spouting what they were taught without thinking, I laugh. That's indicative of the nature of humans, not of the worldview in question...

You can see it pretty easily in World of Warcraft. I've played both Alliance and Horde, and people on both sides claimed most of the stupidity came from the other side... it's just "Us and Them."

[emncaity]

So, SO true--religion so frequently used as an excuse, or as a costume, for whatever people wanted to do anyway, for other reasons, human-nature-wise.

[vaderbomb93]

"How do you know he's the world's smallest horse?"

"Look at 'im!"

[mindwentblank]

comic genius

[imjunipernow]

The owner of the "tiny" horse was Diane Keaton's plumber in Vermont in "Bbay Boom"

[pulsar00815]

OMG!! that was so funny. I can't stop laughing.

[steveasat2]

"No, this is the world's OLDEST horse!" is the FTW response to any criticism.

This episode was a turning point for the series from greatness into legendariness. The precise moment is when Michael says "Really? News to me, Dick".

[vaxxon1]

Agreed. Scolari, actually the whole cast, was brilliant.