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S4 E10 Strictly For The Birds

Comedy

TV-PG

25m

Nov 27, 1962

Dobie and Maynard aren't doing too well in their history class so they train a mynah bird to help them with an exam.

Season 4, 36 Episodes

A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To A Funny Thing,

Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but ends up falling off the ledge himself and taken to a hospital psychiatric ward.

What's A Little Murder Between Friends?,

The smokin' hot Thalia Menninger returns for a visit and Dobie decides to make her the beneficiary on his life insurance policy. Then he becomes paranoid that she's trying to kill him.

Northern Comfort,

Dobie's hillbilly cousin, Virgil, arrives in town determined to become the next Elvis and puts the bite on the Gilleses for financial backing.

The Ugliest American,

Dobie signs himself and Maynard up for an expedition to the Amazon in order to follow a hot chick. Once there, Maynard gets made chief of a tribe of cannibals.

A Splinter Off The Old Block,

Uncle Tim arrives in town and wants Herbert and Winnie to look after son Duncan while he's away on business.

What Makes The Varsity Drag?,

Dobie goes out for the college football team when he discovers that a hot chick adores athletes.

Like Hi, Explosives,

Dobie, Maynard, and cousin Duncan take jobs as truck drivers. Their first cargo: nitroglycerine.

Where Is Thy Sting?,

Dobie feigns illness in order to win the affections of a hot chick.

Flow Gently, Sweet Money,

Dobie and Duncan get involved with a greedy chick who played Dobie for money and now is getting her younger sister to play Duncan.

Strictly For The Birds,

Dobie and Maynard aren't doing too well in their history class so they train a mynah bird to help them with an exam.

The Iceman Goeth,

Dobie, Maynard, and Duncan accidentally lock Herbert in his own meat freezer. Then they mistakenly believe they've killed him.

Doctor Jekyll And Mister Gillis,

In danger of flunking out of college, Maynard hears about a chemical that can change him into a genius--or a monster.

Will The Real Santa Claus Please Come Down The Chimney?,

When Maynard announces that he still believes in Santa Claus, the Gilleses decide to cure him of his fantasy.

Who Did William Tell?,

Cousin Duncan falls for a visiting opera diva who just came down from Quebec.

Too Many Kooks Spoil The Broth,

This time Dobie falls for the daughter of a kitchenware king.

Vocal Boy Makes Good,

When the Lettermen appear on campus, they recruit Dobie to fill in when one of their members has to take an unexpected leave of absence.

All Right, Dobie, Drop The Gun,

A fugitive and his moll hold the Gillis family hostage in their grocery store. Then Maynard comes along and stumbles into things as well.

And Now A Word From Our Sponsor,

After Dobie gets hired as a disc jockey for the campus radio station, Zelda decides to cut an album and gets Maynard to be her producer.

Two For The Whipsaw,

Chatsworth pays Dobie to impersonate him on a date with a damsel whom he remembers as being quite ugly.

The Moon And No Pence,

To impress a hot chick, Dobie gets Zelda to help him improve his grades without telling her the real reason.

The Beast With Twenty Fingers,

Maynard and Herbert get stuck together by a finger toy.

Thanks For The Memory,

Dobie finally decides to give into Zelda but her ardor appears to have cooled off completely - or has it?

Three Million Coins In The Fountain,

After the Osborne family loses its fortune, Chatsworth ropes Maynard and Duncan into a get rich quick scheme.

Beethoven, Presley And Me,

A freak accident turns Maynard into a songwriting machine which cousin Virgil T. Gillis hopes to use to his advantage in becoming a singing sensation.

The Little Chimp That Couldn't,

In the college animal behaviour laboratory, Maynard is assigned to develop the talents of a chimp. If he doesn't succeed the simian might meet a terrible fate.

There's Always Room For One Less,

After mumsie tosses him out on his ear, Chatsworth moves in with the Gilleses and Herbert tries to take full financial advantage of the situation.

The General Cried At Dawn,

On a visit to Latin America, Maynard is commandeered into impersonating a general marked for assassination.

Now I Lay Me Down To Steal,

Spending the weekend at the Osborne mansion, Maynard goes on a sleepwalking jaunt and is suspected of taking the contents of the Osborne safe.

Lassie, Get Lost,

When a teen socialite's pooch disappears she offers a $500 reward to its finder which Maynard is determined to claim.

The Rice And Old Shoes Caper,

In yet another plan to snare Dobie, Zelda announces she's going to marry Maynard figuring that Dobie will do anything (such as take his good buddy's place) to save him from such a fate.

Requiem For An Underweight Heavyweight,

Maynard swallows some energy pills which give him superhuman strength so Herbert decides he should enter the boxing ring with the elder Gillis as his manager.

I Was A Spy For The F.O.B.,

Dobie and Maynard take a trip to Washington D.C. where enemy agents mistake the goateed beatnik for a brilliant rocket scientist.

There's A Broken Light For Every Heart On Broadway,

Maynard turns a fellow student into a singing sensation but then a fast-talking agent steals her away.

Beauty Is Only Kin Deep,

Dobie falls for the smokin' hot younger sister of Dr. Burkhart but according to family tradition she must wait until her older sister gets married first.

The Call Of The, Like, Wild,

After accidentally dousing himself with a chemical concoction, Maynard is stunned to discover that this formula makes him irresistible to women.

The Devil And Dobie Gillis,

Dobie has a hot date but he's broke as usual so to pick up some cash he agrees to help Chatsworth fix his mother's charity raffle.

Details

The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis

Comedy

TV-PG

4 Seasons

26m

A young man schemes and attempts to get the "better things in life" mostly popularity, success, and most importantly, girls.

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