Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
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Larry: I`m Larry. This is my brother Darryl. This is my other brother Darryl.
George Utley: Hi, I`m George. This is Larry`s brother Darryl, and this is Larry`s other brother Darryl.
George Utley: Dick, I cleared out that obstruction in the chimney.
Dick Loudon: Thanks George. What was it?
George Utley: I don`t know but when I woke it up, it ran away.
[Holding back tears]
Stephanie Vanderkellen: I discovered I like bowling.
[She starts crying]
Arthur Vanderkellen: I can`t help it, I like that boy.
Dr. Robert Hartley: [final lines, Dick wakes up as Bob from "The Bob Newhart Show"] I just had had the strangest dream. I just dreamt that I was married to a beautiful blonde and we owned an inn that was going to be turned into a golf club.
Emily Hartley: [wakes up, turns the light on] That`s it, no more shrimp before bed.
[turns light off]
Emily Hartley: [turns light back on, jealous] Beautiful blonde?
Dick Loudon: [During Founders` Day, Dick has been placed in the stocks] My nose itches.
[calling out]
Dick Loudon: Anybody! Stratch my nose! Anybody! OK, 5 bucks! Anybody, scratch my nose for 5 bucks!
Larry: Okay.
[Hands Dick $5 and scratches his nose]
Dick Loudon: Okay, anybody else, scratch my nose for 5 bucks!
Dick Loudon: Ick.
Joanna Loudon: And what would you say if you weren`t a college graduate?
First Darryl, Second Darryl: Quiet!
Trivia
Jerry Van Dyke was the first choice to play George Utley, but his audition for the role was unsuccessful.
Larry always wears a quarter in his ear.
Exterior scenes of the Stratford Inn were those of the Waybury Inn in Vermont.
Early episodes of the show were videotaped, later episodes were filmed.
The opening credits are outtakes of On Golden Pond (1981). If you look closely you can see Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in the car.
Julia Duffy was pregnant during several episodes of the show and had to hide her condition by wearing baggy clothes and standing behind furniture.
Larry, Daryl and Daryl were supposed to be one time characters but the studio audience`s reaction to their introduction was so spontaneous the producers used them again.
Vermont residents complained that the opening scenes are of New Hampshire, and not Vermont.
Mary Frann (who played Joanna) visited several of the Vermont Inns to do research and brought back the Pfaltzgraff dishes that are seen as props in the Loudon`s Inn.
SPOILER: It is revealed in the final episode that the entire series was a dream of Robert Hartley`s (Bob Newhart`s character from his previous series "The Bob Newhart Show" (1972).)
SPOILER: Despite the dream revelation in the final episode, books by Dick Louden and the characters of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl all appear in various episodes of "Coach" (1989), also created by Barry Kemp.
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