Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: Confessions of An Orthodontist
Overview
While filling in for a fellow psychologist, Bob is surprised to find that his first patient is Jerry Robinson, who is reluctant to reveal his problem. A little prodding produces the startling admission that Jerry is in love with Emily.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1974-02-23
Episode context
Confessions of An Orthodontist is Episode 23 in Season 2 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1974-02-23.
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Episode 22: By the Way... You're Fired
When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work, Jerry Robinson doesn't seemed too concerned. But when it disrupts his love life, he decides to fire her.
Episode 24: A Matter of Principal
It's a matter of principal versus principle when Emily refuses to skip one of her students ahead two grades at the elementary school where she teaches.
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Episode 21: A Love Story
Howard falls head over heels in love with Bob's sister Ellen. Under most circumstances, Bob would find this perfectly acceptable—except that Ellen is getting married to someone else.
Episode 20: Mind Your Own Business
At Jerry's urging, Bob hires a business manager to handle his money. He ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him only such luxuries as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.
Episode 19: Clink Shrink
Hoping to make a contribution to society, Bob offers his psychological counseling services free to a parolee out on an armed-robbery conviction. But Bob seems to be more influenced by his patient's manner than the patient is by Bob's therapy.
Episode 18: The Jobless Corps
Depressed after losing his job with the airline, Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his "out of workshop," a special therapy group for the unemployed. (Bob extends the invitation at Emily's insistence when Howard's attempts to help her around the apartment begin driving her up the wall.)
Episode 17: The Modernization of Emily
Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob says is childish.
Episode 16: Oh, Brother
Jerry Robinson's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school. He takes over Jerry's life, his apartment, and his dental practice.
Episode 15: I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas
Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.
Episode 14: T. S. Elliot
Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades all his phobias and insecurities as he prepares to ask Carol Kester for a date. He then finds it even harder to accept her answer—which is "yes."
Episode 13: My Wife Belongs to Daddy
Emily's parents pay a surprise visit that makes Bob terribly uncomfortable. Emily's father is gregarious, well-traveled, a war hero, an outdoors man—in short, everything that Bob isn't.
Episode 12: Blues for Mr. Borden
Howard's son, Howie is visiting. Howard tells Bob he and his ex-wife, Lois, are getting along really well lately, and he thinks she wants to get together again, but Howard's upset to find out she's getting married, and wants Howard's approval.