Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: Backlash
Overview
One of Bob's more masculine patients enthusiastically slaps him on the back—and, unfortunately for Bob, it throws his back out. Even more unfortunately, Bob and Emily were supposed to be going to Mexico for a vacation.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1973-09-29
Episode context
Backlash is Episode 3 in Season 2 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1973-09-29.
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Episode 2: Motel
A trip to Peoria turns into one long embarrassment for Bob when Jerry introduces him to a pretty girl named Janine. Janine doesn't seem to care that Bob is a married man.
Episode 4: Somebody Down Here Likes Me
Rev. Dan Bradford seeks professional advice from Bob then makes a startling announcement in his Sunday sermon.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Last TV Show
Bob's therapy group insists that he accept an invitation for the group to conduct one of its weekly sessions on television.
Episode 5: Emily in for Carol
With Carol on vacation, Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist. Everyone loves the idea—except Bob.
Episode 6: Have You Met Miss Dietz?
Marilyn Dietz, a very attractive divorcee, creates a feud between Jerry and Howard when she starts dating both of them.
Episode 7: Old Man Rivers
A rather embarrassing operation leads to romance between Carol and her doctor. Everyone questions the relationship due to the new couple's age disparity.
Episode 8: Mister Emily Hartley
Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his.
Episode 9: Mutiny on the Hartley
Bob decides to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates. But the members of his therapy group revolt when he picks the most inappropriate moment to tell them.
Episode 10: I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?
Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor.
Episode 11: Fit, Fat, and Forty-One
Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle, Bob goes on a strict diet. With Jerry's help, he joins a weight-reducing class that seems to be populated mostly by women.
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.
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.