Episode
Family Affair: The Mother Tongue
Overview
Buffy and Jody meets a new girl named Marilyn, who is the daughter of a Chinese diplomat and speaks no English. Mr. French tries to work out his Cantonese and unknowingly insults her.
Details
- Series
- Family Affair
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1967-02-27
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Mother Tongue is Episode 23 in Season 1 of Family Affair. It aired on 1967-02-27. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 22: Ballerina Buffy
Buffy gets chosen for a lead in a ballet, which is totally annoying for a mother whose little girl, Melissa, was passed over for a complete stranger. She has reason to suspect foul play when the casting director is Bill's old girlfriend Margo, but she knew nothing about Bill's children until after she had cast the roles. Then Margo tells Buffy that she will be a big success and travel all over the world. Buffy gets the idea that it means right away, so she botches up her role in the production so that she will not be separated from her new family.
Episode 24: Everybody Needs Somebody
Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.
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Episode 25: The Way It Was
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Episode 20: A Helping Hand
A lesson to be learned in this episode: Helping people is good, but it only goes but so far. The family learns this the hard way. Mr. French helps out a maid who is very bad with housekeeping by covering up her mistakes, and this charade goes on until she is hired by a guest who is throwing a party. Eventually, she gets fired and she gets on Mr. French. Bill does the same thing when he takes over the twins' school project, and he gets credit. Cissy tells them all about how important it is to get involved in the family because they had none when they were in Terre Haute.
Episode 26: All Nephews Are Created Equal
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Episode 19: Fancy Free
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Episode 28: What Did You Do in the West, Uncle?
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Episode 17: All Around the Town
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Episode 29: The Award
Buffy and Jody want to make an award for Bill for being the best uncle, but they fall allergic to the clay they are making the award with. Bill thinks that the allergies are caused by irregular parenting, but the doctor states that they are allergic to modeling clay.