The Bob Newhart Show: You're Having My Hartley

The Bob Newhart Show: You're Having My Hartley
CBS
March 19, 1977
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Both Emily and Carol announce they're pregnant, in what turns out to be a dream.  Then it turns out that Carol really is pregnant but Emily isn't, so far.  Not only both Murdocks (Tom Poston and Jean Palmerton), but also Johnny Carson, Jr. (Bobby Ramsen), show up, which may be a hint, even before the "pony," that this story by the Farrs isn't the most believable episode, so it being a dream makes sense.  (And, yes, it's far from Bob's strangest dream ever.)  Bonerz directed.

The fifth season ranges from C+ to B+, with a B- average.  Not just in this episode but overall, there's a continued drifting away from realism to absurdity.  It's not the same show it was even in the third season, but it remains entertaining.