Maude (TV Series) Arthur Moves In (1973) User Reviews

Arthur The House Guest

[Jimmy_the_Gent4 · 14 June 2019]

After a fire at his house, Arthur is staying with the Findlays until repairs are done.

A funny episode. It starts with Maude being driven crazy by Arthur's demands on taking long showers and having his poached eggs done just right. Walter and Arthur have been going out at night together and Maude becomes jealous. Arthur also bought a toy machine gun for his grandson and Maude hates having war toys in the house. The funniest scene has Walter and Arthur playing war games with apples as grenades, Arthur puts a fruit bowl on his head for a helmet.

The best way to start to hate a friend is to allow them to move in.

[mark.waltz · 9/10 · 21 October 2019]

Maude may like Dr. Arthur Harmon deep down, but that doesn't mean that she can spend more than just a few hours of her time with him. While some repairs are being done on his house, he stays with Walter and Maude and creates a lot of tension even though he continuously insists on going to a hotel, which Walter will not her of. Of course it takes one playful argument to bring out the silliness in the situation which greatly lightens it up for them. And of course, there's Arthur's recurring speech about how society is heading down the toilet which leads to a ridiculous concluding line that makes Maude even crazier than she had already become due to his presence. As stuff though as Arthur could be, there was always that hint of a big heart underneath all that pompousness, and Conrad Bain makes him one of the best written supporting characters on a sitcom. There's also references to toy machine guns being inappropriate play, but of course, the adults end up using it as a prop to get out their frustrations that show that even acting more like children than children can sometimes become the key to getting one's frustrations out. It's a very funny episode that even adults nearly 50 years later can relate to.