We loved having HD House as our consultant. We never actually told him that we were using his life story to come up with the fantastically stupid things that Darrin would do that his wife the witch would have to help him with and save his sorry ass. So we would just let him ramble on and then use his latest idiocy as a plot for an episode. The only thing we didn’t do is let him talk about politics. He was a hard core leftist who wanted to overthrow the government and seize the means of production for the proletariat. You know the kind of bullshit that Clifford Odetts and Ring Lardner Jr. and Howard Fast were preaching in the forties. Of course I don’t think old HD was really in it for intellectual reasons. I think he was in it for the sex. He went down to Cuba on vacation and got a dirty Sanchez from Fidel Castro. He didn’t clean his upper lip for a month. I mean we really didn’t care that he was gay but the smell started to get to us. Oy what a shmuck.
(Sol Sacks, Hey They Switched Darren’s, The E True Hollywood Story of Bewitched)
(Sol Sacks, Hey They Switched Darren’s, The E True Hollywood Story of Bewitched)
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You know, it's true that both of the Darrins really were unlikable. As a kid, I would often watch until Darrin showed up. yuk
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