As You Like It-ish Line in The Dick Van Dyke Show

“It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise.” By Jay Burton and Ernest Chambers. Perf. Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam. Dir. Peter Baldwin. The Dick Van Dyke Show. Season 4, episode 11. CBS. 2 December 1964. DVD. Allied Vaughn, 2023.

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A brief paraphrase of Jaques' line "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" comes at the beginning of this episode.

Since it comes at the beginning, I feel less obligated to give you a plot summary. The context of this clip will provide all you need:

An angry Buddy finds a way to vent his ire with Shakespeare: "Boy, to you the whole world's a sketch, and all the men and women live on Flugel Street." He manages to merge Shakespeare with the famous Flugel Street / Susquehanna Hat Company sketch!

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Links: The Episode at IMDB.

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