The WORST episodes of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Every episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In!
Comedy duo Dan Rowan and Dick Martin host this fast-moving comedy series. Characters include Lily Tomlin's Ernestine the Operator, Arte Johnson's German soldier who finds everything "verrrrrry interesting" and Ruth Buzzi's feisty little old lady. Recurring sketches include Laugh-In Looks at the News and The Mod, Mod World.
#1 - Episode #95
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1971
Sketches include Alan, Jill, and Sugar Ray's boxing blackout, Wife swapping, Lily in fake commercial, Sugar Ray meets Alan, Bill Russell locker room blackout, Edith Ann in the mystery person contest, Desert island runner, Lily cheerleader, Roman in football blackouts, and The Mod World of Sports. Featuring Jill St. John, Roman Gabriel, Johnny Carson, William Shoemaker, and Sugar Ray Robinson.
#2 - Episode #86
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1971
Sketches include Marcello explains Richard Nixon stories to Gladys and Tyrone F. Hornie, The Mod World of Aviation, Supersonic situations and unusual stewardesses, Edith-Ann meets Marcello, The Swizzlers get it on, Alan sword-swallower quickie, Louis explains the Laugh-In news, and Joke wall. Featuring Claudine Longet, Marcello Mastroianni, Louis Nye, Carol Ann Richards, and Jilly Rizzo.
#3 - Episode #78
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1970
Ernestine the telephone operator (Lily Tomlin) finally gets to meet Mister Veedel after all those phone calls. Sketches include Bill and Flip visit Dick, Ernestine comments, Shoe store visit, Missing person, Here comes the judge, Raquel Welch visits Peter, Personality cocktails, Ernestine calls Gore, The Mod World of Education, Tribute to William Buckley, How babies are born, and Lily and Ruth at computer school. Featuring Bill Cosby, Vincent Price, Peter Lawford, Gore Vidal and Flip Wilson.
#4 - Episode #68
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1970
This episode varied in topics. It was obvious that Don Rickles struggled to make the jokes funny, but they never came out just right. When Dan and Dick went to the party, the whole scene changed. The original music wasn't playing and the jokes were very dry. There was no political humor; just a bunch of fouled up jokes. Sketches include Return of Ruth's friendly lady, "Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice" movie runner, Don visits the cocktail party, Maternity ward runners with Barbara, Comments from David, Ernestine the operator, Body graffiti, Recruiting sergeant runners, Arte's German weather map, and the Weird, Weird World of Entertainment. Featuring Don Rickles, David Frost, Jilly Rizzo, and Chet Dowling.
#5 - Episode #61
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1970
Sketches including Farkle family dance, Silent theater, Wild visuals, Quickies, Carl looks for toupees, Goldie explains the military draft lottery, and Lily's famous call to William Buckley. Featuring Andy Williams, Carl Reiner, and Greer Garson.
#6 - Episode #36
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/1969
Sketches include Three monks runner, Bus stop malapropisms, We can't top this, Ann Miller news, Jewish wrestling, Letters to Laugh-In, and the Fickle finger of fate goes to the Wichita Rifle Company for making guns for children. Featuring Robert Wagner, James Garner, and Tony Curtis, Ann Miller*, Smothers Brothers*, Forrest Tucker*, Shelley Winters* * uncredited
#7 - Episode #1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/1968
Sketches include News of the past, present, and the future, Body graffiti on Judy, Flip as the Caveman auctioning off the Kentucky Colonel, and the Mod World of Higher Education. Featuring Tiny Tim, Buddy Hackett, Lorne Green, Sheldon Leonard and Barbara Feldon.
#8 - Episode #120
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1972
Sketches include Salute to law and order, Miss America, Lucy tennis blackouts, Madame Curie, Blind date, Lucy on Italian-Jewish life, Laugh-In girls cheerleading squad, Nanette want ads, China/Russia border, Marine news, Laugh-In salutes adult books, Stripper bit with Dick and Ruth, Lucy Roller derby, and Dan, Dick and Lucie production number. Featuring Lucie Arnaz and Nanette Fabray.
#9 - Episode #51
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1969
Sketches including Sammy Davis potpourri, That's entertainment, Psychiatrist's couch, High noon runner, Here comes the judge runners, Fickle finger of fate, and cocktail party. Featuring Sammy Davis Jr., Ernie Ford, and Michael Caine.
#10 - Episode #62
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1970
Sketches including Salute to Weird, Weird World, Dan on Bonanza, Goldie explains taxes, News of the past, present, & future, Perry and Lily chat, Farkle family Thanksgiving, and Breakout in nursery school. Featuring Dan Blocker and Perry Como.
#11 - Episode #63
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1970
Sketches including Cocktail party with Ringo, Goldie explains lending law, Farkle family anniversary with Wally, Lily and Arte shipboard romance, and Ernestine calls Hubert Humphrey. Featuring Ringo Starr and Sheldon Leonard.
#12 - Episode #70
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1970
Sketches include Lily and Ken introduce Mervin the Magnificent, Goldie returns, Tim Conway runner, Wolfgang with Jilly Rizzo, Ruth's friendly lady quickie, Priest and nun runner, Ernestine runner, Tim Conway blackouts, Dick as Hollywood Reporter, The Mod World of Undertakers, The Swizzlers, and Revisiting the joke wall. Featuring Ken Berry, Tim Conway, and Chet Dowling.
#13 - Episode #75
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1970
Carl Reiner plays a broadcaster as the Mod, Mod World scans the history of the news media past, present and present imperfect. Reiner is also Shakespeare reporting a spy mission in incomprehensible verse to the Olde English officers Dan Rowan & Dick Martin. Sketches include Carl's honeymoon runner, Shakespeare cocktail party, Spiro Agneau news, Big Al's sports desk, Underground want ads, The Mod World of the News Media, Truth in news, Quickies, Carl visits the Farkle family, Dick and Ruth as the Swizzlers, Presentation of Whoopee Award, and Carl's Shakespeare joke wall. Featuring Carl Reiner and Jilly Rizzo.
#14 - Episode #79
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1970
Phil Silvers plays a psychiatrist who shares the couch with Dan & Dick, a talent agent conning a star struck kid; a titleholder in an unusual sport, and teachs Dennis Allen about prat fall comedy with a board (Dennis actually gets hit by the board). Sketches include Rod's Twilight Zone visits Laugh-In, Phil intros catch phrases, The Mod World of Comics, Visual comedy, Salute to mothers-in-law, Lily does vaudeville, Eskimo weather report, Mean nurse quickies, and Tyrone F. Hornie visits Lily's proper lady. Featuring Phil Silvers, Rod Serling, Jilly Rizzo, and Don Ho.
#15 - Episode #81
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/28/1970
Sketches include Johnny opens Laugh-In, William visits Ernestine, Laugh-In looks at the 70s, Salute to Ronald Reagan, Rich salutes politicians, Test tube babies, Zero as Papa Gepetto, Ruth sings opera, and the Laugh-In cast news update. Featuring Johnny Carson, William F. Buckley, Carol Channing, Rich Little, and Phyllis Diller.
#16 - Episode #82
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1971
Sketches include Sammy in here comes the judge, Circus monologue, Minority report, Last wish, Mexican-American song, A look at show business, Ernestine continues her attack on the establishment, Christian scientists quickie, Rosemenko twins duet, Edith-Ann meets a ten-year-old Sammy, and Arte arranges a boxing match between Wilt and Sammy. Featuring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Wilt Chamberlain.
#17 - Episode #119
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1972
Sketches include Lily and William in marriage counselor, Captain Amazing, Senator blackouts, Small town news, Indian tradition, Burbank beauties, Lily and Ruth innocent bystanders, Kids' letters, Dan and Dick Tarzan sketch, funeral blackouts, Dan and Dick firing squad, Return of the Swizzlers, and edited speech exposé. Featuring William Conrad, Henry Mancini, and Dan and Mary Rowan.
#18 - Episode #122
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1972
Sketches include Two nuns, Burbank Fire department runners, Jean Very Elegant song, King of the Jungle runners, Sports news covers the cannonball catch, Jean, Ruth, and Dennis marriage counselor, Salute to the family, Laugh-In Joggers, Bikini beach, Fake record commercial, Dick in boxing ring blackouts, and Joke wall. Featuring Jean Stapleton, Jack Carter, Henny Youngman.
#19 - Episode #125
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1972
Sketches include Don faith healer runner, Lily at the checkout counter, Don and the Three Musketeers, Two kids runner, Don as a cowboy, The Farkle family says hello, Mean nurse, Tribute to W.C Fields, Quickies, Spanking baby movie, Lily's Stammering lady, Salute to good manners, Don visits the moon, Visit with Captain Bly, Headline news, and Special events of the week. Featuring Don Rickles.
#20 - Episode #137
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1973
Sketches include Dan and Dick opening monologue, Con man crossover, Two old men, Godmother, Cowboy runner, Gladys' comments, Garage show auto mechanic, A look back at W.C. Fields, Dungeon blackout, Nude scene blackout, Standing room blackout, Salute to the actor, News of Al Capone, Senior citizens' news, Minority report, Military map runner, and Mother nature scene. Featuring Dom DeLuise.
#21 - Episode #4
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/12/1968
Sketches include the Mod World of Medicine, Hospital germ sketch, Introduction of classified ads, Wet weather report, Lady Godiva Interview, Paul Gilbert blind juggler, First intestinal microscopic camera, Goldie Hawn pill song, and the Joke Wall. Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Walter Slezak, Don Adams, and Pam Austin.
#22 - Episode #7
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/4/1968
Sketches include Cocktail Party, First appearance of Tyrone F Hornie, Sir Terry Thomas Poetry, Laugh-In beautiful girls production, Dueling conductors, Italian lesson, News of the past, present, and future, We love the Brits, and Upstairs maid nudes. Featuring John Wayne, Sally Struthers, Jerry Lewis, Dinah Shore and Goldie Hawn.
#23 - Episode #8
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/11/1968
Sketches include Cocktail Party, Sonny and Seal, Paul dummy disaster, Paul Revere, Military News Song, News of the past, present, and future, Leprechaun interview, Undertaker production, the Mod World of the Hereafter, and Fortune teller. Featuring Pat Morita, John Wayne, Barbara Feldon, Jerry Lewis, Sonny & Cher.
#24 - Episode #96
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1971
Karen Valentine of Room 222 plugs songs for unpleasant occasions; plays a Southern belle in a light-opera spoof; and plays Dr. Samantha ironsides in a sketch that borrows something from a variety of TV series. Gladys Ormphby (Ruth Buzzi) dreams she's married to Howard Hughes. Colonel Claude interviews a dog and Sara the Singer wheels into a swinging-singles complex. Sketches include Sunbathers quickie, Jacqueline meets Johnny, All-girl band production, Karen fake commercial, Stretcher running joke, Man-eating woman runner, Supermarket with Lily, Nudist camp runner, Nun runner, Ruth's gladiator dream, Dan and the swingers, Karate runner, and Gladys' dream. Featuring Karen Valentine, Jacqueline Susann, Mae West, Pat Morita, Johnny Carson, and Moosie Drier.
#25 - Episode #110
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1972
Sketches include Ruth and Alan psychiatry sketch, Paul in Sleeping Beauty, John's poem, Alan appears as Jo Anne, Pharmacist blackouts, "Honest" John's used cars, Hillbilly news, Paul and John crossovers, The Mod World of the Economy, Paul meets Edith Ann, Gladys and Maye West, and John and Paul award the Fickle Finger of Fate. Featuring John Wayne, Jack Carter, and Paul Lynde.