The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 3, Episode 16: Magnificent Failure

Ruptured Duck

Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.

Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?

Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.

Move Over, Perry Mason

Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.

The Fast White Mouse

Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.

30 min

The Gigolo

Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.

Dig, Dig, Dig

Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.

Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!

Maynard predicts the end of the world.

The Richest Squirrel in Town

A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.

The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.

30 min

This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning

Inspired by Robert Browning's assertion that a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Dobie goes after an unattainable girl, putting his relationship with Zelda at risk.

30 min

Have Reindeer, Will Travel

Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.

Crazylegs Gillis

Dobie and his girlfriend have to babysit for a college football player's kids and he ends up having to fill in for him during the game.

Blue Tail Fly

Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.

I Do Not Choose to Run

Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.

Happiness Can't Buy Money

Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.

For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls

Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.

30 min

Girls Will Be Boys

Maynard goes out with a female version of himself. Dobie thinks she should act more feminine. When she realizes it's fun to be feminine, Maynard gets scared away.

Marriage Counselor

When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.

The Big Blunder and Egg Man

To impress a girl, Dobie invests more than he should in his economics class project. He buys stock in an egg company and ends up with a room full of eggs.

Birth of a Salesman

When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.

Like, Oh Brother

Dobie and Maynard help Dr. Burkhart establish a center for disadvantaged kids. Maynard wins over the little delinquents by talking to them at their own level.

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Dobie tries to convince Maynard that he is not going to fall for any more money-mad girls, but then a successful college dropout shows up on campus and asks Dobie and Mr. Pomfritt to come work for her as salesmen.

Names My Mother Called Me

When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.

Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive

In order to get good enough grades to follow his latest heartthrob to Harvard, Dobie must cheat on an exam to pass his poetry class.

The Truth Session

Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.

I Remember Muu Muu

Maynard writes an article for the school newspaper about a primitive dance demonstration in his anthropology class, but takes his cue from tabloid writing and makes it sound like an orgy.

Sweet Success of Smell

When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.

When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot

Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.

I Was a Boy Soronity Girl

Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.

30 min

It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home

Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him

Back-to-Nature Boy

Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.

How to Cheat an Honest Man

When Dobie tries to impress a girl who expects complete honesty, he as well as his dad and Maynard get arrested for trying to reverse a fixed parking ticket.

Bachelor Father and Son

Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.

Like Low Noon

Dobie's old nemesis Butch Baumgartner, now the army's heavyweight boxing champ, is coming home and the word is that he is coming to knock Dobie's brains out.

The Frat's in the Fire

Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.