I'm sitting here with My Three Sons on TV. Not exactly watching it. But Ernie is trying to make an electric clock work as part of a school science project. He doesn't know what's wrong but his engineer father, Fred MacMurray, out of some confused sense of educational ethics, won't tell him what's wrong with it or even share some knowledge that would help him figure it out himself.
What good is it being adopted by an engineer if you get no engineering advice?
The cruel irony is that the kid who played Ernie was the younger brother of the kid who played Chip. An actor who got his part through sheer nepotism is forced to perform in an episode about the moral superiority of your father not telling you how to fix a clock.
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