Shark Bytes

Why isn't Dodie listed under "New Kid In Town?" She's the best example for bringing in a new kid and causing the show to Jump The Shark.

Uh Huh

I don't think a bath, or an acting class would have made a difference. Dawn Lyn is the worst child star of all time.

I have to say that I liked all the seasons of My Three Sons. I know so many are rough on Dodie. I am not Dodie's biggest fan, but I don't hate her. Not much. I found it hard to believe she was the daughter of Barbara. She looked nothing like her. Plus it was hard to believe in those days someone Barbara's age had an only child the age of Dodie.

I think I saw a picture once of Dodie's father and she didn't look like him either. Must be a throw back to an earlier ancestor.

I think that Dodie was in real desperate need of acting lessons and a good hair stylist. Giving her a butt ugly doll named Myrtle to hold really didn't help.

I remember Steve taking Dodie's bed one night and turning on the lamp beside it. It looked like a lamp you would find in a baby nursery.

Your "Second" is up, Dodie Sucked!

Enough about Dodie for a second!

Remember when Steve bought the middle son Chip who was an upperclassman in high school at the time a Model T as a gift. And Chip wouldnt park it with-in a mile of their house or his high school he was so embarrassed by it! Face it, Steve Douglass was a lousy father hahahahaha

Interesting comments about Pamelyn Ferdin making a better Dodie. I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Ferdin a number of years ago, and she's a sweetheart. Yes, she'd have been a perfect Dodie!! She makes Clint Howard look pretty? Ooooh, that's rough-true, though.

I seen on Jump the Shark that girl Dodie is interviewed on dvd called devil times five. My girlfriend Noina rent it and we seen her. She turn into Natlie from the Facts of Life tv show only worse. They ask her all about being in devil times five but she say she ain't never seen it. That Dodie still stupid. She jump all over the chance to be on camera like stink on liverworst but too dumb to watch her own bad movie. I'm guessin they wont ask her to be on no extras on My Three Sons dvd since somebody might bring up her wearing a diaper til she be nine. My Three Sons was to come out on dvd, but now they said it ain't. Probly still cause that Dodie.

Shanequia

Dawn Lyn makes Clint Howard look pretty.

I saw the queen of grunge Dawn Lyn in person at one of those has-been autograph shows. At first glance I thought she was that old midget lady from "Poltergeist". She looked like a aging munchkin with bed hair. My friend couldn't stand her growing up and always laughed at her saggy diaper.I thought it would be funny to get an autographed 8X10 to give him as a joke.
She was only charging $5.00. Everyone else was charging $20.00. She asked me how to spell Duane and began to sign her name. As she started to loop the L in her last name, her tongue darted in and out of the corner of her lopsided little pig slit of a mouth. It was so pathetic. I'm not sure what she did but the owner of the show asked her to get out. She packed up her Dodie photos and someone yelled "And take your gnats with you!" I hope she at least made bus fare.

Dodie was supposed to be the same age as I was when the show originally aired. I honestly believed, even as a seven year old, that the character was supposed to be retarded. Same blank expressions, odd behavior, strange, shrill voice as my short-bus-riding neighbor up the street. I look at the episodes now and think that if Dodie had just been openly acknowledged as "special" from day one, probably because of Barbara's age at conception, drinking habits, or both, Dawn Lyn probably would have won an Emmy award.

I must say that Dawn Lyn is the most unattractive child I've ever seen on television. I like the idea of using Pamelyn Ferdin. She was a very talented actress and much nicer to look at.

The show jumped when Mike was "disappeared". Pinochet in Chile adopted this technique in his reign of terror over the Chilean citizens.

It is a wonder that none of the kids went "Columbine" from having to deal with Uncle Charlie on a daily basis. Do you think those kids would change his diapers when he got old and senile? OK - maybe Dodie since Uncle Charlie changed her diaper until she was 9 years old.

I think if the show had continued for another 3 years or so, the writers would have come up with a series arc that had Ernie addicted to Heroin. Can you hear him screech "smaaaaack" in that annoying teenage voice? Steve, Robbie and Chip have to hold him down while Uncle Charlie shoves oranges into his mouth. Old school baby!

Chip's wife would have been working the pole by this time. That would have made a great episode. Chip - "Honey, our kids really want to see you". Polly - "Sorry Chip, this guy's got a $20 and it has my name written all over it. Oh, and by the way, send Dodie down here and have someone comb her friggin hair and change her diaper".

If there was a King and Queen of bad new kids added had to be Oliver for the Bradys and Dodie for the Douglases.Imagine the offspring if those mutants have mated. Not even Stephen King can write even that scary.

How could a beautiful blonde like Beverly Garland have such a morose daughter with dark hair and dark eyes? Compared to her, Wednesday Addams is Pollyana. I think someone like Pamelyn Ferdin would've worked better - she was older (10 in 1969, to Dawn's 6) and would've been the perfect foil to the boys, in particular Ernie. (You say you don't know who Pamelyn Ferdin is? If you grew up watching TV in the 60s and 70s, believe me, you do. Yes, you do. Do not argue with me! That's it, I'm turning this computer RIGHT AROUND...)