STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE
The lodge is being remodeled and Vic doesn't feel secure about the painters; they may get inquizative and seek out the lodge ritual. So, he brings the ritual home.
At home, he seeks for a place to hide it and can't seem to find a secure place. Meanwhile, Russell and Sade read and write on his ritual, respectively and in the end, it winds up torn in half.
Vic considers suicide!
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The corny lodge ritual means nothing to Russell and Sade but they should know better than to mess with Vic and his lodge - and ESPECIALLY his lodge ritual.Vic tries to tell a couple of horror stories about people who fooled around and let the ritual loose from their responsibility. He's afraid for his life.
Trivia:
+ Sade is all about baking some goodies in this episode and Hooper Dip seems to be vital to her upside-down cake. Whatever Hooper Dip is, it isn't on the internet and may be an imagined food, like beef punkles or brick mush.
+ Vic tried to tell the story of Sky Brother Harlow N. Footy of East Botchfield, Ohio. He confided a lodge ritual to his sweetheart in 1914 and in 24 hours, he was seized out of bed by six men.
+ In another lodge ritual horror story, Vic says six men were shot to death in Upper Slump, North Dakota.
+ Russell divulged bits and pieces of the ritual, including: "Be it known", "Skull and crossbones of immortality" and "This little band of glorified souls."
+ Sade uses the word, "bosh" twice where she would usually say, "ish."
+ Mis' Appelrot calls and gives a recipe to Sade and she seems to be pleased she called. What gives?
At the end of the original program, the organist played this little humorous ditty: {{{HEAR}}}
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Definitely one of my five favorite episodes. First time I heard it, was listening to it on an iPod at work and made a fool of myself laughing out loud. The dire story of the disappearance of Harlow N. Footy is probably a reference to a notorious case that took place in upper NY State in the 1800's in which a discontented member of the Freemasons, one William Morgan, threatened to publish a book disclosing the secrets of the lodge and was forcefully taken from his home (presumably by a gang of masked men) and never seen again. This actually happened, and Paul Rhymer was probably playing a little variation on the story, which many of his listeners would likely have at least heard about.
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