The Crazy World of Vic and Sade: 32-08-03 Strawberries and Baseball

32-08-03 Strawberries and Baseball

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

The Gooks are cropping strawberries, which transitions into them all three playing catch with a baseball.

When Sade breaks Mis' Fisher's window with a wild throw, the family goes and hides out down-cellar.

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A very playful episode, though it's missing many of the elements that we are used to.

Trivia:

+ Mis' Donahue grows peonies, a REAL flower.

+ Mis' Fisher has chickens. Many of the neighbors have chickens, including Mis' Harris and the Call family.

+ Despite this being 1932 and in the middle of the Depression, the Gooks are going to eat cream and sugar on their strawberries. Both were considered to be opulent. Speaking of which -- no one seems to be upset that they are going to have to pay for a broken bay window... Are the Gooks' rich?

+ Vic calls Sade, ''Baby'' twice and he's not kidding.

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UnknownJanuary 14, 2015 at 8:43 PM
Already, this early, there's a special warmth and the beginnings of what would blossom into delicious absurdities!
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AnonymousMarch 4, 2015 at 2:36 PM
Yep! All the humor, tenderness and affection the characters have for one another.
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Little did I know that in a parallel universe, Barbara Schwarz and The Friends of Vic and Sade were doing/had done the same exact thing I was doing - except very little of the info they had collected was on the internet.

Thanks to member Louie Johnson, the two materials were married and I went about adding everything they had to what I already had done. (Louie went way beyond the point of being generous in terms of sharing material)! Others have donated V&S material and I thank you.

Along the way, I was wise enough to get oceans of contributions from as many fans as possible, but especially from Lydia Crowe, (who is in the process of painstakingly taking the audio episodes and turning them into scripts -- plus she's adding commentary to go along with mine), Sarah Cole (whose Vic and Sade insight remains unparalleled) and Keith Heltsley (he frequently podcasts the show and makes his own comments). Dave (from Wisconsin) has shared his insight and expertise with us in a series of articles and his love for the show shines through them all.

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