The Crazy World of Vic and Sade: 35-12-18 Christmas Cards for Plant #14

35-12-18 Christmas Cards for Plant #14

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Vic's been saddled with the task of designing the Official Christmas Card for Consolidated Kitchenware, Plant #14.

He's got the artwork down, but he's having a difficult time with the words. Sade and Rush give Vic their ideas, but they are... rotten.

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS

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This sounds like a good one

Christmas, like Vic's lodge, is always taken lightly in Vic and Sade. Christmas cards especially, go sour, just as they do (until the end) on this show. So one wonders why writer Paul Rhymer did not go for the kick in the teeth in this episode, settling instead on a somewhat-legitimate card?

Trivia:

+ Like this one, episode 36-04-30 Rush – the Cartographer (which aired five months after this), mentions Hank Gutstop having his own home and having a indoor horseshoe pit. We can presume that Hank's house was somewhere near the Gook house.

+ Sade tells Rush not to leave his overshoes on the porch because someone might steal them. Really?

+ Sade and Rush saw a movie: Hinman Hawk starred in The Mystery of the Trampled Torso. The script refers to the theater as the "Bijou Talkie Palace".

+ Prairie Street was mentioned as intersecting Kelsey Street.

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