The Crazy World of Vic and Sade: 36-04-21 Hank Fixes the Washing Machine

36-04-21 Hank Fixes the Washing Machine

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY AND BERNARDINE FLYNN

Sade comes home from shopping to find Vic acting guilty. She finds out that Hank Gutstop is downstairs using a hammer on the electricity!

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS

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The Gook's hideous, shocking washing machine is acting up. Again, it's the electricity. We all know when we see the title that Hank is over to "fix" it. Well, he fixed it, alright.

What's up with Hank and Vic using hammers to "fix" things? Vic has been known to use hammers on clocks.

Trivia:

+ It's revealed in this episode that Hank is not welcome in the Gook house, even when Sade is not home. It's obvious that Sade made this rule. Is the rule in place simply because Hank owes Vic money? (I doubt it.) This episode is from 1936 - what has Hank done in the early days of the show to make Sade so furious? Was he found asleep in the Gook's back yard or tool shed? Sade hear a rumor he tried to teach Rush how to play bottle pool? We may never know.

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AnonymousApril 26, 2015 at 6:45 PM
Hank was revealed to be lazy, no account (or Noah count), and owed Vic money constantly. I wouldn't doubt his clothes and manners were no account as well. Probably not as funny as the similar story where Vic and Rush go to fix the shocking washing machine and make a game out of zapping themselves, sort of a 2 cycle joy buzzer! That episode is a winner.
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