STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON
Vic finds out that he's about to become the recipient of many pairs of E-Z slippers for Christmas (just 10 weeks away).SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS
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I'll bet you - like me - never realized that E-Z slippers were as popular on the show as all of this.
Perhaps you didn't realize that Mr. Sludge and Vic were 'arms around the neck, chummy.' Well, they weren't. But 1940 was a far different world than 2015 and beyond. Mr. Sludge and Vic were neighbors. They lived across the alley from each other. Vic had talked baseball with Mr. Sludge - even though Vic had no interest in talking with him (he referred to him as a slob) {{{HEAR}}} No, they weren't friends, but Mr. Sludge probably thought pretty highly of Vic, enough to MAKE him a pair of E-Z slippers. I'll bet Vic didn't make Sludge anything.
Vic wasn't friends with Noah and Beulah either, but they sent him E-Z slippers. Beulah's father rented to Vic. That was enough of a connection to draw a homemade Christmas gift in 1940!
That's another thing about this episode - people made gifts for one another. They took their own personal time to construct the gifts. They didn't lay out $12 each at Walmart (Yamilton's) and purchase them by the bushel, like we might do today.
Trivia:
+ Miss Hammersweet's E-Z Slippers have little calendars on them. They fit over the insteps like shoe buckles – small metal frames, and inside the frames are little... (we never find out the rest).
+ Who's Vic getting slippers from? Miss Hammersweet, Beuhla and Noah, the Brainfeebles, Mr. Sludge, Ike Kneesuffer, Mr. Ruebush, H.K. Fleeber, and Mr. Gumpox.
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