XX-XX-XX Plans Revealed for Piscatorial Monster, Minnesota

''Oh, Red Cap?!''

Vic, Charlie Razorscum, and some other pals have planned a fishing trip to Piscatorial Monster, Minnesota.

Some of the plans revealed has the men breaking down Charlie Razorscum's car, lugging the individual pieces of the car on board the train, then re-uniting the pieces once they arrive at their destination.  Ingenious and ridiculous at the same time.

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It's hard to tell without hearing this (or seeing the script), but this could have been one of the most ingenious plays ever written by Paul Rhymer.
 
The absurdity of transferring a torn-apart car aboard a passenger train -- for the sole purpose of having a car to use on a fishing trip... need I say more?  This scenario ranks up there with Bacon Sandwiches, combs and brushes chained to the walls of the Bright Kentucky Hotel, catching golf clubs from a speeding train, Vic having to sit outside - in the rain - on a ladder - in order to eat with the big brass from his work, a marching band scattered all over the country using stopwatches and sixteenths of a second to stay the course, the Hink twins driving their riding lawn mowers all over Illinois, armed guards at a 'home' for tall people, fixing alarm clocks with hammers, a gross of gravels, and on and on...

Sept. 3, 1939

When compared to other radio of it's time, or even early television comedy, it's easy to see how Vic and Sade was leaps and bounds ahead of everything else.

The destination, Piscatorial Monster, Minnesota does not exist, but is Latin for a very grotesque, frog-looking fish.  Follow the rabbit trail if you want; Rhymer has mentioned the town at various times; more than one 19th century book tells tales of a Piscatorius Monster fish.  Also, Rhymer and friends went fishing up north.

This episode was remembered by a Friends of Vic and Sade alumm.

There is no hint of a date and the title is one I have given the show, purely for identification purposes.

44-05-05 Rish Fish's Short Career

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND RUSSELL MILLER

Almost the very same story as 39-06-21 Hank's Job Royal Throne Barbershop, except Rishigan Fishigan gets the job instead of Hank Gutstop and Russell Miller is in the episode instead of Rush.

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44-06-05 No One Missed Uncle Fletcher

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN, DAVID WHITEHOUSE AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

Uncle Fletcher arrives at the Gook house at breakfast time and it slowly dawns on Vic, Sade and Russell that Fletcher has been away in Dixon for a week.

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Uncle Fletcher relays one of the benefits of Hyena Grease: removing grass stains from doilies!  Why would there be grass stains on doilies?   You have to love writer Paul Rhymer's humor.

In the first half of 1944, Uncle Fletcher was obsessed with Hyena Grease.

43-11-24 Vic Brings Home A High-Crown Cowboy Hat

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Vic arrives home. Sade and Russell had both seen him approaching as they talked, but he enters without the parcel he had been carrying. Sade immediately inquires if he bought a hat. They discuss the fact that there have been no recent disputes about hats, and they're probably due for one.

Tom Mix - popular man

Vic tells Sade (and a nosy Russell) how the hats are popular in Dismal Seepage, Ohio... and Sade tells him (while walking out on him) to take the hat back to Kleeburgers. 

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When you see 'hat' in the title, you know what's about to take place at the small house halfway up the next block.  Audiences in 1943 knew what was about to take place too, provided they'd been listening a while.

Why does Vic even bring the hats to the house?  Why not keep the hats at Ike's house?  Leave one at work and one at the lodge?  Why does he torment himself?  Perhaps he lacked the love of his mother as a child and yearns to be idled by Sade's nagging voice?

Have you noticed that as time goes by in the series, the wide-brimmed hats have suddenly become cowboy hats?  Vic can't resist buying hats with larger and larger brims.  Did we miss Vic purchasing a sombrero?  I wouldn't be surprised.

We see that Russell is stitching up an indoor baseball.  I've made note of it before but I have yet to figure out what an "indoor baseball" is.  Both Rush and Russell have stitching duties with theirs, in various episodes.  Vic and Sade expert Louie Johnson suggests a soft baseball of some sort.

45-12-05 Engagement!

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN, BILL IDELSON AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

The rumors going around the neighborhood are true! Dwight Twentysixler and Florence Harris are engaged!

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Dwight must really love Mis' Harris, for he removes his shingle nails for her. And she picks them up and stuffs them in her mouth and talks with them. That's real romance.

Trivia:

+ Sade refers to "Irvin" (the grocery boy) as "Irving" - something usually reserved for Vic.

+ Sade says Dwight "is strange but nice."

+ Rush calls him "an eccentric fellow." Also he notes that "he wears his shoes on the wrong feet" (recall Y.Y. Flirch had once done the same thing.) He also wears his cap backwards - which was pretty odd back in 1945, but is commonplace today.

+ When Uncle Fletcher arrives, he tries to shoo Rush into the cellar so he can talk about the engagement. Uncle Fletcher is all about sending people into the cellar.

+ Uncle Fletcher claims that not only did he introduce Mis' Harris and Dwight, he "engineered" the whole romance between the two. That's probably true, as someone had to interpret Dwight's words since his mouth is always full of shingle nails.

+ The happy couple show up; of course they didn't ring or knock on the door.

+ Mis' Harris coerces Dwight to talk without the shingle nails: {{{HEAR}}}

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44-09-18 Vic's Greeting Cards

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Vic falls prey to a greeting card seller and buys a stack of them, despite the fact that he has no need or want for the awful things. Sade antagonizes him for spending money foolishly while Russell makes fun by reading the hideous things aloud.

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Not in the least bit funny and the card poetry is so beyond bad that they do not raise a smile; the curiosity with the show may be it's ending, where Russell is soundly castigated by Vic.

Trivia:

+ This the first time we hear of Mis' Gullstone in the surviving series. She is the greeting card seller and some bad cards they are!

+ Vic seems to literally be playing Sade's part when she is victimized by Christmas card sellers.

+ Vic bought a total of 14 cards; they ranged in price from 10 to 15 cents.

+ There is an unusual card about the University of Oklahoma. This card seems to be an inside joke by writer Paul Rhymer on then-director Homer Heck, who apparently (if he's anything like the oft-mentioned Heck on the show) is from Norman. Norman is the home of the university.

As stated above, the show has an odd ending: {{{HEAR}}}

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44-09-15 Sade Helps With Ring

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN, DAVID WHITEHOUSE AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

Uncle Fletcher drops by the Gook house after getting a letter from Mr. Harry Feedburn (his landlady's fiancé.) Mr. Feedburn has asked Uncle Fletcher to pick out the wedding ring for him because the town of Yellow Jump, North Dakota, has no jewelery store.

Uncle Fletcher, already under considerable strain from several other responsibilities having to do with the wedding - and not being any kind of an expert on jewelery or taste, wants Sade's help in picking out the ring.

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Fun listening for sure but an episode sadly void of memorable lines.

Trivia:

+ Vic begins the episode by reading a newspaper article about Curtis O'Slooner; he taught mathematics in college and is a man of high intellect. (Sade did not want to hear about him.)

+ Uncle Fletcher states that he can understand horses, tractors, peanut vending machines (he can take one apart and put them back together blindfolded) and he can shim up a railroad track and install ankle bolts and solder grips as quick as any man in the business.

+ Uncle Fletcher mentions that he has been saddled with many wedding responsibilities:

Fletcher in a Pepper and Salt suit

Hire the preacher, take the "honeymoon" for the couple to various Illinois locales, be the 'best man',  pick out the ring and he also learns that he must pick out a 'pepper and salt' suit of good quality for Mr. Feedburn.
 
One thing that Uncle Fletcher did not mention as a responsibility was hiring a sight-seeing guide (Rishigan Fishigan) for the honeymooning couple.

+ Uncle Fletcher shows he's either: not paying attention, is nuts, or has hearing problems when he gets it in his mind that Fred and Ruthie Stembottom are expected over at the Gook house.

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44-09-12 Changing Stembottom's Tires

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

{{{HEAR}}} Sade accepts an invitation for the Gooks to spend the evening at Fred and Ruthie Stembottom's house. The men can work on Fred's car - and Vic will enjoy this (she thinks) for he enjoys tinkering with cars.

True. He enjoys tinkering with cars. But Fred has other things in mind and Sade is oblivious to the thinly-veiled plot that changing tires and shoveling coal out of the back seat of the car (among other things) is not 'tinkering' but hard manual labor!

Vic wants no part of it... but to get out of it, he'll have to make the phone call himself.

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A good episode, certainly in the top 30 or so best episodes.

Vic is incredulous that Sade would accept an invitation of this sort but Sade is so naive that the premise of the situation simply blows right past her.

According to an OTR collecting magazine from the early 1970's, this was the 2,587th episode of the series.

Trivia:

+ This episode was referred to in 41-07-xx Fred's Concrete Partition.

+ In days prior, Fred and Vic had a political discussion that ended in an argument.

+ One of the most memorable lines in the show's history is in this episode. Sade says (an angry) Vic looks like a "thundercloud"... {{{HEAR}}}

+ While we know that Fred has tricked and has tried to trick Vic into various chores around his house (see here and here) we have apparently missed other episodes where Vic was either tricked or tried to be tricked into mowing Fred's lawn, shingling his roof and even washing out his shirts and socks!

+ Charlie Razorscum has "a junk heap of a car" that Vic likes to tinker with.  Recall that once his heap had to be hauled to Chenoa.

One of the things Vic and Charlie do is mix fuels - a dangerous hobby if there ever was one.

+ The jobs that Fred has in mind for his car: cross-switching (rotating) his tires, scraping the spark plugs, straightening the fenders and get coal and coal dust out of the back seat.

Russell says - and sounds like he knows - that cross-switching comes from Indian (folklore) about a princess...

Removing the coal from the back seat insinuates that Fred steals coal from somewhere in town and puts it in the back seat... Recall, there is a coal mine in town.

+ So that Vic can truly enjoy himself as he slaves over Fred's car, Ruthie has thoughtfully bought a sack of peanuts.

+ Neither Sade not Vic want to call the Stembottoms and back out but Russell readily volunteers to do the dirty deed. Recall that he also volunteered to do another dirty deed, when Mis' Harris' roomer, Mr.Overholt, was needing to be evicted.

Vic calls Fred some names (edited): (((HEAR)))

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44-09-01 Arranging the Honeymoon

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

We missed it (in a missing episode) but it appears as though Uncle Fletcher's landlady, Mis' Keller, has finally been proposed to and has accepted a marriage invitation from the fellow from Yellow Jump, North Dakota (whose name, we find out, is Mr. Feedburn.)

Meanwhile Uncle Fletcher claims he's been running himself ragged, making train reservations - but not for the happy couple - for himself. He's going to go on a trip so the honeymooning couple can have the house to themselves. He's taking the honeymoon for them!

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The reason for the couple not going on the honeymoon is because Mis' Keller is afraid to leave the 100 chickens she owns and that they both suffer from train sickness.

Trivia:

+ Vic had been playing indoor horseshoes and had beaten Ike Kneesuffer and Charlie Razorscum. In every episode where we've heard the outcome of the indoor horseshoes, Vic has always been the winner or was ahead when he dragged away for some duty at his house.


+ Just as in a previous episode, Uncle Fletcher says "pow pow" instead of "pow-wow."

+ One of the cities that Uncle Fletcher tried to make a train reservation for was Illiopis, Illinois. In the year 2000 census, less than 1000 people lived there.

+ The honeymoon couple plan to see the sites of the town. One of the sites mentioned was the football stadium. This is the first mention that the town had a stadium or a football team.

+ Uncle Fletcher nonchalantly mentions that he will be able to keep his room at Mis' Keller's house. After all of the stress and strain Sade has gone through about Uncle Fletcher possibly moving to the train-busy area of the Bright Kentucky Hotel, he simply casually mentions this.

In the gloom... {{{HEAR}}}

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44-08-16 A Dandy Picture of Vic

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Vic is going to be featured once again in the Kitchenware Quarterly. Vic says they botched his picture and bio in the current issue (a missing episode?) but they have apologized and plan on making up for it in the next issue. He's at the house seeking the perfect photo to send in.

Meanwhile, Sade is expecting company and wants the house spotless. She's handed Russell a dust cloth but he seems reluctant to actually do any work.  The two stories go back and forth.

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Not-so-memorable episode but fun none-the-less.

In the end, the best photo of himself that Vic can find is one where's hanging upside-down from a tree. He'll send that in and ask them to print it upside-down.

Trivia:

+ It's Mis' Brighton and her brother Willard that are coming over to see Sade.  Mis' Brighton is a particular housekeeper, according to Sade and this is why she is so set on having the house being perfect.

+ Despite the fact that Hank Gutstop is gainfully employed and has been for months, Russell attempts to tell Vic that he saw Hank at the Illinois Central depot (and though he is interrupted and we never hear the whole story, we might suspect that Russell saw him asleep there; Sade has seen him asleep there often.)

+ When Vic starts to go through the photos in the window seat, he finds there are seven photos of himself wearing women's hats. There's another of him sitting in Sade's lap.

+ Among the other photos is Steve Chestbutter riding a bicycle. There's another with Vic and Ike Kneesuffer and someone named I. H. Zee. Still another photo of Vic, Charlie Razorscum and Ike sleeping on a roof. Finally, there's a photo of Vic sitting on the garbage box.

+ Russell has to be barked at for dusting while sitting and then another time while laying on his back!

+ Kind of odd... the Brick Mush man calls and wants to know if they are in need of any brick mush.  In another episode where cleaning was also the priority (44-06-09 The Lunges are Coming) the Brick Mush man makes himself quite conspicuous, ringing the doorbell and asking if he can change his shoelaces on the Gook front porch.  Makes you wonder about writer Paul Rhymer's thought process...

Russell thinks Uncle Fletcher might be at the house - taking a vacation from a vacation from a vacation: {{{HEAR}}}

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44-07-28 Garbage Box Mystery

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Sade notices a monstrous, big chunk of the garbage box is missing. She, Vic and Russell play detective to find out what happened.

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Average episode with few memorable moments but still fine listening fare.

Trivia:

+ Blue Tooth Johnson told Russell that some fellow swallowed an alarm clock and it still kept time. They know this because they x-rayed his stomach.

+ Russell (who obviously reads the newspaper a great deal) read in the news that a fellow trained his adam's apple to keep the beat of music!

+ While doing their detective work, Vic sits down on the grass six different times.

+ We're not sure where, but the Husher family lives very near the Gooks.

+ A four year old girl named Dorthy is mentioned as staying with her grandparents on University Avenue. According to Sade, she pulled up a handful of flowers from Sade's garden at one time and Sade considers her a suspect in the garbage box mystery.

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44-07-13 Uncle Fletcher Miffed with Sade

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN, DAVID WHITEHOUSE AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

Sade had a bit of a run-in with Uncle Fletcher. He was being pouty and maudlin about his landlady, Mis' Keller who is possibly getting married and moving to Yellow Jump, North Dakota. He had come around to speak to Sade about it, but again, she was busy and after he went on and on, she had put him in his place.

So Uncle Fletcher comes back over to the house and Vic and Russell are home now too. He asks to borrow Vic's atlas and looks up a dozen or more places and the shortest routes to them. Sade sees this as Uncle Fletcher trying to worry her that he may move away, and she supposes he thinks this might frighten her.

However, if you know anything about the show at all, you know that Rule #1 is that you can't fool Sade because she knows exactly what's going on in the other character's heads. Her uncle still makes it known how displeased he is at her by mostly ignoring her and treating her coldly.

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In this current run (July-ish of 1944) we have the opportunity to hear the show almost daily as it happened for almost a month. We have rarely seen Uncle Fletcher act coldly, but this episode shows us that he can be quite sensitive and have his feelings hurt and like Vic, acts a bit like a child when things do not go his way.

Trivia:

+ While doing the dishes, Russell dropped and broke a fancy gravy boat that was given to Sade by her sister Bess. We do not hear Sade chastising him like she did multiple times to Rush, when he broke her precious, antique pickle and olive shoe.

+ Uncle Fletcher adds "honey" when he addresses Vic and Russell in this episode (ie. "Russell honey") but when addressing Sade - which is minimal - he simply calls her by her name.

Vic and Sade writer Paul Rhymer shows that he could write punny jokes like Fibber McGee and Molly's Don Quinn or the writers of Abbott and Costello's material if he wanted to, when Uncle Fletcher asks Vic for his book of maps: {{{HEAR}}}

+ Coincidentally (or not) Quinn was quoted as saying that Vic and Sade was his favorite radio show (next to Fibber McGee and Molly.)

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44-05-01 Lodge Holiday Visits

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

In a letter from lodge headquarters, Vic is alerted of a lodge idea that could save him money if he takes a trip somewhere; he and his family would be the guest of a lodge brother in another town.

But the hospitality is reciprocal and there's almost 50 people that Vic knows of that ar headed his way in the coming Summer. Sade tells Vic to squash any ideas of her entertaining unknown lodge brothers.

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Fun episode with some really strange people making the trips with the lodge members, such as a straw boss, a dentist, a secretary, a music teacher, an errand boy, a milkman, a barber and a janitor.

Trivia:

+ Sade got another postal card from the Lazy Hours Pool Parlor; coupon is good for a free saucer of cole slaw with every third game played.

+ Russell got another card from his Sunday School teacher. Seems that whenever Russell (or for that matter, Rush) would act conspicuous at Sunday School, Mis' Neagle would send them an "I missed you at Sunday School last week" postal card.

+ Sade says that beef punkles take four hours to cook.

+ Charlie Razorscum is clowning around inside of his house; Russell is most amused by him.

+ One of the lodge members mentioned in Vic's letter has the first name of "Rose."

+ The list of all the out of town lodge members is listed in the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way section of the blog.

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44-03-20 Mysterious Skulkers

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN, DAVID WHITEHOUSE AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

Sade notices three skulkers in the backyard. They turn out to be Uncle Fletcher and two of his friends.

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One of the rare Vic and Sade episodes that really goes nowhere; that's not to say it's a horrible episode as it's not but neither is it great. Very, very little going on in this one.

Trivia:

+ Roy Dejectedly and Pelter Unbleet both lived in Philadelphia in the year 1909 - yet they did not know each other.

+ It's inferred that Sade probably doesn't like Roy Dejectedly and she's never met Pelter Unbleet.

+ Unbleet is also a handyman along with his duties as the janitor for the Bright Kentucky Hotel.

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43-11-15 Ike Kneesuffer's Snapshots

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Sade will sometimes get photographs from the neighbors and will make Vic and Russell sit through a session of her telling everything about the photos and the people in them. The men dislike this very much.

Vic came across an old stack of photographs he found in old desk that belongs to Ike Kneesuffer; his idea is for he and Russell to make up names and stories about the photos and force Sade to sit through the presentation, thereby boring her to no end (like she does to them.)

At first, Sade is bored and attempts to leave when suddenly she sees someone she recognizes. After that, it snowballs and she takes over the presentation and the men seem to be at a loss as to how this could have possibly happened!

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The real fun of this story is this: did Sade really know the people in the photographs or did she realize what the men were doing and decide she'd turn the tables on them?  (This is also the sentiment of this gentleman.)  Sade can spot a phoney a mile away; did she spot Vic and Russell trying to pull the wool over her eyes after viewing just a few photos?

Trivia:

+ Russell begins the episode by eating buttered bread with sugar on it.  Here is a (way too) elaborate Wiki on how to make it.

+ Vic uses several nicknames for Russell in this episode: "Stone Bruise Old Two Car Garage", "Pick Handle", "Button Hook", "Bull Frog" and "Herman."

+ Mis' Harris has a son whose little boy almost drowned in Rose Willow Creek.

+ William Larrs was mentioned for the first time. He keeps music in a satchel and has a dog named, "Strike" that can sit up.

+ Mr. and Mis' Willard were mentioned for the first time as living on Oak Street.

+ Ida Storker (first time mentioned) - spends two weeks every Summer visiting Mis' Kilgore (first time mentioned) - Mis' Kilgore is said to live next door to the Stembottoms. We know they do not live right next door; we'll assume they live a couple of houses away and I have changed the map to reflect this.

+ Mr. Helfnan (first time mentioned) - Fred and Ruthie know him. He can do tricks with a lighted cigar.

+ Mis' Groovel or Mis' Stoogle (first time mentioned) - Sade can't remember the name exactly.

+ Myrtle Strickle (first time mentioned) - Works at Yamilton's and often would put bargains off to on side for Sade.

+ Laticia Wigg (first time mentioned)

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43-11-03 Watch Fob Collection

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN, DAVID WHITEHOUSE AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

The Gooks are expecting Fred and Ruthie Stembottom over for a game of "500" when Uncle Flecther appears and sets out telling stories about his box full of watch fobs.

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This episode will remind you of 42-08-xx Washrag Collection and it seems to a major reworking of that script.

The episode has it's moments (as any episode does where Uncle Fletcher is telling stories) but after hearing 42-08-xx Washrag Collection, there's not many surprises.

Trivia:

+ Uncle Fletcher wants to go to the Bright Kentucky Hotel to visit Rishigan Fishigan. Since he'd have to cross the tracks to get to the hotel, Sade persuades him to go to the interurban station, which is in effect what we know as the train depot.

Uncle Fletcher seems to be a danger to himself in this episode (and perhaps, slightly out of his mind.) Sade is so concerned about him that she sends Russell to go with him out and about.

+ Ernie Fadler works as a ticket agent at the inter-urban station and is a friend of Uncle Fletcher. Fletcher decides he'll go and show him the watch fob collection.

+ Uncle Fletcher tells the story of Earl McFripp from Belvidere, who wore a razor strap as a watch fob. Wore yellow, bulldog-toed Oxfords; one shoe buttoned up while the other was laced up.

+ Uncle Fletcher has a gold watch fob that turned to putty! Originally the property of Dr. Aubrey Collins of Carlock, Illinois; the fob was 18 carart solid gold... but after he moved to Dismal Seepage, Ohio (where the climate is damp and peculiar...) in fifteen years, the climate changed the watch fob gold to putty.

+ The Stembottoms seem to make it inside the house but this is when the episode ends and we never hear their voices.

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43-03-31 Brainfeeble's Housewarming

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

 

Chuck and Dottie Brainfeeble have finally settled in next door to the Gooks and are planning a huge, first-class housewarming party.

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The housewarming party is eerily similar to the party Rush wanted to be in charge of in March of 1938.

In this episode though, Sade takes on the persona of Rush. As a matter of fact, she does such a good job of "being" Rush that you feel like it's it's 1938 all over again (and not in a bad or repetitious way.)

Vic even tries to quote Rush but his words are trampled on by Sade... {{{HEAR}}}

This is a fine episode, especially since we've had to deal with some really bad episodes the last few. Rush is sorely-missed and this episode seems to be a Paul Rhymer homage to him.

There are some overlapping characteristics of the housewarming party and the Gook party of 1938: most notably, the detective that Chuck wants to hire. Rush had wanted to hire a policeman for the same purpose.

This episode is ripe with details for our collection of trivia and is probably a top 50 episode. It also seems to be an episode that lets us know that Rhymer, despite the setbacks from the loss of cast members, will become more creative and not push the obnoxious Brainfeebles down the throat of his audience anymore.

Trivia:

+ The housewarming party is to include 60 people!

+ Although we've had clues, this is the first episode (#183 of the survivors) that we actually find out where Ike Kneesuffer lives. He lives behind the Gooks on University Street. Also the Thomas Haran's were mentioned as living on Oak Street (Uncle Fletcher recently mentioned a Harry Bubeck who changed his name to Tommy Haran and moved to Detroit; these obviously aren't the same people but it's again *probably* a part of Paul Rhymer using the name of a friend in the script.)

+ Booker Lincoln McKinley was mentioned. He's the shoe shine man at the Butler House Hotel's barbershop. He is to wear a white coat and serve salted peanuts on a tray at the Brainfeeble housewarming party.

+ Hank Gutstop is going to sing two songs at the party as well (Would That These Pale Hands Crysanthemums Might Gather and Throw Me Over the Grape Arbor a Single Red, Red Rose My Love.) Sade noted that he's not a guest, he's strictly an entertainer who will be paid for the songs then sent "out the back door." He'll be accompanied on the cornet by Alf Musherton.

+ There's a good chance that Uncle Fletcher will act as a butler at the party.

+ Chuck wants to hire a detective (who'll wear a fake mustache that keeps falling off so that the guests know he is a detective) to make sure jewlery isn't stolen. Dottie is not keen on the idea. Sade knows it won't be Gumshoe Gussett that they hire.

+ Blue Tooth Johnson will also be hired for fifty cents to run errands.

+ Mis' Hunkerman and her daughter Jeanette are going to be in charge of refreshments.  They live on Locust Street.

+ Rhymer has the Gooks clevely avoid using the expression, "Penny pincher": {{{HEAR}}}

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41-11-xx Crowded Car Ride

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Fred and Ruthie Stembottom have invited the Gooks to take a car trip up Route 66 to Chenoa.

Somehow, Vic invites Hank Gutstop and Sade gets backed into "inviting" Charlie Razorscum - without even asking Fred.

Sade can't stand Hank and Razorscum wants his car towed so he can find parts.  It's going to be embarrassing for the Gooks to have explain these situations to Fred and Ruthie.

It's simply bad news!  (((HEAR)))

Meanwhile, Rush is the object of his parents irritation as he spends the whole episode upstairs yelling downstairs inquiring about his lost pants.

MIS' CROWE SAYS:

Vic and Sade have both stuck their neck out so far, they can’t even get mad at each other. 

The car situation in this episode is funny, but for me the clear star of the episode is Rush, who spends the entire time upstairs, searching for his missing pants. Not only is “I can’t find my pants!” inherently funny (the word “pants” is funny and the thought of someone wandering around without pants is funny), but Rush performs wonderfully as a drama-ridden teenager, wringing increasing amounts of rage, frustration, and despair out of the line each time he delivers it. He also has a knack for interrupting at just the right time and just the right intervals for maximum annoyance. And few things are funnier to me than Rush interrupting with a loud “WHAT?” while Vic or Sade is in the middle of trying to explain something to him. Vic and Sade may have their own drama going on as they work out how to break the news to Fred that they’ve imposed terribly on him (and we all know how easygoing Fred is about his car), but the real show is upstairs.

SCRIPT (Transcribed by Lydia Crowe)

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Other than the facts above, not much to this episode. The most fun is hearing Rush yell from upstairs but you'll probably get tired of it after about the first 20 or so calls of, "Mom?!"

Trivia:

+ Hank was invited along to talk over an important lodge ritual.  (Sade, of course, doesn't like Gutstop.)  (((HEAR)))

+ We find out that Hank Gutstop doesn't wear socks. That's not so surprising; the show's other "strange" regular, Mr. Sludge, doesn't wear socks, either.

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41-06-30 Vic Writes Biography

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Vic finds out he will be included in the book, Who's Who in Kitchenware and is having trouble coming up with a catchy biography about himself.

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Vic comes up with a very odd bio for himself and I dare say, Rush's contribution may be even more odd.

Trivia:

+ Y.I.I.Y. Skeeber was mentioned for the first time.

+ Stacey Yopp was mentioned for the first time. He's a barber at the Butler House Hotel. He went on a six week fishing trip to Crowler, Michigan. His cousin is Alfred Juggler of New Auburn, Wisconsin and has an Uncle Harry Soon who lives in West Phatt, Kentucky.

+ Vic was over in Charlie Razorscum's backyard, discussing things.

+ In the front of every Third Lieutenant Stanley book, it says: "Third Lieutenant Stanley is a shining example for every American boy to follow."

+ Neither Ike Kneesuffer or Steve Chestbutter is to have their bio included in the Who's Who in Kitchenware book.

+ F. Dodson Gitch was the first Superintendent of Schools the town ever had. William W. Gullbizer was the first mayor. Gullbizer was born in West Yakbone, Missouri. Hunting and fishing were his early enthusiams as well as the study of American History, arithmetic and grammar. He loved all outdoor sports.

+ Vic weighs 165 pounds and stands 5 foot 9 and 3/4ths inches.

Rush comes up with a possible entry for Vic's bio: {{{HEAR}}}

As does Vic: {{{HEAR}}}

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41-05-xx Rush, Bulletin Board Monitor

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Vic comes home from work early in order to do a little work on the lawnmower and presumably, he or Rush would mow the lawn soon after it was fixed.

However, Vic instead lounges around talking over the bulletin board material Rush has brought home to sort out.

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Not a memorable episode but an informative one in which we get to hear some of the unheard characters say things about themselves, via the bulletin board material.

Trivia:

+ Sade mentions she could hear the courthouse clock when it struck 4:30. The courthouse building is on Virginia Avenue, roughly 2 blocks from the Gook home.

+ Rush is the Bulletin Board Monitor at school.

+ Vernon Peggles' bulletin board material included these facts: He plans on moving to Alaska after he gets married; his Uncle and Aunt (James and Bertha Wyatt) live at 226 N. Mason Street and recently cooked dinner for them. His favorite foods are grapes, butter, ketchup and celery.

+ LeRoy Snow's "facts" include bragging that he is getting smarter, isn't afraid of snakes or poisonous insects and has 3 uncles that are barbers.

+ Charlie Razorscum can be seen painting his window screens.

+ Rush reads a notice from the school that states, "Several Freshman girls have developed the habit of monopolising the second floor drinking fountain at the west end of the building. They crowd around and keep thirsty students from getting water."

+ Mr. Chinbunny stated that there would be severe penalties for students who are caught tampering with the delicate instruments in the physics lab.

+ Mis' Engle was mentioned for the first time. She is the school librarian.

+ Rush has a pair of ice skates for sale.

+ It seems perhaps Nicer Scott (recall, he claims to be acquainted with more than 2 billion individuals) may be a bit of a narcissist: {{{HEAR}}}

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