44-09-25 Saving Blue Tooth from Tragedy

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Russell and five of his friends plan to congregate and formulate plans to save Blue Tooth Johnson from the tragedy that is his public adoration of Mildred Tisdel.

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A hard-to-understand episode because of sound quality but one thing you won't miss is that "nature has given ____ (fill in the blank) the beautiful gift of laughter!"

Trivia:

+ Russell is anxious to call Heinie Call on the telephone, despite the fact that in previous shows the two did not get along.

+ Sade said Ruthie accidentally fell asleep in Yamilton's a few days earlier while exchanging stockings (during the downtime between all the red tape.)

+ Blue Tooth wrote Mildred a note, a poem, gave her a birthday present and walked home with her.

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44-06-21 Rishigan Fishigan's Secret

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

Real advert, 1944

Uncle Fletcher and Rishigan Fishigan (from Sishigan, Michigan) are goofing off at the Interurban station. The peanut machine (which Uncle Fletcher owns an interest in) takes Fishigan's penny. Fishigan wants his peanuts and so, he rolls up his sleeves in order to shake the peanuts loose.

Once he rolls up his sleeves, Uncle Fletcher is shocked to see a tattoo that revels Rishigan's real name: Jorrigan Corrigan from Borrigan, Oregon. (((HEAR)))

He must tell Vic this dire news!

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This episode is great fun the first time around.

Trivia:

+ At the beginning of the program, Russell is silently reading an unnamed Third Lieutenant Stanley book.

+ Sade reads in the newspaper that Harry Bubeck attended a 4 year old's birthday party.

+ Vernon Thompson was mentioned for the first time. He's a clerk at Kleeburger's. Rooster Davis can imitate him well, according to Russell.

+ Uncle Fletcher says numerous times to Vic: "I am your niece's husband" and "I am your husband's niece."

+ Uncle Fletcher says numerous times: "I do not frip, frap, gossip or druel!"

+ To vend peanuts, the peanut machine at the inter-urban station costs a penny.

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44-04-19 B.B. Baugh and the New Dentist

STARRING: ARTY VAN HARVEY, BERNRADINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Vic must sit down and have a man-to-man talk with B.B. Baugh, who is exploiting members of the Drowsy Venus Chapter of the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way.

It seems Baugh has hired a bus to travel to Partlow, Illinois and has signed up several members of the Drowsy Venus Chapter to have a tooth pulled by his brother, who is a dentist there. Having a new dental practice, Baugh wants to have his brother start off on the right foot; lodge members would pay $5 to have a tooth extracted, whether they need one extracted or not.

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This episode provides a wealth of information about previously unkown lodge members. The original sound file sounded terrible; I can gladly tell you that now it sounds a great deal better - but still, it's far from perfect.

Trivia:

+ We find out that B.B. Baugh is a barber at the Bright Kentucky Hotel. It's amazing how many barbers that hotel has!

+ As of this episode, the Drowsy Venus Chapter has 50 members, not including Vic Gook.

+ In addition to the other 'irons in the fire' we know B.B. Baugh is involved in, we find out he owns the cole slaw concession at the Lazy Hours Pool Parlor.

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43-02-16 Leland Richards is Coming

STARRING: BERNARDINE FLYNN AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

Leland Richards is coming to stay at the Gook for a while; his father just took a new job in Washington D.C. and his mother's father is very ill in Missouri and his mother had to go there.

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Leland is about what you'd expect him to be. He's polite, rather quiet and friendly.

The show's ending is quick but is is one of the best endings in the show's history.

Trivia:

+ There is no known record of what actor played Leland Richards.

+ Leland brings a garter snake into the house, unbeknownst to the women there.

+ Uncle Fletcher tells the story of Harry Bubeck from Sycamore, who married a woman 26 years old. He moved to Detroit and changed his name to Tommy Haran and he learned how to play the piano with his hands tied behind his back. As soon as he accomplished that, he joined the police force and earned the reputation for being the worst officer in the city. He was afraid of pickpockets...

+ Dottie Brainfeeble is fixated on joking (2nd show in a row) with Uncle Fletcher about East St. Louis. Uncle Fletcher claims he's never been there.

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