46-09-19 Uncle Fletcher Farmed Out

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

Uncle Fletcher's landlady, Mis' Keller, plans to spend the winter in Ohio. How will Uncle Fletcher get fed? He fears she will stack up his meals in advance: one on top of the other ad infinitum.

Fletcher Rush (Clarence Hartzell)

However, that's not actually going to be the case. Mis' Keller has planned ahead and made a schedule: what will happen is that every three to four days Fletcher will go to a different neighbor's to stay and eat. First is Mis' Donahue's, then to Mis' Johnson's, etc.

But Uncle Fletcher isn't too happy about it all. He claims she has him staying with people he doesn't know and even claims that she has him taking a train out of state to eat!

Meanwhile, Mis' Kessler comes over and offers to let Uncle Fletcher spend the winter at her house and Sade counters by saying he can spend the winter with the Gooks.  This show of caring by the ladries makes Uncle Fletcher cry.

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This episode aired about three weeks later than the previous surviving episode... and the two episodes are coincidentally very much related.

Trivia:

+ Sade mentioned a Reverend Harold Kidneyslide. He got caught between two cyclones on Sept. 19 and ended up in Tazewell County; rolled up in the shape of a hoop at 50 miles an hour and passed away.

Recall that Uncle Fletcher's friend Andreson L. McFlutcher was also killed by getting stuck between two cyclones.

+ Mis' Kessler comes to the Gook house, returning Sade's "wringer." I suspect this refers to a laundry wringer. But she never actually borrowed Sade's wringer and she didn't bring the wringer over anyway; she brought over a fly swatter!

+ Mis' Kessler also seems to be having the darndest time remembering Orville Wheeney's first name.

When inviting Fletcher to spend the whole winter at her house, she says she has a balloonascope (like a telescope), a broken cornet, a parrot and seashells (hold them up to your ears and it sounds like Lake Eerie.)

+ Mis' Keller is planning on visiting her brother in Dismal Seepage, Ohio. He has 5 girls.

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44-07-12 Phone Call from Yellow Jump

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

Uncle Fletcher is very serious when he visits Sade and Vic: he has news that he thinks is very important.

The couple find the news a bit compelling but not enough to make a whole big thing over. Still, they act surprised and try to listen attentively to Uncle Fletcher's revelation. His landlady got a telephone call from her beau in Yellow Jump, North Dakota.

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It seems more and more evident that Uncle Fletcher will soon have to vacate Mis' Keller's rooming house and will wind up in the Bright Kentucky Hotel - much to Sade's chagrin.

Trivia:

+ The "news" Uncle Fletcher had to share was of such a delicate nature that he gave Russell money to go to the movies, so he wouldn't be around the house.

+ Uncle Fletcher called and had Mis' Kneesuffer interrupt Vic's game of indoor horseshoes in Ike Kneesuffer's basement. Vic hurried home.

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