44-07-11 Don't Scrape off the Watts!

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Sade buys a large reading bulb for Vic at a bargain sale. When he tries to clean it's contact points, Sade thinks he's destroying it, makes a fuss and shows just how ignorant she is about anything scientific.

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A very hard-to-define episode and there's not a lot going on.  In some ways, a bit similar to 34-11-21 Washing Machine on the Blink.

Trivia:

+ Sade confuses "watts" with "witts" and "volts." She thinks the new light bulb she bought might be "a million volts."

+ Sade had to elbow her way to the bulb: {{{HEAR}}}

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37-04-08 Chef Donahue

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Mis' Donahue is away in Wisconsin, so Sade offers to cook for Mr. Donahue.  He ate there earlier in the week, so he tells Sade that he'll do the cooking, much to the chagrin of Sade.

While Donahue is cooking, Sade is furious.  Will her anger cease?

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It's a not a big deal but take note that the episode begins with Vic and Rush walking home; in doing so, they must have a two minute or so long conversation, certainly making this the longest conversation on a walk home in the history of the show (at least that we know about).

Trivia:

* There's a great deal mentioned in the script about what happened the prior day, which was a Tuesday. Since they are talking about it in the script, I think it is safe to say that these events took place in the previous episode.

* Mr. Kuppitch was mentioned.  He's a Consolidated Kitchenware big-shot from Cleveland.

36-12-01 Melvin Needs To Borrow Vic's Lodge Robe

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Sade mentions Ruthie Stembottom and Fred's brother Melvin Stembottom visited this afternoon. Melvin's got a three-week job playing Santa Claus at Yamilton's. Melvin demonstrated the art of baby-talk. They stopped by to see if they could use Vic's lodge robe as a Santa Claus outfit.

1936 advert (Click to enlarge)

Vic is appalled at the idea. Sade says it wouldn't get damaged as Melvin would be inside the whole time and sitting still as an oyster.

Vic keeps his sense of humor but still sends Rush off to fetch Volumes 3, 7, 9, and 10 of his lodge library while Sade emphasizes that having the costume might make the difference whether Melvin keeps the job or not. Vic (reads): "Our founder, R. J. Konk, once said, Huius ad valorem sunt divisa in agrorum hunc. He meant, ‘No other warrior shall use my shield. My banner is my own until I die.'"

Sade thinks they ought to return some of the favors the Stembottoms have done for the Gooks. Vic prepares to offer further logic from Volume 7.

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Please click on and read the skillet ad above; it adds a dimension to the script synopsis, since it was incorporated into the script (as will future Crisco advertisements).

TRIVIA:

* Part of Vic's existence is arguing with the neighbor men. Sometimes Vic will argue with Mr. Donahue, sometimes it's with Charlie Razorscum or sometimes it's with Mr. Drummond.

* And what would they be arguing about?  Well baseball for one thing.  But just two days prior to this broadcast, the headline in the Milkwaukee Journal paper was:

November 29, 1936

* Five years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Maxim Litvinoff seems to have known something quite vital.  Since the U.S. and President Roosevelt were isolationists (*), it could be they were arguing about this.

[Oddly, Litvinoff, an anti-fascist Russian diplomat, was fired shortly after making this statement.]

* It's December 1936 and now R. J. Konk gets his rightful place as founder of the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way.  Nine months earlier and Konk wasn't Konk and five others were musically taking considerable credit for his grey-eyes-magically-turning-blue mystical journey.

* It appears this script has one of the driest endings possible for Vic and Sade.  However, that's near-impossible to know without actually seeing the script.

40-07-31 Lodge Brothers Ask to Make a Stopover

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON 

Vic has gotten a letter from Robert and Slobert Hink.  They are making a trek from Hoopeston to Peoria (roughly a 70 mile journey) and wish to visit Vic for a couple of days.  They want to go over parade routines and the like.

Sade doesn't like the Hinks' names, much less the Hinks (though she has never met them.)

Vic acts pleasant to Sade so she will feel like a heel.

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Anytime the Hinks are involved, fun is on the horizon.   The episode may remind you of 42-01-16 The Hinks Go West which ran about a year and a half later (it's not a remake or even a twist of the script but the episodes are somewhat similar.)

The Hinks have just bought a brand new car (more evidence that they are "rich." )

Greek Junk:

In hoc agricola spittle ad semper adsit puellorum hunc. Dim-wit non-disputandum cabbage et cetera. Cornucopia est divisa ob cabbage bop. Sinus trubble sint huious dum cluck...'

later ...

In sunt bello nomenclature itch. Oppo dingy dum hobo hunc. Adsit amor skittle blot. 

37-03-16 Rush to Have Stranger as a Bed-mate

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON 

The Donahues are having loads of company.  There's not enough room for one of her visitors - the driver.  So Sade offers to put him up over at her house.  More specifically, Rush's bed.

When he finds out about it, Rush doesn't squawk.  But he does get upset that Sade wants him to go to bed before it's even dark so that he won't be making all kinds of noise when he would normally go to bed after 11 pm. This stranger has to get up at 5 am.

This makes Rush feel put out.

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This is a funny script.  I really enjoyed the last few lines, which read like this:

VIC: Good night, Pete.
SADE: Good night.
VIC: I say good night, Pete. [To Sade] Guess he don't care to answer.
SADE: [negative] Uh-uh.
VIC: [Little chuckle]
SADE: [Little chuckle]
VIC: [Bigger chuckle]
SADE: [Bigger chuckle]
VIC: [Little laugh]
SADE: [Little laugh]
RUSH: [Through clenched teeth] That's O.K.

Even though they are just kidding, Vic and Sade laugh at Rush and mock him, making fun of the fact that it's him being put out, not them.

Before being called downstairs to be told the bad news by his mother, Rush said he was upstairs "tapin' a baseball."

I assume this to mean he was fixing a baseball that had it's hide torn off - something I've rarely come across in my life. The fact of the matter is, this probably could only happen to a baseball that had seen a lot of action.

Baseballs weren't cheap in 1937. I'm guessing a baseball might cost as much as fifty cents. As Sade might say, Fifty centses don't grow on trees, Mister Man.

39-05-01 The Donahues Move

The Donahues, leaving a ton of coal in their basement, move away from Virginia Avenue.

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We don't know why, exactly, but we do know the move was short-lived and that the Donahues move back to their old house right next to the Gooks.

We know the date of this episode because it was mentioned in a conversation in episode 39-04-26 Sade's New Luggage.

The title, however, is one made up by me, purely for identification purposes.

36-xx-xx Rabbit Hunting from the Back Porch

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON 

Vic brings home a gun he's borrowed from a friend.  One day they are going rabbit hunting.  Meanwhile, Vic wants to practice shooting off the porch but Sade, who dislikes guns, forbids it.

Then Rush comes home and pretends with his dad that they are shooting the gun.

SEE THE SCRIPT

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Vic is very childlike when it comes to certain things.  A gun is one of those things.

Sarah Cole examines the subject of Sade Gook and guns here.  

38-08-24 Looking Forward to a Ride in Stembottom's Machine

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON 

The Gooks are all dressed up and waiting for Fred and Ruthie Stembottom to drop by in their car and take them on a journey to near-by towns.

There will be the ritual ice-cream cone buying, (although there is a possibility of getting 'new flavors' orange or pineapple), the same route and the same talky-talk, no doubt.

Sade defends Fred and Ruthie as Vic and Rush complain about wearing nice clothes and joke and criticize Fred's slow driving and his other on-the-road faults.

SEE THE SCRIPT

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Sade won't let her men get away with criticizing the Stembottoms.  Ruthie is her pal 'til the end.

This is a rather slow-paced script but it has a certain charm.  It may remind you of 39-10-06 Double Feature in Hopewood, for it does share a similarity (although they aren't going to see any movies.)

40-xx-xx Mr. Donahue Gets Promoted Again

Mr. Donahue, after being promoted to Traveling Inspector of Locomotives, asked for and received a demotion back to his old job of being an engineer.

But not long after, he was promoted again to the same position he asked to be demoted from!

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There's no mention if he was ever demoted again but it's likely he was; in 1944, Mr. Gumpox and Rishigan Fishigan both accuse him of throwing coal through their windows when the train went by the Bright Kentucky Hotel. This is not likely an inspector doing this, this is something like an engineer would do.

The date is unknown though it's likely he was again promoted in 1940.  The title is my own manufacturing for the sake of identification.

44-02-10 Mr. Donahue's Grudge Against Mr. Gumpox

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Russell explains to Vic and Sade that Mr. Gumpox, the garbage collector, feels that Mr. Donahue doesn't much care for him.

There's a bounty of evidence to back up this theory, including new allegations that the friendly man-next-door throws hot coal into Gumpox's window in the middle of the night, scaring the poor man to death (man, he's got it tough in that crazy hotel!)

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Sade, not knowing if 'Pa' Donahue is a coal chunker or not, does not accept the accusations.  After all, his wife and she are arms-around-
the-neck chummy.  However, prior incidents of blowing of kisses was misinterpreted and the fact that Donahue's lunch was once eaten by Howard (because of Donahue's own carelessness), can't really be blamed on Gumpox.  By all accounts, Gumpox is a nice, generous, sensitive (albeit somewhat narcissistic) man - that everyone likes - except Mr. Donahue and perhaps, Vic.

Trivia:

+ The family discuss the fellows in town who cry a lot.  Who cries the most?  The Brick Mush man, followed by Messrs Sludge, Gumpox and - a surprise - Erickson, the Gooks' landlord.  This is the first we have heard of Erickson's emotional outbursts.

+ This may be first time Leland Richards has been mentioned since he stayed with the Gooks and became 'homesick' about a year prior to this episode.  He appears to at least be an acquaintance of Russell.

+ Both 40-01-19 Gumpox's Horse Eats Donahue's Lunch and 40-06-24 Mr. Gumpox Blows Kisses were mentioned in this episode.

40-xx-xx Uncle Fletcher, from Dixon, is a House Guest

STARRING: BERNARDINE FLYNN, BILL IDELSON AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

Uncle Fletcher - a guest at the Gook house - has made himself at home.  He's gotten to know the neighbors and yells at them out the window (probably disturbing Mr. Donahue), he's made a very large number sign for the house (only he's painted the wrong address on it) and he's clumsily nailed himself to a chair.  He gets up at 5am and talks to himself.   He's also sent away for his rocking chair so that he can be more comfy.

This distresses Sade.  She is very mindful of Mr. Donahue's sleep and how her house looks.

She tries to get Rush to talk to Uncle Fletcher - to make him understand he needs to chill out.

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I get the feeling that Rush does not worry about this as much as Sade is does. Rush sounds a bit like Vic here.

All these things that worry Sade, won't hold a candle to all kinds of crazy things he will do the rest of his Vic and Sade life.  After all, he just got to (*the town Vic and Sade live in.*)

And while there are many things about Uncle Fletcher to worry about, the only real thing that will really bother her in the future will be his comings and goings around the railroad and streetcar tracks (although a close second might be the the way  that he emotionally blackmails her at times - but that's for another episode.)

39-09-29 Two Tons of Coal #5

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Before reading this, even if you have heard/read it before, I strongly suggest you check out 39-07-05 Two Tons of Coal #1, 39-08-16 Two Tons of Coal #2 , 39-08-25 Two Tons of Coal #3 and 39-08-29 Two Tons of Coal #4

• Vic and Rush are about to start a game of cards, but Sade returns home from shopping and announces that  Mr. and Mis' Donahue are going to move back to Mulberry Street to the same house they used to live in.  Vic and Rush are stunned by this news.
• They each explode with, "I'm not gonna move that coal again!"  
• Sade thinks they should care about their good neighbors moving away, not about moving a little coal.
• Vic and Rush firmly state they're through carrying coal.
• Sade alters her statement to allow that the Donahues are only thinking about moving.  Vic tells her to write herself a note that he'll run away to Alaska before he moves any more coal.  Sade: (laughing) "I haven't said anything about coal."  Vic: "You've exhibited wise restraint.  Keep up the good work.  Continue not to say anything about coal."
• Rush asks if the Donahues intend to continually move back and forth between Virginia Avenue and Mulberry Street for the rest of their lives.
• Vic suggests "a distinct insane note in these proceedings.  He thinks they'd be better off living in a dray wagon."
• Sade points out all the positives leading the Donahues to consider the move again.  Vic is still incensed about the coal.  
• Sade can't see the need to move the coal again since it's already in the Gooks' cellar. Rush wonders where this rumor began.  Sade knows only that Mis' Trogle heard it from Miss Leepman.
• Vic sarcastically suggests that maybe another farewell party will be in order.
• Sade goes off to fix supper, and Vic and Rush pick up the cards, amazed at the unexpected unpleasant turns life suddenly presents. - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason

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Imagine it being 1939 and you are faithfully listening to Vic and Sade.  It's the end of September and by now you have heard Two Tons of Coal, parts 1-4, which began way back on July 5th.

You turn on the radio to hear the show and to your surprise, you realize once again, the crazy Donahues could be moving again and oh, that coal!

We only have one audio file to listen to concerning this story.  But the one file we have shows just how much the boys don't want to move the coal - and that was just the first episode.  Imagine the thespian howls used by Art Van Harvey and young Billy Idelson to suggest to the audience the outright silliness, pain and frustration in once again being faced with moving two tons of coal from basement to basement.

I am pleased as a peach to present these parts of scripts to you but I don't think for one minute that they in any way express what Vic and Rush lamented to the probable-howling audience. In my imagination, parts 4 and 5 of this story might be some of the funniest radio we have never heard.

39-08-29 Two Tons of Coal #4

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

'Ma' Donahue?

Mr. Erickson doesn't want to lose Mr. and Mis' Donahue as tenants, so he's agreed to fix up their house, including the coal room.

Therefore, the Donahue's coal room needs to be completely cleaned out; this, of course, means the two ton pile of coal must be moved.  So, Mis' Donahue is giving the coal back to the Gooks as a gift.  

(Insert panther screams here)
 
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Move the coal again?

Sade acts like coal was expensive.  I've looked and couldn't find the price of a ton of coal in 1939.  But I did find that the price for a ton of coal today is about $25.

I think a reasonable, liberal estimate is that in 1939, 1 ton of coal might be $5 delivered.  Perhaps $8-10 dollars for 2 tons, delivered.

Also remember, there was a coal mine and a coal company in the town they lived in, so prices were probably pretty cheap.  (And this would be a pre-war year as well.)

At any rate, $8-10 dollars would save a lot of work.

Trivia:

+ The only other time we know of where Sade escaped the men by going upstairs for solitude was when they wrote silly letters to Walter in 39-xx-xx Letter To Walter.

39-08-25 Two Tons of Coal #3

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

As we learned in 39-08-16 Two Tons of Coal #2, Mr. and Mis' Donahue are
moving back, and Sade feels that it's only fair to return the coal they previously gave to the Gooks when they moved out.  She expects Vic and Rush to do the job the next day.  Rush protests that she should have been given more notice.  Vic tries to appeal to Sade's common sense.

Again?

Rush suggests having two tons of coal delivered to the Donahues at the Gooks' expense. Vic loves this idea. Sade won't hear of it. Sade counters with, "Mis' Donahue would never accept new coal."  Yeah, whatever, Sade.

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS

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Rush complains that he and Vic should have been given more notice about moving the coal; the fact is, they were given nine days notice.

It doesn't appear that the Gooks and Donahues ever played "500" before 1939.  As a matter of fact, the couples weren't really that social at all, at least that we know about.  The social aspect of the Gooks and Donahues probably revolved around the ladies on their back porches ringing out their mops.  And the Thimble Club.

In my opinion, the reference to Billy Patterson in this episode is the very best of the lot.

Sade says August has a chill... I doubt it.  Low 70's or upper 60's for night time lows (Northern Illinois) do not require lighting the heater.

You ever just get the feeling that Sade takes every opportunity to make Vic's life miserable when she can?

39-08-16 Two Tons of Coal #2

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Dog gone the dog gone luck!

Sade has surprising news that the Donahues, their former next door neighbors, who had moved away just about a month prior, are moving back into their old house.

Rush realizes that he and Vic will be stuck moving back the two tons of coal that they were "gifted" with and Vic knows the boys will also be forced to help the Donahues move furniture.

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Of course the men will scream like panthers!  Maybe Rush can come up with a better excuse than his "overalls are wrinkled" -- the flimsy excuse he used when he first had to move the large pile of coal.

Trivia:

+ Nicer Scott is up his old, narcissistic tricks - this time, claiming he's "The Most Popular Youngster on Virginia Avenue". Four months prior to this episode, Nicer extended his popularity farther than his street by claiming to have over 2 billion acquaintances.

+ Here's a bit of trivia you may have read before but forgotten:  Vic enjoys playing golf now and then.  It's mentioned in this script that he had a date with Mr. Buller to play at the end of the week.  Let's hope Vic wasn't asked to catch Buller's clubs from a fast passenger train...

+ It turns out that reason the Donahues moved back was they simply missed their neighbors.  (Never mind the fact that Mulberry Street is less than a mile away).

36-04-30 Rush – the Cartographer

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Promo map - click to enlarge

• Vic is helping Rush draw a picture map of the city. (Rush refers to teacher – librarian? – Miss Gustman)
• Vic complains The guy yanking the fish out of the Kickapoo Crick is out of proportion.  Rush wants it like that because Hank Gutstop's layin' on the baggage truck, Mis' Fisher leanin' out her front window, an' Mr. Donahue in the cab of his locomotive are all out of proportion.  But they give the picture some punch.
• Rush is to deliver the map to Miss Gustman at the library by seven-thirty.
• Vic starts to fill in street names – Rush says Miss Gustman will do that.
• Sade wants to know what's playing at the picture show, where they intend to go after dropping off the map.  The men are busy and try to satisfy her curiosity with an invented title.  Vic compliments Rush on his ability to draw Mis' Call's chickens.  
• (The phone rings.)  Hank wants Vic to come to his house to play in an indoor horseshoes tournament.  Vic wants to play and creates a story that he can't go to the Bijou with Rush and Sade because of important lodge business.  Rush advises him not to mention Hank's name to Sade.
• Sade recommends protecting the map by wrapping it in newspaper because there's "soft-coal dust smoke in the air."
• Hank is waiting on the line.  Sade wants to know why the phone's off the hook.  She picks up the phone, finds out it is Hank and explains Vic won't be coming to the indoor horseshoe tournament.  Rush is amazed at her deductive powers.  Sade instructs Vic to get his coat. - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason

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The map the family describes is a real one; a promotional item given away (or sold) by Proctor and Gamble during this time period.

It's interesting that Hank Gutstop not only (surprisingly) has a house but he has indoor horseshoes.

Mis' Call has chickens; we learn in another episode that Mis' Keller also has chickens and Mis' Harris probably had chickens as she has a chicken coup.

This won't be the last time that Vic tries to lie to Sade,  Of course, it never works!

34-12-03 The Coal-man Makes a Delivery

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Sade has some minor trouble with a foul-mouth coal delivery man.  She tells Vic, who, in anger, reasons he will confront the man the next time he sees him.

Seconds later, Vic finds out the guy is back -- and he confronts him alright, but not in an angry sort of way.

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS

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A coal delivery wagon

Though Vic did somehow get into a fight (and won) with Mike Towers that once, we all know Vic is not a fighter. While he gets angry, it's a childish anger and he's not really made up of the stuff it takes to fist fight with any kind of success.

Basically, the coal-man looks to be a bruiser. And though he let loose a slurry of cussing, Vic would wisely rather give the guy expensive cigars then try and paste him one upside the snoot.

Trivia:

+ Even in 1934, Vic and Buller were probably eating at the Blue Room of the Butler House hotel.

32-08-09 Sade Keeps a Secret Under Her Hat

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Sade gets her hair cut by Ruthie and though Rush notices it, Vic misses it completely.  This upsets Sade and she runs off crying.

Rush doles out expert advice to Vic on how to solve the problem.

THE SCRIPT

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Trivia:

+ This was probably a better than average episode.

+ This is the first time we've heard about Mr. Bucksaddle.

32-07-07 Sade Brings Up the Subject Of Adoption

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY AND BERNARDINE FLYNN

• Vic and Sade enjoy a perfect summer evening on the porch. She asks if Vic really intends to buy a car.
• He knows he can get a good buy on a "used Titan – 6 cylinder job –   for less'n you'd have to pay for this year's Thompson."      
• Sade says they don't really need a car, besides she thinks Vic's afraid of automobiles. 
• Sade announces she'd rather use the car money to adopt a child – a  little girl about 3, 4, or 5.  Vic says no.      
• (Vic greets Pete Donahue -aka Mr. Donahue- who's passing by)
• Sade: "I mean I love you so much that I… I just choke up inside.  I'm so crammed full of love for you that I need… I need someone else to …. to help me love you.  Vic is adamantly opposed to her proposal.
• Sade says they need something to share, be interested in, and work for, and a little girl… Vic: "Little girl, nothin'! Little boy!"
• Sade's pleased. Tells Vic to think of a little boy. they could call him "Vic."  
• Sade goes in to get him a cigar. He chuckles to himself as he lectures an imaginary son on the topic of dealing with bullies.  Sade returns. Vic denies that he was saying anything. - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason

45-11-23 Five Sleeping Beauties

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

It's late November and quite chilly but Uncle Fletcher and Dwight Twentysixler plan to sleep on the courthouse lawn. They hope to persuade Vic and Rush to join them and also plan to invite Mr. Sprawl, who is over 90 years old.

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It's amazing what fame will do to the common sense of some people (that's not to say that Fletcher Rush and Dwight Twentysixler have any common sense at all.) Ernie Pompell, one of the writers at the newspaper, has promised the men a story (maybe even on the front page) if they'll brave the elements.

Meanwhile, we are introduced to Mr. Twentysixler, a man who always has roof shingles in his mouth. Everything he says is a mumble, yet the Gooks and Uncle Fletcher seem to have figured out his language.

Trivia:

+ The Donahue attic mystery continues: The previous night, Sade says she saw the Donahue's leave for the Bijou at 7:15. Mis' Harris claims at 8 pm, she was the lamp swinging in the attic!

+ Uncle Fletcher lists all of the men who like to sleep on the courthouse lawn during the warmer weather: Sweet Corn McBlock, Y.I.I.Y. Skeeber, Hank Gutstop, B.B. Baugh, Pelter Unbleet and his imaginary brother(!), Roy DelFino and Rishigan Fishigan.  Delfino is a name we have not come across before. He can rub his bare feet together and produce a clear blue flame!

+ Uncle Fletcher has made a habit in "series 2" of calling Rush, "Rushie."

+ We find out Mr. Sprawl's first name is "Mervin."

+ When Fletcher asks Vic and Rush if they would care to join them on the lawn, each answer in the negative before the question can be fully asked.

+ Twentysixler has a married daughter who lives in Dismal Seepage. Ohio.

Voice of Twentysixler: {{{HEAR}}}

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