43-07-22 Rishigan Fishigan and the Penthouse

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, DAVID WHITEHOUSE AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

old man

Afraid the passing freight train engineers will throw coal into the new 'penthouse' that he is building, Rishigan Fishigan asks Uncle Fletcher to live there, being he's an old man - and the railroad engineers won't throw hot coals into an old man's living quarters.

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This script is a very important one for the researcher of this great radio program.  First, it testifies to there being a Jayne Bayne - not that we ever doubted it.  But this little lady was only a verbal and second hand ghost (to most of us) until now.  Secondly, it shows us there really was a penthouse for Fishigan and his bride to be.  Third, there is proof here that the engineers lobbed hot coal into the Bright Kentucky Hotel.  It also helps to date a few other episodes.

Trivia:

+ There are few better stories than the one Fletcher tells about William Gubbitchocrank, who got married and regretted it five minutes later - slapping himself with his bare hand for over a half hour.  Had 1,700 head of buffalo fall on him.  His brother, Howard, swallowed a shotgun and later turned to putty.  Stuff 'turning to putty' seems to have haunted Uncle Fletcher.

+ Poor Betsy Vines, wife of Keith.  She never got to eat any pie in 40 years.  Her husband would take her piece every meal.  Pretty sad when you think about it.

44-03-28 Grown Men Trading Names

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Vic tells the Sade the news that Stacey Yopp and Y.I.I.Y. Skeeber are "trading names".  It sounds ludicrous to you and I - and it sounds just as asinine to Sade.

Though it's clear she understands, she needles Vic, probably because she thinks all of his friends are lunatics (and let's face it, most of them are). 

If you like a cold Sade, you'll love this one. 

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What could be more ridiculous than grown men exchanging names with each other?  Why would Stacey enjoy the name Y.I.I.Y. better?

The fact that there is a ceremony (Hank's going to sing a couple of songs, there's going to be food, etc.) is even more ridiculous.

44-02-02 Boo Boo Baugh and Bracy Yopp

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

• After visiting with Hank Gutstop out in the alley, Vic tells the family of events of a highly fantastic nature at the Bright Kentucky Hotel – a man's hair turned white, and another man's hair turned black:  Boo Boo Baugh, B.B. Baugh's twin brother: his hair turned from snow-white when he went to sleep to jet black when he woke.
• Bracy Yopp is Stacey's twin brother.  He went to bed with jet black hair and woke with snow-white hair.  Hank believes this story is startling and colorful enough to command a price.  He wants to sell it to a newspaper or magazine.
• Boo Boo slept with the window open, and coal and soot blew in.  Bracy, was in room #7 in the Bright Kentucky Hotel where a train passes every hour within two feet of the room.  He got scared – terrified, frantic, and terror-stricken from the screaming of the trains and whistles and bells.
• After dinner, Uncle Fletcher reads an advertising leaflet for a tonic: "Testimonials from Mr. John Loppers of Indiana, Mr. Arthur McRotwalk of Montana, Mr. Orpolord of Texas, A. Eisenmenger of Kansas, Ernest Twentysixler Jr. of Maryland." - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason

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The legend of the Bright Kentucky Hotel continues to grow - as does the long list of residents.

The room #7 gag (train coming so close to building that residents are in fear) has been used numerous times on television sit-coms, most notably perhaps on I Love Lucy (episode "First Stop") but originated by Paul Rhymer.

44-01-12 First Robin of the Season Racket

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND  DAVID WHITEHOUSE

• Sade: "Boy are my toes cold. Feel like thirty-six chunks of ice."
• Russell mentions mom was calling on Mis' Hyster on Lee Street.
• Russell mentions Harry Antidisestablishmentarianistic Jackson - who is a female and a member of the Thimble Club!   Sade: "…and gollies, she hasn't got any more the funniest thing to tell than a rabbit."
• For years Hank Gutstop (Hank's full name is Franklin J. Gutstop) has traditionally spotted the first robin of the season, which means money to Hank – he gets his picture in the paper, bird-lovers offer him odd jobs at good pay.  People invite him to Sunday supper. Pretty girls shower him with candy, books, and flowers.  The previous year, Rishigan Fishigan noticed Hank's many benefits and tried to cut in on the action.  This year, Stacey Yopp and Y.I.I.Y. Skeeber decided they wanted in on the action.
• Vic, as arbitrator, decided the four will get equal credit for seeing the first robin. Tomorrow morning they will all walk east on West Chestnut Street on their way to work and will suddenly see the first robin of the season.  Vic has equipped them with a tale to fend off folks who smell a rat.  Stacy Yopp will direct the group's attention to his sister's house and they all see the robin at once.
• B. B. Baugh calls to announce he's seen the first robin of the season, and his picture's in tonight's newspaper.  
• Vic (to phone): "Bee bee, bye bye.  I mean, bye-bye, B. B... - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason

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This episode provides a lot surprises in terms of trivia.  

Harry Antidisestablishmentarianistic Jackson isn't even the oddest name is the series...

44-01-11 Who Spotted the First Robin of Spring?

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND  DAVID WHITEHOUSE

• Russell: "Heine Call's a big fat-headed show-off.  He sweeps his front porch without any shoes on just to impress the American public with what a dead-game sport he is."
• Sade: "…transparent as a horse."
• Sade mentions she'll "go next door and sew and visit with Mis' Donahue awhile."
• Russell is fed up with Heine and refuses to watch him anymore after he takes off his socks to further impress the American public.
• Vic: "Russell, your mother is one mighty sharp customer.  there's no dust on the cuff of her jacket."  
• Vic expects Hank Gutstop, Stacey Yopp, Y.I.I.Y. Skeeber and Rishigan Fishigan to stop by so he can arbitrate their argument about who spotted the first robin of the season.  The person who spots the first robin of the season annually becomes the toast of the town.  For the last few years, Hank has spotted the first robin and has the prestige of the town. - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason

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It's not said in the notes but I'd bet the sighting of the first robin is a lodge-thing, rather than a town-thing.  But since the notes don't say...

So we can assume that Hank was missing in the previous episode (dated the day before) that he was off on a robin-spotting expedition.

Sade leaves to go next door - it's a sure thing she doesn't want to hang around the coming "Bright Kentucky" crowd.

Russell simply does not like Heinie and we have other episodes to prove this (here and here.)

43-12-01 B. B. Baugh and the 10-Cent Store Weigh-Machine

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

• Sade and Mis' Harris had been talking about the effects of furnace heat.  Mis' Harris' roomer Mr. Sludge had been sitting on the floor by the hot-air register night before last or sometime, putting sticks of peppermint candy in rows and making houses out ‘em, and all of a sudden he just sprawled out fast asleep.
• Russell returns from having gone to the YMCA to watch the fat men play handball but was disappointed – it was all skinny fellas.  "they don't fall down and they don't get out of breath and they don't waddle around and bump into junk and they …"
• Sade: "You stay and watch the skinny fellas?  Russell: "For maybe half an hour.  Kept hoping some good old trusty, dependable fat men'd show up.  But none did.
• He eventually went to the Illinois Traction System Depot (i.e., the Interurban Station) to get warm and encountered a group of other guys in there getting warm:  Hank Gutstop, B. B. Baugh, Rishigan Fishigan from Sishigan, Michigan,  Y.I.I.Y. Skeeber, Stacy Yopp, Ernie Fadler, and Uncle Fletcher.
• Sade objects to Russell hanging out with that crowd even if Uncle Fletcher is with them.  Vic sees no harm in it.  She's shocked to learn the topic of discussion was "women."  Russell clarifies they were discussing the psychology of how women react when they step on a penny weighing-machine.  B. B. Baugh, who owns the peanut machine at the Interurban Station is considering the purchase of the 10-cent store weighing-machine.  Women prefer a machine that registers lower, rather than actual, weight.
• Sade is shocked to learn that her name was mentioned - by Uncle Fletcher - who mentioned Sade, Ruthie, and Mis' Keller complain about the 10-cent store machine because it gives correct weight.  He said they prefer the machine at Kleeberger's because it registers three to five pounds lower than reality.  B. B. plans to buy the 10-cent store machine and gear it down so it'll register ten pounds below reality, and then hire agents to spread the news among the ladies. - compiled by Barbara Schwarz, edited by Jimbo Mason

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It's been said by both Vic and Uncle Fletcher that B.B. Baugh is the most-enterprising businessman in town.  Though the cost of getting weighed is only a penny in 1943, you'd think that after 2-3 years, it'd be clear profit for Baugh, who seems to take low-risk money gambles.

Sade worries about Russell hanging out with Fletcher's gang of cronies, while Vic sees no harm; Vic shouldn't see any harm as they are all his friends as well!  I can imagine Sade saying: "There's nothing more frightening than a gang of seedy barbers and peanut machine misfits filling my little son's head with oceans of talky-talk and trashy-trash!"

Trivia:

+ Paul Rhymer used the word, soporific.

46-06-27 Assembling a Piano

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

Uncle Fletcher promises he will revive a thrown-out, chopped up piano so that Vernon Korkell can give Rush piano lessons.

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Welcome to (what I call) "Series 3" of Vic and Sade. The episode is intertwined with a lazy bassoon/fat alto saxophone in almost a cartoonish way. I'm not sure I'm quite enamored with it. The episode in full lasts 30 minutes; about 22 minutes plus when all the junk has been taken out.  All known surviving copies of this episode were already edited, thus this is not my editing job.

"Series 3" has a live audience.

Trivia:

+ Sade's daily newspaper love story has lately been about the Hawaiian islands.

+ Vic reads in the paper that "Mr. Ed McNilch invented a bicycle that could say 'mama.'" This is a big part of Vic and Sade nostalgia. But you may have read erroneously that the man was named Godfrey Dimlock; the below sound clip will prove this to be untrue: {{{HEAR}}}

+ Vic also reads that Mis' Cora Bucksaddle "swallowed a shotgun."

+ Robert and Slobert Hink and Cupid and Stupid Golfbake were mentioned in the local paper, even though both live in Hoopston, which is many miles away. Each couple was mentioned as going to see a Four-Fisted Frank Fuddleman and Gloria Golden movie. Why it was in the local paper is anyone's guess.

+ The actress who plays Mis' Harris in this episode is definitely not the same one who played the part in "Series 2."

+ Vernon Korkell's mother-in-law mowed the ivy off the side of her house, even though her arms got tired holding up the lawnmower and she was on a step ladder....

+ Mis' Keller's dog is named "Elizabeth."

+ B.B. Baugh uses piano wire for suspenders, Pelter Unbleat uses piano wire for an auxilary cord for his automobile.

+ Rush is asked to do his imitation of a man with his head caught in a revolving door at the post office.

His voice register is noticeably lower than the previous time he did such an imitation. In that episode, it was the Brick Mush man who got his head caught in a revolving door.

+ Sade says she was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Uncle Fletcher says he was born in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.

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44-06-29 War Bond Visitor

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

Vic, Uncle Fletcher and Russell are all expecting company. But Sade puts the kabosh on their visitations by explaining that Mis' Ogelsby is coming over. Although it's oddly never said in this episode, Mis' Ogelsby is obviously the War Bond salesman for that part of the block/street/area the Gooks live in.

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While not a propaganda piece as other radio programs like the Fibber McGee and Molly or Burns and Allen's forays into the subject, this episode simply uses the premise of Mis' Ogelsby coming over as a time that the family should listen closely to what the War Bond seller has to say. Cleverly done and the point made - without the propaganda - and without even mentioning it was a War Bond saleslady.  As a matter of fact, I might not have known she was a War Bond saleslady if not for the title provided with the audio episode.

Trivia:

+ Mis Ogelsby was mentioned for the first time. We can assume she lives in the Gook neighborhood since she is the War Bond seller for the area in which the Gooks live. She is going door-to-door selling the bonds.

+ Russell mentions Oyster Cracker's cousin Lombard again.

+ Uncle Fletcher goes on and on about Ernie McDisher of Clinton, Iowa. He liked to skulk around the Mississippi River. He and his wife, Velma Scoffburgle-McDisher live in a boxcar. Velma is cousin to Pelter Unbleet.

Ernie used to find arrowheads, strawberries, four-leaf clovers, bicycle sprocket wheels and catfish. He once cut open a catfish and found a dme, which he made into a watchfob. {{{HEAR}}}

+ Uncle Fletcher says Pelter Unbleet may have found a way to remove the smell from Hyena Grease.

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44-03-01 Hank Gutstop Throws a Party

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

According to Vic, two weeks ago prior to this episode, Hank Gutstop had gotten a job as the house detective at the Butler House Hotel. The hotel even has agreed to put him up for free - giving him the luxurious bridal suite to boot. With his new-found wealth, he's invited Vic and five other friends to dine with him in his hotel room.

In this episode, an excited Vic tells Sade and Russell about his expectations for the evening dinner party.

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In the history of the surviving episodes, this is the first in which we learn that Hank has gotten any kind of job that lasted more than a day. Will it continue?

Trivia:

+ Sade says that Hank had come over to the house (in a missing episode?) dressed in a duck-billed cap and checkered vest (like Sherlock Holmes.)

+ Russell infers that he enjoys macaroni and cheese.

+ Sade used the word, 'spondulicks' once again - that's the 4th time in the surviving episodes.

+ For a time prior to this episode, Hank was living at the Bright Kentucky Hotel.

+ The other people invited to the dinner party: B.B. Baugh, Stacey Yopp, Y.I.I.Y. Skeeber, Rishigan Fishigan and the previously unknown Pelter Unbleet, who is the janitor of the Bright Kentucky Hotel.

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42-03-xx Mis' Applerot's Petition

{{{HEAR}}} STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY,  BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Mis' Appelrot works up a petition to close down the Bright Kentucky Hotel. Reminding the Thimble Club members that the hotel was condemned years ago, she calls the building "ugly" and a "firetrap."

Mis Appelrot then nominates Sade to take the petition around town - only Sade could care less about the project or the hotel.

Meanwhile, the hotel is the residence of many people who interact in the lives of Rush and Vic and neither - especially Rush - want to see the hotel tampered with.

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Sade insinuates that the Thimble Club should stay out of social matters and politics and stick to sewing and gossiping.

Trivia:

+ The Thimble Club meeting took place at Mis' Trogle's house.

+ While Mis' Appelrot brought up the petition, Sade stated that Mis' Brighton was also in cahoots. This makes the 3rd or 4th time Sade has stated the two together as being troublemaking partners.

+ Ruthie Stembottom quit the Thimble Club in episode 41-01-24 Mr. Ruebush Has to Wait and until this episode it was not known if she had rejoined. There is evidence in this episode that she did indeed rejoin the club.

+ Sade calls her gavel a "gravel" - this will be a major piece of information in a future episode.

+ This episode contains one of the funniest stories in the whole series. Sade tells the story of Martin Jordle and how his wife (Alvira Eggsock-Jordle) signed a document that eventually got him arrested and sent to prison. (The end of the story is the best part!) {{{HEAR}}}

+ The Bright Kentucky Hotel was condemned in 1922!

+ Dottie Brainfeeble (who will become very instrumental in future episodes) was mentioned again. She must have been pretty good friends with Martin Jordle as she sent him fudge while he was in prison.

+ The petition is one that Rush won't sign (edited): {{{HEAR}}}

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42-03-04 Room Warming

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY,  BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Uncle Fletcher's room is finally finished being fixed up and to celebrate, he's having a men-only room-warming party (similar to a house-warming party.)

Vic and Rush are invited.

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Another episode with sound so bad you're not likely to sit through it.  Though Uncle Fletcher is talked about a lot, he's not in this episode.

Trivia:

+ Sade says that for refreshments, Uncle Fletcher is going to serve cold brickmush, dyed in exotic colors. The colors mentioned are midnight blue, off-apricot, burnt silver, graveyard grey, green dawn, bruised maroon and daffodil black!

+ Although the brickmush will be colored, Sade claims the taste will remain the same.

+ We find out that the Gooks are generally finished with their evening meal at 5:45 pm or so.

+ There appears to be a conflict with Uncle Fletcher's party and a lodge meeting. Lodge meetings begin at 6:30 pm.

+ Rush also encounters a conflict as he had made plans to go to the YMCA and watch the fat men play handball.

+ Uncle Fletcher calls and asks the men to bring their easy slippers because of the mud situation outside; Mis' Keller doesn't want her house tracked up with mud.

+ It appears as though Alf Musherton, Y.I.I.Y. Skeeber, Stacey Yopp and Mr. Gumpox have also been invited to the party.

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41-12-xx Left and Right-handed Stacey Yopp

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Vic relays to the family the fact that Stacey Yopp has had his motor skills reverse on him some 60 or 70 times in life and will often suddenly change from being right-handed to left-handed or vice versa.  On top of that, he loses the predominant motor skills in the hand he was using before.

Yopp wants to see a brain surgeon and it just so happens a noted Montana physician is is town. But Yopp's living quarters (the Bright Kentucky Hotel) is too loud and busy for him to properly have a doctor visit him there.

Yopp asks Vic if he can use his house to conduct the doctor appointment.

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It seems plausible that writer Paul Rhymer took the premise of this episode from a tiny tidbit in 41-12-08 The Bottom Buffet Drawer, where Uncle Fletcher mentions Rupert J. L. Dunsquat from Dixon; was right-handed up to age 29 then turned left-handed overnight.

I don't know why exactly, but if there was a town character that had trouble staying one-handed or the other, it does seem *to me* that person would be Stacey Yopp. The name itself seems to imply the unique frailness of never knowing which-handed you are.

Rhymer's script is very unique but not that funny; however, it's one of those things that once you've hear it, you don't seem to forget it.

Trivia:

+ Rush reads from an unnamed Third Lieutenant Stanley book, this one about "counterfeiting coffee ground fortune tellers."

+ Fowler D. Sockers is the doctor that Yopp wants to consult. He's from Montana and is a brain surgeon, lecturer and polo player. He's in town to deliver a speech to the Better Businessman's Club at the Butler House Hotel.

+ Yopp is now a candidate for membership in the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way.

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41-12-25 North Dakota River Bottom Revel

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Y.I.I.Y Skeeber calls to inform Vic that they are in line to be a part of the North Dakota River Bottom revel, which consists of eight participants. A revel is like an old-fashioned shivaree/chivaree; that is - a time of loudness and partying, usually reserved for newlyweds of "unnatural" marriages (those with large age differences, for example.) At any rate, they are to be expected at 11:30 pm.

The situation soon changes and Y.I.I.Y Skeeber informs Vic that there's only five participants and it will be about midnight. Those details change again and it's only two participants and they will be there about 12:30 AM. And that too changes later and only Rishigan Fishigan will show up and it will at 1 AM.

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Perhaps a reworking of the 41-09-25 Bright Kentucky Hotel Speaker script that has people backing out left and right on Vic. (It seems that it's just coincidence that mostly the same parties were involved in both scripts -- but who knows?)

Trivia:

+ The original eight man North Dakota River Bottom Revel party were: Y.I.I.Y Skeeber, Alf Musherton, Raymond Beirman, Stacey Yopp, Ben Webster, Cincinnati Dave Kepper, Q.H. Hodewalk and Rishigan Fishigan. All eight men live in the Bright Kentucky Hotel.

+ Yes, Raymond Beirman is mentioned again.

+ No one at Rush's school believes in such a man as Rishigan Fishigan of Sishigan, Michigan.

+ Ben Webster, Cinncinati Dave Kepper and Q.H Hodewalk were all mentioned for the first time.

+ Salted peanuts is all the food a revel party expects, according to Vic.

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41-09-25 Bright Kentucky Hotel Speaker

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Vic has been asked by Stacey Yopp to give an entertaining speech in the lobby of the Bright Kentucky Hotel at 8:30 that evening.

Vic tells Rush, who little by little, delivers bad news to Vic about how few people will be there to hear the talk. Intermingled with Rush's bad news are others who call Vic and give implausible excuses for not attending.

MIS' CROWE SAYS:
Vic is invited to speak for an audience that starts out small and becomes progressively smaller. The question is: was Stacey Yopp trolling Vic, or is he just a very poor planner? Probably the latter, although setting up such an ill-fated appearance would be a brilliantly rotten trick to play on Vic.  I always enjoy Vic & Rush episodes. Vic’s dignified self-importance combined with Rush’s ability to see the funny side in anything and everything always makes for great comedy. Vic can’t even be mad at Rush here because everything he’s saying is true and he can’t do anything about it. If anything, Rush is preserving him from humiliation by warning him about the state of affairs at the Bright Kentucky.

SCRIPT (transcribed Lydia Crowe)

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Via Smelly Clark's Uncle Strap, Rush is able to be 'in the know' about the Bright Kentucky Hotel. Seems as though he may be as big of a gossip as his mother.

Poor Vic, like most of his big plans, he is shot down a notch at a time until there is barely anything left to hold on to.

Trivia:

+ The title of the speech Vic wants to deliver: " The Importance of Good Sportsmanship in Modern Business."

+ Stacey Yopp, Y.I.I.Y Skeeber and Alf Musherton (who all are barbers at the other hotel in town, the Butler House) live at the Bright Kentucky Hotel.

Have you ever noticed the number of barbers on Vic and Sade? Barbering is the most frequent occupation by the characters on the show by far - they even outnumber "regulars" on the show who work at Consolidated Kitchenware! Sade's brother-in-law, Walter Helfer, is a barber and many other random characters also happen to be or used to be barbers: Ed Holvey, Harry Fie, Jim Skooner and Muddy. LeRoy Snow has 3 uncles who are barbers. And of course, Yopp, Skeeber and Musherton.  Later, we find that Smelly Clark's father is a barber and Smelly wants desperately to be one himself.

+ Again, we get to see how well Vic knows his lodge library. He must have memorized all of the volumes as he knows what page many things are on.

However, it seems he doesn't know it as well as he thought, as when Rush reads what Vic tells him to, it's the wrong part, twice.

+ Mr. Gumpox, Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Jeffries all live at the Bright Kentucky Hotel and never miss a first run film at the Bijou. (Cunningham and Jeffries had not been mentioned before this episode.)

+ Two other never mentioned before, Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Slatch are residents of the hotel and are deaf.

+ Mr. Yamerly, yet another person never mentioned before, lived at the Bright Kentucky until he got fired from the railroad. He moved away to Niles, Michigan, where his brother-in-law lives.

+ Rush reads aloud twice from the lodge library:

Volume VII, page 163: I beat my breast in agony, I clutch my throat with rage, The wild beasts of jungle, Are not one half as dangerous as I, The frosty moon shines...

Volume IX, page 47: Sweetheart, your eyes are like limpid pools seen by moonlight in the deep forest; your soft hands put to shame the velvet petals of the hyasinth...

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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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