37-12-03 Rush Needs Money for Christmas Shopping

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Christmas 1937

Rush has made a Christmas list.  He's whittled it down to the bone.  He's got very little cash to work with.

He's going to Plan B; all he has to do is get the dough from good ole' Gov -- well, make that, get past Sade in order to get it from Gov.  It's not an easy task.

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND SYNOPSIS

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Rush knows Gov has a soft heart.  The trouble remains; Sade also knows Vic has a soft heart.
 
This episode compares in some ways with this one, a rather odd episode where Rush went to Vic's office to ask for Christmas funds.

That particular episode took place in 1941.  Let's look at the difference in lists between the two episodes:

 We can compare Rush's Christmas lists from 2 years

The price of Vic's gift remained the same.  Poor Vic, always getting the shaft.

Trivia:

* In the story about the imaginary 'Rollo K. Wintersquat' at the institution, Vic suggests he be sent some fudge.  That's not the only time someone locked away and fudge being sent to them are mentioned; Dottie Brainfeeble sent fudge to Martin Jordle, the man whose wife signed a paper and then the next thing he knew, he was in prison for 40 years.

* You wonder how good you can "get in" with a man by buying him a stinky, nickel cigar?

* "Bernardine" is once again mentioned in the script as an homage (you'd think) to  Bernardine Flynn. I'm almost certain that "Bernardine" was mentioned another time as well, but I'll be doggone if I can find the reference.

* Sade recalls Steve Kodunk in Dixon, whose father used to drown him with money.  He'd have a nickel or dime to spend every single recess and the kids would buzz around him like flies.

Hmmm.  You wonder how many kids would be swarming young Mr. Kodunk in 2015?  In the age of iPads and XBox, I'm guessing not a whole lot.

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* It's likely that this story line (or something like it) took place nearly every Christmas on the show.  I believe Rhymer eventually took Sade out of the equation because she's generally a major league frump when it comes to spondulix, plus the shows with just Vic and Rush (that we know about) all turned out to be genuine peachy episodes.  Certainly Rhymer knew
this or you'd think someone told him.

* This episode took place on the road, as did apparently, several other episodes during the latter end of 1937.  This episode was live from Kenosha, Wisconsin.  We are most fortunate (thanks to Barbara Schwartz and the Friends of Vic and Sade) to have an article from the local paper there from December 4, 1937.  The interview probably took place the same day this episode was broadcast.  [Dunno about you, but I love neat stuff like that.]

37-01-12 Pleats, Pleats, Pleats

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Rush goes all out when he helps Mildred Tisdel, who is just learning how to sew pleats.

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Rush's enthusiasm for his friend's new skill is a bit much for Sade and Vic, as he goes overboard.  Pleats in socks?

To be honest, many of the pre-1938 scripts seem a bit dated, and this episode is probably as good of an example as any.  Learning how to sew pleats was part of that era's rite of passage for most females.  Sewing, cooking and the like proved the female was becoming fit to being a homemaker.  Rush's enthusiastic approach to helping her shows he is growing up as well, with his eyes focused on Margaret during the late 1930's.  This would wane, later.

41-11-06 The Dangerous Washrag Sale

Washrag riot

Sade recounts her day shopping at Yamilton's, where ladies were knocked down, tromped and otherwise practically murdered.  And poor Ruthie Stembottom got booted.  It was an apparent washrag free-for-all.

The episode title was given by me, purely for identification purposes.

[The gist of this episode is revealed in the book, Vic and Sade on the Radio: A Cultural History of Paul Rhymer's Daytime Series]

33-11-02 Heart of the Shopping District

Vic, Sade and Rush take a trip downtown to purchase a new coat for Rush.

They meet so many people on the way and take so much time socializing, that by the time they get to Yamilton's, that the store is closed!

Trivia:

+ The heart of the shopping district is across from the courthouse and on Washington Street.

NOTE: This episode seems to take place right near Yamilton's...

The title is one I have given purely for identification purposes.

[The gist of this episode is revealed in the book, Vic and Sade on the Radio: A Cultural History of Paul Rhymer's Daytime Series.  The title is one I have given the show purely for identification purposes only.]

41-xx-xx Sade and Ruthie Mail Each Other Five Dollars

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY AND BERNARDINE FLYNN 

There's deep confusion between Sade and Ruthie Stembottom over their recent muddled shopping money.

Ruthie, feeling bad about the whole thing and in order to set confusion aside and make things right between the ladies, mails Sade a five dollar bill.  She spends the episode explaining the money confusion to Vic (who acts like he cares but we know he could really care less) and explaining to him that she also sent Ruthie five dollars in the mail.

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Vic has the solution for the ladies but they never take his advice: use your own money to pay for your own items.  As simple as this sounds, the ladies simply cannot resist doing otherwise.

The ladies (plus Mis' Trogle) bought gum drops, a spool of thread and weighed themselves on the penny weighing machine.

+ Rush is at the YMCA watching the fat men play handball.

+ Raymond Belcher Beirman is mentioned again here but Vic uses his name as a figure of speech rather than referring to a real person.  Beirman must be a very mystical figure if we take him literally.

43-01-28 Sade's On the Phone

STARRING: BERNARDINE FLYNN (SOLO)

Sade is busy at the phone, window and back door as she dodges (or tries to) the newly-moved davenport, which she keeps bumping into.

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Our favorite radio actress

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This episode is a total solo effort from Bernadine Flynn. In interviews from the 1970's, she spoke about this episode: (((HEAR))) and (((HEAR))).  Flynn mentions some facts not associated with this particular show, so a Sade-solo may have happened more than once.

It's unfortunate that we are not able to listen to this episode, for I suspect we would come away more amazed at the talent of Flynn than we are now.

Trivia:

+ When Sade talks to Mis' Trogle on the phone, she briefly speaks about her daughter, Margaret.  Mis' Trogle also has the first name of Margaret!

+ Mr. Croucher has a son named 'Leland'.

+ Though Bill Idelson is in the Navy at this date, Rush raps at the window on two occasions.  That's mind boggling.  Yes, it's just a radio show.

+ Irving or Irvin?? The grocery delivery boy is referred to by different names (Irving or Irvin) by different family members in different episodes.  The script here says, ''Irving'', yet it's in the minority.  Just try and live with it.

36-xx-xx Vic Reviews a Vacation Week with Bess and Walter in Carberry

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY AND BERNARDINE FLYNN

Vic has a two week vacation coming his way and wants to spend it with Bess, relaxing and enjoying himself.  Proving himself to be unselfish, he talks to Sade about the vacation and before she can even ask, has resigned himself to spending a week of his vacation in Carberry with her sister,

Vic is very honest and upfront with her and explains that - though he is resigned to go to Carberry - he knows exactly what will happen - he will go and be bored to death.  He explains to her what his days are like there.  The picture he paints is a sad one.

Sade finally understands what Vic goes through in Carberry and apologizes for wanting to drag him there.

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This is quite an unusual Vic and Sade episode, I might go as far as to say, this is the most unusual episode of the whole lot that we are privy to see or hear.  This is kind of a sad episode where Vic talks about how hard he works all year and then the vacation comes and half of that vacation he sacrifices for Sade.  He is willing to do so and do it without complaint.  Still, when he tells truthfully what he does while he is in Carberry and how boring his days are, Sade can't help but realize just how miserable she makes it for him.

Jean Shepard, who wrote the forward to Vic and Sade: The Best Plays of Paul Rhymer,  wrote that this episode was the best "short story touching on smothering boredom, yet natural concern we feel in the presence of close relatives."

The really bad part of this episode is that Bess and Walter Helfer are somehow named "Hemstreet" in this episode, which may not bother anyone but me - but to me, it's an absolute travesty. Enough of a travesty that I will note it but will also ignore it.

41-07-10 Bring Your Figures

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Muddled shopping money?  No big deal.  Stuff happens.

We know to expect this whenever Sade and 'Lady' (Ruthie Stembottom) get together downtown.  So what if the gals can't keep track of the tiny amounts of money that they are allowed?  So what if there's a few dollars missing?  It's not like they are buying anything important.

As a matter of fact, the ladies consume the same kinds of worthless junk every week.  It's money to blow and really, is of no consequence to the bread winners...

That's the way the story is supposed to go, anyway.  Vic, an accountant by trade, is fine with the mixed-up money.  I think he kind of gets a kick out of the way the ladies foul it all up; it's entertainment to him.  But Fred, Ruthie's blue collar husband, has a bad reaction this time around to the unaccounted-for spondulix.

Who's responsible?  No one knows (and no one will ever know) but Fred aims to find out!  He's even bought those stereotypical green visor caps for all four people (it's use is to lessen eyestrain) as he intends to have a pow-wow with the Gooks and go step-by-step through the muddled transactions! By golly, he wants some answers to that missing penny and the other misplaced monies.

But wait; one big 'ole ish and kybosh on that!

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This script is surprisingly good and it reads fresh. I use the word 'surprisingly' because the notes I had previously were terribly short.  It was as if this episode had been overlooked.  Rhymer provides strong voices to each character.  It feels as if he were completely in his prime here.  This script could very well be in the top 50 I have seen. 

Trivia:

+ Mr. & Mrs. Coomer live on Madison Street.

+ Sade bought white thread #50 (she always buys that color/#) and the girls bought gum drops, weighed themselves, had ice cream...

+ The fact that Vic could care less about a few dollars (remember, this was still ''The Great Depression'') might provide circumstantial proof that Vic was better off financially than perhaps we - or Sade - know. 

+ The concept of the green visors is clever and totally Rhymeresque; there is always pleasure reading/hearing the way he took something that was already absurd and made it even more so.  Can you imagine Sade and Ruthie wearing green visors, trying to figure out where they lost seven cents?

+ While he was there and at-the-ready to contribute to the conversation with appropriate anecdotes, Rush gets totally ignored in this episode.  You'd figure an ordinary American citizen...

+ This episode ends with the ''stuff happens'' phrase.

39-03-10 Sade – A Slick Operator

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Sneaky Sade finds a way to purchase a Sunbeam Mixmaster, a product being promoted by the show's sponsor, Crisco.

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS (part 1) (part 2)

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The Sunbeam Mixmaster and Crisco teamed up on an advertising campaign in March of 1939. I cannot find any of those ads on the internet.  What I
did find though was that the Mixmaster probably did save a lot of time - if you were inclined to do things such as buff your silver. Yes, this mixer had an attachment to buff your silver. It also had an attachment to sharpen your knives and open cans. There were attachments to help you make mixed drinks, grind your own meat, and many other applications.

This is not the earliest date in which we have heard about Third Lieutenant Stanley.  He first showed up in the surviving material in January of 1939.

In case you didn't catch it when reading above, Sade cleverly used a penny and amplified it quietly to the enormous sum she was seeking from Vic.

Trivia:

+  If you haven't already figured it out, this was a special contest script: promoting the advantages of having a Sunbeam Mixmaster to make great food with Crisco.

+ Here's a list of all the kids Rush got a chance to name off before Vic stopped him:  Wendell Scott, Keith Vines, Ross Anderson, Lyle Roll, Lester Nafziger, Charley Neece, Everett Ireland, Harry Bliss, Ed Smoler, Bill Moore, Tom Keefer, Sam Sunkman, Millard White, Emory Jackson, Cecil Koker, Clyde Schnepp, Orval Lesters, Ellis Prossman, Joe Greel, Dwight Montgomery, Edmund Klin, Arch Cunningham, Robert Miller, Osbert Reynolds, Harry Ives, Walter Sneed and Franklin Obee.

37-02-19 Rush's New Men's Shoes

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Sade buys Rush some men's shoes, which excites him.

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS

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According to Wikipedia, radium dials for watches were around as early as 1917.

By 1922, the company that made the radium dials had moved to Ottawa, Illinois which is only a hop, skip and a jump from Bloomington - the city the Gooks probably live in.

Both Rush and Russell liked to have written proof concerning their clothing.  Russell once wanted documentation from Vic and Sade that in his lifetime he had owned sixty pair of pants.

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The episode when Rush graduated from Eighth Grade truly was a turning point in the series. Thereafter, Rush has tried to prove himself as part of the adult world. The transition in shoe sizes may be a small step for mankind, but it's a giant leap for the man Rush is becoming. - SARAH COLE

34-05-25 Everyone Has Troubles Today

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Mis' Harris has given Sade a porch swing for the back porch, but other than that, life seems to be falling apart for the Gooks: there's dark skies an a bad storm looms;  Sade loses her wallet at Yamilton's and it has the $25 needed for the house rent in it; Rush and his friend Fat Johnson have promised a set of encyclopedias to their teacher and have no way to pay for it and finally, Vic comes home to say he is likely to lose his job due to his boss, Mr. Ruebush, changing locations.  Each of the family is dejected and dismayed.

Near the end of the episode, all the problems work themselves out and the Gooks return to happiness, wanting to swing on the new porch swing.

SCRIPT (part 1) (part 2)

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Very rarely in the audio versions of Vic and Sade do we come across life's troubles.  Sure, Rush gets volunteered to be in a pageant he doesn't want to be in or his enemy Nicer Scott sleeps over making his life miserable - but we just don't peer into their lives when there is real trouble.

Losing the rent money is a disaster.  While we can assume Vic has money in the bank and could have covered a $25 loss, imagine today, losing a month's rent.  That could be like $400-$1000 or so by today's standards.

The growing pains of the show remain but it will change shortly. Other than partly focusing on the troubles of the family, writer Paul Rhymer still seems to have not picked up on what would become one of the strengths of the show, deep peripheral character development.

33-09-15 Thimble Club Inspection Trip

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

It's a typical morning, or is it?: Rush gets ready for school. Vic gets ready for Consolidated Kitchenware. Sade gets ready to go to the C and A Shops.

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS

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A 1940's postcard of the C and A Shops

This "sounds" like the family we know and it might be about now that writer Paul Rhymer was getting in the swing of things - molding the Gooks into the family we look back on now and know and love.

Sade fans may not like this but the Thimble Club has just been introduced in 'Vic and Sade' and we can see that it's an educational experience. During these early years, it's quite likely Mis' Appelrot was the President of the club. She set the bar high for the ladies, hoping to educate them by taking them on tours of local factories and having special guest speakers come to talk to them.

However, when Sade took over the reigns of leadership, the club seemed to pretty much turn into a gossip pit.

Sade's prodding of Rush to eat his egg yellows "sounds" like Sade more than anything else we have read about in the early days of the program.

Trivia:

+ I'm fairly certain this is the only evidence we have in any episode where "breakfast" is mentioned.

+ In the script, it appears that 'Yamilton' is misspelled as 'Hamilton'. It could be a different store, but I doubt it.

+ The show's ending - about the Johnson baby being a surprise (which Sade seems to dance around) might have been Paul Rhymer writing on the social edge - or maybe not. It's just impossible from the notes we have to know if that's the case. However, there's something socially sketchy (for the year, 1933) going on at the end of the episode, for sure.

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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44-09-15 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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44-08-04 Vic is Boss for a Day

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Vic's bosses, Mr. Ruebush and Mr. Clooney are headed to Chicago and Vic tells the family that he's been put in charge of Plant Number 14 for the following day. But Sade asks some questions and the next thing you know, the real story comes out that Vic is going to be using Mr. Ruebush's office only because his own office is being worked on by carpenters.

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Sade almost always knocks Vic down a notch. She may not be trying to hurt his feelings but she does anyway.

Trivia:

+ Russell mentions Art Flooper, Bernie Jeffers and Kyle McSmall. These are probably boys Russell knows from school.

+ Mr. Clooney was mentioned for the first time. He's probably the man at Consolidated Kitchenware who is directly under Mr. Ruebush.

+ Sade had gone shopping and Yamilton's had a sale on washrags - a dozen for a dollar. Sade didn't buy any.

+ Sade went shopping with Mis' Appelrot. It's amazing how their relationship has changed over the last half year or so of the program. The last time we have evidence of Mis' Appelrot not being nice is February of 1944, whe she inferred that Ruthie Stembottom is short (in stature.) That's six months of Mis' Appelrot and Sade getting along.

Jack Dempsey

+ Mis' Appelrot seems to be a very aggressive shopper, since Sade described her a "lion running through a jungle" for her ability to plow through the women who were shopping.  Sade compared Mis' Appelrot to "Ralph Dempsey." (She actually meant Jack Dempsey, the former heavyweight champ who last fought in 1919.)

+ Ike Kneesuffer is in a higher position at the plant than Vic.

+ Mis' Holloway is now Mr. Ruebush's secretary - in an earlier episode, his secretary was Mis' Holland.

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44-07-18 Fantastic Sale at Yamilton's

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Sade is very excited for she has just gotten home from a huge sale at Yamilton's department store. She proceeds to tell Vic and Russell about every person she saw there and most every item that was ridiculously priced.

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An impressive episode that gives us many new people to explore. This episode is a Bernadine Flynn tour-de-force.

Trivia:

Many new characters make their debut in this episode:

+ Fern McFullerton. She was working as an extra clerk in the Yamilton's Underwear Department due to the high volume of traffic. She may have an unusual foot.

+ Mrs. Roy Tubbler. Sade and Ruthie saw her looking at nightgowns. She confused Vic with Fred and Fred with "Virgil."

+ Mrs. Cunningham and her husband Floyd. Sade saw her at Yamilton's.  Her husband works at the Five and Ten Cent store.

+ Geraldine. She used to live in Mis' Harris' rooming house. No mention is made of her parents and the impression is made that she may be an orphan. She goes to the Urban School, apparently the same school that Russell had once attended... her teacher there is Mis' Cutler, one of Russell's former teachers. She's obviously younger than he is.

+ Ernie Feedsmirk. He was over at the coal scuttles at Yamilton's. He purchased 3 of them!

+ Frida Gateman. She used to belong to the Thimble Club but hasn't attended a meeting in more than a year. She used to be 'snippy' but Sade thinks her husband might have put an end to that.

For more information about the above new people, including a few audio references, see Vic and Sade Characters.

+ Sade went on and on about how funny Ruthie can be. Yet we've been told in a previous episode that Ruthie doesn't "get" jokes.

+ Sade mentions the "Boffo Show."

+ Washrags were on sale at Yamilton's for as little as two for a nickel!

+ Another sale item that caught Sade's attention: 'all the graham crackers you could carry' for fifty cents!

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44-07-07 Second Letter from Yellow Jump

STARRING: BERNARDINE FLYNN, DAVID WHITEHOUSE AND CLARENCE HARTZELL

Sade is in a terrible hurry for she has just been reminded of a shopping date with her lady friends downtown. About the time she is about to get ready to straighten the house a bit and get dressed to go, her Uncle Fletcher shows up.

In a story that she doesn't want to hear because she is busy, he tells her that his landlady (Mis' Keller) got a second letter this week from her beau in Yellow Jump, North Dakota. This news seems to assure him that he will have to move into another place and he again has his eye on the Bright Kentucky Hotel as a place to live. Again, Sade tells him this is against her wishes - however, she is in such a hurry that she pretty much gives into him - at least for this episode.

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Sade worries about how Uncle Fletcher will negotiate the railroad tracks and the "Kansas City freight drags creeping up on a person," near where the Bright Kentucky Hotel sits.

Trivia:

+ Sade sets up a meeting with her lady friends at the underwear department of Yamilton's department store - the frequent accidental meeting place for most every other episode.

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44-07-06 Where to Hide the Ritual

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

The lodge is being remodeled and Vic doesn't feel secure about the painters; they may get inquizative and seek out the lodge ritual. So, he brings the ritual home.

At home, he seeks for a place to hide it and can't seem to find a secure place. Meanwhile, Russell and Sade read and write on his ritual, respectively and in the end, it winds up torn in half.

Vic considers suicide!

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The corny lodge ritual means nothing to Russell and Sade but they should know better than to mess with Vic and his lodge - and ESPECIALLY his lodge ritual.

Vic tries to tell a couple of horror stories about people who fooled around and let the ritual loose from their responsibility. He's afraid for his life.

Trivia:

+ Sade is all about baking some goodies in this episode and Hooper Dip seems to be vital to her upside-down cake. Whatever Hooper Dip is, it isn't on the internet and may be an imagined food, like beef punkles or brick mush.

+ Vic tried to tell the story of Sky Brother Harlow N. Footy of East Botchfield, Ohio. He confided a lodge ritual to his sweetheart in 1914 and in 24 hours, he was seized out of bed by six men.

+ In another lodge ritual horror story, Vic says six men were shot to death in Upper Slump, North Dakota.

+ Russell divulged bits and pieces of the ritual, including: "Be it known", "Skull and crossbones of immortality" and "This little band of glorified souls."

+ Sade uses the word, "bosh" twice where she would usually say, "ish."

+ Mis' Appelrot calls and gives a recipe to Sade and she seems to be pleased she called. What gives?

At the end of the original program, the organist played this little humorous ditty: {{{HEAR}}}

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44-06-26 Thimble Club Bazaar

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Sade has left a note for Vic and Russell; she wants the boys to do yard work while she is gone.

But Vic has contentions with the note, saying the word "boys" refers only to Russell and not him.

When Sade comes home, Russell is bound to tell on Vic and get him in trouble but Sade is so excited about working at a Thimble Club bazaar that his tattling goes unheeded.

SCRIPT (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

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Fun episode where the gist of the episode ("the boys") is quickly swept away by Sade changing the subject.  Russell goes out of his way to squeal on Vic, but to no avail.

Trivia:

+ At the Thimble Club bazaar, they are going to sell clothes, candy, cake and knickknacks.

+ The Thimble Club has rented a vacant building on Center Street, across from the Courthouse.  We also learn The Greek's Confectionery is across the street from the courthouse.

+ Vic's argument that "boys" did not refer to him was smashed while Sade talked to he and Russell as she used the same word 4 times in reference to to the two.

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43-12-27 Invoice Preparations

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY AND DAVID WHITEHOUSE 

Vic is busy trying to get some invoices done and Russell is home making life miserable for him.

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Few things will disturb your math worse than a fierce rabbit.

A re-working of the 39-09-06 Office Invoices script and this version is actually much better.

Trivia:

+ An uncle bought Heinie Call a rabbit: {{{HEAR}}}

+ Russell contends he is 14 years old and has blue eyes. No one on the show seems to have any other color of eyes than blue.

+ Vic uses the following nicknames on Russell in this episode: Dr. Sleech, Sam, Roscoe and George - all nicknames Vic used on Rush in prior episodes. To make matters more obvious that Russell is a "pseudo-Rush," Russell talks to a woman (Mis' Whippon) on the phone who knew him when he was a baby.

+ When Mis' Brighton comes to visit at the end of the episode, she brings her son Williard with her.  Recall that in a previous episode Sade referred to Willard as a "close, comfortable friend."

P.Q. Ribber's take on this episode (((hear)))

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