Episode Transcript
Right now, I'm more nervous than Freeman at a railroad convention.
Speaker 2We want both.
Speaker 3If I'm not on next week, you know why, no white hanging on your line, sing a song of feeling fine.
We're clean and bright as we can because we've been witing Tie Douche.
Speaker 4Rat Drive from Hollywood Rock and Campbell's Tide.
The Washington Miracle that gives you the cleanest Closing town probably presents The Red Skelton Show with Red Skeleton, Day Rose and his orchestral Lorraine Battle, Pat McKee and Zick Ryan will be mean, Rod O'Connor ron the Skelton scrap Book of Satire, a Storian titled The Big Scare and as fire as MGM's found Red Skelton.
All right, rod Hi Skelton, how do you feel?
Speaker 1I feel alive tonight?
Speaker 4What do you know for sure?
Speaker 2Say?
Speaker 4How is that plane trip to Texas with Chuck Wallers?
Speaker 3Well, the whole crew knew that I was a little frightened, so they gave me the business.
Speaker 4Did you get airsick?
Speaker 2Yeah?
Speaker 3The hostess says, would you like to step outside and get some air for a few minutes?
Speaker 1I says, we're twenty thousand.
Speaker 4Feet Uh, what did she say?
Speaker 3She was surprised and says, maybe that's why those other passengers didn't come back.
Speaker 4Did you go forward with the pilot only for.
Speaker 2A few seconds?
Speaker 3I said to the pilot, I says, hey, that gas gage says empty.
Speaker 2Does that mean anything?
He says not to me.
Speaker 1I got a parachute.
Speaker 4Why are you ready to go down to the town hall?
Speaker 2Yeah, ready to go, boy.
Speaker 1As soon as they get in the car.
Speaker 4Now let's go by.
Are you still in that picture with Esther Williams?
Yeah?
Boy, what a job?
Speaker 3Oh?
Speaker 1I don't know.
Esther Williams don't bother me.
Speaker 5In fact, when I see her coming, I walk the other.
Speaker 4Way, one other way on my hands.
Of a picture takes place in Texas.
Speaker 1Yeah, hey, there's one scene in the picture.
Speaker 3This kid you Well, there are two guys and they both started and they're working in a blacksmith shops.
So one guy standing, he's got a big pair of pliers and he's holding a horse shoe in the fire and.
Speaker 2He says he.
Speaker 4The pete, Uh get ready to hit to hit the.
Speaker 1Smack this thing.
Speaker 3With you And the other guy say, boy, I'll be there.
So the guy throws the horse shoe over on the anvil, and he says, all right, come on, boy.
Speaker 2H smack it.
Speaker 3Well, hit and the other guy just till I hit it with the boot, the big big, the large slags or the or.
Speaker 2The little one.
Speaker 1The only guy should forget it.
Speaker 6It's full now, hey, step on the gas and we'll be late.
Speaker 5Okay, boy, say.
Speaker 3You know we're gonna need a bigger town hall.
Look at the crowd that showed up.
Speaker 4Yeah, oh there's con cadetal hopper.
I'm gonna go, say hello, I'll.
Speaker 1See you inside.
I want to see if we get some seats.
Speaker 4Lady, pardon me, hey, clam, Well here I am.
Speaker 3I've got plenty here nothing, yes, sir, right between my ears?
All right, Well I don't feel so good today.
You see my pet cake died.
Oh that's too bad, Yes it is, but we all got to go or later.
Speaker 2Seemed like everything.
Speaker 1Happens to me.
Speaker 2First, my pet pig dies and my.
Speaker 1Cow goes dry.
Speaker 3Now, my chickens won't lay an egg unless you bring back an empty shell.
Speaker 4What you got in that sack?
Speaker 6What have you got in that sack?
Speaker 2Oh, this is a lock of my girl's hair.
Speaker 4Clam, I never knew you were sentimental.
You gonna carry it in your wallet?
Speaker 2No, it's for scrubbing pots.
Speaker 1Run in short on steel wool.
Speaker 4Give me your girl's hair?
Speaker 6Is that cord?
Speaker 4Oh?
Speaker 1Yeah, she hadn't bought a broom in five years.
She just bends over and wiggles your eyebrow.
Speaker 4Your girl must be a little Oh she is.
Speaker 3You know she got braces on her teeth, got braised on her teeth.
I have a lot of fillings, you see, boy, when we kiss, you should see the sparks for life.
Speaker 4Are you going to the town hall meeting?
Speaker 1Well?
Speaker 3I might attend, but I hope that movie director Chuck Reisner don't speak.
Speaker 2Boy, he's too convincing.
Speaker 3He told us why we should donate blood to the blood bank, and the next day I went down and.
Speaker 2Gave all of my blood.
Speaker 4Look stupid, who's stupid you are?
Speaker 2I'm stupid?
Speaker 4Yeah, you're stupid.
Speaker 2Well thanks for telling me.
I'll straighten up.
Speaker 4You know, if you didn't have any blood, you wouldn't be alive.
Speaker 3Who's a wie, aren't you?
Speaker 2My birth certificate said could be?
Speaker 4My claim is good to see you.
I have to go now.
That's Captain's motioning for me.
Speaker 1Well, I'll see you around.
I gotta go bury my pet skunk.
Speaker 4Did your pet skunk guy too?
Speaker 2Yep, I think, don't keep the gutter?
Speaker 7Hey, right over here, it's can meeting working to order.
Why are we waiting for our Princeville speaker, San Fernando Red, who has been detained by a nasty accident.
Speaker 1He's right.
Speaker 8Racter and Gambo, the Gilbert and Sullivan of radio will entertain us with their coral group.
Speaker 1We wear the cleanest post in town.
Three happy husband's weep because.
Speaker 5You married three smart girls who use the.
Speaker 9Gets close any soap, any soap, Yes, any soap, You get the cleanest washing down.
Speaker 2With the.
Speaker 10Yes ma'am sing it or just plane say it.
Tide gives you the cleanest wash in town.
Because we've proved it in the laboratory.
Why we've tested Tide against every soap you've ever heard of.
Chances are we've tested it against the soap you've been using, and every time the results the same.
Speaker 1Tide.
Speaker 10Just plane gets closed cleaner than any other washing products sold throughout America.
Of course, millions of you women have proved that right in your own washing machines.
The only difference is Our results show up in facts and figures, but yours show up in the cleaner clothes.
Your children wear the cleaner sheets and towels in your linen closet.
So next wash day, wash your clothes in those terrific tide suns, then wring them wrinsome and hang up the cleanest wash in town.
Speaker 7Get any any you.
Speaker 1Get the cleanest washing tog with tea.
Speaker 3I think.
Speaker 8I order, ladies, gentlemen, order anything.
Will now be addressed by the Honorable San Fernando rend Thank you, miss or where you get warm in your hands?
Speaker 5Frans and you.
Speaker 10Are my fran.
Speaker 1I'm not going to make a political speech.
Speaker 3I promise you that.
And you know when I promise you something extincts stick.
Speaker 1I proved that.
Speaker 3By my campaign promises, whatever they were.
And I ain't gonna make no political speech because that ain't why I'm here.
I'm here because I'm scared to go home.
I just returned from our nation's capital, Independence, Missouri.
Speaker 1And I'd like to say that this freeze.
Speaker 3That the government has just put on has gone a little too far.
It was fifteen below zero back there.
There was a terrible snowstorm, but there wasn't one eye cycle on Harry's house.
Of course, when Margaret hits high Sea, something has to give worse.
Every time Harry goes on that yacht, everybody has to go.
Speaker 1Whens.
Speaker 3I'm telling you I just got back from Washington, d C.
And believe me, neighbors, when I tell you I saw Congress and Session.
Speaker 1You know what Congress is.
That's bingo with billions.
Speaker 3Why I'm telling you they're spending money like it was going out of style.
As you all know that, I've been in office only since last November, and I'm what saying that short time, I have accomplished quite a lot.
Speaker 1I've made myself enough money.
Speaker 3To retire already.
But now comes for the reason why I'm looking you in the face.
And as I look into your face, I can see there are a lot of faces that really need looking into.
Speaker 1I'm here to fut a word around about them.
Man who's been dragging Bond name through the mud.
Speaker 3Willy lumplump.
Let's look at the facts.
Now, these are the facts.
I'll get him.
I ain't gonna repeat this.
These are the facts.
Speaker 1Now.
This man is a disgraced star community.
Speaker 3He has no job, he has no savings, He has no self respect, and he spends already time lying in the gutter.
He ain't fit for nothing.
There's only one job that he could hold, and you've already elected me.
Speaker 1Let's ride really out of town on the rail.
I'll tell you a few adult neighbors.
He's gonna say the right thing, and I'll be impeached.
Speaker 4He's got let's get out of here.
Yeah, come on, she read the folk sounds sore?
Do you think they're really right?
Willie?
Out of town rail?
Speaker 1They bring a brass around, he'll get on it himself.
Hey, but we can't let this happen to Willie.
He's got a wife and three kids.
Speaker 4I didn't know the lump Plumps had any children.
Speaker 1Who's talking about children?
Speaker 2They raise goots?
What's come on?
Speaker 4We got a one Willie, but the crowds after him.
Well.
Speaker 1Look, last time I saw Willie, he was in a pet store with Junior.
Speaker 4What was he doing in a pet store?
Speaker 1He bought Junior a couple of white mice?
Speaker 2Oh no, what's matter?
Speaker 4Well?
I saw Junior and his mother inside attending the meeting.
So I saw him take something out of his pocket and stroke it a couple of times.
Then look around at the crowd like a fiend.
Speaker 1Oh no, whoa, You don't think he turned that mouse loosely to me?
Speaker 4I wouldn't put it past him.
Do you realize what would happen with all those women in there?
Speaker 2Yeah?
Speaker 1Oh well we all have to go sooner or later.
Speaker 2Look, i'll tell you what you do.
Speaker 3You go in and warn Junior's mother, and I'll go over see if I can get a beat on Willy lumplow.
Speaker 4Pardon me, I get through here.
Speaker 2Excuse me, folksy.
Speaker 1Way to go for him?
Coming?
Speaker 5Oh, gangway, you'll be trampled.
Speaker 3One has broken loose from the hogre.
Speaker 4How nice to run across?
Speaker 1How nice to run across?
Speaker 4Man?
Speaker 2You sorry?
He wasn't in the car at the time.
I know you.
Speaker 4Oh no, Junior, I'm a true friend.
I'd get my right arm for you.
Speaker 5Well, thanks, fat Joe.
I didn't know you felt that way.
Speaker 2Here he oh.
Speaker 4Cut my finger in that mouse trap.
Speaker 5Well listen to him.
Speaker 3He just said he'd give his right arm.
And now I try to take a finger on a country blow.
Speaker 1What have you done?
Oh wow, let me help you get that conception off your head.
Yeah, don't look nice.
Speaker 5I kind of rat instead of a mouth there.
Speaker 3Junior, how could you do such a thing as cats Rod's finger in the mouse track?
Speaker 1I'm sorry, I do it.
I won't do it no more, use big fat, greasy bum.
Speaker 3You've been it all out of shit now it can't take a mouth now, you couldn't catch a Toyle in there.
Speaker 5Now, white boy Clay, quiet, what have you got in your pocket?
Speaker 2Nothing gets me with your finger.
Speaker 5I heard squeaking.
Speaker 3They need oil, and let's go home.
You come to these meetings all the time, and I get you sleepy, and I guarantee you if you don't take me home within five minutes, you'll be done.
Speaker 1Junior, I can't mother asked to present a loving cup?
Speaker 5What for the chicken lovers of America?
Speaker 1Of asking me to?
Was that a cop to the chicken that laid the biggest egg?
Speaker 3Well, send it to Schneider in Washington, boy, the a he laid with that new tax proposal.
Speaker 5To go believe me now?
Everybody will believe me if we don't look.
Speaker 4I don't want you have in your pocket?
Speaker 1What I got my poppet?
Speaker 5I called him the way I see though?
What's the big secret?
Speaker 2Rod Well?
Speaker 1I got Jr?
Speaker 4And I have a secret.
Speaker 3Yes, in a few minutes, I gonna let everybody.
Speaker 4Oh no, no, you have worried Rod.
Speaker 1What's the matter?
Speaker 4You know what the matter?
You heard what San Fernando said about running WILLI out of town?
Speaker 3Yes, I heard that tune.
I think that you're rotten candy because he's a nice man.
Oh he gets your widow.
Speaker 1I away time.
Speaker 3But I figure anything is good enough for my own pap is good enough for wig Juli.
Speaker 5Don't you dare talk like that.
Speaker 1Your father is not a drinking man.
Speaker 3Oh he not when I got news for you?
Kdo you don't get that way from eat and come qua?
Speaker 2I'm morning, I tell you Rob, this boy is gonna drive me.
Speaker 5Oh no, I'm not.
Speaker 1I get arrested.
Speaker 5I don't have the driver's lie.
Speaker 4Green.
I gotta talk to Junior.
Junior, what did you last see Willie Lumpa?
Speaker 3But I can't talk here, So you get in so I can get some sleep.
You take me out of here in our talk, guys, I could be home in the sleep in the little.
Speaker 1Cage by now.
Speaker 4My place is so crowded.
Speaker 5I can take care of that.
Speaker 1Oh you know what I got in me back?
Speaker 4Oh good, heavens, don't take it out, junior.
Junior, you're not going through with it, are you?
Speaker 2Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1If the reason will step forward, we.
Speaker 4Will get the judges final decision and get on with the presentation against means another half hour with our sleep, okay, scolding woh.
Speaker 9No boy, what a break the way to break up communist meeting?
Speaker 5I'm out caring A way that'll be good?
Won't the FBI?
Speaker 2I heard it?
Speaker 4I did?
Speaker 5Oh, Junior, everything is rude.
Speaker 3You're all the chicken eggs are broken and the cameras are ruined.
Speaker 5Will never mind that the mouth wears me mouth?
Speaker 1Help me wire tiant order order.
Speaker 5I'll have an ice cream shoda and a mouth.
Speaker 3If we can have your attention, mister David Rose in his orchestra will.
Speaker 2Play a bushel ed the peg.
Speaker 10If you hate to wash dishes, then you're gonna love time.
Speaker 2You must mean me.
Speaker 5I really hate to wash dishes.
Speaker 10Would you mind telling me why?
Speaker 4For one thing?
Speaker 5My hands hate that greasy water?
Speaker 10Ah, then you're gonna love tide because there just isn't any greasy water when tide's in your dishpan.
Why tide cuts grease like magic seems to make grease disappear.
The water stays so clean and fresh.
It's a treat to your hands.
Speaker 4But I also hate all the time dish washing cake.
Speaker 10Or you gonna love tide because tide lets you wash dishes quick as one, two three.
Just wash your dishes in those heaping tide suns rinsom, then just let them drain dry.
No wiping needed for you.
See, unlike soap, tide leaves no dulling soap film, so you can skip wiping your dishes completely and they'll come out shining, sparkling bright.
So try Tide in your dishband real soon.
Remember, if you hate to wash dishes, then you're.
Speaker 4Gonna love tithed.
Speaker 2What is your next number?
Speaker 1Say?
Speaker 3The guy over at Joe's barn Grill told me that he saw Willy going into an art museum.
Speaker 4Well, here's a museum.
I know, I can't believe he being here.
Speaker 2Come on, let's go.
Speaker 3See anyhow, boy, Willie, Willie.
Speaker 2Hey, Willie, Oh Willie.
Speaker 4I knew this would be a wild goose chase.
Speaker 3What if sure got a lot of statues in here?
Look you go that way, I'll go around this play see if you can.
Speaker 4Find you see that statue over there.
Sure strange standing on its head.
Looks like a gargoyle.
No, it's willy lumplump, Hey, Willie, what are you.
Speaker 1Doing standing on your head?
Speaker 2Oh?
Speaker 1Will you like the wall?
Speaker 2Let's not get nosy, bud.
Speaker 1I'm standing on my head because my feeter killing believe me, my fear killing man.
Speaker 3My feet are big enough to kill ten mene, my wife, frunt, my socks and I have to tuck my toes in jack and weare I'm not.
Speaker 4I never expected to find you in this place.
How did you happen to come here?
Speaker 3Well, I'm just happy to be crawling home after a tough day at the unemployment compensation.
Speaker 2Liners here, so I thought I would come in and have me picked me up.
Speaker 3Boy, what a brawl this.
Speaker 2Must have been.
Huh.
Speaker 3Everybody's so blasted they can't move.
There's no wonder they to drop left in the place.
Looking at that guy who has stupid bummy got so stiff he started to throw his plate away and he's got holding it there.
Speaker 2If you ask me, this is.
Speaker 4An art museum and those are all statues.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, well it looks like the same crowd that hangs around the tam tavern.
Speaker 2This is wait till you hear this place.
Speaker 3Looked like a child and hangs around at Sam's tavern.
Only these bums dressed more tago.
I think they catch their death of cloth.
Look at that guy sitting over there, resting his head on his fist.
Speaker 2Look at that.
Speaker 4That's the thinker.
Speaker 2He certainly is on the thinker.
Speaker 3The way he was dressing looks like he lost everything he owned in a crap game and he was trying to think up a story to tell his wife.
Speaker 4Well, I came to warn you that there was a meeting of the town holiday and the people decided you were no good and they want to run you out of town.
Speaker 2Ah, so those busy bodies are after me.
Speaker 3That's the guys I try to expose that San Fernando Red, that no good bump.
Speaker 2Well, I got mow, you bun.
They can't run me out of town.
Speaker 3Why if they run me out of town, it means the brewery will have to close.
Speaker 2I am their full income.
Speaker 4Well, you've got to go on the wagon.
Speaker 2I just got off the wagon.
I gave my seat to a lady.
Speaker 4You know, you keep drinking that stuff.
You keep drinking that stuff and it's gonna kill you.
I've got to swear off that stuff before it's too late.
Speaker 1Oh not me, boy a boy a flock up and have you seen my power in Californ mcbug.
Speaker 4Lady, I'm telling you it's gonna be the death of you.
Speaker 2Oh so, uh, get the boy.
Speaker 4Gosh, he's asleep already.
Speaker 10I know one way we can care him a drinking Hey, yew, come on in here and give me a hand with this guy.
Speaker 4Yeah, you grabb his fet We're gonna give him such a scare that he'll never touch another drop.
Where we taking to the mortuary down the streetry.
Yeah, well, he's in for a big surprise.
Speaker 3It's only a half our program, boy, one free.
Speaker 1Thing, all right.
Just lay him on this table, gentlemen, Just lay him on this table.
Speaker 2Gentlemen.
Speaker 3Look, if you're ever a poll bear, don't forget to let go of that box.
Speaker 2They're gonna plant you.
Speaker 4You know we're lucky you wake up yet.
Speaker 3Yeah, we're grateful for your helping us teach Willie a lesson, mister Shrouds.
Speaker 2Oh, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 4So I'm happy to be of service to you at any time.
Speaker 1Well, don't look so anxious brother.
Speaker 2Hey, god, I'm.
Speaker 1Gonna go for Willy's wife.
Speaker 4Oh, I don't think I have to do that.
Speaker 3Well, I want to go outside anyway.
You see, I don't like the way mister Stroud's appraising me.
See I'm a sucker for sales talking.
He gives me a bargain.
I'm liable to go.
Speaker 1I'll see you guys later.
Your your friend seems to be wakening up.
Speaker 4Oh, y'all hid behind this door.
Give him a good scare.
Speaker 3Mister his eyes.
He teas if I've ever tamed.
You are the fattest snake I've ever seen.
They go, tell the bar mix me another one.
Speaker 2You just like the last?
We really quiet?
Have you no respect for the deceased?
Speaker 1Well, I figured you was gone, but I didn't want to say.
Speaker 3You know, let me ask you something, brother, how long have you been tact exam?
Speaker 1Oh I am not the deceased.
Speaker 6You are?
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm dead?
Speaker 2You mean I'm really dead?
I can't wait.
Speaker 3Ah, I mean I've qualified for your lao way playing.
Speaker 1The first laughing undertaker I've ever seen.
Exactly Now they still while I try to make you look natural.
Yeah, he was out of McKinley's number four.
Speaker 3Look, if I'm dead, how come I can set up and daltye?
No, no, you you you're kidding me.
Speaker 5Boy, you just don't sound right to me, and you don't look right here.
Speaker 2You yet don't look.
Speaker 1Right to me.
Speaker 3I've seen a lot of corption my day, but you can't don't look.
Speaker 2Right to meet you.
I repeat, you don't rock?
Speaker 1How did you used to pault your hair.
Speaker 2In the middle?
Speaker 3You know every block should have an alley.
Look, I'm not ready to go yet.
Now I'll stop this stuff with you.
Speaker 6Now.
Speaker 3I've got things to finished, like that fifth I left in the closet.
Speaker 2And ain't empty that you.
Speaker 3Please please co operate and fold your hands over your chest.
Speaker 1I have to have some place to put the lily.
Speaker 3Oh, well, don't look at me.
Speaker 1I ain't gonna stay.
You don't mind.
I don't like lilies.
I'd rather have four rods.
Speaker 2Now, now lay back.
Speaker 1One of your friends has come to view the remains.
Speaker 3Oh, it's probably my bookie coming to Colleck.
I guess die out more than him.
Speaker 4Huh.
Speaker 3One way to beat the horses die?
Speaker 4May I see him now, mister shroud, Oh there he is, Poor Willie.
He was such a nice guy, if you only hadn't drunk some mudy.
Speaker 1Yes, it's such a shame that he's no longer with us.
Now he's killing me kid me.
Speaker 4Ah, if only, if only he'd taken the pledge from father Edward Carne when I asked him to.
He's been with us today.
Yes, what are they gonna plant?
The old boy?
Speaker 1What I see tomorrow?
Day o'clock?
Speaker 5I can't make it.
Speaker 3I never get up before them, except when I was army, and I used to get up at noon.
Speaker 2I was a major.
Speaker 4You know.
Speaker 2His wife?
Speaker 4Yes, how is she taking out?
Well, she's keeping her mind off by cashing in his insurance policy.
Speaker 2She got a lot of fun.
Look, I hate to be stubborn about that, but I changed my mind.
I'm not gonna go.
Can I have a ringtack on it?
Speaker 1Who'd I have to see?
You get a.
Speaker 4Poor poor will I?
If you'd only listen to me and stop drinking, this would never have happened.
Speaker 2Oh it looks now.
Speaker 3If you can hear me, if I'm getting through to you, If you just get me back, I'll never touch another drop to help me.
Speaker 1You know, maybe I've had something on my mind that I haven't wanted.
Speaker 2To tell you fellas about it.
Oh.
Speaker 3I've been stiffed before, but every life it just seems so final.
Speaker 2Please don't bury me boys.
Speaker 4Ah, Willie, I hope you've learned your lesson.
Speaker 1I can't, No, boy, I have on my lesson.
Let me out atmospheret look out for that truck.
Speaker 4Oh will you here?
Speaker 6You all right?
Speaker 1Yeah?
Speaker 3A few minutes ago, I was the Undertaker's father and I'm on my way to the hospital.
Speaker 2I'm improving.
Speaker 4I'll let us in John on until next Sunday.
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