Saturday, December 22, 2018

OTR Holiday Month Day 22: Jack Benny

For this Saturday's episode of the Jack Benny Program I've chosen the December 8, 1946 episode. In this show, Jack goes shopping for Don Wilson's Christmas present but he can't quite make up his mind between plastic-tip shoelaces or metal-tip shoelaces. It was such a winning idea for the show that the writers basically recycled it every December from then on, simply replacing the shoelaces with a different product and depicting the clerk selling the item (played by Mel Blanc) increasingly angst-ridden from trying to satisfy Jack's whims.

You can listen to the episode on archive.org here.

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