If it does, I missed it because I was too busy laughing. No disclosures here. Just watch the deadpan deliver of Fred Ziffel . He must have screwed that up once or twice before he said it at his best. Then watch Mr Kimball and his nurse ralph, with her pills - lol.
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Like kazoo music--you'll love this one!
FlushingCaps6 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Oliver is into his "Mr. Fixit" role, beginning with a leak in the kitchen sink, he is also asked to fix several other things wrong with the house, most importantly the floorboards in the front porch. When he examines them, he sees the need for a new board but before going to town, he puts a solid board on top of the one that seems about to break through to keep anyone from falling through.
Here comes Mr. Kimball, who sees the one board Oliver just placed sticking out past the front end of the porch and tosses it aside so nobody will trip over it-logical, really, not knowing it was placed there for a reason. But when he steps onto the porch, Hank's foot goes right through, leaving him shin deep with one foot beneath the porch.
Oliver helps him into the house and determines it must be a sprained ankle. He asks Lisa to get the ice bag but she informs that she threw it away because "the ice melted." She winds up using a ton of bandages around his foot-leaving the boot on-but getting him, somehow, moved to the bed instead of the couch.
Hank has decided to use his kazoo to signal he needs something, choosing "Charge" when he wants Mrs. Douglas, and "Taps" when he wants Mr. D.
Coming to aid her sweety, Ralph shows up with a nursing bag and an overnight bag, determined to stay by her Hanky as long as he needs her. Oliver goes back to working on the sink. While he is underneath, Ralph turns on the faucet drenching Oliver worse than Lisa did in the opening scene.
As a bit of trivia, knowing how TV shows not filmed in front of an audience normally filmed all scenes in one room, then moved on to scenes in another, and so on, instead of going through the episode in the order in which we would see it, the way the next several shots appear is interesting. Another knock at the door leads Oliver to answer it, first stopping in the bedroom to see why Kimball is tooting for him, then to the living room. We see Oliver's vest sweater is all wet in the kitchen, dry in the living room, wet in the bedroom, and dry again in the living room.
Mr. Haney comes by as a self-appointed lawyer wanting to sue Oliver for $50,000 on behalf of his client, Hank. He later comes down a bit, willing to settle for $25.
I enjoyed one scene where Hank toots for Oliver and when the call is answered, Hank asks Oliver to change the channel on the TV. Ralph is beside him on the other side of the bed. Oliver asks why she can't change the channel. Ralph replies, while holding up her hands, "Because I'm sterile."
Tired of all the kazoo tooting, Oliver decides he's going to a bar but as he dashes out the front door he puts his foot through the porch like Hank did, spraining his own ankle. Now he is lying on the bed beside Hank, unable to get any peace and quiet. Ralph has invited the Hooterville Kazoo and Drum Corps to visit. They march in playing Taps, and as the episode ends, switching to the theme song from Green Acres.
This one was chock full of good lines and Kimball was probably the most consistently coherent he was in any episode in the series, not doing much of his mixed-up, forgetful, stick at all. Nothing in the plot seemed like it had been done before, so I rate it a 10. Maybe I'm partial because around the time this was aired, I liked to fiddle around with a kazoo too.
Here comes Mr. Kimball, who sees the one board Oliver just placed sticking out past the front end of the porch and tosses it aside so nobody will trip over it-logical, really, not knowing it was placed there for a reason. But when he steps onto the porch, Hank's foot goes right through, leaving him shin deep with one foot beneath the porch.
Oliver helps him into the house and determines it must be a sprained ankle. He asks Lisa to get the ice bag but she informs that she threw it away because "the ice melted." She winds up using a ton of bandages around his foot-leaving the boot on-but getting him, somehow, moved to the bed instead of the couch.
Hank has decided to use his kazoo to signal he needs something, choosing "Charge" when he wants Mrs. Douglas, and "Taps" when he wants Mr. D.
Coming to aid her sweety, Ralph shows up with a nursing bag and an overnight bag, determined to stay by her Hanky as long as he needs her. Oliver goes back to working on the sink. While he is underneath, Ralph turns on the faucet drenching Oliver worse than Lisa did in the opening scene.
As a bit of trivia, knowing how TV shows not filmed in front of an audience normally filmed all scenes in one room, then moved on to scenes in another, and so on, instead of going through the episode in the order in which we would see it, the way the next several shots appear is interesting. Another knock at the door leads Oliver to answer it, first stopping in the bedroom to see why Kimball is tooting for him, then to the living room. We see Oliver's vest sweater is all wet in the kitchen, dry in the living room, wet in the bedroom, and dry again in the living room.
Mr. Haney comes by as a self-appointed lawyer wanting to sue Oliver for $50,000 on behalf of his client, Hank. He later comes down a bit, willing to settle for $25.
I enjoyed one scene where Hank toots for Oliver and when the call is answered, Hank asks Oliver to change the channel on the TV. Ralph is beside him on the other side of the bed. Oliver asks why she can't change the channel. Ralph replies, while holding up her hands, "Because I'm sterile."
Tired of all the kazoo tooting, Oliver decides he's going to a bar but as he dashes out the front door he puts his foot through the porch like Hank did, spraining his own ankle. Now he is lying on the bed beside Hank, unable to get any peace and quiet. Ralph has invited the Hooterville Kazoo and Drum Corps to visit. They march in playing Taps, and as the episode ends, switching to the theme song from Green Acres.
This one was chock full of good lines and Kimball was probably the most consistently coherent he was in any episode in the series, not doing much of his mixed-up, forgetful, stick at all. Nothing in the plot seemed like it had been done before, so I rate it a 10. Maybe I'm partial because around the time this was aired, I liked to fiddle around with a kazoo too.
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