Bart wins a bank, then finds out $20,000 are missing. The old lady has been juggling the books to prevent foreclosures. There is nearly a run on the bank. Doc Holliday temporarily saves the day by borrowing money from a crook named Blackjack Carney at an exorbitant interest rate. Doc means to marry pretty Jolene Brand, a bank employee, and a regular on the Ernie Kovacs show. The Gold Brick Stamps recall S&H Green Stamps. Things work out when Bart sells the bank back to the man he won it from. Pappyism: "Money's always the same. It's the pockets that change."
2 Reviews
Good Fun
dougdoepke11 December 2011
Expertly played episode with more than its share of laughs. Bart wins a bank in a poker game. But why, we wonder, does banker Sims want to lose it. The answer involves Bart in a whole wagon-load of difficulties, more twists and turns than the proverbial stick to shake at. I get the impression the writers were also having fun taking shots at trading stamps (of all things) and highbrow Yale University.
Those boardroom sessions with roughneck Blackjack (deKova) are a real hoot. Add a terminally coy Penelope (Brand), a conniving Doc Holliday (Breck), an equally conniving banker Sims (Owen), and it's near classic Maverick, though you may need a scorecard to keep up with all the twists and turns.
Those boardroom sessions with roughneck Blackjack (deKova) are a real hoot. Add a terminally coy Penelope (Brand), a conniving Doc Holliday (Breck), an equally conniving banker Sims (Owen), and it's near classic Maverick, though you may need a scorecard to keep up with all the twists and turns.
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