Bickersons - 1st Song - 'Blue Skies'. Blanche Wants a Baby

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Harold’s Old Time Radio

Episode: Bickersons – 1st Song – “Blue Skies” / Blanche Wants a Baby
Date: April 4, 2026
Host: Harolds Old Time Radio
Main Stars: Don Ameche, Frances Langford, Danny Thomas

Episode Overview

This episode of Harold’s Old Time Radio takes listeners back to the golden age of radio, featuring the classic Bickersons sketch, iconic comedy performances, and a memorable musical number by Frances Langford. The episode delivers rapid-fire wit, marital banter, and quirky scenarios most famously brought to life by Don Ameche and Frances Langford as the Bickersons, with Danny Thomas as troublemaking brother Amos. The comedic focus shifts from phone booth absurdities to John and Blanche's nighttime arguments, culminating in the hilarious “Blanche Wants a Baby” routine.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Musical Opening: “Blue Skies” by Frances Langford (01:00 – 02:20)

• Francis Langford (singing):

  “Blue skies / Smiling at me / Nothing but blue skies do I see...” (01:00)

• Sets a nostalgic, upbeat tone—classic American pop from the era.

2. Phone Booth Farce (02:20 – 09:54)

• Premise: Danny Thomas’s character has taken up semi-permanent residence in a phone booth, leading to a confrontation with a lawyer from the phone company (Mr. Gordon).
• Light banter and wordplay about legal eviction, landlord/tenant rights, and Danny’s refusal to leave.
• Notable Quote:

  “Imagine a guy being evicted from a phone booth!” – Don Ameche (04:51)
  “Well, I’m the public. I put nickels in. That’s like paying rent. As soon as a phone company accepts my money, they’ve established a landlord-tenant relationship.” – Danny Thomas (08:48)

3. Legal Satire & Daydream: Danny’s Fantasy Court Scenes (09:54 – 15:09)

• Danny imagines himself as a world-famous lawyer in both British and American courts, defending improbable cases with over-the-top logic and punchlines.
• Memorable Moments:
  • British courtroom with Sir Daniel Thomas defending an infamous woman:

    “I move for acquittal... Not only acquittal, but a life membership in the Automobile Club.” (11:03) “On what ground?” – Don Ameche (12:03)
    “Obviously for changing her oil every 500 miles.” – Danny Thomas (12:04)

  • American courtroom with a poverty-stricken client:

    “I got an inner tube with two chickens and a box of cigars.” – Don Ameche (12:39)

    • Danny sings a comic defense ballad about the client’s misdeeds, aided by Frances Langford.

4. Transition Song: “The Things We Did Last Summer” (15:09 – 17:58)

• Frances Langford (singing):

  “The boat rides we would take / The moonlight on the lake / The way we danced and hung our favorite song...” (15:09)

• Brings a wistful, melodic interlude amid the comedy.

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5. Radio Comedy: The Bickersons – “Blanche Wants a Baby” (19:47 – 27:25)

Opening Domestic Discord

(19:47 – 22:08)

• Blanche berates John for his snoring, inability to keep a job, and failure to live up to her brother Amos’s “success.”
• Quote:

  “You’d do a lot better, John, if you patterned yourself after my brother Amos.” – Blanche (20:53)
  “I hate your brother Amos.” – John (20:58)

The Cycle of Arguments

(22:11 – 23:29)

• Exchanges about alarm clocks, breakfast, laundry, and mutual accusations.
• Memorable Bickersons dynamic:

  “It’s your own snoring that wakes me up and makes me wake you to stop it, so you can get enough sleep, so you won’t be tired from sleeping the way you do!” – Blanche (22:01)

Blanche Wants a Baby

(23:36 – 24:44)

• Blanche laments that all their friends have babies, and she’s disappointed that they do not.
• Quote:

  “There’s something missing, John. All our friends have such fun with their children. Everybody has a baby, Blanche. It’s 4:00 in the morning!” (23:36 – 23:52)

More Misfortune for John

(24:45 – 25:49)

• Blanche reveals she lent John’s new car to Amos, who has no license and damaged the garage door.
• Quote:

  “Well, I lent your car to Amos... He wanted to go to the racetrack.” – Blanche (24:47)
  “He hasn’t even got a license!” – John (24:59)
  “You won’t find the garage door either.” – Blanche (25:41)

John’s Breaking Point

(25:49 – End)

• John is awakened by a late-night call from Amos, who has wrecked and sold John’s car after losing money at the track.
• Climactic Lines:

  “I ran your car into a truck and I sold it on the spot to a junk man.” – Amos (27:02)
  “Hey, it’s the end of the world. Turn out the lights, Blanche. I’m weak. Let me get back in bed. Why should one man have so much trouble?” – John (27:11)

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• (02:47): “This is serious, Francis. There’s a lawyer here, Mr. Gordon. He’s from the telephone company, and he wants his phone booth back.” – Don Ameche
• (08:54): “As soon as a phone company accepts my money, they’ve established a landlord-tenant relationship.” – Danny Thomas
• (11:03): “I move for acquittal... a life membership in the Automobile Club.” – Danny Thomas
• (12:04): “Obviously for changing her oil every 500 miles.” – Danny Thomas
• (20:53): “You’d do a lot better, John, if you patterned yourself after my brother Amos.” – Blanche
• (23:52): “Everybody has a baby, Blanche. It’s 4:00 in the morning.” – John
• (25:41): “You won’t find the garage door either.” – Blanche
• (27:02): “...sold it on the spot to a junk man.” – Amos

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Episode Tone & Style

• Comedy: Quick, clever dialogue laced with loving insults and slapstick misfortune.
• Music: Classic vocal performances, emotionally anchoring the episode in the period.
• Nostalgia: Pure old-time radio charm—reflecting the family listening experience of the mid-century.

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Highlights for New Listeners

• The episode encapsulates the essence of The Bickersons: bickering with affection, relentless misadventures, and the enduring comedy of marital life.
• Danny Thomas’s fantastical courtroom comedy and punchlines showcase vaudeville sensibilities bridging into broadcast radio.
• Frances Langford’s vocal performances add a warm, evocative touch.

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Recommended Segment Timestamps:

• “Blue Skies” song: 01:00 – 02:20
• Phone booth legal farce: 02:20 – 09:54
• Imaginary courtroom routines: 09:54 – 15:09
• “The Things We Did Last Summer” song: 15:09 – 17:58
• Bickerson marital sketch: 19:47 – 27:25

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In Summary

This episode of Harold’s Old Time Radio is a quintessential journey into golden-age radio, harmonizing rapid-fire situational humor and musical nostalgia. The Bickersons’ comic battles, Danny Thomas’s signature zaniness, and Frances Langford’s heartfelt songs produce an episode that’s both timeless and genuinely funny—perfect for both devoted fans and new listeners discovering radio’s comedic heritage.

Transcript

[Don Ameche]

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[Danny Thomas]

I'll get out of this phone booth tonight if it kills me.

[Don Ameche]

And Francis Langford, who sings.

[Francis Langford]

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Blue birds singing a song Nothing but blue skies all day long Never saw the song shining so bright Never saw things going so right Noticing the days harrying by when you're in love oh, mile they fly Days, all of them gone Nothing but blue skies all day long Never saw the sun shining so bright Never saw things going so right Noticing the day is hurrying by when you're in love A mile they fly all of them gone Nothing but blue skies no more gray sky Nothing but blue sky from now on.

[Don Ameche]

Thank you. Thank you, Francis. Now here is your host for the evening, Don Ameche. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and good evening. Don't go away, Francis.

[Blanche Biggerson]

What's the matter, Don?

[Don Ameche]

Oh, it's Danny Thomas in the telephone booth. I think we're in for a little unpleasantness tonight.

[Danny Thomas]

What happened, Don? Did he get his head caught in the dial?

[Don Ameche]

Carmen, you're a scream.

[Danny Thomas]

Well, I don't know the guy. I never even saw him.

[Don Ameche]

This is serious, Francis. There's a lawyer here, Mr. Gordon. He's from the telephone company, and he wants his phone booth back.

[Danny Thomas]

I once knew a fellow who worked for the phone company. Used to empty the coin boxes. His name was Rob Nichols. They used to tell the one about the streetcar conductors. Rob Nichols. Get it?

[Don Ameche]

Well, I thought it was funny. What expects? I'm only a bandleader, honey.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Why don't you take a couple of aspirins?

[Don Ameche]

Francis, I want you to stay right with me when we go to see Danny. And perhaps you'll be able to soften the blow and sort of manage things. Dream leaves your hair so soft and yet so easy to manage now, what's that for, Toby? Well, I'm just running through my discourse on Dre. Please be good enough to run through it someplace else. Never saw such a disorganized Ms. Gramici. I don't like to be boorish about this thing, but my time is limited. I'm trying a very important case in superior court tomorrow. Forgive me, Mr. Gordon. Briefs to prepare and all that, you know. Mr. Gordon, this is Ms. Langford. I'd like her. Ms. Langford.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Mr. Gordon.

[Don Ameche]

I thought the three of us would quietly. Naturally, it isn't my intention to resort to violence, But I understand this Tompkins fellow. Thomas. Danny Thomas.

[Danny Thomas]

Yes.

[Don Ameche]

I understand he's not only taken possession of the phone booth, but furnished it completely and rented the front window to a watchmaker. Now, that's just gossip, Mr. Gordon. I'm sure we can. And that remains to be seen. My clients. The telephone company.

[Danny Thomas]

The telephone company. How about getting me a phone for my new apartment, Jack?

[Don Ameche]

I'm afraid you have the advantage of me, sir. Carmen. He doesn't install telephones. He's their chief lawyer. This is Mr. Gordon from New York.

[Danny Thomas]

How do you do? I'm Dragon from North Hollywood.

[Don Ameche]

Well, I'm a little weary myself. The trip wasn't exactly idyllic, huh? Go away.

[Danny Thomas]

Go away.

[Don Ameche]

Mr. Gordon, I suggest that we repair to the telephone booth and see if we can repair Danny Thomas. An Excellent idea, Mr. Amici. You're nothing if not forthright. Where's this booth?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Fourth to the right. Would you like me to carry a briefcase, Mr. Gordon?

[Don Ameche]

Oh, thank you, Ms. Lankford. I can manage. Just let me find my folio papers.

[Danny Thomas]

Here it is.

[Don Ameche]

I want this dispossessed notice. Dispossessed? Imagine a guy being evicted from a phone booth. Well, it just goes. Wait, wait.

[Danny Thomas]

Hold it.

[Don Ameche]

Hold it a minute.

[Danny Thomas]

Huh?

[Don Ameche]

What's the trouble? What's Reed doing in Danny's booth? I didn't even know they'd ever met. There's something strange going on between them. Listen.

[Danny Thomas]

Uh huh? What'd you say his name was?

[Don Ameche]

Toby Gordon. Gordon. He's a lawyer. And they're going to evict you from this phone move.

[Danny Thomas]

Is a Nietzsche in on this or Francis Langford?

[Don Ameche]

Oh, I don't think so, Danny. Gee, that's why I'm so glad you've got Mike fright.

[Danny Thomas]

Glad? It's driving me nuts, I know, but

[Don Ameche]

I can come here and bring you little bits of information and nobody knows how you repay me.

[Danny Thomas]

Thanks for tipping me off, Toby. I suppose you want your reward now, huh?

[Don Ameche]

Well, if it isn't asking too much, Danny.

[Danny Thomas]

Oh, no, go ahead, Read your commercial to me.

[Don Ameche]

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[Danny Thomas]

Beat it quick. Here comes Amici and that lawyer. I better use the phone, Danny.

[Don Ameche]

One minute, my good man. Hello?

[Danny Thomas]

Yes. Yes, I see. Leaving for Cairo this evening, eh? Well, make it a point to call me as soon as you arrive. Yes, at this number. Bullets. All right, I'll wait here until you call.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Goodbye, Danny.

[Danny Thomas]

Oh, good evening, Ms. Langford.

[Don Ameche]

Danny, this gentleman wants to have a talk.

[Danny Thomas]

Make it brief, please. I'm expecting some very important calls.

[Don Ameche]

Am I addressing Mr. Thomas? You have that honor, Mr. Gordon, sir. I'm an attorney.

[Danny Thomas]

Oh, Attorney Gordon. Delighted. Mr. Gordon. It's Ms. Langford.

[Don Ameche]

Ms. Langford.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Mr. Gordon.

[Danny Thomas]

Mr. Amici.

[Don Ameche]

Mr. Gordon. Mr. Gordon. Ms. Remici. Well, if you'll excuse me now, I

[Danny Thomas]

have some business to attend to. You'll find the ice and the ginger ale over there.

[Don Ameche]

Danny, what's the matter with you?

[Danny Thomas]

Oh, hello, Don.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Come on out and talk to Mr. Gordon. Danny.

[Don Ameche]

Mr. Thomas, I represent the telephone company.

[Danny Thomas]

Oh, you do? Fine. Well, I want you to fix this mouthpiece. It keeps dropping on my nose every time I.

[Don Ameche]

Look.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Danny, come on out and talk to Mr. Gordon.

[Don Ameche]

Mr. Gordon is an attorney and he wants you to get out of that booth. Here's the bill of particulars.

[Danny Thomas]

Please don't bother me with mundane affairs.

[Don Ameche]

It's not mundane. It's Sundane, Dan. And you better read that bill of particulars.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Come on out and talk to Mr. Gordon. Why can't I have another line?

[Don Ameche]

Mr. Thomas, I am prepared to go to court with an action of ejectment in the event that you fail to comply with the demands made in our bill of particulars.

[Danny Thomas]

Let me see it. No. All men by these present greetings. To wit, discharge Danny Thomas. Telephone booth. Three weeks. Public notion. Serving a peace indirect test. What do you know? Mr. Gordon? This entire thing is irrelevant, incompetent and impotestic.

[Don Ameche]

What is that, infotistic?

[Danny Thomas]

I don't know. I just put it in there to make. To scare him, that's all.

[Don Ameche]

My dear sir, you don't scare me in the least. In exactly three minutes I shall call the police and have you forcibly ejected.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Come on out and talk to Mr. Gordon. Oh, this is getting monotonous.

[Danny Thomas]

Now wait a minute, Mr. Gordon. You have no right to put me out of this phone booth.

[Don Ameche]

Why, of course he has, Danny. You've been in it for three weeks. And it's supposed to be for public use.

[Danny Thomas]

Well, I'm the public. I put nickels in. That's like paying rent. As soon as a phone company accepts my money, they've established a landlord tenant relationship.

[Don Ameche]

Very good. Oh, Danny, this won't get you anywhere. It's one thing to occupy a phone booth for more than a reasonable length of time, but it's another when you have it redecorated and take in borders.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Borders?

[Danny Thomas]

That's a lie. Only one border.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Come on out and talk to. Oh, the devil with that.

[Francis Langford]

Goodbye.

[Danny Thomas]

And if we call me a public nuisance. Mr. Gordon, have you forgotten the doctrine of valencia non ficionuria?

[Don Ameche]

That's an Excellent defense, Mr. Thomas.

[Danny Thomas]

You bet it is.

[Don Ameche]

Where'd you learn all that? You do have a perfect right to occupy the booth as long as you do no injury and continue to make regular payments for calls completed.

[Danny Thomas]

You tell em, boy.

[Don Ameche]

As I said before, your defense is excellent. Yes, sir, except for one minor flaw. What's that? The service on this telephone has been discontinued since December 3rd.

[Danny Thomas]

I've been stabbed.

[Don Ameche]

Now will you come out of there, you faker.

[Danny Thomas]

Oh, please, Don. I'll do anything but don't make me face that microphone.

[Don Ameche]

Remember, Mr. Thomas, if you haven't vacated this phone booth by tomorrow morning, we'll have to secure a writ of mandamus, a writ of riplevin and a nolo contendere. Good day. And I hope they throw you in jail for life.

[Danny Thomas]

How do you like that hopes they throw me in jail for life. Brings around his big shot lawyer friends. What's so tough about being a lawyer? All you need is a college education. I could have gone to college. Thought of going to high school. How could I? I didn't even graduate from grammar school. What's on your mind? He says to me. I should have said nothing and beat him to the punch. But he didn't say, what's on your mind? How do you like that? For once in my life I think of a brilliant dancer and he hasn't got the decency to ask me the question for you. He tries to impress me with his knowledge of Blackstone. I know who Blackstone is. He's a cigar. No, seriously. I know Blackstone backwards. I do. An odd scalp. Big thing. Law. I can be the greatest lawyer in the world. Sure, why not? It's a free country. I'm a citizen, see? I can just see me now. Famous all over the world. Defending a case in England.

[Don Ameche]

A breathless hush falls upon the courtroom in historic Old Bailey in London as Sir Daniel Thomas KCB addresses the bench in a final plea for his beautiful client.

[Danny Thomas]

My Lord, Counsel for the Crown has been most eloquent in his plea for the verdict of guilty. But I find it incumbent to remind the court of the mitigating circumstances. There you behold my client. Beautiful, yes. Polished, sedate, Civil art. Her humble origin has already been recorded. Born in Mumpskycht Mews, it crampers under burpsing Nieb's Erps Didlum rose from a cinder wench to become mistress of the Manor of Mawkish Puddles and the wife of the Earl of Wobbly. The evidence is clear that in a fit of temper she killed the Earl with the bed warmer and married another earl. She travelled 500 miles to marry the second earl, then liquidated him too. And 500 miles later she took the spouse, yet another earl. Always with the same tragic result. For 17 years she adhered to this practice. Not entirely without reason. I move for acquittal. Not only acquittal, but a life membership in the automobile club.

[Don Ameche]

On what ground?

[Danny Thomas]

Obviously for changing her oil every 500 miles.

[Don Ameche]

Case dismissed. Does the defendant wish to speak?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Come on out and talk to Mr. Gordon.

[Don Ameche]

Back in America, all eyes were upon the famous attorney Chauncey Depew Thomas as he conversed in low tones with his poverty stricken client, an Italian immigrant.

[Danny Thomas]

You swear to me that you're innocent of this crime? You swear you didn't steal an inner tube, two chickens and a box of cigars?

[Don Ameche]

I must swear. But I'm not going to pay you no money, Mr. Lawyer.

[Danny Thomas]

Now give me what you can afford. What have you got?

[Don Ameche]

I got an inner tube with two chickens and a box of cigars.

[Danny Thomas]

Good. If it please the court, on behalf of my client, your Honor, I make this appeal to you. I'm not trying to say he's perfect. Very few. Hi.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Hi. Hi.

[Francis Langford]

Hi, Hidey. Hi. Order ordering the court.

[Don Ameche]

The defense will continue.

[Danny Thomas]

He once had a fight with his mother in law so he threw her out, but not through the door. It just happens he lived on the 43rd floor. So for that you call a man a criminal?

[Don Ameche]

That's all right, you, Honor. I couldn't get a Laura Piperman's. It's none of my fault.

[Danny Thomas]

Shut up your face.

[Don Ameche]

Proceed.

[Danny Thomas]

Yes, you. I mean, yes, your Honor. Now, he asked for a raise and was met with a sneer he happened to see that a penknife was near so what's wrong with a boss who's got only one ear? For that you call a man a criminal, hmm?

[Don Ameche]

That's right, you, Honor. I tell him I'm sorry I lose him.

[Danny Thomas]

Shut up your face, Rosie. Yes, you, Honor. Once a lady told him he was cruel and wild she told him he wasn't well bred oh, but he's such a softie he wept like a child as he broke every bone in her

[Francis Langford]

head

[Danny Thomas]

don't grant him a thief for one scheme that he had. It's only a cigarette lighter he snatched it just happened it had a Buick attached. Now you have heard my plea, your Honor. But if you still think he's a sinner, won't you please hang him right away? I'm an hour late for dinner. We got meat and cabbage.

[Francis Langford]

Turn me in your hand. Order. Order.

[Don Ameche]

The court finds the defendant guilty and sentences him to 20 years at hard labor.

[Danny Thomas]

You see, Bacigalupi, I told you I'd get you a job. And that's why I always say. What do you always say?

[Don Ameche]

Well, sometimes I like to say.

[Danny Thomas]

Shut up your face. This is what I always say.

[Francis Langford]

Please don't call a crook not criminal. The boat rides we would take the moonlight on the lake the way we danced and hung Our favorite song the things we did last remember all went along the music midway and the fun the Cupid dolls We won the bell you rang to prove that you were

[Danny Thomas]

strong

[Francis Langford]

the things we did last summer I remember all went along

[Danny Thomas]

the early

[Francis Langford]

morning hike the rated tandem by the launchers that we used to pass we never could explain that sudden Summer rain the looks we got when we got back the leaves began to fade like promises we made how could a love that seemed so right go wrong? The things we did last summer I remember all we belong. The leaves began to fade like promises we made how could a love like ours go on? The things we did last summer. I remember all we knew.

[Don Ameche]

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[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, I'm just not going to stand another minute. John. John, sit up. Come on. Sit right straight upright. Take off that sleep shade.

[Don Ameche]

What's the matter, Branson?

[Blanche Biggerson]

You're making me a nervous wreck with that snoring. I haven't closed my eyes all night. There must be something you can take to stop it.

[Don Ameche]

Stop what?

[Blanche Biggerson]

You're snoring.

[Don Ameche]

It's just your imagination. I never snore, John Vickson.

[Blanche Biggerson]

How you can have the audacity to. John. John, if you weren't snoring just then, what were you doing?

[Don Ameche]

Well, how do I know, Blanche? I was sleeping.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, that kind of sleep is no good for you.

[Don Ameche]

Well, I.

[Danny Thomas]

Love

[Blanche Biggerson]

doesn't leave you rested. I hope you haven't forgot that you start working a new job tomorrow morning. Your last one. You gave up because you weren't wide awake.

[Don Ameche]

Blanche, I didn't give up my old job. You quit for me.

[Blanche Biggerson]

It's a good thing I Did. You weren't making enough anyway.

[Don Ameche]

The new job pays less, I know,

[Blanche Biggerson]

but the hours are longer.

[Don Ameche]

What kind of reasoning do you call that?

[Blanche Biggerson]

There's more time to advance yourself. You'd do a lot better, John, if you patterned yourself after my brother Amos.

[Don Ameche]

I hate your brother Amos.

[Blanche Biggerson]

At least he's a go getter.

[Don Ameche]

Well, then why doesn't he go get a job?

[Blanche Biggerson]

He doesn't need to. Amos is a shrewd businessman. He can get things from people.

[Don Ameche]

He got plenty from me.

[Blanche Biggerson]

All right, you're just jealous. He makes good everywhere he goes. Even in the army. He worked himself up to a field marshal.

[Don Ameche]

He worked himself up to a buck private.

[Blanche Biggerson]

You know very well we got word that they made him a field marshal.

[Don Ameche]

He was a private and he was court martialed. Not field marshal.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, what's the difference? Court martial field marshal. Did you set the alarm clock?

[Don Ameche]

Yes, I set the alarm clock.

[Blanche Biggerson]

What time did you set it for? I want you to give yourself plenty of time. And from now on, you're going to eat breakfast with me before you leave.

[Don Ameche]

Okay?

[Blanche Biggerson]

When you get it ready, just call me downstairs.

[Don Ameche]

Get what ready?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Breakfast. It won't hurt you to prepare breakfast for both of us. Leo Goosby does it all the time. He brings its Gloria on a tray.

[Don Ameche]

Blanche, why don't you let me sleep?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, I like that I don't let you sleep.

[Don Ameche]

You can say that again.

[Blanche Biggerson]

It's your own snoring that wakes me up. And makes me wake you to stop it. So you can get enough sleep. So you won't be tired from sleeping the way you do.

[Don Ameche]

You can't say that again.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, don't mix me up. I'm the one who never sleeps. I'm worried right now for fear you won't get up in time to go to work.

[Don Ameche]

I'll get up in time. I can dress fast.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Your shirts aren't back from the laundry.

[Don Ameche]

Well, then I'll wear the one I wore today.

[Blanche Biggerson]

You will not. You'll wear a clean one if you have to wash and iron it yourself. Okay, you say it now, but you won't do it.

[Don Ameche]

I will.

[Blanche Biggerson]

You'd better do it now. Get up and wash a shirt.

[Don Ameche]

What?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Go on, get up and wash a shirt.

[Don Ameche]

Blanche, are you out of your mind? It's almost four o'clock in the morning.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, by the time you get through with the shirt, you can start making breakfast.

[Don Ameche]

I never heard of such a thing. You know how I have to wrestle myself to sleep? And when I finally do, you lie there just waiting to Wake me up like some. Some jungle prowling alligator.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Alligators don't prowl in the jungle.

[Don Ameche]

But why do I care?

[Blanche Biggerson]

You'd wash your shirt quick enough. You'd. You were going to see Gloria Goosby.

[Don Ameche]

I don't need a shirt to see Gloria Goosby.

[Blanche Biggerson]

I believe that.

[Don Ameche]

Now don't you start trapping me into saying things again.

[Blanche Biggerson]

With that kind of bait, you'd be trapped every time, brother.

[Danny Thomas]

Ugh.

[Don Ameche]

Gloria Goosby. I wish I'd never seen the woman in my life.

[Blanche Biggerson]

So do I. You're not the same person you used to be, John.

[Don Ameche]

What's the matter now?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Whenever you're alone with me, you just sit and mope.

[Don Ameche]

I don't mope at all.

[Blanche Biggerson]

I'll bet you're sorry you married me.

[Don Ameche]

I am not.

[Blanche Biggerson]

You never say you're happy.

[Don Ameche]

Well, I feel very happy.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, then why don't you say it?

[Danny Thomas]

I'm the happiest man in the world.

[Don Ameche]

Now are you satisfied?

[Blanche Biggerson]

No. There's something missing. John. All our friends have such fun with their children. I mean, the Goosbys have a baby, the Flafters have a baby, and yesterday the Marvins had a baby. Everybody has a baby, Blanche.

[Don Ameche]

It's 4:00 in the morning.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Such a beautiful little thing weighed eight and a half pounds.

[Don Ameche]

That's wonderful.

[Blanche Biggerson]

They haven't decided on a name yet. I wonder if I could think of. I've got it.

[Francis Langford]

John.

[Blanche Biggerson]

John, wake up. I thought of a good name.

[Don Ameche]

Go to sleep. I've thought of a bad one.

[Blanche Biggerson]

I'll phone them in the morning. Did you pull the stopper out of the alarm clock?

[Don Ameche]

Mm.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Did you set it to 6?

[Don Ameche]

7.

[Blanche Biggerson]

That won't give you enough time. You have to be at work by 9.

[Don Ameche]

Plenty of time. I can leave here at 8. 15.

[Blanche Biggerson]

There's no train after 7.

[Don Ameche]

I don't need a train. I'm driving.

[Blanche Biggerson]

I'm afraid you'll have to take the train.

[Don Ameche]

I'm taking my car.

[Blanche Biggerson]

It isn't here.

[Don Ameche]

Is to. It's in the garage.

[Blanche Biggerson]

No, it isn't. I lent it to Amos.

[Don Ameche]

Well, then I'll you what?

[Blanche Biggerson]

I lent your car to Amos. You wanted to go to the race blanks.

[Danny Thomas]

No, no, you couldn't. Not my car.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Don't get so excited. He promised to bring it back Tuesday.

[Danny Thomas]

Tuesday? It's a new car. He can't drive.

[Don Ameche]

He hasn't even got a license.

[Danny Thomas]

Why did you do that?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, he wanted to go to the racetrack. And he'd have to get up so early if he took the train.

[Danny Thomas]

But it's all right for me to

[Don Ameche]

take a train, huh?

[Danny Thomas]

It's all right for me to go without sleep. And I'm going to work, not the racetrack.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Well, Amos has a chance of making a lot more money than you.

[Danny Thomas]

I'll look, Blanche, maybe you wouldn't have

[Blanche Biggerson]

to go to work either if you'd get friendlier with Amos. He meets the right kind of people and always manages to to figure out some money making scheme. And he's bound to be a millionaire.

[Danny Thomas]

Then why does he keep borrowing from me?

[Blanche Biggerson]

If you're foolish enough to lend him things, you shouldn't complain. Go to sleep.

[Don Ameche]

Go to sleep, she tells me. Sleep. I waited four years for that car. Never even had my hands on the wheel. And she gives it to that irresponsible maniac. Tomorrow morning I'll have the pleasure of opening my garage door and not finding my beautiful car.

[Blanche Biggerson]

You won't find the garage door either.

[Don Ameche]

Why not?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Amos knocked it off as he was backing out.

[Francis Langford]

Oh.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Garage.

[Danny Thomas]

Anyway.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Go to sleep, John.

[Don Ameche]

Oh, what are you gonna do with a woman like that? This is too much. Car is too narrow. Never be able to sleep again as long as I.

[Blanche Biggerson]

John, get up.

[Don Ameche]

Okay, okay. Feels like I didn't sleep at all. How do you shut this darn thing off?

[Danny Thomas]

Where's the stopper?

[Blanche Biggerson]

Put down the alarm clock. It's the phone.

[Don Ameche]

Oh. Oh, I knew it couldn't be the alarm because I just ducked out. Put the lights on.

[Blanche Biggerson]

The lights are on. You've got the pillowcase on your head.

[Don Ameche]

Oh, where am I? Hello, Jacko?

[Danny Thomas]

Mrs. Amos. No, no, wait.

[Don Ameche]

Amos.

[Danny Thomas]

Amos. Yeah?

[Don Ameche]

Where are you? Where's my car?

[Danny Thomas]

Any you stand the shock, jocko?

[Don Ameche]

No, no.

[Danny Thomas]

Hey, you know that thousand you lent me? Well, I went to the track and I got to worrying about it, see. So I made a few bets for you. I got $300 for you.

[Don Ameche]

Honest? You won that much?

[Danny Thomas]

Oh, no, I lost.

[Don Ameche]

But with the $300.

[Danny Thomas]

Well, I was so worried about losing that I ran your car into a truck and I sold it on a spot to a junk man.

[Don Ameche]

Amos.

[Danny Thomas]

Amos, you didn't.

[Francis Langford]

Oh, yeah.

[Danny Thomas]

I'll bring you the money in the morning.

[Francis Langford]

Shalom, Jacko.

[Danny Thomas]

Amos.

[Don Ameche]

Hey, it's the end of the world. Turn out the lights, Blanche. I'm weak. Let me get back in bed. Why should one man have so much trouble?

[Francis Langford]

Oh, oh, oh.

[Danny Thomas]

Right in the mouth.

[Blanche Biggerson]

Oh, John, did you hurt yourself?

[Don Ameche]

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