Red Skelton Show 46-12-31 158 Old Man Winter

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Harold's Old Time Radio

Episode: Red Skelton Show 46-12-31 – "Old Man Winter"

Release Date: December 7, 2025
Host: Harold's Old Time Radio

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Overview

This episode of Harold’s Old Time Radio presents a classic 1946 broadcast of the Red Skelton Show, titled "Old Man Winter." The episode, originally aired on December 31, 1946, blends the comedic stylings of Red Skelton and his ensemble with seasonal sketches and music, evoking the cozy warmth of Golden Age radio. The show’s main themes include New Year's reflections, playful banter, and humorous takes on wintry woes, all delivered with Skelton’s trademark wit.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Welcome, Reflections, and New Year’s Banter

• Cast Introductions & Festive Greetings
  ([01:34]–[02:25])

  • The show opens with shoutouts to cast members and a lighthearted back-and-forth between Red Skelton and Rodney, trading barbs about New Year’s traditions.
  • "Goodbye, '46. And we’re glad to get rid of you." – Narrator/Host ([01:49])
  • Red jokes about his New Year's routine: "I celebrate New Year's Eve by listening to the radio. And then at 12 o’clock I have a warm glass of milk and go to bed." ([02:04])

• Resolutions & California Weather
  ([02:25]–[03:33])

  • Red riffs on New Year's resolutions, poking fun at the pointlessness of traditional promises.
  • "I'm making the first resolution: I'm not going to punch any tigers in the mouth this year. ... But I'm going to have a resolution this year that I can keep." – Red Skelton ([03:37])
  • Jokes about California’s rainy Christmas and backyard pools.

• Christmas Puppy Gift
  ([02:46]–[03:08])

  • Red describes the misbehaviors of a puppy gifted to him: "He knows more tricks. How does he ever teach him to tear up a rug like that, huh?"
  • Threatens to name the dog "1946" if he doesn't behave.

2. Musical Interlude: Anita Ellis Performs "For Sentimental Reasons"

([04:33]–[07:06])

• The mood softens as Anita Ellis sings this romantic ballad, providing a nostalgic centerpiece for the episode.

3. Comedy Sketch: "Frozen North" – Red Deadeye's Wild Adventure

([08:16]–[17:04])

• Red Skelton performs as his beloved Wild West character, "Deadeye," portraying the hardships and absurdities of surviving an arctic winter.

• Classic Gags and Banter:

  • "Is it always this cold up here? No, only nine months out of the year. Then the freezing spell sets in." ([09:07])
  • Jokes about dog teams and encounters at the trading post, with sprightly exchanges:
    "You must be on a pretty important mission, the pious blizzard." ([12:36]) "You see that pine cone hanging from that tree? … See that barn door over there?" ([13:04])

• Deadeye’s Romantic Subplot:

  • A parody of Western tropes, as Deadeye confronts Jim Hawkins, the "sage brusher" who stole his gal and gold claim.
  • "Where I come from, we eat a whole street at one sitting." – Red/Deadeye ([15:07])
  • "Look, Al, ... you got to give up this guy, Jim Harmon." ([14:47])
  • The confrontation is resolved with tongue-in-cheek braggadocio, then quickly diffused into silliness.

• Dog-Sled Debacle:

  • Deadeye ends up with a "lead dog" that’s actually a Pekingese with "rugged gums" but "no teeth."
  • "You see the fingers on my left hand?" "He ain’t got no fingers on your left hand." – Punchline barking at the absurdity ([16:27]–[16:34])

4. Family Comedy: Junior and the Snowman

([17:04]–[24:55])

• Red Skelton performs another favorite character, "Junior," a mischievous boy interacting with his mother and grandmother during a snowy morning.

• Highlights:

  • Junior attempts to look out the window:
    "I forgot to let go of the cord and I shot up with the blinds. Wound me around the window rod." ([17:50])
  • On dressing in winter:
    "I slept in them last night." – Junior, after listing all his bundled-up clothes ([18:21])

• Physical Comedy and Wordplay:

  • Snowball accidents escalate:
    "Did you bump your funny bone?" "Yeah, me funny bone lost the sense of humor." ([18:50])
  • Brick-in-the-snowball gag:
    "It was not a brick. … It was a flat stone." ([20:00])
  • Quips about women's suffrage:
    "Sometimes I wonder why they let women vote." ([19:29])

• Skiing Antics:

  • "Maybe I shouldn’t have tied his shoelaces together, huh?" ([21:54])

• Junior’s Morbid Imagination:

  • He waxes poetic about freezing in a snowbank and being found "like delicious frozen food."
  • "I'll be froze stiffer than a California driver on New Year's Eve." ([22:44])

• Snowman in the Living Room:

  • Junior drags a snowman inside, melting “all over the living room.”
  • "Ask the snowman, he was here last." ([24:35])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Red Skelton (on resolutions):
  "I'm making the first resolution: I'm not going to punch any tigers in the mouth this year..." ([03:37])

• Dog Sled Segment:
  "You see the fingers on my left hand?"
  "He ain’t got no fingers on your left hand." ([16:27]–[16:34])

• Junior's Winter Humor:
  "Yeah, me funny bone lost the sense of humor." ([18:50])
  "I'll be froze stiffer than a California driver on New Year's Eve." ([22:44])
  "Ask the snowman, he was here last." ([24:35])

• On California Christmas Weather:
  "They gave them a pool in their backyard." ([02:36])

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Segment Timestamps

• [01:34]–[03:33]: New Year banter and resolutions
• [04:33]–[07:06]: Musical interlude ("For Sentimental Reasons" by Anita Ellis)
• [08:16]–[17:04]: "Deadeye" and the Alaskan blizzard sketch
• [17:04]–[24:55]: Family comedy with Junior and the snowman

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Tone & Style

The episode brims with rapid-fire jokes, slapstick scenarios, and warm holiday nostalgia. Red Skelton’s delivery is light, jovial, and peppered with self-effacing humor. The supporting cast enhances the comedic atmosphere with playful banter and musical moments, making this a quintessential Golden Age radio experience.

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For listeners or new fans, this episode showcases Red Skelton's comedic versatility, blending wintry misadventures and New Year's silliness with a sentimental tone, all within the inclusive, homey style of postwar American radio.

Transcript

[Narrator/Host]

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[Co-host/Companion]

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David forrester and his orchestra. Singing star anita ellis, gigi pearson, verna felton, pat mcgee and wonderful smith. And you're truly rod o'.

[Co-host/Companion]

Connor.

[Narrator/Host]

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[Co-host/Companion]

Thank you very much and happy New.

[Narrator/Host]

Year, ladies and gentlemen. Goodbye, 46. And we're glad to get rid of you.

903, Rod. 903, Red. Well, Red, here it is New Year's Eve. Oh, it can't be. Why, you're still standing up.

Now, just a minute, R. I'll have you know I don't invite. Oh, I celebrate New Year's Eve by listening to the radio. And then at 12 o' clock I have a warm glass of milk and go to bed. That's fine. Forest Lawn Heard about you, Ed.

Well, how are you gonna bring the New Year in, Red? I got nothing to do with it. I'll stand there and it'll come on its own.

[Co-host/Companion]

You know, I've got a hunch that.

[Narrator/Host]

47 is my year to win the Academy Award. You mean next year? No, when I'm 47.

Well, I sure hope it doesn't rain like it did at Christmas time.

[Co-host/Companion]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Host]

You know, the Chamber of Commerce out here in California was really wonderful to everyone. They gave them a pool in their backyard.

Say, by the way, Red, how do you like that cocker spaniel puppy that Vernon and I gave you for Christmas? Oh, he's a corker. He is. He's wonderful.

He knows more tricks. How does he ever teach him to tear up a rug like that, huh? Well, what do you call the dog? I'm gonna call him 1946 if he doesn't behave. He's going out tonight.

Oh, by the way, here's a New Year's greeting from our sponsor, Mr. Raleigh. Oh, yeah, A telegram too. Oh, he's a sly one, isn't he? He sent it at 9:03am it says 1946 was filled with hope. Let's see if we can make 1947 filled with skeleton.

There's two ways to take that applause.

You gonna make New Year's Eve resolution. Fred. Yeah. I'm making the first resolution. I'm not going to punch any tigers in the mouth this year. What kind of a resolution is that? You never have punched a tiger in the mouth. I know, but I'm gonna have a resolution this year that I can keep.

You going to Rose bowl game tomorrow? The guy that wrote that's no longer with us.

You at the Rose bowl game tomorrow? Am I going to the Rosebud? And I'm going to watch the game for my front Porsche. You can't see anything from there. You live 30 miles away. It's closer than those 50 bargains. Their seller.

And now my mother, Anita Ellis will sing for sentimental reasons.

[Co-host/Companion]

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I hope you do believe me.

I give you my heart.

I love you.

And your love wonder and for me.

Please give your loving heart to me.

And they will never part.

I think of you every morning.

Dream of you.

Whenever you.

I love you.

Given you my heart.

Oh my days.

Sam Tonight, instill into yourself a.

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[Narrator/Host]

Frozen strip over his bottle of rum. Unable to straighten his arm. They just burnished the gun in the drum.

I'll get the man who got my gun.

[Co-host/Companion]

I don't blame him for not wanting to stop. As long as he's running the cheekwarm.

[Narrator/Host]

Man, am I freezing? Is your nose cold?

[Co-host/Companion]

I don't know. I scratched them three miles back and.

[Narrator/Host]

It fell off.

Him.

[Co-host/Companion]

Now it.

[Narrator/Host]

Thought maybe you had two heads and you lost one of your noses.

They say. Is it always this cold up here? No, only nine months out of the year. Then the freezing spell sets in.

[Co-host/Companion]

I got a notion to set my fire Set fire fire to my celluloid collar.

[Narrator/Host]

Now let's not get Hotheaded here old Brian.

[Co-host/Companion]

Now D I really let's turn back. Look at them snow clouds ahead while we heading for a blizzard. I'm so cold now I'm turning blue.

[Narrator/Host]

Navy, that's. We can't turn back. We can't turn back. Yeah. No, we can't turn back.

I gotta turn back and read this line.

I gotta find Jim Harkins, the critter that stole my gal and McGold claim.

[Co-host/Companion]

Yeah, well money ain't everything. And as far as the gal is concerned, why there's plenty more fish in the sea.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah, I ain't intend to marry up with no mackerel. I love Clementine. She's really a beautiful gal. She's got a swan like Nick. Yeah, lots of gals have. She got web feet too. I'm going to marry her someday.

[Co-host/Companion]

Yeah, well how about that gal in the other.

[Narrator/Host]

Well there's something fishy about her.

[Co-host/Companion]

You mean because her eyes were on the side of her head?

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah, but she was a good girl. Her heart was like the army, open to old men between the ages of 18 and 35.

Well, we better get a move on or we're going to freeze to death up here. Someday I'm going to go where it never gets cold. Yeah, but you're going to have to.

[Co-host/Companion]

Die to make it.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah.

Look, there's a. There's a town ahead. We'll ride for it. What do you say?

[Co-host/Companion]

Okay.

Babe. What time is it?

[Narrator/Host]

I don't know. I swallowed my Mickey Mouse. What? The other day. Really? Does it give you any trouble? Only when I try to wind it.

[Co-host/Companion]

Well I don't think these horses are.

[Narrator/Host]

Going to last much longer while the snow is balling up on the hooves. Well, just reaching my saddle pack there. Get that Esquire. Turn to page 57. It'll melt that snow and no shot time. The same guy that wrote that joke wrote the other one in there. Both.

Sucker stayed up all night right there.

Well maybe we can stop and trade these horses for a couple of dog team. Okay, roll boy. Maybe we can get the Brooklyn Dodgers. We'll go into this trading post here and get warmed up.

Hey, nice sleep here. Yeah.

[Co-host/Companion]

Boy, look at that fire and that five. Me shut that door.

[Narrator/Host]

Get your trash.

[Co-host/Companion]

Look Ms. Bush, I don't take that kind of talk from nobody.

[Narrator/Host]

Oh, a bachelor girl, huh?

Look, get back to the wilderness, wolf girl. There's gents present. Ain't you got more learning?

[Co-host/Companion]

I'll have you know I'm a self made woman.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah, she let somebody else do the Face, you sure mess with.

[Co-host/Companion]

What's can I do for you gypsies?

[Narrator/Host]

We ain't gypsies, man.

[Co-host/Companion]

You're wearing earrings.

[Narrator/Host]

Him's icicles.

You got any dog teams for sale?

[Co-host/Companion]

Dog teams? Sounds like you might be heading further north.

[Narrator/Host]

Yep.

[Co-host/Companion]

You must be on a pretty important mission. The Pious Blizzard.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah, I'm looking for a sage brusher named Jim Hawkins. He stole my gal and my money.

[Co-host/Companion]

Jim Harpinger. Well, you desperately destination has been reached. You'll find him over at the Klondike Honky Tong.

[Narrator/Host]

Probably with Fred Allen. Well, come on, partner.

[Co-host/Companion]

Say, look, Mr. Dead Eye.

[Narrator/Host]

You.

[Co-host/Companion]

I mean, yes, you. Are you really walking into trouble? That Jim Hawkins is a fast man with a.45 and a good shot too.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah, you ain't doing bad with it yourself today. I can shoot fast as anybody. You see that pine cone hanging from that tree? Yeah, what?

See that barn door over there?

Come on, we'll go inside here.

Hey, piano players. Is there a gal around here named Clementine? Yeah, she's over there.

He's laughing boy tonight, you know he's happy cause he finally got a lunch.

Here's a dollar tip, old boy. Go get a haircut, will you?

Thanks. It would be good to see out again.

Yeah, you won't have to pay dues now. Petrilla will never recognize you. Careful smoking. You could have a brush fire there, you know. There's my old gal. Howdy, gals.

[Co-host/Companion]

Howdy, stranger.

[Narrator/Host]

I ain't no stranger, gal. It's me, Deadeye.

[Co-host/Companion]

Oh, Deadeye. I didn't recognize you. You scared me up first.

[Narrator/Host]

I don't doubt it, gals. Seems like I'm always scaring people. One Halloween I scared my mother and father to death. How I was born.

[Co-host/Companion]

By the way, Jedi. Aren't you getting a little arty?

[Narrator/Host]

What are you mean?

[Co-host/Companion]

Well, that gorgeous hand painted tie. Say, look, is that a petty girl you got painted on that tie?

[Narrator/Host]

No, that's Lena Romai, the actor. I always like to feel that women like Lena Romai is hanging around my neck.

Same boy wrote it.

Look, Al, I came a long way through this storm to see you. You got to give up this guy, Jim Harmon.

[Co-host/Companion]

I guess I do have what it takes.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah, too bad. What you got ain't taking nowhere. Don't move that ass. Well, howdy, Jim. I ain't up here looking for trouble. Just come to get my gal and my money and to take you back to Texas. I ain't looking for no trouble. The boys down there got a rope nick tie waiting for You. You talk like a tough man. You trying to act like one. I ain't acting. Where I come from, we the whole street at one sitting. Oh, you do? Yeah. Well, where I come from, we take a raw steer, butter it so it'll slide down easier. Then we sit in a hot kittle of boiling water to cook it. Hot kettle of water to cook here.

[Co-host/Companion]

Jedi.

[Narrator/Host]

We're acting very childish. We shouldn't be fighting. You can have your gal. Take her with you. But leave me here. You didn't even have to come all the way up here. Did I? No. You could have wrote me a letter. I just send her back. Please. She loves you. You got money. Take her back to Texas. But please leave me here. I can't stand that climate. Please, my boy, control yourself. We ain't selling soap, you know.

[Co-host/Companion]

Yeah, dead. Ey, leave the coward here. Well, anyway, I couldn't stand to see him hang around.

[Narrator/Host]

Let me get through the blizzard while.

[Co-host/Companion]

Where's that P that was looking for a dog team?

[Narrator/Host]

Here I am.

[Co-host/Companion]

Well, I got you 12 dogs. And this lead dog here, the finest you ever seen. Nice and friendly too.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah, Holly boy. Yeah, he does seem friendly for a Pekingese, don't he?

[Co-host/Companion]

There forehead and head and he can't fight. No teeth.

[Narrator/Host]

How nice. Boy.

Won'T bite, huh? You see the fingers on my left hand?

[Co-host/Companion]

He ain't got no fingers on your left hand.

[Narrator/Host]

Mighty rugged gums he's got, man.

The first snow.

Junior made a snowball real quick. Threw it at a guy with a walking stick. He was knocked out cold. And if the truth were told, inside of the trick was a brick.

[Co-host/Companion]

Oh, what a beautiful sight. The earth blanketed in snow. Oh, Junior. Jack Riddle. Come downstairs. Okay, I slide down the banister. It'll be thicker.

What is your brain?

Put that stuff outside and come here. It still works.

You can look out the window upstairs.

[Narrator/Host]

Not me.

[Co-host/Companion]

I can raise them window blinds. Not after what happened the last time, boy. I forgot to let go of the cord and I shot up with the blinds. Wound me around the widow road. I got the worst sponge. And then I got my life. I look out the window. Okay, I look out the window.

Does this mean the sugar shortage is over? No, dear Jack. Snow. No. Oh, boy. I'm going to make a snowman. I'm going to make him look like Uncle Sim. Could be the Hopper's.

[Narrator/Host]

That's if I can find stool with enough looking snow.

[Co-host/Companion]

Can I go on blaze? Will you have your long underwear on? Yeah, I got on me long heavies. And I got on me heavy shirt, me war shots and me pants, me high top shoes, me overcoat. Well, I'm proud of you, dressing yourself without my help. Yes. How did you. I slept in them last night.

You can go outside until breakfast is ready. Okay. Oh, boy. Oh, I'll go with you and pick up the morning paper. Careful going down the steps now. They're slippery.

[Narrator/Host]

Oh, be careful.

[Co-host/Companion]

Are you all right? I hurt me arm. Did you bump your funny bone? Yeah, me funny bone lost the sense of humor. Hey, where'd all this ice come from? Mother Nature freezes the water. Boy, she really got stiff last night.

Careful now. Hey, watch me. I'm gonna go belly whopping.

Oh, now, I never do that thing go belly whopping. Junior, you need a sled.

[Narrator/Host]

Now she tells me.

[Co-host/Companion]

What are you doing? Making a snowball. Yeah, a nice, big, fat, juicy one. You wouldn't hit Grandma with it, would you?

Sometimes I wonder why they let women vote.

Oh, there's Mr. Fowler. Oh, yes, Mr. Fowler.

[Narrator/Host]

Look, he's wearing a new derby hat and me with a snowball.

[Co-host/Companion]

Now, he ought to know better than that. I'll just close my eyes and hope for the best. Whoop.

[Narrator/Host]

Oh, boy.

[Co-host/Companion]

It's a good thing he had his sister open and it hit him right.

[Narrator/Host]

In the mud, you know.

[Co-host/Companion]

Oh, here he comes. Here he comes.

[Narrator/Host]

Vernon, did you see what Junior did?

[Co-host/Companion]

No, why?

[Narrator/Host]

He hit me with a snowball. It was padded around a brick.

[Co-host/Companion]

It was not a brick. It was not a brick.

[Narrator/Host]

It was a brick.

[Co-host/Companion]

It was not a brick. It was not. It was flat stone.

[Narrator/Host]

You should be ashamed of yourself. You throw snowballs and people won't like you.

[Co-host/Companion]

Well, that'll be an improvement because they hate me. Now, look, young man, you behave yourself. Okay, I'll try, but I'm fighting a losing battle. Now, throw that other snowball down.

[Narrator/Host]

Okay.

[Co-host/Companion]

Oh, it broke the upstairs window. Grandmore, did you do that on purpose? No, honest, I didn't. I was aiming at the downstairs window. Oh, you were?

Now I'm going to tell. You're going to tell what? I'm going to tell everybody. He used to be a wax lieutenant.

[Narrator/Host]

In George Washington's army.

[Co-host/Companion]

You know, I'm not that old. Oh, no.

[Narrator/Host]

We're crossing the Delaware tonight, Lieutenant. Good.

[Co-host/Companion]

I'll have coffee and donuts ready at the dock.

Boy, I sure did. You excited? You're not, Grandma.

[Narrator/Host]

Well, I must be going.

[Co-host/Companion]

Where are you going to early? Mr. Fowler. Go read your Tom Tom's book, will you? Go read your Tom Tom book.

[Narrator/Host]

What is force did you care to go skiing, Verna?

[Co-host/Companion]

Oh, no, I know nothing about skiing.

[Narrator/Host]

Hey, Grandma, look how big his feet are.

[Co-host/Companion]

Those aren't his feet.

[Narrator/Host]

They're not?

[Co-host/Companion]

Boy, he sure let his toenails get.

[Narrator/Host]

Away from him, didn't he?

[Co-host/Companion]

Look at them flat top.

[Narrator/Host]

Boy, look at them feet.

[Co-host/Companion]

They sure getting a lot of vitamins lately. Those are skis, Ski.

[Narrator/Host]

And it's a great sport, Junior. Watch me slide down the side of this little hill.

[Co-host/Companion]

Oh, isn't that dangerous? Now, don't talk him out.

[Narrator/Host]

Let him go. He wants to show off. I'm not showing off. Junior, a good skier is proud to give an exhibition of his skill. Oh, good skiing. Ever since I learned to walk. Oh, well, here goes. There he goes.

[Co-host/Companion]

You let him go, boy, he's heading right for a tree.

He made it. Now he can learn to walk again. Maybe I shouldn't have tied his shoelaces together, huh?

He's all right. Yeah, well, it's too cold for me, Junior. Come on, let's go in. No, I'm gonna get two boards and tie em on my feet, make myself a pair of skis and then go sliding down the street. Oh, no, you aren't. You might bump into an automobile and dance for Fendi. Yes.

[Narrator/Host]

Sure does love me, don't you, huh?

[Co-host/Companion]

You just better forget the idea. Right. You might get going too fast and slide in a snow's rich and get buried. I don't care. I'd like to get buried in one of them snow banks. I get buried so deep like they won't be able to find me till the spring thaw, you know. Then I will be there frozen stiff, and then the vultures will find me and they'll say, oh, look at this delicious frozen food they made.

[Narrator/Host]

Then they will come over and have.

[Co-host/Companion]

Your picnic and starts pitching enough of me widow bones, you know. And you'll say, oh, what a good widow, boy. And I'll be froze stiffer than a California driver on New Year's Eve.

I will be dead. No, no, no, no. What's the matter? I scared myself.

Well, it serves you right.

[Narrator/Host]

Yes, served me right.

[Co-host/Companion]

Always singing us such weird stories. Yeah, weird.

[Narrator/Host]

Sorry.

[Co-host/Companion]

Bless his little heart. Yeah, but.

Now if you want to stay outside and play, go get the slave your grandfather made for you. Oh, no. I got things too big and it's too heavy. Oh, it isn't so heavy. Then how come I tied it on the back end of a Greyhound bus and it stole it dead, huh? Well, I'm going inside now. If you're Good. I'll buy you some candy later. Some candy for me? Yes.

[Narrator/Host]

How much?

[Co-host/Companion]

A whole big penny's worth.

We'll. Thanks, Sporty.

You come in now if you get cold.

[Narrator/Host]

Okay.

[Co-host/Companion]

Well, here I is, all alone. Anybody got heart trouble, you can leave now. I think I'll sneak over to Mr. Frank's house and see what he's doing over there. The snow is on the ground. Oh, there he is. Hello, Mr. Boy.

[Narrator/Host]

Come here and see what I'm making for you. Sir. No man. Snowman. A big bat with pieces of coal.

[Co-host/Companion]

Fries, broom in his arms.

[Narrator/Host]

Yes.

[Co-host/Companion]

What are you good for?

[Narrator/Host]

Everyone loves a snowman.

[Co-host/Companion]

Yeah? Well, what's he doing on my sled?

[Narrator/Host]

Get him up. That's so you can pull him over in your own yard and show your grandmother. Here's the sled rope. Pull. Easy now.

[Co-host/Companion]

Yeah, nice smarty neighbor. Are you? I going to take the snowman and show him to me grandma.

Hey, Grandma, come here. Look. Look what I got in the living room. Come here. Come here.

[Narrator/Host]

Look over for the fireplace.

[Co-host/Companion]

Look. Good heavens. Where did that water come from? Well, I don't know. Ask the snowman. He was here last. Oh, no. You didn't bring a snowman in the house? Yeah, I shook hands with him and he was so cold that I tried to bring him in and let him get warmed up. Oh, I give up.

[Narrator/Host]

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