Abbott and Costello – Costello Buys A Horse. 441109.

Lou rides in on a horse. Bud tries to make Lou give the horse back, but Lou is just too attached to his horse named Peanut Butter. Lou gets confused over what horses eat. Other horse related jokes follow, and confusion about terminology about being a mudder, and having trouble with his forelegs.

Connie Haines sings, Besa Me Mucho. Freddie Rich plays, Pico Pico.

Lou takes his horse to the race track. Mr Kitzel wants to apply for the job of jockey. Jokes are flavored by more horse termonology, and famous horse names. Mr Kitzel is out of luck when Lou’s little brother Sebastian is to ride the horse.

After some more joking around, Connie Haines returns to sing, Trolley Car. The horse races are about to start. There seems to be some medical trouble with Lou’s horse. The veterinarian gives him some double talk instructions.

When Lou tries to place his bet with a female bookie, the races are over before he knows it. Even in a one horse race, Lou has trouble winning. Sebastian tells why at the end.

PS: There’s some confusion, regarding the show air date. I have two listed for it, 440911, and 441109. I don’t know if it aired twice, once for each date. Or if a collector had a dyslexic moment, and transposed the 09 with the 11, or what.

Love that Connie Haines. Glad she got to sing more than once in the show.

2 Comments

  1. bootman

    My feeling is the show was almost certainly aired only on 441109 as the show was weekly, and the following show was on 441116 as you may want to check for yourself.

    • Keith

      Good point. I didn’t think about that, or I wouldn’t have been so confused at the moment of posting this. Sometimes I just get busy and forget to follow up on inportant things like show dates, or titles. Case in point the batch of The Red Planet episodes that ran from around episodes 4 – 8. It’s all there, but due to the way a previous collector listed the files, they somehow got out of order, and at least one is a composite of about three shows in one.

      Also, I messed up a few others by posting them before I actually to them, and others in the series. I’m refering to some snafus when I posed a couple Life of Riley shows last October. Go ahead, browse for them the October 2010 archives and see if you can find them. Plus, there was some Boston Blacky shows around the same time that were just plain old mislabeled when I got my collection, and I didn’t catch the mix ups until way too late.

      Silly old me! Doh!

      Thanks for the comment. Keep them coming.

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