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For the season opener, Jack tries to awaken his sleeping cast. The blue fairy lends her little hand. And that ain’t hay, kid! With all the cast ready to go, Don introduces the show
After his flowery introduction, Jack wants Don’s opinion on the whimsical opening. Mary shares some secrets about Jack’s vaudeville days. Her cynical jokes are balanced by Phil’s own Corny ones. Dennis Day arrives to get an earful of Jack’s childhood struggles, walking barefoot through snow, etc. And interview about his upcoming travel turns out not to be a newspaper reporter, but a burglar Instead. Dennis sings, When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
Jack forces Don to do a punny commercial, based on Dennis’s song. The cast complain about the jokes, and the way Jack has been bullying people around.
]As Phil plays some traveling music, Jack drives home with Rochester and the Maxwell. Which jokes did Rochester like the best? I don’t think that Jack wants to know. Jack even has trouble picking up a lady hitchhiker along the road.
