Jack  Benny – Jack Tries to Trade in the Maxwell. ep382, 401020

On the hottest week of the year, Jack and Don make hot jokes about the weather. Jack claims to owe his good health to taking vitamins. Mary implies he has false teeth, and when Phil arrives, he gets in on the Summertime related humor. Jokes on health, and doctors continue. How is Dennis Day feeling? Did he register for the draft this week? Phil claims he and the band did. Dennis sings, Trade Winds.

Jack still tries to iron out who will get top billing in his new movie with Fred Allen. The topic turns to his female co-star in the film, Mary Martin, who is from Texas,. Southern flavored jokes take the stage, and an interruption from a man named Puerile J Banal. Phil plays, The World is in My Arms.

Due to his busy schedule, Jack has to run along. As he departs, Mary tells what happened earlier in the week when Jack tried to trade in his 1921 Maxwell. The jalopy barely rolls into the lot, and Mary wonders what the new line up of cars is like. Just when the salesman has Jack in line for a top model luxury car, he finds he just can’t part with good old Maxie.