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Beat me daddy with a pickled beet! it’s an episode named for the show’s commercial. As the season is approaching its close, Jack is worn out. Don Wilson wants to know where Jack picked up his writers, and if he’s so fed up with them, what do they have on him? Mary Livingstone is on hand to pick on her show host when the newly wed Phil Harris arrives. Dennis Day learns how little Jack actually works on the show each week. Dennis sings, You and I.
The tired Jack has Don introduce one of his mini dramas to pitch the sponsor. The life of Philbert Harris is a little too close for comfort for Phil Harris, who takes offense at the peek into his private life. Vacations are the topic, and the cast share their plans for the summer. After an interruption about hair, Phil plays, There’ll Be Some Changes Made.
Talking up next week’s show, and the season finale, the cast joke about Jack’s Navy career. Rochester phones in troubles with the border, Mr. Billingsley. The crazy man steams off to Australia, as the gang plan on their trip down to San Diego in Jack’s Maxwell.
