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The show has a slightly different opening, No commercial, or announcements. But when Lou and Bud come out, they are excited to have Rudy Valley as the night’s guest. Lou gets confused over some of the figures of speech, and word definitions that Bud uses.
Professor Melonhead gets teased about his bald head, and talks with Bud and Lou about the culture that Rudy Valley will bring. He uses a flood of big words that naturally confuses Lou. Holy cow, it’s confusing for most people to figure out.
The verbose Melonhead tries to educate Lou in matters of grammar, but Lou has a hard time getting in the few flubbed words that he has. Freddie Rich plays, The very Thought of You.
Verna Felton pops in just long enough to instigate a conversation of how great a ladies’ man that Rudy Valley is. He’s so particular that he sends his valet and joke writer ahead to pave the way for him. Actually, it’s Mel Blanc and Mr. Kitzel. Bud, Lou, and Kitzel swap lines about the jokes that Rudy is to speak.
Rudy Valley enters singing, but it takes Lou to have enough guts to interrupt him. Freddie Rich plays a swinging tune to transition into a public service announcement about savings bonds.
Rudy has a play, Jack and the Beanstalk that he wants to do, right after a song. Connie Haines sings, Accentuate the Positive.
Lou gets the title role in the play, as Rudy insists that he is only there to help. Rudy then proceeds to handle all the narration, character voices, and even sound affects as Lou has yet to say a line in the play. Will Lou ever get in a word, other than adlibs outside the script?
The rest of the play is rushed through, and for a big finish Rudy starts to sing again, only to be interrupted again by Lou.
The AFRS show, with commercials cut out has time so they run an extra. Ken Niles announces Connie Haines to sing, I’m Making Believe.
I wonder if this was an Armed Forces rebroadcast? They would have needed to cut the commercials, and add music for padding.
yes ma’am! You are correct. This was an AFRS broadcast. The military back then, and even today, doesn’t allow commercial advertising on their programming. They replaced it with either extra music or public service announcements will be placed in the advertisement slots.