The grocer needs to be paid, and Gildersleeve is behind with Birdie’s salary. She manages to talk her uncle into letting her continue to see Everett. She informs him that hers was, two years ago. He takes her off to the study and tells her that a girl’s first kiss should be something special. When he arrives home, however, he discovers Marjorie in young Todd’s arms. Todd that he can “withdraw” his son from Gildersleeve’s parlor. Gildersleeve threatens to withdraw his funds from the bank, only to hear that his account is overdrawn. Ainsworth for a loan, he refuses to tell the banker what the loan is for, accuses him of trying to steal the idea, and generally antagonizes the man. When Gildersleeve goes to the bank to ask Mr. Everett plays a few lines from his favorite record over and over, the trumpet solo from “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby,” a song that Gildersleeve finds very annoying, not to mention ungrammatical. When Everett comes to see Marjorie, Gildersleeve tries to be as charming as possible to him, and makes Marjorie be polite, too. Judge Hooker points out that Everett is the son of Ainsworth Todd, the banker, and that Gildersleeve might need to borrow money from the bank for his new business. He wants to visit Marjorie, but she declares that he’s a mole, a drip. The program ends with an announcement by Harold Peary that the postwar world of deep freezes and plastic mousetraps is not yet here, and that inflation is still a danger.Įverett Todd, the banker’s son, has been off at military school, but it back at home. Gildersleeve’s excitement in the new business venture is renewed. Peavey “wouldn’t say that.” He tells Gildersleeve that there’s a serious mouse problem in the country, and that there are no mousetraps available because of the wartime shortage of wood and metal. He refers to a plastic mousetrap as the most useless thing in the world, but Mr. Gildersleeve stops by the drugstore and begins to tell his troubles to Mr. He goes to see the manager of the hardware store about a job Judge Hooker had mentioned to him, and it depressed to discover that it was a position for a fertilizer salesman, and it’s already been filled. He faces the disappointment of Marjorie, Leroy and Birdie, who have been anticipating Gildersleeve’s newfound riches. His hopes of riches are dashed, and he finally has to face the fact that he’s not going to become rich, and, in fact, is unemployed. Instead, it turns out that McGee’s invention is a plastic mousetrap. Gildersleeve had been envisioning some type of weaponry, and counting on Defense Department contracts. Gildersleeve is engaged in a flirtatious little scene with Leila when a letter from Fibber McGee arrives with more information about the invention. Gildersleeve and Associates, and even looks into real estate for their new offices. He consults Judge Hooker and has him draw up a partnership agreement for Throckmorton P. He promises Birdie a new washing machine. He promises Marjorie a party dress, Leroy a bicycle, and both of them raises in their allowance. He hangs up the phone and tells Leroy and Marjorie that he and McGee are going to make a million dollars.Īs the episode opens, Gildersleeve is excited about the prospect of becoming a millionaire through his partnership in Fibber McGee’s latest invention. We only hear Gildersleeve’sĮnd of the conversation, but it’s clear that Fibber has some new scheme, and Gildersleeve volunteers to “give up his job” and join in. Then he receives a phone call from Fibber McGee.
He goes home, where his little family rallies around him and tries unsuccessfully to cheer him up. Just as he leaves the office, he hears a cloudburst…too late. Gildersleeve sadly cleans out his office, and says goodbye to a sad Charlie and Bessie. The machine makes a lot of noise, but produces no rain, and when the Mayor finds the bill for five hundred dollars, he makes anĮven bigger noise and fires Gildersleeve. In desperation, Gildersleeve agrees to pay him five hundred dollars to make it rain. Professor Luther Teaberry arrives, promising that he has an electronic device that can make it rain.
SAD CHARLIE MURDER SONG FULL
The Mayor calls Gildersleeve to his office and demands a full report on the situation.
Not only is the reservoir nearly dry, Charlie has been sending Gildersleeve reports about it that have somehow become lost in Gildersleeve’s in-basket. He heads to the office and has a meeting with old Charlie the engineer. This makes Gildy worry about whether it’s true that eels leave a body of water when it’s about to go dry. It seems that the Mayor has had an accident out near the reservoir, caused by eels crossing the road. One very hot day, Gildersleeve reads a disturbing story in the newspaper.
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