I Bow Out of the Vic & Sade Bid-ness!

Y'all know I loves me some OTR and in particular Paul Rhymer's classic "Vic & Sade". I dig posting them here, too and hopefully hipping some folks to a show they may have never heard before, and have been doing so almost every Friday for a few months now.

However, there's not much I can add to what's already out there on the web and sometimes I feel I'm just recycling what a lot of hard-working folks haefv already done.

However!

There is a blog of force out there with a blogger with even more passion than I have, doing a better job than I of analyzing these shows and even doing some audio editing to highlight the brilliance of Paul Rhymer's glorious work...one of the funniest shows ever done for any medium.

So I'm bowing out of the regular "Vic & Sade" business and gladly as I redirect you Rhymer fans to "The Crazy World of Vic & Sade", just half way up on the next block. Give it a glance and let ol' Jimbo know what you think. I think it's pretty awesome.

As my bow out I'm givin' you a listen to the last 2 undated shows I have from 1940 and the last of my textual observations of the show. A look at the show from "Comedy" from 1980.

Enjoy!

I hope I grabbed a few new ears for this classic bit of comedy. I'm glad to see all the folks celebrating what worthwhile out there on the innerwebs!

There's plenty more worthwhile that I can write about, so...

I'll talk to you soon.

"Hank Gutstop Gets a Job" and "Ice Cream & Salted Peanuts"

OTR Friday at last! And a couple of undated episodes from 1940 of Paul Rhymer's "Vic & Sade" to make it feel like the weekend's here!

First up, there's big commotion in the house as Sade's greatest bane, Hank Gutstop hits Vic up for $200 for anew wardrobe for his new job...choir member at the Ellsworth Street Church. Rush would gladly leave the conversation if only he had 9 cents.

Enjoy!


Next up, a gaggle of Rush's friends gather 'round the house close to midnight waiting for the Husher's party to end, with the promise of being offered any ice cream and salted peanuts that are left over. A cast of thousands and but 2 speaking parts. Rhymer's genius at work.

Enjoy!


And finally, here's that part 2 of the Vic & Sade chapter from the 1979 book, Radio Comedy that I promised you 2 weeks ago. It's a page turner!

Talk to you soon.

"Letter from Aunt Bess" and "Howard Gets a New Harness"!

OTR Friday's BACK with a couple of Sade-centric shows from Paul Rhymer's Vic & Sade!

Up first a show from December 23, 1940 which shows Sade at her understated funniest when she discovers a letter from her sister Bess, unopened in a suit pocket of Vic's. Unopened since August 9, 1937...3 1/2 years. Sade is heartbroken and tells her family of her shame as she reads the letter from Carbury, Illinois aloud. Though it's 3 1/2 years old, Vic and Rush are nearly able to recite along as Bess' message gives all the news every dang one of her letters give, including that "Uncle Walter's kneecap has lightened up considerable on the twinges" and Eucie's progress on the piano. It sounds depressing when it's described, kind of like real life, but it'll make you laugh out loud when you hear it first hand. Kind of like real life.

Enjoy!




Next, from DEcember 31, 1940, Sade is worried that the new harness given to Howard, Mr. Gumpox the trash man's horse, may have been given anonymously by her Uncle Fletcher.

Really? That should be MORE than enough f=to get you to want to listen...it does me.

Enjoy!




Here's a chapter of the 1979 book "Radio Comedy" which takes a long hearty look at our favorite family. This is a full-fledged book chapter and not just an article, so here's part one, I'll post part two next week. It's a good read.

Talk to you soon.

"H.K. Fleeber's 48 Teeth" and "Lifetime Pass to the Bijou Talkin' Picture Show"!

Happy OTR Friday and another visit to the small house half-way up on the next block with Paul Rhymer's Vic & Sade".

First up, from an unknown day in December 1940, Vic suffers writer's block as he's asked to write an article for "Kitchen-ware Dealer's Quarterly". Rhymer's signaure names come a-plenty in this episode and sucks you into his world, a world I'd love to live in...and I think I did as a child in Montana.

The subject of Vic's article is to be H.K Fleeber from Grovelman, South Carolina who works at Plant #18, and his personal accomplishment of having an artificial tooth in his head from every state in the union (that's 48 teeth and quite a mouthful). Editor's T.J. Giggs and G. Tillman Feeb asked Vic to write this article and the patriarch of our favorite family dreams of doing a good job in the hopes that he'll be asked to become a regular contributor like J. Richard Sickbrain who write poetry for the magazine. Eventually Sade and Rush decide to leave Vic alone in his frustration and go see the picture at The Bijou. Gloria Golden and Four-Fisted Frank Fuddleman starring in "I Shall Love Thee Evermore, Lieutenant Corporal Glush!".

Dang this is good stuff! Enjoy!




Next up is December 17, 1940. Sade's perplexed as to the whys and wherefors of the Miller Park Zoo squandering their money on a new baboon named Leser, while Rush has a scheme to draw $50 (1940 dollars, mind you) from his savings account to buy a lifetime pass to "The Bijou Talking Picture Theatre".

Full of Sadisms that make my mother's voice ring in my brain, she tells Rush he's "as transparent as a horse" in his intentions, that he's "full of axel grease and peach butter" in his pitching of the idea and that he'd squander his hard earned money as fast as "send his undershirt to Detroit, Michigan parcel post".

Ah, the flavors and smells you can get from words when a real writer is at work. Enjoy!




Our visual treat this week is more text than anything and a little lengthy, but very worthwhile for any fan of this series. From 1979 and "The Journal of Popular Culture" (something tells me I want every dang issue of this thing) Volume 12, part 2 - Fred Schroeder's very in-depth look back at the series.

Seriously...where do I find the entire library of this thing?

Enjoy!

Talk to you soon.