Headed out after the episode ended. My 8 1/2-hour work shift was pretty steady almost the entire afternoon. I was run ragged for a lot of it. I was trying to gather carts, return cold items, and help clean up spills, with little or no help. I had a hard time keeping up with the carts, especially later in the day. The weather did help. It was hot, sunny, breezy, and dry, without a cloud in the sky. It actually felt pretty nice pushing carts.
At least I came up with some great story ideas while working in the parking lot. Eugenia and Mr. Foley's "Four Dancing Princesses" story is now set in the Roaring 20's. Mr. Eldridge is a wealthy theatrical producer and theater chain owner, Gertie is his wife, and the four ladies are his daughters. Foley is supposedly the sole survivor of the anarchist bombing that damaged Mr. Elridge's largest theater, where Betty and Eugenia's new musical was to have debuted...a show that was heavily critical of Pruitt's shady practices and black magic abilities.
Bored while staying at their family's summer mansion, Hilary discovers the entrance to a magical speakeasy under the house. They dance the night away with their three missing suitors - Jeff, Scott, and Victor - but Pruitt is controlling the music and forcing all of them to dance until exhaustion. He wants to drain their energy and musical abilities, forcing the ladies into unwanted marriages with himself and his fellow financial colleagues. During the day, Foley discovers that Pruitt keeps the men under a spell as dogs...and is especially cruel to Scott, who keeps trying to escape and tell Betty what's going on. Sweet Eugenia is the only one who resists Pruitt's spell. She and Foley have to use their own special kind of harmony to overwrite the cursed music and save her sisters and his friends.
Went straight into the first of two Match Game marathons tonight when I got home. Foster Brooks is still best known today for the ultimate drunk act. He made several memorable appearances on Match Game in 1979 and 1980, in the last weeks of the show's CBS run and early in its syndicated run. He comically frisked Betty White when Dick Martin claimed his watch was missing. There was also the time when the audience came up with the top answer for "__ Balsam" in the Audience Match and the panel walked out in disgust, and Foster telling a few racially-offensive stories in an episode that led to that episode being banned from Buzzr (though it apparently has been seen on GSN before).
Lift a glass to the screen's most lovable-non drunk in this tipsy delight!
For the second week in a row, we finish with a tribute to a TV character actress who passed away the week before. Pat Crawley had been appearing on TV for over a decade when she turned up on her only Match Game week in late in 1975. This week was mainly notable for introducing a very funny contestant who happened to own a hotel in Encino, playing on Gene and Brett's infamous and long-running joke about ending up there.
Salute a very sweet and funny lady with this touching marathon!
And here's my review for Plankton: The Movie, which I watched yesterday.
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