When the bank needs a last-minute entertainer for the bank dinner, Lucy gets ventriloquist Paul Winchell. But she neglects to bring his dummies to the dinner! So …
Lucy and Paul Winchell – The Lucy Show, season 5
Comedy highlights
- Lucy “explaining” the bank’s various rates to Paul Winchell, who wants to open an account.
- Visiting Paul Winchell’s apartment, to ask him to perform at the bank’s dinner, and interacting with Paul’s various dummies.
- Lucy, practicing with her own ventriloquist dummy, accidentally gets audio recorded. And Mooney is angry as the “unknown” individual who was insulting him on the audio tape! But since Lucy defended him, he’s good with it!
- Finally, at the bank dinner, Lucy was supposed to bring Paul’s ventriloquist dummies. Which she left in the taxi! So, she gets made up as a dummy, sits on Paul’s lap, and he does the act with her! A very funny routine.
Cast of characters
- Lucille Ball … Lucy Carmichael
- Gale Gordon … Mr. Theodore J. Mooney
- Paul Winchell … Paul Winchell/Doc Putman
- Snitchy … Ventriloquist’s Dummy
- Tessie … Ventriolquist’s Dummy
- Jerry Mahoney … Ventriloquist’s Dummy(uncredited)
- Knucklehead Smiff … Ventriloquist’s Dummy(uncredited)
Trivia
- When Lucy asks Paul Winchell what his birthday is, he replies with the actual date: December 21 (1922).
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