Farnsworth and Katz guest appearance

GOLD MEDAL FLOUR COMEDY HOUR
NBC broadcast date: September 21, 1935

TONY ALTMAN: The Gold Medal Flour Comedy Hour presents Soupy Farnsworth and Bobby Katz!

(fanfare and applause)

F&K: Hiya, Tony!

TONY: Hello, Soupy, Bobby... Say, you boys look happy.

SOUPY: Of course we're happy, Tony. Thanks to NBC.

TONY: What do you mean?

BOBBY: Aw, Tony. Don't be modest. It was swell of you network guys to set up valet parking just for us! Like we're a couple of big shots or something!

TONY: Valet parking?

SOUPY: Sure.. and imagine! Getting us reservations at Ciro's... for a price.. Not that we mind, of course. Bobby!

BOBBY: What?

SOUPY: Did you give the man the money for the reservation?

BOBBY: Sure did, Soupy. All $200. He said for that price, he'd give us the works.

(laughter)

TONY: You boys sure were given the works! We have no valet parking and we never set up a reservation for you at Ciro's!

F&K: What??

BOBBY: We've been had!

SOUPY: That's okay. The joke's on the thief..

TONY: How, Soupy?

SOUPY: We stole that car yesterday.

(laughter)

BOBBY: And the $200!

(Soupy slaps Bobby)

(laughter)

TONY: Now you boys have been in pictures for almost six years now and...

SOUPY: Most people would agree that's six years too long.

TONY: Soupy, six years isn't long at all!

SOUPY: Oh no? Do you know what six years is in dog years?

TONY: No.

SOUPY: Well, that makes two of us. But I do know that Rin Tin Tin has been in pictures twice as long as we have and earns three times our salaries which means that.. uh.. considering that a dog year is twice a human year, it means that.. uh.. Rin Tin Tin has actually been in films half as long as we have and still earns a third more.. What this means is that I'm my own grandfather and that dog has a better agent!

(laughter)

BOBBY: But, Soupy, I'm our agent!

SOUPY: There's my argument..

BOBBY: You big cheese! Why don't you pull your lower lip over your head and swallow?

SOUPY: I'm allergic to cheese!

(laughter)

TONY: Take it easy, boys, take it easy.. Now, I hear that you and the rest of the team have a new film in the works for Millennia Pictures.

SOUPY: Sure do, Tony. It's called College Daze.. a college picture, and it takes place at Hillside University.. Good old HU.. MMPH! Hey! Hey! What's the big idea sticking that handkerchief in my face, Bobby?

BOBBY: You sneezed...

(laughter)

SOUPY: I did not sneeze!

BOBBY: Yes you did!

SOUPY: No I didn't.. All I said was "good old HU".. MMMPH!

BOBBY: Now blow..

SOUPY: Knock it off, will you? Put that away! Stop it! I didn't sneeze! I said "H.U." MMPH!

BOBBY: Gesundheit.

SOUPY: Stop it! Now look, Bobby. I may be fighting a losing battle, but I'm going to try to educate you. H.U. are initials. The first letter is `H', the second is `U'.

BOBBY: The second is who?

SOUPY: Not who.. `U'!

BOBBY: Me??

SOUPY: No! The second letter is `U'! The letter `U'!

BOBBY: The letter I what?

SOUPY: Not the letter 'I', the letter 'U'!

BOBBY: What are you going on about, Soupy? What letter?

SOUPY: The letter `U'!

BOBBY: Why can't you complete a sentence?

SOUPY: Take it easy, son. Calm down.. Now listen.. "U" is a letter.. right?

BOBBY: I'm a letter?

SOUPY: What's wrong with you? I asked you if "U" is a letter!

BOBBY: Why don't you speak proper English? Didn't reform school teach you anything?

SOUPY: I am using proper English! "U" is a letter. I'm asking you if you can tell me if 'U' is a letter!

BOBBY: I think you're getting a little confused, Soup. You mean "You are a letter." "Are".. not "is". Which hardy matters because it doesn't make much sense, anyways!

SOUPY: What's wrong with "'U' is a letter?"

BOBBY: It's poor English.. It's like saying "I is a letter."

SOUPY: But 'I' is a letter!

BOBBY: So you're a letter, too?

SOUPY: 2 isn't a letter! It's a number!

(laughter)

BOBBY: (pause) You're ill, Soupy... No wonder you're sneezing so much. Why don't you go a nap? A permanent one, preferably.

SOUPY: I am not sick! Listen! H.U. are the initials for Hillside University.. Hillside.. "H".. University.. "U"… Get it?

BOBBY: Why didn't you say so in the first place?

SOUPY: So as I was saying, much of College Daze is being shot at H.U.. MMPHH!! HEY HEY! CUT IT OUT! STOP IT! I didn't say "achoo!", I said "H.U."!!

BOBBY: You must have an awful cold, Soupy! I wonder what made you so sick..

SOUPY: Take a wild guess, midget!

(slapping routine/ sustained laughter)

SOUPY: Ouch!!

(Bobby runs off-stage)

SOUPY: Where's my hat? Where's my hat??

TONY: Well, there he goes...

SOUPY: Don't worry, I'll take care of him later.

TONY: Well, why you two try to patch things up, we'll turn now to the sounds of Ramon Navarro and his Orchestra and "Perfidia"!

(applause/ segue into song)