Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967–1973): Season 3, Episode 3 - Episode #3.3 - full transcript

- [Announcer] The following
program is brought to you

in living color on NBC.

(singing)

- Gotcha.

(funky music)

- I think my boss
has gone too far.

Last night he said he was
gonna give me his secretarial pad

but I think a girl should
live at home at first.

- Hey Dick.

- Hmm?

- I understand you're
quite a bird watcher.



- I know every
bird call there is.

- Really?

- Mm hmm.

- Did you ever hear
a bald eagle scream?

- Did you ever
hear one that didn't?

They sound like this.

(screaming)

- On the 28th day when
the Sun shines without relief

and the wind bloweth not,
the maidens dance in heat

up to 220.

(audience laughing)

- My son's mother
in law is one of those

real interfering women.

Imagine she wants to
move into their apartment.



Why that would be awful.

It's so cozy with
just the three of us.

(audience laughing)

- I think the church should
appeal to young people.

But isn't it going
too far calling

Mathew, Mark, Luke,
and John the God Squad?

- Boris and I are
doing beautifully

in our touch typing course.

Next week we get to the typing.

(singing)

- Hey Reena, did you hear that

George Wallace had
a new heart transplant?

- Oh really?

Well how'd they do that?

- Well first they cut
a hole in the sheet.

(audience laughing)

- Jeremy is it true in London
you call cigarettes fags?

- That's quite true Pam.

I suppose on every pack
it really should say caution,

fags may be hazardous
to your health.

- Goldie aren't man's
accomplishments fantastic?

Just think, we've broken
through the space time continuum,

successfully probed
new galactic universes,

and capped it all with
triumphant lunar exploration.

- Well my feeling is Dan
that if we keep all this up

maybe someday we'll
get a man to the moon.

- Hey Dick.

We have a groovy sex
education course in our school.

The lectures are
held in the classrooms

and the final exam's
in the gymnasium.

- Oh sure and I bet right
after the exams they all go.

(squealing)

- Goldie I see where Congress
has cut back welfare payments

in order not to show
a deficit in the budget.

I guess they believe
better a balanced budget

than a balanced diet.

(audience laughing)

- The rat control
bill might've had

a chance to pass the Congress.

Unfortunately they
left it in the basement

over night and it was
chewed to pieces.

- You know Dan, blacks
have a really rough time

in the Union of South Africa.

- Well minorities
have it rough all over.

- Yeah but it's
tougher to be a minority

when there's more of
you than there is of them.

- Movie theaters are trying
to appeal to all age groups.

They're showing Cher's new
picture Chastity on a double bill

with Snow White and
the Seven Year Itch.

(audience applauding)

- When NASA announced
man was going to the moon

they said it couldn't be done.

When Congress
announced a tax cut,

they said it wouldn't be done.

When NBC announced
another season of Laugh In,

they said it shouldn't be done.

And here to prove
it hasn't been done

is Rowan and Martins Laugh In.

Starring Dan Rowan
and Dick Martin.

With special guest
stars Sonny and Cher.

And to keep peace in
the family Cher and Sonny.

Plus Judy Carne,

Arte Johnson.

With Ruth Buzzi, Henry
Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Alan Sues,

and of course Jo Anne Worley.

Also four out of ten
of these new kids.

Teresa Graves, Pamela Rodgers,
Byron Gideon, Jeremy Lloyd,

and yours truly Gary
Owens who tonight only

once again plays the part
of Morgol the friendly Draow.

Now before our weekly
medley of commercial messages,

here's one that will really
rub you the wrong way.

- Ah hi guy.

Just getting my Leffate, you
must be the new neighbor.

Glad to meet you.

I'm Eric Bookstrat and this
is my wife Pat standing here.

- Hi I'm Dave Bomgardener.

That's my future
wife right over there.

- Ah hi Mrs. Future wife.

- That's funny.

Now a real honest
to money commercial.

(cash machine ringing)

And that's not funny.

- Frank.

- Ferta.

- And now here are two
guys who need no introduction.

- Here are two men who met
when a computer dating machine

blew it's top, Dan Rowan
and the folded, mutilated

but still lovely,
bent Dick Martin.

(audience applauding)

- Good evening ladies
and gentlemen, we're happy.

- I don't think they cheer
more for Johnny Carson.

- Well I know, but they have
a big audience over there

and we just have
these 400 people.

Good evening
ladies and gentlemen.

Happy you could join both of us,

what's his name and me tonight.

- Hey you know you look better

since you shaved
your mustache off.

- How can you say that?

- My mouth.

- Your mouth said that?

- [Dick] Yeah you just heard it.

- Yes I know.

I didn't say it and there's
just the two of us up here.

Look at me.

Now how could you say I
shaved off my mustache?

- Like this.

I'm glad you shaved
your mustache off.

- What do you think this is?

- Hey it grew back.

(audience laughing)

- Well now that we
have that cleared up.

Hey do you mind
if I ask you a favor?

- Shoot.

- Oh, oh, sometimes
I'm so tempted.

And it's nice of you to ask.

No I wanted to ask you, see
my nephew's coming for a visit.

- I'm sorry pal.

- Hey do you wanna
wait 'til I ask you?

- I know you're gonna
ask me if I can put him up

for a few nights and it's
just out of the questions.

- It's just a couple of nights.

- I'm sorry but Dan's
nephew is coming to town

and I promised him that I'd
let him stay in my guest room.

- Who do you think I am?

- How many guesses do I get?

(audience laughing)

- I'm Dan.

- No, no Dan has a mustache.

- And the free trip to
Hawaii was won this week

by Mrs. Don Brown of 122
Ocean Avenue, Honolulu.

- Aloha Mrs. Brown.

(alarm clock ringing)

(silly music)

(electricity zapping)

(audience laughing)

- What are your orders?

- Go to church every
Sunday, my child.

- And don't get married.

- Faster than a strafing
jet, more powerful

than a Sherman tank,
deadlier than a guided missile.

- Out of the night
and straight into

your heart comes the
watchdog of America.

General Bull Wright.

(trumpet music)

- Alright America,
shape up or ship out.

General Bull Wright here
ordering you to drop your socks

and grab your pencils 'cause
you're gonna take notes,

like it or not.

My commentary
tonight brought to you

by the good Americans at WOW
Chemical Makers of Napalm.

Little beauty right there.

That's a product that
puts the fire in fire power.

Catch it kid.

Sorry about that.

Alright concerned
citizens, and I know you are

concerned citizens, let's
talk about the peace mongers.

Those commie pinkos
that pussyfoot around

bad mouthing this
skirmish in Vietnam.

They say it's a waste of
money and man power.

Poppycock!

It's better than no war at all.

Furthermore I
say we're too soft.

Instead of bringing
them in home,

we outta send another
million men to Vietnam.

Bomb 'em, strafe 'em,
burn those villages,

let's show those
savages we want peace.

Don't forget to watch my new
Sunday show, Meet the Brass.

You will love them.

What?

No, you'll love 'em.

Just remember a scrappy
America is a happy America.

(upbeat music)

- If any of you senators
or representatives

from the 91st Congress
are watching, I love you.

Especially all of you
with ways and means.

Did you eve spend the
night under a pine tree

When the sap looks like cocoa

(singing)

(laughing)

- Oh Miss Hornsby,

do you recognize true
love when you see it?

Well Miss Hornsby
do you recognize

deep devotion when you see it?

Miss Hornsby, do you recognize
a concussion when you see it?

(audience laughing)

(upbeat music)

- Alright.

- Oh this won't
hurt, will it Doctor?

- Only for a moment.

Hmm.

(loud thudding)

(silly music)

(audience laughing)

(silly music)

- Box.

- Lunch.

- And now the same
message backwards.

- Lunch.

- Box.

- And now the same
message sideways.

- Runch box.

- Mother.

- Goose.

- And now the same
message backwards.

(honking)

(upbeat music)

- Hello chicken delight.

- Now this tiny watch
is a miniature radio

with a range of over 500 miles.

- This tiny watch?

That's fantastic.

What are those for Chief?

- These are the batteries.

(audience laughing)

- I just thought he'd never
get married, I can't believe it.

- You may now kiss the bride.

- Sex, sex, sex, that's
all you ever think about.

(audience laughing)

- Borrow the paper?

- Oh sure.

- Thanks.

This news is nothing.

- You think that's
nothing, hold on,

here comes the Laugh In news.

We're gonna have a rumble

If they can't get it straight

And even though we mumble

We like to hear by state

What's the news
across the nation

We have got the information

In a way we hope will amuse you

We just love to
give you our views

La da de da

Ladies and gents,
Laugh In looks at the news

Where's Dan
(audience applauding)

- Nice going.

And now with the news of
the present, here's the man

to whom the news wouldn't
be the new without the news.

Here's Donkey.

(audience applauding)

- Now for the news.

Saigon nightclub
comedian Eddie Fisher

is recovering from a battle
zone accident in which he fell

out of a helicopter and
landed on Vice President Key.

Witnesses say
it's the first time

Eddie has ever been on Key.

(audience laughing)

At a peace conference
today, George Jessel said,

this time it's really
love, as he announced

his engagement
to the King family.

(audience laughing)

Detroit automobile
manufacturers announced

that they have finally solved
the air pollution problem.

They recalled 200
million Americans

to get their lungs relined.

(audience laughing)

Oh if I only had two more jokes.

Take it away Goldie.

- And now with the
news of the future

here's my very favorite
Danny boy, Danny boy Rowan.

- Well that was perfect
Goldie, just perfect.

You're just as
adorable as always.

And thanks for those kind words.

- Well if that's the
way you feel about it

you can just introduce yourself.

(audience laughing)

- Detroit Michigan,
1989, 20 years from now,

the automobile manufacturers
of America today denied

that smog caused by
automobile exhausts

has any harmful
effects on human life.

The remarks were
made at the unveiling

of the latest sports model,
a four door iron lung.

1989, 20 years from now.

Sex education took a
step forward today when

the Supreme Court ruled
that boys must be bused to girls

schools when the course
reaches the experimental stage.

Later tonight.

On Fire Island, Governor
Truman Capote refused to

comply saying, mixed marriages
are against the natural law.

(audience laughing)

Now 1989, 20 years from now.

Science discovered that water
on the knee can be induced

by taking too many
birth control pills.

This was discovered last week

when the Freshman classes
of Harvard and Vassar

knelt down to pray
and drown themselves.

- Wherever sports get together,

there's one sport that
drives them all mad.

Hutton, Hutton, Betty Hutton.

No, here's the number one
sport with the sporting folk

in all the toughies, the
sporting girl's best friend,

Big Al take it away
you big sport you.

Because all the
sports all over the world

have been waiting for the
word in spot, right toughies.

Here he is now, the
toughies best friend, Big Al.

(revving)

- Hi sports fans, Big Al here,

flying around
the old javelin pit.

(bell ringing)

Featurette.

Oh my tinkle is beautiful.

The sound is so pure
it makes me, giddy.

Well I'm just back from the
northern forests of Canada.

Cold, snow, slush.

I was there for the
annual lumberjack contest.

The winner chopped
down 24 trees in 12 minutes.

Chop, slash, cut.

The mighty forest rang with
the sound of his big happy ax.

But I knew he was the
winner when I saw his

wild plaid jacket
with a little fur collar.

Mink, mink, nothing
thrills me like mink.

(bell ringing)

Too much.

Ta ta.

- Say Big Al, you wanna
come see my bike?

- Ah get away from me.

- Come on we take your jingle.

- Ah business.

(yelling)

- Here with all the hot political
news is the person voted

most likely to be
huddling in a caucus.

Laugh In's man in
Washington, Pamela Rodgers.

- Hello there all of you out
there in government land.

Pam Rodgers here,
your man in Washington

with all the latest from
our nation's capital.

Remember last week?

I told you something very,

very big was going to
happen in the House.

Well last night it did.

I'll be back next week to
give you another in depth look

at our government in action.

Adjourned sweeties.

La da de da

Ladies and gents Laugh
In looks at the news

Oh yeah (audience applauding)

- Well I have some good
news and some bad news.

First, last night I
dreamt I was stranded

on a desert island
with Raquel Welch.

Now the bad news, in the
dream I was Lawrence Hart,

and so was she.

(audience laughing)

- Oh Mrs. Bono, is the name

of your new film
really Chastity?

- That's right Gladys.

- Sure, with you
it's just a movie.

But with me it's a way of life.

- Oh no, no, no it's not.

If they did your life story,

they'd call it
popular mechanics.

(audience laughing)

(upbeat music)

- Alright open wide, say ah.

- Ah.

- That's good.

(crunching)

I only got two of
those left buddy.

(silly music)

- Dance.

Dance.

- Rickety.

- Shprit.

- No me come pick up laundry.

- Oh you're a pain.

(silly music)

- Hey how about all the
celebrities in the audience tonight?

- Eh I think we
outta introduce them.

- First I'm sure
you'd all like to meet

and great the lovely and
talented Myra Breckinridge.

Nice to see you
Miss Breckinridge.

- Hi fella.

- Anybody else you see out
there you'd like to introduce?

- Yeah right over here we
have a lovely girl from San Diego

who needs no introduction,
when the fleets in.

- [Woman] Hi sport.

- Well moving right along,

how about a fast
game of one liners.

- You mean where
we pick a subject

and then everybody
does a joke about it?

- That's right.

- Well how do you play it?

- Well you just explained
it to me you do do.

- Well I wasn't listening.

- Well pay attention,
now pick a subject.

- Cars.

- Okay cars, I mean okay, cars.

- I'm having trouble
with my Mustang,

it keeps climbing
into my hay wagon.

- I used to drive an Italian
car, but every time I drove it

down the street it would
surrender to a policeman.

- I got a ticket for a
small traffic violation.

I ran over a midget.

- That's nothing
Mr. Bono, I got a ticket for

a moving violation, and
we were parked at the time.

- I have a little
hydromatic car.

Which reminds
me of my boyfriend.

They're both shiftless.

- Last night on the freeway
I heard that awful sound.

(air swooshing)

Oh I knew I had a flat.

It was terrible.

Did you ever try to blow
up a bra during rush hour?

- I've had 23 accidents
in the last two days.

Boy there are lots of
crazy drivers around here.

- I don't own a
car, I just walk.

By the time I get to
Phoenix, I'm really exhausted.

- I used to have a
Lincoln, but I freed it.

- You can talk all you want
about safety devices in autos,

but Detroit has
proven conclusively

that 90% of the people
are caused by accidents.

- Well Mrs. Bono
you think that's bad,

last night I was arrested
in Burbank for driving

with my top down.

On a bicycle for shade.

Well I still think
that policeman

took the long way
to headquarters.

- Yeah, by the time she got
to Phoenix he was exhausted.

- And that's our round
of one liners for tonight.

- Good idea, let's do it right
after the next commercial.

- Boy that Dick is dumb, he
knows we're not taping this.

- I now pronounce
you man and wife.

My dear, you're
kissing the best man.

- Do you know you're right?

You're not wrong, you're right.

(audience laughing)

- Don't go away
'cause now it's time

for NBC to ring its chimes.

(cash register ringing)

Everybody loves
somebody sometime

- Ding.

- Dong.

(gong ringing)

(phone ringing)

- Hello?

Okay honey.

Two eggs, a loaf of
bread, and a box of rocks.

I'll pick 'em up
on the way home.

Bye.

- You may now kiss the bride.

- Oh my little girl.

- The devil made
me buy this dress.

- Well I have some good
news and some bad news.

First, I fell down
five flights of stairs.

And now for the bad news,

I went right by
the floor I wanted.

- The three favorite past
times of the preschool set

are recess, ice
cream, and Uncle Al.

So here it is, the best thing
that's happened to the wet set

since paper diapers, here's
old drip dry himself, Uncle Al.

- Hi.

- [Children] Hi Uncle Al.

(laughing)

- Hi there you
little sweethearts.

This is Uncle Al,
the kiddies pal.

- [Children] Hello Uncle Al.

Hello.

- Hi kids.

- [Children] Hello Uncle Al.

- Knock it off little Gwendolyn.

- [Children] I
love you Uncle Al.

- Oh and I think
you're a cupcake.

And you know what you do
with cupcakes, you eat 'em.

Oh Uncle Al was
very sick last night

and took a lot of medicine.

Well it's game
time again kiddies

and it's Uncle Al time
to open Uncle Al's fun.

(kids cheering)

Today Uncle Al's gonna show
ya how to make colored smoke

without any fire.

(coughing)

Fire.

So it won't bother your
mommy or your daddy.

First you reach into
Uncle Al's magic fun kit.

- [Children] Magic fun kit.

- That's right, magic fun kit.

(audience laughing)

So you won't bother your
mommy or your daddy, right?

- [Children] Right.

- [Kid] My mother or my father.

- Or anybody.

Okay then you take
out the red, right.

You put it in like this see.

Okay, then you
take out the blue.

Yeah.

And then you put
that in like that.

And then you put in
just a pinch of the gray.

- [Kid] Bleck.

- Yes bleck.

Not too much though,
just a little bit like that.

(screaming)

This was Uncle Al,
the kiddies friend.

Goodbye little friends.

- [Children] Goodbye Uncle AL.

- And now chapter two in
the story that asks the question

can a poor girl who inherits
one million shares of Greyhound

find real happiness with
a big bus line of her own?

- Yes.

It's time for a quickie

A icky little quickie

A tricky, kicky, quickie

Just like Dan and
Dicky said to me

It might make you sicky

But don't be picky picky

'Cause when things
are getting sticky

And your clock is getting ticky

Try a quickie and
you'll set your body free

- Are you sure about that?

Try a quickie and
you'll set your body free

- Jeeves.

- Yes sir?

- Would you feed madam?

- Certainly sir.

- To the hyenas.

(audience laughing)

- What are you doing?

- I'm watering my beans.

- I don't see any water.

- Do you see any beans?

- Do you have a princess phone?

- No I don't.

- Oh gosh darn it, I did
so want to call the queen.

- First of all you realize

you started off
with a few problems.

- Just think darling,

you'll be known as the
father of your country.

- Yeah, I got a great idea.

I'll put the White
House in Bono DC.

(screaming)

- Hey baby.

How about a little kiss?

- Sure, sure.

But then you won't have any
respect for me in the morning.

- I thought the
quickies were just great.

Did you like them too?

- May I be perfectly frank?

- I wish you would.

- I didn't like the way
Omar Sharif acted at all.

- Well I don't like to be
the one to break this to you

eagle eye, but Omar
Sharif wasn't in the quickies.

Now how can you
complain about the way

he acted if he wasn't in them?

- Well it just so happens
smarty eyes, just so happens

that last night I had
a date with a redhead.

- What's so unusual about that?

- Ran into Romar Sharif.

- Romar Sharif?

- I'm changing his name.

- Omar Sharif.

- I know his name.

- You ran into him?

- Sure, she went home with him.

- And that's the reason you said

you didn't like the
way he acted, ha.

- I thought he was
lousy in the quickies too.

What do you think of that?

- I think you're right.

- Tonight a television first.

Laugh In is interviewing

the winner of the naked
Miss America contest.

Well congratulations.

Now what do you think helped
you most in winning the title?

- Well.

Placing first in the talent
contest was very important.

- Ah yes.

Now what exactly
was your talent?

- Well, I tap danced.

- Oh well.

That must've been
something to see.

- While singing a song
and playing an accordion.

- Oh you sang, danced,
and played the accordion.

- Up, up, and away.

- Oh well that's a
marvelous song.

- I didn't sing it, that's
how I held my accordion.

- I see.

- I sang Teco Teco.

- Ah.

Well I understand
you were placed first

in several other categories.

- Yes well I won the no
evening gown competition

and the no bathing
suit competition.

But the title I enjoyed the
most was Miss Congenial.

- Oh, you were
elected Miss Congenial

by all the other contestants?

- No silly, by the judges.

They loved my Teco Teco.

Up, up, and away.

- Sit down Mr. Bono.

Tell me Mr. Bono, did you ever,

did you ever swallow a bullet?

- No Doctor, no.

- Well I'm afraid
you've been shot.

(silly music)

- Girl scout.

- Cookies.

- Fortune.

- Cookies.

- No, me come pick up lunch box.

- Our new film Chastity
is a motion picture

that asks the question
can a young girl.

- Oh yes.

(phone ringing)

- Hello?

Huh?

Oh that's the Blue Danube.

Hey Neil I just won three free

dance lessons
with Arthur Murray.

Oh incidentally Kate Smith
says watch where you step

you're on her moon, don't
come over her mountain.

- The devil made
me buy this dress.

- Camping is such fun.

Would you help me
with my knapsack darling.

- Of course my sweetheart.

- [Gary] It's time
again for robot theater.

(crashing)

(cans clanking)

- Thank you honey.

- My knapsack is too heavy.

You will have to leave your
magazines at home dear.

- Oh alright darling, I
have read them all anyway.

(glass shattering)

You know what darling?

We mustn't forget
the fly swatter.

- Oh yes, it will come in
handy while we are camping.

Oh there is one
fly that will be sorry.

Another one.

(glass shattering)

- Darling there is
another fly on the TV.

- Oh yes.

I will get it.

(electricity sizzling)

- You know darling,
half the fun of camping

is getting ready for it.

Kiss me my husband.

- What are your orders?

- 40 fish and eight
loaves of bread.

- To go.

- And now for all you
letters to Laugh In fans,

here's another
letter to Laugh In.

And for this little goody, we've
already mailed two dollars,

interestingly enough,
to Miss Lucy Houten.

Houten, Houten, Houten, in
South Weymouth Massachusetts

and her zip code is 02190.

How does that grab
you, you zip code lovers?

Anyway, here's Mrs. Houten,
Houten, Houten, Houten's joke.

- What would you
get if you crossed

a certain blonde comedian
with a smoked salmon?

- Oh that's easy.

- What's easy?

- What would you
get if you crossed

a certain blonde comedian
with a smoked salmon?

- Goldie locks.

- Well see I told
you it was easy.

- A bee stang me in my
belly button, by Henry Gibson.

I was sittin' in the
yard in my bikini

chompin' on a fresh nectarine

then I felt a jab
near my middle,

doubled over and
spied my belly button.

It was all puffed out
instead of all puffed in

and it was covered
by a battered fuselage.

Poor bee, he hadn't
meant to hurt me,

he had just run out of fuel.

- I'm so glad you
could come over.

- Yes, it's been a long time.

- Oh it sure has.

- Who's that?

- Oh that's my brother Mort.

He thinks he's a chair.

- And who's that?

- Right here?

Oh this is Uncle Herb.

He think he's a rocking chair.

Hi Uncle Herby.

- I see and uh,
who's this over here?

- Oh that's my
other brother David.

He thinks he's an end table.

- Who is this?

- This is my daddy,
who thinks he's a lamp.

Hi daddy, hello.

- Well it's quite a
family you've got.

- Oh it certainly is.

- What ever happened to
that chap you used to go with,

you know, Mike Roshkins?

- Oh we got married.

- Oh.

Where is he now?

I'd rather like to meet him.

- Oh he's out
being reupholstered.

- I see, and your mother?

- She started to sag.

Salvation Army picked
her up this morning.

But let's not get all depressed.

Listen, would you
like to play the piano?

- Tune in next week to
find out, can a weekend

with the Salvation Army
put the spring back in mom?

- Hello there.

Once again it's time for the

Flying Fickle Finger
of Fate Award.

- Or el dedo deliciscio,
delicioso, delocieeso.

- Easy for you to say.

- Yes.

As they say south of the border.

And who gets it tonight?

- Well let's look at
the facts first of all.

Recently Fred S.
Royster, on behalf of

the Committee of Growers of
United States Tobacco testified

that growers believe,
I quote, it is possible

that the relaxation,
contentment, and enjoyment

produced by smoking
has lengthened many lives.

- Oh sure it does.

You know my cousin
enjoyed smoking

and it lengthened his life
all the way until he was 32.

- [Dan] All the way
until he was 32.

- Yeah, do you like that?

Pinky Lee couldn't
have said it better.

- [Dan] No better than that.

- And he was so
relaxed and contented

we planted him
in a flip top box.

- Pashaw.

- [Dick] Pashaw indeed.

- Well Fred also argued
against health warnings

on cigarette ads on
these grounds, and I quote,

a vendor should not be
required to disparage his wares.

- Now he's got something there.

Why the next thing you know,

people will be bad
mouthing emphysema.

- They might.

Well I guess tonight we'll
have to give a king sized

filtered fickle finger to
the Surgeon General.

- Well why the Surgeon General?

- Well we'll give him
the following instructions.

Surgeon General, make an
appointment with Fred Royster

and when old Fred
gets to your office

we think you'll know
what to do with this.

You'll think of
something Doctor.

- Fred will love it,

after all it's a silly
millimeter longer.

(audience laughing)

- Filtered too.

- Be sure and turn
in next week folks

when the Flying
Fickle Finger of Fate

or the sick sly slender
sliver of love and devotion

as our clever cute
card holder calls it,

will go to George Wallace's
American Independent Party

who dropped the
independent from their name.

Governor Wallace you may
have dropped the I from your AIP

but you're still ape to us.

- N - Double A - C - P.

- AM and FM.

- Hot.

- Cross.

- Buns.

(laughing)

(phone ringing)

- Hello?

What's the area code up here?

- 49120.

681593.

2417802.

57810984033.

6285114.

782911157436208.

504493321685U.

- You may now kiss the bride.

- Lots of luck.

No ticky, no kissy.

- I've heard of the China
traders, but this is ridiculous.

- Fool around round eye,
you'll get starch in shorts.

Jets, jewels, furs, foreign cars

Status is all that matters

It keeps us madly
lining up at social ladders

Joses we'll be pro-joses

If we keep spending all the
bread the bank had loaned us

Sure he owns us Honey
we need that money

You bet your bippy all
your leisure days are sunny

You've got a
car, we'll get a car

Continental with a built in bar

You got a home, we got a home

You're in Burma,
we're downtown Rome

You got a yacht, we got a yacht

Ours is bigger than
the yacht you got

You got a jet, we got a jet

Frank Sinatra has no respect

Trendy and very spendy

Because the treadmill
we are on is never ending

Kinky aligned with minky

That brings a track he
got from Aries rather dinky

A stinky pinky Cool
go to lack a pool go

If Merle Oberon invites
you that's when you'll go

You on a trip, we on a trip

Ours is faster
and a lot more hip

You went to Nice
we wen to Greece

Saw the apartment
and signed a lease.

You had a ball, we had a ball

You had Buckely
we had Paul Nidal

We had a bash, tell a big flash

Liz and Richard
made a boring crash

We had a Jew, terribly new

Barbara Streisand
singing Tea for Two

We are the best,
terribly impressed

All the Jones
didn't pass the test

Status is all that matters

So take your booty
and your valley

By a home in Orange County

Rise above the teeming masses

Run with Nixon and Onassis

You'll have status,
status, status, status, status

Status, status, status

You say status and I say statis

You say greatest
and I say gratis

Status, statis, greatest, gratis

Let's call the whole thing off

- Tonight on mod mod
world takes a look at status.

- Status.

- That's what I said, status.

The state, condition,
a relative position.

- Oh my Uncle Waldo.

- Your Uncle Waldo?

- Well he's a
relative with position.

- Watch me play along folks.

- Um, Uncle Waldo, isn't he
the one who owns the circus?

He queried.

- Well he's been
having a lot of trouble

with the old side show.

- Oh I'm sorry to hear it.

- Yep the Fat Lady's
been chasing the Thin Man

and the Fire Eater has been
chasing the Tattooed Lady.

- Sounds like one
strange thing after another.

- Also the Tattooed Lady's
act just hasn't been going well.

- Aw.

- Well she's got a picture of
San Diego Harbor on one knee

and a picture of a battle
ship on the other knee.

- And when she crosses her legs

it looks like the
fleets in, right?

(laughing)

As the more mature one
said a few moments ago fans,

tonight the mod
world looks at status.

Check out the world
What makes it happen

Look at the people around you

Are you reflecting
a smile on your face

Try it and it will astound you

- Well what's new with
the Jones's next door?

- Oh nothing, Jack came
down with the mumps.

Otherwise they wanted us
over to look at their new color TV.

- Hmm.

- Why can't we have
the things they have?

- Okay you got it.

- You're going out to
get me a new color TV?

- No I'm going next
door to get the mumps.

- Status in Burbank is having

finger holes in
your bowling ball.

- We have a black family
living in our building.

That's status.

- We have 100 living in our
building and that's crowded.

- Well I'm glad we could
get together for lunch today.

- So am I, so am I.

- Good afternoon Mr. Lafferty,
good afternoon Mr. Dan.

- Hello Andre.

- How are you Andre?

- Fine thank you.

- My usual table.

(laughing)

- My usual table Andre.

- Of course.

- Oh no, no, no, no, I
insist, my usual table.

- Oh but my table's
in a better spot.

- Oh on the contrary, I've
got the best table in the house

and I insist we
go to mine Andre.

- And I insist we go to mine.

- Mine.

- Mine.

(loud thudding)

I'll be dining
alone today Andre.

- Of course, uh,
alright if I put him

at your table little fella?

(groovy music)

- I tell ya it
doesn't look right.

Here I am a big Hollywood star

and not one or our
kids in show business.

What'll the neighbors think?

- Well dear what
are we going to do?

- I'm gonna get my boy
Jack his own show on NBC.

- Well I feel he should
start at the bottom.

- Okay I'll get him
his own show on ABC.

- Status to an American
Indian is not having a nickel

with his head on it,
but just having a nickel.

- Well what's new with
the Jones's next door?

- Well he just bought her a
beautiful new pearl necklace.

Why can't you ever do
anything nice like that?

- Okay but what's she gonna
do with two pearl necklaces?

(audience laughing)

- [Narrator] For some
people status is gained

with the seriousness
of their illness.

- Well you don't
know what sick is.

My last operation, you know,
it took two doctors 12 hours

and they cut me from here
all the way down to here.

- So what.

I had two teams of doctors.

One cut me from here
all the way around 'til here.

- What was the other team for?

- Well they had to
hold me together.

- Oh you think that's bad?

You know last winter I had, are
you ready, double pneumonia.

- Oh.

I had triple pneumonia.

Not only that, they
removed one lung.

- I had both lungs removed

and my temperature was
all the way up to 106 degrees.

- Oh that's nothing.

My temperature
dropped to 32 degrees.

- Oh.

- The doctor who operated on
me came down with frostbite.

- Oh.

Eh over there, you've
been pretty quiet honey.

- Yeah how've you been.

- Don't ask me, I've
been dead for two years.

- She's the winner.

- Well so much for status.

- Well it's about time
somebody did something

about all that
noise on the radio.

- Oh that's static.

- [Dick] Oh.

- Status.

You're standing
in the community.

Keeping up with the Jones's.

That sort of thing.

- No thanks.

See I tried that once

and it about ruined
a wonderful weekend.

- Keeping up with the
Jones's ruined a weekend?

- That's funny, same
thing happened to me.

- No fooling.

- Yeah.

I was with this beautiful
blonde lady from Boston.

- I don't wanna hear about it.

- We were at a resort see,
and there was this other guy

and he was pretty wild.

- I don't wanna hear it.

- So I figured I'd
do anything he did.

- And it didn't work?

- Well it seems he
was a sheik from Arabia

and he was on a
honeymoon with 15 wives.

- Must've been fun
while you lasted.

- No it didn't do much for me,
but there was a blonde lady

in Boston with some
pretty wonderful memories.

(audience laughing)

- Hmm, oh this could
develop into something serious.

Oh yeah this could be
the start of something big.

- Well I'll say.

If you don't put those things

in your ears I'm
gonna call the police.

- Boys in the lab
have done a fine job.

Our technicians
have built into a shoe

a collapsible life boat,
rations for 12 people,

and a complete
change of underwear.

- How did they manage to
squeeze all that into one shoe?

- Well it wasn't easy.

(audience laughing)

(silly music)

- Time.

- Peace.

- Well I certainly hope you
enjoyed the show tonight.

- I did and now if you'll
forgive me I've gotta run along.

- What's the hurry?

- Well I got a heavy date

and I wanna catch her
before she changes.

- Anybody I know?

- Myra Breckinridge.

- Oh well give her my best.

- I'll give her your
best, give him my best.

That didn't work
out right did it?

I'll ask Lawrence Harvey.

- Yes well just say goodnight.

Say goodnight Dick.

- Goodnight Dick.

And goodnight Myra
Breckinridge whichever you are.

- Goodnight everybody,
hope you enjoy it.

- My candidate won the election.

- Honestly.

- Did you have to bring that up?

Now you ruined my whole day.

- You know I was thinking,
if Engelbert Humperdinck

fell and hurt himself all
over, he'd be a lumpy, humpy,

bumpy, grumpy, bumpy,
rumpy, Humperdinck.

- No, no, that's not humpy.

That's hum hum hum humpy.

- Hey Sonny of Sonny and Cher.

- Yeah.

- Hello Mr. Bono.

Hey Sonny why do
hummingbirds hum?

- Because they can't
dance you dummy.

- Dan.

- Yes Mrs. Bono.

- What should I do,

every night I dream of
100 screaming gorillas?

- Have you seen a doctor yet?

- No only hundreds
of screaming gorillas.

- Hey my sweet short Henry.

- Yes.

- How is your sweet,
short, sore foot?

- Oh I can't kick.

Every night I keep hearing
hundreds of screaming gorillas.

- You know George
Jessel had a date

with a gorgeous 21
year old girl last night?

- You know what happened to him?

- No.

- Neither does he.

(audience laughing)

- Hey Arte.

- Huh?

- How far did you go in school?

- Oh not much too farther
than a good night kiss.

- Oh cute.

- Hey Goldie.

- Whatie?

- What's that noise.

- What noise?

- Illinois.

Get it?

- Hey Gold.

- What?

- What's the racket?

- What racket?

- Tennis racket?

- Oh.

Oh I get it.

Dan?

- Yes Goldie.

- What's the noise?

- What noise?

- Tennis racket.

- Hey Cher of Sonny and Cher.

Hello Mrs. Bono.

- That's Mrs. Bono.

- I know.

Hey your new daughters
name is Chastity

and your new picture
is named Chastity.

Isn't that a little
confusing sometimes?

- Yes Dick.

I'll say the other day
someone called me to tell me

that Chastity was playing
in Chicago and I fainted.

Goodbye.

(all yelling)

- Byron.

I wore a bikini to
the beach yesterday

and everybody was staring at me.

- What did you do?

- I just shrugged it off.

(silly music)

(audience laughing)

- Well Mr. Kasmire
can you tell me

why you jumped out
the 14th story window?

(audience laughing)

(knocking on door)

- [Woman] Who is it?

- Neil Armstrong.

- Oh, oh.

That was one small step for man,

one giant leap
forward for mankind.

(screaming)

You're just like the rest.

- You've gone through
extensive training

and you've passed every test.

Now I'm going to test
your resistance to pain.

(loud thudding)

Obviously you're not ready.

- The preceding
show was prerecorded

and will be shown
sometime in the near past.

Meanwhile our foster
child letters to Laugh In

has been adopted by NBC and
may be enjoyed each afternoon

by laugh lovers everywhere.

I admit that's not too humorous

but we hated to surprise you
with a joke at this late hour.

- Very interesting.

And goodnight Miss Kate
Smith, you've got a lovely moon.

Good luck with your craters.

(clapping)