April 28, 2025 • 14 mins
Join Adam Graham for a whimsical final episode focused on the mischievous world of fake children in Old Time Radio, featuring the unforgettable character of Junior, the mean widdle kid, brought to life by the legendary Red Skelton. In this delightful outing, we explore how Skelton's unique approach to character creation set him apart from his contemporaries, as each character he portrayed had its own distinct personality and quirks.
Listeners will be treated to a classic sketch from the August 25, 1942 episode of "Command Performance," where Junior visits an army camp with his mother, played by the talented Dorothy Lamour. Experience the hilarity as Junior's antics unfold, showcasing his clever wit and charm in a way that only Red Skelton could deliver.
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Listeners will be treated to a classic sketch from the August 25, 1942 episode of "Command Performance," where Junior visits an army camp with his mother, played by the talented Dorothy Lamour. Experience the hilarity as Junior's antics unfold, showcasing his clever wit and charm in a way that only Red Skelton could deliver.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey are you Adam Graham?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The very same and this is my old time radio snackwagon.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, where we
serve up a bite sized portion of old time radio.
And now here's your snack wagon host, Adam Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is our final snack focused on fake children in
old time radio, with a child that can be forgotten
in a crowd. The poet Walt Whitman once said, I
contain multitudes. If there was one man that many people
might have agreed that applied to, it would have been
(00:46):
Read Skelton. Beginning with his second stint as a star
of his own radio program in the early forties, he
created a host of characters. This was very different than
what you would hear on and most popular radio comedy shows,
Even if they had a recurring sketch, it was just
(01:07):
the comedian's typical character who served up punchlines and gags
in that comedian's typical style. With Skelton, each character had
his own personality, his own quirks, his own catchphrases. Freddie
the Freeloader was an entirely different person than Clem Keddelhoffer
(01:28):
or Califlower mcpug. His characters were bumpkins, hoboes, prize fighters,
and crooked politicians, among others. They would appear over Red's
twenty year run on his TV show, subsequent TV specials,
as well as his stage performances. Yet one character born
(01:49):
on radio wouldn't quite work the same in a visual medium. Junior,
the Mean Little Kid, was probably Skelton's most popular radio careater.
One of Junior's catch races, I do It It became
a cultural meme in the forties, and Skelton actually starred
in a movie by that title, although not as Junior,
(02:12):
and the pre war and wartime days he bedeviled his mother,
who was played by Harriet Hilliard of Aussy and Harriet Fame.
Today's outing with Junior comes from Command Performance, which was
a series where GI's got to request what they wanted performed,
and with the best talent in the entertainment industry behind
(02:36):
the war effort, they would get what they asked for.
And of course there were some gis who wanted to
hear Junior in a sketch. Well, this sketch was originally
performed on the Red Skelton Radio Show. I can't find
that particular episode in circulation. Here, Junior's mom is played
by another great talent in Dorothy Lamore. Here from August
(02:59):
twenty fifth, nineteen forty two, Let's find out what happens
when Junior visits the army camp.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Thanks a lot, Dotty Lamour.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well, it's very nice if you read. But what about you?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah? What about me? That's what I always say? What
do you always say?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Well, I say those five guys on a new Burma road,
and the gang and the canal zone and this and
some grease monkeys in India and Egypt, and sailors and
half a dozen oceans waiting to hear from a very.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Bad little boy.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, Dottie Fellas, it's visiting day at the army camp
that you left behind.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
And driving up to the entrance, we find a lady
and her little boy.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
This time, this time Dorothy Lemore has agreed to be
my mother and I'll beat them be York kids. Hey, mommy,
heard I look at me. Soldiers Shoo, look at his
fright on me.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You'll have striped somewhere else if you aren't careful.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Now come come, I mean, there's no time to start
playing twenty mule team.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I was tired, didn't you sleep very well last night.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
All night long, I kept dreaming about Heady Lamar, Jordy
Lamour Heye, Rita Hayward and Ordan Donald Duck.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, I don't see how you could dream about all
those beautiful Glamor girls and Donald Duck.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Too, you do, I I got that prude itamental kay huh.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Oh Junior. At times I wish we hadn't kept your
incubator so warm.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Hey, what me play soldier?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Let me go over the top, kept junior, Junior, you
stop climbing over the seats of the car.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh, Junior, You make me tired always playing soldier.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, I make you a lot tired, or if I
were playing sailor. But listen, you don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The first thing about the army.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I do.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Well, we'll see what do you know about Fort Sheridan,
Fort Jrdan.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yes, why I knew she had home fine thinking put
a ford a round her.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I'm talking about an army camp. I'll try again. What
does KP mean?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Oh? That easy keeping peeling?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Oh dear, you're always as impossible as your father. By
the way, where's your father? I said, where is your father?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I could answer that, but it would only lean the
blood yard. Hey, mommy, Pap wouldn't laugh war, wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yes he was. He was attached to a French seventy five.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He was attached to a French seventy five?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yes, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
He liked him much younger. Now, oh, don't mind.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well, well, here we are at the army camp. Now
try and be good, will you? Are you going to
be good?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Wouldn't you like to know how? There's the guard who
goes there? Nobody? We get stopped?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Junior junior behaves, Oh, sentry, My uncle is Major General Gillum.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I don't let her kid. You were as jets, Junior.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Put those fangs back in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh, yes, yes, I know. You know the general left
the pass for you. Proceed with cautions.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Okay, okay, hey mitter, And you're appord to have a
bayonet on the end of your gun.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Why sure, it's right there? What it back? Don't you
hit me? Put it back?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Don't go yo at me?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Junior Junior, dear, why don't you run back and forth
across the road in front of the jeeps.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Dangerous ant?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yes, there's headquarters ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Say what all in buildings with the bar don it
now I know why you brought me up here. This
ain't no army camp but the reformed cool you throw
me up to wh you double crocked merry?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Quick, Junior, This is an army camp. Can't you see
the hostess?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You double pretty?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Look at the big guns, Junior?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah? Boy? When I keep it guns like make me wonder?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Makes you wonder?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
What why I waste my time with Bitbourn.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Now here's headquarters, Junior. Don't lean out of the window
too far. I'm going to stop.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Okay, got top door quick, hut me arm listen going
you did that on purpose? Ad you.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I didn't even touch you, but.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
In that plate must be hearted. But somebody beating me?
Brain dog? What's going on out here? Oh? It's you, Dorothy?
How are you? Am? I there?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Just fine? Uncle?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You remember Junior? Don't you?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Of course I remember? Anyone?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Just a little boy?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
What cooking?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Doc?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
General? If you got your fighting planto my fighting pants?
Why I guess so? Junior? This is my uniform. Awful
tight boy? But you bend over you could you get blit? Quig?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Why do you say things like that?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Shall we go inside Dorothy, I want you to meet
Major Smith and Burnham. You boys, I would say out here,
Oh no you won't.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
You might shoot your hand off and waste ammunition.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Now you meet out here, I will tell you'll tell
what I would tell everybody there used to be a
dashhound stretcher and a dog channel. Come along, Darthy. I'm
sure Junior will be all right?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Yeah, boy, what I tuck? Or I would I shard
written that work?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
You kissed me goodbye? Oh well, here are all of them.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
I would look around for talking for me to do
me little hands in your addition for actors. Oh, look
at that big.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Gun over there, I think I will one over Hey, boy,
get a gun. Where do you get that? Boy? Uh?
I had made your junior you look like more like
major disaster.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Yeah you don't look at your clipped do you?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
ID? Will your major?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
You know?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Look, I think there's a little trouble up in the
front door. You go out and see what it is,
and then we put back to me, say what's your regimen?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Mean what I say? What's your regimen?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Now you're not getting no deep bob.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It's a military teque. Now you go find out about
that trouble. Or else, or I'll swallow out. I will
get Naty and brother if I put my mind to it.
I can't get putting that the Hey who died you,
sergeant Pile? Well, look before you throw me around, before
you take up with your front, will you? Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
D him with doll marm and der Pa. We will him.
This is this is one of our new tanks. Do
you look like a big can of coffee, don't I? Hey,
they took me up and look in time vacuum bag. Hey, look,
I think I mean it down.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
There'll tell you why. I go get some help.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Promise me you won't go near that gun. Your word's good.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Enough for me. You see you later.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
You know me very well? There you pull? Oh boy,
I think I would look at the gun.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Look at the whittle door on the big gun.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
I think I will open it up.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Hey, look at that gun barrel. I wind up that
big enough to call in.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
It looks big enough to call when if I do,
I get a whooping, I do it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I will call up the gun barrel and stick my
head out the other end like a gopher.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Oh boy, oh boy, this is fun.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Boy. Joy is dark in here? I wonder how a
little bullet find your way around it? Here? Uh?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Oh, what happened to that little hole?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I call it in here? Darthy, here's one of the
big guns. It's one of our fourteen inch guns.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Goshare you using this gun for practice today?
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
We are, as a matter of fact right now down
so good to me. Run at the farm a minute,
don't you? Don't you?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
That sounds like junior?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Where are you?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Junior?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You pull that trigger? You find out? Good? Heaven?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
What are you doing inside of that gun?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Boy, I never do that a gun? Boy? Oh, I
just got no charactered.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh why don't I shift you off to a restricted area?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Or don't do that? Mummy? I will be good, honest,
I will.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Don't you?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Mummy me?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
You're gonna get the whipping of your life.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Bend over me, mmy. I checked up on that trouble
at the front.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Yeah, well you tick around, brother, could not it gonna
be a little trouble in a wheel?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Welcome back. Definitely a mischievous kid, to put it mildly,
and Red does a great job bringing him to life
with just this amazing energy. Even with Skelton's performance, he
didn't usually translate as well into a visual medium. Although
Skelton would bring Junior to life a few times. He
(13:11):
would often evoke Junior by telling a story and voicing
Junior and having a hat that he reversed depending on
whether he was speaking as the adult character or Junior.
Some of the humor in the early Junior sketches can
be a bit dark. The line about keeping the incubator
(13:33):
to warm stands out. It reflects the humor of the time.
There would be some lighter moments, particularly after the war,
and Junior would even show a bit of a tender
side from time to time. And perhaps we'll play one
of those when next we visit with Red Skelton's Mean
(13:54):
Wittle Kid. It's time for me to close up the
Old snack Wagon, but don't worry. We'll be back with
another serving of old time radio goodness.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
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Speaker 1 (14:18):
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Your host is Adam Graham. Sound production is by Ryn's
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(14:38):
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been the Old Time Radio Snackwagon.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Until next time. Goodbye,
Hey are you Adam Graham?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The very same and this is my old time radio snackwagon.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, where we
serve up a bite sized portion of old time radio.
And now here's your snack wagon host, Adam Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is our final snack focused on fake children in
old time radio, with a child that can be forgotten
in a crowd. The poet Walt Whitman once said, I
contain multitudes. If there was one man that many people
might have agreed that applied to, it would have been
(00:46):
Read Skelton. Beginning with his second stint as a star
of his own radio program in the early forties, he
created a host of characters. This was very different than
what you would hear on and most popular radio comedy shows,
Even if they had a recurring sketch, it was just
(01:07):
the comedian's typical character who served up punchlines and gags
in that comedian's typical style. With Skelton, each character had
his own personality, his own quirks, his own catchphrases. Freddie
the Freeloader was an entirely different person than Clem Keddelhoffer
(01:28):
or Califlower mcpug. His characters were bumpkins, hoboes, prize fighters,
and crooked politicians, among others. They would appear over Red's
twenty year run on his TV show, subsequent TV specials,
as well as his stage performances. Yet one character born
(01:49):
on radio wouldn't quite work the same in a visual medium. Junior,
the Mean Little Kid, was probably Skelton's most popular radio careater.
One of Junior's catch races, I do It It became
a cultural meme in the forties, and Skelton actually starred
in a movie by that title, although not as Junior,
(02:12):
and the pre war and wartime days he bedeviled his mother,
who was played by Harriet Hilliard of Aussy and Harriet Fame.
Today's outing with Junior comes from Command Performance, which was
a series where GI's got to request what they wanted performed,
and with the best talent in the entertainment industry behind
(02:36):
the war effort, they would get what they asked for.
And of course there were some gis who wanted to
hear Junior in a sketch. Well, this sketch was originally
performed on the Red Skelton Radio Show. I can't find
that particular episode in circulation. Here, Junior's mom is played
by another great talent in Dorothy Lamore. Here from August
(02:59):
twenty fifth, nineteen forty two, Let's find out what happens
when Junior visits the army camp.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Thanks a lot, Dotty Lamour.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well, it's very nice if you read. But what about you?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah? What about me? That's what I always say? What
do you always say?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Well, I say those five guys on a new Burma road,
and the gang and the canal zone and this and
some grease monkeys in India and Egypt, and sailors and
half a dozen oceans waiting to hear from a very.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Bad little boy.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, Dottie Fellas, it's visiting day at the army camp
that you left behind.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
And driving up to the entrance, we find a lady
and her little boy.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
This time, this time Dorothy Lemore has agreed to be
my mother and I'll beat them be York kids. Hey, mommy,
heard I look at me. Soldiers Shoo, look at his
fright on me.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You'll have striped somewhere else if you aren't careful.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Now come come, I mean, there's no time to start
playing twenty mule team.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I was tired, didn't you sleep very well last night.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
All night long, I kept dreaming about Heady Lamar, Jordy
Lamour Heye, Rita Hayward and Ordan Donald Duck.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, I don't see how you could dream about all
those beautiful Glamor girls and Donald Duck.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Too, you do, I I got that prude itamental kay huh.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Oh Junior. At times I wish we hadn't kept your
incubator so warm.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Hey, what me play soldier?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Let me go over the top, kept junior, Junior, you
stop climbing over the seats of the car.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh, Junior, You make me tired always playing soldier.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, I make you a lot tired, or if I
were playing sailor. But listen, you don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The first thing about the army.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I do.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Well, we'll see what do you know about Fort Sheridan,
Fort Jrdan.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yes, why I knew she had home fine thinking put
a ford a round her.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I'm talking about an army camp. I'll try again. What
does KP mean?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Oh? That easy keeping peeling?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Oh dear, you're always as impossible as your father. By
the way, where's your father? I said, where is your father?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I could answer that, but it would only lean the
blood yard. Hey, mommy, Pap wouldn't laugh war, wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yes he was. He was attached to a French seventy five.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He was attached to a French seventy five?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yes, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
He liked him much younger. Now, oh, don't mind.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well, well, here we are at the army camp. Now
try and be good, will you? Are you going to
be good?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Wouldn't you like to know how? There's the guard who
goes there? Nobody? We get stopped?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Junior junior behaves, Oh, sentry, My uncle is Major General Gillum.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I don't let her kid. You were as jets, Junior.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Put those fangs back in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh, yes, yes, I know. You know the general left
the pass for you. Proceed with cautions.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Okay, okay, hey mitter, And you're appord to have a
bayonet on the end of your gun.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Why sure, it's right there? What it back? Don't you
hit me? Put it back?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Don't go yo at me?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Junior Junior, dear, why don't you run back and forth
across the road in front of the jeeps.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Dangerous ant?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yes, there's headquarters ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Say what all in buildings with the bar don it
now I know why you brought me up here. This
ain't no army camp but the reformed cool you throw
me up to wh you double crocked merry?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Quick, Junior, This is an army camp. Can't you see
the hostess?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You double pretty?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Look at the big guns, Junior?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah? Boy? When I keep it guns like make me wonder?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Makes you wonder?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
What why I waste my time with Bitbourn.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Now here's headquarters, Junior. Don't lean out of the window
too far. I'm going to stop.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Okay, got top door quick, hut me arm listen going
you did that on purpose? Ad you.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I didn't even touch you, but.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
In that plate must be hearted. But somebody beating me?
Brain dog? What's going on out here? Oh? It's you, Dorothy?
How are you? Am? I there?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Just fine? Uncle?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You remember Junior? Don't you?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Of course I remember? Anyone?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Just a little boy?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
What cooking?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Doc?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
General? If you got your fighting planto my fighting pants?
Why I guess so? Junior? This is my uniform. Awful
tight boy? But you bend over you could you get blit? Quig?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Why do you say things like that?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Shall we go inside Dorothy, I want you to meet
Major Smith and Burnham. You boys, I would say out here,
Oh no you won't.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
You might shoot your hand off and waste ammunition.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Now you meet out here, I will tell you'll tell
what I would tell everybody there used to be a
dashhound stretcher and a dog channel. Come along, Darthy. I'm
sure Junior will be all right?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Yeah, boy, what I tuck? Or I would I shard
written that work?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
You kissed me goodbye? Oh well, here are all of them.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
I would look around for talking for me to do
me little hands in your addition for actors. Oh, look
at that big.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Gun over there, I think I will one over Hey, boy,
get a gun. Where do you get that? Boy? Uh?
I had made your junior you look like more like
major disaster.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Yeah you don't look at your clipped do you?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
ID? Will your major?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
You know?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Look, I think there's a little trouble up in the
front door. You go out and see what it is,
and then we put back to me, say what's your regimen?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Mean what I say? What's your regimen?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Now you're not getting no deep bob.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It's a military teque. Now you go find out about
that trouble. Or else, or I'll swallow out. I will
get Naty and brother if I put my mind to it.
I can't get putting that the Hey who died you,
sergeant Pile? Well, look before you throw me around, before
you take up with your front, will you? Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
D him with doll marm and der Pa. We will him.
This is this is one of our new tanks. Do
you look like a big can of coffee, don't I? Hey,
they took me up and look in time vacuum bag. Hey, look,
I think I mean it down.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
There'll tell you why. I go get some help.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Promise me you won't go near that gun. Your word's good.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Enough for me. You see you later.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
You know me very well? There you pull? Oh boy,
I think I would look at the gun.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Look at the whittle door on the big gun.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
I think I will open it up.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Hey, look at that gun barrel. I wind up that
big enough to call in.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
It looks big enough to call when if I do,
I get a whooping, I do it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I will call up the gun barrel and stick my
head out the other end like a gopher.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Oh boy, oh boy, this is fun.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Boy. Joy is dark in here? I wonder how a
little bullet find your way around it? Here? Uh?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Oh, what happened to that little hole?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I call it in here? Darthy, here's one of the
big guns. It's one of our fourteen inch guns.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Goshare you using this gun for practice today?
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
We are, as a matter of fact right now down
so good to me. Run at the farm a minute,
don't you? Don't you?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
That sounds like junior?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Where are you?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Junior?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You pull that trigger? You find out? Good? Heaven?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
What are you doing inside of that gun?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Boy, I never do that a gun? Boy? Oh, I
just got no charactered.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh why don't I shift you off to a restricted area?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Or don't do that? Mummy? I will be good, honest,
I will.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Don't you?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Mummy me?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
You're gonna get the whipping of your life.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Bend over me, mmy. I checked up on that trouble
at the front.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Yeah, well you tick around, brother, could not it gonna
be a little trouble in a wheel?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Welcome back. Definitely a mischievous kid, to put it mildly,
and Red does a great job bringing him to life
with just this amazing energy. Even with Skelton's performance, he
didn't usually translate as well into a visual medium. Although
Skelton would bring Junior to life a few times. He
(13:11):
would often evoke Junior by telling a story and voicing
Junior and having a hat that he reversed depending on
whether he was speaking as the adult character or Junior.
Some of the humor in the early Junior sketches can
be a bit dark. The line about keeping the incubator
(13:33):
to warm stands out. It reflects the humor of the time.
There would be some lighter moments, particularly after the war,
and Junior would even show a bit of a tender
side from time to time. And perhaps we'll play one
of those when next we visit with Red Skelton's Mean
(13:54):
Wittle Kid. It's time for me to close up the
Old snack Wagon, but don't worry. We'll be back with
another serving of old time radio goodness.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Before you know it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
If you want to enjoy some of our longer form podcast,
you can feast away at my website at Great Detectives
dot net. Your emails are also welcome at Adam at
snackwagon dot net.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The Old Time Radio Snackwagon comes to you from Boise, Idaho.
Your host is Adam Graham. Sound production is by Ryn's
Media LLC. You can listen to past episodes of the
Old Time Radio Snackwagon as well as connect on social
media at our website at snackwagon dot net. Email suggestions
(14:38):
for episodes to Adam at snackwagon dot net. This has
been the Old Time Radio Snackwagon.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Until next time. Goodbye,
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