Thanksgiving - Old Time Radio - CBS Burns And Allen Thanksgiving Clip

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Episode Transcript

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This Thanksgiving day, George is lookingforward to a quiet little dinner for two.
So let's meet the people who livein the Burn's house, George and
Gracie. Boy, that turkey smellis good. Oh, I'm glad,

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George. I love to cook foryou, really, sure, that's half
the fun of being married, taxingthings for you to put in that cute
little tummy of your what's so funny? I was just thinking, I take
it out of one part and youput anyway. It's nice just the two

(00:49):
of us are having a nice littlecozy Thanksgiving dinner. Oh, it will
be cozy owners just you and meand the sailor. The sailor. Yeah,
I was at the Hollywood canteen lastnight. I saw this sailor.
He was dancing with Rita Hayworths andHetty Lamar was waiting to cut in.
And I said to myself, Oh, this poor lonesome boy. What can
I do to give him a littlepressure? You were sorry for the poor

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kid, certainly here it is Thanksgivingand he has no relatives to dance with,
only strangers, and she must havebeen miserable. Yeah, So I
invited him to dinner, and Iwant to do everything I can to make
him feel at home. For example, he's used to the ocean, So
I'll put salt in his water.I'll give him a nice appetite. Well,

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I hope. So I want tocram a lot of food into him,
so he'll come out even, He'llcome out even. Yeah, once
in my life I want to seea sailor whose pants are as tight in
front as they are in bad.Well. I think it's a wonderful idea,

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having a service man to share ourThanksgiving dinner. I'll get an extra
chair. Oh wait, I invitedJoe after I met Harry. You invited
Joe after you met Harry. Yeah, another sailor, Uh huh, okay,
that'll make it two chairs. I'llmake it three. Dear Joe is
bringing his buddy. They're inseparable.I see. Uh what's what's the buddy's

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name? Gorude? Uh? True? Yeah, she's hostess at the Dreamland.
That's the sailor's buddy. Yeah.Well, I'll get another chair.
It will still be fairly cozy,just the five of us. The sailors
will love it. Here. Isold the soldier. You invited a soldier

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to dinner too? Well, Ihad to George. He was all alone
in front of a theater on theboulevard, and I never saw a hungrier
expression on a boy's face. Really. Yeah, he just stood there staring
at a billboard with Betty Grabil's pictureon it. Yes, what he needs
is a big helping of mashed potatoes. Yeah, that's right, And I

(03:07):
know he likes the way I planto serve them, a bowl of potatoes
and a bowl of pealings, bowlof pealings. Well, he'll appreciates the
potatoes more if he can look atthe pealings and somebody else took off.
The soldier will like that. Yeah, solar is buddy. The soldiers bringing

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a buddy to Uh huh, what'sher name? Oh it is no woman,
George. These soldiers have been onthe desert for six months. They've
forgotten all about women. I haveheard different. Okay, I'll get too
much, Chad. They didn't makeit three again. Huh. Well the

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sergeant can't stand up cozy little Thanksgivingdinner world. Oh you like the sergeant.
I think he must be the headguard at Fort Knox. What makes
you think so well? He toldme that he's in charge of more gold
bricks than any sogeant in the ardorI never knew one that didn't make that

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claim. Well, let's see whatthree soldiers we now have seven? Well,
I guess we have enough chairs.Sure the Marines can sit on the
divan marine. Yeah, Marines loveto sit under van. Yes, especially
with other Marines. How many didyou invite? Only two? Oh?
Before are coming? You see theywere together on Guadalcanal. Well, I'm

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tickled death to have them. ButI wonder if we'll have enough food for
them. Oh, the Marines willprobably bring along some butter and milk and
cheese. Where where will they getit? George, don't you read books?
Don't you go to the movies?Haven't you heard of the Guadalcanal dairy?

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Silly of me to think of that. Look, see, I think
it's a wonderful idea to have servicemenfor Thanksgiving dinner. But that's a turkey
in the oven, not a p. Thirty eight. Oh ah, that
reminds me. Where should we seatthe fly? Oh? No? Yeah,
Well I felt sorry for him too. Last night of the canteen.
He tripped while he was dancing withthe loveliest girl there and they fell right

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on the floor really, uh huh? And after he picked me up I
invited him to dinner. What elsecould you do? Nothing? Sure?
Well, the flyer brings our cozylittle total to an even dozen. Or
is the flyer bringing a buddy too? Well? How many? How many
are there in the crew of aflying fortress, Gracie, We've only got

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one turkey? That's right there.They used to coming in on a wing
and a prayer. I guess so. And besides, I have it all
figured out just what each one willget. Now. The pilot will get
the neck I say, he sitsup front, Yes, And the bomber
they will get the dump rings regularblockbusters. The navigator will get the wing.
Yes. And Judge, you're goingto join the crew? Me?

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Yeah, You're gonna be the tailgunner. I've been the tail gunner out
for five thanksgivings. Well, thisyear I'll use some dressing for camouflage.
Thanks, Gracie. Do you realizehow many people you've invited for dinner?
Can you handle this thing? I'msure the whack and the wave will help
with additions. You invited them too, well, vote to be cozy with

(06:35):
a few girls around. This isgonna be the coziest thing ever attempted.
Well, yeah, and you knowhow girls love salad, so especially in
their honor. I'm having a patrioticfruit salad. Sounds good? Oh yes,
I take a red apple and awhite banana and a blue plum and
stick them on a bark red white, blue cute. Huh. Won't that

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be a little hard to eat?Oh? Oh, you don't eat it.
You just waving an I'll keep themthin, you see, Judge,
I've tried to prepare something special foreach branch of the service I invited to
dinner. For example, my dropcookies, therefore cozy little dinner. Well,
George, I just couldn't leave outthe paratroops. They've been doing such

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a grand fighting job. The Russianshave been doing pretty well too, I
know. Do you think one bottleof vodka will be enough? Don't tell
me a Russian sniper. Well,the only thing to do is to move
the table and everything out in theyard and save buffet side. Oh we

(07:40):
can't do that. Why not?The Ras boys are playing cricket back there.
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