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Series · CBS · 1950

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The Jack Benny Program

28Leave it.

The cheapness gag can stay; the laughs at his Black valet cannot.

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The review

Rochester is his valet, and some of the laughs are at a Black servant. That has to be said before the rest, or the rest sounds softer than it is. Jack Benny plays a vain, cheap man, playing himself. The joke is his vanity and his wallet. The cheapness is a running gag, not a sermon about money.

You are not taught to want less. You are taught to laugh that he will not open the wallet. A house can watch the cheapness and still refuse the servant joke. People still treat the stinginess as harmless. The valet was a person the laugh was allowed to spend. If you put the old shows on, say who the laugh is aimed at.

Journal

Keep The Jack Benny Program in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Sirens

40 instead of 28

Sirens is still a comedy show, and it scores 40 instead of 28. What you gain is courage: She walks into a place that does not want her, for someone else's sake.

The eight

4
Industry
He plays a cheap star, and the valet's job is there so the joke has a servant.
3
Household
The house on screen is a star and his valet, not a marriage or a child.
2
Piety
The cheapness is a running gag, and it never checks the vanity.
2
Courage
He risks nothing he would miss; the joke is that he will not spend.
2
Republic
Some laughs are at a Black servant, and the show never calls that a debt.
3
Temperance
You are trained to laugh at his wallet, not to want less than you need.
4
Truth
He plays his own vanity straight, and the servant laugh is a false picture.
2
Stewardship
It leaves a famous cheapskate and a valet used as the laugh.

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Carrie

28Leave it.

The mother's piety is a lock. The school's cruelty is the key the story turns.

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The review

After her father dies, people whose job is the welfare of a child find Carrie White and a mother who has not let her leave. She is sent to school. The public promise of every telling of this story, including this one, is that humiliation and a gift for moving things without touching them end in a rampage. The mother calls it faith. It is control.

A first measure, and not a watch for a child. Pity the girl. Do not take the last night as the lesson about what a wounded person is owed. What she was owed was a door that opened before the power did.