Billiard Table

Mother, is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world? Well, your father says so and your father knows best. No! It's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors the Anderson's, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the last drop.

Proficiency in the art of billiards we've often told is a certain sign of a misspent youth. On the other hand, when I was a boy having a billiard table in your home was an equally certain sign of affluence.

Sort of confusing, isn't it? Anyway in Springfield, in a certain white frame house on Maple Street, the Andesans are going to find out all about billiard tables and confusion. Like this? A billiard table. honey they practically gave it to me. If you sat up night and day for three months you couldn't figure out one thing we need less than a billiard table. Oh I

don't know I could probably think of Margaret people can always use a billiard table. Oh what? Well if we can't figure out anything else we can always use it to play billiards. You're so clever. Do you really think so? Look at it. Of all a All are rundown, motholes.

Those aren't motholes. No. No, I ask about that. And the man told me they're cigarette burns. I beg your pardon. But they're not motholes. Jim, I... How much did you pay for it? Pay? Well, may I explain something to you first?

You see, honey, please. This is very important. You see, with a billiard table, it isn't the original cost that's important. It's the upkeep. No, it's the money you save. In other words, it isn't really a billiard table, it's a piggy bank.