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Trash Can Lids

Father Knows Best · January 28, 1954 · 29 min · 4,476 words

The transcript of “Trash Can Lids”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast January 28, 1954. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Father Knows Best plays Father Knows Best free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Stay tuned now for Robert Young starring in Father Knows Best, which follows this listening reminder. Tomorrow evening there's more fun-packed comedy when you set your dial to NBC for the Bob Hope Show and the Phil Harris Alice Faisheau.

Guess star tomorrow on the Bob Hope Show will be Miss Jean Turney, and you'll hear a fun-filled comedy sketch featuring this talented actress as well as a laugh-packed monologue by Bob. Later tomorrow evening listen to the Mirth and Music on the Phil Harris Alice Faisheau when Phil is joined by Elliot Lewis and Julius Abruzio for 30 minutes of hilarious comedy antics.

That's tomorrow night on the NBC Radio Network. And now it's Father Knows Best on NBC. Now listen to Father Knows Best transcribe starring Robert Young as Father. So there's another half hour as it will evoke in the White Frame House on Maple Street.

Sit back and enjoy life with the Anderson. Catley, Bud, Betty, Margaret and Jim. as the head of this typical American household again sets out to prove that father knows best. Among life's minor irritations, which plagued the average householder, the crushed trash can lid ranks fairly high.

This was demonstrated quite forcefully the other evening when Jim Anderson, on his way home from work, picked up a well flattened cover on the curbing and carried it into the house. Like this. Look at this, Margaret, it's happened again.

Flat as a pancake. Oh, dear, is that our trash can, Lea? Well, I admit it's hard to recognize. It was practically a new one, too. Sure, this is about the fourth one we bought this year.

You can't just buy a new cover, either. You have to buy a whole new can. It's a conspiracy. Do you think it would do any good to call them? I doubt it. I found ours almost down to that house where the new family's moving it.

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