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Gunga Din Part 2

Jack Benny · 1938 · 30 min · 3,786 words

The transcript of “Gunga Din Part 2”, an episode of Jack Benny from 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Jack Benny Program plays Jack Benny free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Jell-O program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker and yours truly Don Wilson. The orchestra opens a program with roller skating on a rainbow. How a plane room can be brightened right up with a bowl full of vivid summer flowers.

While a plane meal can be brightened up that same way with a mold full of gay shimmering Jell-O. Perhaps rich crimson strawberry jello for right now, it's strawberry thyme, and a grand way to enjoy the fresh berries is to serve them with strawberry jello.

It's just as appetizing and delicious as the fresh fruit itself. It echoes that fragrant tempting goodness and makes a lovely picture to adorn a simple meal. A mold of strawberry jello garnished with fresh berries, and all six delicious jello flavors bring you this same refreshing taste.

So cool and delightful, especially with hot weather on the way. raspberry cherry orange lemon and lime. They're filled with extra rich flavor. They glow with cheerful summery color. Just be sure to get genuine jello and don't accept any substitutes. Look for those big red letters on the box. They spell jello. And as well as getting in a rainbow played by the orchestra. Now

ladies and gentlemen, we bring you our own movie star who has just finished another epic at Paramount and is nervously awaiting the preview, Jack Benny. Thank you, thank you. You'll know again, this is Jack Vanny talking, and Don, I'm not a bit worried about the outcome of my latest green triumph.

But you're wrong about one thing, the picture isn't finished yet. Oh, it isn't? No, we have another week to go. You see, I've been having some story trouble. And I don't want to mention any names, but after all, I'm the star of the picture, and there's a certain party that's having a little too much to do in it.

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