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The Lunch Counter

Jack Benny · 1938 · 29 min · 4,027 words

The transcript of “The Lunch Counter”, 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 the program with Go South, young man. There's a popular song out now called April in My Heart, and that gives me an idea.

April with its price springtime colors is a long way off, but you can get a touch of spring into your menu tomorrow. tomorrow. Just serve jello for dessert. For jello's six glowing colors are so bright and cheerful, so fresh and gay they perk up any meal. And those six delicious flavors bring you extra rich fruit goodness. Strawberry, raspberry,

cherry, orange, lemon, and lime. Everyone is crammed with extra fruit richness. Adept the flavor that rivals the fresh ripe fruits themselves. No matter how you serve it, dressed up or perfectly plain, jello is a grand dessert.

tempting and good with extra rich flavor, fried and gay with springtime color. So ask your grocer tomorrow for America's favorite gelatin dessert, Jell-O! That was Go South Young Man, played by the author. And now, ladies and gentlemen, we turn back the clock

and take you to the drugstore across the street from the NBC building here in Hollywood. The time is exactly 15 minutes before this broadcast. Take it away, drugstore! You'll have to hurry, Mary. We haven't got much time.

Well, I'm hungry. Look, if you'll wait till after the broadcast, I'll take you out and buy you a full-course dinner. I'm no, Gamber. I'll take a sandwich now. All right, it's up to you. Say, here's a couple of seats here.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Madam, would you mind taking your peeking knees off this seat? These tools are for customers. Well, Cuddles is having a hot fudge sundae. Oh, he is. That's all his face needs, some hot fudge on it.

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