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Be Your Husbands Best Friend

My Favorite Husband · 1948 · 25 min · 3,490 words

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We present Lucille Ball in my favorite husband, a new series based on the delightful stories of Isabel Scott Rawrich's gay sophisticated Mr. and Mrs. Cougar. Two people who live together and like it. Starring Lucille Ball with Richard Denning.

And now let's look in on the Cougar and see what they're doing. Oh, but hold your hands. Liz and George are having an argument about their plans for the evening. Liz wants to go to a symphony concert and George wants to have a poker game.

poker game. And in this corner wearing a peak satin house coat and weighing a hundred and twenty pounds battling Liz Cougar. And in this corner wearing a great pinstripe suit and weighing a hundred and seventy pounds is her husband gorgeous George. Well the first round into the draw and here comes the second

round. They come out of the corner fighting. Concert. Poker. Concert. Poker. Concert. Poker. Poker. Concert. Or I will go to the concert. Now wait a minute. Who said concert? Well I didn't mean it. I was tricked into it.

Oh, gee, Whiz, Whiz, well, why are we arguing so much lately? Well, it's all your fault. Whenever I want to do something, you want to do something else. No, I don't get it. When we first met, you wanted to do everything I wanted to do.

Now, what happened to change that? We got married. Oh, come on to the concert, George. It'll be fun. Think how long it's been since you've worn your tuxedo. Oh, that will be great fun. Now, look, I'm not going, but purely as a matter of information.

Why do men have to wear formal clothes to a concert? Because when they fall asleep, the stitched shirt keeps them from slumping over. Well, now I know. I can play poker with a clear mind.

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