My Friend Irma · February 21, 1949 · 29 min · 4,321 words
The transcript of “Irma Buys a Used Car”, an episode of My Friend Irma first broadcast February 21, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). My Friend Irma plays My Friend Irma free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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For the safety of your smile use Pepsidin twice a day, see your dentist twice a year. Music Lever Brothers Company presents the Pepsidin Show, my friend Irma, created by Cy Howard and starring Marie Wilson as Irma with Joan Banks as Jane.
Friendship, friendship, just the perfect friendship when other friendships event forgot to be theirs. I used to get such a kick out of when we were kids. You know the ones that went like this.
What has legs but can't walk? The answer was a table. What has eyes but can't see? Potatoes. What has a head but can't think? What do you think the answer is? A cabbage? Uh-uh. It's Irma Peterson.
LAUGHTER Now don't get me wrong. I love the girl. It's just that sometimes she did. Well, for instance, the other day I was reading some fashion notes and I said, Irma, but yes, Jane, I can't understand it.
Just when we begin to get used to the longer skirts, they start talking about making them shorter. I wish they'd make up their minds. So do I. My legs are getting dizzy. See what I mean?
Well, maybe these remarks have earned me so much because twice a day I go through an ordeal that only a New York working girl can understand. that subway ride from home to work and from work back home every day during the rush hours.
A little jamboree in which five million people cram themselves into little box cars and play a game called See Who Gets Out Alive. Today I didn't quite make it. Perma, do we have any mature chroma iodine?
No Jane, all we have is root beer and Coca-Cola. Please, Irma, all I ask is a little mercy. I've been wounded. Some big lug on the subway thought my ankle was a bar rail and tried to climb up it.
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