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Five Hundred Dollars

My Friend Irma · March 7, 1949 · 29 min · 4,238 words

The transcript of “Five Hundred Dollars”, an episode of My Friend Irma first broadcast March 7, 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 pepcedent twice a day see your dentist twice a year Leave your brother's company presents the pepcedent show my friend Irma Created by Sigh Howard and starring Marie Wilson as Irma with Joan Banks as Jane Friendship, friendship, just perfect friendship, with other friendships event forgotten.

Fable about the dog crossing the bridge with a bone in his mouth, and how he saw his reflection in the water and thought it was another dog holding a larger bone. So he tried to get it, but when he opened his mouth, the bone fell out of it and he ended up with an empty stomach.

Well, this little story reminds me of my roommate, Ermopedus. Why? Because she must have looked in the mirror one day, opened her mouth and her brain fell out. Don't get me wrong, I love Irma. And to me, Jane Stacy, she's the best roommate a girl ever had. It's just that some of the things she says really are from Dixie. For

instance, the other day I was reading about the strides made in television. And I said, Irma, yes Jane, do you know that they've just come out with a television set that has an indoor aerial that goes right inside your room.

Well, I don't see why we should buy one of those. I've already seen everything that's in our room. Well, now I know how it feels to be in the Navy. You go through life with an anchor.

But that's the way it goes with my friend Irma. Every day something unusual happens. Like the other day the door opened, an in came a breathless Irma who said, Oh, Jane, I'm so excited. I can hardly talk. Guess what?

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