My Friend Irma · March 23, 1954 · 23 min · 3,176 words
The transcript of “Irma and Astrology ( )”, an episode of My Friend Irma first broadcast March 23, 1954. 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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Aarre and Irma, created by Fye Howard with Mary Ship as Kay and starring Marie Wilson as Irma. Kay Foster and I live with Irma Peterson who can best be described as an abandoned automobile. Why do I say it's abandoned?
Well, the body's there and it's beautiful and it gets around alright, but the things that happen to it make you wonder if there's anyone behind the wheel. Would you like an example? Okay. The other night I was reading an article about the canneries in Seattle, and I said to Irma, yes Kay, did you know that one fish makes twelve cans of salmon?
He does. Imagine what he could make if he worked overtime. This is Johnny Baker with Communism on the spot. During his visit to the United States, Remira Khrushchev stated on a TV interview, your grandchildren will live under communism.
His remark is typical of the fanatical confidence Marxists profess to have in the ultimate victory of communism. This is due to their belief that Marxism-Leninism is a science which enables them to interpret the present and chart the future.
There have, of course, been many developments which communist doctrine has failed to predict. But as might be expected, the Soviet leaders have suppressed all such inconvenient evidence. We're in the subway amidst the Russian bustle of the fast-moving crowds, with the roaring den of the machine age.
Yes, and Irma is the victim of the machine age, because there she stands at the foot of the stairs, putting a penny in the gum machine, the peanut machine, the candy machine. Now she's gone over to the weighing machine.
Well, this I don't get. people stand on the scale but she's sitting on it. Honey what's the idea? Well I'm trying to reduce so I want to see what my hips weigh. We're looking at the stand-up. People are watching you. Oh here comes the train.
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