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Riley Waits Tables to Meet Peg (flashback)

The Life of Riley · May 13, 1949 · 28 min · 4,024 words

The transcript of “Riley Waits Tables to Meet Peg (flashback)”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast May 13, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Life of Riley plays The Life of Riley free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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It's new, it's amazing, it's Prell. P-R-E-L-L, Prell Shampoo. Yes, Procter & Gamble's new radiant cream shampoo in the handy tube. Prell brings you the lieth of Riley. Prell the shampoo that removes unsightly dandruff leaves hair radiantly lovely presents the lieth of Riley with William Bendix as Riley.

Takes very little to make Chester a Riley happy. Right now, for instance, there is a blissful look on Riley's face as he toys with a few scraps of paper. Green paper. And Abraham Lincoln's picture is printed on each one.

Thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, and one more is forty. Yep. So, Junior, there's forty dollars here. Sure, there's a lot of money, isn't it, Pop? Well, it's not so much for a man like me to have, but seeing that it's your, though, it's a bumble.

Junior, how's about lending me $5, huh? Well, yeah, I'd like to, Pop, but honest, I need every cent. Junior, I'm hurt. I never thought you'd turn out to be an ungrate. When you ask me for money, don't I always give it to you?

No. No. How can you say that? Did you ever ask me for dough and go away empty handed? Not exactly. I've got a drawer full of your IOUs. Well, that's better than money. the U.S. Treasury goes bankrupt. What good is your money? For those IOUs, remember I'm behind them. Now if you lend me five dollars in the United States money I'll give you a

fifty dollar IOU. Yeah but I need this money for my vacation. Forty dollars for a vacation? Where you going around the world? I'm going to Pine Tree Lodge and Lake Arrowhead for two weeks. Look son, why pay for a vacation? Do what I did when I went to a summer resort.

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