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Riley's Tonsillectomy

The Life of Riley · November 12, 1948 · 24 min · 3,384 words

The transcript of “Riley's Tonsillectomy”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast November 12, 1948. 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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For Riley, starring William Bendix as Riley. The The The Just Ray Riley had weathered many a storm in his turbulent life, but one wall that really got him down will live long in his memory. It all happened when he forgot to take his lunch box to work with him one day, and so instead of his wife's

home cooking Riley had lunch at Justin's Riesie Grotto. Riley ordered the Blue plate special bone mackerel, but the cook said pull the boner. Results, Riley had a run-in with the stubborn fish bone. And now we find him back at the out-craft plant in the infirmary being examined by the company doctor.

I'm choking. I'm strangling. I can't breathe to the oxygen. Now, now, Riley, as bad as all that. I'll just sit still and tell me what happened. I swallowed the fish and he He's deadly. Is that a little baseball?

A little? The whole finish, something might poke with part of the rudder. He's getting into my gillow. He's getting into your position. Now open your mouth, Mr. Riley, and then you take a look. They are...

Oh, what a matter. No, he's trying to go upstream. Oh, that bone. It must be a yard or a horse or a sitting down. Oh, that's Riley. There is no bone large in your throat.

It only made a little crack. It'll be all right in a few hours. Oh, just a little sec. Oh, gee, that's great. Thanks, Doc. I better go back and finish the fish. That lunchroom don't give no rebates.

I want to leave on the place. I just a sec, Riley. It seems that you haven't conditioned much more serious than a fish bone. That? A chicken bone? No, now open your mouth again, please.

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