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Oliver's without an operator on his first day as president of the Hooterville Phone Company. As he wrestles with an exploding switchboard, the locals gossip about how he stole the company from Roy Trendell in a rigged card game. Lisa figures out how to put calls through, but had rather flirt with the president than work the switchboard all night.moreless
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Eddie Albert
Oliver Wendell Douglas
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Eva Gabor
Lisa Douglas
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Tom Lester
Eb Dawson
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ADD TRIVIA- Haney doesn't have an operator on the back of his truck, but he does have a man who's a cocktail waitress, and elderly fandango dancer, and an atomic scientist who's on leave. Edit
- While Mr. McGurney is repairing Oliver's switchboard, Lisa flirts with Oliver while pretending to be his secretary "Lisa Bradfinger". Edit
- Arnold Ziffle is up at 5AM watching WPIXL-TV for their two hour Porky Pig Festival. Edit
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ADD QUOTES- Oliver: Would you like to earn five dollars? Haney: (suddenly very interested) Five dollars? Oliver: Ah, yes. All you have to do is get me a telephone operator. Haney: A telephone operator? Doggone if I don't believe that I got one on my truck. Oliver: On your truck? Haney: Just another service of the Haney Curbside Employment Agency. Edit
- Lisa: (reading the phone company motto that has several letters missing) Ervice Is Ur Mott. Do you know what that means in Hungarian? The customer is chopped liver. Edit
- Trendell:(informing Oliver that his mother, Sarah the operator, has quit) She wouldn't work for him after he stole the company from me. Oliver: What are you talking about? I didn't steal the company from you. You-you-you gave it to me! Trendell: That's not Mom's version. She's going around telling people how you got me drunk, lured me into a poker game and won the company from me with a marked deck. Oliver: What? Lisa: That's the way he won me from the count. Only that time he did it with loaded dice. Edit
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ADD ALLUSIONS- Haney says his stock brokers are Fishburger, Fishburger, Fishburger, Fishburger and Frye. They also performed on "the old Keith Circuit" as the Four Fishburgers and Frye. The Keith Circuit was a major chain of vaudeville theatres that operated starting at the turn of the 20th century. Edit
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