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Phil Harris Wants $2,000 (And a Fur Coat in the Freezer)
Aired: May 15th, 1949. Jack and Rochester tackle a marathon refrigerator-cleaning session that somehow produces thirty pounds of leftover hash and a fur coat on ice for summer. A prank call from the 'Associated Press' reignites Jack's running feud with Fred Allen, before bandleader Phil Harris drops by with an outrageous request: a $2,000 loan to buy his band new tuxedos that moonlight as pallbearer suits on tour. Classic deadpan stinginess and ensemble banter, with a violin lesson from Professor LeBlanc still to come.
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