This episode continues the 4-part saga of Oliver owning the phone company. In this episode, he tries to get a phone line connected to the phone in his kitchen by the Monroe Brothers, in exchange for him wiping out their phone bill for the past 6 months-a whopping $8.20 total. Showing their usual carpentry skills, Alf and Ralph need to make a hole, roughly 3 feet in diameter in the kitchen ceiling in order to run a thin wire through to connect the phone.
After going over the phone company's books, Oliver realizes that in order to not lose thousands of dollars like Trendell did, he's going to have to significantly raise the rates everyone pays. Meanwhile, after Lisa tells Sam Drucker how unappreciated Oliver feels, Sam organizes a special meeting of the chamber of commerce, inviting Eb but specifically not Oliver.
Because Oliver knows about the meeting, he is most upset with the townspeople. What he doesn't know is the purpose of the meeting and so he's quite surprised to learn it was about giving him a $1.35 a plate testimonial dinner.
One of the side stories is a new instant supper package Sam sells Lisa which is actually something she can cook to perfection. Called Dee Dee's Dehydrated Mason-Dixon Dinners, it looks like a bag of rice you just drop into a pot of boiling water, and in just a few minutes you can take out all sorts of different items, such as a chicken leg, biscuit, ear of corn, mashed potatoes, etc. and drop them onto your plate, ready to eat. I enjoyed Lisa calling it "Dee Dee's Dehydrificated..." Of course, they couldn't continue with this product or there would be no more jokes about Lisa's cooking.
This was another show full of silly laughter, and I have to rate it a 10. This run of episodes was as good as this show, or any really, get.
After going over the phone company's books, Oliver realizes that in order to not lose thousands of dollars like Trendell did, he's going to have to significantly raise the rates everyone pays. Meanwhile, after Lisa tells Sam Drucker how unappreciated Oliver feels, Sam organizes a special meeting of the chamber of commerce, inviting Eb but specifically not Oliver.
Because Oliver knows about the meeting, he is most upset with the townspeople. What he doesn't know is the purpose of the meeting and so he's quite surprised to learn it was about giving him a $1.35 a plate testimonial dinner.
One of the side stories is a new instant supper package Sam sells Lisa which is actually something she can cook to perfection. Called Dee Dee's Dehydrated Mason-Dixon Dinners, it looks like a bag of rice you just drop into a pot of boiling water, and in just a few minutes you can take out all sorts of different items, such as a chicken leg, biscuit, ear of corn, mashed potatoes, etc. and drop them onto your plate, ready to eat. I enjoyed Lisa calling it "Dee Dee's Dehydrificated..." Of course, they couldn't continue with this product or there would be no more jokes about Lisa's cooking.
This was another show full of silly laughter, and I have to rate it a 10. This run of episodes was as good as this show, or any really, get.
