Eb is again going to try to obtain a higher-paying job by taking a correspondence course. Some time back he attempted to become a barber. He is doing this because he and his "financee" Darlene went furniture shopping and got what we today call "sticker shock."
This time he wants to be an accountant through the Clarkwell Correspondence School. Before watching this for the first time in years, I started laughing as I remember word-for-word the school alma mater that fellow Clarkwell alumni Hank and Sam both sang. It was so moving that they tear up on hearing it again.
I think the best Eb-centered stories are where he tries for some sort of training so he can get a better job. The ones where he is suddenly "in-love" and plans to get married even though he has less than $50 in the bank and sleeps in a barn loft, are too preposterous to be that funny, in general.
This episode features Eb more than almost any other, due to a mistake when he enrolled, he is being sent everything for an "acting" course, apparently one line below the "accounting" that he wanted. But Eb figures its fate trying to steer him, so he embraces acting with great vigor.
Mr. Haney confronts Oliver, wanting to challenge him to a duel because he let Eb enroll at Clarkwell instead of Haney's own school of accounting, where he furnishes each student with a Bob Cratchit desk complete with a quill pen and all. Oliver finally grabs one of the two pistols in the case Haney held up, and Haney immediately tells him "That'll be $12." When Oliver objects, Haney says, "The other pistol is $18-that's the one with the bullet." As usual, Haney has the best line in the show.
He goes wild with his first lesson-applying makeup, except he glued his eyelashes to his face and couldn't see. Then he begins a series of "dramatizations"-acting out outlandish scenes in the guise of his everyday life, like pretending supper is with Louis XIV of France, where Lisa claimed she was the "serving wrench."
Oliver tries to talk him into sending all the acting stuff back, and Darlene threatens to call off the wedding if he continues with acting, but Eb is too stubborn to listen and continues along.
There was no real resolution to the plot-like selected other episodes-but it was good fun while it lasted-a score of 8.
This time he wants to be an accountant through the Clarkwell Correspondence School. Before watching this for the first time in years, I started laughing as I remember word-for-word the school alma mater that fellow Clarkwell alumni Hank and Sam both sang. It was so moving that they tear up on hearing it again.
I think the best Eb-centered stories are where he tries for some sort of training so he can get a better job. The ones where he is suddenly "in-love" and plans to get married even though he has less than $50 in the bank and sleeps in a barn loft, are too preposterous to be that funny, in general.
This episode features Eb more than almost any other, due to a mistake when he enrolled, he is being sent everything for an "acting" course, apparently one line below the "accounting" that he wanted. But Eb figures its fate trying to steer him, so he embraces acting with great vigor.
Mr. Haney confronts Oliver, wanting to challenge him to a duel because he let Eb enroll at Clarkwell instead of Haney's own school of accounting, where he furnishes each student with a Bob Cratchit desk complete with a quill pen and all. Oliver finally grabs one of the two pistols in the case Haney held up, and Haney immediately tells him "That'll be $12." When Oliver objects, Haney says, "The other pistol is $18-that's the one with the bullet." As usual, Haney has the best line in the show.
He goes wild with his first lesson-applying makeup, except he glued his eyelashes to his face and couldn't see. Then he begins a series of "dramatizations"-acting out outlandish scenes in the guise of his everyday life, like pretending supper is with Louis XIV of France, where Lisa claimed she was the "serving wrench."
Oliver tries to talk him into sending all the acting stuff back, and Darlene threatens to call off the wedding if he continues with acting, but Eb is too stubborn to listen and continues along.
There was no real resolution to the plot-like selected other episodes-but it was good fun while it lasted-a score of 8.
