Amos and Andy: The Kingfish's Mother-in-Law Kicks Him Out (#413)
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In this episode, Kingfish Stevens returns home to find his mother-in-law, Mrs. Stevens, has once again thrown him out of the apartment after a family musical gathering turned into an argument over her singing voice and his insults toward her. After being ejected from their residence via six flights of stairs, Kingfish decides not to call for help immediately but instead plans to wait until Sapphire returns home alone so he can play mind games with her by pretending she has found another man who is interested in him. He believes that if he acts confident and charming while waiting outside the door, his wife will eventually come crawling back begging for forgiveness, treating him like a devoted hound dog once again.
The situation escalates when Sapphire's boss from her new department store job arrives to pick up over three hundred dollars worth of men's clothing she had purchased earlier that day as part of her undercover assignment to spy on competitors. Kingfish and Andy investigate the closet full of shoes, shirts, and hats in various sizes, leading them to comically speculate about Sapphire having a secret boyfriend with unusual physical traits like swollen feet or an oversized head. When the boss arrives for his clothes, he is mistaken by Kingfish as the mysterious suitor, prompting Kingfish to violently knock him down the stairs out of jealousy before burning all the merchandise in the furnace just as Sapphire returns home from work.
Upon discovering that her employer has been assaulted and their expensive inventory destroyed, Mrs. Stevens initially refuses to speak with Kingfish until he explains his side of the story. However, when she learns that he burned the clothes because they were intended for a rival store investigation rather than an actual lover, she is furious about both the financial loss and the assault on her boss. To avoid jail time and losing Sapphire forever, Kingfish attempts to blame Andy for hitting Mr. Brooks by claiming he suffered from "punch drunk" amnesia due to adrenaline overload, but eventually admits his own guilt when realizing that if Mrs. Stevens finds out he hit her employer, their marriage will be over permanently.
The episode concludes with the family gathering once more around the piano after Kingfish has been released on bail and promised never to fight again or insult anyone in the house. Despite a brief moment of tension where Andy tries to defend himself against accusations of being a troublemaker, Mrs. Stevens insists that they all sing together happily despite her singing off-key, reinforcing their family bond through music rather than conflict. The show ends with Kingfish vowing to use flattery and kindness instead of aggression when dealing with women, promising to turn the heads of his mother-in-law and wife alike while maintaining peace within the household for the foreseeable future.
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studa Baker winner of the 1955 mobile
gas economy run Grand sweep Stakes
brings you Amos and
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Andy and Andy Show written by Joe
Connelly and Bob moer transcribed and
featuring Ernestine Wade Johnny Lee
Amanda Randolph Roy Glenn senior lud
gluskins music Yours Truly Hara Wilcox
and starring radio's all-time favorites
Freeman gden and Charles Carell am and
Andy
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contrary to public opinion it's not all
squabbling and fighting at the home of
George Kingfish Stevens his wife
Sapphire and her mother for instance
tonight the family has gathered around
the piano for a musical evening of
vocalizing I see smiling
face a
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and
me and Mama
makes we happy
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in that was very nice wasn't it yeah
wasn't bad Harmony considering the fact
that we had to carry old gravel throat
with us
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there I wouldn't say nothing if I was
you with your obnoxious
obligado you couldn't find the right key
if you as a desk clerk in a two room
Hotel George that's enough Mama's got a
beautiful voice well she'd be a lot
better off if she'd put the soft pedal
on that basso disgusto of
hers you sound like a peak stuck in a
hog
Waller now look George this is the last
straw I'm sick and tired of you talking
to Mama that way I'm afraid I'm going to
have to ask you to leave you afraid
you're going to ask me to leave well
that is a laugh haha if so happens this
is my home and I has the legal right to
reside therein and when I is here in
ain't nobody going to throw me there out
whosoever is that so ball yeah sir
nobody put me out big mouth cuz this is
my home and a man is King and his own
domain daughter would you mind opening
the door while I abdicate the Duke of
Windsor
here I wait a minute y hold it Mama hold
it there's the door Mama now for you
sonin-law mama let go of my cool let go
of my trousers help out on the land now
watch it mama there's six place of
stairs there Tim help help
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I'm getting more distance
daughter this time he went right through
the vesu
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door so your mom-in-law done throw you
out the apartment again huh yes and
there's 89 steps to the street the ones
I didn't catch with my head I got with
my sacred ALC
yeah well them is two beautiful lumps
you got on your Noggin there very hood
and with that bald head of yours looks
like a camel squatting down in the sand
Doom well I going to fix sire for this
though I ain't going to callau up I
threw with her I going to let her suffer
yeah well explain to me how you going to
fix her now go ahead well now listen
Andy every time she do something like
this she regret it while she's sitting
up there in the apartment right now
crying eyes out about me yeah and you
going to give her the silent treatment
huh oh certainly I going to give her the
silent treatment
you got to treat a woman like a hound
dog hey you be nice to them and they
ain't no good you treat them me and they
come around licking your hand beging for
fevers oh now wait a minute I don't know
about that you know we had a hound dog
and Papa was always treating it mean M
but the dog was always begging to get on
Papa's lap then one day Papa give in and
we found out why the dog was begging to
get up there all those years he bit Papa
right smacking the neck
oh no s I know my women I tell you I
know them like a book saire be calling
me up saying oh you got to come back to
me oh you got a I was heartbroken please
George please oh
George holy smoke if she going to carry
on like that when you go back you better
take a net with you you're pretty sure
of yourself ain't you oh you will see
Anna she'll be calling me she'll come
crawling like a hound dog she do she
I'll give yeah like a hound
dog U
hello
oh hey Kingfish Rover is on the
phone see there andy there something for
you I told her she'd call me up and
that's what she done done yeah yeah she
done call oh I knows my women watch me
toy with her give me the phone I'll play
with her like a cat with a ball of
string
here listen to this well woman now that
you is called me I guess you is is uh uh
uh uh what's
that you don't need
me you got a
job the moving van do
what my
clothes out in the
street bag and
baggage seeing the
judge yeah I I I'll get him then yes
Rover I mean yes ma'am yes yes
ma'am what happened Kingfish is the
moving people going to help her climb up
in your lap no any she say she going to
throw my things out in the street and
sue me for separation you know Kingfish
I've been thinking here her throwing you
out all of a sudden like this uh do you
think by any chance maybe she's
interested in another man what and my
way of interested in another man when
she got me H look at Man look yeah turn
around you look at me yeah I look at
yeah women has always been crazy about
me I got charm I got personality I got
good looks hey you know the old saying
if you builds a better mous trrap the
world will be the path to your door or
sappire trying to Bluff me down oh I
sure her I'll go up there pack my
clothes and get out of there I'll sure
come on you can give me a hand up at the
place come on go up there with me yeah
well Kingfish I've been thinking here
you know I know it's true about the
better mou strap and everything but at
your age Sapphire might just be looking
for a fresher piece of cheddar oh
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yeah well come on in Department a it
yeah look like there ain't nobody home
guess sapphires out working on that new
job she say she got huh yeah yeah Hey
where's your clothes and stuff well I
ain't got much stuff here and most of us
here in this whole closet uh let me get
in here
I'll just get my my H lot of boxes in
there Ain it there sure is hey look at
this one Benson's men's store and this
one here Esquire men's shop open that
one there what is in them boxes they
open up some of them there say all these
boxes has got men's clothes in them
Kingfish and they brand new too yeah
what would saire be doing with men's
clothes in the closet here well it look
like there's presents for somebody
they must be $3 $400 worth of stuff here
holy molander Sapphire bought all these
presents to give to some man Andy you
was right it looked like she' done found
a better mouse trap yeah King Fish and
it looked like she done run into a
pretty romantic rodent oh
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winner uh you sent for me Mr Brooks yes
Mrs Stevens come
in you know for a woman who's had no
previous experience I must say you're
doing a fine job for us here at the
department store oh well thank you but
you know I don't quite understand the
purpose of my job why do I go around to
other department stores and buy so much
merchandise well Mrs Stevens you're what
we call a comparative Shopper by having
someone shop in our Rivals stores we can
get a pretty good line on the
competition we'd like it all kept on the
quiet though I see well I bought all the
items on the list yesterday two pairs of
men's shoes a tuxedo a fedora socks and
the other accessories of course most of
the things are in different sizes oh you
bought them in different sizes well that
doesn't matter well I did just what you
told me I took all the clothes home and
they're in my hall closet When shall I
bring them to the store oh no no we
don't want you to be seen coming in the
store with merchandise I'll tell you
what I'll drop around at your place
later in the afternoon and pick them up
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myself Kingfish explain to me again why
you got all these men's clothes from the
CL it spread out on the sofa here well
then I want to find out what do
boyfriend of South eyes look like and I
going to be able to tell from the size
of his clothes and shoes what kind of a
physique he got might be somebody I know
you know yeah that's right you can get a
pretty good picture of them from the
clothes all right well Andy we'll start
here with the shoes let me see these tan
shoes here H he wears a size 6 and A2
yeah but hey look at these evening
slippers here they are size 10
this boy's feets must really swell up at
night yeah he must be on his feet a lot
yeah well at least we know he don't work
for the
government we ain't learn Too Much from
the shoes is we no let's go on here
what's this your thing in the bag here
hit here's a pair of brown socks here
look here yeah and look at there size
13 yeah if he jams them size socks into
them 6 and A2 shoes he gets a nice lap
over
there yeah we lap over there either that
and or this boy has tools curled up on
him like the front of a toboggan or
something like
that yeah well I don't know what this
Fell's got but I don't think it's his
Feats that attracted Sapphire wait a
minute Andy here's a sport shirt uh you
get a better picture of from the shirt
you see let's hold this thing up here
mhm wait a minute let me look at the
size here let's see h size 14 and 1/2
yeah well that hold it Kingfish hold it
here's the evening shirt there this is
size 18 and
A2 seems like after Sundown this boy
bloes up all over doing
it yeah he sound like he got the all
over
gout holy smoked Kingfish look at this
Fedora he got a size N9 and 3/4
head man and he got a size 6 and 1/2 ft
9 3/4
head and I think we better look for a
boy that falls down a
lot you
know Kingfish with that 40 lb head of
his and that waddle on Sapphire they
must make a pretty unbalanced couple
don't If Ever I get my hands on this man
I going to rip him yeah wait a minute
wait a minute the door the door the door
ready B get the door too early if a
sapphire coming home from the job
probably as a mama I going to tell that
old lady what I think of her daughter
come on Andy listen to
this now listen here you old to uh uh uh
oh uh can I help you Mr this is the
Stevens residence isn't it uh yes sir
that's right uh what can I do for you
sir well I've come for the clothes uh
the clothes that's right the clothes Mrs
Stevens bought for me
yesterday clothes Mrs Stevens bought for
you uh uh uh excuse me a minute uh come
over here in the corner Andy come on
over you
yeah tell me this you think it's him
Ander I think so Kingfish look at him
it's only 2:00 in the afternoon and he's
pretty well bloated up
already he a big fellow already yeah
wait a minut I tell you what I going to
do and I going to see if I can appeal to
his better nature here yeah appeal to
that go ahead say what is all this oh M
does you happen to know that Mr Stevens
has a husband well yes but it doesn't
make any difference at all at our
organization
organization holy maandy you hear that
yeah they got a union now you
looking now look now look here I'll fix
you you big take this
Timber King Fish you done throw the fell
down the stairs I ain't threw with it
yet Andy give me them clothes I'm going
to take them down and throw them in
furnace that's what I
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going well finished burning up the
clothes in the furnace now I'll wait
here to Sapphire get home hm I'll tell
her uh mom I'm home are you George
Stevens what are you doing here woman I
have been waiting to talk to you I want
to tell you something now look George
you and I are finished I don't want to
talk to you now you look at here I've
been here all afternoon you was here all
afternoon well did the man come from the
department store for the clothes yeah
they the they the the the the the
department store yes clothes yes that's
my new job I buy clothes for the
department store they were in the hall
closet and my boss Mr Brooks was going
to pick them up there was over $300
worth in
there well goodbye
Sapphire George where are you going now
down to join a tuxa in the furnace what
yes and if it gets a little stuff in
here in the next few minutes don't worry
about it it's only me that's why
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oh me Calhoun you got to help me this is
the worst mess I done ever been first
time that I ever hit anybody in my life
why did I have to pick Sapphire's boss
oh it's terrible Sapphire never speak to
me again oh me why did I have to get
jealous over nothing again calhon when
the man ask for his clothes back what is
I going to do wow that's simple give
them to him yeah but I done burn them up
that makes it a little
harder yeah but the world saying what's
he going to do when he finds out I was
the one that hit him oh then he he don't
know who hit him huh no he never seen me
before in his life but I understand he
got out one of them John do warrants to
have me arrested for assult and batter
well uh maybe you could get the man to
think somebody else hit him yeah I might
do that but how is I going to get to
someone else to think that he hit the
man well the only person to pull
something like take that on would
be would
be say this is a great idea you got here
boy you know I could convince Andy that
he done slug Mr Brooks yeah I'll go over
and talk to the boy right away Calhoun
you know when he in a spot you is really
a quick thinker oh
yeah always has been well just last week
I was driving out in the country
breathing long about 60 M an hour and
then all of a sudden up ahead I see this
little pig run out in the road well
right then and there I realized I only
had two choices to make I could hit that
poor little pig or I could run off the
road and smash my expensive automobile
well I I looked at that poor little
piggy and I didn't hesitate for a minute
and Kingfish I made the only choice I
could make well that was really
something calhon by the away Kingfish
could you use about 30 lbs of pork
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sausage say kingrey explain to me again
about me being the one that hit Mr
Brooks yesterday what is that again well
like I tell you any uh you done slug the
man up in my apartment knocked him right
down the stairs well now how come if I
hit a fell that I I don't remember
nothing about it well land the only
explanation is that you was in such a
blind Ridge that you completely forgot
what happened yeah oh things like this
happen to prize Fighters all the time
it's what they refers to in the
fisticuff circles as top blowing Amnesia
or punch drunk heie jibes you
see or Jack demp had it all through the
fur pole fight he did huh oh yeah when
fpo knocked him out of the ring out into
the audience Dempsey didn't know what
was going on he sat down in the ringside
seat bought herself a hot dog and turned
to the fell next to him and said who's
fighting tonight
bub listen King listen here is you
trying to tell me that I could have a
fight knock a fell downstairs and not
remember it yes Andy the medical
explanation is that when you gets mad
the adrenal gland starts pumping
adrenaline through your system it rushes
to your head and well the next thing you
know you was sitting there with a snoot
full of adrenaline that's what you got I
is huh oh yeah and before you knows it
it starts soaking into your brand like
brand in a fruit
cake all of a sudden you
go and you black out and start slugging
holy Mao I really hit that fell huh oh
yeah and uh well what made you spring
your Sprocket was when the fell wanted
to hit me that's when you got mad oh
yeah I got mad huh oh mad your eyes
really popped out of your sockets boy no
fol yeah look like somebody squeezing
two tubes of bloodshot
toothpaste yeah you fed once with your
left and then you br up the uppercut
right off the floor and that boy took
off over the banister like a saber jet
holy smoke my pancreas really must have
been pinging I don't remember nothing
like that oh you was a terror Ander I
think the crown and blow was when you
picked up the clothes and run down the
basement throw them in furnace
well throw the clothes in the furnace oh
yeah and oh I understand Notre damn
football team do that sometime after a
tough Victory oh after one big game the
opponents left the stadium and the BVD
is cat that must have been some fight if
I done that oh great fight Andy great
fight and like to say in the fight game
two to Victor go to spoils oh yeah oh
sure yeah so just drop down to the
police station pick up the warranty got
for you for salt and battery and I'll
see you later and yeah well well I'll
get right down there and I uh salt and b
r oh yeah Andy just one of them things
you might have to pay for the clothes
serve 10 or 15 days in jail but while
you were sitting in the clink you will
have the consolation knowing you fought
a good
fight well I guess if I done them things
I got to pay for them after all I well
how is your fellas hi Amos well hello
Emma say Emma walk me down to the jail
house will you I got to give myself up
uh give yourself up yeah oh excuse
excuse me boys I just remember I got to
run down five my income tax I'll be back
yeah go ahead go ahead wait a minute
King Feast don't leave here now wait a
minute uh is this guy anything to do
with that Brooks fella that you hit
yesterday Kingfish oh no no amamos I hit
him I had the blind rage now look and
the kingfish hit him he is just trying
to blame it on
you Kingfish I feel that adrenaline
snapped at my liver
again now look Andy wait a minute now
unclench your fist there now now wait a
minute now wait a minute I going to tell
you the truth now tell me something I
had to do it to now look here I is in
terrible trouble if my wife finds out
that I is the one that hit her boss
we'll be finished forever and I I'll
never be able to get back with my wife
again and I ain't got $300 to pay Mr
Brooks for the clothes that burned up
neither yeah well that was a dirty trick
to pull you shouldn't have tried a thing
like this well now look King Fish you
was in trouble now we down at the large
Hall going to see if we can't help raise
the money for you yeah oh thank you boys
and I tell you one thing thing if my
wife takes me back I ain't never going
to fight with her again or Mama again I
knows how to handle women now you got to
flatter them no matter what they say you
got to tell them they is right yeah you
right there oh yeah he was from now on I
going to turn their heads with flattery
I going to turn them with kindness well
King Fish if I was living with them two
old goats I'd want to turn their heads
all right all mine
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sa and
me and Mama makes a
three we happy
in
heav oh that was beautiful mama just
beautiful mama never sung more beautiful
did you sire alling well Mama I thought
you was just a little bit off key
what nonsense I never sing off
key must have been you dear now mama I
never sung off key in my whole life now
now girls Little Darlings let's not have
any of this will you keep your big mouth
shut when I'm talking to my daughter yes
George must you always bud in well I was
just trying to avoid a fight here how
dare you accuse us of fighting yes Baldi
what are you you a
troublemaker well now with a minut don't
you shout it mother I'll fix him let go
mama let go me no no not to stairs
again shall we go back sappire yes
Mama daughter yes Mama if you please
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we thre out
the we're happy
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Hall be sure to be with us at the same
time next Sunday for the Amon Andy Show
transcribed and directed by Cliff H now
stay tuned for Army Brooks which follows
immediately over most of these same
stations
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