Series · CBS · 1950
The Jack Benny Program
28Leave it.
The cheapness gag can stay; the laughs at his Black valet cannot.
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The review
Rochester is his valet, and some of the laughs are at a Black servant. That has to be said before the rest, or the rest sounds softer than it is. Jack Benny plays a vain, cheap man, playing himself. The joke is his vanity and his wallet. The cheapness is a running gag, not a sermon about money.
You are not taught to want less. You are taught to laugh that he will not open the wallet. A house can watch the cheapness and still refuse the servant joke. People still treat the stinginess as harmless. The valet was a person the laugh was allowed to spend. If you put the old shows on, say who the laugh is aimed at.
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The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Brady Bunch
39 instead of 28
The Brady Bunch is still a comedy show, and it scores 39 instead of 28. What you gain is household: Six children and a new marriage are the premise, with the earlier grief wiped away.
The eight
- 4Industry
He plays a cheap star, and the valet's job is there so the joke has a servant.
- 3Household
The house on screen is a star and his valet, not a marriage or a child.
- 2Piety
The cheapness is a running gag, and it never checks the vanity.
- 2Courage
He risks nothing he would miss; the joke is that he will not spend.
- 2Republic
Some laughs are at a Black servant, and the show never calls that a debt.
- 3Temperance
You are trained to laugh at his wallet, not to want less than you need.
- 4Truth
He plays his own vanity straight, and the servant laugh is a false picture.
- 2Stewardship
It leaves a famous cheapskate and a valet used as the laugh.
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