When an elderly gentleman friend of Jennifer's dies, the man's family blames her for stealing his fortune.When an elderly gentleman friend of Jennifer's dies, the man's family blames her for stealing his fortune.When an elderly gentleman friend of Jennifer's dies, the man's family blames her for stealing his fortune.
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- TriviaColonel Buchanan is described as a veteran of both World Wars. Pat O'Brien did in fact enlist in the Navy in 1917 but was still in training when the war ended.
- GoofsWhen Bailey grabs the tear sheet from Les in the booth she is wearing a red sweater. She then rushes into the lobby with the sheet and she now has her coat on.
- Quotes
Col. H. Buchanan: [reading his will in the video] To my brother Cedric I leave... nothing, because he's always been an all or nothing kind of fellow and since he can't have it all he gets nothing. Oh, I've paid his bills for the last forty years and the free ride on the Buchanan gravy train is over. Did you save anything, Cedric?
Cedric Buchanan: No.
Col. H. Buchanan: Nooo. No, I didn't think so. To my sister Cloris, I leave... nothing. Same reason. To my brother Chester, I'd like to leave less than nothing, but that dumb lawyer of mine, he can't figure out how to do that. And to my nephew, ooo, Skip, who's always bragging about his van, to him I leave some advice: get a car people can see around on the highway you're blocking everybody's vision, you...
[Skip gives a sheepish look]
Col. H. Buchanan: Now, for Jennifer Marlowe, to her I leave exactly one dollar. She asked me not to leave her anything, but this happens to be the first dollar I ever earned. So there is a sentimental attachment. I love you darling. You're a good soldier.
[Jennifer blows a kiss toward the video screen showing the Colonel]
Col. H. Buchanan: And now, all the rest of my estate, every damn cent of it, goes to the Hare Krishnas, and if they promise to stay out of the airports.
- SoundtracksFascination
(uncredited)
Music by Fermo Dante Marchetti
Performed by Shony Alex Braun
[The violinist plays the tune for Jennifer and the Colonel at the restaurant]
The episode demonstrates how this show could be serious when necessary without losing its sense of timing. I've always thought that other critically acclaimed shows that try scripts where someone dies make much too light of the death. They turn it into farce. Here, dealing with the death is the whole idea -- with far better sarcasm than you'd expect they could get away with. Jennifer wins her battle, savoring the victory without sacrificing any of her sense of humor.
CBS never really liked the serious episodes. And sometimes they didn't work so well. But "Who is Gordon Sims? from the first season is brilliant. It gave us all a taste of what it might have been like for a black man fighting in Vietnam. "Never forget." And there are many others.
But the show could show poignancy even in episodes that are mostly manic comedy. The widely acclaimed "Turkeys Away" (NOT my favorite by any stretch) contains one scene that few viewers ever saw before Shout Factory!'s recent restoration. If you have a complete copy, check out a quiet but hilarious scene between Johnny and Venus in the DJ booth about Carlson's last promotion -- and I'm not going to tell you what it was. I don't know that anybody would consider it a spoiler, but it is SOOOO absurd that it needs to surprise you.
A wonderful episode of one of my all-time favorite shows.
- sscheiber
- Jan 2, 2016