In the beginning of this episode, "Kingfish Sells a Lot", Amos tells of a property bought by George "Kingfish" Stevens 20 years previous. Except for when a movie was shot there with prop house exterior provided, that property hadn't been used much and is considered useless. So the Kingfish decides to sell it to his gullible friend Andy! I'll stop there and say while one can feel some embarrassment for Andy and Lightnin' (Nick Stewart) as they take a while to realize how there are no "sideways" to go to, and after Kingfish and Algonquin J. Calhoun try to fool Andy again with oil gushing in the background, something happens that makes Andy not so dumb after all! This was a pretty amusingly enjoyable episode that I accidentally submitted in the "Andy Buys a House" listing at IMDb previously. I have now submitted "Kingfish Sells a Lot" in its proper place.
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How to sell a worthless lot and make the other guy happy about it
FlushingCaps3 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Picture an episode of Green Acres that stars Mr. Haney and you have a feel for how this one works. Kingfish is being nagged by his wife about this vacant lot in New Jersey he bought for $1000 twenty years ago. He thought he could make money, but nobody has wanted to buy it, for all these years nobody has wanted to develop the area like he thought. It got one use, a few years ago a movie company wanted to film part of a movie and built a house front on the property, and left it.
Wondering who he might get to buy the lot, Kingfish naturally decides on gullible Andy, just like Mr. Haney would head straight for gullible Oliver's house. Andy shows great reluctance so Kingfish goes against what he originally planned, and shows him the picture of the house front he had, letting him think it's a real house. When Andy says he wants to see it in person, Kingfish drives him out, lets him look at it briefly, but says there's no time to go inside.
All this sets up the most riotous scenes. Andy buys it so he'll have a peaceful place in the country. He takes Lightnin' up to help him move some furniture inside. With their heads down, the two carry chairs through the doorway a few feet, plop them down in the "backyard," and after being surprised that they walked all the way through the house, they take several minutes to finally figure out that the house doesn't have any rooms. At one point, Lighnin' is standing looking out a front window, telling Andy, who is in front of the "building," that he's still in the backyard. Andy remarks about what a long neck Lighnin' has.
Finally figuring it out, Andy cannot get Kingfish to give him his $1000 back, so Andy says he's going to sue. He loudly tells Kingfish, "Kingfish, for 20 years you have been bamboozling me, but I'm telling you right now, this is your last BOOZLE!"
To combat this, Kingfish gets Algonquin J. Calhoun to help him rig up a hose under the ground on the lot, and when Andy comes to talk to Kingfish, Calhoun is out of sight, with a tire pump, squirting out a bit of motor oil, to make Andy think there's oil on the property, so he can get him to sign a paper saying he won't sue, even though he knows there's no real house on the property. I love the line about this oil being better than the kind they have in Texas-this oil comes out already refined.
The last several minutes see Kingfish experience the "good-for-the-goose..." business, which I don't need to reveal. Overall, this is now the funniest episode I've seen. It had me laughing greatly, so I give it a 10. Going back to my Green Acres analogy, I wonder how much happier Oliver's life would have been if instead of that totally ramshackle house he lived in for six years, he had only bought a house front and could have had an entire inside constructed without all the problems he had with that old wreck of a house.
Wondering who he might get to buy the lot, Kingfish naturally decides on gullible Andy, just like Mr. Haney would head straight for gullible Oliver's house. Andy shows great reluctance so Kingfish goes against what he originally planned, and shows him the picture of the house front he had, letting him think it's a real house. When Andy says he wants to see it in person, Kingfish drives him out, lets him look at it briefly, but says there's no time to go inside.
All this sets up the most riotous scenes. Andy buys it so he'll have a peaceful place in the country. He takes Lightnin' up to help him move some furniture inside. With their heads down, the two carry chairs through the doorway a few feet, plop them down in the "backyard," and after being surprised that they walked all the way through the house, they take several minutes to finally figure out that the house doesn't have any rooms. At one point, Lighnin' is standing looking out a front window, telling Andy, who is in front of the "building," that he's still in the backyard. Andy remarks about what a long neck Lighnin' has.
Finally figuring it out, Andy cannot get Kingfish to give him his $1000 back, so Andy says he's going to sue. He loudly tells Kingfish, "Kingfish, for 20 years you have been bamboozling me, but I'm telling you right now, this is your last BOOZLE!"
To combat this, Kingfish gets Algonquin J. Calhoun to help him rig up a hose under the ground on the lot, and when Andy comes to talk to Kingfish, Calhoun is out of sight, with a tire pump, squirting out a bit of motor oil, to make Andy think there's oil on the property, so he can get him to sign a paper saying he won't sue, even though he knows there's no real house on the property. I love the line about this oil being better than the kind they have in Texas-this oil comes out already refined.
The last several minutes see Kingfish experience the "good-for-the-goose..." business, which I don't need to reveal. Overall, this is now the funniest episode I've seen. It had me laughing greatly, so I give it a 10. Going back to my Green Acres analogy, I wonder how much happier Oliver's life would have been if instead of that totally ramshackle house he lived in for six years, he had only bought a house front and could have had an entire inside constructed without all the problems he had with that old wreck of a house.
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