The Abbott and Costello Show: Wife Wanted (1954)
Season 2, Episode 14
7/10
A Wife for Lou
16 August 2019
Bud, Lou and Mr. Fields play a shifty game of poker. Lou receives a letter from his grandfather Sourdough Costello in Alaska notifying he is coming to visit. Lou had been writing that he had a wife, and his grandfather said he will give him $10,000 if he does. Bud and Lou begin a search to find someone to play his wife. Lou falls for neighbor Agnes (June Vincent) but she has a jealous boyfriend- Bone Bender Brodsky (Frank Jara) who appears to be out of the picture now. Lou follows a word-for-word playbook to propose to Agnes from a newspaper's advice column. Things surprisingly turn in Lou's favor, momentarily.

The plot concept has been used before, but it closely resembles The Three Stooges' short "Brideless Groom". The productions share the same writer- Clyde Bruckman.
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