- [afterword]
- Self - Host: That is known as domestic skeet shooting with live skeet.
- [sees something off-camera]
- Self - Host: I, uh, I see another commercial is coming up. It's amazing what you see when you don't have a gun.
- [commercial]
- Self - Host: By the way, tonight's story has inspired something new and exciting in track meets -- spectators are sold pistols instead of popcorn. But the bag is limited to three hurdlers per person. I'm told it adds a great deal of zest to the sport. Next week, we shall continue our study of the strange byways of American folklore. Until then, good night.
- [introduction - Hitchcock is on an Olympic placers' stand with two athletes on either side]
- Self - Host: Good evening and thank you very much. Naturally, I'm pleased to have won the race. But I would like to console the losers with this bit of philosophy -- it matters not who runs the race. It's how you win that counts.
- [takes wreath off head]
- Self - Host: I have a feeling I wasn't expected to triumph. The wreath is sized eight and a quarter. I'll have to take a tuck in it. And now for the next event. In the preliminaries, this contestant made the distance in one minute flat. Let us hope he can improve that time.