I compared the Google translations of the lyrics I already had for the first verse of “Il est Rigolo mon gigolo” (He’s a Giggle Oh My Gigolo) by Serge Gainsbourg with the ones that Sonix transcribed from the audio. The ones from Sonix make more sense but I’m not as sure about the second verse.
I weighed 88.5 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the last of two sessions and it went out of tune on every song. Tomorrow I begin a two session stretch of playing my electrics.
Around midday I unplugged and disconnected my Yamaha receiver to take it to AMI Electronics at Parliament and Shuter to get Dr. Oscar Moz to fix it because the right channel keeps dropping out. I told him I needed it back today so I guess he charged extra for that. He said he’d call me after a couple of hours to give me his diagnosis and tell me how much it would cost.
I rode home and had lunch.
I weighed 88.6 kilos at 15:20, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since April 15.
I took a siesta at 15:55 and Oscar called at 16:30. He offered to install Blue Tooth on my receiver but I wasn’t familiar enough with it to want to have it. He said the price for the repairs was $195 and I could pick it up at 17:30. I didn’t expect the price to be that high. I had to stop at the bank machine at the Bank of Montreal on the way there. Oscar had just finished when I got there. He said he’d had to solder new connections for the knobs and for the jacks in the back. He also had to put in new capacitors. On top of that he cleaned it.
When I got home I reconnected the stereo and was surprised that it was so easy. I’m always afraid of screwing things like this up. So far it looks like Oscar fixed the problem but I didn’t try to record.
I weighed 88.75 kilos at 19:00. That’s the easiest I’ve been on the scale in the evening since April 15.
I boiled a potato, heated some gravy and warmed up two chicken drumsticks.
I got ready to watch season 7, episode 3 of The Carol Burnett Show but there was no sound. My computer sound is accessed by the CD setting on the receiver and I was pretty sure I had the wire plugged in the right place but I switched it. That didn’t work. I restarted the computer. My supper was getting cold. The restart didn’t seem to help but when I switched from the line-out plug to the CD plug it worked. I’m pretty sure I’d put it in that slot before so maybe the restart worked after all.
On The Carol Burnett Show, during the audience warmup, Carol announces that Gloria Swanson is her special guest. Carol does a parody of Gloria called Nora Desmond and Gloria wrote to her that she got a kick out of it. Carol shows the final scene from Sunset Boulevard in which Gloria delivers her line, “Okay Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up”. Gloria comes out holding Lyle Waggoner’s hand and thanks Carol. She says most shows only “send flowers to my dressing room but you’ve really outdone yourself”, then she looks lovingly at Lyle. Carol mentions that Lyle was recently a centrefold in Playgirl Magazine. Gloria tells Lyle she wants to have dinner with him in Algiers. Carol says he can’t go because he’s a regular. Gloria says, “A regular? Forget it! I wanted a weirdo! Harvey!”
In the Carol and Sis sketch Roger is mad at Carol because she invited the elevator operator at his work building over for dinner. The elevator operator has a crush on Carol and Roger doesn’t understand why she encourages him. Carol explains that she invited him as a means of curing him of his infatuation. She thinks that if she and Roger demonstrate their affection for one another it will discourage him. Roger agrees to play along. Carol and Roger make sure they are kissing each other passionately when Jim arrives but it doesn’t phase him at all. He just tells Carol he didn’t want to be late for his first date with her. Jim knows better than Roger that Carol likes white wine on the rocks and that she wears a size 8 dress. Carol’s plan is not working and so Roger confronts Jim directly about his crush. Jim says he is in love with Carol. Carol, Harvey and Chrissie all try to argue how wrong it is for Jim to be in love with a married woman. Jim stands up and says, “You people are acting like being in love is some sort of crime. When actually it’s the highest compliment one human being can pay to another. So I’m in love with your wife, big deal. I’m not trying to break up your marriage. I’m not sneaking around behind your back. I’m just an honest man trying to express an honest emotion. I thought you’d understand that but I guess I was wrong. I’m sorry if I’ve offended anybody. I didn’t mean to, I really didn’t. Please excuse me” and then he leaves. Both Carol and Roger feel rotten and Crol runs after Jim, but he’s just waiting outside the door. She brings him back in for dinner. Jim says, “After dinner we can go to a movie while they’re doing the dishes.”
Gloria Swanson says, “They’re making such a fuss about the last tango (referencing the film The Last Tango in Paris). You’re looking at the kid who danced the first”. She sings and dances with the Ernie Flatt Dancers to the 1956 song “A New Fangled Tango” by Harold Karr and Matt Dubey. All the male dancers are made to resemble Rudolf Valentino.
In The Old Folks sketch Burt and Molly insult each other as usual up until they declare their love with a song. They sing “An Old Man” by Richard Rodgers from the 1970 musical Two By Two.
Carol and Vickie play two sisters watching their mother leave for a date and hoping she’ll get married. They sing “Mama’s Got a Date” and it looks like it was written specifically for this number. They sing “Tonight at Eight” by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick from the 1963 musical She Loves Me. Then they sing “If Mama Was Married” by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim from the 1959 musical Gypsy. In the end Mama returns to announce she’s married and she’s the tall, big breasted Jewish mother played by Harvey Korman in drag.
Carol plays a naively devoted housewife and Harvey plays her cheating husband who feels so guilty he can’t help but eventually let it slip out that he’s having an affair. She listens to him while she’s mixing the batter for a cake and when he finally confesses she is extremely understanding. She asks him to taste the batter and he immediately dies of poisoning.
Carol’s Charwoman is cleaning up in a film studio and she goes into a projection rool where silent films are stored. She watches a film called Silents is Golden. In it Gloria Swanson plays Charlie Chaplin and silently invites the Charwoman into the screen. Charlie picks some flowers for the Charwoman from a public garden and they are chased by a cop who keeps getting knocked over by people and obstructions. They sit at a restaurant table next to a snooty couple played by Lyle and Vicki and imitate them. Lyle drinks champagne from Vickie’s shoe so Charlie steals the bottle and pours it into the Charwoman’s boot but it is full of holes. Then the cop and everyone else chases them. The Charwoman escapes back to reality. She wants Charlie to come with her but he can’t.
The Charwoman sings a song in praise of silent films.
Jim was played by Jim Connell but there’s not a lot of information about him. He made a few guest appearances on shows like Get Smart and Gidget.
This episode was co-written by Gary Belkin, who started his career writing jokes for radio comedians and cartoon ideas for The New Yorker magazine. He wrote for Your Show of Shows, Caesar’s Hour, The Carol Burnett Show, Get Smart, Three’s Company, The Doris Day Show, The Danny Kaye Show, The Tonight Show, and Sesame Street. He was nominated for 8 Emmy Awards and won two. He also ghost wrote quips and poetry for Muhammad Ali.
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