Red’s Relatives – guest starring Pat Carroll and Polly Bergen – The Red Skelton Show, season 17, originally aired November 21, 1967
In Red’s Relatives, elderly and rich Methuselah Skelton reads his will. And he has conditions for Bolivar Shagnasty, Cauliflower McPugg, and Willie Lump-Lump Ifthey want to inherit a penny!
Bolivar Shagnasty has to get married
Mother, why don’t you put those in water … in the river … and hold onto ’emYou ugly babboon! ($20,000 later) Kiss that adorable baboon, daughter!Polly Bergen (Myrtle) point out that Bolivar Shagnasty has accidentally marrieed the organ grinder’s monkey!
Cauliflower McPugg must win a fight
Pat Carroll as the California Killer’s manager, Billy Barty as the Killer, Cauliflower McPugg is hopeless, as his trainer Jan Arvan watches
Willie Lump-Lump must stop drinking!
In a near-psychedelic variation on the Topsy-Turvy room, Willie’s wife (Pat Carroll) tries to scare him into sobriety …. With a really strange room! In order to make Willie think he’s suffering from the DTs.
Willie Lump-Lump, perpetual drunk, arguing with his wife Pat Carroll.Willie Lump-Lump interacts silently with the dream typist (Polly Bergen) — looking for a drink!Can I drink this? Don’t eat the bottle!Billy Barty riding a fire-breathing dragon! “I don’t know what the writers are drinking, but it must be good stuff!”The devil you say!Pat Carroll as Mrs. Lump-Lump doing the mirror routine with Willie Lump-LumpWillie Lump-Lump’s wife is trying to get him to stop drinking, via fear. Sadly, it doesn’t work.
