The Gas Man brings up another running gag on The Jack Benny Show: Carmichael the Polar Bear. Making a long story shorter than it deserves to be, someone gave Jack a live polar bear and Jack had Rochester look after it. Doing anything with the bear terrified Rochester particularly when he became convinced that Carmichael ate the Gas Man. One of my favourite lines to come out of this was in a Christmas Shopping episode (1941 I think) where Rochester claims that Carmichael’s letter to Santa includes the following line: “And send a fat boy to read the meter.”
The Gas Man brings up another running gag on The Jack Benny Show: Carmichael the Polar Bear. Making a long story shorter than it deserves to be, someone gave Jack a live polar bear and Jack had Rochester look after it. Doing anything with the bear terrified Rochester particularly when he became convinced that Carmichael ate the Gas Man. One of my favourite lines to come out of this was in a Christmas Shopping episode (1941 I think) where Rochester claims that Carmichael’s letter to Santa includes the following line: “And send a fat boy to read the meter.”