And here is a much, much earlier oblique reference to Paul Winchell — specifically to his famous dummy Knucklehead Smiff: https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2009/02/20
I had a Charlie McCarthy dummy — until it finally got strung up with tangled magnetic recording tape in the rafters of a rental house, complete with ratty wig. Don’t ask …. it was strange times.
Ay…Captain. It seems to be a wee bit of a transporter malfunction……