Stu (Stu Erwin) wants to give his wife June (June Collyer) an electric
dishwasher for birthday, but as he can't afford one, he decides to build
one himself witht he help of his employee Willie (Willie Best) and his
daughter Jackie (Sheila James Kuehl) - but the three of them go wrong
every step along the way, and in the end toss the infernal thing out of
the house after its initial disastrous test drive. However, the dishwasher
might suck as a dishwasher, but it works just fine as a cement mixer, and
thus Stu's neighbour (Harry Hayden) eventually buys it from Stu as such -
which means Stu is now able to afford an actual dishwasher. A
predictable story from start to finish that would have needed some good
slapstick routines to liven things up a bit - which it unfortunately
hasn't, the slapstick routines of the episode are basic at best, and while
it's of course true that there is only so much you could do on early live
television, this leads to the question though why run a slapstick-oriented
story in the first place.
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