(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <p>Yesteryear's sex bomb and movie star Mae West (playing herself) hires Wilbur (Alan Young) to build stables for the horses she bought in France. This gets his wife (Connie Hines) and his neighbours excited (Leon Ames, Florence MacMichael) excited, and they all want to get a piece of Mae - with moderate success. When Wilbur's talking horse Mister Ed (voiced by Allan Lane) hears about her ideas for the stables, he feels his own being much too modest, and when Wilbur tells him to clean up his stable, Ed runs away and seeks abode with Mae West - who immediately has him cleaned and perfumed, and has his mane and tail done in a very girly fashion by her stable boys (Jacque Shelton, Roger Torrey), which Ed can barely tolerate, but when she insists on giving him vitamin shots, he hightails it back to Wilbur's ...<p> <p>Frankly, when it comes to inherent humour, <b><i>Mister Ed</i></b> was a bit of a one-trick-pony, if you excuse the pun, as horse-centric humour is pretty limited and limiting, so by the tail-end of season 4, the comedy has run a little stale. So hiring raunchy comedienne Mae West as a guest star was pretty much a heaven's sent (also in terms of ratings, as this episode was the highest rated of the series in quite some time), who brought her own style of humour filled with innuendo and double entendres only just safe enough for 1960s TV to the episode - and frankly, her style of comedy carried over from the 1930s seems much fresher than the rest of the jokes in the episode, and though she has grown increasingly rare on the big and small screen by 1964, she was still on top of her game, and despite being already 72 at the time, came across as raunchy and alluring as ever - so much so that she outshines the rest of the cast, who're really just going through the motions. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2021"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>