Classic Fibber McGee

Don Quinn, who wrote the Fibber McGee and Molly radio show, came up with some lines that have become classics.  "Don't open the hall closet,"  as everything tumbles out of it. And "Hello? Oh is that your Myrt " as Fibber asks the operator how's every little thing.  "Tain't funny, McGee" from Molly when fibber does a dumb joke.  "That an't the way I heeerd it" from the "Old timer" character, played by Bill Thompson.  He was also Wallace Wimple who spoke of "My big old wife, Sweety Face."

Paladin's gun. Did he have a horse?

Paladin (Have gun will travel) is one of the radio shows I never watched when it went on TV. Was he some kind of cowboy on TV?  No like that at all on radio.  I listened to an episode last night that had lots of Chinese dialect that wouldn't fly at all today.  Good radio though
 

Lake Wobegon a satire?

Funny how we interpret things so differently. Somebody commented that Garrison Keillor's tales of the Town that Time Forgot were his  satirical pokes at his provincial,  fundamentalist upbringing in Minnesota.  I heard them as a loving, funny tribute to those days. Probably because I come from a town that was a whole lot like Lake Wobegon and I treasure the memories.