With the addition of Jack Benny back on the Old Time radio app for my phone, I started back with earlier shows and am working my way back up. I wanted to really find the spot where the show became the show we know it as and I swear the light just goes on during this episode.
The ribbing on Jack finally hits stride and you see the formula that will be used for the next decade and a half. I've also said how ackward and creepy Phil is in his earlier episodes but his character really comes to form in this one and I think it might be the first time he calls him Jackson.
The phone call home to Rochester is dead on and sounds like they've been doing it for years.
I hate the final segment with the goodbye 1938 skit but the rest of the episode is funny as hell.
Have you guys even tried to figure out when the show became "the show"?