The Abbott and Costello Show — S02E12 — Efficiency Experts
1954 · 25 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · DIR. Jean Yarbrough
Overview
Bud and Lou land jobs as efficiency experts, and are assigned to restrain their client’s daughters from spending money. The young women, however, get the boys to buy them expensive dresses and take them to a casino, where they end up in a brawl.
Dialogue Timeline — 476 lines
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00:00:02 Hey, Abbott!
00:01:03 I feel just like a square peg in a round hole.
00:04:05 What's your problem?
00:05:00 - You call that a file? - Best in the world.
00:05:59 $200.
00:06:49 Without saying good-bye to the girls?
00:07:38 Well, if they get a little tough with me, you know what I'll do?
00:08:38 We're to cook, do our own hair, and live like misers.
00:09:49 And I... I have the solution.
00:11:28 Divine.
00:12:08 Ow, Lou.
00:12:55 Oh, Lou, you're so marvelous.
00:13:32 into the frosting.
00:14:15 Get out of the way.
00:15:09 Well, the dates were imported, you know.
00:16:27 How about the dates?
00:17:13 Costello!
00:18:18 That little act will help us get the jackpot.
00:19:08 We'll take them to a drive-in theater.
00:19:57 We don't take dime bets.
00:21:02 35 is the winner.
00:22:16 and let it go.
00:24:08 you're weak-minded enough to take them to a...
00:25:28 We quit.
Cast & Characters
Bud Abbott
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Lou Costello
Jean Willes
Doris Wentworth
Lucille Barkley
Peggy Wentworth
Theodore von Eltz
Henry Dunn
Herbert Heyes
J.J. Wentworth
Lillian Bronson
Ruby Kent
Frank J. Scannell
Croupier
Bobby Barber
Nightclub Bouncer
Bud Wolfe
Nightclub Bouncer
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed476
Dialogue density19.0 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line00:25:28
Production Record
DirectorJean Yarbrough
LanguageEnglish
Factoids
Episode
The Abbott and Costello Show, season 2, episode 12: Efficiency Experts.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/11821/season/2/episode/12
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