Radio Days

Aunt Bea tells the others, “I don’t want to appear too anxious.” (0:14)

Aunt Bea tells her date Mr. Manulis, “I’m still a little tipsy from that beer.” (0:16)

Narrator Joe, “Despite his bravado all evening, Mr. Manulis panicked and bolted out of the car.” (0:18)

Uncle Abe tells Joe’s Aunt Ceil, “Religion is the opium of the masses.” (0:27)

Sportscaster Bill Kern, referring to baseball pitcher Kirby Kyle: “He was blind, but he had instinct as to where to throw the baseball.” (0:29)

Joe: “While Uncle Abe loved The Bill Kern sports show, his wife Ceil adored a very prominent ventriloquist, and this always used to drive Abe crazy.” (0:30)

Joe, referring to his cousin Ruthie: “She and her girlfriends used to sit and swoon endlessly over the sentimental lyrics.” (0:30)

Joe: “I remember... when Mr. Zipsky, normally a very quiet man in the neighborhood, had a nervous breakdown and ran amok through the shopping district of Rockaway.” (0:37)

Scene from The Philadelphia Story. (0:40)

One boy asks another, “Didn’t you ever see Crash Dive?” (0:49)

Joe: “I was in a funny mood that afternoon.” (0:50)

Joe’s mother Tess asks his father Martin, ‘You think Hitler’s gonna win?” (0:55)

Bea tells her date Fred, “It’s been such a long period of grief.” (0:57)

Take the gas pipe. (1:04)

Radio newsman, referring to the parents of a girl who fell into a well, “The anxious parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phelps, stand by waiting... `I know that all America shares the grief of the Phelps family.”(1:14)

Abe tells Ceil, “Besides, only creeps and crazy people go out New Years Eve.” (1:18)

The Masked Avenger tells entertainer Sally, “You know it’s not even midnight, and I’m drunk.”
”What a crazy idea.” (1:21)