This "Amos 'n' Andy" episode, Leroy's Suits, was the third in the show's television history. Kingfish's brother-in-law Leroy is moving out of his apartment and he wants all his suits there sold with the profits going to him. When the not-too-bright Lightnin' gets the address on the phone from Sapphire, he inadvertently mixes the numbers. So when Kingfish and Andy go to the apartment number that Lightnin' said to them, they unknowingly rob a police detective! I'll stop there and say that the most hilarious scenes were when Kingfish and Andy read the paper of the robbery not knowing it's about them and then realizing it is them after the detective comes to Kingfish's place pretending to be a customer! Seeing Algonquin buying a suit that's clearly too big for him is also good for some laughs. Another pretty funny episode of "Amos 'n' Andy". P.S. This one had a commercial from their sponsor, Blatz Beer, in the middle.
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Never trust Lightnin' to take a message
FlushingCaps11 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Kingfish is as likeable as ever in this one, not trying to cheat anyone-except selling a suit to Algonquin that's way, way too big-but he agreed to pay for alterations, so he's fine there.
The plot is this: Brother-in-law Leroy has left for a job in South America, and Sapphire asks Kingfish to go to Leroy's apartment and remove all of his suits and sell them, to send the money to Leroy. Kingfish foolishly assigns Lightnin' to phone his home to get the address of the apartment where Leroy lived. Of course, Lightnin' tells Sapphire he'll hang up, remembering the address she just gave him, then he searches for a pencil and paper, and forgets the numbers mixing up everything but the fact that it was apartment A.
So Kingfish and Andy get to the address they are given, find the key they had won't work, and are able to enter through an open window on the fire escape. The apartment is occupied by a police detective who just used bonus money to buy 10 new suits-I believe they call that a clothes horse.
Kingfish and Andy set up a suit sale at the lodge, asking $50 apiece, figuring they'll send half to Leroy and keep half-which seems fair to me. While waiting for customers they read all about a burglary where an apartment was cleaned out of men's suits, right about the time they were at the same apartment. They don't put it together at all, and talk about hoping whoever committed that burglary gets a long prison sentence.
Algonquin comes in and despite him being nearly a foot shorter than the detective, they sell him a suit, promising to pay for the alterations. When he looks in the mirror to see how the suit looks on him, Kingfish pulls back the side away from the mirror to make it look like it almost fits him-which it doesn't. In reality, the jacket could not possibly be altered to fit him at all; the pants neither.
Their next customer is the detective who has tracked them down through the stupidity of Kingfish happily switching neckties with one he thought belonged to Leroy and leaving his own tie behind. I understand taking a tie but why give away your old one?
The detective takes the three of them to a judge who brings in Sapphire, Amos and Lightnin' to verify their story. One would think the explanation would have sufficed and they'd be ordered to simply return the 9 suits and tie and pay for the one Algonquin had altered. This scene did produce one of the funniest lines from Kingfish: "Your honor, not only do I deny the allegations, but I resents the alligator." Slip Mahoney would be proud of that one.
I had no trouble with the mix-up because of the messed-up address, but so many other elements just didn't make sense that I cannot give this one a good score. Besides that, there were only a few funny things in the show. I can give it a 5.
The plot is this: Brother-in-law Leroy has left for a job in South America, and Sapphire asks Kingfish to go to Leroy's apartment and remove all of his suits and sell them, to send the money to Leroy. Kingfish foolishly assigns Lightnin' to phone his home to get the address of the apartment where Leroy lived. Of course, Lightnin' tells Sapphire he'll hang up, remembering the address she just gave him, then he searches for a pencil and paper, and forgets the numbers mixing up everything but the fact that it was apartment A.
So Kingfish and Andy get to the address they are given, find the key they had won't work, and are able to enter through an open window on the fire escape. The apartment is occupied by a police detective who just used bonus money to buy 10 new suits-I believe they call that a clothes horse.
Kingfish and Andy set up a suit sale at the lodge, asking $50 apiece, figuring they'll send half to Leroy and keep half-which seems fair to me. While waiting for customers they read all about a burglary where an apartment was cleaned out of men's suits, right about the time they were at the same apartment. They don't put it together at all, and talk about hoping whoever committed that burglary gets a long prison sentence.
Algonquin comes in and despite him being nearly a foot shorter than the detective, they sell him a suit, promising to pay for the alterations. When he looks in the mirror to see how the suit looks on him, Kingfish pulls back the side away from the mirror to make it look like it almost fits him-which it doesn't. In reality, the jacket could not possibly be altered to fit him at all; the pants neither.
Their next customer is the detective who has tracked them down through the stupidity of Kingfish happily switching neckties with one he thought belonged to Leroy and leaving his own tie behind. I understand taking a tie but why give away your old one?
The detective takes the three of them to a judge who brings in Sapphire, Amos and Lightnin' to verify their story. One would think the explanation would have sufficed and they'd be ordered to simply return the 9 suits and tie and pay for the one Algonquin had altered. This scene did produce one of the funniest lines from Kingfish: "Your honor, not only do I deny the allegations, but I resents the alligator." Slip Mahoney would be proud of that one.
I had no trouble with the mix-up because of the messed-up address, but so many other elements just didn't make sense that I cannot give this one a good score. Besides that, there were only a few funny things in the show. I can give it a 5.
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