Uploaded September 2014 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
Interesting discussion-- not too many big laughs, but very interesting-- about gender roles and marriage in the first segment. Groucho reveals his opinion that men are the true romantics, and women the true cynics. His attitudes from start to finish of this segment go a considerable way toward illuminating his unhappy marriages. Even the jokes he makes are quite revealing.
P.S.-- Not related to the above, but personally, I miss the duck.
COUPLE #1: Pat Winrurnan, housewife / Dr. Proctor Thomson, an economist who argues for women taking control of household finances
COUPLE #2: Penny Kelly, a teenaged high school student who likes boys (that's just about all we learn about her) / Jim Balboni, from Palo Alto, also a teenaged high school student. He likes girls. Who'd ever have guessed. Time runs out for this Algonquin Round Table-level discussion, so they're invited to come back the following week.
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
Interesting discussion-- not too many big laughs, but very interesting-- about gender roles and marriage in the first segment. Groucho reveals his opinion that men are the true romantics, and women the true cynics. His attitudes from start to finish of this segment go a considerable way toward illuminating his unhappy marriages. Even the jokes he makes are quite revealing.
P.S.-- Not related to the above, but personally, I miss the duck.
COUPLE #1: Pat Winrurnan, housewife / Dr. Proctor Thomson, an economist who argues for women taking control of household finances
COUPLE #2: Penny Kelly, a teenaged high school student who likes boys (that's just about all we learn about her) / Jim Balboni, from Palo Alto, also a teenaged high school student. He likes girls. Who'd ever have guessed. Time runs out for this Algonquin Round Table-level discussion, so they're invited to come back the following week.
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Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesn't really belong there:
youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
