Radio Quiz Show

Originally Aired: January 23, 1940

Fibber McGee & Molly #232, "Radio Quiz Show," Fibber and Molly take a tour of the Wistful Vista Broadcasting Company's studios, where their guide demonstrates sound effects equipment and shows them various studio spaces. After their feet grow weary from the extensive tour, they rest on a bench and encounter their neighbor Mr. Gildersleeve, who is in a panic. The girdle manufacturer has purchased a half-hour of radio advertising time that goes on the air in just 20 minutes, but his wife has been barred from singing by the union and he has no show prepared.

Fibber immediately sees an opportunity and offers to save the day, launching into an elaborate alliterative speech about his supposed expertise in radio broadcasting dating back to his childhood. He claims to have been known as "For the Love of Mike McGee, the mastermind" and boasts of his abilities as a performer and producer. As Fibber prepares to solve Gildersleeve's radio crisis with his "great idea for a radio program," the stage is set for the chaos that typically follows McGee's overconfident schemes.