 Just as
Mr. Dime introduces the show, Seth Pool comes in,
and announces that since he has pulled the studio
plug, the "show (that Mr. Dime) hate(s) so
much" can't go on the air. Realizing how
much money this'll cost him, Mr. Dime sets out to
plug the studio plug back in.
After learning
about the plug, Ross dismisses the kids but the
kids complain cause they aren't getting paid for
their time off and they go to the Network Canteen
-- a local hangout. When Lois asks why they're
there, Christine explains about the studio plug,
and Lois offers to give them her sink plug,
which, of course, isn't what they're looking for,
but it ends up plugging Kevin's mouth up to keep
him from talking. Meanwhile, Mr. Dime rushes to
the studio and asks a crew member where the kids
studio is and then when he arrives plugs the
studio plug back in although the socket says
danger high voltage, and the kids are herded back
in to the studio by Ross and his bullwhip which
confuses them cause they were just told that
there wasn't going to be a show.
Later, Mr. Dime,
thinking the kids show could use some
"polish," hires a drama coach (who
looks almost identical to another Ruth Buzzi
character, Miss Inform) to teach the kids the
"finer points of money making." The
coach has them speak in Olde English wording.
First they start doing some warm ups and Miss
Inform tells them to pretend like they're a tree
spreading their branches out and a bird is on one
of the cast members arm. Then Jono tries very
hard to be a tree and transforms into one.
Marc asks Lois for
something at the cafeteria and all she had was a
breakfast sausage that she used for the sink as a
plug since the people at the studio took hers to
plug Somers mouth with.
The kids start
speaking Olde English cause of Miss Inform. When
Christine refuses to do a link to commercials,
Mr. Dime has Seth Pool pull the studio plug again
so the network can play some commercials. Of
course, when they get back, Seth realizes that
he's lost the plug. Jono finds the plug when he
accidently puts it in Kevin's mouth, thinking it
was the sink plug while Keving starts speaking a
Shakespearean language. Then they introduce their
musical guest Max Webster.
Next Kevin asks
Ross to take the plug out of his mouth and Ross
charges him 10 dollars in order to do so and so
he pays him then Ross takes the plug out and puts
it back in as he never told him he'd keep it out
and tells him that dumb's the word.
Later on, the drama teacher gives them their
graduation certificates and Kevin asks her if she
can take the plug out of his mouth and does so
but stuffs the certificate in his mouth instead.
Then the kids go to Mr. Dime's office as tell
them that they're not doing the program anymore
and will be doing Shakepeare at a theatre but Mr.
Dime tells them they only pay 10 cents a day and
Kevin asks everyone if they should reconsider but
Christine denies his comments and then puts the
plug back in his mouth. Mr. Dime tells Christine
that he will offer her Shakespeare's greatest
love stories after the commercial break but
however she realises that it's Romeo and Juliet
as she acts opposite of Marc who breaks her
window and tries to climb up to the top of her
patio to come into her window while she tries to
get away from him.
Other memorable
skits include Lisa Ruddy in the living room skit
asking her dad (Played by Les Lye) for a dollar
and he told her when he was her age he asked for
quarters so she asks for 4 quarters.
Miss Fidt asks
Lisa if her father helped her with her homework
but she tells her she did it all by herself and
so Miss Fidt this time tells her she did a great
job (There was a skit in the pilot episode where
Elizabeth Mitchell said he Mom did it all by
herself when Miss Fidt asked her if her Mom
helped her with her homework and told her she got
it all wrong).
Ruth Buzzi's
character as the old lady in the theatre tells
Marc that she's going to get some popcorn and
places her drink on his head and tells him to
stand very still else the drink will spill.
Ruth Buzzi is in a
dungeon as she tells the dungeonmaster that she
will never play Monopoly again since she landed
on a go jail spot.

Jim
Clarke found a full promotional copy of this show
in great quality too when CTV
was putting the show together and along with the
blank spots for the commercial breaks. It also
doesn't feature music during the opening or
closing credits, even before the commercial
breaks and no sounds effects or canned laughter
either which was put in later on. The shows in
excellent quality and a special thanks to Jim
Clarke for going to the CTV
storage room to dig this one out.
Also
recently found in very good quality, Dan Poirer
taped this show when it aired on YTV
20 years ago and in good condition 9 out of a 10
quality.
Max
Webster's version of "Paradise
Skies" is very different than from the
studio version as it sounded like they performed
this song live but according to the cast members
it was overdubbed like the rest of the bands on
the show.
Mike
Patton who had a small role as a janitor of some
sort while Les Lye's character as Mr. Dime was
asking where the kids show is so he can put the
plug back in was a regualr for the first season
of You Can't Do That On Television.
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