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Exterminator's Scared of Bugs

The Carol Burnett Show
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The setup

An exterminator who has lost his nerve comes home to a wife determined to restore his courage.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Willy returns from work shaken and reaches for a drink while Ruth tries to discover what has happened to her once-confident exterminator husband. His accounts of fleeing from pests and depending on an elderly customer for protection only deepen his humiliation. After a stern pep talk fails, Ruth pretends a black widow is threatening her in the kitchen. Willy finally springs into action, then learns how she engineered his triumph and leaves eager to reclaim his reputation.

The funny people

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

You earned that cockroach, Willy.

I should never have taken you to see Patton.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Willy refers to the film Patton after Ruth tries a stern, military-style pep talk.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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