Chenilles, Michael Cooney, Velma Frye, Garrison Keillor, Tom Keith, Jean Redpath.
Motherhood (As Time Goes By) ( Velma Frye ) the Bent Coin ( Jean Redpath ) Tell Me Why You Cry and Lie to Me? (Chenilles ) My Dinah in Carolina (Chenilles ) The Snowstorm ( Garrison Keillor , Velma Frye ) The Computer Song ( Michael Cooney ) The Wax Museum ( Michael Cooney ) Judith ( Michael Cooney , Jean Redpath ) The Greasly Bride ( Jean Redpath ) Cuba (Chenilles ) Rendezvous (Chenilles ) Long, Long Ago ( Velma Frye , Garrison Keillor ) Near the cross ( Jean Redpath , Garrison Keillor ) Farther Along ( Jean Redpath ) Sodium chloride ( Michael Cooney )
Adventures of Buster the Show Dog (Buster, The Radio Dog) AMA (The American Motherhood Association) Bertha's Kitty Boutique (Suggests buying a cat for the hard-to-shop-for friend or relative.) Chatterbox Cafe Lake Wobegon Merchants (Dorothy has a warning to picky eaters, Ralph says that freezing food is a good way to preserve meat and the food on top is just as good as the bottom, and Skoglund's Five and Dime reminds people not to rummage through the writing tablets, it makes them grungy.) The American Music Association Theater (A short skit about a couple who decide to divorce but want to wait until after Advent because he is supposed to sing O Holy Night. They then decide that since they are both in the choir to not get divorced after all. Choirs keep couples together!) The PHC Metric Calendar (The exclusive 1987 Metric Calendar offers 10-day weeks and eliminates February and March!)
The first of the Christmas decorations are up. Clifford strung blue lights in his Christmas window. The mannequin wears a sexy cool green dress. Even Senator K. went to see the window. He has been holed up reading sexy Norwegian novels. Darlene the waitress at the Chatterbox is quitting and moving to Minneapolis. When the husbands fight with their wives, they have breakfast at the Chatterbox. Darlene is their substitute wife. The old guys ask Darlene about Arlen ,her husband. She can hardly remember him. Arlen's brother, Erling, is an evangelist who preaches about the end of the world from the back of his van in parking lots. Erling always wants to get going. The two brothers were complete opposites. She met Arlen in Minneapolis. She was working as a waitress in the Bon Ton Scandinavian Snack Shop. Arlen came in and fell in love Darlene. He came in every morning and gained 15 pound before asking her name. He kept gaining weight. He asked her to marry him and she said, 'Yes." They moved back to LW to live in her parent's basement. She went back to work at the Chatterbox. She's been there for 13 years. Arlen lost his job at the locker plant and went to work in Minneapolis. Every time she thought of doing something else, her friends gave the idea a put down. The newspapers are full of stories of people who took chances. When her mother spoke about her life in the past tense, she gave her notice at the Chatterbox. Darlene's mother stood up in the Lutheran church and announced that Darlene was leaving and offered everyone the chance to go in on a going-away gift for Darlene. The Lutherans knew that they had been nailed. Nobody avoided the collection, so Darlene has the cool green dress form Clifford's.
Garrison reads Jack's letter: Jack says he knows that Garrison is hoping to receive the coveted Old Fisherman Award ( trophy plus battered fish box) this year but the honor will go to Bob Jablonski who isn't a good story teller but has the warmest fish house on the lake!
Archival contributors: Frank Berto