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Spoiler Alert \u2013 I review the plot.\u00a0 Skip down to the last paragraph to get my take on the episode but avoid reading the detailed plot summary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This episode involves a suitcase full of counterfeit hundred-dollar bills that is left on Ralph\u2019s bus.\u00a0 A gangster left it on the bus because of a cop he saw.\u00a0 The mobsters can\u2019t claim the suitcase because it would have to be opened and that would expose them to arrest.\u00a0 Knowing that after a month the bus driver would be given the suitcase, they bide their time until Ralph is given the case by the bus company.\u00a0 When Ralph gets home with the unopened suitcase, his mother-in-law is talking with Alice.\u00a0 She insults Ralph several time about the impoverished state of their apartment and is thrown out by Ralph.<\/p>\n

Ralph begs Alice and then Ed Norton to lend him some money to pay his back dues at the Raccoon Club.\u00a0 But Alice refuses him and Norton has no money.\u00a0 Right after this Ralph opens the suitcase and goes insane with the desire to spend the money.\u00a0 He buys a new wardrobe, has telephones installed in every room including the bathroom and fire escape, buys a whole new set of kitchen appliances and negotiates to buy a boat with three propellors.\u00a0 And to top it all off he insults his boss and quits his job at the bus company.\u00a0 When his mother-in-law finds out about the money she tries buttering him up by calling him \u201csonny boy\u201d and claiming he\u2019s her favorite son-in-law.\u00a0 It succeeds to the extent that Ralph gives her $200 for her and her husband to go to Florida so he doesn\u2019t have to see them.\u00a0 When Alice finds out about Ralph\u2019s reckless spending, she warns him that something is very wrong with the whole situation and all this spending would lead to disaster.<\/p>\n

Naturally everything comes crashing down when he finds out the money is counterfeit.\u00a0 In order to avoid arrest Ralph puts the remaining money in the oven and burns it.\u00a0 Immediately afterward the gangsters show up at his apartment and demand the cash.\u00a0 But before they can shoot him for not having the money, \u00a0Ralph\u2019s mother-in-law shows up with two policemen to arrest him for giving her counterfeit money.\u00a0 Ralph and the gangsters are arrested and brought to the police station.\u00a0 Ralph is able to convince the police that he had nothing to do with the counterfeit money other than finding it and so the mobsters are jailed and Ralph is freed.<\/p>\n

The episode ends with Alice berating Ralph for how he went crazy and spent the money.\u00a0 Ralph defends himself by saying that no harm was done and for a few days he got to live like a millionaire.\u00a0 Then she reminds him that he has quit his job and the episode ends with Ralph realizing Alice was right and he was in deep trouble.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a very odd episode.\u00a0 Now, granted, in many cases the actions from one week don\u2019t seamlessly continue into the following episodes.\u00a0 But in this adventure Ralph pretty definitively quits his job followed by calling his boss a \u201cbum.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s kind of hard to ignore in the next episode.\u00a0 And there is a sort of pointlessness and unlikeliness to the action in this episode.\u00a0 But in defense of it, we do get to see Ralph\u2019s ego given full rein.\u00a0 It does show that if he actually had money, he would be a free spender so it does give us an insight into his true nature.\u00a0 And there are a few good zingers thrown between Ralph and Alice\u2019s mother.\u00a0 But all in all, I\u2019d say this was a minor episode.<\/p>\n

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