The conclusion of the story, started in EP047.   Hot & Crispy become Hot & Spicy.  The change is not in the name. 

Foster: Do you remember George Burns and Arlene McCoy?  

Tommy Hot: You mean Gracie Allen?

Foster: And ever hear of Peter, Paul and Betsy?

Tommy Hot: No.  What are you getting at?

Foster: Sears and Roebuck?  Actually Sears never changed partners, just got rid of Roebuck.  How about Steve Lawrence and Ingrid Cooper?

Tommy Hot: What are you trying to tell me?

Foster: That sometimes you make a change that might seem unmake able at the time you make it, but in time, it’s like it never evenhappened.  Because the change was for the better.  Gracie Allen better than Arlene McCoy.  Mary, better than Betsy.  Edie Gorme, some people like her.  

Tommy Hot: So …?

Foster: So, Hot and Spicy.

Tommy Hot: Spicy?

Foster: Instead of Hot and Crispy, you’re Hot and Spicy.  

Tommy Hot: Spicy?

Foster: Spicy.  Which goes very well with Hot.

Tommy Hot: Why change his name?  Everyone knows him as Crispy?

Foster: Tommy, the change is not in his name.  The change is in the act.  Arlene McCoy is Crispy.  Edie Gorme is Spicy.  But you’re still Hot.

Tommy Hot: But –

Foster: I know, I mixed up two different acts, however, the point remains.  

Tommy Hot: You mean a different partner?  

Foster: I mean a different partner.

Tommy Hot: You mean, Crispy’s out?

Foster: I mean Crispy’s out.

The moon goes swish!

Talent Agent Foster Valley meets with his favorite ventriloquist partnership, Hot & Crispy, to deliver some news that might make at least one member of the team insecure and the other insignificant.   Part one of two.

Preparing for the meeting:

Foster: Go put your name tag on and finish setting up the chairs, please.

Myrna: Yes, Mr. Valley.  Any particular side you’d like it?

Foster: No, right in front.

Myrna: That could be a problem.

Foster: For who?

Myrna: Well, it’s really not intended to be anything other than fashionable, but you see how my top has a slightly revealing neckline?  

Foster: No.  And we don’t talk about things like that here …

Myrna: Myrna.

Foster: Myrna.  About our clients, yes, because, a revealing neckline, even slightly can make a difference in certain casting opportunities, but not with the staff.  And more importantly, why are you telling me this?

Myrna: Because putting it right in front here would mean it would have to be partially on my chest skin.

Foster: Chest skin?  What are you talking about?

Myrna: The location of my name tag.  For it to be right in front, means, it goes right here on the skin on my chest part.

Foster: I was thinking about the chair.  Not the name tag.  The chair goes right in front.  Of me.  Of my desk.  So that I can look Tommy right in his eyes.  The name tag you can put on the side.  Of your chest part skin.

Should I first eat one and then the other or the other way around?

Hey!

Throw the Hammer--Hey!

Got Any 3s?--Hey!

Fix the Appliance--Hey!

Her Financial Affairs--Hey!

Skim the Cheese--Hey!

Your Name Bank--Hey!

Lift Something--Hey!

Credits--Hey!

Hold Up the Line--Hey!

Talent Agent Foster Valley leaves no stones unturned in his quest to find work for his stable of talented artists, but sometimes getting a foot in the door can be painful. 

Larry Derrick, Johnny Lang.   Two names worth remembering or changing.  Whatever works best.

Opening: In

Look Who Just Walked In -- social climbing

Man, Man -- Man!

I'd Be Lying -- and you are.

Johnny Tastes It -- guess what it tastes like

Hobnobbin' -- R U Hobnobbin'?  I'm just askin'   And I have all these apostrophie'

HummersParade:  Hmm, hmm, hmmm, humm.

Closing: Out