After an unfunny introduction, where guest star Ed Sullivan greets
celebrities in the audience, then interviews Red Skelton as an incompetent
boxer, it's off to the Old West, where Red Skelton is outlaw Deadeye, who
first shoots a few men in a saloon, then plays poker with way too big
cards (yup, as unfunny as it sounds), and in the end, he is captured by
Native American stereotypes who burn him at the stake.
Now much of the humour of this episode can be considered not
politically corrct from today's point of view (besides the cheap Native
American jokes, there is also a cheap Chinese joke in this one), but one
has to see such a show in the mirror of its time rather than being all
high and mighty about it some 50 (or more) years later. What's really
annoying about this show (and the series in general) though is that Red
Skelton tends to always laugh at his own jokes, sometimes even before he
tells them ... and with the plethora of bad jokes he's got, he even sinks
his few good ones ...
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