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Ever since lapsing into Public Domain in the 1980s, this January 13, 1959 episode of The Red Skelton Show has popped up with great frequency in a number of home-video catalogues. In a "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch, hoboes Freddie and Alfred (Edward Everett Horton) agree to hide a black box containng a top-secret invention created by nervous scientist Phineas T. Munson (Richard Deacon). Hoping to get their mitts on the invention, a gang of foreign spies, headed by the beautiful Tania (Vicki Raaf), lure Freddie to a luxury penthouse. The episode's best moment finds Skelton wondering aloud what's in the box-then, with a twinkle in his eye, answering himself with "Too bad I can't use the line I said in rehearsal!"