Fibber McGee and Molly is an American radio sitcom created by Don Quinn and Jim Jordan that began broadcasting on NBC in 1935, starring Jim and Marian Jordan as a good-natured but chronically exaggerating husband and his more level-headed wife in the fictional town of Wistful Vista. The program became one of the most popular series in American radio, and its recurring gag of a hall closet crammed with junk that comically avalanches open whenever Fibber opens it became one of the best-known running sound-effects jokes in American broadcasting. Fibber McGee and Molly remained a top-rated program through the 1930s and 1940s and is regarded as one of the defining situation comedies of American radio's golden age.
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When did the famous overstuffed hall closet gag begin?
It appears to have begun with the March 5 1940 episode Cleaning the Closet.
The gag appears to have begun with the March 5, 1940, episode "Cleaning the Closet". In it Molly opens the closet looking for the dictionary and is buried in Fibber's belongings, and cleaning out the closet becomes the whole plot. The avalanche then became a recurring joke, and the show's other running gags were not as memorable or enduring.
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Fibber McGee and Molly (1935–1959) was a longtime American husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.
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The situation comedy was a staple of the NBC Red Network from 1936 on, after originating on NBC Blue in 1935.
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was a longtime American husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.
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Fibber McGee and Molly is an American radio sitcom created by Don Quinn and Jim Jordan that began broadcasting on NBC in 1935, starring Jim and Marian Jordan as a good-natured but chronically exaggerating husband and his more level-headed wife in the fictional town of Wistful Vista.
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Fibber McGee and Molly (1935-1959) was a longtime American husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.
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