Vic and Sade

Vic and Sade is an American radio serial created and almost entirely written by Paul Rhymer, premiering in 1932 as a daily fifteen-minute program following the small, quiet domestic life of a Midwestern couple, Vic and Sade Gook, and their adopted son Rush, in a modest house said to be small enough to be beside a gravel pit. The series avoided dramatic plots almost entirely, instead building its humor from the family's meandering, understated conversations about trivial local matters and eccentric unseen relatives and neighbors. Vic and Sade was praised by contemporary and later critics and writers for the literary quality of its dialogue despite its low-key, ordinary premise, and it is regarded as one of the more distinctive achievements of American radio comedy writing.