Gunsmoke | Ep127 | "The F.U."

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Audio Credit: The Old Time Radio Researchers Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

[@johnbarr4472]

This has to be one of the best episodes ever written by John Meston!! He was a genius!! I loved a lot of CBS radio shows, but GUNSMOKE was arguably the best! Just awesome writing!! 👍

[@jeffdixon5853]

Try watching these with the subtitles on, it's hilarious to see what the computer thinks they're saying with their old west accents.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally broadcast on September 20, 1954. John Meston's title is exactly what you think it is.

[@bradhoward2410]

That wacky Chester really f**ked up! Hard to believe CBS went with this title.

[@TowGunner]

When doesn’t Chester fuck up?

[@anitarichmond8930]

I knew it! If Doc. gets his hands on him ? IT'S CURTAINS.⚰

[@doctorx2105]

"It took me three hours to figure out that 'F.U.' was Felix Unger!" - Oscar Madison

[@reganwestbrook4753]

😂

[@craigyamashiro1861]

I'm surprised Chester didn't at least get fired.

[@fromthesidelines]

Matt didn't fire him because he makes the same kind of mistakes, too.

[@coocookachoo2806]

He's been shot too many times, he's got a job for life.

[@spaghettitime3263]

Matt really isnt a good Marshal lol

[@Mr22thou]

Spoiler Alert! Good story with an unexpected ending. This time, forgiving a friend was more important than getting the bad guys. We all know Matt got 'em sooner or later anyway.

[@Lance2773]

I know these stories were often base off real life tales but I wish they would have jassed up the ending a little more.

[@howardoller443]

It's more of a realistic ending, not unlike some episodes of Dragnet.

[@RogerRoddComedian]

That’s it??? They just got away?

[@howardoller443]

The bad guy gets away and/or crimes are unsolved all the time. It's reality.

[@kurtpeterson315]

Yes, but nothing is reality in Hollywood. It's all fake.

[@coocookachoo2806]

🤠❤👍

[@craiggerlach5548]

So 2 guys in episode had names with F.. that's it? inside joke among cast somehow.. just wanted to know why called the FU..

[@Alex-mh9ye]

Chesterfield once I was really drunk and a ghy was smoking chesterfield so I asked him for a smoke well he played a trick on me and gave me a dry dog turd between the two the turd was superior in every way

[@dontaylor7315]

The banker acts like Dillon's job is to stay in town and patrol Dodge full-time. The duties of US Marshalls were exactly the opposite of that. Enforcing local law was the job of the sheriff and/or a city police force. Edit: Btw I'm not sure the acronym FU even existed in the '50s, at least I never heard it though the phrase "fk up" was certainly in use. This title sounds like something a 21st-century uploader would arbitrarily assign to the episode.

[@KororaPenguin]

Situation Normal: All F[yaaaay] Up.

[@MezzMcGillicuddy1]

No, it’s the real title. There was an episode of the TV show with the same name in 1959.

[@dontaylor7315]

@@MezzMcGillicuddy1 Amazing! I'd never of thunk it.

[@dontaylor7315]

@@KororaPenguin Yep, SNAFU goes waaay back, at the very least as long ago as WWII when the army was showing cartoon shorts to GIs about a character named "Private Snafu."

[@KororaPenguin]

@@dontaylor7315 The cringe comedy in those shorts was such that they hurt to watch.