Season 2, Episode 61 Original air date: April 28, 1961 Colonel Archie Taylor, a bad-tempered aristocrat, has difficulty enjoying his men's club because of the constant chatter of fellow member Jamie Tennyson. Because of this, Taylor comes up with the perfect plan. He offers Tennyson a half-million dollars if he can go an entire year without speaking. Well, being the arrogant guy that he is (as well as being desperate for money) Tennyson calls his bluff and decides to accept the challenge. They set Tennyson up in the club's game room, in which a small glass-walled apartment has been erected, so Taylor can monitor the entire thing. Tennyson surprisingly manages to indeed not speak a word for an entire year. Even after offering him money to quit early and making up stories about his wife having an affair, Tennyson walks out of the glass apartment victorious. The ending: It turns out that Taylor is a complete fraud, he lost his fortune years ago and there is no way he can actually give Tennyson the $500,000 he had rightfully earned. The distraught Tennyson scribbles angrily on a sheet of paper. Taylor reads the note aloud: "I knew that I would not be able to keep my part of the bargain, so one year ago I had the nerves to my vocal cords severed!" Tennyson then shows the scar on his throat from the operation, which he has concealed for the past 12 months under scarves and turtlenecks. Too bad he cant talk, he surely has a few choice obscenities hed like to spew right now.
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