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Quote from Episode 522: Teenage Crime Wave

Mike (gunman)
You cross us up... and the old lady's dead. Am I getting through to you?
Crow
I'm thinking it over!

Annotation by laukarlueng

Added 2008-08-14 @ 07:04:51 AM, currently rated 0/5 (0 votes)

Abstract

"I'm thinking it over" was a famous joke from the Jack Benny radio program.

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On the March 28, 1948 broadcast of the Jack Benny Program, Jack is held up by a robber that tells him "Your money or your life". After a repeat of the question and a pregnant pause Jack replies, "I'm thinking it over". It was a defining moment for his stingy character. It is sometimes thought (but not true) that the audience laughs resulting from this was the longest in radio history.

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