Carol Burnett's wonderful array of recurring characters included hard-luck Eunice, magnificently dense Mrs. Wiggins, accident-prone Stella Toddler, the Charwoman and, featured in this sixth-season episode's opening sketch, faded silent-screen star Nora Desmond (based, of course, on Gloria Swanson's Sunset Boulevard character, Norma Desmond). Harvey Korman, as usual, is her devoted butler, Max, while Tim Conway plays the advertising executive hoping to convince Nora to do a television commercial for bug spray. Guest star Pearl Bailey sings "Where Is Love," later returning to play a psychiatrist in a comedy sketch that culminates with a rendition of "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Tim plays his Oldest Man character in a sketch about Roman galley slaves before hopping into the title role of the "F. Lee Bunny" skit about a rabbit defense lawyer.
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