Mother-in-law Dot Farley and brother-in-law Jack Rice have been mooching on Edgar for four years by this point in the series, so Edgar develops a plan to force Rice to get to work: he fakes a heart attack, and while he's recovering, there's no money coming in. Dot Farley is not going to stand for that!
This episode has two of the wackiest in the entire series: Edgar using the power of Eastern swamis, which he has learned from a book, is completely bizarre and funny; and Dot Farley renewing old, romantic acquaintances with Harrison Greene to get Rice a job.
In the end, it didn't work. Kennedy's "Common Man" series of shorts came out of RKO for 16 years, until his death, and Rice never kept a job for more than two minutes.
This episode has two of the wackiest in the entire series: Edgar using the power of Eastern swamis, which he has learned from a book, is completely bizarre and funny; and Dot Farley renewing old, romantic acquaintances with Harrison Greene to get Rice a job.
In the end, it didn't work. Kennedy's "Common Man" series of shorts came out of RKO for 16 years, until his death, and Rice never kept a job for more than two minutes.