"Advancement" has Inspector Luger asking Barney to look through his copy of LOTUS BLOSSOM QUARTERLY to find a suitable bride for him, since he's due to retire in a few months (Barney: "who's the lucky lady?" Luger: "how the hell should I know?"). Mario Roccuzzo (fourth of six) plays Ed Brotsky, whose newly opened House of Mugs is robbed the very first day, by a thief who calls him a moron. Wojo is reading about a maniac who carves up his victims, "and then mailing them in sections to rotary clubs all around the country" (Barney: "must have cost him a fortune in postage!"). Apparently, Harris is nearly set to write a nice paperback on the gruesome subject, if Barney lets him take an extra half hour for lunch, which he doesn't. Martin Garner (last of five) plays Ira Buckman, owner of a delicatessen where Mr. Yager (Howard Honig, last of five) bought a lottery ticket that came up a winner, except that Buckman forgot to send it in (Dietrich: "oh!"). Buckman's wife Miriam (Anna Berger, second of two) confirms that Yager threatened her husband's life, calling him 'dead meat' (Dietrich: "well I should say so!"). It's an interesting bit of trivia casting Garner and Berger as a different married couple, as they'd already played Steven and Georgia Himmil in an earlier episode, "The Rand Report."
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