That crazy, cuckoo Ed is feeling rejected - along with a bunch of teenage beachcombers - Buzz and Zelma, who've taken up residence with Kay & Roger Addison.
Soon, a rejected Ed overhears Zelma's (the girl beachcomber) poem:
Rejected, neglected, befuddled, bemuddled. A zero - a whole in the cheese. A scene can't be made when you''re in the deep freeze.
Rejected, neglected, befuddled, bemuddled, The moment is wild - we're blown off our course. That's why our youth fells extinct like the...horse.' (There had to be a 'horse' point in there ;>)
A lightbulb goes off over his head, and,right after the commercial, Ed's in shades, and paining - and reciting Zelma's poetry - accenting it with his hoof.
Ed's inspired to write his own poetry:
Ode To Life Life is a feedbag, without any oats A stable that's empty and bare I search for the hay in an empty corral, But, how can I find what's not there.
Then, when Wilbur makes Ed feel rejected, he hoofs it off to the beach - to hang with those crazy kids.
Mister Ed is something you love wholeheartedly, or you just don't get it. I think it's a wonderfully twisted series.
One last thing: When I give such an episode as this a '9,' it's not because it has 'brilliant' acting, directing, or writing - it's because it hits a spot in me (and other, perhaps) that is just plain fun.
P. S: at the epilogue, an Ed who feels loved by his 'daddy,' Wilbur, rewrites his 'feedbag' poem, which follows:
Life is a feedbag, overflowing with oats A bag that should never be shut
And a horse that would leave a sweet guy like you Must be some kind of a nut
I love this horse, and his shenanigans.