Easy Money

338: Easy Money

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Airdate

November 18, 1995

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Album

26: Back on the Air
A Fine Feathered Frenzy

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Theme

Gambling
Responsibility

Genre

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Scripture

1 Timothy 6:10

Written By

Marshal Younger

Directed By

Marshal Younger

Produced By

Dave Arnold

Executive Producer

Chuck Bolte

Post-Production

Dave Arnold

Engineer

Dave Arnold

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Rating

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Family Store

W-O-R-R-Y

Easy Money

Do, For a Change

Summary

Butch and Sam want to buy some new hockey equipment, but Butch takes a few short cuts that land him into serious trouble.

Plot

Butch and Sam both want to play on a neighborhood roller-hockey team. The only problem is, they don’t have the money to buy the equipment necessary to play. So they decide to get jobs cleaning up at a local automotive garage, where they’ll have to get up extremely early to get their work done before school. Butch decides that kind of work is for the birds. When he finds a friend who likes to make bets, Butch decides doing that is a better way to make easy money.

Meanwhile, Sam continues to work at the garage. He becomes so obsessed with working that he begins neglecting almost everything else, including his homework, his friends, and his family. In fact, Sam can’t even stay awake in church. Butch wins enough bets to buy his equipment, but soon he starts losing and gets deeply in debt. Before long, Sam decides that he really needs to give up his job. Butch is forced to stop gambling when his bookie comes looking for payment and winds up taking Butch’s new roller-hockey equipment. Both Sam and Butch learn the hard way that there is no such thing as easy money.

Discussion Questions

1. Where did Sam go wrong?
2. Why did Butch feel he had to bet on the big game?
3. Is gambling wrong?
   • Why or why not?
   • What are the dangers of gambling?

Cast

Characters	Actors
Brian Evans	John Burdick
George Barclay	Chuck Bolte
Mac McCorby	Chad Reisser
Pete Johnson	Steve Bridges
Sam Johnson	Kyle Ellison
Vin Scully	Steve Bridges
Keith Jackson	Steve Bridges
Marv Albert	Steve Bridges
John Madden	Steve Bridges
Mechanic	Steve Bridges
Employee	Steve Bridges

Quotes

Mac McCorby: Some days you get your soul puréed and served to you in a melancholy milkshake!
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