Lamont's keeping a pair of coffins in the living room spooks superstitious Fred.Lamont's keeping a pair of coffins in the living room spooks superstitious Fred.Lamont's keeping a pair of coffins in the living room spooks superstitious Fred.
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- TriviaThis episode marks the first appearance of Melvin.
- GoofsThe only undertaker that offered to buy them from Lamont wanted to pay $25 for both, same as what Lamont paid for them, but then offered $30, which Lamont also refused. In the end Lamont sold them to him for $25 when he should've taken the $30 offer.
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Fred G. Sanford: I don't understand you kids today. If I had talked to my father the way you talk to me, you know what he'd have done?
Lamont Sanford: Yeah, he'd have given you one across the lip.
Fred G. Sanford: That's right. And he would've continued on down from there. He whipped from the lips to the hips.
Lamont Sanford: And you think that's the answer, huh?
Fred G. Sanford: Well, it might not be the answer, but it sure was no question when he finished.
- ConnectionsReferences Son of Frankenstein (1939)
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Slappy White as Melvin White
"Coffins for Sale" introduced Slappy White as Melvin White (only five episodes), basically the predecessor of Don Bexley's Bubba, Slappy being the longtime comedy partner of Redd Foxx. Superstitious Fred has another patented heart attack at the prospect of keeping two coffins in the house. The smiling face of funeral home director Nelson B. Davis (James Wheaton), later seen in "Pops 'n' Pals," makes an offer of $30 for both, but Lamont holds out for $50 apiece. Davis leaves with his usual parting spiel: "it's been a slow week, business is dead!" Melvin walks in and immediately walks back out! Their discussion becomes nostalgic, and how Fred used to deal with his own father: "every time he raised that strap up he had my complete attention!" Despite his dismissal of his father's fears, even Lamont is afraid to stay in the house with the coffins at night!
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