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This gag appears to have begun with the March 5, 1940 show, " Cleaning the Closet.

" Molly opens the closet looking for the dictionary and is promptly buried in Fibber's " stuff " (" arranged in there just the way I want it.

") Cleaning out the closet becomes the show's plot, inventorying much of the contents along the way: a photo album, a rusty horseshoe, a ten-foot pole.

After repacking the closet, Fibber realizes the dictionary has been put away too — and he opens the closet again.

This episode also features a cameo by Gracie Allen, running for president on the Surprise Party ticket.

Toward the end the September 30, 1941 show, " Back from Vacation ; Gildy Says Goodbye ," next-door nemesis Gildersleeve --- who has moved to Summerfield to finish raising his orphaned niece and nephew ( and already begun his successful spin-off show The Great Gildersleeve ), but has come back to Wistful Vista to wind up his affairs there, in a farewell to the show that made him famous --- opens the closet to be buried in the usual avalanche.