About this episode
Originally Aired: April 20, 1943 In Fibber McGee & Molly #361, "A Dress For Molly," Fibber finds himself in a predicament of his own making when his big mouth gets him volunteered for an impossible task. With the McGees committed to buying war bonds instead of Easter clothes, Molly decides to sew her own dress from a pattern. When she struggles to figure out the instructions, Fibber foolishly boasts that it's easy—just lay out the pattern and cut around it. Before he can backtrack, Molly cheerfully accepts his help, leaving him stuck with a dressmaking job he's completely unqualified for. As Fibber wrestles with mysterious terms like "bias" and "bodice," he receives dubious assistance from various visitors. The Kingsmen drop by with an absurd story about a man strangled by his own rawhide necktie, while little Teeny offers confusing advice about plackets and kick pleats before launching into one of her trademark riddles. With the wind blowing his pattern pieces around and his frustration mounting, Fibber desperately wishes he could just zip his big noisy mouth shut—though he's already figured out where that zipper should go.
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