Working on the farm is a routine that Abbott and Costello did many times. On their radio show (New Press Agent), on the Colgate Comedy Hour (1/13/1952 – Ranch), and on the Abbott and Costello TV show (The Music Lovers).
The following is taken from The Abbott and Costello Radio Show episode, “New Press Agent”
Dick Lane: Very simple, the first thing you do is roll out of bed at four o’clock in the morning, you milk twenty or thirty cows, fetch a few barrels of water from the well, chop down a couple of trees for fire wood, feed the chickens and pigs and the goats, clean out the stables … And bingo! You’re ready for breakfast!
Lou Costello: (weakly) could I have an extra bowl of Wheaties?
Dick Lane: Certainly! Now right after breakfast you overhaul the tractor, plow up five acres of ground dig a couple of hundred sacks of potatoes, then you run over to the barn, pitch a few tons of hay then you skip,into the orchard and pick fifty or sixty bushels of apples sort them and crate them for shipping. You spread two wagon loads of fertilizer over the onion patch … and zingo! You’re ready for lunch!
Lou Costello: I’ll just have a chocolate soda … I don’t want to waste any time!
Dick Lane: Fine! Now right after lunch yot get your shovel, dig a drainage ditch around the farm, repair all the fences, clean out the silos, churn the butter, thresh the wheat, spray the tomatoes, prune the trees, trim the hedges, weed the cabbage patch, fill all the lanterns, bed down the cows, curry the horses, and zingo! You’re ready for supper!
Lou Costello: All I do is eat!
Dick Lane: Now after supper, you hitch up the buggy and take the farmers daughter for a romantic ride in the moonlight … She’s a gorgeous captivating redhead with lily white skin and ruby lips, You drive down the lane holding her hand in yours, suddenly the horse stops, she moves over closer to
you, you put your arm around her waist … She lifts her ruby lips to yours. . .And then, do you know what you do?
Lou Costello: Zingo! I’m ready for lunch!