- Benny Rubin takes a tour of the "Lame Brain Sanitarium" and meets some of its strange patients.
- The Lame Brain Sanitarium is managed by Dr. E.D. Smith, who spells his last name J-O-N-E-S. Benny Rubin, believing he may have problems - the primary one being that he spends more money than he makes - is thinking about checking himself in. As he tours the sanitarium, he meets some of the other patients, including a fiddle destroyer, a man who believes he's developed an unbreakable plate, a dancer with elastic legs, and a Danish opera singer and his colleague (old friends of Rubin's) with a poor sense of geography. But the craziest people in Rubin's mind may be the staff, especially Dr. Smith, who believes he can cure Rubin by operating. In the end, is Rubin really crazy or are the crazy ones the writers?—Huggo
- A man visits an asylum because he's seeing and thinking double - whatever it is, he thinks there are twice as many or it takes twice as long. The supervising physician asks him a few questions. It's quickly clear that the doctor is nuts. The receptionist shows the prospective patient around: each person he meets - a radio violinist, a male singer, the inventor of an unbreakable plate, a bartender and two barflies, and the receptionist herself - are in need of psychiatry. Has this whole thing been a play within a play? To what end?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
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