Tom Poston


and when ever I saw Tom Poston on the Newhart show I remembered this classic;
Edgar Stopworth:

My drinking is directly connected to my smoking. Now, when I say "directly", I mean there's a thing - a physical thing - that is directly connected from my liquor buds to the smoke pouch in my lungs. If you want me to quit smoking, you would have to cut - I mean, you'd have to physically cut that thing! And when you do, my head's gonna fall off! Do you understand, reverman? The booze bone's connected to the smoke bone. And the smoke bone's connected to the head bone. and that's the word of the lord!


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"The booze bone's connected to the smoke bone"...brilliant...LOL.

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I just watched this tonight. There shoulda been more of Tom Poston. Hilarious performance.

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He plays that scene with such sincerity and emotion I literally laughed out loud upon viewing it. The "liquor buds" and "smoke pouch"- absolute genius writing. His presence in the film is so brief and so memorable. God, I love this movie.

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Yes, truly an underrated classic.

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