Round the World With Cracklin Jane Cracklin Jane From Eastport, Maine

The Oceantown Arts Council has two weeks to write and stage a new operatic work: Figaro. They plan to employ every last person in town as singers, crowd scene extras, set designers and builders, musicians, ushers and ticket-takers. Can they pull it off? Who will be in the audience if everyone is in the show?

Elmira sends away for a Kingsley Brothers Mail-Order Home-Building Kit. Satisfied customers claim that with this everything-included package one can assemble a veritable castle with just 16 hours of focused toil. Elmira’s unemployed geologist husband Eugene is skeptical. Listen as they attempt to construct the home of their dreams with the help of the 78 RPM records which the Kingsley Brothers include with each order.

Contestants representing ten different nationalities compete in the Round the World Mother’s Day Open Mic Contest. The studio audience basks in Mother Songs in English, Ukrainian, Hawaiian, Yiddish, French-Canadian, Russian, Danish, Haitian Creole, Tunisian, and German. Who will walk away with the fabulous prizes? Our esteemed panel of venerated grandmothers makes the determination.

A farmer digs up an old runestone containing characters from an ancient Earth alphabet. How did it get there? What wisdom is contained therein?
Luckily, Planet Kingsley X-10 brothers Ray and Rex are on hand to crack the code.

Grandma drops a bombshell: she’s at the train station unannounced and wants to spend a few days visiting. Meanwhile, the house is a disaster area. Twins Red and Fred have one hour to get their room, and the rest of the house, cleaned up before Ma gets back from the train station with Grandma. Luckily, Fred has sent for a Kingsley Industries Home Cleaning System with a Work Exponentializer. Will it do the job?

Does a windfall of a billion dollars lead to a simpler life? Brothers Red and Rex find out the hard way.