Meet Merton #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMerton receives a phone call from Marcia asking him to take her out, but his parents interrupt with various demands and complaints that prevent him from answering. After finally getting free, Merton meets Marcia at the Rinka-Dink roller skating rink, where they plan to visit the Lido Amusement Park and its new Italian-decorated tunnel of love. Later, Merton and Marcia spot what they believe to be gangsters getting a getaway car, and they become entangled in a comedic sequence involving a baby carriage; the story also includes a subplot where two young people encounter an elephant and attempt to meet French director Kenee Diaz, attending a premiere of "Lusty Love" at a palace cinema.
In a mischievous prank gone awry, Merton’s attempt to eavesdrop on the girls’ locker room using a borrowed recorder backfires when the device plays back the very voices he was trying to spy on—leading to a hilarious public exposure. As the girls mock him for his antics, Merton realizes too late that his plan to uncover their secrets only made him the punchline, leaving him flustered and outnumbered.
In "A Heck of a Hair-Do!", Jo, a perpetually exasperated teen, tries to impress her crush with a new Italian-style hairstyle—only to find her efforts met with deadpan observations from her overly detail-oriented friend Merton, who notices every tiny flaw in her surroundings. When Jo finally snaps, demanding attention, her outburst leads to a chain of misunderstandings that culminate in a hilariously awkward date to the Tunnel of Love, where a misplaced scent proves far more shocking than any romance.
In a chaotic mix of mistaken identity and comedic misfires, Jo and her father Merton attempt to impress a visiting executive from Major Motors by demonstrating a "magic pill" that supposedly runs cars on water—only to accidentally use gasoline instead, leading to a spectacular explosion and a frantic scramble to salvage their invention. When the executive arrives, he’s stunned by the chaos, but not by the idea itself, leaving Jo and Merton to face the consequences of their misguided genius.
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↩ Reprints True Movie and Television #2 (1950), True Movie and Television #3 (1950)
Reprinted in Meet Merton #4 (1955), Meet Merton #5 (1955), Meet Merton #18 (1963)
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