Terrence and Mrs. Tuber, the TV Couch Potatoes, are propped up on their potato couch, chewing peanuts and watching their favorite soap opera “The Potato Family” on television. When the doorbell rings, Chip the dog starts barking, and Terrence looks around at it and accidentally pops a peanut into his ear. He is still sitting on his potato couch with his head tipped to one side, trying to get the peanut out, when his daughter and her boyfriend Frito walk in.
Frito immediately sees the situation and offers to help Terrence to get the peanut out. “Look,” says Frito, “I’ll cover your mouth, stick my two fingers into your nostrils and then blow into your other ear.” In desperation, Terrence agrees to give this a try. Frito stuffs his fingers tightly into the couch potato’s nose and blows into his ear. Sure enough, the peanut pops out the other side.
Later that evening, Terrence and Mrs. Tuber are propped up in bed watching a re-run of “The Potato Family” on television, when Mrs. Tuber asks her husband, “That Frito is such a nice boy, what do you think he will do when he leaves school?”
“I don’t know what his plans are,” replies Terrence. “But from the smell of his fingers, I think he will probably be our son-in-law.”