In ‘The Shoe Store’ sketch from ‘The Carol Burnett Show,’ Don Rickles yells at a woman to get out of his store. He tells her, ‘You don’t need a shoe store. You need a blacksmith!’ Harvey Korman, playing the store owner, threatens Don with firing. Rickles promises to be polite, and Korman gives him one more chance.
An unsavory lady enters, played by Nanette Fabray, and starts giving Don trouble. She needs the rabbit shoes that are at a bargain. Wear does a great deal to sell the item, but she turns him down. She requests evening shoes, and she dispatches into an extraordinarily boring tale that makes Don go off the deep end.
According to she, ‘You don’t need to quantify me. I’m a five triple-A.’ Don ascends a stepping stool to track down the ideal pair. She remarks about the glare from Don’s thinning up top head. She prefers the shoes he brought but chooses to wear a burgundy dress instead.
According to she, ‘What goes with burgundy?’ He answers furiously, ‘Cheddar!’ The crowd bursts out laughing. He behaves like he will hold her despite her good faith, but he controls himself. Wear apparently can’t pull off the lady’s old shoe, and he at long last gets it by tumbling off the stool.
According to wear, ‘The last time you wore a five triple-A woman was in baby booties!’ She answers, ‘I end up having little feet.’ Don says, ‘Minuscule feet? The last time I saw a foot like yours, a bear was joined to it!’ The contention turns revolting, and Don tirades and shouts as she leaves the store. He’s actually shouting when his chief, Harvey Korman, shows up from behind him and flames him.
Wear loses it and removes the bloom from Korman’s coat. According to korman, ‘Savage!’ Don is astonished by this, and the two men break character and begin laughing. According to wear, ‘Where does it say he has the line, savage?’
They can’t take a gander at the crowd or camera while they are giggling. The crowd adores that the two men have made each other crazy with their shenanigans. These essential minutes made ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ so unique!