George and Marion Kerby Are Proof of an Afterlife.

[MineralMan]

I saw them many times on "Topper." I believe it. Ghosts drink martinis in the afternoon.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That was one of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid. I especially liked the ghost dog.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Neil

A drunken St. Bernard.

[Polly Hennessey]

2. Oh, my goodness.

Heaven must be an elegant, swanky, martini, smoky, divine place. I’ll be there, but only if they let my dogs in. You remember them: Get Off The Rug and You Too. 🥂🍸🥃🍷

[PSPS]

4. Classic comedy gold

You can still find many episodes of Topper on YouTube and, although they are mostly in poor quality, the comedy still holds up thanks in no small part to the perfect comedic timing of their mortal foil Cosmo Topper played to perfection by Leo G. Carroll.

George and Marion Kirby were played by real-life married couple Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys. Jeffreys died just last year at 94 while Sterling died in 2006. They met in New York in 1949 while each was performing in separate stage plays and married in 1951, lasting until his death 55 years later.

[Polly Hennessey]

5. I was thinking of the 1937 movie with

Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. Roland Young played Topper. The Get Off The Rug and You Too names for the dogs comes from the 1938 film, Merrily We Live with Constance Bennett and Brian Aherne. She has two Great Danes that are always laying on the rugs; hence, their names.

[edhopper]

6. I never understood how ghosts work

with Christian theology?

[MineralMan]

7. Yeah. Odd, isn't it?

[Voltaire2]

8. Syncretism.

The Catholic Church, as it enveloped pagan Rome, learned to ingest rather the eradicate.

[MineralMan]

9. Yes, and it pretty much gobbled up the entire Western World.