Papa's Big Check.

WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME, the only successful, animated sitcom in the 27 year gap between the FLINTSTONES and SIMPSONS, progresses to its 36th regular episode...

The IRS screws-up and sends Harry nearly a million dollars over-payment on his tax refund. (That was like, serious money in the '70s!) Everyone thinks he should keep it. Or at least deposit it into the bank and collect the interest until the Feds realize their error and demand the money back. But Harry wants to do the honest thing and give the money back ASAP.

I'd be less concerned with the ethics of keeping/holding the money than getting put under a Federal Penitentiary for cashing the check! Probably a plot to take-down another white, male business owner. Like Rusty Shackleford says: "Computers don't make errors. What they do, they do ON PURPOSE!"

Notice that economic inflation is becoming a big deal on the show (and in real life) by this time.

From December, 1973.
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