Meredith Willson on Writing "Ya Got Trouble."

[@twostep1953]

Billiards was acceptable (and I have no idea how the scoring works). Pool was for bums. A different time.

[@Rubingah]

Was that actually the case, or is the point of the scene that a motivated con artist can invent a moral panic out of any difference between people, even one as innocuous as billiards vs. pool?

[@twostep1953]

@@Rubingah Both - with the emphasis on the latter.