Henesy is playing his scenes deadpan. The kid rules this episode. The dialogue has me in stitches every time I hear it.
Mrs. Johnson still searching for her butts, grills the kid and he comes back with, “Are you supposed to be smoking while you’re working?” I love it! And when she starts in on him later, he tells her to quit bugging him.
This is totally one of my favorite bits:
David: Does he (the sheriff) have any clues?
Mrs. J: When the cannery whistle blows at noon, he knows it's lunch--that to him is a clue, and accounts for the size of him.
Later with the sheriff:
David: What does it mean when the cannery whistle blows?
Sheriff: Lunch?
David: That's right.
Sheriff: Why did you ask?
David: Oh, no reason. I was just wondering.
Shrewd little operator that he is, David goes about getting the sheriff to fork over information.