Sunday, Monday, Happy Days / Tuesday, Wednesday no one pays:

According to this story, the slot machines seem to have been the last straw.

And who might that be?

An earlier version of the story, which seems to have vanished from the web, recounts how friends were saying "You must be making lots of money!" to Marion Ross, because if you got three Mrs. Beasley heads in a single turn, you hit the jackpot. We get more information on the machine from this story:

Cunninghams Go Wild has now moved to the top of the things I don't want to think about, ever. We continue with the exciting details of the suit:

Of course they are! And that's why they're suing. By the way, most stories put the amount at $10 mil, not $40 million. CBS says they owe the actors about nine grand each, so I'd go with the $10 mil figure.

The person most interested in the suit would seem to be Moran, who notes she lost her house in a foreclosure last year, and the money might have helped. No doubt. You might say that banking on slot-machine backplate royalties is not an effective investment strategy, and you'd be right, but if they're owed it, they're owed it.

Is there footage of the slot machine on YouTube? Of course. It's almost hypnotic; when the free-spin bonus happens it nearly gives you a heart attack.