The other robber attempted to pull his injured accomplice from the store when they were confronted by a customer brandishing a chair in a lion tamer fashion.
The one episode that featured no musical act still fulfilled the variety criteria by including a lion tamer, whose presence also directly contributed to the plot.
Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers and football players.