August 4, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, his Naxwell House, the desk coffee in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, his father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert
Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons,
brought to you by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought
and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of
coffee at any price. Maxwell House always good to the
last drop. A wonderful bird is a pelly can. His
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bill will hold more than his belly can. He can
take in his beak food enough for a week. As
for flying, you know, gosh darn welly can. With this
bit of deathless verse, we high est the Springfield in
the white frame house on Maple Street. There we find
the Andersen's at dinner, and there, as usual, we find
a problem. It's all about socks, or is it a dress,
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or well, it's about something like this.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So this little girl said to me, Kathy, she said,
I'm going away. I'm going out west where there's wide
open spaces and cattle and rustlers and bandits and everything.
And I said to her, you are And she said to.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Me, Kathy, Yes, Daddy passed the butterflease.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yes, Daddy, they only cost two dollars, Dad, And that's
for the caf and the socks.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's a bargain, Bud, that's what it is. An absolute bargain.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
You mean I can get them?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No, this is very good roast, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
If it's a bargain, why can't I get them?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Because I'm not giving you the two dollars, that's why.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And she said to me, I'm tired of being treated
like a crinimal, That's why.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And I said to her, Kathy, yes, Daddy, has anyone
ever told you that you talked too much?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And I said to her, who's treating you like a criminal?
And she said, Father, it was fifteen ninety five left
than a week ago, and now it's only eight point fifty. Danny,
I wasn't finished. And if you can give Bud two
dollars for something dopey like a hat and sock, but
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light up?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
They don't light up, Benny, they just look like they
light up.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I wasn't finished, mother. It's in that new shade of
gun metal, and if I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'll simply die. We'll miss you, dear, Joe.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Father gave him the two dollars, and you can see
Joe coming two blocks away.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I don't care if you can see him clear over
in West Springfield.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So I said, why do you have to go out? Well?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And she said, Kathy, what, we don't care?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You don't, Kathy, you haven't touched your dinner.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm not very hungry, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We have an appointment to spend the evening with mister
and missus Smith. We haven't got all night to fool around.
So eat your dinner and behave yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Waterflower's riding along on my bicycle and the truck driver
didn't see me.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What truck driver?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Any truck driver if I had a fluorescent.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Cap on bud. Yes, no, father, I am not going
to give but two dollars for pink socks. And I'm
not going to give you eight fifty for a dress. Now,
is that understood?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Good Father?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I need it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
All right, then it's up to you to figure some
way of getting it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That's what I was trying to do.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You're a grown girl, Betty, you're seventeen years old. If
your entire life depends on getting a dressed, go out
and earn the money for it, Dad. When I was
a boy, I worked for the things I wanted. I
didn't feel I was too good to work at anything
that came along. I washed dishes, shovel snow, Doug ditches.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Dad.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But will you please stop interrupting me?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But I want to ask you something. If I an
the money, then can I buy the sox?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Where was I?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You were building the Panama Canal.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's all right, Margaret. Let's just be thankful that we
have one sensible child.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, dear, which one would that be?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Kathy?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Kathy Me?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's right, Kathy. She wanted the doll But did she
bother me for the money? No, she's earning it by
selling those Pelican banks.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Kathleen.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I'm sorry, Mommy, I guess it slipped.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Kathy. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Why?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Nothing, Daddy, Jim?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Something is the matter. She's shaking like a leave.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You stay right where you are.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
But that isn't the doorbell, it's the phone.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Answer it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm supposed to answer the doorbell. Why do I have
to answer the phone, Gill, That's.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What's wrong with this country. We're a nation of specialists.
I suppose he expects time and a half were answering
anything but doorbells. Jim hm, oh, all right, Kathy, what
is it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I'll go away, Daddy. I'll go out west and start
all over again. If I won't bring disgrace to the family.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What brought that off?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Betty? It's for you, Thank you, Bud.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'll be right there, Kathy. This little girl you've been
talking about, that wouldn't be you, would.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
See that all that he had to do was answer
it in the first place.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Down and finish your dinner. Holy call, Kathy, what have
you done?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I was trying to save them some trouble, Daddy, That's
all I was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Save who trouble?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The Pelican people. They said it was worth two dollars,
so I didn't think they'd mind what was.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Worth two dollars the doll Now, look, Kathy, Jim, if
we're going over to the Smiths, this is just as
important is going over to the smith's, Margaret. If Kathy's
done anything wrong but.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I haven't, Daddy, then why.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
All this hogwasher about being a cattle rustler in the
wide open spaces?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Because they said I did and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, while you're trying to figure that out.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'll go upstairs and comb my hair.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You do that, go upstairs and comb everybody's hair. Kathy, Yes, Daddy,
start from the beginning about what Daddy? The Pelicans? What
did you do?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well? They said in the comic book that if I
I sent away for twelve plastic Pelican banks and sold
them for fifty cents apiece, they give me a doll
worth two whole.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Dollars, and you sent away for them. Uh huh, all
right after there, it makes sense. Now, how many did
you sell?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Four?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Only four?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh? Everybody else sent away for him too. They were
trying to sell them to.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Me, Kesey. If you can't sell the other eight, just
send them back.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I did, and they got mad and sent them back
to me.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, that doesn't seem logical as long as you sent
them the two dollars for the four you sold. You
did send them that, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
How could I? I used that to pay for the doll, Kathy.
They said they were going to send me a doll
and I just thought I'd say from the trouble, and
I bought the doll myself.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Where is it?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
The doll?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
The doll? It died, Cassie.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I was playing Red Cross with Patty Davis, and that
was the doll we used for blood.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Confusions, she means transfusions, Dan, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You're welcome, Cassie.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Confusion means something else, like when you see a boy
on a bicycle and he isn't.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Wearing a brisk.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Mother, the most wonderful thing has happened. Marion Swift have
a cold.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well maybe if she's real lucky, it'll turn into pneumonia. Father, Well,
what did you expect me to say? Marian Swift has
a cold.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But don't you see she was going to babysit for
the hack to Waiste tonight and Friday and Saturday, and now.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
She can and I'm going to Well that's more like
it were finally beginning to show a little ambition around here.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I've got to be at the halfways in five minutes.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Where's mother?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I'll tell you mother, you just go ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh father, I've never been so happy in my whole life.
That beautiful dress.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Say, I've got an idea.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well treated gently, it's in a strange place, got an idea.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I'll make a million Betty, Hey, Betty, wait a minute,
I want to ask you something.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
And he wanted to tell me what confusion was. All right, Kathy,
Now where were we?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They were gonna put me in prison?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No one's going to put you in prison.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But the letter said I was responsible, and I have
to send them six dollars, and I don't have six dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'll give you two dollars and you can send them that.
And the rest of the banks.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
They don't want them to manswer. They've got enough banks.
All fine, What am I gonna do?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Daddy, Oh, there's only one thing you can. You've got
to sell the other eight Pelicans.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But I tried and I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Wow. You didn't go about it the right way. You've
got to create a market, build up a desire for Pelicans.
Make the entire neighborhood Pelican bank conscious.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
How do I do that?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's very simple, Kathy. Put up little signs, advertise, get
yourself a slogan, and spread it all over town like pelicans.
They fill the bill. Or you can bank on Kathy's Pelican.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You mean, then they'll buy them.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Of course, with men who know they're banking best. It's
pelicans two to one.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Watch the pelicans go by.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's the idea.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Pelicans are better than ever. Now you're rolling be a
Pelican of distinction.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
That's enough.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What this country needs is a good five cent pelican.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I said, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I'm sorry, Daddy. I guess I was just carried away.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
That isn't a bad idea either, Jim. I'm ready just
a second, honey. Now are you all straightened out?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh? Yes, Daddy, Yeah, Jim.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
While you're getting your coat, I want to tell we're
Betty and.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Bud, Margaret. You can make fun of my little lectures
all you like, but every once in a while they
do hit home.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Daddy told me how to sell my Pelican banks nmmy.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Oh that's fine, dear Jim.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Betty and Bud haven't even started on the dishes.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Where are they?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh? I guess I forgot about the dishes, honey. But
you know that little talk I gave them tonight. Well,
Betty has already gotten a job as a babysitter. She
has has she that's right? And Bud I don't know.
He went off screaming that he's going to make millions.
Really took it to heart. Don't take your coat off, Margaret.
I'll be ready to go in two seconds.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
To go.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Where to the Smiths naturally, and who.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Is going to take care of Kathy?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Oh no, how could anybody be that stupid?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh Daddy, you aren't stupidest.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Stop arguing, Kathleen.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
This is one time when your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
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Speaker 5 (13:06):
That's our way of.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
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feature these days at the lowest prices in months. Enjoy
the coffee that's always good to the last drop. It's
some time later in Springfield. We don't know exactly how
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much later, but believe me, it's later than you think.
Bud is well on his way to a fluorescent cap
and socks. Betty has her dress, and Kathy well, Kathy
has her pelicans. Put them all together. And what his
father got, that's right? A headache like this?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Oh yes, missus Lawson, we guarantee all our babysitters.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But will you please get off the phone just.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
A minute, Missus Lawson. Please, Dad, Missus Lawson is a
brand new customer. I have to be polite to her.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I would like to use the phone.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You bet then, Hello, missus Lawson. No, it was just
my father.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
God, Well, I can give you Joe Phillips. He's one
of our best babysitters. But oh yes, ma'am, he's as
good as any girl babysitter in town. But that's eight
o'clock Friday, Okay, missus Lawson. He'll be there and thank
you very much. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
That's three for just Friday. Let me have the phone,
but I have to call Joe before he goes.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh, let me have the phone.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Holy cow, Dad, this is business. I wouldn't care for it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Oh no, excuse me, Dad, Anderson. Baby Citi is incorporated.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But now I've heard everything.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Oh sure, he's right here. It's for you.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
WHOA, How did that ever happen?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Please don't talk too long, dad, I've got important things
to do.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Hello, Oh yes, mister Brian, Kathy's principal.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Uh just a minute, please, yes, Dad, go away, but
I have to go away.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Good gravy, try to run a business around this place.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I'm sorry, mister Brian. I was just telling my son
they have they were she did well, I will naturally
you'd be upset, Yes, of course. Oh I promise you
it will never happen again. Thank you, mister Brian, and
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thank you for calling. Good night, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Did you call me, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I just got a call from mister Bryant.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
The principle, the principle.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And he tells me you've been defacing public property. I have, well,
haven't you.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh no, Daddy, I wouldn't do a thing like that.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Mister Bryant said, you've practically ruined the entire west wall
of the school.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh, I did not. All I did was write signs on.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Oh, you told me to advertise, Daddy. I just wrote
slogans about the Pelicans.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I told you to write little signs on paper. I
didn't tell you to put chalk marks all over the school.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It wasn't chalk, Daddy, it was paid.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Oh, I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I didn't think anybody would mind. And I sold practically
all the pelicans.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Pelicans, morning, noon and night pelicans. Kathy, Why do you
do things like this to me?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But it was my best printing, Daddy. I thought you'd
be proud of me.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I've got to pay to have the whole wall cleave.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Maybe if I told mister Bryant I was sorry, that'll
do a lot of good telling him you're sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Good evening, officer. Now what have we done?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I came him?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh sure, just to come on in and make yourself
at home.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Miserable night, isn't it? Yes, miserable? Don't go away, Kathy.
This probably concerns you.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
He is, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Go ahead, officer, mister Anderson, we understand that you are
operating an employment office. At this address. Now that's my son, Bud,
the king of the boy babysitters.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I guess it isn't anything I did, Hi, Daddy, all right,
go back to whatever you were doing, Thank you, daddy.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Mister Anderson, your son has been operating an employment office
charging a fee of ten percent, and he has no
state license. A license with a just kid, I know,
but the state laws officer, all he did was organize
the boys of the neighborhood as babysitters, and they pay
him a fee. The point, mister Anderson, they pay him
a fee, and in order to collect that fee, he
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must have a state license. There's a fine of five
hundred dollars. Why we naturally feel.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Come out here now, there's no reason to be upset,
mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'm sure you can explain to the judge. Judge you
mean I have to go to court. Well, according to
the law, I have to give you a summons. But
I'm sure that if you explained. But what'd you name it,
We've got it. He was paid all over the school.
You run an employment office without a license of what, honor,
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mister Anderson, if you'll just father, Father's.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Not what that little monster did to me.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I didn't know you needed a license.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
My you dress, my beautiful dress.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Is anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Is anything right? That's the question.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Nobody said you needed a license to be a babysitter.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All I did was sit on the bench at the
bus stop and look at it. Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Hey, mister Anderson, Daddy, If the girls can be babysitters
and they don't need a license, why do we need
a license?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You were running an employment agency, you were getting jobs.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
For people, just babysitting jobs.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Did you want me, daddy? Kathy? I I could strangle you.
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Look at your sister's dress.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
My pelicans, it were, mister Anderson.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Do they look wonderful? Daddy? Then it was my idea,
the first time I've.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Even had the dress on, and look at it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Kathy, what was your idea?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well, drawing pelicans on the benches with chalk. Then when
the people sit down, they get pelicans on them, and
then when they walk around, everybody sees them. Isn't that
the way you advertise?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Kathy, go up to your room. But you said, if
I wanted to self healican, I said, go up to
your room. Gee, when.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
My babysat for three whole life, and look at my dress.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Betty stopped acting like an infant. It's only chalk, and
we'll have it clean.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
But I was gonna wear it tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You can wear something else.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Jump and creeper.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'll talk to you in just a minute, officer. Mister Anderson,
Let's just forget the whole thing show what you said
about the summons? Brother, if I gave you a ticket,
I couldn't sleep tonight, you couldn't. I don't have any
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kids on my own? Would you like some of mine?
I'm just tell him down at the station that everything's
all taken care of. Well, thank you, and there didn't
be any more of you know, the employment office folded
five minutes ago. That's the idea. Thanks again, officer.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Good luck, mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Brother, you can use it. Good night.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
How did I know you needed a license? Nobody?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Cold god?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Jim? What on earth is going on down here?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Margaret? Five minutes ago, I was practically on my way
to jail. What a five hundred dollars five? That's what
it was going to cost me? Jim, that's impossible. How
could a little girl like Kathy put it wasn't Kathy.
It was Bud.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Bud, Oh, Bud, how could you?
Speaker 5 (21:38):
How could I fart?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Look, Margaret, it's all over now, So let's just forget
about it. But the next time anybody says, babysitter or
pelican or Bud, what have you got in your hand?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
In my hand?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But when you stop repeating everything, I say, what have
you got in your hand?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
A pelican?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Take it outside and burn it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
But it's Kathy's.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Dad.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I found it on the dining room table.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I said, burn it. Put it in the incinerator. I
never want to see another pelican as long as I live.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
But this is the last one.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Good. Let's make sure it is the last one.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Mom, do as your father tells you. Bud, you mean
a perfectly good pelican.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Bud.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Holy call.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Jim, Honey, we've got to do something about the children.
I know, dear, But when you get to the point
where a policeman feels sorry for you, well that's the end.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Jim.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
I don't know what you're talking about, but I do
know that you've broken Kathy's hard Well.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That isn't where she's going to be affected next.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
She's been working.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Very hard, and she's been doing it all for you,
for me, that's what she said.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
She didn't have to paint signs all over the school
to sell eight puny pelicans.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Eight she's already sold eight dozen? What eight dozen? And
she's getting more orders every day.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But why what can she possibly do with that many dolls?
Speaker 8 (23:13):
She's going to sell them to and give you the
money to pay for the damage she's done. Well, frankly,
I think you owe her an apology.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Margaret Kathy, Honey, you don't know what she's been doing.
She smeared paint all over the school.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You want me money?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Your father has something to say to you, dear.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Okay, she put chalk pelicans all over the bus benches.
If I have to pay for cleaning the clothes of
all the people who sat.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Down on them, I am daddy.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Go ahead, Jim Kathy, your mother tells me you've been
selling a lot of pelicans.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh I have, Daddy. I've sold ninety five, and when
I sell one more, i'll be all finished.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh that's fine, dear, I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I've got almost forty eight dollars, and when I sell
the last pelican, gosh, what is it, Kathy, my pelican?
What happened to it?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Kathy?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
But I just saw it. It was in the dining
room and I went upstairs.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
We won't worry about that pelican, Kathy. I'll I'll give
you the fifty cents and we'll consider the whole matter. Clothes.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Oh, Daddy, you have to help me. I have to
find the.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Pelicansweet, I have one little pelican. Isn't that important?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
This one is?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
That's where I hit all the money.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
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a happy facet to our sad little tale. All is well,
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that ends well, that's what they say, And so let's
listen in at the Anderson breakfast table to a happier
conclusion than we might imagine. Like this, Jim, Margaret, I'm
in no mood to discuss anything. May I please be
permitted the pleasure suffering in silence?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
But Bud has something very important to tell you.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Oh, yes, I'm sure it must be. Well, go ahead, Bud.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Dad, I'm sorry I disobeyed you about what about the
polericn But gosh, I didn't see any sense to burning
a perfectly good thing like that.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
What He didn't burn it, Jim, He didn't. I found
it up in his room with the money.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yes, dear, Oh, I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Sorry Dad, Bud, don't ever disobey me again. No, Dad,
it's the worst thing a boy can do. I know, Dad,
when I give you an order, I expected to be
carried out.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yes, Dad, So here's two dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Go get yourself a fluorescent cap and socks. On the
other hand, there's another clubb Everything has an end that says,
and a pudding half too, Kathy, it would seem is
the other end of the pudding like this, Daddy. Kathy,
don't you think you've caused enough trouble around here for
the time being.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Oh well, this isn't any trouble, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
This is just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I won the prize.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
What prize?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I sold more Pelican banks than anybody in the springfield
and they gave me the grand prize.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
That's fine, And.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
You know what it is, a real live palaces.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Tell the kids it's a hot favorite with Hoppy. That's
hot post sweetmeal. You shouldn't let youngsters go to school
without a hot cereal these mornings, So just tell them
how hop a long Cassidy goes for hot post wheetmeal
and watch those kids gobble it up. Post sweetmeal has
a rich nut like flavor, It's crammed with solid nourishment.
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It cooks in just three and a half minutes. And
tell the kids it's Hoppy's favorite. You'll see you'll all
agree it's the best hot Cereal, you ever ate join
us again next week when we'll be back with Father
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Knows Best Darling, Robert Young Is, Jim Anderson with Roy
Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Foreman.
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee,
always good to the last drop. Father Knows Best was
transcribed in Hollywood and written by E. F. Jane. Now
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stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most
of these stations.
Mother, his Naxwell House, the desk coffee in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, his father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert
Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons,
brought to you by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought
and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of
coffee at any price. Maxwell House always good to the
last drop. A wonderful bird is a pelly can. His
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bill will hold more than his belly can. He can
take in his beak food enough for a week. As
for flying, you know, gosh darn welly can. With this
bit of deathless verse, we high est the Springfield in
the white frame house on Maple Street. There we find
the Andersen's at dinner, and there, as usual, we find
a problem. It's all about socks, or is it a dress,
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or well, it's about something like this.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So this little girl said to me, Kathy, she said,
I'm going away. I'm going out west where there's wide
open spaces and cattle and rustlers and bandits and everything.
And I said to her, you are And she said to.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Me, Kathy, Yes, Daddy passed the butterflease.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yes, Daddy, they only cost two dollars, Dad, And that's
for the caf and the socks.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's a bargain, Bud, that's what it is. An absolute bargain.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
You mean I can get them?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No, this is very good roast, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
If it's a bargain, why can't I get them?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Because I'm not giving you the two dollars, that's why.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And she said to me, I'm tired of being treated
like a crinimal, That's why.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And I said to her, Kathy, yes, Daddy, has anyone
ever told you that you talked too much?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And I said to her, who's treating you like a criminal?
And she said, Father, it was fifteen ninety five left
than a week ago, and now it's only eight point fifty. Danny,
I wasn't finished. And if you can give Bud two
dollars for something dopey like a hat and sock, but
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light up?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
They don't light up, Benny, they just look like they
light up.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I wasn't finished, mother. It's in that new shade of
gun metal, and if I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'll simply die. We'll miss you, dear, Joe.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Father gave him the two dollars, and you can see
Joe coming two blocks away.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I don't care if you can see him clear over
in West Springfield.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So I said, why do you have to go out? Well?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And she said, Kathy, what, we don't care?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You don't, Kathy, you haven't touched your dinner.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm not very hungry, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We have an appointment to spend the evening with mister
and missus Smith. We haven't got all night to fool around.
So eat your dinner and behave yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Waterflower's riding along on my bicycle and the truck driver
didn't see me.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What truck driver?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Any truck driver if I had a fluorescent.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Cap on bud. Yes, no, father, I am not going
to give but two dollars for pink socks. And I'm
not going to give you eight fifty for a dress. Now,
is that understood?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Good Father?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I need it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
All right, then it's up to you to figure some
way of getting it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That's what I was trying to do.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You're a grown girl, Betty, you're seventeen years old. If
your entire life depends on getting a dressed, go out
and earn the money for it, Dad. When I was
a boy, I worked for the things I wanted. I
didn't feel I was too good to work at anything
that came along. I washed dishes, shovel snow, Doug ditches.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Dad.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But will you please stop interrupting me?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But I want to ask you something. If I an
the money, then can I buy the sox?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Where was I?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You were building the Panama Canal.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's all right, Margaret. Let's just be thankful that we
have one sensible child.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, dear, which one would that be?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Kathy?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Kathy Me?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's right, Kathy. She wanted the doll But did she
bother me for the money? No, she's earning it by
selling those Pelican banks.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Kathleen.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I'm sorry, Mommy, I guess it slipped.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Kathy. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Why?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Nothing, Daddy, Jim?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Something is the matter. She's shaking like a leave.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You stay right where you are.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
But that isn't the doorbell, it's the phone.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Answer it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm supposed to answer the doorbell. Why do I have
to answer the phone, Gill, That's.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What's wrong with this country. We're a nation of specialists.
I suppose he expects time and a half were answering
anything but doorbells. Jim hm, oh, all right, Kathy, what
is it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I'll go away, Daddy. I'll go out west and start
all over again. If I won't bring disgrace to the family.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What brought that off?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Betty? It's for you, Thank you, Bud.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'll be right there, Kathy. This little girl you've been
talking about, that wouldn't be you, would.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
See that all that he had to do was answer
it in the first place.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Down and finish your dinner. Holy call, Kathy, what have
you done?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I was trying to save them some trouble, Daddy, That's
all I was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Save who trouble?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The Pelican people. They said it was worth two dollars,
so I didn't think they'd mind what was.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Worth two dollars the doll Now, look, Kathy, Jim, if
we're going over to the Smiths, this is just as
important is going over to the smith's, Margaret. If Kathy's
done anything wrong but.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I haven't, Daddy, then why.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
All this hogwasher about being a cattle rustler in the
wide open spaces?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Because they said I did and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, while you're trying to figure that out.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'll go upstairs and comb my hair.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You do that, go upstairs and comb everybody's hair. Kathy, Yes, Daddy,
start from the beginning about what Daddy? The Pelicans? What
did you do?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well? They said in the comic book that if I
I sent away for twelve plastic Pelican banks and sold
them for fifty cents apiece, they give me a doll
worth two whole.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Dollars, and you sent away for them. Uh huh, all
right after there, it makes sense. Now, how many did
you sell?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Four?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Only four?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh? Everybody else sent away for him too. They were
trying to sell them to.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Me, Kesey. If you can't sell the other eight, just
send them back.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I did, and they got mad and sent them back
to me.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, that doesn't seem logical as long as you sent
them the two dollars for the four you sold. You
did send them that, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
How could I? I used that to pay for the doll, Kathy.
They said they were going to send me a doll
and I just thought I'd say from the trouble, and
I bought the doll myself.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Where is it?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
The doll?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
The doll? It died, Cassie.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I was playing Red Cross with Patty Davis, and that
was the doll we used for blood.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Confusions, she means transfusions, Dan, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You're welcome, Cassie.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Confusion means something else, like when you see a boy
on a bicycle and he isn't.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Wearing a brisk.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Mother, the most wonderful thing has happened. Marion Swift have
a cold.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well maybe if she's real lucky, it'll turn into pneumonia. Father, Well,
what did you expect me to say? Marian Swift has
a cold.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But don't you see she was going to babysit for
the hack to Waiste tonight and Friday and Saturday, and now.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
She can and I'm going to Well that's more like
it were finally beginning to show a little ambition around here.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I've got to be at the halfways in five minutes.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Where's mother?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I'll tell you mother, you just go ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh father, I've never been so happy in my whole life.
That beautiful dress.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Say, I've got an idea.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well treated gently, it's in a strange place, got an idea.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I'll make a million Betty, Hey, Betty, wait a minute,
I want to ask you something.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
And he wanted to tell me what confusion was. All right, Kathy,
Now where were we?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They were gonna put me in prison?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No one's going to put you in prison.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But the letter said I was responsible, and I have
to send them six dollars, and I don't have six dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'll give you two dollars and you can send them that.
And the rest of the banks.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
They don't want them to manswer. They've got enough banks.
All fine, What am I gonna do?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Daddy, Oh, there's only one thing you can. You've got
to sell the other eight Pelicans.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But I tried and I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Wow. You didn't go about it the right way. You've
got to create a market, build up a desire for Pelicans.
Make the entire neighborhood Pelican bank conscious.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
How do I do that?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's very simple, Kathy. Put up little signs, advertise, get
yourself a slogan, and spread it all over town like pelicans.
They fill the bill. Or you can bank on Kathy's Pelican.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You mean, then they'll buy them.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Of course, with men who know they're banking best. It's
pelicans two to one.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Watch the pelicans go by.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's the idea.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Pelicans are better than ever. Now you're rolling be a
Pelican of distinction.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
That's enough.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What this country needs is a good five cent pelican.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I said, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I'm sorry, Daddy. I guess I was just carried away.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
That isn't a bad idea either, Jim. I'm ready just
a second, honey. Now are you all straightened out?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh? Yes, Daddy, Yeah, Jim.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
While you're getting your coat, I want to tell we're
Betty and.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Bud, Margaret. You can make fun of my little lectures
all you like, but every once in a while they
do hit home.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Daddy told me how to sell my Pelican banks nmmy.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Oh that's fine, dear Jim.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Betty and Bud haven't even started on the dishes.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Where are they?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh? I guess I forgot about the dishes, honey. But
you know that little talk I gave them tonight. Well,
Betty has already gotten a job as a babysitter. She
has has she that's right? And Bud I don't know.
He went off screaming that he's going to make millions.
Really took it to heart. Don't take your coat off, Margaret.
I'll be ready to go in two seconds.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
To go.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Where to the Smiths naturally, and who.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Is going to take care of Kathy?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Oh no, how could anybody be that stupid?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh Daddy, you aren't stupidest.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Stop arguing, Kathleen.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
This is one time when your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
These days, coffee's making good news in grocery stores everywhere,
in city markets and country stores alike. Grocers are featuring
Maxwell House coffee at lower prices. Yes, now, the coffee
with that wonderful, good to the last drop flavor comes
to you at the lowest prices in months, and it's
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for us Maxwell House people too. You see, we have
one aim with our coffee to bring you the most
in flavor and enjoyment every pound you buy, to bring
you truly good coffee at the lowest possible price.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
That's our way of.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Doing business, and seems you folks like it. You've made
our Maxwell House Coffee America's favorite brand because you can
count on that famous flavor every cup you pour, because
you find more flavor for your money back impact in
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is more than ever today's coffee buy Look for it
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feature these days at the lowest prices in months. Enjoy
the coffee that's always good to the last drop. It's
some time later in Springfield. We don't know exactly how
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much later, but believe me, it's later than you think.
Bud is well on his way to a fluorescent cap
and socks. Betty has her dress, and Kathy well, Kathy
has her pelicans. Put them all together. And what his
father got, that's right? A headache like this?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Oh yes, missus Lawson, we guarantee all our babysitters.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But will you please get off the phone just.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
A minute, Missus Lawson. Please, Dad, Missus Lawson is a
brand new customer. I have to be polite to her.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I would like to use the phone.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You bet then, Hello, missus Lawson. No, it was just
my father.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
God, Well, I can give you Joe Phillips. He's one
of our best babysitters. But oh yes, ma'am, he's as
good as any girl babysitter in town. But that's eight
o'clock Friday, Okay, missus Lawson. He'll be there and thank
you very much. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
That's three for just Friday. Let me have the phone,
but I have to call Joe before he goes.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh, let me have the phone.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Holy cow, Dad, this is business. I wouldn't care for it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Oh no, excuse me, Dad, Anderson. Baby Citi is incorporated.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But now I've heard everything.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Oh sure, he's right here. It's for you.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
WHOA, How did that ever happen?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Please don't talk too long, dad, I've got important things
to do.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Hello, Oh yes, mister Brian, Kathy's principal.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Uh just a minute, please, yes, Dad, go away, but
I have to go away.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Good gravy, try to run a business around this place.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I'm sorry, mister Brian. I was just telling my son
they have they were she did well, I will naturally
you'd be upset, Yes, of course. Oh I promise you
it will never happen again. Thank you, mister Brian, and
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thank you for calling. Good night, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Did you call me, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I just got a call from mister Bryant.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
The principle, the principle.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And he tells me you've been defacing public property. I have, well,
haven't you.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh no, Daddy, I wouldn't do a thing like that.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Mister Bryant said, you've practically ruined the entire west wall
of the school.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh, I did not. All I did was write signs on.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Oh, you told me to advertise, Daddy. I just wrote
slogans about the Pelicans.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I told you to write little signs on paper. I
didn't tell you to put chalk marks all over the school.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It wasn't chalk, Daddy, it was paid.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Oh, I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I didn't think anybody would mind. And I sold practically
all the pelicans.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Pelicans, morning, noon and night pelicans. Kathy, Why do you
do things like this to me?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But it was my best printing, Daddy. I thought you'd
be proud of me.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I've got to pay to have the whole wall cleave.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Maybe if I told mister Bryant I was sorry, that'll
do a lot of good telling him you're sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Good evening, officer. Now what have we done?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I came him?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh sure, just to come on in and make yourself
at home.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Miserable night, isn't it? Yes, miserable? Don't go away, Kathy.
This probably concerns you.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
He is, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Go ahead, officer, mister Anderson, we understand that you are
operating an employment office. At this address. Now that's my son, Bud,
the king of the boy babysitters.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I guess it isn't anything I did, Hi, Daddy, all right,
go back to whatever you were doing, Thank you, daddy.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Mister Anderson, your son has been operating an employment office
charging a fee of ten percent, and he has no
state license. A license with a just kid, I know,
but the state laws officer, all he did was organize
the boys of the neighborhood as babysitters, and they pay
him a fee. The point, mister Anderson, they pay him
a fee, and in order to collect that fee, he
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must have a state license. There's a fine of five
hundred dollars. Why we naturally feel.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Come out here now, there's no reason to be upset,
mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'm sure you can explain to the judge. Judge you
mean I have to go to court. Well, according to
the law, I have to give you a summons. But
I'm sure that if you explained. But what'd you name it,
We've got it. He was paid all over the school.
You run an employment office without a license of what, honor,
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mister Anderson, if you'll just father, Father's.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Not what that little monster did to me.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I didn't know you needed a license.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
My you dress, my beautiful dress.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Is anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Is anything right? That's the question.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Nobody said you needed a license to be a babysitter.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All I did was sit on the bench at the
bus stop and look at it. Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Hey, mister Anderson, Daddy, If the girls can be babysitters
and they don't need a license, why do we need
a license?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You were running an employment agency, you were getting jobs.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
For people, just babysitting jobs.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Did you want me, daddy? Kathy? I I could strangle you.
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Look at your sister's dress.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
My pelicans, it were, mister Anderson.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Do they look wonderful? Daddy? Then it was my idea,
the first time I've.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Even had the dress on, and look at it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Kathy, what was your idea?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well, drawing pelicans on the benches with chalk. Then when
the people sit down, they get pelicans on them, and
then when they walk around, everybody sees them. Isn't that
the way you advertise?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Kathy, go up to your room. But you said, if
I wanted to self healican, I said, go up to
your room. Gee, when.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
My babysat for three whole life, and look at my dress.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Betty stopped acting like an infant. It's only chalk, and
we'll have it clean.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
But I was gonna wear it tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You can wear something else.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Jump and creeper.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'll talk to you in just a minute, officer. Mister Anderson,
Let's just forget the whole thing show what you said
about the summons? Brother, if I gave you a ticket,
I couldn't sleep tonight, you couldn't. I don't have any
(20:50):
kids on my own? Would you like some of mine?
I'm just tell him down at the station that everything's
all taken care of. Well, thank you, and there didn't
be any more of you know, the employment office folded
five minutes ago. That's the idea. Thanks again, officer.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Good luck, mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Brother, you can use it. Good night.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
How did I know you needed a license? Nobody?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Cold god?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Jim? What on earth is going on down here?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Margaret? Five minutes ago, I was practically on my way
to jail. What a five hundred dollars five? That's what
it was going to cost me? Jim, that's impossible. How
could a little girl like Kathy put it wasn't Kathy.
It was Bud.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Bud, Oh, Bud, how could you?
Speaker 5 (21:38):
How could I fart?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Look, Margaret, it's all over now, So let's just forget
about it. But the next time anybody says, babysitter or
pelican or Bud, what have you got in your hand?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
In my hand?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But when you stop repeating everything, I say, what have
you got in your hand?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
A pelican?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Take it outside and burn it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
But it's Kathy's.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Dad.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I found it on the dining room table.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I said, burn it. Put it in the incinerator. I
never want to see another pelican as long as I live.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
But this is the last one.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Good. Let's make sure it is the last one.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Mom, do as your father tells you. Bud, you mean
a perfectly good pelican.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Bud.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Holy call.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Jim, Honey, we've got to do something about the children.
I know, dear, But when you get to the point
where a policeman feels sorry for you, well that's the end.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Jim.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
I don't know what you're talking about, but I do
know that you've broken Kathy's hard Well.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That isn't where she's going to be affected next.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
She's been working.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Very hard, and she's been doing it all for you,
for me, that's what she said.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
She didn't have to paint signs all over the school
to sell eight puny pelicans.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Eight she's already sold eight dozen? What eight dozen? And
she's getting more orders every day.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But why what can she possibly do with that many dolls?
Speaker 8 (23:13):
She's going to sell them to and give you the
money to pay for the damage she's done. Well, frankly,
I think you owe her an apology.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Margaret Kathy, Honey, you don't know what she's been doing.
She smeared paint all over the school.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You want me money?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Your father has something to say to you, dear.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Okay, she put chalk pelicans all over the bus benches.
If I have to pay for cleaning the clothes of
all the people who sat.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Down on them, I am daddy.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Go ahead, Jim Kathy, your mother tells me you've been
selling a lot of pelicans.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh I have, Daddy. I've sold ninety five, and when
I sell one more, i'll be all finished.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh that's fine, dear, I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I've got almost forty eight dollars, and when I sell
the last pelican, gosh, what is it, Kathy, my pelican?
What happened to it?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Kathy?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
But I just saw it. It was in the dining
room and I went upstairs.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
We won't worry about that pelican, Kathy. I'll I'll give
you the fifty cents and we'll consider the whole matter. Clothes.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Oh, Daddy, you have to help me. I have to
find the.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Pelicansweet, I have one little pelican. Isn't that important?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
This one is?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
That's where I hit all the money.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
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a happy facet to our sad little tale. All is well,
(26:00):
that ends well, that's what they say, And so let's
listen in at the Anderson breakfast table to a happier
conclusion than we might imagine. Like this, Jim, Margaret, I'm
in no mood to discuss anything. May I please be
permitted the pleasure suffering in silence?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
But Bud has something very important to tell you.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Oh, yes, I'm sure it must be. Well, go ahead, Bud.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Dad, I'm sorry I disobeyed you about what about the
polericn But gosh, I didn't see any sense to burning
a perfectly good thing like that.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
What He didn't burn it, Jim, He didn't. I found
it up in his room with the money.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yes, dear, Oh, I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Sorry Dad, Bud, don't ever disobey me again. No, Dad,
it's the worst thing a boy can do. I know, Dad,
when I give you an order, I expected to be
carried out.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yes, Dad, So here's two dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Go get yourself a fluorescent cap and socks. On the
other hand, there's another clubb Everything has an end that says,
and a pudding half too, Kathy, it would seem is
the other end of the pudding like this, Daddy. Kathy,
don't you think you've caused enough trouble around here for
the time being.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Oh well, this isn't any trouble, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
This is just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I won the prize.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
What prize?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I sold more Pelican banks than anybody in the springfield
and they gave me the grand prize.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
That's fine, And.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
You know what it is, a real live palaces.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Tell the kids it's a hot favorite with Hoppy. That's
hot post sweetmeal. You shouldn't let youngsters go to school
without a hot cereal these mornings, So just tell them
how hop a long Cassidy goes for hot post wheetmeal
and watch those kids gobble it up. Post sweetmeal has
a rich nut like flavor, It's crammed with solid nourishment.
(28:24):
It cooks in just three and a half minutes. And
tell the kids it's Hoppy's favorite. You'll see you'll all
agree it's the best hot Cereal, you ever ate join
us again next week when we'll be back with Father
(28:44):
Knows Best Darling, Robert Young Is, Jim Anderson with Roy
Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Foreman.
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee,
always good to the last drop. Father Knows Best was
transcribed in Hollywood and written by E. F. Jane. Now
(29:07):
stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most
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