August 14, 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, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
When your father says so, and your father knows best, Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
A half hour visit with your neighbors.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
The Andersons, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House,
the coffee that's always good to the last drop. In
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the third act of Romeo and Juliet, the fair Miscapula
comes up with a dylly was ever book containing such
vile matter, so fairly bound? She asks, you know what
she meant, don't judge a book by its cover. That's
all well in Springfield, in the white frame house on
Maple Street, the Andersons aren't quite as flowery as Julia,
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but they're going to be given a treat just the same,
and the fine art of judging books and other things
like this, Margaret, I'm home, my Margaret.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hmm.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
But I had to mother. There wasn't anything else I
could do.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It was going on in here, didn't you hear me call?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I'm sorry, dear, we didn't know you'd come in.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I've been standing in the hall for ten minutes, screaming
my head off.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Where we seem to have a little problem.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Father.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I couldn't help it, really, I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What did she do now?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
She's in love? Kathy?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Mush, that's all. It is, just plain mush.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Never mind, Bud, Margaret, I uh may be a little dense,
But since when does Betty falling in love.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Constitute a problem?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Father?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
She changes boyfriends like I changed my socks.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Jim, the problem is not Betty's new boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, Kathy just said.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I said she was in love and she is.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Why don't you mind your own business?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I do.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mind everybody's business.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Hush. That's all it is, mush.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
But if that's the most you can add to the
general conversation.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Well, holy cow, Dad, I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We'll have dinner a very few minutes, but not until
your father knows what Betty has done.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Done You make it sound like I robbed the bank?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Has she? Father?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And stop saying father jumping creepers?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
That's better, Jim, honey, give me the horrible details of
Betty's latest crime and let's eat.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
She invited the Van Norton's to Sunday dinner.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Fine, Now, if it's who the Van.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Norton's, the Van Norton's the What did she do that for?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I told you, father, I couldn't help it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
She thinks he's gorgeous.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You told Jane leg he was.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I never did, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh, you did too.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You took the phone into the hole closet and you
thought I couldn't hear, and you told Janey mother.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
All right, girl, good father. I said that'll be enough.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Daddy.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yes, she said he was gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Mush, that's all it is. Mush.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Look, as long as we're getting into this thing, let's
start from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Who is gorgeous Roger van Norton?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Only I never said he was.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
She did too, Kathy, you stay out of this, yes, Daddy,
And I want.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You to tell me something. I'll ask you, yes.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Daddy, all right, but she dead, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's nothing very complicated about it, Jim, Roger Van Norton
and Betty have been seeing quite a bit of one
another at school.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
He has a convertible.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Well, if it isn't complicated, what's the problem It gets
complicated later?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Thank you very much. You're all.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Betty invited Roger to dinner, well, only because he said
he thought it'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I see, he's the subtle kind. He's a drip.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Mother, if you don't make them stop.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
When you have as much money as the Van Norton's,
you can't be a drip. He's a rich drip.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He is one of the nicest boys in the whole school.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And he's coming to dinner with his family and his convertible.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's the part. I don't understand. The convertible, the family.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I don't understand any of it.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
It wasn't my idea father about the family. He said
he thought it'd be nice. What would if we met?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I thought you knew him.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
She means the family's dear.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh not the convertibles.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
We don't have a convertible.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That was a joke, dope, be what was what Dad said?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It was kind of a joke.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Oh, well, now that that's all straightened me, I asked
just one more question.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
What's the problem? Father?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
We just told you.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Look, let's make believe I just got back from a
long trip into the heart of the African jungle. We
haven't seen one another in almost eight years, And I say,
what's the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Now? What do you say?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Who Daddy? Well, he said, we hadn't seen him in
eight years.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Jim, It's really very simple. The whole problem is the
rose chair in the living room.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I think I'll go back to the Jungle.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Father. You've never seen the Van Norton's house.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It has a swimming pool and a tennis court.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I still don't six bedrooms. What's that got to do
with the rose chair in the living room being repaired,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They brought it back to day all right.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
If they didn't do a good job, make them do
it over.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, they did a wonderful job. Dear. It looks just
like new, and it makes everything else look awful.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Wait a minute, you mean because we have one chair recovered,
we've got to have a whole house down over.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh no, dear, well just the living room.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
If Betty wants to invite the van Norton's over for dinner,
that's all right.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I'm as broad minded as anybody. Just because the.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Van Norton's are the richest people in Springfield, that doesn't
mean they aren't as good as anyone else. They might
very easily be the doorbell rang. When you tell me
I've got to have the whole living room done over, well.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
That's carrying things a little too far.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Jim, the doorbell rang.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
As far as I'm concerned, the living room looks fine.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And if anybody thinks I'm going to change it, they've
got another thing coming.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The doorbell rang, but it just needs.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
A little paint.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
But didn't you hear the doorbell? Sure? Well, what are
you waiting for? Betty shook her head. Margaret. I don't
know what's gotten into these children, I swear I don't.
They don't even make sense. I didn't do anything, but
see who's at the door.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Why blame it on me?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I didn't shake my head.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It was Betty. Jim, I think there's something you ought
to know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think there are a lot of things I ought
to know.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Father, Promise you won't make a scene about the decorator.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What decorator?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
The one who rang the bell?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
You sent for a decorator?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh, dear tell him, we'll be right in.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Tell him to go away. Jim, Please, honey, I.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Told you in the very Denny, why don't you and
Kathy go into the living room and entertain mister Worthington.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
But I want to tell father.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'll tell your father everything he needs to know.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Go ahead, come on, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Why don't we have everything eated black, so.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It won't show the dirt, now, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
In the first in the first place, Jim Anderson, You've
got to realize that we have a definite obligation to
our children.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I never said that we didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And when the recognized social leaders of our town show
an interest in our daughter, the very least we can
do is make the best possible impression.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Well, sure, but for her sake, Margaret, if we've got
the get new furniture and repaint the whole house every
time we want to make a good impression.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
No one said anything about new furniture, you said, and
no one mentioned repainting the whole house.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And why did you call Worthington.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
He's the most expensive decorator in Springfield. He won't look
at a job that's under five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, you mean we're going to.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Spend five hundred dollars on the living room.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It shouldn't be much more than that more.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
On one room.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Jim, you have no idea how expensive good painters have become.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Who's he going to hire Michaelangelo?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Of course, if you don't want your daughter to meet
the right sort of people, isn't.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
The point I'm as good a father as anybody in Springfield.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But five hundred dollars but one room? Why don't we
do it ourselves?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Jim? That's ridiculous, and you know it.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Why is it We can get a few cans of
paint and a couple of brushes and have it finished
in no time at it's all.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
What's ridiculous about that?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But every time you've offered to paint anything in the past,
this is different.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
We can all pitch in and help. Five hundred dollars.
There isn't that much paint in the whole state, Dear.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Now, I don't know what to do, honey, Please, is
a favor to me. Let's do it my way, just
this once.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You won't get tired right in the middle of a wall.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You'll use just the colors I choose.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I'll paint the room lavender and puce, if that's what
you want.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I still think we ought to let mister Worthy rogaret.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Look, I won't even go into the office tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
I'll buy the paint and some new brushes and now
spend the whole day doing just what you want.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Me to do.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, all right, Jim, but remember if you do one
little mind.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So help me.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
When I'm finished, you'll be the happiest woman in Springfield,
I hope.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So now you'd better tell mister Worthington we've changed our minds.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
We've changed our minds. I never wanted them in the
first place.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Jim, if you're going to be difficult about it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Okay, if that's the way you feel me.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Mister Worthington says he has to talk to you about colors.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Your father's going right in, aren't you, dear?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yes, into the Valley of Death March the six hundred.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Who never mind, Dear, your father's being funny again.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I never saw it to fail. Anytime there's an unpleasant job,
I have to do it. I never wanted the guy
in the mother did it work?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Did he say he would?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Your father starts painting in the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh, mother, you're a genius.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It wasn't anything, really, But how did you do it?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Last time?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
He swore he'd never paint another thing as long as
he lived.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Where It's very simple, dear, You just use the same
thing that wives have been using on husbands for thousands
and thousands of years, child psychology.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
When it comes to psychology, mother may well be the
family genius. But there are times when the man of
the house is well worth listening to. Yes, and when
he says best coffee I ever tasted, Why those words
should warm your heart, Because when it comes to coffee,
that husband of yours has a mighty important title. Yes, ma'am,
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he's the world's greatest coffee expert. Of course, you might
call us experts too. More families do enjoy our Maxwell
House than any other brand. But when you pour the coffee,
the expert with the final word he's your husband. And tomorrow,
if you'll serve him Maxwell House, we're sure he'll beam
and say best coffee I ever taste it. In fact,
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if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
We're that sure.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
You see, no other coffee has that wonderful good to
the last flavor, because no other coffee has our famous
Maxwell House recipe, a recipe demanding certain special coffees blended
just so that's right. No coffee tastes like Maxwell House
because no coffee's made like Maxwell House. So tomorrow, get
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a pound of our coffee. Fill your husband's cup with
Maxwell House. If he doesn't say best coffee ever, why
just send us the can an unused portion, and we'll
gladly refund every penny you paid. Our address is right
on every familiar blue tin. That's our story tomorrow. Then,
won't you serve your expert coffee with the world's most
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famous flavor. Serve your husband Maxwell house coffee, always good
to the last drop. There's an old Dutch proverb that
says paint costs nothing, such are its preserving it? Well
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that's a fine slogan for the people who sell the stuff,
but they'd better not mention it to Jim Anders.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's Sunday in Springfield.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
And paint is a pretty sore subject in the white
frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
At any rate, it's going to be very shortly like this,
all right, But shove the couch a little toward me. Okay,
Then does that covered? Kathy?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yes, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
How about the spot near the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
We'll hang a picture over it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We used up all the pictures for the other spots.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Well, we'll get another picture. Are there any left in
your room, Bud?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No point yours either.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
I don't know how could one small child make such
a large mess in such a short time. I don't
think it looks bad.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I kind of like it. When your mother gets back. Oh,
I hate to think of it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I didn't know it wasn't the same color paint. It's
said green.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Why didn't you just leave it the way it was?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I'll bet we've got more pictures in our living room
than anybody in Springfield.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
When the Van Norton's get here, they won't know if
this is the Anderson's or the American Museum of Art.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Maybe Mommy won't notice it.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Now, there's a brilliant thought.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Maybe if we stand in the middle of the room
and put lampshades over our heads, she won't notice us.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Where You're going to come back here and keep your
hands off the wall?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Yes, Daddy, you know, Dad, I still think it doesn't look.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Too bad if you like pictures.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
I like pictures as well as anybody, But I still
think we ought to be able to see the wall.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Jaddy, it's all right, kid, and I'll explain the whole
thing to your mother.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I better get out of here.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You stay right where you are. But I just remember
the date I forgot. We'll forget. You remembered it, Jim.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
We got the loveliest Oh, that's so fine.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
There We're in this together, and we'll stay in it together.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Father is the livom?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yes, practically everything's in the living room.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
May I stand in back of you, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Please, no one's going to hurt you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Caddy Jim, you have never seen such beautiful flowers in
your gym.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I just take it easy, honey, I'll explain the whole thing.
You see some of these before they sit down? Betty,
while I tell you what happened.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
You see my living room? What have you done to
my living room?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Why don't we think of it as our living room?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
The Mommy's gonna spank me a half hour. I haven't
been gone more than a half hour. And look what
you've done to this room.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Oh but how could you me just because you don't like.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Rod your van Norton?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Stop it?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
All I did was carry pictures and move furniture.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Why blame it on me? Cathy?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Please? Now, will someone please tell me the meaning of
this art gallery?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
I was just trying to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Mommy.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
She made a little smudge, Margaret, That's all.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
She did, a smudge with their basketball. So she got
a canne of paint to touch it up, and that
made another smudge.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You mean in back of each of those pictures is
a smudge.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well not exactly, some of them are drips.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well you know what it means. We'll have to do
the entire wall over.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I know, honey, but we can't do it today. And
I thought while the Van Norton's were here, you can't.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Let them see this. Why do you think we were
out of our minds.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I've got news for you. It'd be right. I don't
think it looks so bad. It's kind of cheerful.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The only boy in the whole school with a convertible
and you have to do this, Bud, push the couch
back where it belongs. You won't like it, Mom.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Why don't we just leave everything the way it is.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And then tomorrow there can't be as much that big No.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
But you see, I didn't know Kathy had the paint
can on the chair, Jim, You didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Of course not. I stepped in. It's see when.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It tipped over. I mean, it's all over the floor,
just under.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The couch, honey. But we can take care about it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Why didn't you hang some pictures on the ceiling.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Because the paint didn't splash that high? Look, it's only
on this one wall, Margaret, And.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
If you'll just listen to reasons, I've listened all I
intend to listen. Kathy, take these flowers into the kitchen. Yes, mommy,
I just wanted to help Bud. Go up to the
attic and get some more pictures. More you'll find them
in the box marked blankets. Good mom, If we can
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stop arguing.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I wasn't arguing.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
But if you put any more pictures, only call.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Honey. Don't you think we've got enough pictures? Now?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
If we put up any we've got to balance the
ones you put up. As long as you've got them
clear to the floor, we'll have to put them clear
to the ceiling.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
But who looks at pictures up there?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The same people who crawl on the floor to look
at them down there.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, all right, honey, that's the way you want it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Mother.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
They're here.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Oh no, they can't be.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Hide in the cellar and maybe they'll go away.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
What are we going to do, Jim? You've got to
keep them out of here?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Okay, where'd you put my shotgun?
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Gee?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Will you please let them in? You just said to
keep them out out of the living room.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Oh, how do I do that?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Take them into the den. Take them anywhere, but don't
let them in here.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Okay, come on, Betty.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Mother ahead, dear, I'll be in just a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Father, What if they go right in?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Its very simple. We'll just hit them over the head
with a meat Cleveland. Father, All right, Betty, let's smile.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I wish I were dead.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, Hello, hello, Roger.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Come on in no sense standing out there in the
call Well, miss Anderson, we feel this is quite an imposition.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's no such thing. Why we've been looking forward to
seeing you. Go on in, Roger. No one's gonna bite Jim.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Hello, mister Anderson.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Father, this is Roger.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
You know I had a sneaking suspicion that's who it
might be. Glad to know your son, and.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I'm his old man. I suspected that too.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Well, now that we know who everybody is, let's go
someplace and sit down.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I just let me have your things. We can all
go into the den and be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Roger, why don't you help mister Anderson like a good boy.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Mom, I keep forgetting he isn't a good boy anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
He's a young man.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Well, whatever it is, let's go sit down, Nelly. I
told you in the very beginning. I didn't want to
wear these shoes. Oh they're friends. They don't mind if
I call you Tilly, do you Jim?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
My name's Jake. Jake.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Well, if you want to be technical, it's Westbrook Sylvester
than not.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
In the third horrible thing to hang on a kid,
wasn't it. Everybody just calls me Jake. Okay, Jake. The
den's right in here.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
My mother said she'd only be a moment.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh, that's card all right there.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Oh, my feet are killing me. What seems to be
the trouble these shoes never had him on before? Well,
sit down, take it easy.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Oh that's a little better dead.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
For crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
He thinks I'm gonna discribe.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Jake has such a lot of trouble with his feet.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
This is my feet, it's the shoes. Jim, tell me
the truth. Would you've noticed if I'd been wearing my
whole shoes?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I don't think so. There is he robbed.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
I could have been comfortable all the time, but no,
I had to wear Manoo shoes.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
We had to make a good impression. Well, Jake, if
they hurt, why don't you take them off. You mean
you won't mind, of course not Jay, Holy Cow? Dad,
Holy Cow? Is he a holy coward? Never stops? Is
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yours chief stable boy? Oh? Brother? Does that feel good?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Kathy, run upstairs and get my slippers for mister van Norton.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Okay, and put the light on under the coffee.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Jim, you like a.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Brother, dad, Mom says she'll be ready in a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Fine, Bud, Oh, I don't think you've met my boy,
mister missus van Norton.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
This is Holy Cow Junior. Alright, I'm pleased to meet you.
And this is Roger.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I know all about Bud.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You hit three eighty three for Springfield High last year,
didn't you. How'd you know that?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I just happened to know it.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
He just happens to know everything that has anything to
do with baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
He does.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Rogers quite a baseball player himself.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
You know he is turned on a contact with the
Dodgers last spring.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
He did not the Dodger's dad was just a farm club.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Holy Caw.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
There you see what I tell you, Jim, We are
to farm a club. The fathers who suffer from Holy
Cow's Incorporated. Holy Cow.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
She wiz why didn't you tell me, Betty?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I didn't know Betty.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
While Ananda talking, why do we go inside and see
if we can do anything for your mother? Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
No, I mean mother doesn't want us to. She doesn't
want us to, really, she doesn't.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It's quite all right, Benny. Oh, we all said, honey, yes, dear,
everything's already. How do you do, Missus van Norton?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
How do you do, mister van Norton.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And of course this is Roger hello, missus Anderson that
he's told us all about you. She has. Well, it's
awfully crowded in here, isn't it. Why don't we go
into the living room?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
The living room?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But you said it's all.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right, Jim, and I'm sure we'll all be more comfortable.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well, it's all right with me Anderson.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
But we've seen of it. Oh, thank you, Missus van Norton.
There's nothing pretentious, of course, but we like it.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
I like anything as long as I don't have to
put those shoes back on.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I hope you don't mind the smell of fresh paint,
Missus van Norton. You see, we've been doing a little redecorating.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
The living room isn't quite finished. But I'm sure you'll understand,
of course.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Have we've just been going through the same thing are.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Selves.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Uh, nice looking room, isn't it, Jilly Gosh?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh mother, Look Jake. As long as we're going to
be friends, I might as well.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Missus Anderson, I'm going to ask you a very personal question,
and I hope you won't be offended. Why not at all?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Have you ever heard of a decorator named Worthington?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it was here
just a few nights ago.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
But we felt that, Missus and it most certainly is.
I paid mister Worthington one thousand dollars to decorate my
living room.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, that's very nice, and he did mine exactly like
he did yours.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Oh No.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
This weekend, chances are you'll buy coffee for your.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
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Speaker 3 (26:09):
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Speaker 7 (26:10):
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Speaker 6 (27:57):
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Speaker 3 (28:04):
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transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay
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Speaker 7 (29:11):
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Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
When your father says so, and your father knows best, Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
A half hour visit with your neighbors.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
The Andersons, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House,
the coffee that's always good to the last drop. In
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the third act of Romeo and Juliet, the fair Miscapula
comes up with a dylly was ever book containing such
vile matter, so fairly bound? She asks, you know what
she meant, don't judge a book by its cover. That's
all well in Springfield, in the white frame house on
Maple Street, the Andersons aren't quite as flowery as Julia,
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but they're going to be given a treat just the same,
and the fine art of judging books and other things
like this, Margaret, I'm home, my Margaret.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hmm.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
But I had to mother. There wasn't anything else I
could do.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It was going on in here, didn't you hear me call?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I'm sorry, dear, we didn't know you'd come in.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I've been standing in the hall for ten minutes, screaming
my head off.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Where we seem to have a little problem.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Father.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I couldn't help it, really, I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What did she do now?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
She's in love? Kathy?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Mush, that's all. It is, just plain mush.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Never mind, Bud, Margaret, I uh may be a little dense,
But since when does Betty falling in love.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Constitute a problem?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Father?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
She changes boyfriends like I changed my socks.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Jim, the problem is not Betty's new boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, Kathy just said.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I said she was in love and she is.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Why don't you mind your own business?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I do.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mind everybody's business.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Hush. That's all it is, mush.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
But if that's the most you can add to the
general conversation.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Well, holy cow, Dad, I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We'll have dinner a very few minutes, but not until
your father knows what Betty has done.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Done You make it sound like I robbed the bank?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Has she? Father?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And stop saying father jumping creepers?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
That's better, Jim, honey, give me the horrible details of
Betty's latest crime and let's eat.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
She invited the Van Norton's to Sunday dinner.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Fine, Now, if it's who the Van.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Norton's, the Van Norton's the What did she do that for?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I told you, father, I couldn't help it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
She thinks he's gorgeous.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You told Jane leg he was.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I never did, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh, you did too.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You took the phone into the hole closet and you
thought I couldn't hear, and you told Janey mother.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
All right, girl, good father. I said that'll be enough.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Daddy.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yes, she said he was gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Mush, that's all it is. Mush.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Look, as long as we're getting into this thing, let's
start from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Who is gorgeous Roger van Norton?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Only I never said he was.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
She did too, Kathy, you stay out of this, yes, Daddy,
And I want.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You to tell me something. I'll ask you, yes.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Daddy, all right, but she dead, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's nothing very complicated about it, Jim, Roger Van Norton
and Betty have been seeing quite a bit of one
another at school.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
He has a convertible.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Well, if it isn't complicated, what's the problem It gets
complicated later?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Thank you very much. You're all.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Betty invited Roger to dinner, well, only because he said
he thought it'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I see, he's the subtle kind. He's a drip.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Mother, if you don't make them stop.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
When you have as much money as the Van Norton's,
you can't be a drip. He's a rich drip.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He is one of the nicest boys in the whole school.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And he's coming to dinner with his family and his convertible.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's the part. I don't understand. The convertible, the family.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I don't understand any of it.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
It wasn't my idea father about the family. He said
he thought it'd be nice. What would if we met?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I thought you knew him.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
She means the family's dear.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh not the convertibles.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
We don't have a convertible.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That was a joke, dope, be what was what Dad said?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It was kind of a joke.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Oh, well, now that that's all straightened me, I asked
just one more question.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
What's the problem? Father?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
We just told you.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Look, let's make believe I just got back from a
long trip into the heart of the African jungle. We
haven't seen one another in almost eight years, And I say,
what's the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Now? What do you say?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Who Daddy? Well, he said, we hadn't seen him in
eight years.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Jim, It's really very simple. The whole problem is the
rose chair in the living room.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I think I'll go back to the Jungle.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Father. You've never seen the Van Norton's house.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It has a swimming pool and a tennis court.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I still don't six bedrooms. What's that got to do
with the rose chair in the living room being repaired,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They brought it back to day all right.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
If they didn't do a good job, make them do
it over.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, they did a wonderful job. Dear. It looks just
like new, and it makes everything else look awful.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Wait a minute, you mean because we have one chair recovered,
we've got to have a whole house down over.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh no, dear, well just the living room.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
If Betty wants to invite the van Norton's over for dinner,
that's all right.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I'm as broad minded as anybody. Just because the.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Van Norton's are the richest people in Springfield, that doesn't
mean they aren't as good as anyone else. They might
very easily be the doorbell rang. When you tell me
I've got to have the whole living room done over, well.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
That's carrying things a little too far.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Jim, the doorbell rang.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
As far as I'm concerned, the living room looks fine.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And if anybody thinks I'm going to change it, they've
got another thing coming.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The doorbell rang, but it just needs.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
A little paint.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
But didn't you hear the doorbell? Sure? Well, what are
you waiting for? Betty shook her head. Margaret. I don't
know what's gotten into these children, I swear I don't.
They don't even make sense. I didn't do anything, but
see who's at the door.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Why blame it on me?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I didn't shake my head.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It was Betty. Jim, I think there's something you ought
to know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think there are a lot of things I ought
to know.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Father, Promise you won't make a scene about the decorator.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What decorator?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
The one who rang the bell?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
You sent for a decorator?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh, dear tell him, we'll be right in.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Tell him to go away. Jim, Please, honey, I.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Told you in the very Denny, why don't you and
Kathy go into the living room and entertain mister Worthington.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
But I want to tell father.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'll tell your father everything he needs to know.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Go ahead, come on, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Why don't we have everything eated black, so.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It won't show the dirt, now, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
In the first in the first place, Jim Anderson, You've
got to realize that we have a definite obligation to
our children.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I never said that we didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And when the recognized social leaders of our town show
an interest in our daughter, the very least we can
do is make the best possible impression.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Well, sure, but for her sake, Margaret, if we've got
the get new furniture and repaint the whole house every
time we want to make a good impression.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
No one said anything about new furniture, you said, and
no one mentioned repainting the whole house.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And why did you call Worthington.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
He's the most expensive decorator in Springfield. He won't look
at a job that's under five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, you mean we're going to.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Spend five hundred dollars on the living room.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It shouldn't be much more than that more.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
On one room.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Jim, you have no idea how expensive good painters have become.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Who's he going to hire Michaelangelo?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Of course, if you don't want your daughter to meet
the right sort of people, isn't.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
The point I'm as good a father as anybody in Springfield.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But five hundred dollars but one room? Why don't we
do it ourselves?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Jim? That's ridiculous, and you know it.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Why is it We can get a few cans of
paint and a couple of brushes and have it finished
in no time at it's all.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
What's ridiculous about that?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But every time you've offered to paint anything in the past,
this is different.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
We can all pitch in and help. Five hundred dollars.
There isn't that much paint in the whole state, Dear.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Now, I don't know what to do, honey, Please, is
a favor to me. Let's do it my way, just
this once.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You won't get tired right in the middle of a wall.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You'll use just the colors I choose.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I'll paint the room lavender and puce, if that's what
you want.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I still think we ought to let mister Worthy rogaret.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Look, I won't even go into the office tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
I'll buy the paint and some new brushes and now
spend the whole day doing just what you want.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Me to do.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, all right, Jim, but remember if you do one
little mind.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So help me.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
When I'm finished, you'll be the happiest woman in Springfield,
I hope.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So now you'd better tell mister Worthington we've changed our minds.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
We've changed our minds. I never wanted them in the
first place.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Jim, if you're going to be difficult about it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Okay, if that's the way you feel me.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Mister Worthington says he has to talk to you about colors.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Your father's going right in, aren't you, dear?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yes, into the Valley of Death March the six hundred.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Who never mind, Dear, your father's being funny again.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I never saw it to fail. Anytime there's an unpleasant job,
I have to do it. I never wanted the guy
in the mother did it work?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Did he say he would?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Your father starts painting in the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh, mother, you're a genius.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It wasn't anything, really, But how did you do it?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Last time?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
He swore he'd never paint another thing as long as
he lived.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Where It's very simple, dear, You just use the same
thing that wives have been using on husbands for thousands
and thousands of years, child psychology.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
When it comes to psychology, mother may well be the
family genius. But there are times when the man of
the house is well worth listening to. Yes, and when
he says best coffee I ever tasted, Why those words
should warm your heart, Because when it comes to coffee,
that husband of yours has a mighty important title. Yes, ma'am,
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he's the world's greatest coffee expert. Of course, you might
call us experts too. More families do enjoy our Maxwell
House than any other brand. But when you pour the coffee,
the expert with the final word he's your husband. And tomorrow,
if you'll serve him Maxwell House, we're sure he'll beam
and say best coffee I ever taste it. In fact,
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if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
We're that sure.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
You see, no other coffee has that wonderful good to
the last flavor, because no other coffee has our famous
Maxwell House recipe, a recipe demanding certain special coffees blended
just so that's right. No coffee tastes like Maxwell House
because no coffee's made like Maxwell House. So tomorrow, get
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a pound of our coffee. Fill your husband's cup with
Maxwell House. If he doesn't say best coffee ever, why
just send us the can an unused portion, and we'll
gladly refund every penny you paid. Our address is right
on every familiar blue tin. That's our story tomorrow. Then,
won't you serve your expert coffee with the world's most
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famous flavor. Serve your husband Maxwell house coffee, always good
to the last drop. There's an old Dutch proverb that
says paint costs nothing, such are its preserving it? Well
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that's a fine slogan for the people who sell the stuff,
but they'd better not mention it to Jim Anders.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's Sunday in Springfield.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
And paint is a pretty sore subject in the white
frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
At any rate, it's going to be very shortly like this,
all right, But shove the couch a little toward me. Okay,
Then does that covered? Kathy?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yes, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
How about the spot near the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
We'll hang a picture over it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We used up all the pictures for the other spots.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Well, we'll get another picture. Are there any left in
your room, Bud?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No point yours either.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
I don't know how could one small child make such
a large mess in such a short time. I don't
think it looks bad.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I kind of like it. When your mother gets back. Oh,
I hate to think of it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I didn't know it wasn't the same color paint. It's
said green.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Why didn't you just leave it the way it was?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I'll bet we've got more pictures in our living room
than anybody in Springfield.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
When the Van Norton's get here, they won't know if
this is the Anderson's or the American Museum of Art.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Maybe Mommy won't notice it.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Now, there's a brilliant thought.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Maybe if we stand in the middle of the room
and put lampshades over our heads, she won't notice us.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Where You're going to come back here and keep your
hands off the wall?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Yes, Daddy, you know, Dad, I still think it doesn't look.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Too bad if you like pictures.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
I like pictures as well as anybody, But I still
think we ought to be able to see the wall.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Jaddy, it's all right, kid, and I'll explain the whole
thing to your mother.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I better get out of here.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You stay right where you are. But I just remember
the date I forgot. We'll forget. You remembered it, Jim.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
We got the loveliest Oh, that's so fine.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
There We're in this together, and we'll stay in it together.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Father is the livom?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yes, practically everything's in the living room.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
May I stand in back of you, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Please, no one's going to hurt you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Caddy Jim, you have never seen such beautiful flowers in
your gym.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I just take it easy, honey, I'll explain the whole thing.
You see some of these before they sit down? Betty,
while I tell you what happened.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
You see my living room? What have you done to
my living room?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Why don't we think of it as our living room?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
The Mommy's gonna spank me a half hour. I haven't
been gone more than a half hour. And look what
you've done to this room.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Oh but how could you me just because you don't like.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Rod your van Norton?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Stop it?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
All I did was carry pictures and move furniture.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Why blame it on me? Cathy?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Please? Now, will someone please tell me the meaning of
this art gallery?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
I was just trying to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Mommy.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
She made a little smudge, Margaret, That's all.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
She did, a smudge with their basketball. So she got
a canne of paint to touch it up, and that
made another smudge.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You mean in back of each of those pictures is
a smudge.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well not exactly, some of them are drips.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well you know what it means. We'll have to do
the entire wall over.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I know, honey, but we can't do it today. And
I thought while the Van Norton's were here, you can't.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Let them see this. Why do you think we were
out of our minds.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I've got news for you. It'd be right. I don't
think it looks so bad. It's kind of cheerful.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The only boy in the whole school with a convertible
and you have to do this, Bud, push the couch
back where it belongs. You won't like it, Mom.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Why don't we just leave everything the way it is.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And then tomorrow there can't be as much that big No.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
But you see, I didn't know Kathy had the paint
can on the chair, Jim, You didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Of course not. I stepped in. It's see when.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It tipped over. I mean, it's all over the floor,
just under.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The couch, honey. But we can take care about it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Why didn't you hang some pictures on the ceiling.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Because the paint didn't splash that high? Look, it's only
on this one wall, Margaret, And.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
If you'll just listen to reasons, I've listened all I
intend to listen. Kathy, take these flowers into the kitchen. Yes, mommy,
I just wanted to help Bud. Go up to the
attic and get some more pictures. More you'll find them
in the box marked blankets. Good mom, If we can
(19:08):
stop arguing.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I wasn't arguing.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
But if you put any more pictures, only call.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Honey. Don't you think we've got enough pictures? Now?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
If we put up any we've got to balance the
ones you put up. As long as you've got them
clear to the floor, we'll have to put them clear
to the ceiling.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
But who looks at pictures up there?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The same people who crawl on the floor to look
at them down there.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, all right, honey, that's the way you want it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Mother.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
They're here.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Oh no, they can't be.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Hide in the cellar and maybe they'll go away.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
What are we going to do, Jim? You've got to
keep them out of here?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Okay, where'd you put my shotgun?
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Gee?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Will you please let them in? You just said to
keep them out out of the living room.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Oh, how do I do that?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Take them into the den. Take them anywhere, but don't
let them in here.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Okay, come on, Betty.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Mother ahead, dear, I'll be in just a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Father, What if they go right in?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Its very simple. We'll just hit them over the head
with a meat Cleveland. Father, All right, Betty, let's smile.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I wish I were dead.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, Hello, hello, Roger.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Come on in no sense standing out there in the
call Well, miss Anderson, we feel this is quite an imposition.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's no such thing. Why we've been looking forward to
seeing you. Go on in, Roger. No one's gonna bite Jim.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Hello, mister Anderson.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Father, this is Roger.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
You know I had a sneaking suspicion that's who it
might be. Glad to know your son, and.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I'm his old man. I suspected that too.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Well, now that we know who everybody is, let's go
someplace and sit down.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I just let me have your things. We can all
go into the den and be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Roger, why don't you help mister Anderson like a good boy.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Mom, I keep forgetting he isn't a good boy anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
He's a young man.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Well, whatever it is, let's go sit down, Nelly. I
told you in the very beginning. I didn't want to
wear these shoes. Oh they're friends. They don't mind if
I call you Tilly, do you Jim?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
My name's Jake. Jake.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Well, if you want to be technical, it's Westbrook Sylvester
than not.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
In the third horrible thing to hang on a kid,
wasn't it. Everybody just calls me Jake. Okay, Jake. The
den's right in here.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
My mother said she'd only be a moment.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh, that's card all right there.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Oh, my feet are killing me. What seems to be
the trouble these shoes never had him on before? Well,
sit down, take it easy.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Oh that's a little better dead.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
For crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
He thinks I'm gonna discribe.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Jake has such a lot of trouble with his feet.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
This is my feet, it's the shoes. Jim, tell me
the truth. Would you've noticed if I'd been wearing my
whole shoes?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I don't think so. There is he robbed.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
I could have been comfortable all the time, but no,
I had to wear Manoo shoes.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
We had to make a good impression. Well, Jake, if
they hurt, why don't you take them off. You mean
you won't mind, of course not Jay, Holy Cow? Dad,
Holy Cow? Is he a holy coward? Never stops? Is
(22:41):
yours chief stable boy? Oh? Brother? Does that feel good?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Kathy, run upstairs and get my slippers for mister van Norton.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Okay, and put the light on under the coffee.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Jim, you like a.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Brother, dad, Mom says she'll be ready in a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Fine, Bud, Oh, I don't think you've met my boy,
mister missus van Norton.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
This is Holy Cow Junior. Alright, I'm pleased to meet you.
And this is Roger.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I know all about Bud.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You hit three eighty three for Springfield High last year,
didn't you. How'd you know that?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I just happened to know it.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
He just happens to know everything that has anything to
do with baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
He does.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Rogers quite a baseball player himself.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
You know he is turned on a contact with the
Dodgers last spring.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
He did not the Dodger's dad was just a farm club.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Holy Caw.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
There you see what I tell you, Jim, We are
to farm a club. The fathers who suffer from Holy
Cow's Incorporated. Holy Cow.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
She wiz why didn't you tell me, Betty?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I didn't know Betty.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
While Ananda talking, why do we go inside and see
if we can do anything for your mother? Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
No, I mean mother doesn't want us to. She doesn't
want us to, really, she doesn't.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It's quite all right, Benny. Oh, we all said, honey, yes, dear,
everything's already. How do you do, Missus van Norton?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
How do you do, mister van Norton.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And of course this is Roger hello, missus Anderson that
he's told us all about you. She has. Well, it's
awfully crowded in here, isn't it. Why don't we go
into the living room?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
The living room?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But you said it's all.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right, Jim, and I'm sure we'll all be more comfortable.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well, it's all right with me Anderson.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
But we've seen of it. Oh, thank you, Missus van Norton.
There's nothing pretentious, of course, but we like it.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
I like anything as long as I don't have to
put those shoes back on.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I hope you don't mind the smell of fresh paint,
Missus van Norton. You see, we've been doing a little redecorating.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
The living room isn't quite finished. But I'm sure you'll understand,
of course.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Have we've just been going through the same thing are.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Selves.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Uh, nice looking room, isn't it, Jilly Gosh?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh mother, Look Jake. As long as we're going to
be friends, I might as well.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Missus Anderson, I'm going to ask you a very personal question,
and I hope you won't be offended. Why not at all?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Have you ever heard of a decorator named Worthington?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it was here
just a few nights ago.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
But we felt that, Missus and it most certainly is.
I paid mister Worthington one thousand dollars to decorate my
living room.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, that's very nice, and he did mine exactly like
he did yours.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Oh No.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
This weekend, chances are you'll buy coffee for your.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Family and you look for one thing flavor, the most
in flavor.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
For your money.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
So take home the one coffee famous for flavor above
all others. Take home a pound of Maxwell House coffee.
Then put it up to the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes,
pour a cup of Maxwell House for your husband. He's
the number one expert on coffee. When he smiles and
says best coffee ever, you'll know Maxwell House has the flavor,
(26:33):
and you can count for yourself all the truly good
cups of coffee you get from every pound at your grocer's.
Look for coffee that gives you your money's worth and more.
Look for the friendly blue tin with the big white
cup and drop. That's your sign of good coffee. Maxwell
House coffee always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Robert Young Tonight.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
I've been asked to tell you something about the American
economic system. That's rather difficult, because what can I tell
you about a subject like that. You are the American
economic system. You're the flesh and blood and bone of
the country that works better, plays better, and lives better
than any other country in the world. Today, Farmer, Merchant,
butcher Baker, we ask only that you appreciate your magnificent
(27:26):
past and recognize the infinite possibilities of your future. Write
to box ten Times Square Station, New York City for
the free booklet The Miracle of America. Learn how a
great country can be made even greater by your cooperation.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Thank you, and good night.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
At breakfast time, you don't have to say.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
You children eat your cereal right this instant say hop
Along Cassidy is crazy about hot wheatmeal.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Just a little psychology.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Yes, to get your children to eat a hot cereal,
just tell them post wheatmeal is hop Alon cassileast his
favorite hot cereal and they eat it too. Post wheatmeal
is chuck full of solid whole wheat nourishment, has a
wonderful nut like flavor, and at cooks in just three
and a half minutes. You'll see you'll all agree it's
the best hot cereal you ever ate.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, McRoy,
Bogie and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly Bill Forman.
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee.
Always good till the last drop. Father Knows Best was
(28:53):
transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay
tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of
these stations.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yes, exciting and authentic Dragnet is next on NBC
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