July 30, 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 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Now listen to Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young, his father.
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You remember the Tale of two Cities, don't you?
Speaker 6 (00:57):
How through it all?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Sat Madame LeFarge, her.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Knit needles fashioning endless anti macassas or something. But this
is a tale of one city called Springfield. And when
knitting needles start to clatter in a certain white frame
house on Maple Street, something is going to come down
on somebody's head like this.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Betty, are you sure you had four hundred and forty
stitches when you cast on?
Speaker 7 (01:21):
Of course, I'm sure, mother, I counted them at least
four hundred and forty times.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Margaret on home.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Let me see those instructions again.
Speaker 8 (01:31):
I count at three hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
Stay out of this, not head.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
I don't have to knit head girls warred.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
We're in the den, Jim.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Now, Betty, let's start all over. You cast on four
hundred and forty stitches.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yey, Betty, Hi focker find it? Margaret? Where do you
hear what I have planned? Hello, Jim, I'm not late
for dinner, am I?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Dinner may not be ready for some time.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
See mother, I don't get to four twenty until I
knit forty one and two together.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
No, Betty, it's when you do forty two and two together.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
I say, three eighteen?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What are your girls knitting? Of football jersey?
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Father?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Betty is making a hand knit dress, and I certainly
think they could make these instructions clearer.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
A hand knit dress.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
All the girls in my class have hand nits, all
of them.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's quite a yarn.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Well, Dann Dreiski and Janie Liggett do.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
How long does it take to knit one?
Speaker 8 (02:34):
It took Deanne Dreiski three years.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
A great.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Daddy, guess what I've decided to do for my birthday party?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Just a second kitten. I came home intending to tell
your mother something, and now.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I'll simply have to unravel to the eighteenth throw and
start over from there.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Margaret.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Oh, I just hate to knit, and this dress will
probably look horrible on me when it's done.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
Betty, can we discuss my birthday party?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Kathy?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Would we unravel to the twentieth raw girls?
Speaker 7 (03:03):
I know what I'll change to a popcorn stitch.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll be right down, d.
Speaker 9 (03:12):
B Yes, Dad, aren't you ever going to learn to
come down those stairs quietly?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Where's dinner?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What dinner?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I heard someone say popcorn and I'm hungry, Bud.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Kathy, go turn the gas on under the piece. Let's
see now twenty five, twenty four.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
That's what I wanted to tell you, Margaret, don't make
any plans for the evening of the twenty second.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
We'll still be working on this on the twenty second,
and I really ought to be doing my homework.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
Betty, you say you hate to knit, yet you're neglecting
your homework and upsetting the whole family's routine to make
a dress.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But you admit is going to look horrible on you.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Why she's explained it to you, Jim, because the other
girls in her class have hand nets.
Speaker 9 (03:55):
Well, if that isn't a prime example of keeping up
with the Joneses.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
Daddy, Now, can I tell you what we're going to
do at my birthday party.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
Yes, as long as you aren't going to dresses to
impress each other.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm so hungry I could eat a net dress practically.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
All right, Bud, I'll get dinner on.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Go ahead with the dress, now, Betty, remember start on
the twentieth row.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Thank you, mother.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You're a brick.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Even a brick might not be bad with ketch it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But your younger sister's been promised the floor. Go ahead, Kathy. Huh,
you had certain plans for your birthday party.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Oh sure, I'm inviting twenty kids, Daddy, and I'm going
to take them horseback riding.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That'll be fun. On whose horse?
Speaker 8 (04:38):
On whose horse? We need? Twenty horses. We're going to
rent them at the.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Riding Academy ran twenty horses. Well, that would cost am.
I'm sorry, Kathy, but it's out of the question.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
But Daddy, we have to. I've already invited everybody, and
I promised we'd go horseback riding.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, let them pin the tail on the dork. It's
practically the same thing, it is not.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Do you want me to be humiliated in front of
Patty Davis and Jimmy.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
Woody, of course not kidding, But what do they have
to do with us renting twenty saddle horses?
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Well, don't you think other kids have birthday parties too?
How do you suppose I'm going to feel when Jimmy
Woody's uncle takes all his guests riding in an airplane.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Airsick, I imagine?
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Huh, Never mind, when Patty Davis has her party, She's
gonna take all the kids to the townhouse for dinner.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Oh rats, I've been knitting and pearling for the last
three rows when I should have been knitting and slipping.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
Betty, for heaven's sake, why don't you give up and
let Jennie and Deanne have the laugh on me?
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Please, Daddy, we have to rent those horses.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
Kathy, Betty, I want you to calm down for a
minute and listen to me. You're both making yourself miserable
for a very foolish reason. You'll be a lot happier
when you realize that you're don't have to keep up
with the Joneses, Dad, think for yourselves, follow your own tastes.
The jones aren't such great shakes, Dad. Life's greatest rewards
(06:11):
come when you paddle your own canoe?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Now?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Bud? She Dad?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
How did you guess? Guess what what I was gonna
ask you for? You must be a mind reader.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
But if I seem a little slow, it's because I'm hungry.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What do you want my own canoe?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Will you get me one?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
For heaven's sake.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Joe phillipsaks are buying him a canoe. He's gonna take
it up to their cabin on the river this summer.
Speaker 9 (06:36):
But we don't have a cabin on the river, and
you don't need a canoe.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But if Joel's gonna have one, didn't you hear what
I've been telling your sisters? Sure you said life is
swell when you have your own canoe to paddle.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
There. I hope you don't mind waiting just a few
minutes more. I pop some biscuits into the oven. Now, Jim,
what was that you were going to tell me when
you came home?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
How should I know?
Speaker 9 (07:02):
All I've heard is how we have to keep up
with Janie Leggett and Patty Davis and Joe Phillips.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
What happened to the Joltses?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Why can't we ever do the things we'd really like
to do.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
Oh, now I remember, Margaret. Don't make any plans for
the night of the twenty second.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
All right, Jim, what's happening then?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The annual Service Club minstrel show.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
That I won't be able to go. Father, I'll still
be working on this darn.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Dress, counting me out. I've seen mister Harvey's stale magic
dad for the last three years in Assembly. They make
us sit there and watch, just because he's the principal.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
I'll be glad to go. My birthday isn't until the
twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, I'm sorry, Kathy, but you kids aren't invited. This
is a special treat for your mother and me.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Oh, a'll boy, dad, Thank you, mister James Anderson.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Jim, do we have to go again this year? Those
same jokes do get a little boring.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
But it'll be fun, Margaret. I thought we'd get some
friends together and have a regular theater party.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well that might be better. Who did you have in mind?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Maybe the Smiths, the Leggots, the Lawson's and the Woodies.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
And we can think of another couple, twelve of us. Sure,
I have twelve tickets to get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
That many, But Jim, it isn't fair to ask those
people to buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, I didn't plan to sell them the tickets. I
thought it would be our treat.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
That's fine, but they won't enjoy the show, Margaret.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I thought, maybe if you sort of whipped up a
hamm or a turkey and a little salad, a couple
of casserole dishes, and baked a couple of pies, don't
go to any fuss. We could have them over here
for dinner and then sort of spring the minstrel show
on them at the last minute.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Why we probably have a very.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Pleasant evening, and I'd have a very pleasant morning and
afternoon too.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Feeding twelve people is no simple matter, Jim.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But I told you not the fuss.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Dear, why don't you just pay for the twelve tickets
and tear them up. We'll stay home and enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Margaret, We can't throw twelve dollars away like that. Besides,
some of my best friends are in the cast. What
kind of performance do you suppose they'll give if they
see a roll of twelve empty seats.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The same kind of performance they always give.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
But that'll do.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But we've got to go, Margaret, Well, all.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Right, it will be sort of fun having the crowd
for dinner.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But oh, what's the matter, honey.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Jim, I will not entertain in this house again until
we get a new shower door.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
A shower door, what's that got to do with it?
Speaker 9 (09:36):
It won't close, Margaret, None of the guests will shower here,
but Jim, if they.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
She'll ride on the invitations. Come clean.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I meant, if they should notice it. The door creaks,
and well, it's just plain old fashioned frosted glass. I'm
ashamed of it.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
You should see the lovely news shower door Elizabeth Smith has.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
My gosh, Margaret, you too, Elizabeths's three tone glass with goldfish.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
When do we eat?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Just as soon as we settle the shower door?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
All right, get a new shower door.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Oh you're sweet, Jim, Betty when you see if the
biscuits are done?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Would you please finish this row for me? Of course, dear, it's.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Knit and flat.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Doorbell butt doorbells.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'd like to get away from it all in a canoe.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Have you thought any more about the horses?
Speaker 9 (10:36):
Daddy, canoes, horses, shower doors, slip stitch dresses.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Well, at least you'll never catch me trying to keep
up with the Joneses.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Dad, it's mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh hello Ann, Hi you, Jim, Hello Margaret, Hell, hi
you kids.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Well, mister Davis, I.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Hope I'm not interrupting your dinner, not at all. Ed,
No such luck.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
I stopped by it to Printers on the way home,
picked up the tickets for the minstrel show.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I thought i'd deliver yours.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Now, fine, I'll I got it. Jim, the Service Club
ought to give you a medal. Oh it was nothing, Ed,
just give me the Margaret, your husband is a mighty
generous guy.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh how much are they?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Everybody in the club was signing up for only two tickets.
Looked like we'd get rid of only fifty the most.
And have you got change? Finally, Jim Hathaway volunteered to
match the highest number anyone bought. Maybe I've got the
right change after all it let's see, they'll be I
never knew the day when Jim Anderson had let anyone
get the jump on him.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
He offered to double the number anyone else bought.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Oh so that's how Jim happened to get twelve tickets.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And if you're just twelve, Jim haven't you heard? No,
And I don't think I want to after you.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
After you'd gone, one of the fellas bought tickets for
his whole darn office staff, twenty of them in all,
twenty Sure, so now you've got to take forty. Here
you are, Jim, that'll be forty.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Bucks forty dollars ed.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Who was the man who bought the twenty tickets?
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Well, who besides an insurance manner a banker could afford
that many?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh no, don't tell me?
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Sure Jones, HERB Jones.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
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Speaker 5 (12:36):
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Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's several days later in the Anderson home. The clock
indicates more or less the same hour it did when
this minstrel show situation came up. But the Andersons are
all busy getting rid of those extra tickets.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Like this, Bud, what are.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
You doing with the phone book?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I thought i'd call mister Crawfett at the Music Star.
He might like Minster shows.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Hi, Bud, where's the fire?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Hello Dad?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Hello Kathy?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Yeah yet to show you?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Hello Mark?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Hello, Jim?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Wow? What's the news around here today, news around here.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Well, all five couples are coming to our dinner party.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Great with us.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
That makes twelve, only twenty eight tickets to go.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But the losses are the only ones who don't have
their tickets already, only thirty six tickets to see Daddy.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
I sold two tickets today.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Here's the mining wonderful kitten.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
The man who put in our new shower door bought them.
He didn't want them at first, that I convinced him,
Good girl, how did you do it? I took six showers.
He finally decided to buy the tickets so he could
finish his work.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That leaves us with only thirty four tickets.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Mister Crawfin's and then man in the show, he doesn't
need tickets.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But cast me out numbers yet? Have you sold anybody?
Speaker 8 (15:32):
He sold one?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I sold it to Joe Phillips.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You did? Joe told me yesterday didn't want to go.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
The word got around school that mister Harvey's using the
new English teacher and he saw a woman in half act. Oh,
Joe says, he wants to see how you split an infinitive.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
My family.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Father, mind, idn't club had the ticket raffle today like
you suggested.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So fine, How did it go?
Speaker 7 (15:58):
We raised five dollars are automatic yarn winder.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Fund, and we got rid of four tickets. Huh terrific, Betty.
Now our count's down only twenty nine tickets.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I won the raffle. Oh no, well we're back to
thirty three. Would anyone like to try it for thirty four?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
There must be someone in Springfield who likes minstrel shows.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Here's a man in the phone book who might be interested,
mister Samuel j Minstill, maybe I'll tie him, Jim.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Wouldn't it be easier to tell Ed Davis we can't
use forty tickets.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
He'll take them back and renig on a promise, Not
Jim Anderson. Besides, my seats are right smack in the
center of the theater. If they're not occupied, it will
be like putting up a sign. Jim Anderson is against
the menstrul show. I want those seats filled.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We could borrow some dummies from the department store window.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
But they'd laugh as hard as anybody else. Too bad,
my birthday is the twenty ninth instead of the twenty second.
That'd be twenty seats.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Filled forty with horses.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I'll tell you, Daddy, I'll come anyway no matter what
anyone says about the show.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Thanks kitting.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
You know your mother and I were very selfish not
to include you kids in our party.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Betty and Bud, we'd like you to join us too.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Don't look at me, father, I can't knit in the dark.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Will you get me a canoe?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Dad? If I go to the show, you'll get a paddle.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
If you don't go, Hey, that'd be Jim.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
I'm sorry, Bud. I realize it isn't the fault of
you kids. If I hadn't tried to keep up with
the Joneses or Jim Hathaway in this case, we wouldn't
have all these confounded tickets to get rid of.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
It's a pretty common failing, dear.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But could I keep still and let it go with
two tickets?
Speaker 9 (17:51):
No? I had to pretend I was a big shot,
and what was I just another sheep waiting.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
To be sheared bother me?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I slipped this wool over your arms.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
People are just like sheep.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Everyone has to do what they see everyone else doing it.
Wait a minute, I know how to get rid of
those tickets.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Jim, get that expensive look out of your eyes.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
We're going to make the whole town think there's a
scarcity of tickets to the minstrel.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Show for that show Father, no one that dullible.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Sure they are, and we'll prove it by the oldest
trick and show business. We'll spread the word the show's
a sellout and everyone in Springfield will want to go.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
I kind of want to go already.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Just how do we accomplish this theatrical miracle.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Jim, Well, we're not going to try to sell tickets
any longer.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Hooray, We're going to try to buy them.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Jim. Maybe you should all get away for a good
long rest.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
If we go somewhere by a lake, a canoe would
be fun.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
We just pretend we want to buy them, Margaret, Now
listen carefully, all of you. From now on, each of
us will ask every pre we talked to if they
know where we can get extra tickets for the show.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
We asked everyone we talked to everyone.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Old P. T. Barnum Anderson is about to cause a
one man run on the box office, and before it's over, Ed.
Speaker 9 (19:12):
Davis will be begging to buy my tickets back. They'll
be scalping tickets to this show before I'm.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Through answer it?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Will you?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Kathy?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I'm all tangled up.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
What makes you think it's for you anyway?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I just hope your plan works, Jim. We're spending a
lot of money lately.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Don't worry, honey.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
You know Betty, when I get off the hook for
these tickets, I just might give you the money to
have that dress knitted.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh, father, would you what would you think of just
a plain row boat?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I think you'd need water for it?
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Dad, he had worked it would did Kathy your idea?
I asked the man on the phone if he knew
where I could get some tickets, and.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It worked, that's my girl? Who was it?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
The shower door man? He said his wife didn't want
to go anyway, and he'd be glad to sell me
back his tickets.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
The only thing is I took six showers for nothing.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Hello Elite Cleaners, mister Tompkins, This is missus Anderson on
Maple Street. Are you delivering mister Anderson's gray suit today?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Good?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
He needs it.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Oh and mister Tompkins, by any chance, do you know
where we might be lucky enough to find some tickets?
To the service Club minstrel show. Oh, in the pocket
of the suit when you return it? Oh nice, yes,
I know, just add it to our bill.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Goodbye and thanks.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Thanks, yes, thissus but Anderson? Oh hi a coach. Yeah,
I was the one asking the fellows about tickets. You'll
let me buy yours. The English teacher is your sister
in law, and she gave you passes. Yeah, swell swell.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Hi, Jane, say when you bind off the sleeves, how
do you?
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Would you kiddo? That'd be keen?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I'll be you did four more?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Huh sure, I'll pick up the tickets when I come over.
That's real, George, real George.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Hmmm?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Where is everyone?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Don't anyone answer? It will be bankrupt.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
I'm right here, Margaret. Hello, No, this isn't Potter's plumbing.
Say do you happen to have any extra?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh? Never mind?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Hello dear? Who was it? Hi?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Honey? Wrong number?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Thank goodness.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Oh that's Susan Wilson. Hello, daddy, what's wrong?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Kitten?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Taking me to that old minstrel show for my birthday?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Why it's going to be a wonderful show.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
No, wrapped up present?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Hi you dad?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
The clean had just brought back your suit. He said,
there's a surprise for you in the left hand pocket.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Don't touch a gym, it's a booby trap. Oh, this
thing is getting too expensive to be funny.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Won't you please call ed Davis?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Margaret.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Ed Davis will be coming to me, so we're getting
a few extra tickets.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
He'll want those two.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
I'm setting up the ticket run to and all ticket
runs well.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
The ticket seem to be running right into our living room.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I asked a dozen people today, the gas station attendant,
the waiter in the cashier where I had lunch, the
elevator boy, the druggist, why the word will get around
that there's a ticket shortage.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Something's bound to pop.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Father the druggist said, he bought these tickets for you here.
That'll be four dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Please, this is costing a fortune, Jim. I'm afraid we're
all going to have to give up the little luxuries
we've planned, and.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I'll I'll send the shower door back.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Wait a minute, Margaret, it's not that bad.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
You mean I can't have Missus World at my.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Dress, no canoe mom, no horses for my party.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Stop sounding so tragic. All of you. We're not licked yet.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Oh no, instead of horses, you want me to play
pin the tail on the donkey. I'll bet you.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's probably Joe Phillips. He said, if he could get
hold of anything, I'll get.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
It this time.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Bud, there's one person in this house who can still
say no.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
What a family? No faith in me at all?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I'm sorry that. Oh, Ed, come.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Inhi, Margaret, Dad, it's mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
What did I tell you? I didn't think of it
works so fast? But hi, Jim kids him, Miss Davis?
Why Ed? What a pleasant surprise it is.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
You, mister Davis. I never saw anyone look so good?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well do I look any different than I always?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Do you look like twenty horses?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Huh?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Happily, Jim, I came to see you about the tickets sale.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Oh how's it going?
Speaker 9 (24:10):
And real good. It's the darnest thing. All of a sudden,
everybody's looking for tickets. The committee's all.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Sold out, well sold out. Huh yeah. I was just
wondering if you had any extras you could spare?
Speaker 12 (24:23):
Have we ever, Kathleen gosh and I guess I could
let you have about forty eight fifty two fifty two say,
that's wonderful.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
We sure didn't want to disappoint anybody, of course, not.
Why Just in the last couple of hours, I've had
requests from the fello at the gas station, the waiter,
cashier in the restaurant elevator man. Well good, and you know, Jim,
I think your generosity is partly responsible. I wouldn't be
surprised the word gets around about a good show like this. Well,
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I'll be going and Jim, instead of paying you for
those tickets, I'll exchange them for you.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Exchange them. You said you were all sold out. Oh
didn't I tell you?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Well, so many people have asked for tickets. We figure
we can easily fill the house again. So we're going
to have a repeat performance on the twenty ninth. Yeah,
as soon as all those tickets are printed, I'll return yours,
all fifty two of them.
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It won't be so bad, kids, Really, you'd be surprised
how good those fellows are. With a big audience, there
will be fifty two Anderson's and friends anyway. Gosh, the
basketball team will never speak to me again if they're bored.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Well, my club won't mind if it is dull. We're
all taking our knitting.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
We'll have a great time, and all of my seats
will be occupied. Say, shouldn't your mother and Kathy and
her birthday guests be getting back?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
We ought to be leaving for the show.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Two hours of horseback riding and a Wii roast. Take
a little time, father.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, there they are.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Get your things on, kids, Daddy, we're all supposed to
meet down there at seven thirty.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I'm sorry, but you'll have to find someone else to
fill the seats.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
You say, for Kathy's party.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
What that's impossible, Margaret, Well then they'll just be vacant.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
But I thought Kathy's friends.
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We can't help with, Daddy. We it' such a long
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You remember the Tale of two Cities, don't you?
Speaker 6 (00:57):
How through it all?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Sat Madame LeFarge, her.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Knit needles fashioning endless anti macassas or something. But this
is a tale of one city called Springfield. And when
knitting needles start to clatter in a certain white frame
house on Maple Street, something is going to come down
on somebody's head like this.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Betty, are you sure you had four hundred and forty
stitches when you cast on?
Speaker 7 (01:21):
Of course, I'm sure, mother, I counted them at least
four hundred and forty times.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Margaret on home.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Let me see those instructions again.
Speaker 8 (01:31):
I count at three hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
Stay out of this, not head.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
I don't have to knit head girls warred.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
We're in the den, Jim.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Now, Betty, let's start all over. You cast on four
hundred and forty stitches.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yey, Betty, Hi focker find it? Margaret? Where do you
hear what I have planned? Hello, Jim, I'm not late
for dinner, am I?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Dinner may not be ready for some time.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
See mother, I don't get to four twenty until I
knit forty one and two together.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
No, Betty, it's when you do forty two and two together.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
I say, three eighteen?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What are your girls knitting? Of football jersey?
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Father?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Betty is making a hand knit dress, and I certainly
think they could make these instructions clearer.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
A hand knit dress.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
All the girls in my class have hand nits, all
of them.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's quite a yarn.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Well, Dann Dreiski and Janie Liggett do.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
How long does it take to knit one?
Speaker 8 (02:34):
It took Deanne Dreiski three years.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
A great.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Daddy, guess what I've decided to do for my birthday party?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Just a second kitten. I came home intending to tell
your mother something, and now.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I'll simply have to unravel to the eighteenth throw and
start over from there.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Margaret.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Oh, I just hate to knit, and this dress will
probably look horrible on me when it's done.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
Betty, can we discuss my birthday party?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Kathy?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Would we unravel to the twentieth raw girls?
Speaker 7 (03:03):
I know what I'll change to a popcorn stitch.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll be right down, d.
Speaker 9 (03:12):
B Yes, Dad, aren't you ever going to learn to
come down those stairs quietly?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Where's dinner?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What dinner?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I heard someone say popcorn and I'm hungry, Bud.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Kathy, go turn the gas on under the piece. Let's
see now twenty five, twenty four.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
That's what I wanted to tell you, Margaret, don't make
any plans for the evening of the twenty second.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
We'll still be working on this on the twenty second,
and I really ought to be doing my homework.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
Betty, you say you hate to knit, yet you're neglecting
your homework and upsetting the whole family's routine to make
a dress.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But you admit is going to look horrible on you.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Why she's explained it to you, Jim, because the other
girls in her class have hand nets.
Speaker 9 (03:55):
Well, if that isn't a prime example of keeping up
with the Joneses.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
Daddy, Now, can I tell you what we're going to
do at my birthday party.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
Yes, as long as you aren't going to dresses to
impress each other.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm so hungry I could eat a net dress practically.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
All right, Bud, I'll get dinner on.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Go ahead with the dress, now, Betty, remember start on
the twentieth row.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Thank you, mother.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You're a brick.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Even a brick might not be bad with ketch it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But your younger sister's been promised the floor. Go ahead, Kathy. Huh,
you had certain plans for your birthday party.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Oh sure, I'm inviting twenty kids, Daddy, and I'm going
to take them horseback riding.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That'll be fun. On whose horse?
Speaker 8 (04:38):
On whose horse? We need? Twenty horses. We're going to
rent them at the.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Riding Academy ran twenty horses. Well, that would cost am.
I'm sorry, Kathy, but it's out of the question.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
But Daddy, we have to. I've already invited everybody, and
I promised we'd go horseback riding.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, let them pin the tail on the dork. It's
practically the same thing, it is not.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Do you want me to be humiliated in front of
Patty Davis and Jimmy.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
Woody, of course not kidding, But what do they have
to do with us renting twenty saddle horses?
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Well, don't you think other kids have birthday parties too?
How do you suppose I'm going to feel when Jimmy
Woody's uncle takes all his guests riding in an airplane.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Airsick, I imagine?
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Huh, Never mind, when Patty Davis has her party, She's
gonna take all the kids to the townhouse for dinner.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Oh rats, I've been knitting and pearling for the last
three rows when I should have been knitting and slipping.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
Betty, for heaven's sake, why don't you give up and
let Jennie and Deanne have the laugh on me?
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Please, Daddy, we have to rent those horses.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
Kathy, Betty, I want you to calm down for a
minute and listen to me. You're both making yourself miserable
for a very foolish reason. You'll be a lot happier
when you realize that you're don't have to keep up
with the Joneses, Dad, think for yourselves, follow your own tastes.
The jones aren't such great shakes, Dad. Life's greatest rewards
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come when you paddle your own canoe?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Now?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Bud? She Dad?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
How did you guess? Guess what what I was gonna
ask you for? You must be a mind reader.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
But if I seem a little slow, it's because I'm hungry.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What do you want my own canoe?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Will you get me one?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
For heaven's sake.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Joe phillipsaks are buying him a canoe. He's gonna take
it up to their cabin on the river this summer.
Speaker 9 (06:36):
But we don't have a cabin on the river, and
you don't need a canoe.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But if Joel's gonna have one, didn't you hear what
I've been telling your sisters? Sure you said life is
swell when you have your own canoe to paddle.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
There. I hope you don't mind waiting just a few
minutes more. I pop some biscuits into the oven. Now, Jim,
what was that you were going to tell me when
you came home?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
How should I know?
Speaker 9 (07:02):
All I've heard is how we have to keep up
with Janie Leggett and Patty Davis and Joe Phillips.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
What happened to the Joltses?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Why can't we ever do the things we'd really like
to do.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
Oh, now I remember, Margaret. Don't make any plans for
the night of the twenty second.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
All right, Jim, what's happening then?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The annual Service Club minstrel show.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
That I won't be able to go. Father, I'll still
be working on this darn.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Dress, counting me out. I've seen mister Harvey's stale magic
dad for the last three years in Assembly. They make
us sit there and watch, just because he's the principal.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
I'll be glad to go. My birthday isn't until the
twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, I'm sorry, Kathy, but you kids aren't invited. This
is a special treat for your mother and me.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Oh, a'll boy, dad, Thank you, mister James Anderson.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Jim, do we have to go again this year? Those
same jokes do get a little boring.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
But it'll be fun, Margaret. I thought we'd get some
friends together and have a regular theater party.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well that might be better. Who did you have in mind?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Maybe the Smiths, the Leggots, the Lawson's and the Woodies.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
And we can think of another couple, twelve of us. Sure,
I have twelve tickets to get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
That many, But Jim, it isn't fair to ask those
people to buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, I didn't plan to sell them the tickets. I
thought it would be our treat.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
That's fine, but they won't enjoy the show, Margaret.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I thought, maybe if you sort of whipped up a
hamm or a turkey and a little salad, a couple
of casserole dishes, and baked a couple of pies, don't
go to any fuss. We could have them over here
for dinner and then sort of spring the minstrel show
on them at the last minute.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Why we probably have a very.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Pleasant evening, and I'd have a very pleasant morning and
afternoon too.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Feeding twelve people is no simple matter, Jim.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But I told you not the fuss.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Dear, why don't you just pay for the twelve tickets
and tear them up. We'll stay home and enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Margaret, We can't throw twelve dollars away like that. Besides,
some of my best friends are in the cast. What
kind of performance do you suppose they'll give if they
see a roll of twelve empty seats.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The same kind of performance they always give.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
But that'll do.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But we've got to go, Margaret, Well, all.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Right, it will be sort of fun having the crowd
for dinner.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But oh, what's the matter, honey.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Jim, I will not entertain in this house again until
we get a new shower door.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
A shower door, what's that got to do with it?
Speaker 9 (09:36):
It won't close, Margaret, None of the guests will shower here,
but Jim, if they.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
She'll ride on the invitations. Come clean.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I meant, if they should notice it. The door creaks,
and well, it's just plain old fashioned frosted glass. I'm
ashamed of it.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
You should see the lovely news shower door Elizabeth Smith has.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
My gosh, Margaret, you too, Elizabeths's three tone glass with goldfish.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
When do we eat?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Just as soon as we settle the shower door?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
All right, get a new shower door.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Oh you're sweet, Jim, Betty when you see if the
biscuits are done?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Would you please finish this row for me? Of course, dear, it's.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Knit and flat.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Doorbell butt doorbells.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'd like to get away from it all in a canoe.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Have you thought any more about the horses?
Speaker 9 (10:36):
Daddy, canoes, horses, shower doors, slip stitch dresses.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Well, at least you'll never catch me trying to keep
up with the Joneses.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Dad, it's mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh hello Ann, Hi you, Jim, Hello Margaret, Hell, hi
you kids.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Well, mister Davis, I.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Hope I'm not interrupting your dinner, not at all. Ed,
No such luck.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
I stopped by it to Printers on the way home,
picked up the tickets for the minstrel show.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I thought i'd deliver yours.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Now, fine, I'll I got it. Jim, the Service Club
ought to give you a medal. Oh it was nothing, Ed,
just give me the Margaret, your husband is a mighty
generous guy.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh how much are they?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Everybody in the club was signing up for only two tickets.
Looked like we'd get rid of only fifty the most.
And have you got change? Finally, Jim Hathaway volunteered to
match the highest number anyone bought. Maybe I've got the
right change after all it let's see, they'll be I
never knew the day when Jim Anderson had let anyone
get the jump on him.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
He offered to double the number anyone else bought.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Oh so that's how Jim happened to get twelve tickets.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And if you're just twelve, Jim haven't you heard? No,
And I don't think I want to after you.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
After you'd gone, one of the fellas bought tickets for
his whole darn office staff, twenty of them in all,
twenty Sure, so now you've got to take forty. Here
you are, Jim, that'll be forty.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Bucks forty dollars ed.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Who was the man who bought the twenty tickets?
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Well, who besides an insurance manner a banker could afford
that many?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh no, don't tell me?
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Sure Jones, HERB Jones.
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Speaker 5 (12:36):
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Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's several days later in the Anderson home. The clock
indicates more or less the same hour it did when
this minstrel show situation came up. But the Andersons are
all busy getting rid of those extra tickets.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Like this, Bud, what are.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
You doing with the phone book?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I thought i'd call mister Crawfett at the Music Star.
He might like Minster shows.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Hi, Bud, where's the fire?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Hello Dad?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Hello Kathy?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Yeah yet to show you?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Hello Mark?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Hello, Jim?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Wow? What's the news around here today, news around here.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Well, all five couples are coming to our dinner party.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Great with us.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
That makes twelve, only twenty eight tickets to go.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But the losses are the only ones who don't have
their tickets already, only thirty six tickets to see Daddy.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
I sold two tickets today.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Here's the mining wonderful kitten.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
The man who put in our new shower door bought them.
He didn't want them at first, that I convinced him,
Good girl, how did you do it? I took six showers.
He finally decided to buy the tickets so he could
finish his work.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That leaves us with only thirty four tickets.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Mister Crawfin's and then man in the show, he doesn't
need tickets.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But cast me out numbers yet? Have you sold anybody?
Speaker 8 (15:32):
He sold one?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I sold it to Joe Phillips.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You did? Joe told me yesterday didn't want to go.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
The word got around school that mister Harvey's using the
new English teacher and he saw a woman in half act. Oh,
Joe says, he wants to see how you split an infinitive.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
My family.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Father, mind, idn't club had the ticket raffle today like
you suggested.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So fine, How did it go?
Speaker 7 (15:58):
We raised five dollars are automatic yarn winder.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Fund, and we got rid of four tickets. Huh terrific, Betty.
Now our count's down only twenty nine tickets.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I won the raffle. Oh no, well we're back to
thirty three. Would anyone like to try it for thirty four?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
There must be someone in Springfield who likes minstrel shows.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Here's a man in the phone book who might be interested,
mister Samuel j Minstill, maybe I'll tie him, Jim.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Wouldn't it be easier to tell Ed Davis we can't
use forty tickets.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
He'll take them back and renig on a promise, Not
Jim Anderson. Besides, my seats are right smack in the
center of the theater. If they're not occupied, it will
be like putting up a sign. Jim Anderson is against
the menstrul show. I want those seats filled.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We could borrow some dummies from the department store window.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
But they'd laugh as hard as anybody else. Too bad,
my birthday is the twenty ninth instead of the twenty second.
That'd be twenty seats.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Filled forty with horses.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I'll tell you, Daddy, I'll come anyway no matter what
anyone says about the show.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Thanks kitting.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
You know your mother and I were very selfish not
to include you kids in our party.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Betty and Bud, we'd like you to join us too.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Don't look at me, father, I can't knit in the dark.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Will you get me a canoe?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Dad? If I go to the show, you'll get a paddle.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
If you don't go, Hey, that'd be Jim.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
I'm sorry, Bud. I realize it isn't the fault of
you kids. If I hadn't tried to keep up with
the Joneses or Jim Hathaway in this case, we wouldn't
have all these confounded tickets to get rid of.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
It's a pretty common failing, dear.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But could I keep still and let it go with
two tickets?
Speaker 9 (17:51):
No? I had to pretend I was a big shot,
and what was I just another sheep waiting.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
To be sheared bother me?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I slipped this wool over your arms.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
People are just like sheep.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Everyone has to do what they see everyone else doing it.
Wait a minute, I know how to get rid of
those tickets.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Jim, get that expensive look out of your eyes.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
We're going to make the whole town think there's a
scarcity of tickets to the minstrel.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Show for that show Father, no one that dullible.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Sure they are, and we'll prove it by the oldest
trick and show business. We'll spread the word the show's
a sellout and everyone in Springfield will want to go.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
I kind of want to go already.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Just how do we accomplish this theatrical miracle.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Jim, Well, we're not going to try to sell tickets
any longer.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Hooray, We're going to try to buy them.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Jim. Maybe you should all get away for a good
long rest.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
If we go somewhere by a lake, a canoe would
be fun.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
We just pretend we want to buy them, Margaret, Now
listen carefully, all of you. From now on, each of
us will ask every pre we talked to if they
know where we can get extra tickets for the show.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
We asked everyone we talked to everyone.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Old P. T. Barnum Anderson is about to cause a
one man run on the box office, and before it's over, Ed.
Speaker 9 (19:12):
Davis will be begging to buy my tickets back. They'll
be scalping tickets to this show before I'm.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Through answer it?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Will you?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Kathy?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I'm all tangled up.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
What makes you think it's for you anyway?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I just hope your plan works, Jim. We're spending a
lot of money lately.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Don't worry, honey.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
You know Betty, when I get off the hook for
these tickets, I just might give you the money to
have that dress knitted.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh, father, would you what would you think of just
a plain row boat?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I think you'd need water for it?
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Dad, he had worked it would did Kathy your idea?
I asked the man on the phone if he knew
where I could get some tickets, and.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It worked, that's my girl? Who was it?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
The shower door man? He said his wife didn't want
to go anyway, and he'd be glad to sell me
back his tickets.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
The only thing is I took six showers for nothing.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Hello Elite Cleaners, mister Tompkins, This is missus Anderson on
Maple Street. Are you delivering mister Anderson's gray suit today?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Good?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
He needs it.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Oh and mister Tompkins, by any chance, do you know
where we might be lucky enough to find some tickets?
To the service Club minstrel show. Oh, in the pocket
of the suit when you return it? Oh nice, yes,
I know, just add it to our bill.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Goodbye and thanks.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Thanks, yes, thissus but Anderson? Oh hi a coach. Yeah,
I was the one asking the fellows about tickets. You'll
let me buy yours. The English teacher is your sister
in law, and she gave you passes. Yeah, swell swell.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Hi, Jane, say when you bind off the sleeves, how
do you?
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Would you kiddo? That'd be keen?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I'll be you did four more?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Huh sure, I'll pick up the tickets when I come over.
That's real, George, real George.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Hmmm?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Where is everyone?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Don't anyone answer? It will be bankrupt.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
I'm right here, Margaret. Hello, No, this isn't Potter's plumbing.
Say do you happen to have any extra?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh? Never mind?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Hello dear? Who was it? Hi?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Honey? Wrong number?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Thank goodness.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Oh that's Susan Wilson. Hello, daddy, what's wrong?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Kitten?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Taking me to that old minstrel show for my birthday?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Why it's going to be a wonderful show.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
No, wrapped up present?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Hi you dad?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
The clean had just brought back your suit. He said,
there's a surprise for you in the left hand pocket.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Don't touch a gym, it's a booby trap. Oh, this
thing is getting too expensive to be funny.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Won't you please call ed Davis?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Margaret.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Ed Davis will be coming to me, so we're getting
a few extra tickets.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
He'll want those two.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
I'm setting up the ticket run to and all ticket
runs well.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
The ticket seem to be running right into our living room.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I asked a dozen people today, the gas station attendant,
the waiter in the cashier where I had lunch, the
elevator boy, the druggist, why the word will get around
that there's a ticket shortage.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Something's bound to pop.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Father the druggist said, he bought these tickets for you here.
That'll be four dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Please, this is costing a fortune, Jim. I'm afraid we're
all going to have to give up the little luxuries
we've planned, and.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I'll I'll send the shower door back.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Wait a minute, Margaret, it's not that bad.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
You mean I can't have Missus World at my.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Dress, no canoe mom, no horses for my party.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Stop sounding so tragic. All of you. We're not licked yet.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Oh no, instead of horses, you want me to play
pin the tail on the donkey. I'll bet you.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's probably Joe Phillips. He said, if he could get
hold of anything, I'll get.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
It this time.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Bud, there's one person in this house who can still
say no.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
What a family? No faith in me at all?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I'm sorry that. Oh, Ed, come.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Inhi, Margaret, Dad, it's mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
What did I tell you? I didn't think of it
works so fast? But hi, Jim kids him, Miss Davis?
Why Ed? What a pleasant surprise it is.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
You, mister Davis. I never saw anyone look so good?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well do I look any different than I always?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Do you look like twenty horses?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Huh?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Happily, Jim, I came to see you about the tickets sale.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Oh how's it going?
Speaker 9 (24:10):
And real good. It's the darnest thing. All of a sudden,
everybody's looking for tickets. The committee's all.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Sold out, well sold out. Huh yeah. I was just
wondering if you had any extras you could spare?
Speaker 12 (24:23):
Have we ever, Kathleen gosh and I guess I could
let you have about forty eight fifty two fifty two say,
that's wonderful.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
We sure didn't want to disappoint anybody, of course, not.
Why Just in the last couple of hours, I've had
requests from the fello at the gas station, the waiter,
cashier in the restaurant elevator man. Well good, and you know, Jim,
I think your generosity is partly responsible. I wouldn't be
surprised the word gets around about a good show like this. Well,
(24:58):
I'll be going and Jim, instead of paying you for
those tickets, I'll exchange them for you.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Exchange them. You said you were all sold out. Oh
didn't I tell you?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Well, so many people have asked for tickets. We figure
we can easily fill the house again. So we're going
to have a repeat performance on the twenty ninth. Yeah,
as soon as all those tickets are printed, I'll return yours,
all fifty two of them.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Thanks, well real George fun.
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or should we say spread the olio once more like this,
It won't be so bad, kids, Really, you'd be surprised
how good those fellows are. With a big audience, there
will be fifty two Anderson's and friends anyway. Gosh, the
basketball team will never speak to me again if they're bored.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Well, my club won't mind if it is dull. We're
all taking our knitting.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
We'll have a great time, and all of my seats
will be occupied. Say, shouldn't your mother and Kathy and
her birthday guests be getting back?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
We ought to be leaving for the show.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Two hours of horseback riding and a Wii roast. Take
a little time, father.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, there they are.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Get your things on, kids, Daddy, we're all supposed to
meet down there at seven thirty.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I'm sorry, but you'll have to find someone else to
fill the seats.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
You say, for Kathy's party.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
What that's impossible, Margaret, Well then they'll just be vacant.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
But I thought Kathy's friends.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
We can't help with, Daddy. We it' such a long
horseback ride. None of us can sit down.
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