July 29, 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 5 (00:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Friday afternoon is always an interesting time around the white
frame house on Maple Street. During the week, it seems
that some new facet of life is bound to appear
and develop and finally reach its zenith. The junior members
of the Anderson family begin to arrive home after the
close of school on Friday. On this particular Friday afternoon,
it's Betty who has come home on a towering wave
(01:10):
of enthusiasm. She has Jim and Margaret in the kitchen
telling them all about.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
It like this, and oh, mother, you should see how
she dresses.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, personally, I think it shows bad taste for a
girl to overdress for school.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Oh, but that's the whole point, mother. She doesn't overdress
at all, no jewelry, very little makeup, no mail, polish
and you know why.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Probably can't afford them.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Oh, father, please, Actually, your family loaded, simply and gloriously loaded.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
How do you know that?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Does she tell you these things?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Oh? Heaven no, she'd be the last person on earth
to say anything like that. You can just tell from
her conversation. She's so sophisticated, so ultra. She's real utterly ultra.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, you can't be ulterer than that.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
What's her name? You haven't told us that yet.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
It's Cynthia. Isn't that a divine sophisticated name.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
What's her last name?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Binkley?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Cynthia Binkley. Very nice.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
They've traveled all over, but all over New York, Saratoga, Paris, France,
Niagara Falls.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Just everywhere sounds very continental, especially Niagara Falls.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
What does her father do retired duke or something like that.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Oh, I don't know what he does. He's on oodles
of boards.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I think oodles of boards, Oh.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
You know what I mean, father, boards like on steel companies,
oil companies, railroad companies.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
All that.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Wonder how he spects for insurance? Probably has oodles of it.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Her younger brother goes to some very, very exclusive military
academy in the east. She showed me a picture of him,
very sophisticated, heed looking especially for a boy his age,
very saw very sounds like quite a boy. How old
is he not Bud's age a little older. All the
time she was telling me about her brother, I kept
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thinking of mine. Didn't even dare mention him. Oh now,
that's not a.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Very nice way to talk about blood.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Well, Bed's all right, But he's so We'll just look
at him in the den there, Can you see him?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, yes, but I did at.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Him, lying on the floor with a speed up in
a chair, one tennis shoe off, reading a comic book,
blue jeans. His hair looks like he slept in it, creepy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, I'll admit he does need a little lu Shall
we say polish?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Polish? What is there to polish?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Betty?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I think you're overlooking a few rather important attributes in Bud,
like honesty, integrity, generosity, ambition. Well, I guess ambition is
one of his strongest points.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
But he's a good, solid boy.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
No, i'll get it. It might be sissy, and I don't
want to take a chance on you answering it?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Ah, Hello there, listen to Lady Van Kleeve.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Oh yeah, he's here. Here, Bud, it's for you. He's
I don't know what those droop you were around with.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Must be Joe.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Oh hi Joe.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Listen to his phone conversation and you'll see what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh, not much, Joe. Well, it's hard to tell if
I'm not to be done because I'm not doing anything
in particular.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I'd say it takes a pretty sophisticated mind to figure
out a sentence like that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Night, Well, why don't you take her? Well? What time
would I have to call for?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, now that sounds encourage Nah.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I think I'll stay home tonight and put out some
frog gigs.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Does that sound encouraging?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, I don't want to be out late if I
go frog hunting in the morning.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Can you imagine Cynthia's brother going fog hunting?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Which slingshot? Do you mean the one you made or
the one you bought? No, you'll have to make a
better offer than that.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You may not be a prince charming, but he's a
good businessman.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Your dinosaur bones, No.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
No, I ask you Is that any way to get
a date your uncle's moose head?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Is that the long?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Gosh, You're you're making it awful hard to turn down?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Isn't that just too disgusting?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, okay, it's a deal. Where does she live? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
I know? Okay, Joe? Goodbye? You say, Mom? Yes, Bud,
I got a date to take a girl to the
Junior high dance tonight.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Well, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
What's that pair of blue jeans I had on yesterday?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Creepers? You're not going to wear those two a dance,
are you?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No? I left a wrench in the pocket of them,
and I gotta fix the wheel on my bike bicycle.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Are you gonna take her on that?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
No? I just want to go out and pick up
something before I go to the dance. Of course that no, on, Moosehead.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I'm sure you'll look good in it. It's just your type.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Thang. I'll be right back, Mom.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Well you'd better hurry. You haven't much time, okay, mother.
Isn't there something we can do about him?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Do about him? What you mean? Well?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
How am I ever going to explain him to Cynthia?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Why do you have to explain him?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Father? Have you no understanding of gracious living? I guess
not here Cynthia has this chair, probably refined?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Brother?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Then what can I say about mine? Can't you just
hear me saying, Oh, yes, my brother's quite social. He
has lots of days. He got his last one in
a trade for a move's head.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Well, why don't you try it to me? I would
sound like a real fascinating way to open a conversation.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Oh father, mother, do you think i'd look good with
my hair perfectly straight? Personally?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I think you look just fine the way you are
right now.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Betty, you're old enough to have learned by now that
the best thing you can be is yourself.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
That's what I'm trying to do. But I want to
be the real me, not this flouncy, decorated up thing
i've been. I think I'll go upstairs and do my
hair some other way. Well, don't ruin it if Fiddy
issued happened to call me trry at the hilariom reading crue,
it's French.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Who is this Binkley family? Anyway? When did they move
to Springfield?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And just this week apparently after the build? I'll bet
he's given them. I'm rather anxious to meet them, see
what they're like.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Mommy, is she in some of Betty's classes?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Is that where she met her?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Mommy, that's right, yes, Kathy, Mommy. What's the matter with Betty?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Is something wrong?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
She talks kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
She talks like this, Hello, darling, Why don't you run
downstairs and see Peter.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Holy well, I wouldn't worry about that angel.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
She's just suffering from acute aristocracy from what?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I answered? That will your angel?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
If it's for body, he'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Okay, I'll tell them Hello, what I can't understand you? Oh,
just a minute, I'll call her?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Is it for me?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
No? Betty? Hey, Betty? Telephone? Betty, I hear you all
be right there? Hey, mommy, you should hear who's on
a phone?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
I don't know, but she talks just like Betty does. Hello, Dear.
I guess she didn't learn how to talk right when
she was little.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I can tell who it is without even hearing her.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Tramped Sythia? I don't know, Ask him and find out. Hello,
Hello this If you're darling, No, I.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Just be loud.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You can dipping into a bit of poof.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Isn't that awful?
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Poo a wad? He's dead now.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think culture is rampant tonight.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Oh didn't I tell you? Yes, I have a brother, Hey, Dad, Well,
it's hard to describe him. He's very handsome.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
He looked at just take a look at my moo's head.
It's a little moth eaten. But I can get some glue.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Bet he's on the phone. Oh yes, very handsome and
very sophisticated. He's remarssibly bobbed for his age.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Or a swabby.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
He's a beautiful dancer, paint quite well, reads all the time,
travels a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Who's she talking about?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
You'll never guess.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
And he's quite a sportsman too, had some fine trophies
and underly's fascinating moosehead.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'll bet it's not as good as mine.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Where did you hear that I had a brother? He's what?
Oh no, no, Cynthia, nothing wrong. I just Cynthia. Let
me call you back later. I hear Major calling me.
I will dollie goodbye.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
What's the matter to lua?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
She's got aristocracy, daddy, says Bud Anderson.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Tell you father that you're.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Day for tonight with the Cynthia's sister.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh, oh, well, here we go. I don't know any
of Cynthia's sisters. I don't even know Cynthia.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
The girl you're taking to the junior high dances David Roberta.
Isn't she Roberta Bigley?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah? What about it?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
What about it? She's Cynthia's little sister. Here. I gave
you that beautiful, beautiful build up. Now she'll get to
see you and find out it's all untrue. Bud, You've
got to cancel your date with Roberta. No, Betty, way,
You've got to. You simply got to.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I can. I'll lose the moose head.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
O father telling me you've got to make him.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Father leave me out of this. This is between you
and Bud in the Moosehead.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Oh? Why was I born? Why?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Why?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I don't know? What are you talking about? Father?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
He can't go over there to Scythias. He just can't.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Why can't I?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, Benny, stop wailing and tearing your hair.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I'll never be able to pay Cynthia. I'll have to
quit school. I'll leave the country.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Leave the country.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
What's she going to leave the country for.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Bud.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Did she pop a gasket? Well, Bob, I'm just standing
here with my move's head and she pops a gasket.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
How can you do this to me?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
How? Hello? Dad? What's everybody talking about?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Bud?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, you've heard the expression into every life, a little
rain must fall. Yeah, put up your umbrella. Well, if
Betty has her way, the Andersons will be having crumpets
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Speaker 5 (13:25):
Listen.
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Speaker 4 (15:03):
Poor Betty, she was getting along so nicely, apparently making
quite an impression on her new school chum, Cynthia Binkley
by telling about her smooth and oh so sophisticated brother Bud.
Wouldn't you know that tonight, of all times, Bud would
have a date with Cynthia's younger sister Roberta. Well, it's
evening now, and I'm sorry to report that things don't look.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Much brighter for daughter Betty.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
She's in the Dan with Jim right now, and he's
trying to explain.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
The situation like this.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Well, I'd talked to him, Betty, but he can't see
your point.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Oh, creeper.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
If he cancels the date with ROBERTI you'll have to
give the moose head back to Joe. And this he
doesn't want to do.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Oh, it's just too painful to think about that being
hos going over to the Binkleys after all things. I
told Cynthia, it just can't happen, that's all. Well, have
you solved your weighty problem? I wish you wouldn't make
light of it. Mother, put yourself in my place? How
would you feel? Well, Benny, I know, I know, I
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ask for it once we practice to deceive. Oh what
a tangle's web? We weave cheaters never prosper, I know,
but I didn't now? And how am I going to
get out?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Where is Bud Well?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I think he's upstairs combing the hair on his moose.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Had he don't give up the idea of going father
tried that?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Had you thought of possibly well, coaching him a little?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Coaching him?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
As far as I can see, it's your only chance, Princess,
I doubt if you could make a continent a lout
of him, but you might smooth off some of the
rough edges.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Well, he has to leave in half an hour, but
it has to be done. You're right, father, it simply
has to be done. Bud. Yeah, come down to the jam,
will you, dear?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I think I'll go finish up in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
It's no matter, Howney know what you want to see this?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I don't think i'm up to.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You can tell me what happened now, don't expect too much, Princess.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What you want, Bud?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Would you do me a favor?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
If it's about canceling the date with Roberta, The answer
is no.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
I can't say anything about canceling the day. All I
ask is that you do just a couple of little
things for me.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
What kind of thing I'm going in a living room
and read the paper?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, look, father probably told you. I told Cynthia you
were all kind of different than you really are.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, I had.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
To you see, because well they're very sophisticated people. They've
been everywhere. Well, I want you to be like them.
I'll tell you just what to say.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Do you want me to put on an act? Well,
it's no, won't do it.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
It's not like putting on an act. It's just being
smooth and genteel.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
That's fraud. Won't do it.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
All you have to do is look and act and
talk like you know a little something.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
That's fraud. Won't do it.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Look, I'll wash your share of the dishes every night
for a week.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'll do it. You will remember starting tomorrow, dishes every
night for a week.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
All right, All right, now come out in the living room.
Oh jeebers, we've got a hurry. You only have a
couple of minutes. Come on, Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Don't pull my sleeve. I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Well, how did it come out? Did you reach an agreement?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
He's gonna do it, Kathy?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
What do you call on the shrimp for?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
She's gonna be Roberta.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
What you want?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
You're going to be roberta big pleas I am. Now
you stand over there by the couch that'll be the
big Smie's front door, and you're greeting budd if he
comes to take you to the dam. Okay, all right,
the door of this gorgeous mansion has opened, and you,
the sophisticated continental young man, greet the young lady. What
do you say, Hi? You do not, and father, if
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you can't be serious.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But how do you know.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
About this gorgeous mansion of the Bankleys. Have you ever
been there?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
No, but from what Cynthia's told me, it must be fabulous.
All right now, listen, Bud. You don't say hi. You
bow from the waist, make a sweeping gesture with your
right hand, and say, with a smile, good evening, madame. Yeah,
go ahead, go ahead, Well, go on, say something.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Don't just stand there, Good evening, madame.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Hi, Kathy, you don't have to talk. If I got
him the and then I got a right to talk.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Look, I gotta get going, not yet.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
You still have a couple of minutes. Now, when you're
in the house, a butler will probably take your coat.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What do I say to him?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Nothing, just a polite thank you. Should I be the butler? No?
Now you'll be introduced to the rest of the family.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Do I make the sweeping gesture?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
You shake mister Binkley's hand and say, how do you do, sir?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
What do I do with missus Binkley?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
You bow from the waist and kiss her hand. I'll
be missus Binkley. You make you smile.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's all. Won't do it all right?
Speaker 6 (20:50):
So you don't kiss her hand, You lift it lightly
and bow and say so nice to meet you, Missus Binkley.
And then you say something like dreadfully so sorry I'm late,
but I was detained at the club.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What club?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I don't think it's gonna work.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
It is too now pretend mother's Missus Binkley. Go ahead, Bud.
Good evening, Bud.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Good, evening, Missus Binkley.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Uh, you're a little late. Where have you been?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I don't know how the instruction is coming along, but
it's about time.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
For you to leave.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Bud.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I'll get the car out of the garage.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
What are you gonna do with the car?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Take Bud over to pick up Roberta and drive them
to the dance. Any other suggestions.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Bud can't be driven over there in the family car.
He has to pick up Roberta in a taxi. Taxi, taxi.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I've never been in a taxi.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
If he's going in a taxi, can I go with you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I'm not going in a taxi, Betty.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I think you're carrying this a little far.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It's bad enough.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Try to impress the Binkleys by coaching bod.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
But the taxi lease, father, I'll pay for it out
of my own money. It's so smart, so sophisticated to
arrive in a taxi. Here, here's the money. Have the
cab driver stop at a flower shop and buy a corsage.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
What's that.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Flowers for Roberta.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Is she sick?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
No, no, she's not sick. Flowers for her to wear
the dance. And don't forget to tip the cab driver.
What for give him a quarter?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Where are you going, Princess, I'm gonna call a cab,
get your co scarsot and try to find some gloves.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I haven't got any gloves. I got a pair of mittens.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh I'd love to be a mouse in the corner
at the Binkleys.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Oh this should make history.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Talk about keeping up with the Joneses.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Hello, well you said, cab out please right away? Just
six those haven Nable Street. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Maybe I ought to call John.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well, there's the world's fastest service. What's that, father, Your
cab just arrived. It's out there in front.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It can't be I just called it's there, all right,
But how could it? I mean, it's impossible. Someone's coming
to the.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Front door, probably the driver.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well I shouldn't one of us go to the door.
We can't leave the man standing out there.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I'm not sure I want to meet a man who
can get a cab out here from downtown too, se.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
He might have pointed, ears.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Oh, father, we'll go to the door. Bud. Oh me,
go on, go on, right, you.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Don't have to push me. You better come with me.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Dad, I'm right behind you.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Hello, Bud, what are you doing over here? Well?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
I came over in the taxi.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Is this young lady friend of yours? Bud?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Oh, this is Roberta Roberta. This is my dad.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Oh uh, how do you do?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
This is indeed a most delightful pleasure.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Indeed, Well, it's indeed for me too.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Won't you come in?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Thank you? Father? Where's the Oh? Who's there?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
This is Roberta Roberta, ROBERTA Bikley.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
How do you do, madam? This is indeed a most
delightful pleasure. I'm sure, yes, But.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
What don't look at me? I don't know anything, Jim,
did you say?
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Hello there, Roberta. This is missus Anderson.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Madam?
Speaker 8 (24:51):
This is indeed a most delightful pleasure. Delightful, Eh, how
do you do with Roberta?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
She came over the cab.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
But why you shouldn't have gone to all that trouble, dear,
I know Budda's a little late.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Oh it wasn't my idea, Missus Anderson. Oh it was
my sister's. She said. Fashionable people always riding taxi cabs.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
How do you like that? That's what my sister said, Bud.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I had a hard time finding your house.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
I was looking for a mansion. Ah.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
My sister sure gets some crazy ideas. Geez, your house
is just.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Like ours it is.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Where do you keep the butler?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
What butler?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think there's been a little misunderstanding, but we won't
go into it now. Jim, if you want to get
the car out and drive, button reberted to the dam.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Good. Now we're making sense.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
By the way, where did Betty go?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I think our wealthy and sophisticated young debutante has retired
to her solarium well before the final curtain. Let's drop
into the Anderson's kitchen for a minute seeings Kathy's snuck
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off there all by herself.
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Speaker 5 (27:05):
How about getting a jar of instant post Him tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
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Maple Street, that's Betty Anderson, and she's just a trifle weary.
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She's been hurrying this evening, trying to keep up with
the Joneses or in this case.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
The Binklets downstairs.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Jim has just returned from his trip to the Junior
High Dance.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Oh, after all.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The excitement, it seems we ought to do something, go somewhere.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yes, you've been cooped up here in the mansion all week.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You've had a hard day at the club.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Oh yes, dreadful Margaret, tell the upstairs maid to tell
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Speaker 5 (00:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Friday afternoon is always an interesting time around the white
frame house on Maple Street. During the week, it seems
that some new facet of life is bound to appear
and develop and finally reach its zenith. The junior members
of the Anderson family begin to arrive home after the
close of school on Friday. On this particular Friday afternoon,
it's Betty who has come home on a towering wave
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of enthusiasm. She has Jim and Margaret in the kitchen
telling them all about.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
It like this, and oh, mother, you should see how
she dresses.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, personally, I think it shows bad taste for a
girl to overdress for school.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Oh, but that's the whole point, mother. She doesn't overdress
at all, no jewelry, very little makeup, no mail, polish
and you know why.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Probably can't afford them.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Oh, father, please, Actually, your family loaded, simply and gloriously loaded.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
How do you know that?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Does she tell you these things?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Oh? Heaven no, she'd be the last person on earth
to say anything like that. You can just tell from
her conversation. She's so sophisticated, so ultra. She's real utterly ultra.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, you can't be ulterer than that.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
What's her name? You haven't told us that yet.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
It's Cynthia. Isn't that a divine sophisticated name.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
What's her last name?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Binkley?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Cynthia Binkley. Very nice.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
They've traveled all over, but all over New York, Saratoga, Paris, France,
Niagara Falls.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Just everywhere sounds very continental, especially Niagara Falls.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
What does her father do retired duke or something like that.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Oh, I don't know what he does. He's on oodles
of boards.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I think oodles of boards, Oh.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
You know what I mean, father, boards like on steel companies,
oil companies, railroad companies.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
All that.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Wonder how he spects for insurance? Probably has oodles of it.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Her younger brother goes to some very, very exclusive military
academy in the east. She showed me a picture of him,
very sophisticated, heed looking especially for a boy his age,
very saw very sounds like quite a boy. How old
is he not Bud's age a little older. All the
time she was telling me about her brother, I kept
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thinking of mine. Didn't even dare mention him. Oh now,
that's not a.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Very nice way to talk about blood.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Well, Bed's all right, But he's so We'll just look
at him in the den there, Can you see him?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, yes, but I did at.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Him, lying on the floor with a speed up in
a chair, one tennis shoe off, reading a comic book,
blue jeans. His hair looks like he slept in it, creepy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, I'll admit he does need a little lu Shall
we say polish?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Polish? What is there to polish?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Betty?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I think you're overlooking a few rather important attributes in Bud,
like honesty, integrity, generosity, ambition. Well, I guess ambition is
one of his strongest points.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
But he's a good, solid boy.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
No, i'll get it. It might be sissy, and I don't
want to take a chance on you answering it?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Ah, Hello there, listen to Lady Van Kleeve.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Oh yeah, he's here. Here, Bud, it's for you. He's
I don't know what those droop you were around with.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Must be Joe.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Oh hi Joe.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Listen to his phone conversation and you'll see what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh, not much, Joe. Well, it's hard to tell if
I'm not to be done because I'm not doing anything
in particular.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I'd say it takes a pretty sophisticated mind to figure
out a sentence like that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Night, Well, why don't you take her? Well? What time
would I have to call for?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, now that sounds encourage Nah.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I think I'll stay home tonight and put out some
frog gigs.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Does that sound encouraging?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, I don't want to be out late if I
go frog hunting in the morning.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Can you imagine Cynthia's brother going fog hunting?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Which slingshot? Do you mean the one you made or
the one you bought? No, you'll have to make a
better offer than that.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You may not be a prince charming, but he's a
good businessman.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Your dinosaur bones, No.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
No, I ask you Is that any way to get
a date your uncle's moose head?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Is that the long?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Gosh, You're you're making it awful hard to turn down?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Isn't that just too disgusting?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, okay, it's a deal. Where does she live? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
I know? Okay, Joe? Goodbye? You say, Mom? Yes, Bud,
I got a date to take a girl to the
Junior high dance tonight.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Well, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
What's that pair of blue jeans I had on yesterday?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Creepers? You're not going to wear those two a dance,
are you?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No? I left a wrench in the pocket of them,
and I gotta fix the wheel on my bike bicycle.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Are you gonna take her on that?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
No? I just want to go out and pick up
something before I go to the dance. Of course that no, on, Moosehead.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I'm sure you'll look good in it. It's just your type.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Thang. I'll be right back, Mom.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Well you'd better hurry. You haven't much time, okay, mother.
Isn't there something we can do about him?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Do about him? What you mean? Well?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
How am I ever going to explain him to Cynthia?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Why do you have to explain him?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Father? Have you no understanding of gracious living? I guess
not here Cynthia has this chair, probably refined?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Brother?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Then what can I say about mine? Can't you just
hear me saying, Oh, yes, my brother's quite social. He
has lots of days. He got his last one in
a trade for a move's head.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Well, why don't you try it to me? I would
sound like a real fascinating way to open a conversation.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Oh father, mother, do you think i'd look good with
my hair perfectly straight? Personally?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I think you look just fine the way you are
right now.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Betty, you're old enough to have learned by now that
the best thing you can be is yourself.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
That's what I'm trying to do. But I want to
be the real me, not this flouncy, decorated up thing
i've been. I think I'll go upstairs and do my
hair some other way. Well, don't ruin it if Fiddy
issued happened to call me trry at the hilariom reading crue,
it's French.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Who is this Binkley family? Anyway? When did they move
to Springfield?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And just this week apparently after the build? I'll bet
he's given them. I'm rather anxious to meet them, see
what they're like.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Mommy, is she in some of Betty's classes?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Is that where she met her?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Mommy, that's right, yes, Kathy, Mommy. What's the matter with Betty?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Is something wrong?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
She talks kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
She talks like this, Hello, darling, Why don't you run
downstairs and see Peter.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Holy well, I wouldn't worry about that angel.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
She's just suffering from acute aristocracy from what?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I answered? That will your angel?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
If it's for body, he'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Okay, I'll tell them Hello, what I can't understand you? Oh,
just a minute, I'll call her?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Is it for me?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
No? Betty? Hey, Betty? Telephone? Betty, I hear you all
be right there? Hey, mommy, you should hear who's on
a phone?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
I don't know, but she talks just like Betty does. Hello, Dear.
I guess she didn't learn how to talk right when
she was little.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I can tell who it is without even hearing her.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Tramped Sythia? I don't know, Ask him and find out. Hello,
Hello this If you're darling, No, I.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Just be loud.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You can dipping into a bit of poof.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Isn't that awful?
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Poo a wad? He's dead now.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think culture is rampant tonight.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Oh didn't I tell you? Yes, I have a brother, Hey, Dad, Well,
it's hard to describe him. He's very handsome.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
He looked at just take a look at my moo's head.
It's a little moth eaten. But I can get some glue.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Bet he's on the phone. Oh yes, very handsome and
very sophisticated. He's remarssibly bobbed for his age.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Or a swabby.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
He's a beautiful dancer, paint quite well, reads all the time,
travels a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Who's she talking about?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
You'll never guess.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
And he's quite a sportsman too, had some fine trophies
and underly's fascinating moosehead.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'll bet it's not as good as mine.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Where did you hear that I had a brother? He's what?
Oh no, no, Cynthia, nothing wrong. I just Cynthia. Let
me call you back later. I hear Major calling me.
I will dollie goodbye.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
What's the matter to lua?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
She's got aristocracy, daddy, says Bud Anderson.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Tell you father that you're.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Day for tonight with the Cynthia's sister.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh, oh, well, here we go. I don't know any
of Cynthia's sisters. I don't even know Cynthia.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
The girl you're taking to the junior high dances David Roberta.
Isn't she Roberta Bigley?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah? What about it?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
What about it? She's Cynthia's little sister. Here. I gave
you that beautiful, beautiful build up. Now she'll get to
see you and find out it's all untrue. Bud, You've
got to cancel your date with Roberta. No, Betty, way,
You've got to. You simply got to.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I can. I'll lose the moose head.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
O father telling me you've got to make him.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Father leave me out of this. This is between you
and Bud in the Moosehead.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Oh? Why was I born? Why?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Why?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I don't know? What are you talking about? Father?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
He can't go over there to Scythias. He just can't.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Why can't I?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, Benny, stop wailing and tearing your hair.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I'll never be able to pay Cynthia. I'll have to
quit school. I'll leave the country.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Leave the country.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
What's she going to leave the country for.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Bud.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Did she pop a gasket? Well, Bob, I'm just standing
here with my move's head and she pops a gasket.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
How can you do this to me?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
How? Hello? Dad? What's everybody talking about?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Bud?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, you've heard the expression into every life, a little
rain must fall. Yeah, put up your umbrella. Well, if
Betty has her way, the Andersons will be having crumpets
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and tea every afternoon and serving petiitue continental breakfasts in
the morning. But mother, if you want to give your
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Speaker 4 (15:03):
Poor Betty, she was getting along so nicely, apparently making
quite an impression on her new school chum, Cynthia Binkley
by telling about her smooth and oh so sophisticated brother Bud.
Wouldn't you know that tonight, of all times, Bud would
have a date with Cynthia's younger sister Roberta. Well, it's
evening now, and I'm sorry to report that things don't look.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Much brighter for daughter Betty.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
She's in the Dan with Jim right now, and he's
trying to explain.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
The situation like this.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Well, I'd talked to him, Betty, but he can't see
your point.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Oh, creeper.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
If he cancels the date with ROBERTI you'll have to
give the moose head back to Joe. And this he
doesn't want to do.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Oh, it's just too painful to think about that being
hos going over to the Binkleys after all things. I
told Cynthia, it just can't happen, that's all. Well, have
you solved your weighty problem? I wish you wouldn't make
light of it. Mother, put yourself in my place? How
would you feel? Well, Benny, I know, I know, I
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ask for it once we practice to deceive. Oh what
a tangle's web? We weave cheaters never prosper, I know,
but I didn't now? And how am I going to
get out?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Where is Bud Well?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I think he's upstairs combing the hair on his moose.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Had he don't give up the idea of going father
tried that?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Had you thought of possibly well, coaching him a little?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Coaching him?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
As far as I can see, it's your only chance, Princess,
I doubt if you could make a continent a lout
of him, but you might smooth off some of the
rough edges.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Well, he has to leave in half an hour, but
it has to be done. You're right, father, it simply
has to be done. Bud. Yeah, come down to the jam,
will you, dear?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I think I'll go finish up in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
It's no matter, Howney know what you want to see this?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I don't think i'm up to.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You can tell me what happened now, don't expect too much, Princess.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What you want, Bud?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Would you do me a favor?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
If it's about canceling the date with Roberta, The answer
is no.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
I can't say anything about canceling the day. All I
ask is that you do just a couple of little
things for me.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
What kind of thing I'm going in a living room
and read the paper?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, look, father probably told you. I told Cynthia you
were all kind of different than you really are.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, I had.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
To you see, because well they're very sophisticated people. They've
been everywhere. Well, I want you to be like them.
I'll tell you just what to say.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Do you want me to put on an act? Well,
it's no, won't do it.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
It's not like putting on an act. It's just being
smooth and genteel.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
That's fraud. Won't do it.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
All you have to do is look and act and
talk like you know a little something.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
That's fraud. Won't do it.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Look, I'll wash your share of the dishes every night
for a week.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'll do it. You will remember starting tomorrow, dishes every
night for a week.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
All right, All right, now come out in the living room.
Oh jeebers, we've got a hurry. You only have a
couple of minutes. Come on, Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Don't pull my sleeve. I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Well, how did it come out? Did you reach an agreement?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
He's gonna do it, Kathy?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
What do you call on the shrimp for?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
She's gonna be Roberta.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
What you want?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
You're going to be roberta big pleas I am. Now
you stand over there by the couch that'll be the
big Smie's front door, and you're greeting budd if he
comes to take you to the dam. Okay, all right,
the door of this gorgeous mansion has opened, and you,
the sophisticated continental young man, greet the young lady. What
do you say, Hi? You do not, and father, if
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you can't be serious.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But how do you know.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
About this gorgeous mansion of the Bankleys. Have you ever
been there?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
No, but from what Cynthia's told me, it must be fabulous.
All right now, listen, Bud. You don't say hi. You
bow from the waist, make a sweeping gesture with your
right hand, and say, with a smile, good evening, madame. Yeah,
go ahead, go ahead, Well, go on, say something.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Don't just stand there, Good evening, madame.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Hi, Kathy, you don't have to talk. If I got
him the and then I got a right to talk.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Look, I gotta get going, not yet.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
You still have a couple of minutes. Now, when you're
in the house, a butler will probably take your coat.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What do I say to him?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Nothing, just a polite thank you. Should I be the butler? No?
Now you'll be introduced to the rest of the family.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Do I make the sweeping gesture?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
You shake mister Binkley's hand and say, how do you do, sir?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
What do I do with missus Binkley?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
You bow from the waist and kiss her hand. I'll
be missus Binkley. You make you smile.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's all. Won't do it all right?
Speaker 6 (20:50):
So you don't kiss her hand, You lift it lightly
and bow and say so nice to meet you, Missus Binkley.
And then you say something like dreadfully so sorry I'm late,
but I was detained at the club.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What club?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I don't think it's gonna work.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
It is too now pretend mother's Missus Binkley. Go ahead, Bud.
Good evening, Bud.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Good, evening, Missus Binkley.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Uh, you're a little late. Where have you been?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I don't know how the instruction is coming along, but
it's about time.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
For you to leave.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Bud.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I'll get the car out of the garage.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
What are you gonna do with the car?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Take Bud over to pick up Roberta and drive them
to the dance. Any other suggestions.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Bud can't be driven over there in the family car.
He has to pick up Roberta in a taxi. Taxi, taxi.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I've never been in a taxi.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
If he's going in a taxi, can I go with you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I'm not going in a taxi, Betty.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I think you're carrying this a little far.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It's bad enough.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Try to impress the Binkleys by coaching bod.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
But the taxi lease, father, I'll pay for it out
of my own money. It's so smart, so sophisticated to
arrive in a taxi. Here, here's the money. Have the
cab driver stop at a flower shop and buy a corsage.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
What's that.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Flowers for Roberta.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Is she sick?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
No, no, she's not sick. Flowers for her to wear
the dance. And don't forget to tip the cab driver.
What for give him a quarter?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Where are you going, Princess, I'm gonna call a cab,
get your co scarsot and try to find some gloves.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I haven't got any gloves. I got a pair of mittens.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh I'd love to be a mouse in the corner
at the Binkleys.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Oh this should make history.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Talk about keeping up with the Joneses.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Hello, well you said, cab out please right away? Just
six those haven Nable Street. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Maybe I ought to call John.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well, there's the world's fastest service. What's that, father, Your
cab just arrived. It's out there in front.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It can't be I just called it's there, all right,
But how could it? I mean, it's impossible. Someone's coming
to the.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Front door, probably the driver.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well I shouldn't one of us go to the door.
We can't leave the man standing out there.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I'm not sure I want to meet a man who
can get a cab out here from downtown too, se.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
He might have pointed, ears.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Oh, father, we'll go to the door. Bud. Oh me,
go on, go on, right, you.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Don't have to push me. You better come with me.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Dad, I'm right behind you.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Hello, Bud, what are you doing over here? Well?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
I came over in the taxi.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Is this young lady friend of yours? Bud?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Oh, this is Roberta Roberta. This is my dad.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Oh uh, how do you do?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
This is indeed a most delightful pleasure.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Indeed, Well, it's indeed for me too.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Won't you come in?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Thank you? Father? Where's the Oh? Who's there?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
This is Roberta Roberta, ROBERTA Bikley.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
How do you do, madam? This is indeed a most
delightful pleasure. I'm sure, yes, But.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
What don't look at me? I don't know anything, Jim,
did you say?
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Hello there, Roberta. This is missus Anderson.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Madam?
Speaker 8 (24:51):
This is indeed a most delightful pleasure. Delightful, Eh, how
do you do with Roberta?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
She came over the cab.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
But why you shouldn't have gone to all that trouble, dear,
I know Budda's a little late.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Oh it wasn't my idea, Missus Anderson. Oh it was
my sister's. She said. Fashionable people always riding taxi cabs.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
How do you like that? That's what my sister said, Bud.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I had a hard time finding your house.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
I was looking for a mansion. Ah.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
My sister sure gets some crazy ideas. Geez, your house
is just.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Like ours it is.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Where do you keep the butler?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
What butler?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think there's been a little misunderstanding, but we won't
go into it now. Jim, if you want to get
the car out and drive, button reberted to the dam.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Good. Now we're making sense.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
By the way, where did Betty go?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I think our wealthy and sophisticated young debutante has retired
to her solarium well before the final curtain. Let's drop
into the Anderson's kitchen for a minute seeings Kathy's snuck
(26:23):
off there all by herself.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Honestly, this family, Thank goodness, a girl can get away
from it all once in a while. Now, let's see
one spoonful and the water's hot, sugar m there's nothing
like good old post Them.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
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have and enjoy whenever you want, as often as you want.
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Speaker 5 (27:05):
How about getting a jar of instant post Him tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Let the whole family enjoy post him cup for cup,
it's less than one third coffee's cost. See that young
girl sitting up in a room at six oh seven
Maple Street, that's Betty Anderson, and she's just a trifle weary.
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She's been hurrying this evening, trying to keep up with
the Joneses or in this case.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
The Binklets downstairs.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Jim has just returned from his trip to the Junior
High Dance.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Oh, after all.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The excitement, it seems we ought to do something, go somewhere.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yes, you've been cooped up here in the mansion all week.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You've had a hard day at the club.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Oh yes, dreadful Margaret, tell the upstairs maid to tell
the downstairs maid to tell the butler that we're dining
out where we go down to the corner to get
a Hamburger. Join us again next week, when we'll be
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back where Father knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
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Speaker 3 (28:31):
Nilson.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Mom, I think you're beautiful. Well, thank you, Johnny. You're
the most beautiful woman in the whole world. Thank you, Johnny. Mom, Yes, Johnny,
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Speaker 3 (28:45):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
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