August 2, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother a post forty percent brand Flake's really the best
taking cereal of the mark.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, your father says so, and father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, if father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, The Anderson brought to you
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
How's the weather out your way today?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It's beautiful in Springfield this Saturday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Just the kind of a day that makes a man
want to get outside, move around, do things. At least
that's the way it's affecting Jim Anderson.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
He's up the spirit of spring and he cries out
for action Like this, Margaret, where are.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My paint brushes? Where are those paint brushes I bought last.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Summer paint brushes? What are you planning to do?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Paint?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I thought i'd touch up the fence and maybe go
around the windows.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Oh that sounds wonderful, But how about starting on the
linen closet upstairs That needs paint much more than the fence.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It doesn't well, I'll get to that later. I think
I ought to do this outside work while the weathers
are nice. It is a beautiful day, it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's a shame to stay inside on a day like this.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's practically criminal.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I think you ought to do the linen closet first, Honey, I.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Said, i'd get that later. I want to work outside today.
Where did you say those brushes were.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Let's see, the painting things used to be out in
the garage, but then you built that shelf for them down.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
In the basement. I think the brushes are in the
broom closet.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In just a minute, I'll look.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
What did you say, Bud Good?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Could you tell that was my voice? Dead?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well? There was a slight similarity there, there was.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, could you tell where the voice was coming from?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Well, I would say in the general vicinity of you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Holy call, I got jipped again?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
What on this time?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
This little gadget here I sung thirty five cents in
it too?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
It's supposed to be a thing for a ventriloquist. Do
you put it in your mouth? And you're supposed to
be able to throw your voice into a trunk and
say let me out of here.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, no experience required.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Amaze your friends.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, I think your friends would be fairly amazed if
you walked around shouting let me out of here.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
No, you don't get the idea, Dad.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You see when I throw my Now, wait a minute,
here comes mom.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'll try it out on her. Hey, let me out
of here, Let me out here.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Let you out to wear, Bud.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
They're dead.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It doesn't work. Are you all right, Bud? Yeah, I'm
all right.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The brushes weren't there, Jim. But they might be in
with my laundry supplies.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They wouldn't buy.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Any chance be on the shelf I'd built for them,
would they?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh no, no, no, silly question.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'll keep all my preserves on that shelf.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh, Dad, I'll go check.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The service porch. Yeah, it's like I saw them out there.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Dad. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Want to buy a vent philoquis gadget?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, but I hardly think I'll.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Let you have it for twenty cents thirty five cents value.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Well, to be honest, but not too many occasions arise
in my life when I have a need for ventriloquism.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Your trouble is that you give up too easily.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The ad said, no experience required.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I know, but amaze your friend. But you've got to
work at it practice. Nothing was ever achieved without hard work.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, could you help me with it?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, I got some painting to do, and well, to
be frank, I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
But oh fine, a lot of help I get around here.
Well no, but I finally hit on my career and
I can't even get a little help.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well, I'm sorry, but I think you ought to be
outdoors on a day like this.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Anyway, do you a lot more good?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
No, I'm gonna stick to it. You told me not
to give up so easily.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I know I did.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
But if you'd get outside next to nature and help
me paint the fence.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
No, I'm gonna learn this. Maybe I can get called
Mezna to help me.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
He says.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
He used to throw his voice. He used to throw
it pretty good in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, he doesn't do a bad job of it here
in Springfield.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Mother, Rioder, Mother, do you think this is a good
shade of Hello?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Father?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Neil polish your mother's out on the Hello Princess porch?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Father, do you like the shaded fingernail poli.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well, if you have to wear it, I guess that's
as good as any. I don't like it, well, don't
wear it then.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
But it's very popular. It's called passionate tangerine.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Hmm, looks more like wilted orange.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
All the girls are wearing it to the spring palm tonight.
It's absolutely the latest thing, father, I wouldn't be seen
without it. I found the brushes gym. Oh, did you
want to see me?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Not now, mother, I'd have been doubt about this nail polish,
but father helped me make up my mind.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I did.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh, say, mother, where's that sunlamp we used to have? Oh,
let's see. It might be in the attic. I'm not
sure where I saw it last.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
What do you want a sunlamp for?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I want to have a natural, healthy look for the
dance tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Natural huh, yes, I want to.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Well, you know glow?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Did you ever think of going outdoors and getting a
nice natural glow from the sun?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh? Father, really, well, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's a beautiful sunny day.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
The air is just wreaking with health and vitamins and
everything else, and it's all free.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Father.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't want to get all red and blistered. I
want a nice, even natural can look.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I'll give you a paint brush, and you come outside
with me, and I'll guarantee that inside of an hour.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Are you father?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Don't you understand that I've got to try to look presentable.
This is what we've all been looking forward to. This
is the high point, the prom, the other zenus of
our entire education.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'll look up in the.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Attic, mother.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, if it isn't there, try the basement.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
What's the matter with these kids anyway? You think they
were afraid to go outdoors. When I was a kid,
we spend practically all of our time out there.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, generally they do too.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Nature is the greatest educator in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
All right now, Betty's all excited about the prom. Here
are your paint brushes.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh thanks, I remember when I was a kid. Oh no,
look at these brushes, hard as rocks.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yes, I noticed that.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
How many times do I have to tell people around
here to clean the brushes.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
When you get through painting? Clean the brushes? Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I remember you're saying, who.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Used these last?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know you did?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Remember it was on the kitchen walls. Bud and I
started painting the kitchen and you finished it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Mm. Well these are pretty cheap brushes.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Anyway, really not worth keeping, Yaddy? Well, these were good
enough for the job. No sense throwing money away, Yatty?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
What is it? What's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Wrong with Bud?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
He's going around saying, let me out of here. He's
not inside of anything.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh, he's just practicing.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
How would you like to ride down to the hardware
store with me while I buy some paint brushes?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Sure, such a wonderful day out. No one should waste
it to staying inside.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Want to come along to Margaret?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
No, I'm afraid I have too much to do here.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
I can't go now, Daddy. I've got to stay home
and practice practice. What How long do you think I
can stand on my head, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, guess oh, uh, fifteen seconds, guess again, twenty seconds,
guess again.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I give up. How long can you?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
I haven't tried it yet, but I was hoping you'd
say twenty three seconds.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well that's me always saying the wrong thing.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Patty Davis says, she can stand on her head for
twenty two seconds, and I want to beat her.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well, that's certainly a lofty ambition. Come on, you better
come with me, get out in the fresh air.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
I can't go now, Daddy. I've also got to practice closet.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Standing in You've got to practice what Patty says.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
She can stand in a dark closet and shut the
door for ten minutes and not get scared. I've gotta beat.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That, mother, didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I think you'd be better off if you let Patty
have her laurels and get outdoors.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Soak up a little of this wonderful sunshine.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
I gotta go practice.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Where do you think I ought to call Ralph? What's that?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Do you think I ought to call Ralph and see
if he approves of my nail polish?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I thought that was all settled.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Father. When a fellow thinks enough of a girl to
ask her to the spring prom, the least she can
do is try to make him proud of her. Well,
I didn't say, do you think, mother, shall I call him? Well, frankly,
I can't see that it makes any difference. He'd probably
never notice whether you had any polish on or not.
Oh no, you should have seen him staring at Lucille's
hands last Saturday night, kept drooling about what beautiful fingers
(09:33):
she had, what a beautiful delicate shade her nails were. Oh,
it was sick of me. I see who's Lucille. You
don't know her. She's Eddie's sister, visiting here from Kansas City.
She and Eddie went back to Kansas City last Wednesday,
and am I glad? Ralph couldn't keep his eyes off her.
(09:53):
It was disgusting. Hey, what was that?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Oh that's just throwing his voice sounds like a little girl.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Any of us be getting better at it.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's Kathy. It sounds like she's in the broom.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Clause George, that is her, And I know what she's
doing too. Just a minute, kidd and I'll get you out. O.
This door's locked.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No it isn't. It just sticks po hard?
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Oh that it's daddy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't think I can beat Patty.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, I told you not to try. We just listened
to me.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Could we have a little quieted here? I'm trying to
make the phone girl.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Who loft the door on me?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Anyway? Nobody Angel? Sometimes that door sticks?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Could I speak roughly?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, I'd better be on my way.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He's fla. Are you sure, No, nosy, Kansas City? What
is it, Betty? What's the matter? Rout's gone? He went
to Kansas City? Oh, Ralph, it's that Lucile. I should
have known. He went with Lucilla and Eddie. Mother.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Will I do well?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now, don't worry, dear. He didn't even call.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Maybe it's all a mistake. Maybe he didn't go. I'm
sure he would have called, but he didn't, and.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
The promised to night. Betty. Wait, Betty, oh dear, what
kind of a fellow is that Ralph? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, it must be a mistake of some kind.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I never did trust him any too much.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
She's been looking forward to this problem for months.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
But we have other problems to worry about. Right now.
Practice your ventriloquism someplace else. I'm not practicing.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I traded that gadget to Claude Mezze for some handcuffs,
but he didn't give me the key.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, Bud, did he do such a thing? How could he?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
What'll I do?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Father? Daddy is kitten?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
What day is it?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I don't know, but it isn't Father's day. This is
one spring day when I imagine Father wouldn't mind changing
places with the robins on the lawn outside.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
They are such happy birds.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And when problems come up, they can just spread their
wings and take off.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
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Speaker 4 (12:28):
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(12:56):
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Speaker 2 (13:26):
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Speaker 4 (13:58):
Well, as we said before the skies blew over Springfield,
it's still a lovely day. The only place where the
weather forecast looks doubtful is in the white frame house
on Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Could be a storm brewing.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Ralph has mysteriously departed or Kansas City, leaving Betty with
no date for the prom tonight, a disaster which is
rapidly taking on earth shaking proportions like this.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I'll be the only one left sitting at home.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
All the other girls are going now, Betty, you said
Jamie Lickett didn't have a day.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
She doesn't count. She thought she was gonna be out
of town, and she changed her mind at the last minute.
Ralph asked me to the prom weeks ago, utterly weeks ago.
That here I am practically dressed, practically waiting for him
to ring the door.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Peces, it's only a little after one o'clock. You haven't
even started a dress.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It isn't enough that he went to Kansas City with
Eddie and that she rolf Lucille. He didn't even have
the decency to phone me, even send me a note
or anything. I've never been so humiliated in all my life.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh wait, don't go all to pieces think about this.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Did you talk to Ralph's mother? No, somebody else answered
the phone, just said he's gone, and that was all.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Why don't you.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Forget about Ralph? There are plenty of other boys. Get
a date with you.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
What am I supposed to do? Go around asking fellows
for a day to a promise tonight, go around begging
somebody to take me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh, I've never been born, Dad, This.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is the end, the other end of everything.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Be Jesus, come back. Listen.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Ooh me, Dad?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But why do you keep saying? Dad? Dad? Dad? You
don't answer me. I have things on my mind, so
do I.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Handcuffs?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I just can't believe Ralph would leave town without at
least saying something to Betty.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
The boy is.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Completely irresponsible, Margaret, I've always said that, Dad, What, Bud?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
How am I gonna get out of these handcuffs?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I'm not an escape artist. If you got them from Joe,
go ask him, tell.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Him to give you the key.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Bad, How did you have a call up, Joe, pick
up the receiver for me.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Dad, I'll doll the number.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
You couldn't have picked a better day to get yourself handcuffed, Margaret,
Why don't you call Ralph's mother.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I don't think we should get involved in it.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
There's still plenty of time. Ralph knows the promise tonight.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Okay, I can hold the receiver.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Now, Dad.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Oh oh, Joe, Bud, you know those handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
If Ralph's in Kansas City, you know very well he
can't get back here. He can't hear what Joe's saying.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Hello, Joe.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah, I can't stand by and do nothing. Margaret, this
is a big moment in Betty's life.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
In just a minute, Joe, all right, all right, I'll
whisper No, I can hear, all right, but scratch the
end of my nose.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, Ohad's sake, hurry up, Bud, finish your phone call.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Okay, Joe, I'm back.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah. Well how do I un lock him without a key?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Okay, but make it short. I want to use the phone, okay, Joe,
song go over, Bud. Who are you calling, dear jack
MANELDI they're new in town.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I have a son about Betty's age. Nice boy, I'm
going to get Betty a date for the prom. But
stop rattling those handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Joe said.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
The way to get him open is to shake him.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Just right, We'll go shake him outside. Hello Jack?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Here, wait, how do you know this?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
This is Jim Anderson.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Fine, say, Jack, is your boy going to the prom tonight?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I assumed he wasn't too well acquainted with.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
The young people in town.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Jim, I wouldn't excuse me, Jack, Margaret, I know what
I'm doing now, please Hello Jack. As I was saying,
it occurred to me that if your boy Ted doesn't
have a date for the proms tonight, he might like
to go with Betty.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Do you think he would?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I thought it would give him a chance to meet
the kids. Betty can kind of take him around. Is
he there now? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, I imagine if he picks her up about seven
thirty or so, it'll be all right. Fine Jack, Well,
I think so too. Oh, don't mention it.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Goodbye.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
There you see, honey, the problem is solved. Just like
that young Ted MANELDI is taking Betty to the prom.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Hell, maybe it's all right, but I think you're asking
for trouble.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Trouble. Ted's a fine boy, good looking, intelligent. What more
could a girl ask for.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That's not the point, dear, when you start meddling with date.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Honey, I'm not meddling.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Somebody has to do something because Betty said she can't
go out and ask a boy to take her to
the prom. I'm only doing what any considerate father would do. Princess, Betty,
come downstairs.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I have news for you.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You're living pretty dangerously, dear, nonsense.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
What do you want? You can dry your tears, Princess,
what happened? Well?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Haven't I always told you that things are never as
bad as they seem. If you just approach a problem thoughtfully,
don't get all hysterical about it, you can always find
a way to work it out.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Excuse me, father, Hello, Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yes, you see, honey. I was pretty sure Ted would
call Betty.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So far so good? Oh that'll be dreamy.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Will you have a car, sure, I'll have a car.
Man now they let him have a family car if necessary.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's perfect. I'll see you about seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
By Well, Princess, you were right, father.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Things always work out, sure they do. That was ral.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
If you just approach a problem, raw, Ralph.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's back from Kansas City. He went there with Lucia
and Eddie to drive a car back for his father.
He hadn't forgotten the problem at all. Isn't that simply
the most amazingly wonderful, the most sim super thing that
ever happened? Now we haven't a thing to worry about,
I have we?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Well we might have just one little inky, weincy thing.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I gotta go up and start dressing. Oh I'm so happy,
so happy, so happy. Well, dear, what now.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
That Ralph completely irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
And even depend on him to stay away?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
This could be just a trifle embarrassing if both Ted
and Ralph show up here to take Betty to the prom?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Hadn't you better call Ted?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Ted wasn't home when I called, and I can't call him,
and now leap back and tell him it's all off?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
After I was the one who suggested it.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well there, you'd better call somebody.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Are you excited, Margaret?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I know you think I've got myself in hot water,
but it can all be cleared up easily.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Who are you calling now, Ralph?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I'll just explain the situation. But he has to go
with ted no way out of it. Oh is this Ralph? Ralph,
mister Anderson, I'd like you to do me a favor.
There's a young man in town, son of a friend
of mine, who would like to take Betty to the
prom tonight. And I sort of well promise, yes, you understand. No,
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you don't have to call her back. I'll tell her.
Thanks a lot, Ralph, good bye, fare That's all there
is to it.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You're treading on awfully thin eyes. You can't just make
and break dates like that.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh, Ralph understood, It's all straightened out.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Princess, downstairs a minute, I have news for you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
News is right. I need to hurry, father, What is it?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I just talked to Ralph and he won't be able
to take you to the prom tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Right, But it's all right, Princess. You have no problem, whatsoever?
No problem.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
What happened to Ralph? That's what Ralph would like to know.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Just something came up. But you still have a date
for tonight. Everything's fine. A date with whom ed MANELDI.
He's a new boy in town.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I know he's fathered. He's a fine boy, good looking.
You like him, yes, but you don't have to worry
about a think princess. He'll be here at seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yes, but so here it is, kitten father.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I don't kine understand how I Kathy's Betty here, it's
Jennie Niggett. Come on in, Jennie, we're in the dam. CALLO,
mister Anderson, missus Anderson Janney. Are y'all set to the
prom tonight? Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yes, Betty has a date, no problems at all.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Are you going, Janey? That's what I came over to
tell you, Betty, I'm going to the prom. I have
a date old smooth. Are you going well? I met
him at the mall shop this morning, the new boy
ten Maeldy.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Janey.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Are you sure? He's a very nice boy. He was
going straight home from the mall shop to ask his
father if he could use the car tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I know it's going to be all right, isn't it thrilling? Betty?
You and Ralph can go with us? Uh fother there's a.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Little confusion, but it's going to work out alright, if you're.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Just maybe I did her answer at this time. Hello, Jennie,
just a minute, it's for you Janie me, Hell, well,
I just got here. You can't. Oh oh sure, that's
all right, Sure, goodbye. What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
That was Tad?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
He can't take me to the prom tonight? When he
got home he found his father already promised he'd go
with the dumb daughter of some friend of his daughter.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Kids. Let's not get excited. I can straighten this out.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Oh no, not again, Dad, I got the handcuss off.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's a good trick now, blood. It's all on the
way you're shake him. You see, Betty, when Ralph couldn't
take you in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I couldn't Ralph take me?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Dad? Well, he was in Kansas City after he came back.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
I mean, well, it should be interested in this.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Your father should be in Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
This can all be explained and smoothed out. It's perfectly simple.
In the first place. Ralph is innocent. You can trust
him completely.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I think i'd better answer it this time. Hello, Janie, Yes,
she's right here. It's for you, Jennie. Hello, Oh no,
who is it? It's Ralph. He wants me to go
to the prom. Ralph calling you father? Where's father? He's gone?
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I don't blame him. What's selling on? Who started all this?
Never mind on, Betty, give me the phone.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I'll talk to Ralph. Then we'll call ted MANELDI. I'll
explain the whole thing. You girls will have your dates
just as you planned in the beginning. Hello, Ralph, this
is missus Anderson.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
I'm going out and find day.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Well, there's been a slight case of confusion, Ralph.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You see, mister Anderson, thought that you were planning to say.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
How women you do the nuttiest things?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You can't figure them out?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Dad? Where are you?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Dad? I wonder where he went?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
What what's the idea of sitting in the garage?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Bud? Old man? Sit down? Okay, when you grow up
and become a man and have a family.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
The time may come when you feel inclined to offer
your daughter a helping hand in a social way to
smooth out some little problem arising from the natural confusion
of the feminine mind. Yeah, when that feeling comes upon you,
may I say that there is only one thing for.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You to do, and do immediately. What's that? Dad? Go
out in the garage. I should stay there until it
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if nothing had happened. Betty and Janey and Ralph and
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and the white frame house on Maple Street has regained
its accustomed tranquility. In the den, Margaret is reading and
Jim is working on something with screwdriver and pliers Like this.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Hmmm, you wouldn't think it was that complicated.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You're right there.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Nothing but amuses me.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Never stops to think out a mechanical problem, just yells
for dad.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
That's natural for boy his age.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
M I ought to be a pin or something here
that comes loose.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
What are you working on?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Nothing? Well, I'll be darned, Margaret, Dear, what's the Phillip's number?
Why Bud's over there? Isn't he?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Why?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I think I'll call him? Well, if you must know?
And I've got his darn handcuffs on and I can't
get them all.
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
How's the weather out your way today?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It's beautiful in Springfield this Saturday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Just the kind of a day that makes a man
want to get outside, move around, do things. At least
that's the way it's affecting Jim Anderson.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
He's up the spirit of spring and he cries out
for action Like this, Margaret, where are.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My paint brushes? Where are those paint brushes I bought last.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Summer paint brushes? What are you planning to do?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Paint?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I thought i'd touch up the fence and maybe go
around the windows.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Oh that sounds wonderful, But how about starting on the
linen closet upstairs That needs paint much more than the fence.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It doesn't well, I'll get to that later. I think
I ought to do this outside work while the weathers
are nice. It is a beautiful day, it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's a shame to stay inside on a day like this.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's practically criminal.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I think you ought to do the linen closet first, Honey, I.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Said, i'd get that later. I want to work outside today.
Where did you say those brushes were.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Let's see, the painting things used to be out in
the garage, but then you built that shelf for them down.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
In the basement. I think the brushes are in the
broom closet.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In just a minute, I'll look.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
What did you say, Bud Good?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Could you tell that was my voice? Dead?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well? There was a slight similarity there, there was.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, could you tell where the voice was coming from?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Well, I would say in the general vicinity of you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Holy call, I got jipped again?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
What on this time?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
This little gadget here I sung thirty five cents in
it too?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
It's supposed to be a thing for a ventriloquist. Do
you put it in your mouth? And you're supposed to
be able to throw your voice into a trunk and
say let me out of here.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, no experience required.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Amaze your friends.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, I think your friends would be fairly amazed if
you walked around shouting let me out of here.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
No, you don't get the idea, Dad.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You see when I throw my Now, wait a minute,
here comes mom.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'll try it out on her. Hey, let me out
of here, Let me out here.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Let you out to wear, Bud.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
They're dead.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It doesn't work. Are you all right, Bud? Yeah, I'm
all right.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The brushes weren't there, Jim. But they might be in
with my laundry supplies.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They wouldn't buy.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Any chance be on the shelf I'd built for them,
would they?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh no, no, no, silly question.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'll keep all my preserves on that shelf.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh, Dad, I'll go check.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The service porch. Yeah, it's like I saw them out there.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Dad. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Want to buy a vent philoquis gadget?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, but I hardly think I'll.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Let you have it for twenty cents thirty five cents value.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Well, to be honest, but not too many occasions arise
in my life when I have a need for ventriloquism.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Your trouble is that you give up too easily.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The ad said, no experience required.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I know, but amaze your friend. But you've got to
work at it practice. Nothing was ever achieved without hard work.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, could you help me with it?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, I got some painting to do, and well, to
be frank, I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
But oh fine, a lot of help I get around here.
Well no, but I finally hit on my career and
I can't even get a little help.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well, I'm sorry, but I think you ought to be
outdoors on a day like this.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Anyway, do you a lot more good?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
No, I'm gonna stick to it. You told me not
to give up so easily.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I know I did.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
But if you'd get outside next to nature and help
me paint the fence.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
No, I'm gonna learn this. Maybe I can get called
Mezna to help me.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
He says.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
He used to throw his voice. He used to throw
it pretty good in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, he doesn't do a bad job of it here
in Springfield.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Mother, Rioder, Mother, do you think this is a good
shade of Hello?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Father?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Neil polish your mother's out on the Hello Princess porch?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Father, do you like the shaded fingernail poli.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well, if you have to wear it, I guess that's
as good as any. I don't like it, well, don't
wear it then.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
But it's very popular. It's called passionate tangerine.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Hmm, looks more like wilted orange.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
All the girls are wearing it to the spring palm tonight.
It's absolutely the latest thing, father, I wouldn't be seen
without it. I found the brushes gym. Oh, did you
want to see me?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Not now, mother, I'd have been doubt about this nail polish,
but father helped me make up my mind.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I did.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh, say, mother, where's that sunlamp we used to have? Oh,
let's see. It might be in the attic. I'm not
sure where I saw it last.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
What do you want a sunlamp for?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I want to have a natural, healthy look for the
dance tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Natural huh, yes, I want to.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Well, you know glow?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Did you ever think of going outdoors and getting a
nice natural glow from the sun?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh? Father, really, well, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's a beautiful sunny day.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
The air is just wreaking with health and vitamins and
everything else, and it's all free.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Father.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't want to get all red and blistered. I
want a nice, even natural can look.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I'll give you a paint brush, and you come outside
with me, and I'll guarantee that inside of an hour.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Are you father?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Don't you understand that I've got to try to look presentable.
This is what we've all been looking forward to. This
is the high point, the prom, the other zenus of
our entire education.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'll look up in the.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Attic, mother.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, if it isn't there, try the basement.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
What's the matter with these kids anyway? You think they
were afraid to go outdoors. When I was a kid,
we spend practically all of our time out there.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, generally they do too.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Nature is the greatest educator in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
All right now, Betty's all excited about the prom. Here
are your paint brushes.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh thanks, I remember when I was a kid. Oh no,
look at these brushes, hard as rocks.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yes, I noticed that.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
How many times do I have to tell people around
here to clean the brushes.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
When you get through painting? Clean the brushes? Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I remember you're saying, who.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Used these last?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know you did?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Remember it was on the kitchen walls. Bud and I
started painting the kitchen and you finished it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Mm. Well these are pretty cheap brushes.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Anyway, really not worth keeping, Yaddy? Well, these were good
enough for the job. No sense throwing money away, Yatty?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
What is it? What's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Wrong with Bud?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
He's going around saying, let me out of here. He's
not inside of anything.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh, he's just practicing.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
How would you like to ride down to the hardware
store with me while I buy some paint brushes?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Sure, such a wonderful day out. No one should waste
it to staying inside.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Want to come along to Margaret?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
No, I'm afraid I have too much to do here.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
I can't go now, Daddy. I've got to stay home
and practice practice. What How long do you think I
can stand on my head, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, guess oh, uh, fifteen seconds, guess again, twenty seconds,
guess again.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I give up. How long can you?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
I haven't tried it yet, but I was hoping you'd
say twenty three seconds.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well that's me always saying the wrong thing.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Patty Davis says, she can stand on her head for
twenty two seconds, and I want to beat her.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well, that's certainly a lofty ambition. Come on, you better
come with me, get out in the fresh air.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
I can't go now, Daddy. I've also got to practice closet.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Standing in You've got to practice what Patty says.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
She can stand in a dark closet and shut the
door for ten minutes and not get scared. I've gotta beat.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That, mother, didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I think you'd be better off if you let Patty
have her laurels and get outdoors.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Soak up a little of this wonderful sunshine.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
I gotta go practice.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Where do you think I ought to call Ralph? What's that?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Do you think I ought to call Ralph and see
if he approves of my nail polish?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I thought that was all settled.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Father. When a fellow thinks enough of a girl to
ask her to the spring prom, the least she can
do is try to make him proud of her. Well,
I didn't say, do you think, mother, shall I call him? Well, frankly,
I can't see that it makes any difference. He'd probably
never notice whether you had any polish on or not.
Oh no, you should have seen him staring at Lucille's
hands last Saturday night, kept drooling about what beautiful fingers
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she had, what a beautiful delicate shade her nails were. Oh,
it was sick of me. I see who's Lucille. You
don't know her. She's Eddie's sister, visiting here from Kansas City.
She and Eddie went back to Kansas City last Wednesday,
and am I glad? Ralph couldn't keep his eyes off her.
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It was disgusting. Hey, what was that?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Oh that's just throwing his voice sounds like a little girl.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Any of us be getting better at it.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's Kathy. It sounds like she's in the broom.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Clause George, that is her, And I know what she's
doing too. Just a minute, kidd and I'll get you out. O.
This door's locked.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No it isn't. It just sticks po hard?
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Oh that it's daddy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't think I can beat Patty.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, I told you not to try. We just listened
to me.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Could we have a little quieted here? I'm trying to
make the phone girl.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Who loft the door on me?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Anyway? Nobody Angel? Sometimes that door sticks?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Could I speak roughly?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, I'd better be on my way.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He's fla. Are you sure, No, nosy, Kansas City? What
is it, Betty? What's the matter? Rout's gone? He went
to Kansas City? Oh, Ralph, it's that Lucile. I should
have known. He went with Lucilla and Eddie. Mother.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Will I do well?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now, don't worry, dear. He didn't even call.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Maybe it's all a mistake. Maybe he didn't go. I'm
sure he would have called, but he didn't, and.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
The promised to night. Betty. Wait, Betty, oh dear, what
kind of a fellow is that Ralph? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, it must be a mistake of some kind.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I never did trust him any too much.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
She's been looking forward to this problem for months.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
But we have other problems to worry about. Right now.
Practice your ventriloquism someplace else. I'm not practicing.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I traded that gadget to Claude Mezze for some handcuffs,
but he didn't give me the key.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, Bud, did he do such a thing? How could he?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
What'll I do?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Father? Daddy is kitten?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
What day is it?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I don't know, but it isn't Father's day. This is
one spring day when I imagine Father wouldn't mind changing
places with the robins on the lawn outside.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
They are such happy birds.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And when problems come up, they can just spread their
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Speaker 4 (13:58):
Well, as we said before the skies blew over Springfield,
it's still a lovely day. The only place where the
weather forecast looks doubtful is in the white frame house
on Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Could be a storm brewing.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Ralph has mysteriously departed or Kansas City, leaving Betty with
no date for the prom tonight, a disaster which is
rapidly taking on earth shaking proportions like this.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I'll be the only one left sitting at home.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
All the other girls are going now, Betty, you said
Jamie Lickett didn't have a day.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
She doesn't count. She thought she was gonna be out
of town, and she changed her mind at the last minute.
Ralph asked me to the prom weeks ago, utterly weeks ago.
That here I am practically dressed, practically waiting for him
to ring the door.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Peces, it's only a little after one o'clock. You haven't
even started a dress.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It isn't enough that he went to Kansas City with
Eddie and that she rolf Lucille. He didn't even have
the decency to phone me, even send me a note
or anything. I've never been so humiliated in all my life.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh wait, don't go all to pieces think about this.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Did you talk to Ralph's mother? No, somebody else answered
the phone, just said he's gone, and that was all.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Why don't you.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Forget about Ralph? There are plenty of other boys. Get
a date with you.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
What am I supposed to do? Go around asking fellows
for a day to a promise tonight, go around begging
somebody to take me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh, I've never been born, Dad, This.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is the end, the other end of everything.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Be Jesus, come back. Listen.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Ooh me, Dad?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But why do you keep saying? Dad? Dad? Dad? You
don't answer me. I have things on my mind, so
do I.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Handcuffs?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I just can't believe Ralph would leave town without at
least saying something to Betty.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
The boy is.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Completely irresponsible, Margaret, I've always said that, Dad, What, Bud?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
How am I gonna get out of these handcuffs?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I'm not an escape artist. If you got them from Joe,
go ask him, tell.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Him to give you the key.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Bad, How did you have a call up, Joe, pick
up the receiver for me.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Dad, I'll doll the number.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
You couldn't have picked a better day to get yourself handcuffed, Margaret,
Why don't you call Ralph's mother.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I don't think we should get involved in it.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
There's still plenty of time. Ralph knows the promise tonight.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Okay, I can hold the receiver.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Now, Dad.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Oh oh, Joe, Bud, you know those handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
If Ralph's in Kansas City, you know very well he
can't get back here. He can't hear what Joe's saying.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Hello, Joe.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah, I can't stand by and do nothing. Margaret, this
is a big moment in Betty's life.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
In just a minute, Joe, all right, all right, I'll
whisper No, I can hear, all right, but scratch the
end of my nose.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, Ohad's sake, hurry up, Bud, finish your phone call.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Okay, Joe, I'm back.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah. Well how do I un lock him without a key?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Okay, but make it short. I want to use the phone, okay, Joe,
song go over, Bud. Who are you calling, dear jack
MANELDI they're new in town.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I have a son about Betty's age. Nice boy, I'm
going to get Betty a date for the prom. But
stop rattling those handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Joe said.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
The way to get him open is to shake him.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Just right, We'll go shake him outside. Hello Jack?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Here, wait, how do you know this?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
This is Jim Anderson.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Fine, say, Jack, is your boy going to the prom tonight?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I assumed he wasn't too well acquainted with.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
The young people in town.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Jim, I wouldn't excuse me, Jack, Margaret, I know what
I'm doing now, please Hello Jack. As I was saying,
it occurred to me that if your boy Ted doesn't
have a date for the proms tonight, he might like
to go with Betty.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Do you think he would?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I thought it would give him a chance to meet
the kids. Betty can kind of take him around. Is
he there now? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, I imagine if he picks her up about seven
thirty or so, it'll be all right. Fine Jack, Well,
I think so too. Oh, don't mention it.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Goodbye.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
There you see, honey, the problem is solved. Just like
that young Ted MANELDI is taking Betty to the prom.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Hell, maybe it's all right, but I think you're asking
for trouble.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Trouble. Ted's a fine boy, good looking, intelligent. What more
could a girl ask for.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That's not the point, dear, when you start meddling with date.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Honey, I'm not meddling.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Somebody has to do something because Betty said she can't
go out and ask a boy to take her to
the prom. I'm only doing what any considerate father would do. Princess, Betty,
come downstairs.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I have news for you.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You're living pretty dangerously, dear, nonsense.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
What do you want? You can dry your tears, Princess,
what happened? Well?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Haven't I always told you that things are never as
bad as they seem. If you just approach a problem thoughtfully,
don't get all hysterical about it, you can always find
a way to work it out.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Excuse me, father, Hello, Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yes, you see, honey. I was pretty sure Ted would
call Betty.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So far so good? Oh that'll be dreamy.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Will you have a car, sure, I'll have a car.
Man now they let him have a family car if necessary.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's perfect. I'll see you about seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
By Well, Princess, you were right, father.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Things always work out, sure they do. That was ral.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
If you just approach a problem, raw, Ralph.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's back from Kansas City. He went there with Lucia
and Eddie to drive a car back for his father.
He hadn't forgotten the problem at all. Isn't that simply
the most amazingly wonderful, the most sim super thing that
ever happened? Now we haven't a thing to worry about,
I have we?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Well we might have just one little inky, weincy thing.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I gotta go up and start dressing. Oh I'm so happy,
so happy, so happy. Well, dear, what now.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
That Ralph completely irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
And even depend on him to stay away?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
This could be just a trifle embarrassing if both Ted
and Ralph show up here to take Betty to the prom?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Hadn't you better call Ted?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Ted wasn't home when I called, and I can't call him,
and now leap back and tell him it's all off?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
After I was the one who suggested it.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well there, you'd better call somebody.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Are you excited, Margaret?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I know you think I've got myself in hot water,
but it can all be cleared up easily.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Who are you calling now, Ralph?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I'll just explain the situation. But he has to go
with ted no way out of it. Oh is this Ralph? Ralph,
mister Anderson, I'd like you to do me a favor.
There's a young man in town, son of a friend
of mine, who would like to take Betty to the
prom tonight. And I sort of well promise, yes, you understand. No,
(21:16):
you don't have to call her back. I'll tell her.
Thanks a lot, Ralph, good bye, fare That's all there
is to it.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You're treading on awfully thin eyes. You can't just make
and break dates like that.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh, Ralph understood, It's all straightened out.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Princess, downstairs a minute, I have news for you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
News is right. I need to hurry, father, What is it?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I just talked to Ralph and he won't be able
to take you to the prom tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Right, But it's all right, Princess. You have no problem, whatsoever?
No problem.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
What happened to Ralph? That's what Ralph would like to know.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Just something came up. But you still have a date
for tonight. Everything's fine. A date with whom ed MANELDI.
He's a new boy in town.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I know he's fathered. He's a fine boy, good looking.
You like him, yes, but you don't have to worry
about a think princess. He'll be here at seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yes, but so here it is, kitten father.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I don't kine understand how I Kathy's Betty here, it's
Jennie Niggett. Come on in, Jennie, we're in the dam. CALLO,
mister Anderson, missus Anderson Janney. Are y'all set to the
prom tonight? Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yes, Betty has a date, no problems at all.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Are you going, Janey? That's what I came over to
tell you, Betty, I'm going to the prom. I have
a date old smooth. Are you going well? I met
him at the mall shop this morning, the new boy
ten Maeldy.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Janey.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Are you sure? He's a very nice boy. He was
going straight home from the mall shop to ask his
father if he could use the car tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I know it's going to be all right, isn't it thrilling? Betty?
You and Ralph can go with us? Uh fother there's a.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Little confusion, but it's going to work out alright, if you're.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Just maybe I did her answer at this time. Hello, Jennie,
just a minute, it's for you Janie me, Hell, well,
I just got here. You can't. Oh oh sure, that's
all right, Sure, goodbye. What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
That was Tad?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
He can't take me to the prom tonight? When he
got home he found his father already promised he'd go
with the dumb daughter of some friend of his daughter.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Kids. Let's not get excited. I can straighten this out.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Oh no, not again, Dad, I got the handcuss off.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's a good trick now, blood. It's all on the
way you're shake him. You see, Betty, when Ralph couldn't
take you in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I couldn't Ralph take me?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Dad? Well, he was in Kansas City after he came back.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
I mean, well, it should be interested in this.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Your father should be in Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
This can all be explained and smoothed out. It's perfectly simple.
In the first place. Ralph is innocent. You can trust
him completely.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I think i'd better answer it this time. Hello, Janie, Yes,
she's right here. It's for you, Jennie. Hello, Oh no,
who is it? It's Ralph. He wants me to go
to the prom. Ralph calling you father? Where's father? He's gone?
(24:24):
I don't blame him. What's selling on? Who started all this?
Never mind on, Betty, give me the phone.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I'll talk to Ralph. Then we'll call ted MANELDI. I'll
explain the whole thing. You girls will have your dates
just as you planned in the beginning. Hello, Ralph, this
is missus Anderson.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
I'm going out and find day.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Well, there's been a slight case of confusion, Ralph.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You see, mister Anderson, thought that you were planning to say.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
How women you do the nuttiest things?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You can't figure them out?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Dad? Where are you?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Dad? I wonder where he went?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
What what's the idea of sitting in the garage?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Bud? Old man? Sit down? Okay, when you grow up
and become a man and have a family.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
The time may come when you feel inclined to offer
your daughter a helping hand in a social way to
smooth out some little problem arising from the natural confusion
of the feminine mind. Yeah, when that feeling comes upon you,
may I say that there is only one thing for.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You to do, and do immediately. What's that? Dad? Go
out in the garage. I should stay there until it
blows over.
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Speaker 3 (26:27):
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prom is taking place this evening, just as naturally as
if nothing had happened. Betty and Janey and Ralph and
(27:16):
Teb finally were properly sorted and pared off by Margaret,
and the white frame house on Maple Street has regained
its accustomed tranquility. In the den, Margaret is reading and
Jim is working on something with screwdriver and pliers Like this.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Hmmm, you wouldn't think it was that complicated.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You're right there.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Nothing but amuses me.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Never stops to think out a mechanical problem, just yells
for dad.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
That's natural for boy his age.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
M I ought to be a pin or something here
that comes loose.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
What are you working on?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Nothing? Well, I'll be darned, Margaret, Dear, what's the Phillip's number?
Why Bud's over there? Isn't he?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Why?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I think I'll call him? Well, if you must know?
And I've got his darn handcuffs on and I can't
get them all.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
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