July 24, 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, Why does daddy insist on instant Sanka coffee?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Your father says, instant Sanka is one hundred percent pure
coffee and the only instant coffee that lets him sleep,
and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father, A half hour
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(00:48):
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They're good and so good for you. Remember the play, Harvey,
(01:12):
one of the principal characters was an imaginary six foot rabbit. Well,
Harvey has nothing on the Andersons. This afternoon, they have
a rabbit four feet tall, and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's not imaginery.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Anyway, it's real on the outside, white fur and big
floppy ears.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Inside, well, it's Kathy.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
She's standing in the middle of the den in the rabbit.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Suit while Margaret and Betty and Bud stand off to
study the effect like this.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I think it looks fine, don't you. Betty?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Sure the costume's all right? But holds your paws up?
Which one my front paws or my back paws? Your
front wind's dopey. A rabbit holds his paws up in
front of him when he sits down. They don't hang
down like he was saying, boom, it's a pretty dumb
looking rabbit if you ask me.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Nobody, all right, take it off, Angel, We want to
keep it clean for tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Mother, can't you do something about that zipper in the front.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Don't worry, no one will notice it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well I'll notice it. I have to be on the
stage where her practically all the time. How can I
convince myself that I'm Alice in Wonderman and she's a
white rabbit with that zipper staring at me?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Well, don't look at it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What help you pull a costume off?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Pull it off? Okay, I'm by the tail. Let go stupid,
you're pulling the tail off.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
There's nothing else to get hold of.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Getn't way, bud here, Let me do it? What a bean?
Brain whole steal?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Kathy there? Now take the costume upstairs.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Okay, Gee, looks like it came off a real rabbit.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Pick the costume up. Don't drag it not, Gee, I wonder.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
If it is.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I wonder if it is what or for a real rabbit?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It could be?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It could not. He'd have to be as big as
a saint.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Bernard Well, miss Ellis down the street raises rabbits. He
said he had one as big as a dog. He
didn't say what kind of a dog, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm home.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
We're in the den, deer.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
What shall I do with my hair?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
For the play?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I mean, well, I.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Suppose we have here a meeting. Hello honey, Hello dear.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
They didn't tell me how I should fix it. I
certainly can't put it up in Hello father braids.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh certainly not.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
That would look Hello, princess, ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Why would it look ridiculous?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Don't ask me. I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
My hair for Alice in wonderlay.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Oh, I'd say braids by all means pigtails with hair ribbons.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Mother? Go up stares and't tried braiding it? See how
it looks.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Do you think my hair is long enough?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Father? Oh? Sure, I braid mine all the time.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
They could have stretched it, I guess, stretch what the
rabbit skin?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
In case it was only as big as a small dog.
That's probably what they did.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Now there's about as disconnected a piece of conversation as
I've ever heard.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
He was talking about Kathy's costume for the play tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh, that's probably for you any hello?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Oh, yes, he's here just a moment. It's for you,
dear Herbilus. What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Nothing? Hello? Oh, that's a right, Herb? He did what? Well,
I'll gladly.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Be a witness for you, But I don't think I
can do you any good. Well, he'll probably, Herb. I'll
see what I can do, not at all?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Come bye?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
What's all this old little traffic accident? Herb Ellis and
George Newman collided the other night. I happened to be
driving behind Herb and saw the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Apparently I'm the only witness was anyone hurt? Oh, George
Bumpty's nose? It was nothing.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
But now Herb tells me George is threatening to sue
him for fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Three?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Guesses who that is?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, the battle is on, Hello George.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh mental telepathy, I guess yes, I remember, well, George.
Herb just called and wants me to be a witness
for him. Look, I don't see any reason for a lawsuit.
The insurance company will repair your car and they'll repair
your nose too.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Look, George, I'll talk to you later, all right, goodbye?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
It looks as if you're caught in the middle.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Dear, Well, the whole trouble is we call mother.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
It wasn't for you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I'll be right down, Betty, don't come down. It was
George Newman.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh him back?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh me?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Oh you were saying, dear I was saying, Margaret that
technically the accident was Herb's fault.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
He bumped into George. But George was really to blame
for it. He drove right in front of Herb's car,
and Herb had the right of way. Father, What is it, Princess?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Why should I call him back?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I don't know any George Newman, Betty, you don't have
to call him back.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It wasn't for you, it was for me.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, dear, if the accident was Herb's fault, Margaret, I said,
technically it was his fault.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But George is really responsible. He just didn't see Herb's car.
George Newman needs glasses and won't admit it. That's the
crux of the problem right there.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
You know, I've often wondered if George needed glasses. The
last time we met on the street, he patted me
on the head and asked me how things were going
at school.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
That's George, but you know how stubborn he is. He
absolutely will not admit there's anything wrong with his eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Mother, I can't do a thing with my hair, ed,
Can I have the rabbit skin when Kathy gets through
with it?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Just a minute? Children, that's for.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You, dear.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I know I can't hear anything in here. I'll take
it in the breakfast room. Dad, you'll have to come
with me if you want to talk.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Bud, I think my hair is too sharp for break me.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Dad, What is it? Bud? Hello?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Claud Messner gave his dog a haircut and he overdid it?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Hello, Herb, Yes, George called me. He's bowled all over. Well,
he insists on going through with it.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
The rabbit skin would make him a good coat.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Excuse me, Herb, Bud later later, Okay, Well, I don't
know what to tell you, Herb. The way it stands,
George is a good chance of winning the case. Sure,
I know why the accident happened, but he can't see
past the end of his nose. Yes, I've tried to
point that out that George, and he won't listen. Well,
I'll do what I can, Herb. Well, don't worry about it.
(08:11):
We'll find some way out of this thing. Yeah, Well,
call me back later.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Come by, Dear, aren't you assuming an awful lot of responsibility.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Promising her I didn't promise him anything, honey, I total
hi might try.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The poor fellow was worried, sick.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
If George takes this to court and wins a judgment
against him for fifty thousand dollars, Herb is sunk.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well, I don't know what he expects you to do.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
What a fine predicament.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Dear, You act as if it were your problem.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Well it is in a way, after all, George and
I are friends.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I might be able to influence him if anyone could.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I thought George and Herb were good friends.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Well, they used to be, but then Herb started raising
rabbits behind his garage, and the rabbits.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Would get out and go over into George's garden.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, George got to hating the rabbits, and then he
got mad at Herb for raising the rabbits, and one
thing led to another.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
They've been feuding ever since.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, dear mother, will you tie the ribbons in my hair?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Come here? What are you reading magazine?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Princess?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
If you're supposed to be getting ready for the plate tonight,
couldn't you postpone your reading until later?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh, it's the most interesting story. Two men are having
a big argument over this piece of land, and then
the third man comes in. He's real nice. He wants
to settle a quarrel without bloodshed.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
This is in the magazine. The men who were.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Quarreling her name Fisher and o'too look if you must read.
The third man is Elmo Perne.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Elmo Perne.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
He decides Fisher's in the right, so he offers to
help him. And the next thing Elmo knows he's in
it so deep he can't get out.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
What happens to Elmo?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
They shot him?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think you'd better put the magazine down, Betty. Why
you're scaring your fat Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Don't be ridiculous, Margaret. Just because I'm tired. Writer happens
to get Mom.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
We're in here, Bud.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Come out on the porch.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Look what I got, old groan. What's he brought home?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Now? Yeah? Mom?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Come here bringing it here, Bud? This box is heavy. Wait,
do you see what a deal? Who's Kathy?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
What in the world do you have in that box?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Oh? You guys gonna be surprised.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Tell Kathy to come here. What is it, dopey?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Somebody give you a grand piano?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
It was mister Ellis, you know Herbellus. He said you were.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Doing such a big favorite for him, Dad, really saving
his life in a lawsuit of something that he wanted
to do something nice for me.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
But I didn't promise to do anything for her. Oh
you must have dead, he says. Thanks to you, his
worries are over. He says, they don't make men like
you anymore now. Way, he says, after they made you,
they threw away the.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Mold, but I didn't do what's You're the greatest guy
in the world, Dad, and the show's appreciation for what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
He gave me all his rabbits. Oh, he shouldn't have rabbits.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Oh, no, rabbits in there in that box.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Sure, look five of them.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They are rabbits. Are you sure those are rabbits? They
look like fox terriers.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Herbs said, they're the king's size, and they're not really mine, Dad,
they're yours mine.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Sure you earned them.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I'll get it. Hello, just a minute, it's for you. Father,
It's George Newman.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh agreed, What do you want to do with your rabbits? Dad?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Mister Newman is waiting.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Father, Princess dropped the father. Oh just call me Elmo Pern.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Well, between rabbits, plays, accidents and lawsuits, it's no wonder.
Father is frantic looking for a way out of the situation.
And mother, if you've been plass about what to serve
for breakfast, listen.
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(12:25):
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Speaker 2 (12:41):
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Speaker 3 (12:48):
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Speaker 3 (13:23):
Well, Sir.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Being the only witness to that little traffic accident between
his neighbors, George Newman and Herbellus, has placed Jim in
a rather uncomfortable position. At first, he was merely caught
in the middle. Now he suddenly finds himself committed to
the task of extricating herb from an impending lawsuit. Obviously,
life in the white frame house on Maple Street is
becoming just a little complicated.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Jim is still on the phone like this.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Well, look, George, I've already promised herb and I can't
be a witness for both of you.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Hey, Dad, something's wrong with these rapids.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Excuse me a second, George. But it's five of them.
But I counted eleven years.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Oh, come, mother, make him take those beasts out of here.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Hold on, George, Margaret, can you.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Bud, come out of here while your father's phoning and
take those rabbits outside?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Where shall I take them outside?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I didn't hear you, George.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
We're outside in the garage.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
What was that again?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
We're in the garage, any place in the garage. Don't
we just take them out?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
George? I'll call you back. Yeah, I think we have
a bad connection, Bud. Okay, I'm taking them off. Good night.
Should think they were poison or something? Now, just what
is going on? You call me Dad?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
No, he didn't, Bud. Just keep going what you got, Bud?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Let me see you can't talk on the telephone in
this house. It's an absolute impossibility.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, I did my best, dear Bud, in those idiotic rabbits.
Are you finished with my hair?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Mother?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yes, it's finished. How do I look?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Father? Do I look like Alice. Alice, Who Alice in Wonderland. Oh, oh,
we have to be at the theater in about an hour. Mother,
I hope Katy doesn't forget what she's supposed to do
as a white Rabbit. Where is she? What she doing? Kathy?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Kathy Rabbits lawsuits? Alice in Wonderland?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Dear, why don't you just tell George and Herb to
settle this thing themselves.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
It's not your responsibility.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I know, but I feel like, well, somebody has to
take Herb's side, and he's counting on me. If George
takes this case to court, Herbs a dead duck.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
All right, So what do you have to do?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Well, I don't have to do anything. I'm doing it
because well, Herb's done a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Of things for me.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
I don't mean to be mercenary, dear, but what has
he done?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
A lot of things like well, I can't recall exactly
the moment, but well, the point is, honey, I promised, promised?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What that I do something?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Do what? Well, I'll say this much. You're becoming very
very popular.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Hello, oh hello George. Yes, I can hear you. Fine, now, well,
I was going to call you back.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh no, I think you're making a big mistake. Why
don't you wait a few days before you file suit? Dad? Well, look, George,
herb got rid of the rabbits. I know, I know,
but he doesn't have the rabbits anymore. What'd he do
(16:30):
with them? Well, he got rid of them, that's right,
bad bud.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Your father's talking on the phone.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well, look, George, why don't you come over and we'll
discuss the whole problem. Yes, here at my house. Fine, George,
I'll be looking for you. Comebye. Now we're getting somewhere, bod.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
If you want to talk to your father, come in here.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
George is coming over if I can make him forget
about up those darn rabbits. Dead, honey, let's put out
some of that Butterscott's candy that George likes dead.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I need help quick. Oh what's the matter.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
The rabbits got out of the box and I can't
catch them.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Don't worry, they can't get away. There's a fence around
the backyard.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
They're not in the backyard. Well where are they. They're
in the house. Oh then you don't have to in
the house.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Oh no, Well we know where one of them is.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But father, there's a rabbit after my man.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
There's another one heading into the living room.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Get it by. There's one in the dining room. Oh great, Caesar,
round up those animals and.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Quick, Bud Anderson, get that rabbit out of my room. Father.
They're all over the hose.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Nobody answers the phone.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Hello, there's one, there's hello.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Oh, yes, don't stand there, but catch them. Catch the
I can't catch them. I try and.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yes, everything's going fine, Herb.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But there's one going into the piano.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Excuse me, Herb. There's one in the cold closet, getting
Bud in the closet, in the piano. I'm getting dizzy.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You've got to gather them up, Bud. Mister Newman's coming over. Hello, Herb.
What the noise? Oh the kids are playing a little game. Yeah. Well, well,
George is coming over. I'm going to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Look at him.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Who by?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
This is grab I'm not going ahead.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yep. Well, uh, don't worry, Herb, I said, don't worry. Goodbye, Herb.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Jim, you'd better call George and tell him not to
come over. We can't catch these rabbits. It's too late, Margaret.
He's on his way.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
It gets some carrots, but lure them out. But they
can't there they're turning around like crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Deare you can't bring George into this house. You know
how he feels about rabbits.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Me, how do I get into these things?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Bud hadn't brought the darn rabbits home when I had
the rabbits?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Can I? Daddy?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Oh, there's George Newman. You can't bring him into the house, Jim.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh, creepers. We have to be the theater in a
half hour. Get into your costume, Cathy.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I'll have to talk to him on the front porch.
That's all.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Come on, shrimp. We gotta hurry, Dear.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
You can't keep him out there on the front porch.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Well, we'll go for a walk or something. Well, hello, George,
how are you? Oh very well? Yes, indeed fine that you? Jim?
Why of course didn't you recognize me? Recognize you me?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Why certainly couldn't see who it was from a distance.
There can't anybody see from a distance. I've got twenty
twenty vision, always have had.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Where are you, Jim? I'm right here, yo, Oh, yes
there you are. Well, let's go in.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Say this is a fine big living room you have
and I like the way you kind.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Of drop down into it. George. That's the street out there.
You're going down the front step. I must have gotten
turned around. Yeah, well let's go in. Sit down, George. Wait,
I thought we all.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
My feet are tired, Jim. I had no walk over
since that herb ellus.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Bang mccar up. Oh, we'll make him pay.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Look at my nose, Jim, broken, shattered, absolutely shattered. The
doctor says it isn't, but I know better. It's my nose.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Where are you, Jim, I'm right here, George. Look, it's
pretty stuffy in the house. Suppose we feels fine in here?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It's warm nice, Yes, sir, close the door and lets
it down.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Dad, Dad, what bud xnay on the living room lay
abb its way?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, I knowbody. Well, who do we have here, Jim?
One of the children. Eh my, how she's grown? I wait, George,
and mister Newman, this is me. Well how do you do,
my dear? You know, Jim, Betty looks more like her
mother every day. Yeah, well I'll see you later, yes, yes, yes, indeed.
(20:52):
Oh she is lovely, Jim. Lovely. I like a girl
with a deep voice. Well, Jim, this is the living room.
I presume yes, but it's not very comfortable. Why don't
we go into the den. This couch is for me, Jim,
This is for me.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Now sit down there, Jim. I want to tell you
how my attorney plans to handle a case. Herb isn't
gonna have a leg to stand on.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Wait, George, I'll admit Herb is technically at four You
bet he is, Oh, you bet.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
But there's a more important factor to consider in this.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I'm going to be very frank, George, because I've known
both you and Herb a long time. That accident was
your fault, my fault.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
George. You need glasses and you know it. Me need glasses.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Why I can see as well as anybody else. Not
a thing wrong with my eyes twenty twenty vision, always
had twenty twenty. When was the last time you had
your eyes checked? I've never had him checked. That's nonsense.
I guess I know if I can see or not. Hey, Hey,
what was that all those confounded rabbits? Uh?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
What was what? George? Something scampered across the room. Uh?
I didn't see anything. Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Cat, I guess that gave me a turn. I thought
for a second.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It was a rabbit. Rabbit? What is it? Ken?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Excuse me a minute, George, Yeah, sure, go ahead, jim
My darnat looked like a rabbit.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Where are you, kitten, Kathy? What in the world have
you got on?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
This is my white rabbit costume. Daddy and I are
going to be an house.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Wonder then, Well, after all the other rabbits in this
madhouse today, it was sort of a shock.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
What do you want kidding?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I have to have a pocket watch to carry in
the place. Do you have one day?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, not with me.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
There's an old one around the house someplace. You'll have
to find it. Mister Newman's waiting in the living room.
That watches around someplace.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Thank you, Jenny, I'll find it, Jim, Jim, come here quick.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
What's the trouble, George. You've got rabbits in this house?
What now? Don't tell me I didn't see him right
past the couch here, Oh, George.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I saw him. Tell me I need glasses. There's nothing
wrong with my eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Look there there's another one where on the piano. Now, George,
old man, don't you give me that.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You're not going to convince me there's not a rabbit
sitting on that piano.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
This house is full of white rabbits.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Oh, that's ridiculous, George, sir, Jim, I could yeah, great, scot.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Don't mind me, I'm just looking for my pocket watch.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
What, Jim, Look at the size of that rabbit? What rabbit?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Great, Caesar, don't you see him? That's the biggest darn
rabbit I ever saw. I don't know, George, you've been
acting pretty strangely ever since you came in here. Frankly,
I'm worried about you. There it goes out of the
room again. It was a rabbit four feet tall. Look, George,
why don't you lie down. I'll get some cold water.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I saw it. I'm I'm sure. I'm sure I did.
Didn't walk right around the room. I saw it. I
saw it. I saw it, all right, George, you saw it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
No, No, I couldn't have for a foot rabbit way even.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
In Texas, they don't grow on that. I apologize, Jim.
My eyes must be in terrible shape. Will you just
need glasses? That's all, George.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
But I eat carrots three times a day, carrots, Jim.
That explains why I'm seeing rabbits. I've overdone it. Well
you'll be all right, George. Just go to see a
good eye doctor. Yes, yes I will. Jim, will you
tell her bell as I'm awfully sorry, ask him if he'll.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Just forget the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I my I didn't realize I was in such bad shape.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well, now don't you worry about her. There goes another one.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I'm going home tonight, Jim, what happened? Dear George decided
better get home. That four foot rabbit prowling around the
living room undid him a little?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Did I scaring him?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Daddy? Yes, and you accomplished a very worthwhile purpose.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What about the lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Father?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Oh that's all forgotten about. Who played kind of a
dirty trick on old George.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But it was for his own good.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
You should have seen him, he thought, I was Betty.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Oh this man does need glasses.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well we have just one more problem, and this may
be the answer to it. Hello. Well I sort of
guessed it was you, Herb. Yeah, he asked me to
apologize to you and tell you to forget the whole thing.
Oh that's all right, Herb. But I'll tell you there
is one thing you can do for me.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Come over here, and get your confounded rabbits.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Hello, Ry Marshall.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
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Speaker 4 (26:58):
Well, in case any of you folks were worried about
Herbalus came over and gathered up his bunnies a while ago,
and the Anderson household is once again inhabited only by people. Now,
as the hour grows late, Jim and Margaret are folding
up the papers, turning off the lights and preparing to
retire like this.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You should have been in here, honey.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
When Kathy walked in in the rabbit casting.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah. I'll never forget the look on George's face.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Someone at the door, who could be coming around at.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
This time of night. Yes, hello, Jim, Oh, George, Hello Margaret.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
George, you look different. You're wearing glasses.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, they belonged to the wife.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I just had to stop by and tell you, Jim,
that I'm seeing things I never knew existed before.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Why it's wonderful. Well, I'm happy to hear it. George,
won't you come in?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
No, no thanks, I'm just prowling around seeing the sights.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
But there's one question I want to ask you, Jim,
What is it? George? Did that rabbit ever find his watch?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
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This is Bill forman speaking tonight play Truth or Consequences
on the NBC Radio Network
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 4 (00:24):
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one of the principal characters was an imaginary six foot rabbit. Well,
Harvey has nothing on the Andersons. This afternoon, they have
a rabbit four feet tall, and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's not imaginery.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Anyway, it's real on the outside, white fur and big
floppy ears.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Inside, well, it's Kathy.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
She's standing in the middle of the den in the rabbit.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Suit while Margaret and Betty and Bud stand off to
study the effect like this.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I think it looks fine, don't you. Betty?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Sure the costume's all right? But holds your paws up?
Which one my front paws or my back paws? Your
front wind's dopey. A rabbit holds his paws up in
front of him when he sits down. They don't hang
down like he was saying, boom, it's a pretty dumb
looking rabbit if you ask me.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Nobody, all right, take it off, Angel, We want to
keep it clean for tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Mother, can't you do something about that zipper in the front.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Don't worry, no one will notice it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well I'll notice it. I have to be on the
stage where her practically all the time. How can I
convince myself that I'm Alice in Wonderman and she's a
white rabbit with that zipper staring at me?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Well, don't look at it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What help you pull a costume off?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Pull it off? Okay, I'm by the tail. Let go stupid,
you're pulling the tail off.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
There's nothing else to get hold of.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Getn't way, bud here, Let me do it? What a bean?
Brain whole steal?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Kathy there? Now take the costume upstairs.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Okay, Gee, looks like it came off a real rabbit.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Pick the costume up. Don't drag it not, Gee, I wonder.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
If it is.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I wonder if it is what or for a real rabbit?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It could be?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It could not. He'd have to be as big as
a saint.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Bernard Well, miss Ellis down the street raises rabbits. He
said he had one as big as a dog. He
didn't say what kind of a dog, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm home.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
We're in the den, deer.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
What shall I do with my hair?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
For the play?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I mean, well, I.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Suppose we have here a meeting. Hello honey, Hello dear.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
They didn't tell me how I should fix it. I
certainly can't put it up in Hello father braids.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh certainly not.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
That would look Hello, princess, ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Why would it look ridiculous?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Don't ask me. I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
My hair for Alice in wonderlay.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Oh, I'd say braids by all means pigtails with hair ribbons.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Mother? Go up stares and't tried braiding it? See how
it looks.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Do you think my hair is long enough?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Father? Oh? Sure, I braid mine all the time.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
They could have stretched it, I guess, stretch what the
rabbit skin?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
In case it was only as big as a small dog.
That's probably what they did.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Now there's about as disconnected a piece of conversation as
I've ever heard.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
He was talking about Kathy's costume for the play tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh, that's probably for you any hello?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Oh, yes, he's here just a moment. It's for you,
dear Herbilus. What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Nothing? Hello? Oh, that's a right, Herb? He did what? Well,
I'll gladly.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Be a witness for you, But I don't think I
can do you any good. Well, he'll probably, Herb. I'll
see what I can do, not at all?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Come bye?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
What's all this old little traffic accident? Herb Ellis and
George Newman collided the other night. I happened to be
driving behind Herb and saw the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Apparently I'm the only witness was anyone hurt? Oh, George
Bumpty's nose? It was nothing.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
But now Herb tells me George is threatening to sue
him for fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Three?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Guesses who that is?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, the battle is on, Hello George.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh mental telepathy, I guess yes, I remember, well, George.
Herb just called and wants me to be a witness
for him. Look, I don't see any reason for a lawsuit.
The insurance company will repair your car and they'll repair
your nose too.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Look, George, I'll talk to you later, all right, goodbye?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
It looks as if you're caught in the middle.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Dear, Well, the whole trouble is we call mother.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
It wasn't for you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I'll be right down, Betty, don't come down. It was
George Newman.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh him back?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh me?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Oh you were saying, dear I was saying, Margaret that
technically the accident was Herb's fault.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
He bumped into George. But George was really to blame
for it. He drove right in front of Herb's car,
and Herb had the right of way. Father, What is it, Princess?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Why should I call him back?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I don't know any George Newman, Betty, you don't have
to call him back.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It wasn't for you, it was for me.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, dear, if the accident was Herb's fault, Margaret, I said,
technically it was his fault.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But George is really responsible. He just didn't see Herb's car.
George Newman needs glasses and won't admit it. That's the
crux of the problem right there.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
You know, I've often wondered if George needed glasses. The
last time we met on the street, he patted me
on the head and asked me how things were going
at school.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
That's George, but you know how stubborn he is. He
absolutely will not admit there's anything wrong with his eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Mother, I can't do a thing with my hair, ed,
Can I have the rabbit skin when Kathy gets through
with it?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Just a minute? Children, that's for.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You, dear.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I know I can't hear anything in here. I'll take
it in the breakfast room. Dad, you'll have to come
with me if you want to talk.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Bud, I think my hair is too sharp for break me.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Dad, What is it? Bud? Hello?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Claud Messner gave his dog a haircut and he overdid it?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Hello, Herb, Yes, George called me. He's bowled all over. Well,
he insists on going through with it.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
The rabbit skin would make him a good coat.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Excuse me, Herb, Bud later later, Okay, Well, I don't
know what to tell you, Herb. The way it stands,
George is a good chance of winning the case. Sure,
I know why the accident happened, but he can't see
past the end of his nose. Yes, I've tried to
point that out that George, and he won't listen. Well,
I'll do what I can, Herb. Well, don't worry about it.
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We'll find some way out of this thing. Yeah, Well,
call me back later.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Come by, Dear, aren't you assuming an awful lot of responsibility.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Promising her I didn't promise him anything, honey, I total
hi might try.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The poor fellow was worried, sick.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
If George takes this to court and wins a judgment
against him for fifty thousand dollars, Herb is sunk.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well, I don't know what he expects you to do.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
What a fine predicament.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Dear, You act as if it were your problem.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Well it is in a way, after all, George and
I are friends.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I might be able to influence him if anyone could.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I thought George and Herb were good friends.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Well, they used to be, but then Herb started raising
rabbits behind his garage, and the rabbits.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Would get out and go over into George's garden.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, George got to hating the rabbits, and then he
got mad at Herb for raising the rabbits, and one
thing led to another.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
They've been feuding ever since.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, dear mother, will you tie the ribbons in my hair?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Come here? What are you reading magazine?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Princess?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
If you're supposed to be getting ready for the plate tonight,
couldn't you postpone your reading until later?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh, it's the most interesting story. Two men are having
a big argument over this piece of land, and then
the third man comes in. He's real nice. He wants
to settle a quarrel without bloodshed.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
This is in the magazine. The men who were.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Quarreling her name Fisher and o'too look if you must read.
The third man is Elmo Perne.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Elmo Perne.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
He decides Fisher's in the right, so he offers to
help him. And the next thing Elmo knows he's in
it so deep he can't get out.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
What happens to Elmo?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
They shot him?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think you'd better put the magazine down, Betty. Why
you're scaring your fat Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Don't be ridiculous, Margaret. Just because I'm tired. Writer happens
to get Mom.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
We're in here, Bud.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Come out on the porch.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Look what I got, old groan. What's he brought home?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Now? Yeah? Mom?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Come here bringing it here, Bud? This box is heavy. Wait,
do you see what a deal? Who's Kathy?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
What in the world do you have in that box?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Oh? You guys gonna be surprised.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Tell Kathy to come here. What is it, dopey?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Somebody give you a grand piano?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
It was mister Ellis, you know Herbellus. He said you were.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Doing such a big favorite for him, Dad, really saving
his life in a lawsuit of something that he wanted
to do something nice for me.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
But I didn't promise to do anything for her. Oh
you must have dead, he says. Thanks to you, his
worries are over. He says, they don't make men like
you anymore now. Way, he says, after they made you,
they threw away the.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Mold, but I didn't do what's You're the greatest guy
in the world, Dad, and the show's appreciation for what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
He gave me all his rabbits. Oh, he shouldn't have rabbits.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Oh, no, rabbits in there in that box.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Sure, look five of them.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They are rabbits. Are you sure those are rabbits? They
look like fox terriers.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Herbs said, they're the king's size, and they're not really mine, Dad,
they're yours mine.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Sure you earned them.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I'll get it. Hello, just a minute, it's for you. Father,
It's George Newman.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh agreed, What do you want to do with your rabbits? Dad?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Mister Newman is waiting.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Father, Princess dropped the father. Oh just call me Elmo Pern.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Well, between rabbits, plays, accidents and lawsuits, it's no wonder.
Father is frantic looking for a way out of the situation.
And mother, if you've been plass about what to serve
for breakfast, listen.
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Speaker 3 (13:23):
Well, Sir.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Being the only witness to that little traffic accident between
his neighbors, George Newman and Herbellus, has placed Jim in
a rather uncomfortable position. At first, he was merely caught
in the middle. Now he suddenly finds himself committed to
the task of extricating herb from an impending lawsuit. Obviously,
life in the white frame house on Maple Street is
becoming just a little complicated.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Jim is still on the phone like this.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Well, look, George, I've already promised herb and I can't
be a witness for both of you.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Hey, Dad, something's wrong with these rapids.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Excuse me a second, George. But it's five of them.
But I counted eleven years.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Oh, come, mother, make him take those beasts out of here.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Hold on, George, Margaret, can you.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Bud, come out of here while your father's phoning and
take those rabbits outside?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Where shall I take them outside?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I didn't hear you, George.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
We're outside in the garage.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
What was that again?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
We're in the garage, any place in the garage. Don't
we just take them out?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
George? I'll call you back. Yeah, I think we have
a bad connection, Bud. Okay, I'm taking them off. Good night.
Should think they were poison or something? Now, just what
is going on? You call me Dad?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
No, he didn't, Bud. Just keep going what you got, Bud?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Let me see you can't talk on the telephone in
this house. It's an absolute impossibility.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, I did my best, dear Bud, in those idiotic rabbits.
Are you finished with my hair?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Mother?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yes, it's finished. How do I look?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Father? Do I look like Alice. Alice, Who Alice in Wonderland. Oh, oh,
we have to be at the theater in about an hour. Mother,
I hope Katy doesn't forget what she's supposed to do
as a white Rabbit. Where is she? What she doing? Kathy?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Kathy Rabbits lawsuits? Alice in Wonderland?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Dear, why don't you just tell George and Herb to
settle this thing themselves.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
It's not your responsibility.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I know, but I feel like, well, somebody has to
take Herb's side, and he's counting on me. If George
takes this case to court, Herbs a dead duck.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
All right, So what do you have to do?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Well, I don't have to do anything. I'm doing it
because well, Herb's done a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Of things for me.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
I don't mean to be mercenary, dear, but what has
he done?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
A lot of things like well, I can't recall exactly
the moment, but well, the point is, honey, I promised, promised?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What that I do something?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Do what? Well, I'll say this much. You're becoming very
very popular.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Hello, oh hello George. Yes, I can hear you. Fine, now, well,
I was going to call you back.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh no, I think you're making a big mistake. Why
don't you wait a few days before you file suit? Dad? Well, look, George,
herb got rid of the rabbits. I know, I know,
but he doesn't have the rabbits anymore. What'd he do
(16:30):
with them? Well, he got rid of them, that's right,
bad bud.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Your father's talking on the phone.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well, look, George, why don't you come over and we'll
discuss the whole problem. Yes, here at my house. Fine, George,
I'll be looking for you. Comebye. Now we're getting somewhere, bod.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
If you want to talk to your father, come in here.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
George is coming over if I can make him forget
about up those darn rabbits. Dead, honey, let's put out
some of that Butterscott's candy that George likes dead.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I need help quick. Oh what's the matter.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
The rabbits got out of the box and I can't
catch them.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Don't worry, they can't get away. There's a fence around
the backyard.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
They're not in the backyard. Well where are they. They're
in the house. Oh then you don't have to in
the house.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Oh no, Well we know where one of them is.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But father, there's a rabbit after my man.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
There's another one heading into the living room.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Get it by. There's one in the dining room. Oh great, Caesar,
round up those animals and.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Quick, Bud Anderson, get that rabbit out of my room. Father.
They're all over the hose.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Nobody answers the phone.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Hello, there's one, there's hello.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Oh, yes, don't stand there, but catch them. Catch the
I can't catch them. I try and.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yes, everything's going fine, Herb.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But there's one going into the piano.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Excuse me, Herb. There's one in the cold closet, getting
Bud in the closet, in the piano. I'm getting dizzy.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You've got to gather them up, Bud. Mister Newman's coming over. Hello, Herb.
What the noise? Oh the kids are playing a little game. Yeah. Well, well,
George is coming over. I'm going to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Look at him.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Who by?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
This is grab I'm not going ahead.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yep. Well, uh, don't worry, Herb, I said, don't worry. Goodbye, Herb.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Jim, you'd better call George and tell him not to
come over. We can't catch these rabbits. It's too late, Margaret.
He's on his way.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
It gets some carrots, but lure them out. But they
can't there they're turning around like crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Deare you can't bring George into this house. You know
how he feels about rabbits.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Me, how do I get into these things?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Bud hadn't brought the darn rabbits home when I had
the rabbits?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Can I? Daddy?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Oh, there's George Newman. You can't bring him into the house, Jim.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh, creepers. We have to be the theater in a
half hour. Get into your costume, Cathy.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I'll have to talk to him on the front porch.
That's all.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Come on, shrimp. We gotta hurry, Dear.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
You can't keep him out there on the front porch.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Well, we'll go for a walk or something. Well, hello, George,
how are you? Oh very well? Yes, indeed fine that you? Jim?
Why of course didn't you recognize me? Recognize you me?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Why certainly couldn't see who it was from a distance.
There can't anybody see from a distance. I've got twenty
twenty vision, always have had.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Where are you, Jim? I'm right here, yo, Oh, yes
there you are. Well, let's go in.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Say this is a fine big living room you have
and I like the way you kind.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Of drop down into it. George. That's the street out there.
You're going down the front step. I must have gotten
turned around. Yeah, well let's go in. Sit down, George. Wait,
I thought we all.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
My feet are tired, Jim. I had no walk over
since that herb ellus.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Bang mccar up. Oh, we'll make him pay.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Look at my nose, Jim, broken, shattered, absolutely shattered. The
doctor says it isn't, but I know better. It's my nose.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Where are you, Jim, I'm right here, George. Look, it's
pretty stuffy in the house. Suppose we feels fine in here?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It's warm nice, Yes, sir, close the door and lets
it down.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Dad, Dad, what bud xnay on the living room lay
abb its way?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, I knowbody. Well, who do we have here, Jim?
One of the children. Eh my, how she's grown? I wait, George,
and mister Newman, this is me. Well how do you do,
my dear? You know, Jim, Betty looks more like her
mother every day. Yeah, well I'll see you later, yes, yes, yes, indeed.
(20:52):
Oh she is lovely, Jim. Lovely. I like a girl
with a deep voice. Well, Jim, this is the living room.
I presume yes, but it's not very comfortable. Why don't
we go into the den. This couch is for me, Jim,
This is for me.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Now sit down there, Jim. I want to tell you
how my attorney plans to handle a case. Herb isn't
gonna have a leg to stand on.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Wait, George, I'll admit Herb is technically at four You
bet he is, Oh, you bet.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
But there's a more important factor to consider in this.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I'm going to be very frank, George, because I've known
both you and Herb a long time. That accident was
your fault, my fault.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
George. You need glasses and you know it. Me need glasses.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Why I can see as well as anybody else. Not
a thing wrong with my eyes twenty twenty vision, always
had twenty twenty. When was the last time you had
your eyes checked? I've never had him checked. That's nonsense.
I guess I know if I can see or not. Hey, Hey,
what was that all those confounded rabbits? Uh?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
What was what? George? Something scampered across the room. Uh?
I didn't see anything. Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Cat, I guess that gave me a turn. I thought
for a second.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It was a rabbit. Rabbit? What is it? Ken?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Excuse me a minute, George, Yeah, sure, go ahead, jim
My darnat looked like a rabbit.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Where are you, kitten, Kathy? What in the world have
you got on?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
This is my white rabbit costume. Daddy and I are
going to be an house.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Wonder then, Well, after all the other rabbits in this
madhouse today, it was sort of a shock.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
What do you want kidding?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I have to have a pocket watch to carry in
the place. Do you have one day?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, not with me.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
There's an old one around the house someplace. You'll have
to find it. Mister Newman's waiting in the living room.
That watches around someplace.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Thank you, Jenny, I'll find it, Jim, Jim, come here quick.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
What's the trouble, George. You've got rabbits in this house?
What now? Don't tell me I didn't see him right
past the couch here, Oh, George.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I saw him. Tell me I need glasses. There's nothing
wrong with my eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Look there there's another one where on the piano. Now, George,
old man, don't you give me that.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You're not going to convince me there's not a rabbit
sitting on that piano.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
This house is full of white rabbits.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Oh, that's ridiculous, George, sir, Jim, I could yeah, great, scot.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Don't mind me, I'm just looking for my pocket watch.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
What, Jim, Look at the size of that rabbit? What rabbit?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Great, Caesar, don't you see him? That's the biggest darn
rabbit I ever saw. I don't know, George, you've been
acting pretty strangely ever since you came in here. Frankly,
I'm worried about you. There it goes out of the
room again. It was a rabbit four feet tall. Look, George,
why don't you lie down. I'll get some cold water.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I saw it. I'm I'm sure. I'm sure I did.
Didn't walk right around the room. I saw it. I
saw it. I saw it, all right, George, you saw it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
No, No, I couldn't have for a foot rabbit way even.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
In Texas, they don't grow on that. I apologize, Jim.
My eyes must be in terrible shape. Will you just
need glasses? That's all, George.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
But I eat carrots three times a day, carrots, Jim.
That explains why I'm seeing rabbits. I've overdone it. Well
you'll be all right, George. Just go to see a
good eye doctor. Yes, yes I will. Jim, will you
tell her bell as I'm awfully sorry, ask him if he'll.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Just forget the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I my I didn't realize I was in such bad shape.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well, now don't you worry about her. There goes another one.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I'm going home tonight, Jim, what happened? Dear George decided
better get home. That four foot rabbit prowling around the
living room undid him a little?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Did I scaring him?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Daddy? Yes, and you accomplished a very worthwhile purpose.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What about the lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Father?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Oh that's all forgotten about. Who played kind of a
dirty trick on old George.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But it was for his own good.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
You should have seen him, he thought, I was Betty.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Oh this man does need glasses.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well we have just one more problem, and this may
be the answer to it. Hello. Well I sort of
guessed it was you, Herb. Yeah, he asked me to
apologize to you and tell you to forget the whole thing.
Oh that's all right, Herb. But I'll tell you there
is one thing you can do for me.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Come over here, and get your confounded rabbits.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Hello, Ry Marshall.
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Speaker 4 (26:58):
Well, in case any of you folks were worried about
Herbalus came over and gathered up his bunnies a while ago,
and the Anderson household is once again inhabited only by people. Now,
as the hour grows late, Jim and Margaret are folding
up the papers, turning off the lights and preparing to
retire like this.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You should have been in here, honey.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
When Kathy walked in in the rabbit casting.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah. I'll never forget the look on George's face.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Someone at the door, who could be coming around at.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
This time of night. Yes, hello, Jim, Oh, George, Hello Margaret.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
George, you look different. You're wearing glasses.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, they belonged to the wife.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I just had to stop by and tell you, Jim,
that I'm seeing things I never knew existed before.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Why it's wonderful. Well, I'm happy to hear it. George,
won't you come in?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
No, no thanks, I'm just prowling around seeing the sights.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
But there's one question I want to ask you, Jim,
What is it? George? Did that rabbit ever find his watch?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
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