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All three of the kids want money, so Father tells them to go out and earn it. It might have been cheaper to just give them the money.
Originally aired on November 16, 1950. This is episode 56 of Father Knows Best.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your host,
Ron Eckelbarger. All three of the kids want money, so
father tells them to go out and earn it. It
might have been cheaper and easier to just give them
the money in the first place. This is episode number
fifty six of Father Knows Best, entitled Enterprising Kids. It
(00:39):
originally aired on November sixteenth, nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mother is Naxville House the desk coffee in the whole world.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, it's Father Knows Best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons,
brought to you by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought
and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of
coffee at any price. Maxwell House always good to the
last drop. A wonderful bird is.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
The pelly can.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
His bill will hold more than his belly can. He
can take in his beak food enough for a week.
As for flying, you know, gosh darned welly can. With
this bit of deathless verse, we highest the springfield in
the white frame house on Maple Street. There we find
the Andersen's at dinner, and there, as usual, we find
a problem. It's all about socks or is it a dress,
(01:54):
or well, it's about something like this.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So this little girl said to me, Kathy, she said,
I'm going away. I'm going out west where there's wide
open spaces and cattle and rustlers and bandits and everything.
And I said to her, you are And she said.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
To me, Kathy, yes, Daddy passed the butter.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Please, yes, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
They only cost two dollars, Dad. And that's to the
caf and the socks.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's a bargain, bud, that's what it is, an absolute bargain.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
You mean I can get them?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No, this is very good roast, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
If it's a bargain, why can I get them?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Because I'm not giving you the two dollars, that's why.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And she said to me, I'm tired of being treated
like a crinimal, That's what. And I said to her, Kathy, yes, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Has anyone ever told you that you talked too much?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And I said to her, who's treating you like a crinimal?
And she said, Father, it was fifteen ninety five, less
than a week ago.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And now, it's only eight point fifty, Denny.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I wasn't finished.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
And if you can give Bud two dollars for something
dopey like a hat and sock, but light up.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
They don't light up, Betty, they just look like they
light up.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I wasn't finished, mother. It's in that new shade of
gun metal, and if I don't get it, I'll simply die.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
We'll miss you, dear, don't.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Father gave him the two dollars, and you can see
Joe coming two blocks away.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I don't care if you can see him. Claire over
in West Springfield.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So I said, why do you have to go out with?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And she said, Kathy, what? We don't care?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You don't, Kathy, you haven't touched your dinner.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I'm not very hungry, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
We have an appointment to spend the evening with mister
and missus Smith. We haven't got all night to fool around,
So eat your dinner and behave yourself.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Waterflowers.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Riding along on my bicycle and the truck driver didn't
see me.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
What truck driver?
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Any truck driver? If I had a fluorescent caf.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
On Bud, Yes, no, father, I am not going to
give but two dollars for pink socks. And I'm not
going to give you eight fifty for a dress, now,
is that understood?
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Good?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Father?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I need it all right.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Then it's up to you to figure some way of
getting it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's what I was trying to do.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You're a grown girl, Betty, you're seventeen years old. If
your entire life depends on getting a dress, go out
and earn the money for it.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Dad.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
When I was a boy, I worked for the things
I wanted. I didn't feel I was too good to
work at anything that came along. I washed dishes, shovel snow,
dug ditches.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Dad.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
But will you.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Stop interrupting me?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
But I want to ask you something. If I are
in the money, then can I buy the sox? Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Oh? Where was I?
Speaker 8 (05:11):
You were building the Panama Canal.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's all right, Margaret. Let's just be thankful that we
have one sensible child.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes, dear, which one would that be?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Kathy?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Kathy Me?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
That's right, Kathy. She wanted the doll But did she
bother me for the money. No, she's earning it by
selling those Pelican banks.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Kathleen.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'm sorry, mommy, I guess.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It slipped Kathy, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Why nothing, daddy, Jim? Something is the matter? She's shaking
like a leave.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I'll get it.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
You stay right where you are.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
But that isn't the dog bell?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
A phone? Answer it?
Speaker 7 (06:01):
I'm supposed to answer the doorbell. Why do I have
to answer the phone, doll.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
That's what's wrong with this country. We're a nation of specialists.
I suppose he expects time and a half were answering
anything but doorbells, Jim hm, oh, all right, Kathy, what
is it?
Speaker 9 (06:19):
I'll go away, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'll go out west and start all over again if
I won't bring disgrace to the family.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
What brought that off?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Daddy?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's for you, Thank you, Bud.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I'll be right there, Kathy. This little girl you've been
talking about. That wouldn't be you.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Would it, wouldn't it.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
You see that all that he had to do was
answer it in the first place, Down and finish your dinner.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Holy call, Kathy? What have you done?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I was trying to save them some trouble, Daddy, That's
all I was doing. Save who trouble? The Pelican people?
They said it was worth two dollars, so I didn't
think they'd mind.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
What was worth two dollars. The doll Now, look, Kathy.
Speaker 10 (07:06):
Jim, if we're going over to the smiths, this is
just as important as going over to the smith's margaret.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
If Kathy's done anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But I haven't, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And why all this hogwash about being a cattle rustler
in the wide open spaces.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Because they said I did and I didn't.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
Well, while you're trying to figure that out, I'll go
upstairs and comb my hair.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
You do that, go upstairs and comb everybody's hair. Kathy, Yes, Daddy,
start from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
About what Daddy.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
The Pelicans, what did you do?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They said in the comic book that if I sent
away for twelve plastic Pelican banks and sold them for
fifty cents apiece, they give me a doll worth two whole.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Dollars, and you sent away for them. Uh huh, All
right after there, it makes sense. Now, how many did
you sell?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Four?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Only four?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, everybody else sent away for him too. They were
trying to sell them.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
To me, Cassy. If you can't sell the other eight,
just send them back.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I did, and they got mad and sent them back
to me.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Well, that doesn't seem logical, as long as you sent
them the two dollars for the four you sold. You
did send them that, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
How could I? I used that to pay for.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
The doll, Casey.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They said they were going to send me a doll,
and I just thought I'd say from the trouble, and
I bought the doll myself.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
The doll?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
The doll it died, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I was playing Red Cross with Patty Davis, and that
was the doll we used for blood.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Confusions, she means transfusions, Dan, thank you very much, Cassie.
Confusion means something else, like when you see a boy
on a bicycle and he.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Isn't wearing a brisk.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Mother, the most wonderful thing has happened. Marian Swift has
a cold.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Well that's maybe if she's real lucky, it'll turn into pneumonia. Father, Well,
what did you expect me to say? Marian Swift has
a cold.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
But don't you see she was going to babysit to
the halfways tonight and Friday and Saturday, and now.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
She can and I'm going to well that's more like it.
We're finally beginning to show a little ambition around here.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
I've got to be at the halfways in five minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Where's mother?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I'll tell you mother. You just go ahead.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Oh father, I've never been so happy in my whole life.
That's beautiful dress.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Say I've got an idea.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well treated gently, it's in a strange Please.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Got an idea. I'll make a million? Betty, Hey, Betty,
wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I want to ask yourself.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Then, and he wanted to tell me what confusion was.
All right, Kathy, Now where were we?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
They were gonna put me in prison?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
No one's going to put you in prison.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
But the letter said I was responsible, and I have
to send them six dollars and I don't have six dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I'll give you two dollars and you can send them
that and the rest of the banks they.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Don't want them. Then answer, they've got enough banks?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
All fine?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
What am I gonna do? Daddy?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh, there's only one thing you can do. You've got
to sell the other eight Pelicans.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But I tried and I couldn't. Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
You didn't go about it the right way. You've got
to create a market, build up a desire for Pelicans,
make the entire neighborhood Pelican bank conscious.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
How do I do that.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
It's very simple. Kathy, put up little signs, advertise, get
yourself a slogan, and spread it all over town. Like pelicans.
They fill the bill. Or you can bank on Kathy's pelican.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You mean, then they'll buy them, of.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Course, with men who know they're banking best. It's pelicans
two to one.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Watch the pelicans go by.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
That's the idea.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Pelicans are better than ever. Now you're rolling be a
Pelican of distinction.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
That's enough.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
What this country needs is a good five cent pelican.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I said, that's enough.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'm sorry, Daddy. I guess I was just carried away.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
That isn't a bad idea either.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I'm ready just a second.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Honey, Now are you all straightened out?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh yes, daddy, Yeah, I want to tell we're Betty
and Bun Margaret.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
You can make fun of my lectures all you like,
but every once in a while they do hit home.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Daddy told me how to sell my Pelican banks nmmy.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Oh that's fine here, Jim, Betty and Bud haven't even
started on the dishes.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Where are they?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Oh? I guess I forgot about the dishes, honey. But
you know that little talk I gave them tonight. Well,
Betty has already gotten a job as a babysitter. She
has has she that's right.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And Bud I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
He went off screaming that he's going to make millions.
Really took it to heart. Don't take your coat off, Margaret.
I'll be ready to go in two seconds to go
where to the smiths? Naturally?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And who is going to take care of Kathy?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Oh no, how could anybody be that stupid?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh, daddy, you aren't stupid.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Stop arguing, Kathleen. This is one time when.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
These days, coffee's making good news in grocery stores everywhere.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
In city markets and country stores alike.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Grocers are featuring Maxwell House coffee at lower prices. Yes, now,
the coffee with that wonderful good to the last drop
flavor comes to you at the lowest prices in months.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
And it's a mighty welcome occasion.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
For everyone, you, your grocer, and for us Maxwell House
people too. You see, we have one aim with our
coffee to bring you the most in flavor and enjoyment
every pound you buy, To bring you truly good coffee
at the lowest possible price.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
That's our way of doing business, and seems you folks
like it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You've made our Maxwell House Coffee America's favorite brand because
you can count on that famous flavor every cup you pour,
because you find more flavor for your money back impact
in that familiar blue tin. And at today's prices, Maxwell
House is more than ever today's coffee by look for
it feature these days, at the lowest prices in months.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Enjoy the coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It's some time later in Springfield. We don't know exactly
how much later, but believe me, it's later than you think.
Bud is well on his way to a fluorescent cap
and socks. Betty has her dress, and Kathy, well, Kathy
has her pelicans. Put them all together. And what his
father got? That's right, a headache like this?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Oh yes, missus Lawson, we guarantee all our babysitters.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But will you please get off the phone just.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
A minute, missus Lawson, please, Dad, missus Austin is a
brand new customer.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I have to be polite to her.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I would like to use the phone you bet then, Hello,
missus Lawson, No, it was just my father. God Well,
I can give you Joe Phillips. He's one of our
best babysitters.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
But oh yes, ma'am, he's as good as any girl
babysitter in town. But that's eight o'clock Friday. Okay, missus lawson,
he'll be there, and thank you very much. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Dad? That's three for just Friday.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Let me have the phone.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
But I have to call Joe before he goes.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh, let me have the phone.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Holy cow, Dad, this is business. I wouldn't care for it.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Oh no, excuse me, Dad, Anderson Babysiti is incorporated.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
But and.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Now I've heard everything.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Oh sure, he's right here. It's for you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Whoa, how did that ever happen? Please don't talk too long, dad,
I've got important things to do. Yes.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Hello, Oh yes, mister Bryant, Kathy's principal.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Uh just a minute, please, yes, go away, but I
have to go away.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Good gravy. Try to run a business around this place.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I'm sorry, mister Brian. I was just telling my son
they have.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
They were.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
She did well.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I will naturally you would be upset, yes, of course. Oh,
I promise you it will never happen again. Thank you,
mister Brian, And thank you for calling. Good night, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Did you call me, Daddy?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I just got a call from mister Bryant, the Principle,
the Principle, and he tells me you've been defacing public property.
I have, well, haven't you.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Oh no, Daddy, I wouldn't do a thing like that.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Mister Bryant said, you've practiced ruined the entire west wall
of the school.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh I did not. All I did was write signs
on it, Kathy. Oh you told me to advertise, Daddy.
I just wrote slogans about the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I told you to write little signs on paper. I
didn't tell you to put chalk marks all over the school.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It wasn't chalk, Daddy, it was paid.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Oh, I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I didn't think anybody would mind. And I sold practically
all the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Pelicans, morning, noon and night Pelicans. Kathy, Why do you
do things like this to me?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But it was my best printing, Daddy. I thought you'd
be proud of me.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I've got to pay to have the whole wall cleave.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Maybe if I told mister Bryant I was sorry, that'll
do a lot of good telling him you're sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Mister Anderson good evening, officer. Now what have we done?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
I came him?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Oh sure, just to come on in and make yourself
at home.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Accurate. Miserable night, isn't.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
It, Yes, miserable. Don't go away, Cathy. This probably concerns you.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
He is, daddy.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Go ahead, officer, mister Anderson, we understand that you are
operating an employment office at this address. Now that's my side, Bud,
the king of the boy babysitters.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
I guess it.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Isn't anything I did, Hi, daddy, All right, go back
to whatever you were doing. Thank you, daddy.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Mister Anderson, your son has been operating an employment office
charging a fee of ten percent, and he has no
state license. A license. Whether they're just kids, I know,
but the state law sales officer. All he did was
organize the boys of the neighborhood as babysitters, and they
pay him a fee. The point, mister Anderson, they pay
him a fee, and in order to collect that fee,
(18:54):
he must have a state license. There's a fine of
five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Why we naturally feel.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Hollo here now, there's no reason to be upset, mister Anderson.
I'm sure you can explain to the.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Judge, Judge, you mean I have to go to court. Well,
according to the law, I have to give you a summons.
But I'm sure that if you explained, but you name it,
We've got it. It was paint all over the school.
You run an employment office without a license or what?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Father?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Mister Anderson, if you're just father, mother's.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What that little monster did to me.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I didn't know you needed a license.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
My new dress, my beautiful dress. Is anything wrong, Jim?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Is anything right?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That's the question.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Nobody said you needed a license to be a babysitter.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
All I did was sit on the bench at the
bus stop and look at it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Pelicans.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
See, mister Anderson, if the girls can.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Be babysitter is and they don't need a license, why
do we need a license?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
You were running an employment agency. You were getting jobs
for people.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Just baby sitting jobs.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Do you want me, daddy, Kathy? I I could strangle you.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Look at your sister's dress. My pelicans, it were mister Anderson.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I don't they look wonderful? Daddy? Then it was my idea,
the first time I've even.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Had a dress on, and look at it, Kathy, what
was your idea.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Drawing pelicans on the benches with chalk. Then when the
people sit down, they get pelcans on them, and then
when they walk around, everybody sees them. Isn't that the
way you.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Advertise, Kathy, go up to your room.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
But you said if I wanted to sell pelicans, I said,
go up to your room. Gee, when.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
My babysat for three whole lives and and look at
my dress.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But he stop acting like an infant. It's only chalk,
and we'll have it cleaned.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But I was gonna wear it tonight and.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Wear something else.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Jump and creeper.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'll talk to you in just a minute, officer. Mister Anderson,
Let's just forget the whole thing. Shall what you said
about the summons?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Brother?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
If I gave you a.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Ticket, I couldn't sleep tonight, you couldn't. I don't have
any kids on my own. Would you like some of mine?
I'm just tell him down at the station that everything's
(21:41):
all taken care of. Well, thank you, officer, And there
didn't be any more of the you know, the employment
office folded five minutes ago. That's the idea, Thanks again, officer.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Good luck, mister Anderson. Brother, you can use it.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Good night?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
How did I know you needed a license? Nobody? Cold?
Good Jim?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
What on earth is going on down here?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Margaret? Five minutes ago, I was practically on my way
to jail. What a five hundred dollars?
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Five that's what it was going to cost me? Jim,
That's impossible. How could a little girl like Kathy put it?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Wasn't Kathy. It was Bud.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Bud, Oh, Bud? How could you?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
How could I want?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Look, Margaret, it's all over now, so let's just forget
about it. But the next time anybody says, babysitter or
pelican or bud, what have you got in your hand?
Speaker 7 (22:32):
In my hand?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (22:35):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
But when you stop repeating everything, I say, what have
you got in your hand?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
A pelican?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Take it outside and burn it.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
But it's Kathy's dad. I found it on the dining
room table.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I said, burn it. Put it the incinerator. I never
want to see another pelican as long as I live.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
But this is the last one.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
It's good. Let's make sure it is the last one.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Mom, do as your father tells you. Bud, you mean
a perfectly good pelican.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Bud, Holy call Jim, honey, we've got to do something
about the children. I know, dear, But when you get
to the point where a policeman feels sorry for you,
well that's the end.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Jim.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
I don't know what you're talking about, but I do
know that you've broken Kathy's heart.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Well, that isn't where she's going to be affected next.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
She's been working very hard, and she's been doing it
all for you, for me, that's what she said.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
She didn't have to paint signs all over the school
to sell eight puny little pelicans.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Eight she's already sold eight dozen? What eight dozen? And
she's getting more orders every day.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
But why what can she possibly do with that many dolls?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
She's going to.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
Sell them to and give you the money to pay
for the damage she's done. Well, frankly, I think you
owe her an apology, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Kathy, Honey, you don't know what she's been doing. She
smeared paint all over the school.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You want me, mommy, your father has something to say
to you, dear.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Okay, She put chalk pelicans all over the bus benches.
If I have to pay for cleaning the clothes of
all the people who sat.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Down on them, I am, daddy.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Kathy, your mother tells me you've been selling a lot
of pelicans.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh I have, Daddy. I've sold ninety five, and when
I sell one more, i'll be all finished.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Oh that's fine, dear. I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I've got almost forty eight dollars. And when I sell
the last pelican.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Gosh, what is it, Kathy?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
My pelican? What happened to it?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Kathy?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But I just saw it. It was in the dining
room and I went upstairs.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
We won't worry about that, Pela. I'll give you the
fifty cents and we'll consider the whole matter. Clothes.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh, Daddy, you have to help me. I have to
find the telecus, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
One little pelican isn't that important?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
This one is.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
That's where I hit all the money.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
The coffee section in your grocery store, that's the place
to see.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Welcome news.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
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our sad little tale. All is well, that ends well,
That's what they say, And so let's listen in at
the Anderson breakfast table to a happier conclusion than we
might imagine. Like this, Jin, Margaret, I'm in no mood
to discuss anything. May I please be permitted the pleasure
suffering in silence?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
But Bud has something very important to tell you.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Oh yes, I'm sure it must be well, go ahead, Bud.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Dad, I'm sorry I disobeyed you about what about the Pelican?
But gosh, I didn't see any sense to burning a
perfectly good thing.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Like that what he didn't burn it, Jim, He didn't.
I found it up in his room with the money. Yes, dear, Oh, I'm.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Sorry Dad, Bud, don't ever disobey me again. No, Dad,
it's the worst thing a boy can do. I know, Dad,
when I give you an order, I expected to be
carried out.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Yes, Dad, So here's two dollars.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Go get yourself a fluorescent cap and socks. On the
other hand, there's another proverb. Everything happened in that says,
and a pudding have Kathy, it would seem is the
other end of the pudding like this, Daddy, Kathy, don't
you think you've caused enough trouble around here for the
time being.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh well, this isn't any trouble, daddy. This is just wonderful.
I won the prize.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
What prize?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I sold more Pelican banks than anybody in the springfield
and they gave me the grand prize.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And you know what it is, a real live powers.
Speaker 13 (28:47):
Tell the kids it's a hot favorite with hoppy. That's
hot post sweetmeal. You shouldn't let youngsters go to school
without a hot cereal these mornings, So just tell him
how hop a long cassidy goes for hot post tweetmeal
and watch those kids gobble it up. Post Tweetmeal has
a rich nut like flavor, It's crammed with solid nourishment.
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It cooks in just three and a half minutes. And
tell the kids it's Hoppy's favorite.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You'll see you'll all agree it's the best hot cereal
you ever ate. Join us again next week when we'll
be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is,
Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra
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and yours truly, Bill Foreman. So until next Thursday, goodnight
and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's
favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best is transcribed in Hollywood and written by V. James.
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Speaker 1 (30:12):
Please send your questions and comments to host at classiccomedyotr
dot com. Until next time. In the words of my
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Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your host,
Ron Eckelbarger. All three of the kids want money, so
father tells them to go out and earn it. It
might have been cheaper and easier to just give them
the money in the first place. This is episode number
fifty six of Father Knows Best, entitled Enterprising Kids. It
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originally aired on November sixteenth, nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mother is Naxville House the desk coffee in the whole world.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, it's Father Knows Best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons,
brought to you by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought
and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of
coffee at any price. Maxwell House always good to the
last drop. A wonderful bird is.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
The pelly can.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
His bill will hold more than his belly can. He
can take in his beak food enough for a week.
As for flying, you know, gosh darned welly can. With
this bit of deathless verse, we highest the springfield in
the white frame house on Maple Street. There we find
the Andersen's at dinner, and there, as usual, we find
a problem. It's all about socks or is it a dress,
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or well, it's about something like this.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So this little girl said to me, Kathy, she said,
I'm going away. I'm going out west where there's wide
open spaces and cattle and rustlers and bandits and everything.
And I said to her, you are And she said.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
To me, Kathy, yes, Daddy passed the butter.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Please, yes, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
They only cost two dollars, Dad. And that's to the
caf and the socks.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's a bargain, bud, that's what it is, an absolute bargain.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
You mean I can get them?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No, this is very good roast, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
If it's a bargain, why can I get them?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Because I'm not giving you the two dollars, that's why.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And she said to me, I'm tired of being treated
like a crinimal, That's what. And I said to her, Kathy, yes, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Has anyone ever told you that you talked too much?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And I said to her, who's treating you like a crinimal?
And she said, Father, it was fifteen ninety five, less
than a week ago.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And now, it's only eight point fifty, Denny.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I wasn't finished.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
And if you can give Bud two dollars for something
dopey like a hat and sock, but light up.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
They don't light up, Betty, they just look like they
light up.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I wasn't finished, mother. It's in that new shade of
gun metal, and if I don't get it, I'll simply die.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
We'll miss you, dear, don't.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Father gave him the two dollars, and you can see
Joe coming two blocks away.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I don't care if you can see him. Claire over
in West Springfield.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So I said, why do you have to go out with?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And she said, Kathy, what? We don't care?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You don't, Kathy, you haven't touched your dinner.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I'm not very hungry, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
We have an appointment to spend the evening with mister
and missus Smith. We haven't got all night to fool around,
So eat your dinner and behave yourself.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Waterflowers.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Riding along on my bicycle and the truck driver didn't
see me.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
What truck driver?
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Any truck driver? If I had a fluorescent caf.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
On Bud, Yes, no, father, I am not going to
give but two dollars for pink socks. And I'm not
going to give you eight fifty for a dress, now,
is that understood?
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Good?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Father?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I need it all right.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Then it's up to you to figure some way of
getting it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's what I was trying to do.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You're a grown girl, Betty, you're seventeen years old. If
your entire life depends on getting a dress, go out
and earn the money for it.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Dad.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
When I was a boy, I worked for the things
I wanted. I didn't feel I was too good to
work at anything that came along. I washed dishes, shovel snow,
dug ditches.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Dad.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
But will you.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Stop interrupting me?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
But I want to ask you something. If I are
in the money, then can I buy the sox? Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Oh? Where was I?
Speaker 8 (05:11):
You were building the Panama Canal.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's all right, Margaret. Let's just be thankful that we
have one sensible child.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes, dear, which one would that be?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Kathy?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Kathy Me?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
That's right, Kathy. She wanted the doll But did she
bother me for the money. No, she's earning it by
selling those Pelican banks.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Kathleen.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'm sorry, mommy, I guess.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It slipped Kathy, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Why nothing, daddy, Jim? Something is the matter? She's shaking
like a leave.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I'll get it.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
You stay right where you are.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
But that isn't the dog bell?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
A phone? Answer it?
Speaker 7 (06:01):
I'm supposed to answer the doorbell. Why do I have
to answer the phone, doll.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
That's what's wrong with this country. We're a nation of specialists.
I suppose he expects time and a half were answering
anything but doorbells, Jim hm, oh, all right, Kathy, what
is it?
Speaker 9 (06:19):
I'll go away, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'll go out west and start all over again if
I won't bring disgrace to the family.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
What brought that off?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Daddy?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's for you, Thank you, Bud.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I'll be right there, Kathy. This little girl you've been
talking about. That wouldn't be you.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Would it, wouldn't it.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
You see that all that he had to do was
answer it in the first place, Down and finish your dinner.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Holy call, Kathy? What have you done?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I was trying to save them some trouble, Daddy, That's
all I was doing. Save who trouble? The Pelican people?
They said it was worth two dollars, so I didn't
think they'd mind.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
What was worth two dollars. The doll Now, look, Kathy.
Speaker 10 (07:06):
Jim, if we're going over to the smiths, this is
just as important as going over to the smith's margaret.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
If Kathy's done anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But I haven't, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And why all this hogwash about being a cattle rustler
in the wide open spaces.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Because they said I did and I didn't.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
Well, while you're trying to figure that out, I'll go
upstairs and comb my hair.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
You do that, go upstairs and comb everybody's hair. Kathy, Yes, Daddy,
start from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
About what Daddy.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
The Pelicans, what did you do?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They said in the comic book that if I sent
away for twelve plastic Pelican banks and sold them for
fifty cents apiece, they give me a doll worth two whole.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Dollars, and you sent away for them. Uh huh, All
right after there, it makes sense. Now, how many did
you sell?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Four?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Only four?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, everybody else sent away for him too. They were
trying to sell them.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
To me, Cassy. If you can't sell the other eight,
just send them back.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I did, and they got mad and sent them back
to me.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Well, that doesn't seem logical, as long as you sent
them the two dollars for the four you sold. You
did send them that, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
How could I? I used that to pay for.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
The doll, Casey.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They said they were going to send me a doll,
and I just thought I'd say from the trouble, and
I bought the doll myself.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
The doll?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
The doll it died, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I was playing Red Cross with Patty Davis, and that
was the doll we used for blood.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Confusions, she means transfusions, Dan, thank you very much, Cassie.
Confusion means something else, like when you see a boy
on a bicycle and he.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Isn't wearing a brisk.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Mother, the most wonderful thing has happened. Marian Swift has
a cold.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Well that's maybe if she's real lucky, it'll turn into pneumonia. Father, Well,
what did you expect me to say? Marian Swift has
a cold.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
But don't you see she was going to babysit to
the halfways tonight and Friday and Saturday, and now.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
She can and I'm going to well that's more like it.
We're finally beginning to show a little ambition around here.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
I've got to be at the halfways in five minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Where's mother?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I'll tell you mother. You just go ahead.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Oh father, I've never been so happy in my whole life.
That's beautiful dress.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Say I've got an idea.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well treated gently, it's in a strange Please.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Got an idea. I'll make a million? Betty, Hey, Betty,
wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I want to ask yourself.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Then, and he wanted to tell me what confusion was.
All right, Kathy, Now where were we?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
They were gonna put me in prison?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
No one's going to put you in prison.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
But the letter said I was responsible, and I have
to send them six dollars and I don't have six dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I'll give you two dollars and you can send them
that and the rest of the banks they.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Don't want them. Then answer, they've got enough banks?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
All fine?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
What am I gonna do? Daddy?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh, there's only one thing you can do. You've got
to sell the other eight Pelicans.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But I tried and I couldn't. Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
You didn't go about it the right way. You've got
to create a market, build up a desire for Pelicans,
make the entire neighborhood Pelican bank conscious.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
How do I do that.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
It's very simple. Kathy, put up little signs, advertise, get
yourself a slogan, and spread it all over town. Like pelicans.
They fill the bill. Or you can bank on Kathy's pelican.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You mean, then they'll buy them, of.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Course, with men who know they're banking best. It's pelicans
two to one.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Watch the pelicans go by.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
That's the idea.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Pelicans are better than ever. Now you're rolling be a
Pelican of distinction.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
That's enough.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
What this country needs is a good five cent pelican.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I said, that's enough.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'm sorry, Daddy. I guess I was just carried away.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
That isn't a bad idea either.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I'm ready just a second.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Honey, Now are you all straightened out?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh yes, daddy, Yeah, I want to tell we're Betty
and Bun Margaret.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
You can make fun of my lectures all you like,
but every once in a while they do hit home.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Daddy told me how to sell my Pelican banks nmmy.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Oh that's fine here, Jim, Betty and Bud haven't even
started on the dishes.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Where are they?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Oh? I guess I forgot about the dishes, honey. But
you know that little talk I gave them tonight. Well,
Betty has already gotten a job as a babysitter. She
has has she that's right.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And Bud I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
He went off screaming that he's going to make millions.
Really took it to heart. Don't take your coat off, Margaret.
I'll be ready to go in two seconds to go
where to the smiths? Naturally?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And who is going to take care of Kathy?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Oh no, how could anybody be that stupid?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh, daddy, you aren't stupid.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Stop arguing, Kathleen. This is one time when.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
These days, coffee's making good news in grocery stores everywhere.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
In city markets and country stores alike.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
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the coffee with that wonderful good to the last drop
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Speaker 5 (13:32):
And it's a mighty welcome occasion.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
For everyone, you, your grocer, and for us Maxwell House
people too. You see, we have one aim with our
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at the lowest possible price.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
That's our way of doing business, and seems you folks
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Speaker 4 (13:54):
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Speaker 5 (14:17):
Enjoy the coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It's some time later in Springfield. We don't know exactly
how much later, but believe me, it's later than you think.
Bud is well on his way to a fluorescent cap
and socks. Betty has her dress, and Kathy, well, Kathy
has her pelicans. Put them all together. And what his
father got? That's right, a headache like this?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Oh yes, missus Lawson, we guarantee all our babysitters.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But will you please get off the phone just.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
A minute, missus Lawson, please, Dad, missus Austin is a
brand new customer.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I have to be polite to her.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I would like to use the phone you bet then, Hello,
missus Lawson, No, it was just my father. God Well,
I can give you Joe Phillips. He's one of our
best babysitters.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
But oh yes, ma'am, he's as good as any girl
babysitter in town. But that's eight o'clock Friday. Okay, missus lawson,
he'll be there, and thank you very much. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Dad? That's three for just Friday.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Let me have the phone.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
But I have to call Joe before he goes.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh, let me have the phone.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Holy cow, Dad, this is business. I wouldn't care for it.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Oh no, excuse me, Dad, Anderson Babysiti is incorporated.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
But and.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Now I've heard everything.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Oh sure, he's right here. It's for you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Whoa, how did that ever happen? Please don't talk too long, dad,
I've got important things to do. Yes.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Hello, Oh yes, mister Bryant, Kathy's principal.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Uh just a minute, please, yes, go away, but I
have to go away.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Good gravy. Try to run a business around this place.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I'm sorry, mister Brian. I was just telling my son
they have.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
They were.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
She did well.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I will naturally you would be upset, yes, of course. Oh,
I promise you it will never happen again. Thank you,
mister Brian, And thank you for calling. Good night, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Did you call me, Daddy?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I just got a call from mister Bryant, the Principle,
the Principle, and he tells me you've been defacing public property.
I have, well, haven't you.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Oh no, Daddy, I wouldn't do a thing like that.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Mister Bryant said, you've practiced ruined the entire west wall
of the school.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh I did not. All I did was write signs
on it, Kathy. Oh you told me to advertise, Daddy.
I just wrote slogans about the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I told you to write little signs on paper. I
didn't tell you to put chalk marks all over the school.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It wasn't chalk, Daddy, it was paid.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Oh, I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I didn't think anybody would mind. And I sold practically
all the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Pelicans, morning, noon and night Pelicans. Kathy, Why do you
do things like this to me?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But it was my best printing, Daddy. I thought you'd
be proud of me.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I've got to pay to have the whole wall cleave.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Maybe if I told mister Bryant I was sorry, that'll
do a lot of good telling him you're sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Mister Anderson good evening, officer. Now what have we done?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
I came him?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Oh sure, just to come on in and make yourself
at home.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Accurate. Miserable night, isn't.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
It, Yes, miserable. Don't go away, Cathy. This probably concerns you.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
He is, daddy.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Go ahead, officer, mister Anderson, we understand that you are
operating an employment office at this address. Now that's my side, Bud,
the king of the boy babysitters.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
I guess it.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Isn't anything I did, Hi, daddy, All right, go back
to whatever you were doing. Thank you, daddy.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Mister Anderson, your son has been operating an employment office
charging a fee of ten percent, and he has no
state license. A license. Whether they're just kids, I know,
but the state law sales officer. All he did was
organize the boys of the neighborhood as babysitters, and they
pay him a fee. The point, mister Anderson, they pay
him a fee, and in order to collect that fee,
(18:54):
he must have a state license. There's a fine of
five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Why we naturally feel.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Hollo here now, there's no reason to be upset, mister Anderson.
I'm sure you can explain to the.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Judge, Judge, you mean I have to go to court. Well,
according to the law, I have to give you a summons.
But I'm sure that if you explained, but you name it,
We've got it. It was paint all over the school.
You run an employment office without a license or what?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Father?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Mister Anderson, if you're just father, mother's.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What that little monster did to me.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I didn't know you needed a license.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
My new dress, my beautiful dress. Is anything wrong, Jim?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Is anything right?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That's the question.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Nobody said you needed a license to be a babysitter.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
All I did was sit on the bench at the
bus stop and look at it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Pelicans.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
See, mister Anderson, if the girls can.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Be babysitter is and they don't need a license, why
do we need a license?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
You were running an employment agency. You were getting jobs
for people.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Just baby sitting jobs.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Do you want me, daddy, Kathy? I I could strangle you.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Look at your sister's dress. My pelicans, it were mister Anderson.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I don't they look wonderful? Daddy? Then it was my idea,
the first time I've even.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Had a dress on, and look at it, Kathy, what
was your idea.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Drawing pelicans on the benches with chalk. Then when the
people sit down, they get pelcans on them, and then
when they walk around, everybody sees them. Isn't that the
way you.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Advertise, Kathy, go up to your room.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
But you said if I wanted to sell pelicans, I said,
go up to your room. Gee, when.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
My babysat for three whole lives and and look at
my dress.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But he stop acting like an infant. It's only chalk,
and we'll have it cleaned.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But I was gonna wear it tonight and.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Wear something else.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Jump and creeper.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'll talk to you in just a minute, officer. Mister Anderson,
Let's just forget the whole thing. Shall what you said
about the summons?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Brother?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
If I gave you a.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Ticket, I couldn't sleep tonight, you couldn't. I don't have
any kids on my own. Would you like some of mine?
I'm just tell him down at the station that everything's
(21:41):
all taken care of. Well, thank you, officer, And there
didn't be any more of the you know, the employment
office folded five minutes ago. That's the idea, Thanks again, officer.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Good luck, mister Anderson. Brother, you can use it.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Good night?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
How did I know you needed a license? Nobody? Cold?
Good Jim?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
What on earth is going on down here?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Margaret? Five minutes ago, I was practically on my way
to jail. What a five hundred dollars?
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Five that's what it was going to cost me? Jim,
That's impossible. How could a little girl like Kathy put it?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Wasn't Kathy. It was Bud.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Bud, Oh, Bud? How could you?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
How could I want?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Look, Margaret, it's all over now, so let's just forget
about it. But the next time anybody says, babysitter or
pelican or bud, what have you got in your hand?
Speaker 7 (22:32):
In my hand?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (22:35):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
But when you stop repeating everything, I say, what have
you got in your hand?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
A pelican?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Take it outside and burn it.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
But it's Kathy's dad. I found it on the dining
room table.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I said, burn it. Put it the incinerator. I never
want to see another pelican as long as I live.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
But this is the last one.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
It's good. Let's make sure it is the last one.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Mom, do as your father tells you. Bud, you mean
a perfectly good pelican.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Bud, Holy call Jim, honey, we've got to do something
about the children. I know, dear, But when you get
to the point where a policeman feels sorry for you,
well that's the end.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Jim.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
I don't know what you're talking about, but I do
know that you've broken Kathy's heart.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Well, that isn't where she's going to be affected next.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
She's been working very hard, and she's been doing it
all for you, for me, that's what she said.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
She didn't have to paint signs all over the school
to sell eight puny little pelicans.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Eight she's already sold eight dozen? What eight dozen? And
she's getting more orders every day.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
But why what can she possibly do with that many dolls?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
She's going to.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
Sell them to and give you the money to pay
for the damage she's done. Well, frankly, I think you
owe her an apology, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Kathy, Honey, you don't know what she's been doing. She
smeared paint all over the school.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You want me, mommy, your father has something to say
to you, dear.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Okay, She put chalk pelicans all over the bus benches.
If I have to pay for cleaning the clothes of
all the people who sat.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Down on them, I am, daddy.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Kathy, your mother tells me you've been selling a lot
of pelicans.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh I have, Daddy. I've sold ninety five, and when
I sell one more, i'll be all finished.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Oh that's fine, dear. I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I've got almost forty eight dollars. And when I sell
the last pelican.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Gosh, what is it, Kathy?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
My pelican? What happened to it?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Kathy?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But I just saw it. It was in the dining
room and I went upstairs.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
We won't worry about that, Pela. I'll give you the
fifty cents and we'll consider the whole matter. Clothes.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh, Daddy, you have to help me. I have to
find the telecus, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
One little pelican isn't that important?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
This one is.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
That's where I hit all the money.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
The coffee section in your grocery store, that's the place
to see.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Welcome news.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
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our sad little tale. All is well, that ends well,
That's what they say, And so let's listen in at
the Anderson breakfast table to a happier conclusion than we
might imagine. Like this, Jin, Margaret, I'm in no mood
to discuss anything. May I please be permitted the pleasure
suffering in silence?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
But Bud has something very important to tell you.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Oh yes, I'm sure it must be well, go ahead, Bud.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Dad, I'm sorry I disobeyed you about what about the Pelican?
But gosh, I didn't see any sense to burning a
perfectly good thing.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Like that what he didn't burn it, Jim, He didn't.
I found it up in his room with the money. Yes, dear, Oh, I'm.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Sorry Dad, Bud, don't ever disobey me again. No, Dad,
it's the worst thing a boy can do. I know, Dad,
when I give you an order, I expected to be
carried out.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Yes, Dad, So here's two dollars.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Go get yourself a fluorescent cap and socks. On the
other hand, there's another proverb. Everything happened in that says,
and a pudding have Kathy, it would seem is the
other end of the pudding like this, Daddy, Kathy, don't
you think you've caused enough trouble around here for the
time being.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh well, this isn't any trouble, daddy. This is just wonderful.
I won the prize.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
What prize?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I sold more Pelican banks than anybody in the springfield
and they gave me the grand prize.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And you know what it is, a real live powers.
Speaker 13 (28:47):
Tell the kids it's a hot favorite with hoppy. That's
hot post sweetmeal. You shouldn't let youngsters go to school
without a hot cereal these mornings, So just tell him
how hop a long cassidy goes for hot post tweetmeal
and watch those kids gobble it up. Post Tweetmeal has
a rich nut like flavor, It's crammed with solid nourishment.
(29:07):
It cooks in just three and a half minutes. And
tell the kids it's Hoppy's favorite.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You'll see you'll all agree it's the best hot cereal
you ever ate. Join us again next week when we'll
be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is,
Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra
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and yours truly, Bill Foreman. So until next Thursday, goodnight
and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's
favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best is transcribed in Hollywood and written by V. James.
Now stay tuned in for a drag net which follows
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Speaker 1 (30:12):
Please send your questions and comments to host at classiccomedyotr
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