July 21, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Why did daddy switch to post him?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Your father says, there's no caffeining post him, nothing to
spoil your sleep, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood, Sorry, Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors. The Anderson brought to you
by instant post them a good tasting drink that's entirely
caffeine free, and by post forty percent brand plates America's
largest selling brand flakes.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
As far back.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
As history has recorded her activities, woman has been a
rather puzzling creature, especially when she's going through what is
known as the teenage. A good case in point is
young Betty Anderson. But before we can reveal a capricious
maneuver where's of her feminine mine, we must first look
in on the principal male member of the family, Jim Anderson,
as he settles himself in the den to do some
(01:08):
work in the quiet of his home.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Like this, I see now. It so ought it'd be
a good place for the dictating machine.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Letty, carefully, you don't scratch the table.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Dear, This won't scratch it. I have it on my
desk at the office. All the time.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I don't see why you had to love that home.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
I told you.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Why, honey.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I have a lot of letters to dictate, and it's
impossible to do it at the office while they're remodeling
the building. Air hammers pounding away, pneumatic drills enough to
drive a man crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, it'll be nice and quiet here, and I won't
let the children bother you.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Good, want me to close the door, that's a good idea.
Speaker 8 (01:42):
Anything you want now, No, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, I'll keep the children quiet.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Good. Well, let's see here now, letters might as well start.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
With this one. I guess uh, mister Burnham W.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Gillespie four four seven North Menlow Street, Dear Sir and
Ray Policy number eight two one X four nine.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Four nine three Q under separate cover.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
We are returning your above numbered policy together with good Daddy.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Kathy, I'm trying to do some work.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's okay, Daddy. You won't bother me Annie. Well, Kathy,
there's a new family moving next door and I want
to watch him on load.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Can't you watch them somewhere else?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This is the only window where you can see them.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Well, all right, but just be quiet, I will, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Let's see here, returning your above numbered policy together with
the loan agreements and the vouchers.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Hi, Dad, I'll come your home.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Oh, got some work to do.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
There's a new family moving in next door.
Speaker 9 (02:53):
Dad, So I've heard move over, shrimp.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
You're taking up all the room.
Speaker 10 (02:57):
But you don't need all that room.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
He looked. But carrying in a bicycle.
Speaker 11 (03:02):
Must have a boy in the family, kids, kids, probably some.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Little squirt about your size.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Boy, I hope.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
So I'm trying to dictate some letters here.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Do you mind?
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Oh? Sorry, Dad, we'll keep quiet.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Where was I?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Yes, returning your above numbered policy with the lone agreements.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Kathy, What are you doing in here?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
They bothering you, dear?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh no, I told them to stay out of here.
Come on, child, to leave your father alone. Just a minute, Mom,
we want to watch just a little longer.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Watch what it seems. There's a new family moving in
next door.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh really, Oh, I didn't know that. Let me see,
bod oh me, Well, look at that lovely buffet. Come here,
dear Margaret, my stars, look at that tomato colored davenport.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Well, gonna make the best of this. Let's see where
was there? I better start over mister Vernham W.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Gillespie four four seven man low Street. Here, sir, under
separate cover.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Hell, father, we are returning.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
You don't make any noise. Your father is trying to work.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You're above numbered policy?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Are you working?
Speaker 10 (04:31):
Father?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Who can tell above numbered policy?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Together, Jenny, we're watching the new family happens.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Oh, how utterly to being can you be?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
With the loan agreements and the voucher I'm ashamed of
you for stooping to such Geez, look at the boy
who just drove up in the station wagon.
Speaker 10 (04:54):
Is he gonna live there?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I suppose so.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Yeah, that's the second time he's living up with a load.
Speaker 10 (05:01):
Oh isn't he?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You?
Speaker 10 (05:05):
And I think he's gonna live right next door?
Speaker 12 (05:07):
Oh, princess, Oh, such beautiful wavy black, utterly utter hair.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
How can I meet him?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Okay, I give up.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
The simplest way I know is to go out there
and say hello, and let me see him.
Speaker 10 (05:25):
Go out there and say hello.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You said you wanted to meet him, didn't you.
Speaker 12 (05:30):
Oh, don't be so utterly modeled, teen, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Let's see how can I do it? I want to
tract his attention in some good subtle way.
Speaker 11 (05:46):
You might go out there and start throwing meatballs at him.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Oh hush, might catch his eye that way. Well, hey,
don't go away, mad.
Speaker 9 (05:57):
My dear sweet beloved family.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Would it be asking too much to have you clear
out of here and let me get to work.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Your father's right, children, You've got to stay out of here.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
In a minute, Mom, no.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Right now, come on, Kathy, All right, mommy, in a minute.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
I hope your kids don't fall out that window.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Come on, children, right this second, okay, mom coming, Holy cow,
Look at Betty out there out where.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
She's out there sweeping the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh my stars.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Right over near the station wagon.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Why didn't she put on a coat. She's going to
catch cold.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
I think she has something ups in mind she's trying
to catch.
Speaker 11 (06:40):
Look, she's practically over on their sidewalk. Now, next time
that guy comes out, he'll tip over.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Well, that's probably the basis of her whole subtle plan.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Derry comes out of the house, it should be.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Very interesting the designing female in operations.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Boy, look at her sweep.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I wish I could get that kind of work out
of her in the kitchen, pretending she doesn't see him.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
He didn't even see her walked around.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Her escape the trap.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
I'm going to call that girl in here. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Wait, mommy, he's gone a lamp and he's heading back again.
Maybe she'll give him this time.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Why doesn't she trip him with the broom?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
By golly, I believe that's what she's.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Going to do.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Oh No, she's spraining her ankle pretty good fall. She
faked there.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
He stopping this time, he has to.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
She's blocking the sidewalk.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
He's bending down. He's going to help her arm.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
No he's not.
Speaker 11 (07:45):
He's just picking up her broom and handing it back
to her.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
Very goodes.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Again, Eh, this boy's no fool.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, I'm going to call her in the house right
this minute, the very idea girl her age.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh I guess I won't have to. She's coming back
in ah shuts.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I thought this was going to be the beginning of
a beautiful romance.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Well in mind, have if she just bothered to use
one little word hello.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't think you quite understand the workings of a
young girl's mind, Jim.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
I'm positive I don't.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I realize that more every day, now that all the
excitement is over, will all you spectators please clear out
and let me get to work.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Come on, children, you've got to stop bobbing your eye this.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
How's your broken leg?
Speaker 10 (08:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You keep quiet, Betty. I don't think it was very
ladylike of you to go out there another There is
the utterly stupidest, the most utterly ignorant boy I've ever
seen in my whole utter life.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I don't know. I thought he was rather a gentleman.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Handed you back your room.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh, you can't ask more than that.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Of a gentleman.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Well, I just hope I never have to speak to
that insufferable lad.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
He's looking over taught our house?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Is he really?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Maybe he saw me? After all?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
How could he help it?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Maybe if i'd put on that pretty new red dress
I've got. I think I'll try it now, Betty, don't
do anything like that.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Oh dear that girl.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, come on, children, let's leave your father alone so
that he can get to work.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Great idea, Come on, Kathy, come on, But wait a minute.
Where is Bud?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I don't know he was right here a minute ago, Bob.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Margaret, can't you hunt for him in some other room?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That's strange how he disappeared so fast.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Well, come on, Kathy, Okay, nimmy, father, what is it?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
Betty? You know where my red is? You mean the
plaid one? I look there, it's not there.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well try the other drawer.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Oh how I longed for the peace and quiet of
the pneumatic drills.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, come on, Kathy, you come out in the kitchen
with me. Okay, Mommy, you go ahead and work.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Jim that was vaguely the plan I had in mind.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Where's Betty? I got news for Hey?
Speaker 10 (10:06):
Where did you go, Bud?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Next door? Where's Betty? She upstairs?
Speaker 10 (10:10):
Did someone call me?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Yeah? I did? Hey, Look I got some new do
I look? Mother?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You look fine, But I don't approve of you dressing
up just to attract some new boy.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
What'll Ralph say about this?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:22):
I'm not speaking to him anymore this week?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Father, Tell me, if you were that boy next door,
would you give me a second look?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Yes, I take a second look to see what you've
done with your room?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Sis. Do you want to hear what I gotta tell you?
Don't you? It's about that cluck next door.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
The new boy.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Yeah, you want to meet him, don't you.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Why do you think I've got on this outfit?
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Well, you're gonna get your wish. I am yep. Fred's
coming over here. That's his name, Fred, He's coming over here. Yep.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
I can hardly believe it. How did you miss any jit?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
It was simple. I just told him you were dying
to meet him, So he's coming over to meet you.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
Oh no, no you didn't. Oh you ruined me?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
What did I do?
Speaker 10 (11:15):
This is the end, the end of everything.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Wait, Betty, it's not as bad as you think.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
Oh this is awful.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Dad, Yes, son.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
What did I do wrong?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I wish I knew son? I wish I knew him.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Jim poor man can't seem to figure out his teenage daughter, Betty. Well,
the ways of most women are sometimes pretty baffling. And
yet take a lady like uh, missus Ed Prentiss. Maybe
I better let ed himself tell you about it.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Ed.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
You know, lots of us men sometimes get the idea
that our women folks aren't as much concerned with our
welfare as they should be. Well, I want to say,
right here and now, it isn't true. And just to
prove it, take my own case. You know how I
first became friends with Posted, Well, it's all because my
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wife figured out just why I wasn't feeling tiptop. I
didn't have sense enough to realize that maybe it was
the caffeine and my coffee that was keeping me awake
nights and all tired out in jittery days.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
But she did.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
She said, look, honey, why don't you switched to post him?
And believe you me? She had the facts too, sure,
She said, post him doesn't have any caffeine, none at all,
and looks to me like you're one of those people
who can't take caffeine, though of course many people can.
So I tried posted and I liked post Him. Still
(13:00):
drink it regularly and sleep. Say you switched to post
them yourself, and see what a wonderful difference it makes
and how you sleep and how you feel. That's post
him instant Poston, the good tasting drink, that's caffeine free.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Well Man has learned how to split the atom. He's
learned how to send voices and pictures through the air.
But by golly, there's one problem he hasn't solved. He
hasn't figured out women. Look at what's going on in
the white frame house on Maple Street. Just because Bud
went next door and told the new boy that Betty
wanted to meet him.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
You think the world was coming to an end.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Jim and Bud and Margaret are in.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
The downstairs hall, and Betty is on the upstairs landing.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
The thunderboats are flying.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Stand back side born to think that my.
Speaker 10 (14:01):
Own brother would do this?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Now, Betty be reasonable?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
How could anybody be so utterly, utterly stupid?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
I did, dear.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Listen, this is the.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
End, the absolute end. I'll never be able to show
my face outside again. I'll have to leave town.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Holly calm, oh.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
To die, to die, but to utterly die.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
She must have popped the.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Car, Bud. You should have known better, Oh I did?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Why is it Bud's fall? Betty was doing everything but
setting the house on fire to meet the boy.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
I know, dear, but simply did the logical thing.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
What's wrong with telling this Freda or whatever his name is,
that Betty wants to meet him and biting him over?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Look, it's very simple.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
When a girl says she wants to meet a boy,
she means that she wants to meet him, but she
wants the boy to not think she wants to meet him,
but that he wants to meet her.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Don't you see, No, you explain it to him, Dear.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Me, explain it. I don't see it either.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, it's so obvious. A girl can't throw herself at a.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Boy, are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
There's nothing more embarrassing to a girl and to have
a boy think she's chasing him.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
You know that, dear, Well, certainly I do.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But you know I have to go off the kitchen.
See what cat you want?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
You understand all that?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Yes, I suppose uh coming to Dan Son, I'll try
to explain, uh see, budle man.
Speaker 11 (15:51):
Gee, the way mom talks you, Well, you think I
committed a crime or something.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Well, some women are funny.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Just between you and me, I knew what your mother
was talking about. I was just acting dumb.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
You're a pretty good actor, you.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
See, Son.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Another thing about women, they'll try to explain to you
how they think that.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
They don't really want you to.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Understand, see what I mean. No, look, I know what's
going on in Betty's mind. There's nothing mysterious about it. First,
she wanted to meet this spread next door, and she
found out you told him that and invited him over.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
And she was embarrassed. Now she won't face it. You
couldn't pay her to meet him.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Gee, you're pretty sharp, dad.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Well I know something about women.
Speaker 10 (16:46):
Father.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Oh yes, princess, what is it?
Speaker 10 (16:49):
Has Fred come over yet?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Red? No? But I thought you didn't want to see him.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
I don't never.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Well, that's what I thought. Where are you going up
to my room?
Speaker 10 (17:02):
And I'm going to stay there. I don't want to
see anybody ever.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
All right, be sure to let me know if he comes.
Speaker 11 (17:15):
Hm, Dad, could you explain that to me again?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I'm sorry, but I have a lot of work to
do here.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I stayed home from the office today.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
So I could.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Daddy, here he comes here?
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Who comes the boy next door?
Speaker 10 (17:33):
He's coming up the wall.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
What are you gonna tell him? Dad?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Well, I can't tell him to go home?
Speaker 10 (17:39):
Here?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
He is here, all right?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
All right?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Want me to go to the door.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
No, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
How do you do, sir? I'm Fred Tibbets. We're moving
in next door.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yes, your son Budd asked me to come over. He said,
his sister.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Betty, come in, Fred, Thank you, Buds in the dam there,
Just go right in.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I'll go up and tell Betty you're here.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
But oh, hid?
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Where is he? Daddy?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
In the den with budd and you stay out of there.
Where are you going upstairs to get your sister?
Speaker 9 (18:13):
I want to stay here and walk you go outside?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Oh dahn, I should have gone to the office.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Benny, come in all right, Princess, friend's here.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
Here.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Are you coming down?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
I know, certainly I'm not, but you told me to
be sure and let you know when he came.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't want to see him, father, I don't want
to see him.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Look, Princess, will you make up your mind?
Speaker 8 (18:43):
I said, I don't want to see him?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
All right, I'll tell him. You don't want to see him.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh, no, don't do that.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
What do you want him to stay?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I certainly do not.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Oh, my aching head, Princess, just give me an answer.
Do you want him to go or do you want
him to stay? No, Betty, the boy is downstairs. What
shall I tell him?
Speaker 10 (19:12):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Father, tell him anything you want?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
All right? You're not interested in seeing him?
Speaker 10 (19:16):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Good.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
All I wanted was a definite answer. Are you ups
coming right down?
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Did you talk to Betty?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I finally figured out that little female mind of hers.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
She really doesn't want to see the boy.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Father. Is there someone here to see.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Me someone, Betty.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I just I thought you had it all figured out, dear.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
Father, who's there?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
No, it's spread princess? Who spread the uh boy from
next door?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Just lean back against the wall, Dar and take a
deep breath.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
I think you're confused, father.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
That is the most accurate statement she's made all there.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
I'll be down in a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
He's dead. Fred's sitting in there. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Well? I'm seriously thinking of going outside and putting my
head in a bucket of cold water.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Dear I can't understand why you're so upset, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I just talked to Betty and she said, I mean
I told her Fred was here. She knows who he is.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Dad, She said, I don't want to see him.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You know what's so strange about that?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Now she's coming down to see him, but she claims
she doesn't know who he is.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Isn't that perfectly natural?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Natural?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Dad, Margaret, you mean you understand what's going on in
that's so called mind of hers?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Well, isn't it rather obvious?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Dear Mom?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
What is it fun?
Speaker 7 (20:52):
That's dad? To look at me?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Dear look at Bud?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
What is it? Bud?
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Mom?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Margaret. There's no rhyme reason.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
There's no rhyme nor reason of the way she's acting,
and you know it.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Holy calm, But.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Why are you standing here muttering? If you have something
to say, say it?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
What do I do with Fred? He's sitting in there?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Hello, father, he's someone here to see me?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Yes, my enchanted one him.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
He's in the den and you'd better hurry in there
before he turns into a pumpkin.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Father, you don't make sense.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Come on, Betty, I haven't the slightest idea.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
What this is all about.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Hasn't the slightest idea? Get her?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Where are you going, dear?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Standing here by the door of the den. I got
to hear this.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, don't eves drawn.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I'm not eavesdropping. I just have to find out how
she gets out of this.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Betty. This is Fred, Fred, this is my sister, Betty.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
How do you do?
Speaker 10 (21:58):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I saw you out in front this morning. You were
sweeping the walk.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, I don't recall seeing you didn't see him?
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Do you live in the neighborhood, Ted, His name's Fred.
You saw him moving in next.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Door, Jim getting blood out of him.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Leaving Maloney's the only saying one in the family.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Funny, you didn't see me.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I saw you.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Well, I paid so little attention to what goes on
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
This is that, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's quiet, Bod.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Didn't you say Fred came over to borrow something?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, that wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
No, you said you wanted to meet him?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
O me, what a performance.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
How could I possibly have said I wanted to meet him?
I don't mean to be utterly rude, Fred, but after all,
he's sent me too too Ridiculus, I heard you.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Oh that Bud, but he's right.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Oh hush, anyway, I'm glad you came over, even if
Bud did get a little confused.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Well, I'm glad I did too.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
I suppose you'll be going to the college.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh sure you'll go there.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Oh yes, it's a lot of fun. In fact, there's
a big varsity dance Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I suppose you'll go.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
She's sneaking up on him like a cat on a bird.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
She's not either.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Well, I I don't know anybody in town. Would you
like to go to the dance with me?
Speaker 5 (23:34):
By George?
Speaker 7 (23:35):
She did it?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Oh, I'm terribly shy.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Fred I have another day.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Oh, Margaret, what's there?
Speaker 7 (23:43):
She doesn't have a date.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Well, naturally, another time, Yeah, later on, maybe they're coming out.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Get in the dining room.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Well, I hope to see you soon, Betty, Yes, come
over again.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Good bye. Isn't he divine?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Nah?
Speaker 8 (24:00):
There Isn't he just simply super divine?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Out a double cross?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
How could I have possibly said I wanted to meet him?
Speaker 8 (24:07):
All be gone? Be gone, begone.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Boy, that's the last time I ever do a favor
for you, Princess.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Your old dad gives up. I raised a white flag.
I must be very.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Dense, but I confess that I'm completely baffled.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
About what father, you me?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
What have I done?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Nothing that I know of.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
No, wait, wait a minute, I've seen all this with
my own eyes.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
You went through tortures to meet this bread, this dream booth.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
You connived and plotted to get him to ask you
to the dance Saturday night. Naturally, Then when he asked you,
you refused.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
To go with him.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I don't understand it. What was your reason?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Very simple.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Tomorrow he'll go to school and he'll meet Jennie Niggatt.
Janie'll swoon over me, ask her to the dance. Then
tomorrow night Janie will call me up to tell me
the big news that Fred's taking.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Her to the dance. Yes, then I'll simply say, oh, really,
why he asked me yesterday and I turned him down?
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Won't that be super? See you later, father, Margaret?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Do you mind if I sit down?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I'm tired, dear. Oh no, no, you haven't been able
to do much work. I'm sorry we've wasted your.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Day, Honey, it wasn't wasted.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I've learned more about women today than I ever knew
in my life.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
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Speaker 7 (25:58):
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Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, it's been quite a day for the head of
the Anderson family. He's just completed a liberal education in
the wilds and mysteries of the feminine mind. It's evening now,
and Jim is in the living room reading the paper
when the smallest of the Anderson feminine faction approaches like this, Hi, Daddy,
Oh hello, kitten?
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Can I hit on you?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Lie?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Why?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Am I up? It's on your little mind?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Nothing. I just wanted to sitting you lie.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
And that's what I like about you, kitten, honest, straightforward,
no tricks.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
You know. I think you're going to be different. You're
more like your dad.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
You're the dressed Oh daddy, you really think so?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Can I have the down daddy?
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Why sure? Kitten? Anyway? Oh y gotta go now, an
you're by any.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Jesus that's got the good stark.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Large or smaller all alike.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anders. Until them,
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Speaker 5 (29:15):
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Speaker 4 (29:20):
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Speaker 5 (29:25):
This Bill Foreman speaking
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Tonight play Truth or Consequences on NBC
Mother, Why did daddy switch to post him?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Your father says, there's no caffeining post him, nothing to
spoil your sleep, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood, Sorry, Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors. The Anderson brought to you
by instant post them a good tasting drink that's entirely
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Speaker 5 (00:46):
As far back.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
As history has recorded her activities, woman has been a
rather puzzling creature, especially when she's going through what is
known as the teenage. A good case in point is
young Betty Anderson. But before we can reveal a capricious
maneuver where's of her feminine mine, we must first look
in on the principal male member of the family, Jim Anderson,
as he settles himself in the den to do some
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work in the quiet of his home.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Like this, I see now. It so ought it'd be
a good place for the dictating machine.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Letty, carefully, you don't scratch the table.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Dear, This won't scratch it. I have it on my
desk at the office. All the time.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I don't see why you had to love that home.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
I told you.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Why, honey.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I have a lot of letters to dictate, and it's
impossible to do it at the office while they're remodeling
the building. Air hammers pounding away, pneumatic drills enough to
drive a man crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, it'll be nice and quiet here, and I won't
let the children bother you.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Good, want me to close the door, that's a good idea.
Speaker 8 (01:42):
Anything you want now, No, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, I'll keep the children quiet.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Good. Well, let's see here now, letters might as well start.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
With this one. I guess uh, mister Burnham W.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Gillespie four four seven North Menlow Street, Dear Sir and
Ray Policy number eight two one X four nine.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Four nine three Q under separate cover.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
We are returning your above numbered policy together with good Daddy.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Kathy, I'm trying to do some work.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's okay, Daddy. You won't bother me Annie. Well, Kathy,
there's a new family moving next door and I want
to watch him on load.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Can't you watch them somewhere else?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This is the only window where you can see them.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Well, all right, but just be quiet, I will, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Let's see here, returning your above numbered policy together with
the loan agreements and the vouchers.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Hi, Dad, I'll come your home.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Oh, got some work to do.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
There's a new family moving in next door.
Speaker 9 (02:53):
Dad, So I've heard move over, shrimp.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
You're taking up all the room.
Speaker 10 (02:57):
But you don't need all that room.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
He looked. But carrying in a bicycle.
Speaker 11 (03:02):
Must have a boy in the family, kids, kids, probably some.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Little squirt about your size.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Boy, I hope.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
So I'm trying to dictate some letters here.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Do you mind?
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Oh? Sorry, Dad, we'll keep quiet.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Where was I?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Yes, returning your above numbered policy with the lone agreements.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Kathy, What are you doing in here?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
They bothering you, dear?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh no, I told them to stay out of here.
Come on, child, to leave your father alone. Just a minute, Mom,
we want to watch just a little longer.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Watch what it seems. There's a new family moving in
next door.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh really, Oh, I didn't know that. Let me see,
bod oh me, Well, look at that lovely buffet. Come here,
dear Margaret, my stars, look at that tomato colored davenport.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Well, gonna make the best of this. Let's see where
was there? I better start over mister Vernham W.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Gillespie four four seven man low Street. Here, sir, under
separate cover.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Hell, father, we are returning.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
You don't make any noise. Your father is trying to work.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You're above numbered policy?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Are you working?
Speaker 10 (04:31):
Father?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Who can tell above numbered policy?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Together, Jenny, we're watching the new family happens.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Oh, how utterly to being can you be?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
With the loan agreements and the voucher I'm ashamed of
you for stooping to such Geez, look at the boy
who just drove up in the station wagon.
Speaker 10 (04:54):
Is he gonna live there?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I suppose so.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Yeah, that's the second time he's living up with a load.
Speaker 10 (05:01):
Oh isn't he?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You?
Speaker 10 (05:05):
And I think he's gonna live right next door?
Speaker 12 (05:07):
Oh, princess, Oh, such beautiful wavy black, utterly utter hair.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
How can I meet him?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Okay, I give up.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
The simplest way I know is to go out there
and say hello, and let me see him.
Speaker 10 (05:25):
Go out there and say hello.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You said you wanted to meet him, didn't you.
Speaker 12 (05:30):
Oh, don't be so utterly modeled, teen, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Let's see how can I do it? I want to
tract his attention in some good subtle way.
Speaker 11 (05:46):
You might go out there and start throwing meatballs at him.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Oh hush, might catch his eye that way. Well, hey,
don't go away, mad.
Speaker 9 (05:57):
My dear sweet beloved family.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Would it be asking too much to have you clear
out of here and let me get to work.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Your father's right, children, You've got to stay out of here.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
In a minute, Mom, no.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Right now, come on, Kathy, All right, mommy, in a minute.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
I hope your kids don't fall out that window.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Come on, children, right this second, okay, mom coming, Holy cow,
Look at Betty out there out where.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
She's out there sweeping the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh my stars.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Right over near the station wagon.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Why didn't she put on a coat. She's going to
catch cold.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
I think she has something ups in mind she's trying
to catch.
Speaker 11 (06:40):
Look, she's practically over on their sidewalk. Now, next time
that guy comes out, he'll tip over.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Well, that's probably the basis of her whole subtle plan.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Derry comes out of the house, it should be.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Very interesting the designing female in operations.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Boy, look at her sweep.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I wish I could get that kind of work out
of her in the kitchen, pretending she doesn't see him.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
He didn't even see her walked around.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Her escape the trap.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
I'm going to call that girl in here. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Wait, mommy, he's gone a lamp and he's heading back again.
Maybe she'll give him this time.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Why doesn't she trip him with the broom?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
By golly, I believe that's what she's.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Going to do.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Oh No, she's spraining her ankle pretty good fall. She
faked there.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
He stopping this time, he has to.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
She's blocking the sidewalk.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
He's bending down. He's going to help her arm.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
No he's not.
Speaker 11 (07:45):
He's just picking up her broom and handing it back
to her.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
Very goodes.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Again, Eh, this boy's no fool.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, I'm going to call her in the house right
this minute, the very idea girl her age.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh I guess I won't have to. She's coming back
in ah shuts.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I thought this was going to be the beginning of
a beautiful romance.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Well in mind, have if she just bothered to use
one little word hello.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't think you quite understand the workings of a
young girl's mind, Jim.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
I'm positive I don't.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I realize that more every day, now that all the
excitement is over, will all you spectators please clear out
and let me get to work.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Come on, children, you've got to stop bobbing your eye this.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
How's your broken leg?
Speaker 10 (08:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You keep quiet, Betty. I don't think it was very
ladylike of you to go out there another There is
the utterly stupidest, the most utterly ignorant boy I've ever
seen in my whole utter life.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I don't know. I thought he was rather a gentleman.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Handed you back your room.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh, you can't ask more than that.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Of a gentleman.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Well, I just hope I never have to speak to
that insufferable lad.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
He's looking over taught our house?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Is he really?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Maybe he saw me? After all?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
How could he help it?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Maybe if i'd put on that pretty new red dress
I've got. I think I'll try it now, Betty, don't
do anything like that.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Oh dear that girl.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, come on, children, let's leave your father alone so
that he can get to work.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Great idea, Come on, Kathy, come on, But wait a minute.
Where is Bud?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I don't know he was right here a minute ago, Bob.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Margaret, can't you hunt for him in some other room?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That's strange how he disappeared so fast.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Well, come on, Kathy, Okay, nimmy, father, what is it?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
Betty? You know where my red is? You mean the
plaid one? I look there, it's not there.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well try the other drawer.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Oh how I longed for the peace and quiet of
the pneumatic drills.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, come on, Kathy, you come out in the kitchen
with me. Okay, Mommy, you go ahead and work.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Jim that was vaguely the plan I had in mind.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Where's Betty? I got news for Hey?
Speaker 10 (10:06):
Where did you go, Bud?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Next door? Where's Betty? She upstairs?
Speaker 10 (10:10):
Did someone call me?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Yeah? I did? Hey, Look I got some new do
I look? Mother?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You look fine, But I don't approve of you dressing
up just to attract some new boy.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
What'll Ralph say about this?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:22):
I'm not speaking to him anymore this week?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Father, Tell me, if you were that boy next door,
would you give me a second look?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Yes, I take a second look to see what you've
done with your room?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Sis. Do you want to hear what I gotta tell you?
Don't you? It's about that cluck next door.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
The new boy.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Yeah, you want to meet him, don't you.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Why do you think I've got on this outfit?
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Well, you're gonna get your wish. I am yep. Fred's
coming over here. That's his name, Fred, He's coming over here. Yep.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
I can hardly believe it. How did you miss any jit?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
It was simple. I just told him you were dying
to meet him, So he's coming over to meet you.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
Oh no, no you didn't. Oh you ruined me?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
What did I do?
Speaker 10 (11:15):
This is the end, the end of everything.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Wait, Betty, it's not as bad as you think.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
Oh this is awful.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Dad, Yes, son.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
What did I do wrong?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I wish I knew son? I wish I knew him.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Jim poor man can't seem to figure out his teenage daughter, Betty. Well,
the ways of most women are sometimes pretty baffling. And
yet take a lady like uh, missus Ed Prentiss. Maybe
I better let ed himself tell you about it.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Ed.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
You know, lots of us men sometimes get the idea
that our women folks aren't as much concerned with our
welfare as they should be. Well, I want to say,
right here and now, it isn't true. And just to
prove it, take my own case. You know how I
first became friends with Posted, Well, it's all because my
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wife figured out just why I wasn't feeling tiptop. I
didn't have sense enough to realize that maybe it was
the caffeine and my coffee that was keeping me awake
nights and all tired out in jittery days.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
But she did.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
She said, look, honey, why don't you switched to post him?
And believe you me? She had the facts too, sure,
She said, post him doesn't have any caffeine, none at all,
and looks to me like you're one of those people
who can't take caffeine, though of course many people can.
So I tried posted and I liked post Him. Still
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drink it regularly and sleep. Say you switched to post
them yourself, and see what a wonderful difference it makes
and how you sleep and how you feel. That's post
him instant Poston, the good tasting drink, that's caffeine free.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Well Man has learned how to split the atom. He's
learned how to send voices and pictures through the air.
But by golly, there's one problem he hasn't solved. He
hasn't figured out women. Look at what's going on in
the white frame house on Maple Street. Just because Bud
went next door and told the new boy that Betty
wanted to meet him.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
You think the world was coming to an end.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Jim and Bud and Margaret are in.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
The downstairs hall, and Betty is on the upstairs landing.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
The thunderboats are flying.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Stand back side born to think that my.
Speaker 10 (14:01):
Own brother would do this?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Now, Betty be reasonable?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
How could anybody be so utterly, utterly stupid?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
I did, dear.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Listen, this is the.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
End, the absolute end. I'll never be able to show
my face outside again. I'll have to leave town.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Holly calm, oh.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
To die, to die, but to utterly die.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
She must have popped the.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Car, Bud. You should have known better, Oh I did?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Why is it Bud's fall? Betty was doing everything but
setting the house on fire to meet the boy.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
I know, dear, but simply did the logical thing.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
What's wrong with telling this Freda or whatever his name is,
that Betty wants to meet him and biting him over?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Look, it's very simple.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
When a girl says she wants to meet a boy,
she means that she wants to meet him, but she
wants the boy to not think she wants to meet him,
but that he wants to meet her.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Don't you see, No, you explain it to him, Dear.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Me, explain it. I don't see it either.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, it's so obvious. A girl can't throw herself at a.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Boy, are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
There's nothing more embarrassing to a girl and to have
a boy think she's chasing him.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
You know that, dear, Well, certainly I do.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But you know I have to go off the kitchen.
See what cat you want?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
You understand all that?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Yes, I suppose uh coming to Dan Son, I'll try
to explain, uh see, budle man.
Speaker 11 (15:51):
Gee, the way mom talks you, Well, you think I
committed a crime or something.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Well, some women are funny.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Just between you and me, I knew what your mother
was talking about. I was just acting dumb.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
You're a pretty good actor, you.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
See, Son.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Another thing about women, they'll try to explain to you
how they think that.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
They don't really want you to.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Understand, see what I mean. No, look, I know what's
going on in Betty's mind. There's nothing mysterious about it. First,
she wanted to meet this spread next door, and she
found out you told him that and invited him over.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
And she was embarrassed. Now she won't face it. You
couldn't pay her to meet him.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Gee, you're pretty sharp, dad.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Well I know something about women.
Speaker 10 (16:46):
Father.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Oh yes, princess, what is it?
Speaker 10 (16:49):
Has Fred come over yet?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Red? No? But I thought you didn't want to see him.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
I don't never.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Well, that's what I thought. Where are you going up
to my room?
Speaker 10 (17:02):
And I'm going to stay there. I don't want to
see anybody ever.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
All right, be sure to let me know if he comes.
Speaker 11 (17:15):
Hm, Dad, could you explain that to me again?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I'm sorry, but I have a lot of work to
do here.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I stayed home from the office today.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
So I could.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Daddy, here he comes here?
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Who comes the boy next door?
Speaker 10 (17:33):
He's coming up the wall.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
What are you gonna tell him? Dad?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Well, I can't tell him to go home?
Speaker 10 (17:39):
Here?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
He is here, all right?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
All right?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Want me to go to the door.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
No, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
How do you do, sir? I'm Fred Tibbets. We're moving
in next door.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yes, your son Budd asked me to come over. He said,
his sister.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Betty, come in, Fred, Thank you, Buds in the dam there,
Just go right in.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I'll go up and tell Betty you're here.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
But oh, hid?
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Where is he? Daddy?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
In the den with budd and you stay out of there.
Where are you going upstairs to get your sister?
Speaker 9 (18:13):
I want to stay here and walk you go outside?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Oh dahn, I should have gone to the office.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Benny, come in all right, Princess, friend's here.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
Here.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Are you coming down?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
I know, certainly I'm not, but you told me to
be sure and let you know when he came.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't want to see him, father, I don't want
to see him.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Look, Princess, will you make up your mind?
Speaker 8 (18:43):
I said, I don't want to see him?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
All right, I'll tell him. You don't want to see him.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh, no, don't do that.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
What do you want him to stay?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I certainly do not.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Oh, my aching head, Princess, just give me an answer.
Do you want him to go or do you want
him to stay? No, Betty, the boy is downstairs. What
shall I tell him?
Speaker 10 (19:12):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Father, tell him anything you want?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
All right? You're not interested in seeing him?
Speaker 10 (19:16):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Good.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
All I wanted was a definite answer. Are you ups
coming right down?
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Did you talk to Betty?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I finally figured out that little female mind of hers.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
She really doesn't want to see the boy.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Father. Is there someone here to see.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Me someone, Betty.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I just I thought you had it all figured out, dear.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
Father, who's there?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
No, it's spread princess? Who spread the uh boy from
next door?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Just lean back against the wall, Dar and take a
deep breath.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
I think you're confused, father.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
That is the most accurate statement she's made all there.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
I'll be down in a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
He's dead. Fred's sitting in there. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Well? I'm seriously thinking of going outside and putting my
head in a bucket of cold water.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Dear I can't understand why you're so upset, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I just talked to Betty and she said, I mean
I told her Fred was here. She knows who he is.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Dad, She said, I don't want to see him.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You know what's so strange about that?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Now she's coming down to see him, but she claims
she doesn't know who he is.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Isn't that perfectly natural?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Natural?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Dad, Margaret, you mean you understand what's going on in
that's so called mind of hers?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Well, isn't it rather obvious?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Dear Mom?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
What is it fun?
Speaker 7 (20:52):
That's dad? To look at me?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Dear look at Bud?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
What is it? Bud?
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Mom?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Margaret. There's no rhyme reason.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
There's no rhyme nor reason of the way she's acting,
and you know it.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Holy calm, But.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Why are you standing here muttering? If you have something
to say, say it?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
What do I do with Fred? He's sitting in there?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Hello, father, he's someone here to see me?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Yes, my enchanted one him.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
He's in the den and you'd better hurry in there
before he turns into a pumpkin.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Father, you don't make sense.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Come on, Betty, I haven't the slightest idea.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
What this is all about.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Hasn't the slightest idea? Get her?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Where are you going, dear?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Standing here by the door of the den. I got
to hear this.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, don't eves drawn.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I'm not eavesdropping. I just have to find out how
she gets out of this.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Betty. This is Fred, Fred, this is my sister, Betty.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
How do you do?
Speaker 10 (21:58):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I saw you out in front this morning. You were
sweeping the walk.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, I don't recall seeing you didn't see him?
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Do you live in the neighborhood, Ted, His name's Fred.
You saw him moving in next.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Door, Jim getting blood out of him.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Leaving Maloney's the only saying one in the family.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Funny, you didn't see me.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I saw you.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Well, I paid so little attention to what goes on
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
This is that, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's quiet, Bod.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Didn't you say Fred came over to borrow something?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, that wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
No, you said you wanted to meet him?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
O me, what a performance.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
How could I possibly have said I wanted to meet him?
I don't mean to be utterly rude, Fred, but after all,
he's sent me too too Ridiculus, I heard you.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Oh that Bud, but he's right.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Oh hush, anyway, I'm glad you came over, even if
Bud did get a little confused.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Well, I'm glad I did too.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
I suppose you'll be going to the college.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh sure you'll go there.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Oh yes, it's a lot of fun. In fact, there's
a big varsity dance Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I suppose you'll go.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
She's sneaking up on him like a cat on a bird.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
She's not either.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Well, I I don't know anybody in town. Would you
like to go to the dance with me?
Speaker 5 (23:34):
By George?
Speaker 7 (23:35):
She did it?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Oh, I'm terribly shy.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Fred I have another day.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Oh, Margaret, what's there?
Speaker 7 (23:43):
She doesn't have a date.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Well, naturally, another time, Yeah, later on, maybe they're coming out.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Get in the dining room.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Well, I hope to see you soon, Betty, Yes, come
over again.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Good bye. Isn't he divine?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Nah?
Speaker 8 (24:00):
There Isn't he just simply super divine?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Out a double cross?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
How could I have possibly said I wanted to meet him?
Speaker 8 (24:07):
All be gone? Be gone, begone.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Boy, that's the last time I ever do a favor
for you, Princess.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Your old dad gives up. I raised a white flag.
I must be very.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Dense, but I confess that I'm completely baffled.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
About what father, you me?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
What have I done?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Nothing that I know of.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
No, wait, wait a minute, I've seen all this with
my own eyes.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
You went through tortures to meet this bread, this dream booth.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
You connived and plotted to get him to ask you
to the dance Saturday night. Naturally, Then when he asked you,
you refused.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
To go with him.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I don't understand it. What was your reason?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Very simple.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Tomorrow he'll go to school and he'll meet Jennie Niggatt.
Janie'll swoon over me, ask her to the dance. Then
tomorrow night Janie will call me up to tell me
the big news that Fred's taking.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Her to the dance. Yes, then I'll simply say, oh, really,
why he asked me yesterday and I turned him down?
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Won't that be super? See you later, father, Margaret?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Do you mind if I sit down?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I'm tired, dear. Oh no, no, you haven't been able
to do much work. I'm sorry we've wasted your.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Day, Honey, it wasn't wasted.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I've learned more about women today than I ever knew
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Well, it's been quite a day for the head of
the Anderson family. He's just completed a liberal education in
the wilds and mysteries of the feminine mind. It's evening now,
and Jim is in the living room reading the paper
when the smallest of the Anderson feminine faction approaches like this, Hi, Daddy,
Oh hello, kitten?
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Can I hit on you?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Lie?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Why?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Am I up? It's on your little mind?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Nothing. I just wanted to sitting you lie.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
And that's what I like about you, kitten, honest, straightforward,
no tricks.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
You know. I think you're going to be different. You're
more like your dad.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
You're the dressed Oh daddy, you really think so?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Can I have the down daddy?
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Why sure? Kitten? Anyway? Oh y gotta go now, an
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Jesus that's got the good stark.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
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