August 10, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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(01:14):
strewn with all sorts of frustrations and phobias, and Bud
Anderson there's no exception. One such hurdle in Bud's life
was brought to light recently when Betty came home with
a startling news that Bud was considered a snob. At
school like this, Bud a snob that I can't believe.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
That's what Margie's sister, Virginia said, and she ought to
know she's in Bud's class.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I can think of a lot of things you might
accuse Bud of being, but snob is definitely not one
of them.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
She must have meant somebody else, surely not Bud.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
No, it's Bud, Virginia says. He walks down the hall
with his nose in the air, won't speak anyone.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No, it's probably nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Chances are he saw Gary Cooper movie lately and now
he thinks he's the strong, silent type.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I remember after he saw Marlon Brando. We couldn't understand
it what he said for two weeks.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Oh that must be him. Now I'll talk to him
about it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No better, you'll keep out of this.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Murmy.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh it's just Kathy, Yes, Angel, Murmy, what's a snap snob?
Why do you ask that?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Patty Davis heard some girls say that was what Buddy is? Oh, dear,
what's a snap daddy?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh it's just somebody who thinks he's a little better
than everyone else.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
How did Bud find out he was better than everybody else.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
He's not. He just thinks he is.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh wait a minute, let's not judge until he has
a chance to defend himself.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I can't imagine where he picked up such ideas. Surely
we have. Oh there he is now talk to him, dear.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
All right, but let's not make a big issue out
of this, Kathy. Don't you even mention it?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Where is everybody in the dan bod?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
At least the little snow is speaking to us? Hi?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh, hi Dad? Hello son?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
What's everybody doing in here?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I don't know. Just happened to be in here, that's all.
What have you been doing?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Nothing, Joe and I were what's everybody looking at me?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
So funny?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
For how'd you find out you were better than anybody else?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Kathy, I didn't say you was a snob.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Wait, wait a minute, where'd you hear that?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
What are you so stuck up about?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Bud? Now?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Way, hold on a minute, let's not jump to a
lot of conclusions.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is there anything wrong at school?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Sawah.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
My Gie's sister says, you don't speak to anybody in
the hall.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's not true.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
She says, you never speak to her.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, sure, but there's a reason, a reason she's a girl.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, naturally he's a girl.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
But you shouldn't feel so antagonistic towards girls.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
I don't I like him, Fine, I just can't talk
to him. I can talk to fellas, all right, but girls.
I don't know what's.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So different about girls.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I can talk to girls, all right, HiPE down, shrimp.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But you ought to get over this because people are
getting the wrong idea about you.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Yeah, I know what they're saying. Tee whiz mom. I
want to talk to girls, but I just plain can't.
You can, if you know I can't. The minute I'm
around some girls, I can't think of anything. And the
longer I stand there, the worse it gets. Pretty Soon,
my collar starts getting tight, my face gets hot, and
I wish an earthquake would hit so i'd have an
excuse to leave.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
That's the silliest thing I've.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Ever heard of.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
No, it isn't silly. I understand what he's talking about.
Every boy goes through this.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Not Claude Mesner.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
He can walk up to any girls anywhere and start
talking to them.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Just as easy you can too.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What sort of things does he talk about?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Well, now there's the funny thing.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I've listened to him, and as.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Near as I can tell, he's not saying anything, but boy,
he sure.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Says it easy.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, look, but he.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Gets a lot of laughs too.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, sonny boy, I'll
give you some lessons in conversation.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I don't want any lessons.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Well, you'll never get over this if you don't try.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I try.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
I keep trying to think up a bunch of nothing
to say, like Claude does. But even nothing comes out nothing.
It's worse than when I try to think up something.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
You're just a crazy, mixed up kid.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
He'll play off me.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Will Well, wait a minute, but I don't run away.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I'm not running away. I'm just gonna see what's in
the ice box.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I'm hungry, Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Maybe you'd better go out there and have a talk
with him.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well, I'll go out there, but I need to see
if there's any of that Blueberry pilot.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
There's nothing to talk about, Margaret. This is just something
that happens and it passes. I went through it.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
What did you do to get over it? Father.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Oh, I don't know. Probably nothing. It's just a phase
you go through and that's all there is to it.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Murmy, can I go through a phase sometime?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Don't worry you will.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What are we going to do about Bud? Well, I
guess your father is right. Probably the best thing to
do is nothing.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
But Mother, this is a reflection on me having a
snob for a brother.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
He's not a snob.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Well, as soon as they find out he's a dope instead,
that'll be even worse.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And he's not a dope. If you heard your father say,
he went through the same thing when he was a boy.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I get I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Oh yes, Margie, Oh, I think we're supposed to study
pages one hundred and seven to one and twenty. Oh, say, Margie,
we found out that Bud's not a snob after all,
he's just afraid to talk to girls. Yeah, say, why
don't you put Virginia on and I'll get Bud to
talk to her.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Betty, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yes, tell her to draw him out with a lot
of questions.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I'll call Bud.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Right now, Bod you want it on the phone.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Bud, Betty, I don't think you should do this.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I'm just trying to help him.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
I know, Mabby, it'll be easier for.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Him to talk over the phone, And once he sees
how easy it is, maybe he'll get over this silly idea.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Bod, I'm coming. Keep your smooth on.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Who is it, Joe?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Hello, Buh?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
What's the matter with Bud? He's turning red. We'll say
something stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's a girl.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
So what what she's saying?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
She asked me.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
How I am will answer her?
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I can't think of an answer.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Oh, for Peet's sake, don't just stand there? Say something?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Goodbye?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh no, why did you hang up?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Bud?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Come back here?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I tried to tell you not to do this, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
But mother, this is utterly ridiculous, but utterly Oh, there's
the basement door. The gopher has gone down into his hole.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Margaret, what happened to Butt? He just shot down into
the basement like a scared rabbit.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I guess it's my fault.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Father.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I tried to get him to talk to Margie's sister
on the phone.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Mmmm.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Couldn't leave well enough alone, could you?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I'm sorry, father, I was only trying to help him.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Forcing him is the worst thing you.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Could do, I said, I'm sorry, father.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I remember when I was going through this stage, some
helpful person got the bright idea of putting me on
a committee for a school Halloween party with a.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Couple of girls. Oh, I was embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Finally, one of the girls asked me to get some
decorations out of the cloak room. I went in there,
but I didn't have nerve enough to come out again.
I hit him there for two hours.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I wish I could have been there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I told you it was no laughing matter.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I finally sneaked out by wearing one of the Halloween
masks they had for the party.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You must have been a sight.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I remember a funny thing about that mask.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And the way home, I met a couple of other girls,
and I found out I could speak right up with
a mask on a fairly flipped guy. But the minute
I take it off, bang right back into the old
pumpkin again.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Same Maybe that had worked for bod, I mean wearing
a mask.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I got some masks in my room.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I'll go get him.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I don't see how that will help any You can't
go through life wearing a comic mask on him.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
It had been an improvement and might.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Help him get over this hurdle.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Now that you've pushed this into a big problem, he's
going to need some help. Just getting him out of
the basement is going to be a big job in itself.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't think you'll get much cooperation from him. He's
going to be pretty suspicious of anything you suggest.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
We won't suggest it, We'll just do it. I got
the masks onto the basement door man. Which mess shall.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
We give him?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
This pirate one? This Dunst one. He doesn't need a
Duncet mask. He's already got that. Bod, oh, bod.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
No, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
No, I didn't ask you anything.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Whatever it is you want me to do.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
No, I don't want you to do anything. Kathy just
found some masks, and I want to show you how
funny she looks.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
We're having a lot of fun all that. Come on up, Bud.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
What girls have you got up there?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
We haven't any girls up here.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Honest, Come on, Bud.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Okay, I'm coming up.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Kathy.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Put on a map, which one, it doesn't matter, Just
get on and act funny.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Okay, where's all this hilarious stuff?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Look at Kathy isn't she funny?
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Yeah, I'm a dunce hody Hodi ho?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Do you ain't she a riot?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I want to try one on? By No, I do
not want to try one on.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Oh, come on, you look funny in this one looks
sort of like Mortimer snurd Come on.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Bud, Hey, cut it out, Betty. I don't want this
on you like chilling.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Come on over the mirror and see yours.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
I don't want to see my Quit pushing me. See there.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Don't you start to look like Mortimer? Huh?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, father gid he though everybody?
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Oh you Betty? Anybody home?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Who's that? That's a girl?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Oh, relax, mort It's just Jannie Leggetts.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Hi, Janie, come on in. Are you ready to go
to the library?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Betty?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Oh gee, I forgot Yeah, I'll get my.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Coat and we'll go.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't have a car tonight.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
We'll have to walk.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Why don't you take a bus, sister. They've got a
lot of them. They'll never miss it.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Well, who's this cornball?
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Oh I'm just a little pairie flower, better pick me
while and bloom me?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Oh, brother, Jane, isn't but a riot tonight?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
It's sneae.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Don't discourage him.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Come on, Jenny, I'm ready, let's go. What's going on here, Betty?
What's the school?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Don't take any wooden pickles?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Wow, Bud, you're pretty hot tonight.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well we were listening to you and you were speaking
right up to the girls there. Hey, that's right, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Oh, what do you know?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's not so difficult, isn't you know?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
It's a funny thing.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Dad.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
When I have this mask on, I feel like a
different guy.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
It seems really.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Easy to talk. Well, it just shows it's all just
in your mind.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
But she didn't me. Try on your mask once, see
if I feel different?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Sure catch, once a fellow realizes this is just a
mental thing.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Uh, it's Virginia calling back.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Wants to know why I hung up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, explain to her. You've got this thing with Now
we'll say something, Bud.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Oh, hurry up, But Kathy, give me that mask.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Quick, but not on the phone. She can't be the mask.
Sure here, look, Bud.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
If you hello Virginia, Hi a kid, kid?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah, this is me.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Huh oh no, we were just cut off before.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
I think, what are you doing anyway?
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Kid, Yeah, I sound like who Lord Messner?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Oh that's square.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
What's he got that.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
I wouldn't have even if I could get at wholesale.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I just can't believe this is good.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's not.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Hey, kid, Oh, how's this for a cool idea?
Speaker 8 (14:26):
There's a real nervous movie playing at the standing Saturday night.
How about a date? Okay, it's a deal. Well, take
it easy, I'll see him bye. Oh boy, dad.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
This mask works one day, It certainly does.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
I've got a date with her for the movies. I'll
bet even Blapermouth's claud couldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You're sure going to look funny, though, Boy, what do
you mean funny going to the movie without mask on?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I'm not gonna wear the mak.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Wait a minute, that's the only way you can talk
to her.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Holy cow, dad, she's right?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
What am I gonna do? Holy cow?
Speaker 10 (15:21):
This is Jerry Marshall. Mind if I ask what kind
of a sleeper you are? Are you one of the
lucky ones asleep almost the minute your head touches the pillow,
or do you often have nights when you just turn
and toss for hours.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Before you fall asleep. It used to be that way
with me.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
One cup of ordinary coffee at dinner and I could
kiss my night's sleep goodbye.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
For sure.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
Took me a while to find out the answer, but
I finally did instant Sanka coffee. You see, it isn't
coffee itself. It's the caffeine in coffee that spoils sleep
for so many people. Well, instant Sanka's had ninety seven
percent of the caffeine taken out. It doesn't matter how
many cups you drink or how late at night. It
is instant Sanka can't interfere with sleep.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Another thing I like.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
About instant Sanka. It's all pure coffee, rich, full bodied.
Why not pick up a jar of instant Sank at
the grocer's tomorrow, the large, economy sized jar.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Try it.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
You'll sleep better at night and you'll feel better the
next day.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Well, now there's a fine situation. The Lafario and Bud
only comes out under the protection and influence of a
comic mask, And a mask is hardly the accept the.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Tire for a movie day.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
So Bud is desperately trying to solve this dilemma and
keeps coming up with what he feels is the one
workable solution like this, Well.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I know what to do.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I'm just not going You've got to go, Budes, you
told her you'd take her.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I can't do it, not without the mask.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Well, you can't wear that silly thing out in public.
It would embarrass Virginia to death.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
What if I just put it in my pocket and
then we could sit up in the balcony where it's
pretty dark, and I could put it on during the movie.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Oh fine, and when the lights come on for intermission,
you'd scare her out of ten years of her life.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, that would be quite a surprise with me.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
And besides, you don't have to talk much during the movie.
It's before and after when you have to carry on
a conversation.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Why don't you call her and tell her I'm sick
or something.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I can't do a thing like that.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Yes, you can put the mask on and call her.
It's a lot easier that way.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I'm not going to do it now.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Look, Bud, you certainly can think of enough conversation to
get you from Virginia's house to the movie theater.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
You want to bet.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Look, most of the time you'll just be answering her.
When you get there, she'll say well, hello, Bud. Now
you can surely think up what to say to that,
can't you.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Oh? Where's my mask?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
For Pete's sake, all you have to say is hello.
You can say that without a mask, can't you.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I guess so.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
All right, Then she'll tell you to come in and
you say thank you.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Wait a minute, let me write that down.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I can tell this it's going to be a sparkling conversation. Oh, hi, Dad,
you've been listening.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Don't bother us now, Father?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Now, then, buddy, after you get inside, you should say
something about how nice she looks, how becoming, the color
of her dress is or something.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What color is it?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Oh, Bud, you're hopeless.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, but why don't you leave him alone? You've been
needling him ever since he made the date last night.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Well, I give up. He can just go on heavy.
Everyone think he's a snob, for all I care.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I don't want them to think that. Well, don't worry, Bud,
we'll work this thing out someway.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
I was hoping there'd be a fully clipse of the
moon Saturday, so it'd be real dark.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I don't think you can bank on that. No, I
looked it up.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
We don't get a fully clips to April nineteen fifty four,
and I doubt if I can put the date off
that long.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
No, the thing to do is face the situation. Only
I was going to a masquerade party.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Then my whole problem with Hey, how about that?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Dad? How about what?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
How about giving me a masquerade party Saturday night? I
can invite Joe and Clause.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Oh, hold on a minute. This is your mother's province.
That means a lot of work for her.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Oh gee, Dad, I do all the work, or some
of it anyway, honest.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
But there's Mom now dead. Ask her no, But I
think you'd better be the one to ask him.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
But oh, there you are.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
But do you have a clean white shirt for Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah? I guess so Dad's got something to ask you Mom.
Well I'll wait, Bud, I'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Dad, you have something to ask me, Jim.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well, not exactly, Margaret, but you see, well.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
This problem of buds, the girls and the mask and all.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
What time does he want the party to start?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Isn't that what you wanted to ask me about? A
masquerade party? How did you know I've been waiting for it?
Why someone didn't think about it sooner? I'll never know,
but I'll have to admit I'm not in favor of it.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Well, no, Margaret, we've got to remember that a thing
like this doesn't seem very important, but to a boy
it looms is a real big emotional problem.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I agree, but I don't think we're helping him solve
it by encouraging him to hide behind a mask.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
But Margaret, it's sort of like learning to ride a bicycle.
At first, you need somebody to steady the bike for you.
Suddenly when you realize you're making it by yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
The party is out, Jim, Betty, will you go down
and finish putting up the decorations. The masqueraders will be
arriving any minute, and I still have to dress. I
(21:25):
thought Bud was going to do all the work for
his party. He's been pretty busy trying to slick down
his hair. Oh, Jim, are you dressed? Betty might need
some help downstairs.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Okay, I'll go right down. The living room really looks festive.
You've done a good job.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I hope it's not wasted effort. I still don't think
this is going.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
To do but any good, Oh, I think it will.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I keep having a feeling something is going to go wrong,
and then Bud will retreat into himself further than ever.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Now, what could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Holy cow, it's gone?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Hey Dad, what's the matter by my mask?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's going? Kathy? What you do with my mask?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
I never did anything? Wait, come on, now, where is it?
It was right there on my bed, hey, Betty.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Will not calm down, Bud. We'll find it.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Did you look on the floor under the bed in
your closet?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Was right on top of the bed.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Somebody took it, Betty.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I don't go accusing everyone. Are you sure you put
it on the bed?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
But you better hurry.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Some of your guests have verides.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Holy call.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Oh, you go downstairs and greet them. Bud. We'll hunt
for the man. But I can't go down not without
the mask.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
But you've got to No, Dad.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You're downstairs waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Dope.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
You'll just have to wait. I can't go down there.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I just can't do it. Wait a minute, I've got it.
I've got a solution. Betty. Get me an eyebrow pencil
and some rugs.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
What for?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Just get it and hurry, Margaret, you and Kathy go
and finish dressing.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
What are you gonna do, Dad, You'll see hurry up, Margaret, Kathy,
you'll be late for the party.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Uh yes, Jim, come on, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Dad will please do Father.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
That's fine, Betty. Now you run down. I want and
to entertain the guests for a few minutes. But I'll
be right down, he will, I will.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I don't stand there, Betty, get going, yes, Father, Now then,
but I hold your head steady.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
What are you gonna do, Dad? Make you look just
like that mask. It'll never work, yes, it will not steady,
but hold it there.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I will give you some nice high cheekbones, now, good
red ones like the mask.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It won't work, Dad. I will give you.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Some big, bushy eyebrows, and a few wrinkles around here,
a couple of lines accent your nose. Now, let's have
a look at you now, Dad, By George's amazing how
much you look like that mask? Now I doah, Let
me get your hair down over your fort Yeah, that's better.
(23:44):
Now smile and show those two big front teeth of
yours like this. That's it. I'll swear I couldn't tell
you from the mask if I didn't know better.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Uh, let me go look in the bathroom mirror.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
No, you better not take the time. They're waiting for
you down there.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Well, just let me take one little we have mort
get down there and liven things up.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Okay, but don't shove.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Me knock I'm dead.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well what happened, Jim? What did you do?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I just made him up to look.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Like the mask you did and it worked. Well.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You saw I'm run downstairs, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yes, I'm surprised he'd agreet you anything like that. As
a matter of fact, I'm surprised you could do it.
Your artwork was never anything to shout about.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Well, this is a masterpiece, believe me. Let's go downstairs
so I can show you my handiwork.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
All right, I guess I'm ready. I just threw myself together.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Well, you're a pretty good thrower.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You never looked better, I'll bet, But thanks Margaret.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
When you were little, did you ever learn to ride
a bicycle? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Certainly? Why do you ask that?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Do you remember how you had your mother or father
walk along beside you and hold it up?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
But if you're still trying to draw an analogy between
the day when.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You thought they were holding you up, you turned your
head and discovered they let go. That was the day
you hollered out, Look my no hands.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Jim, exactly what are you trying to say?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Hey, listen, it sounds like the party is a success.
Come on, let's peak and see how Mortimer's doing.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Look who's getting all the big laughs in there?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
For goodness sake, he's certainly taking over. I've never seen
him like Wait, Jim, his face, Yes, there's nothing on it.
You didn't put any makeup on him.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
That's right. I didn't put a thing on him.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Jim, You tricked him. What's he gonna say when he
finds this out?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Just what I was telling you, he'd say, look my
no hand.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Gannerson will be back in just a month.
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Speaker 5 (27:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
The masquerade party is a matter of pleasant history by now,
and it's gay. Host balbyvon Bud Anderson is fast asleep.
The weary dishwashers Jim and Margaret are getting ready to
retire like this.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Oh boy, I'll be glad to hit that sack. I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Well, I must say the party ideas certainly turned out
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Speaker 3 (27:40):
Never faltered bish and accomplished.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Seemed like a calamity when he lost his mask, but
it turned out to be a stroke of fortune. Yeah, Jim,
how many times do I have to tell you not
to hang your coat on the back of a chair?
Oh here, take it? Wait something, I'll get it get
why Jim Anderson, it's Bud's mask.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Well, now, how do you suppose that got in my pocket?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I wonder just when did you get this big fat idea, Margaret?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Did you ever learn to ride a bicycle?
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strewn with all sorts of frustrations and phobias, and Bud
Anderson there's no exception. One such hurdle in Bud's life
was brought to light recently when Betty came home with
a startling news that Bud was considered a snob. At
school like this, Bud a snob that I can't believe.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
That's what Margie's sister, Virginia said, and she ought to
know she's in Bud's class.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I can think of a lot of things you might
accuse Bud of being, but snob is definitely not one
of them.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
She must have meant somebody else, surely not Bud.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
No, it's Bud, Virginia says. He walks down the hall
with his nose in the air, won't speak anyone.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No, it's probably nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Chances are he saw Gary Cooper movie lately and now
he thinks he's the strong, silent type.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I remember after he saw Marlon Brando. We couldn't understand
it what he said for two weeks.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Oh that must be him. Now I'll talk to him
about it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No better, you'll keep out of this.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Murmy.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh it's just Kathy, Yes, Angel, Murmy, what's a snap snob?
Why do you ask that?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Patty Davis heard some girls say that was what Buddy is? Oh, dear,
what's a snap daddy?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh it's just somebody who thinks he's a little better
than everyone else.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
How did Bud find out he was better than everybody else.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
He's not. He just thinks he is.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh wait a minute, let's not judge until he has
a chance to defend himself.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I can't imagine where he picked up such ideas. Surely
we have. Oh there he is now talk to him, dear.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
All right, but let's not make a big issue out
of this, Kathy. Don't you even mention it?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Where is everybody in the dan bod?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
At least the little snow is speaking to us? Hi?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh, hi Dad? Hello son?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
What's everybody doing in here?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I don't know. Just happened to be in here, that's all.
What have you been doing?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Nothing, Joe and I were what's everybody looking at me?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
So funny?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
For how'd you find out you were better than anybody else?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Kathy, I didn't say you was a snob.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Wait, wait a minute, where'd you hear that?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
What are you so stuck up about?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Bud? Now?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Way, hold on a minute, let's not jump to a
lot of conclusions.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is there anything wrong at school?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Sawah.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
My Gie's sister says, you don't speak to anybody in
the hall.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's not true.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
She says, you never speak to her.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, sure, but there's a reason, a reason she's a girl.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, naturally he's a girl.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
But you shouldn't feel so antagonistic towards girls.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
I don't I like him, Fine, I just can't talk
to him. I can talk to fellas, all right, but girls.
I don't know what's.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So different about girls.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I can talk to girls, all right, HiPE down, shrimp.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But you ought to get over this because people are
getting the wrong idea about you.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Yeah, I know what they're saying. Tee whiz mom. I
want to talk to girls, but I just plain can't.
You can, if you know I can't. The minute I'm
around some girls, I can't think of anything. And the
longer I stand there, the worse it gets. Pretty Soon,
my collar starts getting tight, my face gets hot, and
I wish an earthquake would hit so i'd have an
excuse to leave.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
That's the silliest thing I've.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Ever heard of.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
No, it isn't silly. I understand what he's talking about.
Every boy goes through this.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Not Claude Mesner.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
He can walk up to any girls anywhere and start
talking to them.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Just as easy you can too.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What sort of things does he talk about?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Well, now there's the funny thing.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I've listened to him, and as.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Near as I can tell, he's not saying anything, but boy,
he sure.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Says it easy.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, look, but he.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Gets a lot of laughs too.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, sonny boy, I'll
give you some lessons in conversation.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I don't want any lessons.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Well, you'll never get over this if you don't try.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I try.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
I keep trying to think up a bunch of nothing
to say, like Claude does. But even nothing comes out nothing.
It's worse than when I try to think up something.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
You're just a crazy, mixed up kid.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
He'll play off me.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Will Well, wait a minute, but I don't run away.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I'm not running away. I'm just gonna see what's in
the ice box.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I'm hungry, Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Maybe you'd better go out there and have a talk
with him.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well, I'll go out there, but I need to see
if there's any of that Blueberry pilot.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
There's nothing to talk about, Margaret. This is just something
that happens and it passes. I went through it.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
What did you do to get over it? Father.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Oh, I don't know. Probably nothing. It's just a phase
you go through and that's all there is to it.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Murmy, can I go through a phase sometime?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Don't worry you will.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What are we going to do about Bud? Well, I
guess your father is right. Probably the best thing to
do is nothing.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
But Mother, this is a reflection on me having a
snob for a brother.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
He's not a snob.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Well, as soon as they find out he's a dope instead,
that'll be even worse.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And he's not a dope. If you heard your father say,
he went through the same thing when he was a boy.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I get I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Oh yes, Margie, Oh, I think we're supposed to study
pages one hundred and seven to one and twenty. Oh, say, Margie,
we found out that Bud's not a snob after all,
he's just afraid to talk to girls. Yeah, say, why
don't you put Virginia on and I'll get Bud to
talk to her.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Betty, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yes, tell her to draw him out with a lot
of questions.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I'll call Bud.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Right now, Bod you want it on the phone.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Bud, Betty, I don't think you should do this.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I'm just trying to help him.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
I know, Mabby, it'll be easier for.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Him to talk over the phone, And once he sees
how easy it is, maybe he'll get over this silly idea.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Bod, I'm coming. Keep your smooth on.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Who is it, Joe?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Hello, Buh?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
What's the matter with Bud? He's turning red. We'll say
something stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's a girl.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
So what what she's saying?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
She asked me.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
How I am will answer her?
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I can't think of an answer.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Oh, for Peet's sake, don't just stand there? Say something?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Goodbye?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh no, why did you hang up?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Bud?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Come back here?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I tried to tell you not to do this, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
But mother, this is utterly ridiculous, but utterly Oh, there's
the basement door. The gopher has gone down into his hole.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Margaret, what happened to Butt? He just shot down into
the basement like a scared rabbit.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I guess it's my fault.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Father.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I tried to get him to talk to Margie's sister
on the phone.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Mmmm.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Couldn't leave well enough alone, could you?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I'm sorry, father, I was only trying to help him.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Forcing him is the worst thing you.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Could do, I said, I'm sorry, father.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I remember when I was going through this stage, some
helpful person got the bright idea of putting me on
a committee for a school Halloween party with a.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Couple of girls. Oh, I was embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Finally, one of the girls asked me to get some
decorations out of the cloak room. I went in there,
but I didn't have nerve enough to come out again.
I hit him there for two hours.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I wish I could have been there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I told you it was no laughing matter.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I finally sneaked out by wearing one of the Halloween
masks they had for the party.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You must have been a sight.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I remember a funny thing about that mask.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And the way home, I met a couple of other girls,
and I found out I could speak right up with
a mask on a fairly flipped guy. But the minute
I take it off, bang right back into the old
pumpkin again.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Same Maybe that had worked for bod, I mean wearing
a mask.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I got some masks in my room.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I'll go get him.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I don't see how that will help any You can't
go through life wearing a comic mask on him.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
It had been an improvement and might.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Help him get over this hurdle.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Now that you've pushed this into a big problem, he's
going to need some help. Just getting him out of
the basement is going to be a big job in itself.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't think you'll get much cooperation from him. He's
going to be pretty suspicious of anything you suggest.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
We won't suggest it, We'll just do it. I got
the masks onto the basement door man. Which mess shall.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
We give him?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
This pirate one? This Dunst one. He doesn't need a
Duncet mask. He's already got that. Bod, oh, bod.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
No, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
No, I didn't ask you anything.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Whatever it is you want me to do.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
No, I don't want you to do anything. Kathy just
found some masks, and I want to show you how
funny she looks.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
We're having a lot of fun all that. Come on up, Bud.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
What girls have you got up there?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
We haven't any girls up here.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Honest, Come on, Bud.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Okay, I'm coming up.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Kathy.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Put on a map, which one, it doesn't matter, Just
get on and act funny.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Okay, where's all this hilarious stuff?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Look at Kathy isn't she funny?
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Yeah, I'm a dunce hody Hodi ho?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Do you ain't she a riot?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I want to try one on? By No, I do
not want to try one on.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Oh, come on, you look funny in this one looks
sort of like Mortimer snurd Come on.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Bud, Hey, cut it out, Betty. I don't want this
on you like chilling.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Come on over the mirror and see yours.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
I don't want to see my Quit pushing me. See there.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Don't you start to look like Mortimer? Huh?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, father gid he though everybody?
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Oh you Betty? Anybody home?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Who's that? That's a girl?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Oh, relax, mort It's just Jannie Leggetts.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Hi, Janie, come on in. Are you ready to go
to the library?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Betty?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Oh gee, I forgot Yeah, I'll get my.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Coat and we'll go.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't have a car tonight.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
We'll have to walk.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Why don't you take a bus, sister. They've got a
lot of them. They'll never miss it.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Well, who's this cornball?
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Oh I'm just a little pairie flower, better pick me
while and bloom me?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Oh, brother, Jane, isn't but a riot tonight?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
It's sneae.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Don't discourage him.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Come on, Jenny, I'm ready, let's go. What's going on here, Betty?
What's the school?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Don't take any wooden pickles?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Wow, Bud, you're pretty hot tonight.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well we were listening to you and you were speaking
right up to the girls there. Hey, that's right, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Oh, what do you know?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's not so difficult, isn't you know?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
It's a funny thing.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Dad.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
When I have this mask on, I feel like a
different guy.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
It seems really.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Easy to talk. Well, it just shows it's all just
in your mind.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
But she didn't me. Try on your mask once, see
if I feel different?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Sure catch, once a fellow realizes this is just a
mental thing.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Uh, it's Virginia calling back.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Wants to know why I hung up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, explain to her. You've got this thing with Now
we'll say something, Bud.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Oh, hurry up, But Kathy, give me that mask.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Quick, but not on the phone. She can't be the mask.
Sure here, look, Bud.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
If you hello Virginia, Hi a kid, kid?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah, this is me.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Huh oh no, we were just cut off before.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
I think, what are you doing anyway?
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Kid, Yeah, I sound like who Lord Messner?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Oh that's square.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
What's he got that.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
I wouldn't have even if I could get at wholesale.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I just can't believe this is good.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's not.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Hey, kid, Oh, how's this for a cool idea?
Speaker 8 (14:26):
There's a real nervous movie playing at the standing Saturday night.
How about a date? Okay, it's a deal. Well, take
it easy, I'll see him bye. Oh boy, dad.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
This mask works one day, It certainly does.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
I've got a date with her for the movies. I'll
bet even Blapermouth's claud couldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You're sure going to look funny, though, Boy, what do
you mean funny going to the movie without mask on?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I'm not gonna wear the mak.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Wait a minute, that's the only way you can talk
to her.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Holy cow, dad, she's right?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
What am I gonna do? Holy cow?
Speaker 10 (15:21):
This is Jerry Marshall. Mind if I ask what kind
of a sleeper you are? Are you one of the
lucky ones asleep almost the minute your head touches the pillow,
or do you often have nights when you just turn
and toss for hours.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Before you fall asleep. It used to be that way
with me.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
One cup of ordinary coffee at dinner and I could
kiss my night's sleep goodbye.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
For sure.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
Took me a while to find out the answer, but
I finally did instant Sanka coffee. You see, it isn't
coffee itself. It's the caffeine in coffee that spoils sleep
for so many people. Well, instant Sanka's had ninety seven
percent of the caffeine taken out. It doesn't matter how
many cups you drink or how late at night. It
is instant Sanka can't interfere with sleep.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Another thing I like.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
About instant Sanka. It's all pure coffee, rich, full bodied.
Why not pick up a jar of instant Sank at
the grocer's tomorrow, the large, economy sized jar.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Try it.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
You'll sleep better at night and you'll feel better the
next day.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Well, now there's a fine situation. The Lafario and Bud
only comes out under the protection and influence of a
comic mask, And a mask is hardly the accept the.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Tire for a movie day.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
So Bud is desperately trying to solve this dilemma and
keeps coming up with what he feels is the one
workable solution like this, Well.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I know what to do.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I'm just not going You've got to go, Budes, you
told her you'd take her.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I can't do it, not without the mask.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Well, you can't wear that silly thing out in public.
It would embarrass Virginia to death.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
What if I just put it in my pocket and
then we could sit up in the balcony where it's
pretty dark, and I could put it on during the movie.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Oh fine, and when the lights come on for intermission,
you'd scare her out of ten years of her life.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, that would be quite a surprise with me.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
And besides, you don't have to talk much during the movie.
It's before and after when you have to carry on
a conversation.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Why don't you call her and tell her I'm sick
or something.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I can't do a thing like that.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Yes, you can put the mask on and call her.
It's a lot easier that way.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I'm not going to do it now.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Look, Bud, you certainly can think of enough conversation to
get you from Virginia's house to the movie theater.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
You want to bet.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Look, most of the time you'll just be answering her.
When you get there, she'll say well, hello, Bud. Now
you can surely think up what to say to that,
can't you.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Oh? Where's my mask?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
For Pete's sake, all you have to say is hello.
You can say that without a mask, can't you.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I guess so.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
All right, Then she'll tell you to come in and
you say thank you.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Wait a minute, let me write that down.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I can tell this it's going to be a sparkling conversation. Oh, hi, Dad,
you've been listening.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Don't bother us now, Father?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Now, then, buddy, after you get inside, you should say
something about how nice she looks, how becoming, the color
of her dress is or something.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What color is it?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Oh, Bud, you're hopeless.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, but why don't you leave him alone? You've been
needling him ever since he made the date last night.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Well, I give up. He can just go on heavy.
Everyone think he's a snob, for all I care.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I don't want them to think that. Well, don't worry, Bud,
we'll work this thing out someway.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
I was hoping there'd be a fully clipse of the
moon Saturday, so it'd be real dark.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I don't think you can bank on that. No, I
looked it up.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
We don't get a fully clips to April nineteen fifty four,
and I doubt if I can put the date off
that long.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
No, the thing to do is face the situation. Only
I was going to a masquerade party.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Then my whole problem with Hey, how about that?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Dad? How about what?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
How about giving me a masquerade party Saturday night? I
can invite Joe and Clause.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Oh, hold on a minute. This is your mother's province.
That means a lot of work for her.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Oh gee, Dad, I do all the work, or some
of it anyway, honest.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
But there's Mom now dead. Ask her no, But I
think you'd better be the one to ask him.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
But oh, there you are.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
But do you have a clean white shirt for Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah? I guess so Dad's got something to ask you Mom.
Well I'll wait, Bud, I'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Dad, you have something to ask me, Jim.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well, not exactly, Margaret, but you see, well.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
This problem of buds, the girls and the mask and all.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
What time does he want the party to start?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Isn't that what you wanted to ask me about? A
masquerade party? How did you know I've been waiting for it?
Why someone didn't think about it sooner? I'll never know,
but I'll have to admit I'm not in favor of it.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Well, no, Margaret, we've got to remember that a thing
like this doesn't seem very important, but to a boy
it looms is a real big emotional problem.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I agree, but I don't think we're helping him solve
it by encouraging him to hide behind a mask.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
But Margaret, it's sort of like learning to ride a bicycle.
At first, you need somebody to steady the bike for you.
Suddenly when you realize you're making it by yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
The party is out, Jim, Betty, will you go down
and finish putting up the decorations. The masqueraders will be
arriving any minute, and I still have to dress. I
(21:25):
thought Bud was going to do all the work for
his party. He's been pretty busy trying to slick down
his hair. Oh, Jim, are you dressed? Betty might need
some help downstairs.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Okay, I'll go right down. The living room really looks festive.
You've done a good job.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I hope it's not wasted effort. I still don't think
this is going.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
To do but any good, Oh, I think it will.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I keep having a feeling something is going to go wrong,
and then Bud will retreat into himself further than ever.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Now, what could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Holy cow, it's gone?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Hey Dad, what's the matter by my mask?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's going? Kathy? What you do with my mask?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
I never did anything? Wait, come on, now, where is it?
It was right there on my bed, hey, Betty.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Will not calm down, Bud. We'll find it.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Did you look on the floor under the bed in
your closet?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Was right on top of the bed.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Somebody took it, Betty.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I don't go accusing everyone. Are you sure you put
it on the bed?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
But you better hurry.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Some of your guests have verides.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Holy call.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Oh, you go downstairs and greet them. Bud. We'll hunt
for the man. But I can't go down not without
the mask.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
But you've got to No, Dad.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You're downstairs waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Dope.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
You'll just have to wait. I can't go down there.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I just can't do it. Wait a minute, I've got it.
I've got a solution. Betty. Get me an eyebrow pencil
and some rugs.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
What for?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Just get it and hurry, Margaret, you and Kathy go
and finish dressing.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
What are you gonna do, Dad, You'll see hurry up, Margaret, Kathy,
you'll be late for the party.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Uh yes, Jim, come on, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Dad will please do Father.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
That's fine, Betty. Now you run down. I want and
to entertain the guests for a few minutes. But I'll
be right down, he will, I will.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I don't stand there, Betty, get going, yes, Father, Now then,
but I hold your head steady.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
What are you gonna do, Dad? Make you look just
like that mask. It'll never work, yes, it will not steady,
but hold it there.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I will give you some nice high cheekbones, now, good
red ones like the mask.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It won't work, Dad. I will give you.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Some big, bushy eyebrows, and a few wrinkles around here,
a couple of lines accent your nose. Now, let's have
a look at you now, Dad, By George's amazing how
much you look like that mask? Now I doah, Let
me get your hair down over your fort Yeah, that's better.
(23:44):
Now smile and show those two big front teeth of
yours like this. That's it. I'll swear I couldn't tell
you from the mask if I didn't know better.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Uh, let me go look in the bathroom mirror.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
No, you better not take the time. They're waiting for
you down there.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Well, just let me take one little we have mort
get down there and liven things up.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Okay, but don't shove.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Me knock I'm dead.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well what happened, Jim? What did you do?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I just made him up to look.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Like the mask you did and it worked. Well.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You saw I'm run downstairs, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yes, I'm surprised he'd agreet you anything like that. As
a matter of fact, I'm surprised you could do it.
Your artwork was never anything to shout about.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Well, this is a masterpiece, believe me. Let's go downstairs
so I can show you my handiwork.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
All right, I guess I'm ready. I just threw myself together.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Well, you're a pretty good thrower.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You never looked better, I'll bet, But thanks Margaret.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
When you were little, did you ever learn to ride
a bicycle? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Certainly? Why do you ask that?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Do you remember how you had your mother or father
walk along beside you and hold it up?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
But if you're still trying to draw an analogy between
the day when.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You thought they were holding you up, you turned your
head and discovered they let go. That was the day
you hollered out, Look my no hands.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Jim, exactly what are you trying to say?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Hey, listen, it sounds like the party is a success.
Come on, let's peak and see how Mortimer's doing.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Look who's getting all the big laughs in there?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
For goodness sake, he's certainly taking over. I've never seen
him like Wait, Jim, his face, Yes, there's nothing on it.
You didn't put any makeup on him.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
That's right. I didn't put a thing on him.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Jim, You tricked him. What's he gonna say when he
finds this out?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Just what I was telling you, he'd say, look my
no hand.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Gannerson will be back in just a month.
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Speaker 5 (27:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
The masquerade party is a matter of pleasant history by now,
and it's gay. Host balbyvon Bud Anderson is fast asleep.
The weary dishwashers Jim and Margaret are getting ready to
retire like this.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Oh boy, I'll be glad to hit that sack. I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Well, I must say the party ideas certainly turned out
a lot better than I ever figured, But had a
few doubtful moments when he discovered he had no makeup on.
They got his second win then and.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Never faltered bish and accomplished.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Seemed like a calamity when he lost his mask, but
it turned out to be a stroke of fortune. Yeah, Jim,
how many times do I have to tell you not
to hang your coat on the back of a chair?
Oh here, take it? Wait something, I'll get it get
why Jim Anderson, it's Bud's mask.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Well, now, how do you suppose that got in my pocket?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I wonder just when did you get this big fat idea, Margaret?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Did you ever learn to ride a bicycle?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
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