August 5, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Yes, it's father knows best.
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Speaker 4 (01:08):
He hied the board with plentyous cheer and gathered to
the feasts and toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage
never cease. You know, the Pilgrim started the custom of Thanksgiving,
But there are others whose trials and tribulations. On an
average Thanksgiving Day bare inspection and a certain amount.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Of sympathy pay.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
For example, the Andersons who live in Springfield in a
white frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
They count their blessings and give their thanks.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But with three children in the house, even a simple
rite like thanksgiving can be a pretty complicated affair.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Like this, mother, we're in the den, Betty, is it
all right?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Ify?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Bar your ear rings, Betty.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
If you have anything to ask your mother, come down
here and ask her.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Jump in creepers.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Sounds like she was reared in a barn. Stands up
there screaming her head off every him.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Kathy is waiting to read her poem.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh, I'm sorry, Katy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Go ahead, Yes, Daddy, go ahead, dear.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, now what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I have to be introduced.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh pardon me, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
The winner of the competition in the fourth grade, Miss
Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Is that better?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now? You have to applow?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, we applaud, thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
What a ham has to get her applause before she
reads the poem.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Jim doesn't want to take any chances.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
All right, dear, anytime you're ready.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yes, mommy, Thanksgiving Day, My Kathleen Joy Anderson, fourth grade.
Thanksgiving is a minute?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
What was that name?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
The name?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Your name?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Say it again, Kathleen Joy Anderson.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Where did the joy come from? Your name is Kathleen
Louise Andison.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But I don't like Louise.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You what?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Oh, Jim, Kathy and I talked it all.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
My mother's name is Louise, and if it's good enough
for my mother, it's good enough for her.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's only a middle name, dear, And if she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like it, why shouldn't she like it? What's wrong with it?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Nothing, Jim. But it's her name.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You're darn right. It's her name. She's not going to
change it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Now, go ahead, mommy, go ahead, dear, she whizz.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
My grandmother and her mother were named Louise, and there's
no reason why she should want to change it. Well,
what read the poem, Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Daddy, Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Louise Anderson.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's more like it four. It's great, It's much better.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Jim, Please all right, Kathy, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you're getting Easter Bunny
or even like your birthday when your uncle sends your money.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
What, Jim, when did her uncle ever send her money
or anything else? Oh, Kathy, she's almost nine years old
and he's never sent her a button, gives her money.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
He's so tidy he can't even sit down.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Jim Anderson. I know you don't like him, but he's
been very good to my sister. And if Kathy needs
him for her.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny and your brother in law, boy,
is that a combination?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Go ahead, Kathleen, Yes, marmy.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathy.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
No, not from the beginning, Kathy, Start where you left off.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't remember where I was.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Your uncle was giving you money. Oh that's something we
can all remember. Yes, this isn't a poem.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
It's a fairy tale.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
If you say one more word, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Is it all right if I start up near Christmas?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Start anywhere you like, but start okay?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Louise Anderson, fourth grade. Thanksgiving is
a lucky day for all the girls and boys. It
isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you're get an Easter bunny,
or even like your birthday when your uncle gives you money.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I didn't say a word.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Go ahead, dear.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration Day
or summer vacation or Halloween?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Rapy?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
When are you going to stop telling us what it
isn't like and tell us what it is like?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
How can she when you keep interrupting?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, it's supposed to be a poem about Thanksgiving, isn't it?
And what if she said it isn't like Christmas? It
isn't like the fourth of July. Who said it was.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Jim? The poem has already won the contest. We're just
supposed to listen. But as long as we're just the
pose to listen, go ahead, dear.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You mean from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
No, no, no, start after that funny part where your
uncle gives you money.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration
Day or summer vacation or Halloween when all the kids can.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Play No, Oh, good grief scare a man half out
of his wits?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is it all right if I borrow your earrings. Look
what you've done, ashes all over the phone.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'll clean it up, Margaret, don't worry about it. What happened,
Nothing happened. I knocked over the ashtray. That's all.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Go ahead, Kathy, Thanksgiving is a different day. Excuse me, Kathy,
I have to speak to mother.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Let her finish the poem, Betty, Father.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I told Janie Niggot i'd be there early. She's counting
on me. You don't have to read a poem over
the radio.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh no, you mean she's gonna read that horrible thing
in public, Eddie. It's a very nice poem, considering.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day. I didn't see you winning
any free turkey dinner, so I didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The Liggots are gonna have three turkeys.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Wait a minute, the way you kids talk, you think
we never had a turkey in this house.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Jim, I've got a good mind to keep you all home.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Father Jim, it isn't a question of turkey. Kathy's principal told.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Why couldn't they have their dinner some other day?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But Thanksgiving dinner was the prize dear for all eight grades.
It's become a major event in the leggats.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
If somebody look cross eyed, Janny Lggott has a party. Father,
you said, I know what I said, And it'll be
a relief to get you all out of the house.
Your mother won't have to spend all day cooking at dinner,
you will wolf down in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Jim, we'll have a little piece around here. Even if
it is.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like best, Kathy.
I haven't asked about the.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Ear rings, Betty.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The ones with the rhinestones.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh, dear, those are much too old for you. No
they aren't, Mother, really they aren't.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Thanksgiving is a different.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Betty. If your mother says they're too old for you.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
But they aren't.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Father, I tried them all.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Don't you think something less formal would be more suitable?
But Mother, after all, rhinestones in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Not good?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Huh, not good at all?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
How about the little pearl ones?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Much better?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
May I? Of course?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Dear? Thank you mother, you're an angel.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Maybe I want to get the vacuum clean, and the
whole rug's a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Just leave it, Jim, I'll clean it later. You only
take me a second, Jim, all right, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Now, yes, get it over with please.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like best.
It's even better than Sunday, which is called the day
of rest. Thanksgiving is my fa favorite day.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So long everybody, goodbye, dear, have a nice time.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
But what are you doing with my suitcase?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Come in here and bring the suitcase.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Oh gosh, I'm not gonna hurt it. Dad.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Did anybody say you could borrow my suitcase?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Dad, And why are you taking it?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Well? I have to carry them in something, Harry. What
the football letters? They're gonna give them out at the
dinner And the coach.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Said it back where you got it.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
But the coach said I could eat with the team.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I said, put it back.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Jimmy isn't going to hurt anything.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That's not the point.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
He has no right to take things without asking for them.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
But you were busy, Dad. I tried asking you this morning, Remember,
I said, Dad, And you said you thought it was
going to be wonderful for you and mom. Dad Thanksgiving
dinner in a restaurant for a change. And I said, Dad,
and you said you thought everybody made too much of
a fuss about Thanksgiving anyway. And I said, Dad, and you.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Said, God, take a suitcase, oh boy, And next time
ask for it.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Well, I tried to Dad.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I said, buzz.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Okay, Dad, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Now is Billy here, dear, he's part out front.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
We'll have a good time.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
No need too much turkey.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I won't see you later.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Goodbye, Dear, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Just a minute, Kathy, But are you driving downtown with
Joe Phillips?
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Daed Why don't you drop Kathy off at the school?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Okay, come on, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I haven't finished my poem.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh why haven't you? I haven't heard anything else for
the past hour.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I tried to read it, and first you said that
uncle Rick.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Come on, Kathy, will you I'm late.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Nobody ever lets me do anything just because I'm the
littlest one in the family.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Kathy, read the poem.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Everybody think sake and pick.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
On, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day, dear. That's where you left off.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And they don't have any right to. Thanksgiving is my
favorite day, though the skies are gray and murky, because
that's the day when I get to eat the drumstick
of a turkey.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Well, that's the end, some palm, Bud. It's a very
lovely poem, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Thank you, Murmy.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
You mean that won the competition, Dumn. Well, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
It's a very good a little sentimental, perhaps, but very good.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Thank you, Daddy.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Get your coat, Kaffy, and let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Mister Bryant said he'd bring me home. Murmy. That's fine, dear,
And don't forget to listen to the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We won't and behave yourself. Come on, will you stop
pulling me?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Why do you always have to pull me?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Nice to the suitcase?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Dad, I have a nice time, Bud, you two, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Ay, be a good girl, Kathleen. Well long, goodbye, dear. Well,
I'm completely exhausted. I don't know where they get all
that energy, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Did she really win the competition with that poem?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
She's only in the fourth grade, Jim, that's very good
for the fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I was nine, I could write poems like that standing
on my head.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, if you've ever seen Kathy study, you'd know that's
probably the way she wrote it.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Margaret.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Yes, dear, have you noticed how quiet it is? Yes, dear,
hasn't been this quiet for weeks, has it? No?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Does you good to get away from the kids for a.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
While gives you a chance to relax, take things easy,
read your paper and things.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yes, dear, get the kids out of.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
The house makes all the difference in the world, peace
and quiet, don't you, Yes, dear. All that excitement shouting
and running up and down the stairs absolutely unnecessary, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I suppose so, Dear Margaret, Yes, dear, I'm lonesome.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
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Speaker 9 (13:35):
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Speaker 4 (14:50):
That was very good, Barbara, very good.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Indeed.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Now our next winner is a Rugget individualist.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Indeed, Janet's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
She put her thoughts something giving into verse and will
now lead the poem which won for her the competition
in the fourth grade Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Kathleen Andres,
Kathy's started japs in the car.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Well, I just wanted to know it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Louise Anderson, fourth grade. Thanksgiving
is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, why doesn't she go on, Jim, Please go ahead, Kathleen.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
She doesn't have to remember anything. She's got it right
in front of her.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Dare She's probably very nervous or she can.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Read, can't she Kathleen, we're waiting.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I don't want to go home.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Guy's not what's gotten into her?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh, poor little thing.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Miss Anderson just remembered the previous engagement, but perhaps.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
That he had the luck with our next little guests.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The winner of the competition in the fifth grade. You see, Margaret,
I told you she shouldn't have gone.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
My poor baby.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I've never heard anything like that in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
She was frightened, Jim, that's all.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Frightened of what.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
You can't shut her up when she's in the house,
but as soon as she's supposed to talk, she makes
an oyster sound like Martin and Lewis. I tell you, Margaret, yes, Jim,
do you think we ought to go down and get her?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Poor kids, probably crying her heart out.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
She'll get over it, and don't forget they promised her too, drumsticks.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I don't know. She didn't sound very hungry.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Do I what you promised me a Thanksgiving dinner at
the townhouse?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Remember?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh? Yes, I did?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Didn't I I'll get my hat and coat? Or would
you rather have me sue you for breach of promise?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Margaret, Jim, there is anything wrong, is there?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Oh? No, thing's fine. It's just that whoa.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yes, I've been doing a lot of thinking. And would
you mind very much if we didn't go out?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Why cheer?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I know I promised you dinner, but well I just
rather eat here.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
There isn't anything to eat, Sure there is.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
There's a whole heap of hamburger in the icebox.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hamburger on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Day, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
To tell you the absolute truth, this doesn't seem much
like Thanksgiving, not like the kind of Thanksgiving we used
to know.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, it's finally happened after only eighteen years. You're tired of.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Me, you know what I mean, don't you, Honey?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I think so, dear.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Thanksgiving has always been a special sort of day for me,
even when I was a boy.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It was more than just a holiday.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
It was a time when the whole family got together
and had fun. We used to go out into the
country to my grandmother's.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
We did too, to my grandmother's.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I mean, the whole family used to be there, my
uncle Rob and his wife and their eight children, and
my uncle Will and his wife and their ten children.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
That must have been cozy, Oh it was.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
We eaten shifts.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
My grandmother always swore she was feeding half of the
neighbor's kids.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
But it was fun.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Did you play games after dinner?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh heck no. We were so stuffed we couldn't move.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Ah, you were a bunch of sissies. We used to
play going to Jerusalem, or musical chairs or charades.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
That's pretty hard to do with just two people, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
There's one thing we mustn't forget. This is a new generation.
It's a different sort of generation, with new ideas and
a new sense of values. Times have changed.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I used to have let's go into the kitchen and
see what we can throw together.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You're an old sentimentalist, Jim Anderson, That's what you are.
And I love you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I love you too.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
You know, maybe if the kids get home early, we
can all go to a movie or something.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
How'd you like that?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I wouldn't count on it, Dear. Betty said not to
expect her before midnight, and Bud's dinner won't start till six.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Well, Kathy isn't going to stay out all night, is she?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Okay, then we'll take Kathy to the movies.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well we'll see, Dear. It all depends on budh are
your mom?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
What are you doing here fixing a hamburger?
Speaker 7 (19:26):
One one?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Well?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What happened to the dinner? What dinner at the training
table with a football team?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Oh? That dinner?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
I guess I just wasn't hungry.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Weren't hungry?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You, Jim, I'm going to call doctor Sinne.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Wait and Margaret, Bud, if you aren't hungry? Why the hamburger?
Speaker 7 (19:53):
The hamburger?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Pardon me? The three hamburgers?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Oh? Well, I guess I got hungry.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But if you don't feel well, please tell us.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
But I do feel well, Mama, I feel fine.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Look if you don't want to tell us the truth, but.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
I am telling you the truth. I didn't like the dinner.
That's all a bunch of big goofs sitting around talking
about football. What good is that?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Since? When don't you like to talk about football?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Was the second? Honey, Kathy, it's me father?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
What's she doing home?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
What on earth.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
We're in the kitchen? Betty?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh dear, just when everything was going so well?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Oh Margaret, why do you immediately assume that something is wrong?
Maybe the Leggers decided not to have a party, or
maybe Betty had the wrong day.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Lots of things could have happened.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The party was today, I know it was.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Well, maybe it hasn't started yet.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
What's doing in the kitchen, hi, Bud? What are you
doing here?
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Oh? Nothing much on a hamburger?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Okay, never mind the hamburgers, Bud.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
We've got things to discuss that are much more important
than hamburgers.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Betty, do you feel all right?
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Dear?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Why you told your mother you wouldn't be home until midnight?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, I wasn't going to, but I came up with
the most awful headache.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Jim, you just said you felt fine. I do.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I mean, well, I do, except for this headache.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm gonna call missus Leggott and ask mother.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know, if there was anything wrong, I'd tell you
I always.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Have, haven't I? Yes, Dear, you have?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Kathy? Yes, Daddy, we're in the kitchen. Come on in. Yes, Daddy,
you see Margaret. I told you we should have gone
down for her.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, I had no way of knowing the matter with Kathy.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Oh, your sister reads the first line of her poem
and bursts into tears.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
No kidding, the poor little thing. Hello, Ah Angel.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Hello, sweet, come on over here and tell you, daddy
all your troubles.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I don't have any troubles, Daddy. I'm just not happy.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, it isn't anything to cry about.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Is it. It was a lovely poem, darling, even if
you didn't read it.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
And don't you worry not hey, if anybody makes fun
of y'all, pokem right in the nose.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But I don't care if they do make fun of me.
I didn't want to read my poem, not to them.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Why, Kathy, they're your friends.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I don't want them. It's Thanksgiving and I wanted my
mommy and my daddy, and my sister and my brother.
I was lonesome.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Oh, Kathy, Darling, she's all right, Margaret, just leave her alone.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Mother. Yes, Daddy, I was lonesome too.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Oh no, wait a minute, oh jim it not you too?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Me too?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Good? Grieve.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
We sound like the third act of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What what's the matter with you, Bud?
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Nothing. I just feel like blowing my nose. That's all.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Well, blow it now, get busy with the hamburgers.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Okay, dad, how about little food for the hungry.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Anderson's I'm starving hamburgers that's a fine thing to serve
for Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Is it sounds fine to me?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I don't care what part of the hamburger I get
as wrong as it's a drumstick.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Girl, Kathy, Well, what are we waiting for.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Let's sit down and be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I'll take over, budd I'm doing fine, mom, but really
I'll argue with.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
The chef, Margaret, just sit down and relax.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, if you insist.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Four hamburgers coming up.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That'll take care of me. But what are they going
to eat? Betty Margaret?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Kids?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Before we dig into these juicy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Burgers, may I say something?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
This has been I think the happiest Thanksgiving day of
my entire life. If you don't mind, I'd like to
say a special grace. O Lord, we give thanks from
the bottom of our hump of hearts for the blessings
thou hast seen fit to bestow upon us.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
We thank THEE for.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
The food that graces our table and the roof that
covers our head. We thank THEE for the privilege of
living as free men in a country which respects our
freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and
speak as we choose. But most of all, Dear Lord,
we thank THEE for making us a family. You're giving
us se and understanding. We thank THEE for giving us
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the most cherished gift of family may know, the gift
of love for one another.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
I mean, another Thanksgiving Day is here and America carries
on the fine customs started by the pilgrim fathers of
setting aside a special day to give thanks for the freedoms,
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the bounties, and the goodness of our land. Thanksgiving is
a happy holiday, a time for family reunion, family dinners,
and today traditional turkeys with all the trimmings, grace countless
dinner tables. Yes, abundant good food is one of the
bodies America is especially thankful for, and the makers of
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Speaker 4 (26:37):
It's morning now, and in the Anderson Breakfast Nook, life
is eased back into which a custom grew. Thanksgiving Day
is over, but the Andersons, well, they go on forever
like this.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Why can't I wear lipsticks claudium that you does? And
she's only twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Here's your cereal, dear, thank you?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well, what well?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Why can I?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Because I said you couldn't eat your breakfast?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Gee?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Wis Margaret. We've got to do something about that boy.
He's beginning to shake the house.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I'll speak to him, dear.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
If he can't take it easy on the stairs, don't
feed him so much.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
One of these days he's going to go right through.
Hi Dad, Good morning mom, Sit down, eat your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Good morning, dear.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
He didn't say anything to me.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Hi esquired, Good morning mother.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Do you know what Bud did? He used my good cologne.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
On his hair. Good morning, Betty, I used two draws.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You used practically the whole bottle.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Good morning, Betty, mother.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
If I can't have a little privacy with.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
My own fate, Betty, what good morning?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Good morning father?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's better, Sit down and eat your.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Breakfast jumping creepers.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
You know, Margaret, there's one thing I'm really going to
enjoy about our Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Day dinner yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
What's that, Dear?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We're probably the only family in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
It won't be eating leftover turkey for the next month. Yes, dear,
what are we going to have for dinner tonight?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Leftover hamburgers?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
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Speaker 4 (01:08):
He hied the board with plentyous cheer and gathered to
the feasts and toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage
never cease. You know, the Pilgrim started the custom of Thanksgiving,
But there are others whose trials and tribulations. On an
average Thanksgiving Day bare inspection and a certain amount.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Of sympathy pay.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
For example, the Andersons who live in Springfield in a
white frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
They count their blessings and give their thanks.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But with three children in the house, even a simple
rite like thanksgiving can be a pretty complicated affair.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Like this, mother, we're in the den, Betty, is it
all right?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Ify?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Bar your ear rings, Betty.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
If you have anything to ask your mother, come down
here and ask her.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Jump in creepers.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Sounds like she was reared in a barn. Stands up
there screaming her head off every him.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Kathy is waiting to read her poem.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh, I'm sorry, Katy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Go ahead, Yes, Daddy, go ahead, dear.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, now what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I have to be introduced.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh pardon me, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
The winner of the competition in the fourth grade, Miss
Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Is that better?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now? You have to applow?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, we applaud, thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
What a ham has to get her applause before she
reads the poem.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Jim doesn't want to take any chances.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
All right, dear, anytime you're ready.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yes, mommy, Thanksgiving Day, My Kathleen Joy Anderson, fourth grade.
Thanksgiving is a minute?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
What was that name?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
The name?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Your name?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Say it again, Kathleen Joy Anderson.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Where did the joy come from? Your name is Kathleen
Louise Andison.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But I don't like Louise.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You what?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Oh, Jim, Kathy and I talked it all.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
My mother's name is Louise, and if it's good enough
for my mother, it's good enough for her.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's only a middle name, dear, And if she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like it, why shouldn't she like it? What's wrong with it?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Nothing, Jim. But it's her name.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You're darn right. It's her name. She's not going to
change it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Now, go ahead, mommy, go ahead, dear, she whizz.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
My grandmother and her mother were named Louise, and there's
no reason why she should want to change it. Well,
what read the poem, Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Daddy, Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Louise Anderson.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's more like it four. It's great, It's much better.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Jim, Please all right, Kathy, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you're getting Easter Bunny
or even like your birthday when your uncle sends your money.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
What, Jim, when did her uncle ever send her money
or anything else? Oh, Kathy, she's almost nine years old
and he's never sent her a button, gives her money.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
He's so tidy he can't even sit down.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Jim Anderson. I know you don't like him, but he's
been very good to my sister. And if Kathy needs
him for her.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny and your brother in law, boy,
is that a combination?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Go ahead, Kathleen, Yes, marmy.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathy.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
No, not from the beginning, Kathy, Start where you left off.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't remember where I was.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Your uncle was giving you money. Oh that's something we
can all remember. Yes, this isn't a poem.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
It's a fairy tale.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
If you say one more word, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Is it all right if I start up near Christmas?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Start anywhere you like, but start okay?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Louise Anderson, fourth grade. Thanksgiving is
a lucky day for all the girls and boys. It
isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you're get an Easter bunny,
or even like your birthday when your uncle gives you money.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I didn't say a word.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Go ahead, dear.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration Day
or summer vacation or Halloween?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Rapy?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
When are you going to stop telling us what it
isn't like and tell us what it is like?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
How can she when you keep interrupting?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, it's supposed to be a poem about Thanksgiving, isn't it?
And what if she said it isn't like Christmas? It
isn't like the fourth of July. Who said it was.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Jim? The poem has already won the contest. We're just
supposed to listen. But as long as we're just the
pose to listen, go ahead, dear.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You mean from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
No, no, no, start after that funny part where your
uncle gives you money.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration
Day or summer vacation or Halloween when all the kids can.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Play No, Oh, good grief scare a man half out
of his wits?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is it all right if I borrow your earrings. Look
what you've done, ashes all over the phone.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'll clean it up, Margaret, don't worry about it. What happened,
Nothing happened. I knocked over the ashtray. That's all.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Go ahead, Kathy, Thanksgiving is a different day. Excuse me, Kathy,
I have to speak to mother.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Let her finish the poem, Betty, Father.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I told Janie Niggot i'd be there early. She's counting
on me. You don't have to read a poem over
the radio.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh no, you mean she's gonna read that horrible thing
in public, Eddie. It's a very nice poem, considering.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day. I didn't see you winning
any free turkey dinner, so I didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The Liggots are gonna have three turkeys.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Wait a minute, the way you kids talk, you think
we never had a turkey in this house.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Jim, I've got a good mind to keep you all home.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Father Jim, it isn't a question of turkey. Kathy's principal told.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Why couldn't they have their dinner some other day?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But Thanksgiving dinner was the prize dear for all eight grades.
It's become a major event in the leggats.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
If somebody look cross eyed, Janny Lggott has a party. Father,
you said, I know what I said, And it'll be
a relief to get you all out of the house.
Your mother won't have to spend all day cooking at dinner,
you will wolf down in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Jim, we'll have a little piece around here. Even if
it is.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like best, Kathy.
I haven't asked about the.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Ear rings, Betty.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The ones with the rhinestones.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh, dear, those are much too old for you. No
they aren't, Mother, really they aren't.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Thanksgiving is a different.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Betty. If your mother says they're too old for you.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
But they aren't.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Father, I tried them all.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Don't you think something less formal would be more suitable?
But Mother, after all, rhinestones in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Not good?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Huh, not good at all?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
How about the little pearl ones?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Much better?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
May I? Of course?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Dear? Thank you mother, you're an angel.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Maybe I want to get the vacuum clean, and the
whole rug's a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Just leave it, Jim, I'll clean it later. You only
take me a second, Jim, all right, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Now, yes, get it over with please.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like best.
It's even better than Sunday, which is called the day
of rest. Thanksgiving is my fa favorite day.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So long everybody, goodbye, dear, have a nice time.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
But what are you doing with my suitcase?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Come in here and bring the suitcase.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Oh gosh, I'm not gonna hurt it. Dad.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Did anybody say you could borrow my suitcase?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Dad, And why are you taking it?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Well? I have to carry them in something, Harry. What
the football letters? They're gonna give them out at the
dinner And the coach.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Said it back where you got it.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
But the coach said I could eat with the team.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I said, put it back.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Jimmy isn't going to hurt anything.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That's not the point.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
He has no right to take things without asking for them.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
But you were busy, Dad. I tried asking you this morning, Remember,
I said, Dad, And you said you thought it was
going to be wonderful for you and mom. Dad Thanksgiving
dinner in a restaurant for a change. And I said, Dad,
and you said you thought everybody made too much of
a fuss about Thanksgiving anyway. And I said, Dad, and you.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Said, God, take a suitcase, oh boy, And next time
ask for it.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Well, I tried to Dad.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I said, buzz.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Okay, Dad, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Now is Billy here, dear, he's part out front.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
We'll have a good time.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
No need too much turkey.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I won't see you later.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Goodbye, Dear, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Just a minute, Kathy, But are you driving downtown with
Joe Phillips?
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Daed Why don't you drop Kathy off at the school?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Okay, come on, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I haven't finished my poem.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh why haven't you? I haven't heard anything else for
the past hour.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I tried to read it, and first you said that
uncle Rick.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Come on, Kathy, will you I'm late.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Nobody ever lets me do anything just because I'm the
littlest one in the family.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Kathy, read the poem.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Everybody think sake and pick.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
On, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day, dear. That's where you left off.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And they don't have any right to. Thanksgiving is my
favorite day, though the skies are gray and murky, because
that's the day when I get to eat the drumstick
of a turkey.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Well, that's the end, some palm, Bud. It's a very
lovely poem, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Thank you, Murmy.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
You mean that won the competition, Dumn. Well, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
It's a very good a little sentimental, perhaps, but very good.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Thank you, Daddy.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Get your coat, Kaffy, and let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Mister Bryant said he'd bring me home. Murmy. That's fine, dear,
And don't forget to listen to the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We won't and behave yourself. Come on, will you stop
pulling me?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Why do you always have to pull me?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Nice to the suitcase?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Dad, I have a nice time, Bud, you two, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Ay, be a good girl, Kathleen. Well long, goodbye, dear. Well,
I'm completely exhausted. I don't know where they get all
that energy, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Did she really win the competition with that poem?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
She's only in the fourth grade, Jim, that's very good
for the fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I was nine, I could write poems like that standing
on my head.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, if you've ever seen Kathy study, you'd know that's
probably the way she wrote it.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Margaret.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Yes, dear, have you noticed how quiet it is? Yes, dear,
hasn't been this quiet for weeks, has it? No?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Does you good to get away from the kids for a.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
While gives you a chance to relax, take things easy,
read your paper and things.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yes, dear, get the kids out of.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
The house makes all the difference in the world, peace
and quiet, don't you, Yes, dear. All that excitement shouting
and running up and down the stairs absolutely unnecessary, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I suppose so, Dear Margaret, Yes, dear, I'm lonesome.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Yes, dear, Hi, there, this is Jerry Marshall.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
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(14:19):
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get the large, economy sized jar and save money. You'll
like Instant Sanka's flavor and you'll love the way it
lets you sleep.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
That was very good, Barbara, very good.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Indeed.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Now our next winner is a Rugget individualist.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Indeed, Janet's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
She put her thoughts something giving into verse and will
now lead the poem which won for her the competition
in the fourth grade Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Kathleen Andres,
Kathy's started japs in the car.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Well, I just wanted to know it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Louise Anderson, fourth grade. Thanksgiving
is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, why doesn't she go on, Jim, Please go ahead, Kathleen.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
She doesn't have to remember anything. She's got it right
in front of her.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Dare She's probably very nervous or she can.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Read, can't she Kathleen, we're waiting.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I don't want to go home.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Guy's not what's gotten into her?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh, poor little thing.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Miss Anderson just remembered the previous engagement, but perhaps.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
That he had the luck with our next little guests.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The winner of the competition in the fifth grade. You see, Margaret,
I told you she shouldn't have gone.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
My poor baby.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I've never heard anything like that in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
She was frightened, Jim, that's all.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Frightened of what.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
You can't shut her up when she's in the house,
but as soon as she's supposed to talk, she makes
an oyster sound like Martin and Lewis. I tell you, Margaret, yes, Jim,
do you think we ought to go down and get her?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Poor kids, probably crying her heart out.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
She'll get over it, and don't forget they promised her too, drumsticks.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I don't know. She didn't sound very hungry.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Do I what you promised me a Thanksgiving dinner at
the townhouse?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Remember?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh? Yes, I did?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Didn't I I'll get my hat and coat? Or would
you rather have me sue you for breach of promise?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Margaret, Jim, there is anything wrong, is there?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Oh? No, thing's fine. It's just that whoa.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yes, I've been doing a lot of thinking. And would
you mind very much if we didn't go out?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Why cheer?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I know I promised you dinner, but well I just
rather eat here.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
There isn't anything to eat, Sure there is.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
There's a whole heap of hamburger in the icebox.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hamburger on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Day, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
To tell you the absolute truth, this doesn't seem much
like Thanksgiving, not like the kind of Thanksgiving we used
to know.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, it's finally happened after only eighteen years. You're tired of.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Me, you know what I mean, don't you, Honey?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I think so, dear.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Thanksgiving has always been a special sort of day for me,
even when I was a boy.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It was more than just a holiday.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
It was a time when the whole family got together
and had fun. We used to go out into the
country to my grandmother's.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
We did too, to my grandmother's.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I mean, the whole family used to be there, my
uncle Rob and his wife and their eight children, and
my uncle Will and his wife and their ten children.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
That must have been cozy, Oh it was.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
We eaten shifts.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
My grandmother always swore she was feeding half of the
neighbor's kids.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
But it was fun.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Did you play games after dinner?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh heck no. We were so stuffed we couldn't move.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Ah, you were a bunch of sissies. We used to
play going to Jerusalem, or musical chairs or charades.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
That's pretty hard to do with just two people, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
There's one thing we mustn't forget. This is a new generation.
It's a different sort of generation, with new ideas and
a new sense of values. Times have changed.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I used to have let's go into the kitchen and
see what we can throw together.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You're an old sentimentalist, Jim Anderson, That's what you are.
And I love you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I love you too.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
You know, maybe if the kids get home early, we
can all go to a movie or something.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
How'd you like that?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I wouldn't count on it, Dear. Betty said not to
expect her before midnight, and Bud's dinner won't start till six.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Well, Kathy isn't going to stay out all night, is she?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Okay, then we'll take Kathy to the movies.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well we'll see, Dear. It all depends on budh are
your mom?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
What are you doing here fixing a hamburger?
Speaker 7 (19:26):
One one?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Well?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What happened to the dinner? What dinner at the training
table with a football team?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Oh? That dinner?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
I guess I just wasn't hungry.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Weren't hungry?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You, Jim, I'm going to call doctor Sinne.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Wait and Margaret, Bud, if you aren't hungry? Why the hamburger?
Speaker 7 (19:53):
The hamburger?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Pardon me? The three hamburgers?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Oh? Well, I guess I got hungry.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But if you don't feel well, please tell us.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
But I do feel well, Mama, I feel fine.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Look if you don't want to tell us the truth, but.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
I am telling you the truth. I didn't like the dinner.
That's all a bunch of big goofs sitting around talking
about football. What good is that?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Since? When don't you like to talk about football?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Was the second? Honey, Kathy, it's me father?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
What's she doing home?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
What on earth.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
We're in the kitchen? Betty?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh dear, just when everything was going so well?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Oh Margaret, why do you immediately assume that something is wrong?
Maybe the Leggers decided not to have a party, or
maybe Betty had the wrong day.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Lots of things could have happened.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The party was today, I know it was.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Well, maybe it hasn't started yet.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
What's doing in the kitchen, hi, Bud? What are you
doing here?
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Oh? Nothing much on a hamburger?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Okay, never mind the hamburgers, Bud.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
We've got things to discuss that are much more important
than hamburgers.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Betty, do you feel all right?
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Dear?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Why you told your mother you wouldn't be home until midnight?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, I wasn't going to, but I came up with
the most awful headache.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Jim, you just said you felt fine. I do.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I mean, well, I do, except for this headache.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm gonna call missus Leggott and ask mother.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know, if there was anything wrong, I'd tell you
I always.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Have, haven't I? Yes, Dear, you have?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Kathy? Yes, Daddy, we're in the kitchen. Come on in. Yes, Daddy,
you see Margaret. I told you we should have gone
down for her.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, I had no way of knowing the matter with Kathy.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Oh, your sister reads the first line of her poem
and bursts into tears.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
No kidding, the poor little thing. Hello, Ah Angel.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Hello, sweet, come on over here and tell you, daddy
all your troubles.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I don't have any troubles, Daddy. I'm just not happy.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, it isn't anything to cry about.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Is it. It was a lovely poem, darling, even if
you didn't read it.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
And don't you worry not hey, if anybody makes fun
of y'all, pokem right in the nose.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But I don't care if they do make fun of me.
I didn't want to read my poem, not to them.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Why, Kathy, they're your friends.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I don't want them. It's Thanksgiving and I wanted my
mommy and my daddy, and my sister and my brother.
I was lonesome.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Oh, Kathy, Darling, she's all right, Margaret, just leave her alone.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Mother. Yes, Daddy, I was lonesome too.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Oh no, wait a minute, oh jim it not you too?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Me too?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Good? Grieve.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
We sound like the third act of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What what's the matter with you, Bud?
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Nothing. I just feel like blowing my nose. That's all.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Well, blow it now, get busy with the hamburgers.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Okay, dad, how about little food for the hungry.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Anderson's I'm starving hamburgers that's a fine thing to serve
for Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Is it sounds fine to me?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I don't care what part of the hamburger I get
as wrong as it's a drumstick.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Girl, Kathy, Well, what are we waiting for.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Let's sit down and be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I'll take over, budd I'm doing fine, mom, but really
I'll argue with.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
The chef, Margaret, just sit down and relax.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, if you insist.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Four hamburgers coming up.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That'll take care of me. But what are they going
to eat? Betty Margaret?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Kids?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Before we dig into these juicy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Burgers, may I say something?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
This has been I think the happiest Thanksgiving day of
my entire life. If you don't mind, I'd like to
say a special grace. O Lord, we give thanks from
the bottom of our hump of hearts for the blessings
thou hast seen fit to bestow upon us.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
We thank THEE for.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
The food that graces our table and the roof that
covers our head. We thank THEE for the privilege of
living as free men in a country which respects our
freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and
speak as we choose. But most of all, Dear Lord,
we thank THEE for making us a family. You're giving
us se and understanding. We thank THEE for giving us
(25:04):
the most cherished gift of family may know, the gift
of love for one another.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
I mean, another Thanksgiving Day is here and America carries
on the fine customs started by the pilgrim fathers of
setting aside a special day to give thanks for the freedoms,
(25:34):
the bounties, and the goodness of our land. Thanksgiving is
a happy holiday, a time for family reunion, family dinners,
and today traditional turkeys with all the trimmings, grace countless
dinner tables. Yes, abundant good food is one of the
bodies America is especially thankful for, and the makers of
(25:55):
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have been welcomed into so many homes. You see, it's
a Post Cereal tradition to give you the finest, most flavorful,
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are a wonderful example of their efforts. Post brand flakes
(26:16):
have a delicious magic oven flavor. That's why they're both
good and good for you. So remember to start enjoying
Post brand flakes tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
It's morning now, and in the Anderson Breakfast Nook, life
is eased back into which a custom grew. Thanksgiving Day
is over, but the Andersons, well, they go on forever
like this.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Why can't I wear lipsticks claudium that you does? And
she's only twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Here's your cereal, dear, thank you?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well, what well?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Why can I?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Because I said you couldn't eat your breakfast?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Gee?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Wis Margaret. We've got to do something about that boy.
He's beginning to shake the house.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I'll speak to him, dear.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
If he can't take it easy on the stairs, don't
feed him so much.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
One of these days he's going to go right through.
Hi Dad, Good morning mom, Sit down, eat your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Good morning, dear.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
He didn't say anything to me.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Hi esquired, Good morning mother.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Do you know what Bud did? He used my good cologne.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
On his hair. Good morning, Betty, I used two draws.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You used practically the whole bottle.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Good morning, Betty, mother.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
If I can't have a little privacy with.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
My own fate, Betty, what good morning?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Good morning father?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's better, Sit down and eat your.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Breakfast jumping creepers.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
You know, Margaret, there's one thing I'm really going to
enjoy about our Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Day dinner yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
What's that, Dear?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We're probably the only family in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
It won't be eating leftover turkey for the next month. Yes, dear,
what are we going to have for dinner tonight?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Leftover hamburgers?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
No, join us again next week, but we'll be back
with Father and Old Best, starring Robert Young as Jimns
until am. Good night and good luck from the makers
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Speaker 7 (28:32):
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Speaker 3 (28:34):
And Instant Sanka, the.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Delicious coffee that lets you sleep in our cast where
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Speaker 5 (28:42):
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Speaker 11 (28:45):
And now there's calcium in heart wheat meal. Calcium helps
your body run smoothly. And now there is calcium in
heart wheat meal. Calcium helps you to enjoy a more
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Speaker 3 (28:55):
And now there's calcium in hot wheat meal.
Speaker 11 (28:57):
Yes, one out serving contains one third of your daily
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Speaker 3 (29:06):
Just follow new directions, get new.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
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Speaker 3 (29:16):
Father knows Best.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Was transcribed in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
And written by Ed James. This is Bill forman
Speaker 5 (29:20):
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