August 25, 2025 • 28 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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(00:48):
ring has quite generally been considered the key to bliss
and happiness. But then, if one is to consider certain
events which occurred recently at the White Frame House on
Maple Street, one must admit that the wedding ring is
capable of tearing up a few domestic problems, especially if
the ring has.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
A loose stone.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The aforementioned chain of events had its beginning in the
Anderson kitchen a few evenings ago, when Margaret, maternal head
of the Anderson family, with washing dishes with reluctant help
from daughter Betty, like this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Actually, Mother, I shouldn't even be doing dishes tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's Kathy's turn.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, a little extra dishwiping isn't going to kill you.
And besides, now that I think about it, Kathy did
them last night.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Did dishes, yes, but she's supposed to be on every
night this week.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
She is certainly I've traded her my next six desserts
for three turns at doing dishes.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ralph, You'll just.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Have to take back to desserts because I sent Kathy
upstairs to take a bathe I wanted to get to
bed early for change.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I don't want the desserts back. I'm trying to reduce.
Ralph says that the girl to look attractive should be willowy.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, as far as Ralph and his opinions are concerned,
my mommy, look at me. Oh dear Kathy, didn't I
tell you to take it and get your pajamas on?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Uh huh? But aren't I pretty?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I'm a jewel princess angel? What are you doing with
my good neckers? Haven't I asked you time and again
not to get into my jewelry? Well, I sort of
happen to find these just sort of happened to ehh
uh huh.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
They were just kind of punched up over in the corner,
over in what corner? The corner of that box that
you're keeping in. Well, that takes care of that hiding place.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know you're supposed to be doing these dishes, squirt, Well,
mommy told me to go upstairs and take it back.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And why aren't you up there doing it? Now? You
hurry and jump in that tub and then into bed.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Ah, gee, it's early. Can I be a jewel princess
for just ten more minutes? No, you heard what mother said.
Either get upstairs or do the dishes like you're supposed to. Ah,
turn blue walks.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
A fine way for a jeweled princess to talk. Margaret
hark Yonder comes the king.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Margaret, you remember Floyd Clayburg, don't you?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, I don't believe I do.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yes, you do? You used to work at the post office.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, I don't face him.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well, anyway, there's a funny piece about him in the paper. Here.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hi, daddy, I'm a jewel princess.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's fine, Kitty says here in this article, j.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh, all right, can't have any fun around here?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Margaret? Do you think you ought to let her run
around with that jewelry on? She's liable to lose it anyway.
This piece about Floyd Margaret Are you wearing your wedding
ring to do the dishes?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I thought you said one of the stones was loosening.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Oh, it is a little You're gonna lose it down
to drain if you're not careful, You're as bad as Kathy.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Won't you spiag funny piece about Floyd?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Uh? Briefly, Floyd's wife went to live with her mother.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yes, that sin me is funny.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well, the funny part is the way the whole thing started.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
She was having him hang a picture for her, and
she kept changing her mind where she wanted it, and
he kept pounding nails and finally pounded.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
A big hole in the wall. Plaster, everything fell down.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
May I go now? Mother? Not yet, beddy, we're not
too with the dishes.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Are you interested in hearing this or not? So? Anyway,
Old Floyd refused to fix the wall. That it was
her fault. She claimed the hole in the wall caused
a draft, which was undermining her health. So he told
her to move someplace where it would be healthier. So
she did.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Is that all of it?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Teach me how people can let themselves get worked up
over some little insignificant thing.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Just let it run away.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
With them, litery and get these done. Mother, I've got
some stain to do.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
No, a better watch that ring, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I know, dear, I'll be careful.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, I just mentioned if that's all.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Yes, dear, Yes, but I'm coming that the Sophie water
makes things pretty slippery.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
At all, Yes, dear, Hum, I suppose I should take
the ring off. If anything happened to it now, I'd
never hear the last of it. Mommy, patthy, what are
you doing down here? I told you to take a bath.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, the plug thing in the bathtub is stuck again
and the water just keeps.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
On running out.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh oh, all right, well I'll go up and fix it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Finish the dishes, Saddy, you better help me finish these, squirt.
You're getting off easy as it is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I couldn't help it, mom telling me to go upstairs.
Betty careful, I'm coming. Finish the dishes.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Shrimple.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
Oh, I don't have to hmm a ring?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What do the dumb dot?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Margaret?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
A daddy?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Oh? Getting I thought the mother was out here.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
He's upstairs plugging the top doing what? Fixing the bathtub
so the water won't run out?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Oh? Well, when she wait a minute. What ring is
that you've got on your thumb?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I think it's mommy. How do I look in it?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Mary?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Give it to me. I'll fix that loose stone right now. No,
you was taking chances with a thing like that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Can I help you fix the dock?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
No, you stay there and work on those dishes. I'll
be in the den darnal dishes.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Hey, Bud, Yeah, see if you can find me some tweezers.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I've got a little stone setting to do.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
I thought you were gonna help me with my arithmetic.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I can do both. There's probably some tweezers upstairs in
the bathroom.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Better I thof that ring down the furnace.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Then I won't I get the tweezers.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Okay, Hey, Mom, when you come down, bring some tweezers
where they are?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Oh no, go up and bring them yourself.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
She'll bring them down.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
And besides, I gotta get these problems. Listen to this one, Dad,
I think they must have it wrong in the book.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I wish you'd get the tweezers.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
If a locomotive traveling seventy five miles an hour goes
from point A to point B in nine hours and
forty five minutes. How long will it take the locomotive
to make the same run traveling in thirty miles an hour?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
What was wrong with that?
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Well, if the train can do seventy five, why do
they want to cut her down to thirty?
Speaker 7 (07:21):
The engineer must have rocks in his head.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But they merely made up that problem as a mathematical
stuff they try to cram into at school nowadays.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Well, look, Bud, you're Dan dere yes, weren't here?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Who run the water of the tweezers?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Dad does?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I've got a little repair job here.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, as I'm repairing, youn do upstairs too. I can't
get the stopper in the bathtub to work.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
All right, I'll go ahead and take a look at it.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Bud, get me a screwdriver and a wrench and bring
them upstairs. But I've got to get this over job.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
But only oh, I have to do everything around this
filing orry.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Mammy, he's a bathtub oka, now, not quite angel, But
your father's gone up to fix it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So you run upstairs and get under.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Okay, okay, Has Betty finished the dishes? No, she's on
the phone, probably talking to old world. Oh dear, well,
you run upstairs. I will pretty soon. Mm.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Here's Mommy's here room.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Okada do dumb d dut dumb. What are you doing
here in the dan?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I thought I told you to finish the dishes. Well,
Mommy told me to go right upstairs. Well, why don't
you do it?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Then?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'm you going dot de dum do to doun.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Mother, I'm out in the kitchen. Come on here if
you want to talk to me. Mother, I was just
talking to Ralph on the phone and he wants me
to meet him at the library. Well, the dish's on't
done yet, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But mother, I told Ralph, I see still time after
we get these everlasting dishes done, fine creetures.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Little too late.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Then Ralph would think I stood him up deliberately.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Janie Niggle would be at the library and he'll start
looking at her. Then she'll pretend she's afraid to walk
home alone, so he'll offer to drive home. Well, if
Ralph's no more dependable than that, it's high time you've.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Found it out. You'll probably take a moonlight dry. Oh
stop it, there's no moonlight tonight. That's even worse. Well,
if you'd stopped talking and stop working, you could go
to the library yourself. The dishes are all washed.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Next me.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, Betty, if you oh my goodness, my ring?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Why it's gone?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I must have knocked it into the water, and I
was gone down the drain. Are you sure it's not
on the window sill?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I put it right here. Maybe it's you're on the floor.
I can't see it anywhere, and I'm sure now that
I heard something drop into the dishwater. But what can
we do?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Maybe we can get a long wire fish it out.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Of here, but hasn't gone too far down. For heaven's sake,
don't say anything about this to your father.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Hush.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I think I hear him coming.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
If bathtub's okay? Now, where shall I put the screwdriver?
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Where'd you find it?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
In the toolbox in the basement?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, all right, put it back there in Oh no, wait,
give it to me.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
What do you want it for?
Speaker 9 (10:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I have a little repair work to do.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
But come here.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
But oh, he sounds like he means business. What coming here, Betty?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You take the screwdriver and get the ring cat Come here,
buddy' the dad?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
What did you do with mother's wedding ring.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
I didn't do anything with it. Yes, I saw it.
It was right on the table here, that's where you left.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Well, it's not here now. I wonder if Kathy, oh,
she's upstairs.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Maybe it fell down into the hot air register.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
That's just what I'm afraid of.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Holy God.
Speaker 9 (10:36):
Hey, wait a minute, Betty wants you here to answer
the phone. Maybe she picked it up.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yeah, that's an idea, Betty. Betty, I'll bet she saw
it and picked it up.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Father?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Oh, by the way, father, you haven't seen mother's ring,
have you?
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Ring?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Me?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yes, it was on the window sill in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Uh uh, let's see now, ring.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Well, it was just a thought.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What did you want me for a father?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Nothing? Nothing important? Forget what it was?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Now very coming mother.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
That shoots that possibility.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Now, Dad, it's just one thing to do. Go down
in the basement and open up the furnace.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Van, open the furnace van, yife.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
And whatever you do, don't say anything to your mother
about this. After that lecture I gave her about carelessness.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I'd never hear the end of it.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Kathy May be humming the wedding march. But I know
that both Margaret and Jim Anderson are singing the blues
and Mothers, if you want to keep your family singing happily,
be sure to give them.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
A good breakfast every morning.
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Speaker 4 (13:08):
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Speaker 7 (13:25):
Ring ring? Anybody's seen a wedding ring?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
There's one missing at the White Frame House on Maple Street.
In fact, there are two entirely separate searching parties looking for.
One headed by Jim Anderson is Operation Furnace than the other,
guided by Margaret Anderson, is Operation Sink Drain. Let's look
into the kitchen now, where Margaret and daughter Betty are
about to get the search underway.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Like this, pull the flashlight a little higher. I can't
see anything down that pike.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You now, there's no chance of that you can out
from up here. We'll just have to take something off
under the sink. Why don't you call the permanent Well
if I do that, your father will find out I've
lost the ring.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I'd much rather keep this as quiet as possible.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
See if that big wrench is in the cabinet on
the back porch, will you what a family? Janie that
gets probably spooning over a round at the library, and
I have to stay home and take the prink apart.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Hurry, Betty, I'm looking of all the time to drop
the ring down. Did you find the wrench? Well? I
found something. Is this a wrench? Yes, that's it. Now
let's see if we can get under the sink here.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh, mother, Oh, I've seen your father take something off
down here. I think he calls it an elbow or
a shoulder or something. Hold a flashlight.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
How do you know the ring's in there anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, there's this elbow somewhere that's supposed to catch things,
according to your father. I know he took it off
the time that mouth had dropped her earring down the sink.
Hold the light over a little.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Look out, somebody's coming.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
It sounds like father over.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Hie the flashlight. Get rid of the ranch.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Hey, mom, oh, fore's sake, it's only Bud. We're all here, Bob,
what are you doing finishing up the dishes? Why do
you have to be so nosy?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Who's nosy?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Betty and I were just talking? What's the matter?
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, then, what are you doing?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
What are you looking at me for?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Who's looking at you? What do you want?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Bud uh? I?
Speaker 9 (15:38):
I was looking for the little wrench and screwdriver, the
ones Dad was usy.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh uh, they're here by the refrigerator.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Oh thanks.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
What are you doing?
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Uh? Nothing, Dad's just fixing some stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well he's he's probably waiting for you.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Yeah, we'll go go. What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Nothing? Why do you keep saying? What's the matter?
Speaker 7 (16:07):
You keep looking at me? Why do you keep looking
at me?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We're not we're not holy call.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
I never saw such a family. All they do is
keep looking at me. Why I'm coming, Bob? Yeah, do
you in the kitchen for a while? Okay, hurry, got pod?
What took you so long? I don't know. They just
keep looking at me. Morom and Betty.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
When I went in the kitchen, they had funny looks,
big guys, like they've never seen me before.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You didn't tell them what we were doing, did you?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
No?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
All right, let's go quietly down to the basement. Now
if I can see where that pipe from the den
comes down to the furnace.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Want me to go up to the den and holler down?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Oh no, your mother finds out I lost her ring.
I'm in trouble.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Oh, it's okay, she said she was gonna be busy
in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Good.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Now, let's see there's the pipe from the living room
and the den would be over there.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Gee, here's my old pogo stick.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Now this has to be the pipe to the den.
If something dropped in the vent, it would probably slide
down about to hear. But get off that pogo stick. Okay,
turn that handle there above the furnace. Shut off the
heat and this pipe out.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
This thing's hot.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Well, use the screwdriver.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
How do you know the rings down in the pipe?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It has to be. It's on the table right by
the vent. Somebody probably knocked it all. This was where
we found Uncle Fred's coupling the time he dropped it
down the living room vent. I get over on the
other side of the pipe while I unscrew this connection.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Guy can get stuck in here.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
We'll just hold it.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Watch it there.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
The whole pipe's gonna come down.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Well, hold it?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Can I hold it it some top of my head?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well, don't move, don't move. He's said, Oh, who's that? Father?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Are you down there? Uh?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yes, I'm down here. What do you want, princess?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Father? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Just Uh, fixing the furnace.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But why are you standing there balancing that type on
your head?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Me?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
He's helping me.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Oh, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Nothing? What's the matter with you?
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Princess?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Why does everybody keep looking at me?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I can't help it. I can't turn my head.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Uh, lou, what do you want, princess?
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Mother wanted to know if the hammer was down here.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What does she want the hammer for?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
She's fixing some whole thing.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
In the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Mm. Well, here's a hammer you'd better hurry for, says
your mother is probably waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Nothing's the matter?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Why do you keep looking at me?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
All right?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
All right, I'm going, well, keep going.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I never saw such people. Everybody acts so crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Then your mother, I'll be busy down here for a while.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Is that all right?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Father, I'm coming. Mother quick, give me the hammer. Now,
you hold the wrench on the dream pipe, and I'll
pond on the end of it. Oh the things a
person will just do in this house. What's your father doing?
He and butter doing something with the furnace.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I just hope it keeps him busy for a while.
If he comes up here, I know, he'll ask Granma
ring is what in the world are they doing down there?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Well, they acted awfully strange, just kept looking at me. Well,
get ready with the hammer.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We've got to get this off and get the ring
out before you fe all the finishes down there, all right, now,
pound the end of the wrench.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Not on the end, Betty, on the side. You're trying
to loosen this bike. How can I hammer him?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Here?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
No room under this sink.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I can't see anything bout. Your head's in the way, mother,
there's stepping on my ankle.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Here comes powder. Oh, dear, get out from under here quick.
My bracelets caught.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh, it's Bud again.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Hey mommy, you what's Tallula doing under the sink?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Never mind? The bright remarks, Well, what are you doing?
She's looking for something, Bud, or what do you want?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
All right? Dad wants the piers.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
They're down in the basement, they are, Well, go on,
go on. You heard her say they were down in
the basement.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
How'd you get soot all of you?
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Bud? Oh, we're we're fixing something. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We're fixing something? Well, don't stand there, stupid, go on.
Father's waiting for you. Okay, okay, tell your father if
he's going to fix the print, is to change his clothes.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Okay, okay, did you get the fires? Mom said, sit
down here.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Well, look in the toolbox and hurry, Bud. This takes
much longer. Your mother's going to get curious and come down.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Here. Is something funny going on. They are kind of
goofy up there.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I don't care how they act, as long as they
stay up there. Now, loosen that wire that holds up
the pipe while I brace it?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
What about the other end? I'll hold it. You just
take the wire off, Okay, if you say so, I'll
watch it, Bud, watch it.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Grab the pipe.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I can't it's dark.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
No, we've done it.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
You want to hook the wrong wire? Everything came down
soot all over? Oh yeah, you black?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
What a mess. We'll never find that ring. Can't even
tell now which pipe went to the den? Mother? Where
the world's going on up in the kitchen?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
What's going on down here?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You're going in the dining room.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Close the door, Dad, it's raining, Hey.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Water coming down? Where's it coming from?
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Come on, but holy.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Oh, what's the matter? Honey? Hi?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Water's coming out.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Hurry, I flood, Margaret, don't ask.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Any questions, dear, under the sink, turn off the water.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Get a bucket, mop where on the porch if I
can find a valve under here.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
There, Margaret in the name where I was just droned?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
What happened to you? Stood all over you?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
The pipes in the basement fell down? Why did you
take the pipes under the sinker? Part?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Why did you take the pipes in the basement apart? Yes?
What's come over this family? Is everybody insane?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
What were you doing? Margaret?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well, I suppose I'll have to confess you causing me
about my wedding ring. So I put it up on
the windowsill, and then something happened. It fell into the sink,
down the drain.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Down the drain. Is that why you took the pipe off? Honey?
I took your ring into the den to tighten the stone,
and it fell off the table into the furnace bed.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Oh no, is that why you took down all the
pipes in the basement.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Well, I didn't wanna tell you I'd lost it after
sounding off the way I did.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Where's the ring?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Now? Did you find it?
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Dear?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Not exactly, but it has to be down on those
pipes somewhere.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Hi, daddy kitten, look at my thumb. Mommy's wedding ring
just fit?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yes, it does, doesn't it? Margaret?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You're a ring tapthy? Where did you find this on
the table in the dam?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You've had it all the time?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Sure, whore you looking for it?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Yes, thought of Margaret.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I think we'd better sit down.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What's the matter with mommy and daddy? Shrimp boat? Parents
sometimes do the darnedist things?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Well, the family ever needed to calm down and relax.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Now's the time, So Kathy suggests.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Hey, everybody, let's have a cup of hot post them. Hut,
that's the first good idea you've had today. Come on,
I'll put the water off.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
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First place, it tastes so good, heartwarming, I call it.
And secondly, post them is one hot drink that contains
no caffeine none, So unlike coffee or tea, which do
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Speaker 8 (25:45):
Post them can't possibly cause coffee nerves or spoil your sleep.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Of course, not everybody is bothered by caffeine.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Many aren't.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But if you are switched to post them, good old
instant that safe drink the whole family loves.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It was quite a turmoil around the Anderson household this evening,
but the house is still standing. Little work on the
part of the furnace man and the plumber should have
things back in shape.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
For all the pipes reconnected.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's an hour or so later Jim and Margaret are
bailing the last of the water out.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Of the kitchen like this.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Did you get back of the refrigerated deer?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yes, I think the tide is ebbing.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Well.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
At least we got a nice clean floor out of it.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Honey, If only you told me that you were looking
for your.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Rings, dear, if you'd only told me, well live and learn.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Well, let's forget about the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
That's fine with me.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Hey, Dad, you see this in the paper.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
See what story about a fellow almost liked his house
trying to hang up a picture.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Not the hole in the wall. His wife went to
live with her mother.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Old man, Yeah, put the paper away. We're all going
to bed, going up.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Again next week.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Well, he'll be back with father knows best.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Horrying.
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ring has quite generally been considered the key to bliss
and happiness. But then, if one is to consider certain
events which occurred recently at the White Frame House on
Maple Street, one must admit that the wedding ring is
capable of tearing up a few domestic problems, especially if
the ring has.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
A loose stone.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The aforementioned chain of events had its beginning in the
Anderson kitchen a few evenings ago, when Margaret, maternal head
of the Anderson family, with washing dishes with reluctant help
from daughter Betty, like this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Actually, Mother, I shouldn't even be doing dishes tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's Kathy's turn.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, a little extra dishwiping isn't going to kill you.
And besides, now that I think about it, Kathy did
them last night.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Did dishes, yes, but she's supposed to be on every
night this week.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
She is certainly I've traded her my next six desserts
for three turns at doing dishes.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ralph, You'll just.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Have to take back to desserts because I sent Kathy
upstairs to take a bathe I wanted to get to
bed early for change.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I don't want the desserts back. I'm trying to reduce.
Ralph says that the girl to look attractive should be willowy.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, as far as Ralph and his opinions are concerned,
my mommy, look at me. Oh dear Kathy, didn't I
tell you to take it and get your pajamas on?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Uh huh? But aren't I pretty?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I'm a jewel princess angel? What are you doing with
my good neckers? Haven't I asked you time and again
not to get into my jewelry? Well, I sort of
happen to find these just sort of happened to ehh
uh huh.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
They were just kind of punched up over in the corner,
over in what corner? The corner of that box that
you're keeping in. Well, that takes care of that hiding place.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know you're supposed to be doing these dishes, squirt, Well,
mommy told me to go upstairs and take it back.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And why aren't you up there doing it? Now? You
hurry and jump in that tub and then into bed.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Ah, gee, it's early. Can I be a jewel princess
for just ten more minutes? No, you heard what mother said.
Either get upstairs or do the dishes like you're supposed to. Ah,
turn blue walks.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
A fine way for a jeweled princess to talk. Margaret
hark Yonder comes the king.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Margaret, you remember Floyd Clayburg, don't you?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, I don't believe I do.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yes, you do? You used to work at the post office.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, I don't face him.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well, anyway, there's a funny piece about him in the paper. Here.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hi, daddy, I'm a jewel princess.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's fine, Kitty says here in this article, j.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh, all right, can't have any fun around here?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Margaret? Do you think you ought to let her run
around with that jewelry on? She's liable to lose it anyway.
This piece about Floyd Margaret Are you wearing your wedding
ring to do the dishes?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I thought you said one of the stones was loosening.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Oh, it is a little You're gonna lose it down
to drain if you're not careful, You're as bad as Kathy.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Won't you spiag funny piece about Floyd?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Uh? Briefly, Floyd's wife went to live with her mother.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yes, that sin me is funny.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well, the funny part is the way the whole thing started.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
She was having him hang a picture for her, and
she kept changing her mind where she wanted it, and
he kept pounding nails and finally pounded.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
A big hole in the wall. Plaster, everything fell down.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
May I go now? Mother? Not yet, beddy, we're not
too with the dishes.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Are you interested in hearing this or not? So? Anyway,
Old Floyd refused to fix the wall. That it was
her fault. She claimed the hole in the wall caused
a draft, which was undermining her health. So he told
her to move someplace where it would be healthier. So
she did.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Is that all of it?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Teach me how people can let themselves get worked up
over some little insignificant thing.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Just let it run away.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
With them, litery and get these done. Mother, I've got
some stain to do.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
No, a better watch that ring, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I know, dear, I'll be careful.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, I just mentioned if that's all.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Yes, dear, Yes, but I'm coming that the Sophie water
makes things pretty slippery.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
At all, Yes, dear, Hum, I suppose I should take
the ring off. If anything happened to it now, I'd
never hear the last of it. Mommy, patthy, what are
you doing down here? I told you to take a bath.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, the plug thing in the bathtub is stuck again
and the water just keeps.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
On running out.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh oh, all right, well I'll go up and fix it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Finish the dishes, Saddy, you better help me finish these, squirt.
You're getting off easy as it is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I couldn't help it, mom telling me to go upstairs.
Betty careful, I'm coming. Finish the dishes.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Shrimple.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
Oh, I don't have to hmm a ring?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What do the dumb dot?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Margaret?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
A daddy?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Oh? Getting I thought the mother was out here.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
He's upstairs plugging the top doing what? Fixing the bathtub
so the water won't run out?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Oh? Well, when she wait a minute. What ring is
that you've got on your thumb?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I think it's mommy. How do I look in it?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Mary?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Give it to me. I'll fix that loose stone right now. No,
you was taking chances with a thing like that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Can I help you fix the dock?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
No, you stay there and work on those dishes. I'll
be in the den darnal dishes.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Hey, Bud, Yeah, see if you can find me some tweezers.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I've got a little stone setting to do.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
I thought you were gonna help me with my arithmetic.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I can do both. There's probably some tweezers upstairs in
the bathroom.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Better I thof that ring down the furnace.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Then I won't I get the tweezers.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Okay, Hey, Mom, when you come down, bring some tweezers
where they are?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Oh no, go up and bring them yourself.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
She'll bring them down.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
And besides, I gotta get these problems. Listen to this one, Dad,
I think they must have it wrong in the book.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I wish you'd get the tweezers.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
If a locomotive traveling seventy five miles an hour goes
from point A to point B in nine hours and
forty five minutes. How long will it take the locomotive
to make the same run traveling in thirty miles an hour?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
What was wrong with that?
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Well, if the train can do seventy five, why do
they want to cut her down to thirty?
Speaker 7 (07:21):
The engineer must have rocks in his head.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But they merely made up that problem as a mathematical
stuff they try to cram into at school nowadays.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Well, look, Bud, you're Dan dere yes, weren't here?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Who run the water of the tweezers?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Dad does?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I've got a little repair job here.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, as I'm repairing, youn do upstairs too. I can't
get the stopper in the bathtub to work.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
All right, I'll go ahead and take a look at it.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Bud, get me a screwdriver and a wrench and bring
them upstairs. But I've got to get this over job.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
But only oh, I have to do everything around this
filing orry.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Mammy, he's a bathtub oka, now, not quite angel, But
your father's gone up to fix it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So you run upstairs and get under.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Okay, okay, Has Betty finished the dishes? No, she's on
the phone, probably talking to old world. Oh dear, well,
you run upstairs. I will pretty soon. Mm.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Here's Mommy's here room.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Okada do dumb d dut dumb. What are you doing
here in the dan?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I thought I told you to finish the dishes. Well,
Mommy told me to go right upstairs. Well, why don't
you do it?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Then?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'm you going dot de dum do to doun.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Mother, I'm out in the kitchen. Come on here if
you want to talk to me. Mother, I was just
talking to Ralph on the phone and he wants me
to meet him at the library. Well, the dish's on't
done yet, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But mother, I told Ralph, I see still time after
we get these everlasting dishes done, fine creetures.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Little too late.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Then Ralph would think I stood him up deliberately.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Janie Niggle would be at the library and he'll start
looking at her. Then she'll pretend she's afraid to walk
home alone, so he'll offer to drive home. Well, if
Ralph's no more dependable than that, it's high time you've.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Found it out. You'll probably take a moonlight dry. Oh
stop it, there's no moonlight tonight. That's even worse. Well,
if you'd stopped talking and stop working, you could go
to the library yourself. The dishes are all washed.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Next me.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, Betty, if you oh my goodness, my ring?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Why it's gone?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I must have knocked it into the water, and I
was gone down the drain. Are you sure it's not
on the window sill?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I put it right here. Maybe it's you're on the floor.
I can't see it anywhere, and I'm sure now that
I heard something drop into the dishwater. But what can
we do?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Maybe we can get a long wire fish it out.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Of here, but hasn't gone too far down. For heaven's sake,
don't say anything about this to your father.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Hush.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I think I hear him coming.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
If bathtub's okay? Now, where shall I put the screwdriver?
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Where'd you find it?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
In the toolbox in the basement?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, all right, put it back there in Oh no, wait,
give it to me.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
What do you want it for?
Speaker 9 (10:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I have a little repair work to do.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
But come here.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
But oh, he sounds like he means business. What coming here, Betty?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You take the screwdriver and get the ring cat Come here,
buddy' the dad?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
What did you do with mother's wedding ring.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
I didn't do anything with it. Yes, I saw it.
It was right on the table here, that's where you left.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Well, it's not here now. I wonder if Kathy, oh,
she's upstairs.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Maybe it fell down into the hot air register.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
That's just what I'm afraid of.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Holy God.
Speaker 9 (10:36):
Hey, wait a minute, Betty wants you here to answer
the phone. Maybe she picked it up.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yeah, that's an idea, Betty. Betty, I'll bet she saw
it and picked it up.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Father?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Oh, by the way, father, you haven't seen mother's ring,
have you?
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Ring?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Me?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yes, it was on the window sill in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Uh uh, let's see now, ring.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Well, it was just a thought.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What did you want me for a father?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Nothing? Nothing important? Forget what it was?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Now very coming mother.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
That shoots that possibility.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Now, Dad, it's just one thing to do. Go down
in the basement and open up the furnace.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Van, open the furnace van, yife.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
And whatever you do, don't say anything to your mother
about this. After that lecture I gave her about carelessness.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I'd never hear the end of it.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Kathy May be humming the wedding march. But I know
that both Margaret and Jim Anderson are singing the blues
and Mothers, if you want to keep your family singing happily,
be sure to give them.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
A good breakfast every morning.
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Speaker 4 (12:42):
In a cereal that's a pleasure to eat. I hope these.
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For goodness sake, eat Post brand flakes so good and
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Speaker 4 (13:08):
See why they're good and so good for you.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Ring ring? Anybody's seen a wedding ring?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
There's one missing at the White Frame House on Maple Street.
In fact, there are two entirely separate searching parties looking for.
One headed by Jim Anderson is Operation Furnace than the other,
guided by Margaret Anderson, is Operation Sink Drain. Let's look
into the kitchen now, where Margaret and daughter Betty are
about to get the search underway.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Like this, pull the flashlight a little higher. I can't
see anything down that pike.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You now, there's no chance of that you can out
from up here. We'll just have to take something off
under the sink. Why don't you call the permanent Well
if I do that, your father will find out I've
lost the ring.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I'd much rather keep this as quiet as possible.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
See if that big wrench is in the cabinet on
the back porch, will you what a family? Janie that
gets probably spooning over a round at the library, and
I have to stay home and take the prink apart.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Hurry, Betty, I'm looking of all the time to drop
the ring down. Did you find the wrench? Well? I
found something. Is this a wrench? Yes, that's it. Now
let's see if we can get under the sink here.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh, mother, Oh, I've seen your father take something off
down here. I think he calls it an elbow or
a shoulder or something. Hold a flashlight.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
How do you know the ring's in there anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, there's this elbow somewhere that's supposed to catch things,
according to your father. I know he took it off
the time that mouth had dropped her earring down the sink.
Hold the light over a little.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Look out, somebody's coming.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
It sounds like father over.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Hie the flashlight. Get rid of the ranch.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Hey, mom, oh, fore's sake, it's only Bud. We're all here, Bob,
what are you doing finishing up the dishes? Why do
you have to be so nosy?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Who's nosy?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Betty and I were just talking? What's the matter?
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, then, what are you doing?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
What are you looking at me for?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Who's looking at you? What do you want?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Bud uh? I?
Speaker 9 (15:38):
I was looking for the little wrench and screwdriver, the
ones Dad was usy.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh uh, they're here by the refrigerator.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Oh thanks.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
What are you doing?
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Uh? Nothing, Dad's just fixing some stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well he's he's probably waiting for you.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Yeah, we'll go go. What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Nothing? Why do you keep saying? What's the matter?
Speaker 7 (16:07):
You keep looking at me? Why do you keep looking
at me?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We're not we're not holy call.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
I never saw such a family. All they do is
keep looking at me. Why I'm coming, Bob? Yeah, do
you in the kitchen for a while? Okay, hurry, got pod?
What took you so long? I don't know. They just
keep looking at me. Morom and Betty.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
When I went in the kitchen, they had funny looks,
big guys, like they've never seen me before.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You didn't tell them what we were doing, did you?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
No?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
All right, let's go quietly down to the basement. Now
if I can see where that pipe from the den
comes down to the furnace.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Want me to go up to the den and holler down?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Oh no, your mother finds out I lost her ring.
I'm in trouble.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Oh, it's okay, she said she was gonna be busy
in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Good.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Now, let's see there's the pipe from the living room
and the den would be over there.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Gee, here's my old pogo stick.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Now this has to be the pipe to the den.
If something dropped in the vent, it would probably slide
down about to hear. But get off that pogo stick. Okay,
turn that handle there above the furnace. Shut off the
heat and this pipe out.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
This thing's hot.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Well, use the screwdriver.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
How do you know the rings down in the pipe?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It has to be. It's on the table right by
the vent. Somebody probably knocked it all. This was where
we found Uncle Fred's coupling the time he dropped it
down the living room vent. I get over on the
other side of the pipe while I unscrew this connection.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Guy can get stuck in here.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
We'll just hold it.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Watch it there.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
The whole pipe's gonna come down.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Well, hold it?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Can I hold it it some top of my head?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well, don't move, don't move. He's said, Oh, who's that? Father?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Are you down there? Uh?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yes, I'm down here. What do you want, princess?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Father? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Just Uh, fixing the furnace.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But why are you standing there balancing that type on
your head?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Me?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
He's helping me.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Oh, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Nothing? What's the matter with you?
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Princess?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Why does everybody keep looking at me?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I can't help it. I can't turn my head.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Uh, lou, what do you want, princess?
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Mother wanted to know if the hammer was down here.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What does she want the hammer for?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
She's fixing some whole thing.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
In the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Mm. Well, here's a hammer you'd better hurry for, says
your mother is probably waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Nothing's the matter?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Why do you keep looking at me?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
All right?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
All right, I'm going, well, keep going.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I never saw such people. Everybody acts so crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Then your mother, I'll be busy down here for a while.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Is that all right?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Father, I'm coming. Mother quick, give me the hammer. Now,
you hold the wrench on the dream pipe, and I'll
pond on the end of it. Oh the things a
person will just do in this house. What's your father doing?
He and butter doing something with the furnace.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I just hope it keeps him busy for a while.
If he comes up here, I know, he'll ask Granma
ring is what in the world are they doing down there?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Well, they acted awfully strange, just kept looking at me. Well,
get ready with the hammer.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We've got to get this off and get the ring
out before you fe all the finishes down there, all right, now,
pound the end of the wrench.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Not on the end, Betty, on the side. You're trying
to loosen this bike. How can I hammer him?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Here?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
No room under this sink.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I can't see anything bout. Your head's in the way, mother,
there's stepping on my ankle.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Here comes powder. Oh, dear, get out from under here quick.
My bracelets caught.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh, it's Bud again.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Hey mommy, you what's Tallula doing under the sink?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Never mind? The bright remarks, Well, what are you doing?
She's looking for something, Bud, or what do you want?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
All right? Dad wants the piers.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
They're down in the basement, they are, Well, go on,
go on. You heard her say they were down in
the basement.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
How'd you get soot all of you?
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Bud? Oh, we're we're fixing something. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We're fixing something? Well, don't stand there, stupid, go on.
Father's waiting for you. Okay, okay, tell your father if
he's going to fix the print, is to change his clothes.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Okay, okay, did you get the fires? Mom said, sit
down here.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Well, look in the toolbox and hurry, Bud. This takes
much longer. Your mother's going to get curious and come down.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Here. Is something funny going on. They are kind of
goofy up there.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I don't care how they act, as long as they
stay up there. Now, loosen that wire that holds up
the pipe while I brace it?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
What about the other end? I'll hold it. You just
take the wire off, Okay, if you say so, I'll
watch it, Bud, watch it.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Grab the pipe.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I can't it's dark.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
No, we've done it.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
You want to hook the wrong wire? Everything came down
soot all over? Oh yeah, you black?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
What a mess. We'll never find that ring. Can't even
tell now which pipe went to the den? Mother? Where
the world's going on up in the kitchen?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
What's going on down here?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You're going in the dining room.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Close the door, Dad, it's raining, Hey.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Water coming down? Where's it coming from?
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Come on, but holy.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Oh, what's the matter? Honey? Hi?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Water's coming out.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Hurry, I flood, Margaret, don't ask.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Any questions, dear, under the sink, turn off the water.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Get a bucket, mop where on the porch if I
can find a valve under here.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
There, Margaret in the name where I was just droned?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
What happened to you? Stood all over you?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
The pipes in the basement fell down? Why did you
take the pipes under the sinker? Part?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Why did you take the pipes in the basement apart? Yes?
What's come over this family? Is everybody insane?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
What were you doing? Margaret?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well, I suppose I'll have to confess you causing me
about my wedding ring. So I put it up on
the windowsill, and then something happened. It fell into the sink,
down the drain.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Down the drain. Is that why you took the pipe off? Honey?
I took your ring into the den to tighten the stone,
and it fell off the table into the furnace bed.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Oh no, is that why you took down all the
pipes in the basement.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Well, I didn't wanna tell you I'd lost it after
sounding off the way I did.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Where's the ring?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Now? Did you find it?
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Dear?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Not exactly, but it has to be down on those
pipes somewhere.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Hi, daddy kitten, look at my thumb. Mommy's wedding ring
just fit?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yes, it does, doesn't it? Margaret?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You're a ring tapthy? Where did you find this on
the table in the dam?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You've had it all the time?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Sure, whore you looking for it?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Yes, thought of Margaret.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I think we'd better sit down.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What's the matter with mommy and daddy? Shrimp boat? Parents
sometimes do the darnedist things?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Well, the family ever needed to calm down and relax.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Now's the time, So Kathy suggests.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Hey, everybody, let's have a cup of hot post them. Hut,
that's the first good idea you've had today. Come on,
I'll put the water off.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That is right, friend, instant post them's a good idea today, tomorrow, anytime.
First place, it tastes so good, heartwarming, I call it.
And secondly, post them is one hot drink that contains
no caffeine none, So unlike coffee or tea, which do
have caffeine.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Post them can't possibly cause coffee nerves or spoil your sleep.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Of course, not everybody is bothered by caffeine.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Many aren't.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But if you are switched to post them, good old
instant that safe drink the whole family loves.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It was quite a turmoil around the Anderson household this evening,
but the house is still standing. Little work on the
part of the furnace man and the plumber should have
things back in shape.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
For all the pipes reconnected.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's an hour or so later Jim and Margaret are
bailing the last of the water out.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Of the kitchen like this.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Did you get back of the refrigerated deer?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yes, I think the tide is ebbing.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Well.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
At least we got a nice clean floor out of it.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Honey, If only you told me that you were looking
for your.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Rings, dear, if you'd only told me, well live and learn.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Well, let's forget about the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
That's fine with me.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Hey, Dad, you see this in the paper.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
See what story about a fellow almost liked his house
trying to hang up a picture.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Not the hole in the wall. His wife went to
live with her mother.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Old man, Yeah, put the paper away. We're all going
to bed, going up.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Again next week.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Well, he'll be back with father knows best.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Horrying.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Robert Young is gimmands.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
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In our cast, where Dorothy love it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
As Margaret wrote to Williams, Ted Donaldson and Helen Stroll, Mom, I.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Think you're beautiful.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Well, thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You're the most beautiful woman in the whole world. Thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yes, Johnny, can I have a wheat meal for breakfast tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Make him happy? Mom with the best hot cereal or
any where.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
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Speaker 7 (28:05):
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