August 12, 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 (00:02):
Transcribed Now listen to Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young's father.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
A half hour visit with your neighbors, The Andersons, brought
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thought of it, he'd probably have written some thing that
goes like this.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Fashion is a fickle dame.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
She's not to be relied on.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Sometimes she says a skirt should drape, sometimes it should
be tight Han, But women bow and scrape to her.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They treat her like a duchess. But Heaven helped the.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Husband who is caught within her clutches agree. Well, maybe
you will after a half hour spent for the Andersons
in Springfield.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Like this, Margaret, Oh, hello, Bud, did you want it
for something?
Speaker 7 (01:29):
I just want to ask her a question. Maybe you
know where it is, what it is? Where does your
mother keep the machine oil in.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
The machine I guess in the.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Bud.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I got to get something out of you at it.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
I don't know anybody else could ask a perfectly normal
question like where do you keep the machine oil and
get a perfectly normal answer, But not the Andersons.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Margaret ed Davis.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
Bosson, go look at my new perman It's absolutely awful.
Speaker 9 (01:57):
I told them, man, I want a soft curly rings.
What did I get? Friz? Do you ever see anything
so horrible in your whole life?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Sure, I mean no, I mean Margaret, I don't see
why you're so upset.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Well, I guess I am upset over nothing. After all,
A permanent isn't permanent?
Speaker 9 (02:19):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Exactly? Now? Margaret, if you'll just tell me where the machine? Betty? Please?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Oh hello, father? Are you home.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
In my home?
Speaker 9 (02:32):
Jim?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well, what kind of a question is that?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Mother? I'm absolutely guessing.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
If you don't mind, I'd like to finish talking to
your mother.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
But father, this lomly take a minute, and I just
can't wait just a minute, Jim, Betty, what is it?
Look at this formal? I just got it at Gorman's.
And what am I going to do with it?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Well, considering the fact I advanced you your June allowance
to buy it, you might wear it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
But father, it's sold fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh of course you've only had it a full forty
five minutes.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I bought it on the sale rack, but I didn't
know it was so out of date. It's got a
four months old Hamline tragedy. Jad Niggatt says, everybody who's
going to the weekend party in Middleton is going to
take a right formal, and this is the only right
formal I have.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
How do you think I'll feel in a formal two
inches longer than anybody else's warm? Go get my sewing box, Diddy,
and I'll see what I can do. Oh.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Thanks, mother, you're a doll.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Thanks a million.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
No, Jim, what was it you wanted?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Ed Davis is going hunting and he wants to bim.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Wait did you say that box was?
Speaker 9 (03:51):
But I thought it was that old green trunk.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But I turned everything inside out and I couldn't find it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But I was talking to your mother, I know.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
But the basketball team is leaving in half an hour.
The coach will say, I'm a poor sport. You don't
want me to get kicked off the team, do you?
Speaker 7 (04:07):
But now, Jim, Margaret, I've been trying for five minutes
to find out where the machine oil is.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
Let me think a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I know now you stored it the oil.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
No, the box Bud is looking for. It's one of
the things you put up in the Attequen Bud was born.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
You remember it, Margaret?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 9 (04:26):
Jim, you could at least try to remember why.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Because I gotta find it?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Dan?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
What for?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Because of the skid?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What skit?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
The one the basketball team is going to put on
at the varsity club camping trip this weekend. It's about
the long long ago, you know, when you and Mom
were young.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh, not that long ago.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Everybody on the team plays apart. We all do score,
so so the box is where they are? Or what
are it is?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The Bloomer Bloomers.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I got the short straw. I have to play the girls.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
That's why I have to find the costume. With a
coach of Samuel poor sport.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
He's going to wear my old Jim Midian Bloomers.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But I know you'll be lovely, just lovely.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I don't even know what bloomers are, but you know
the shorts.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The girls wear for their high school gym classes.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Sure, Dan, well, you go back up and look in
the attic until you find something that doesn't look anything
like them.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Those are bloomers.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Gosh, thanks Dad.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Now, but it's not too much to ask.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Kathy, Dolly, what is it?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
There? We go again.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
For take about Kathy? What's in the matter. I'll just be.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Jim.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Can't you do something to stop Kathy?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Tell us what the trouble is, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Daddy wants to help you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Kathy. I just raised your allowance to fifty cents a week,
really well temporarily. Now tell us what's wrong.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Daddy Davis said I'd be a wallflower at the squirt
Dancy class, and I don't want to be a wallflower.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
Why does Patty say you're going to be a wallflower?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Because my skirt doesn't twirl. Everybody else looks like sunflowers
and I just look like a platuonia.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Well, don't worry about it, angel, Mommy will get some
more material and make you a real full skirt.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You will, Mommy?
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Yes, dear?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh boy, you want me to get the door, Daddy?
Never mind, I'll go, Kathy, get out of my way, Daddy,
I'm gonna be a sunflower.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Oh, hello, Ed, come in Hello, Jim, Margaret, Yes, Jim, Oh, hello, Ed.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Hello, Margaret, Betty, Kathy, Well.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Mister Davis. Hello, mister Davis. Do you really think you
can shorten the dress? Mother?
Speaker 9 (07:11):
It doesn't look too difficult, Dear.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Well, I'll get the phone, mother, Father.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Here they are, Oh, hello, mister Davis.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Hello, Bud.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Oh, I'll caller god By Bloomers.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Dear, that's what I wore when I took gymnasium.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Margaret, don't you think they're kind of moomy?
Speaker 8 (07:37):
That's the way they're supposed to be, Bud. Maybe I
can take them in a little at the waist, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Ed doesn't have all day the phonems for you?
Speaker 9 (07:45):
Mother, Oh, thank you, dear Margaret. Betty, will you help
your father for me?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
What do you want? Father?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Well, it's a little number about three inches tall, and
it has a little plastic cap. Jim, all I want
is the can of machine oil for my gun. That's
what I said. Well, Betty, where is it?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You'll find it in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Father, we're in the broom closet.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
No, in the sugar band.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
With the sugar, of course.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Not the sugar's in the bread drawer.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Oh naturally, Uh, Jim, if it's too much trouble, No, Ed,
we'll find it out here somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Come on, it's not here, No, al right here you are, Ed. Oh, swell, thanks, Jim.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Priceless, wonderful little oil can in the vernacular of the Andersons.
Did you ever see anything so demure or in better
taste such a silhouette?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You sound like you've been reading Harper's Bizarre.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Ed with this family, I don't have to read the
fashion news. I just walked through the house and inhale it.
And now, Jim, what you should do is go hunting
with us this weekend. I thought you already had a
car full from your office. Well, I just got a call.
We're gonna have one extra place. Guy changed his mind,
His wife changed hers. Oh, it's almost the last of
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the season for ducks. You better take your chance when
you can.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I'd sure like to.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Lady and Butter are both going away tonight. I hate
to leave Margaret here for a whole weekend alone.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Won't Kathy be here? Well? Alone with Kathy?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Well, maybe you can get Butter Betty to stay home
it's worth a try. I'll just go out the back door.
Call me if you can make it. We'll be leaving
about three okay, Ed, I see now, maybe Betty would
stay home if I bought her address with a three
months old hamline.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Oh Betty, how would you like to No?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
All right, then, children, I'll just call her and tell
her not to come.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
What's going on in here?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
We're gonna have company?
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Nothing, Jim, nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, I'm sure of that, But tell me anyhow.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Mother's phone call was from Cedric Crane Junior.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Who's he?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
It's a she dad.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
You know her, Jim. She used to be Marcella Crane.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Oh, she dropped the Marcella when she went to New York.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I remember her when she lived in Springfield, Jim.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Marcella was a very nice girl.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I suppose so.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
If you like her type, you seem to forget that.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Marcella and I were once very close friends. She's just
passing through town, and I'm very flattered that she wants
to come out and spend the weekend with me.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Margaret, she was a bird brain and this weekend.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Yes, Jim, she's on her way to the coast. And
she thought it'd be fun to come out and talk
over all time.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Spend the whole weekend with you.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yes, we'll have a real old fashioned gap session.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Well it sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
I'm sure you two girls will have a wonderful time
together alone.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
But Dad, that's just the trouble. Mother says, Betty and
I have to stay home too.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
She wants to show us off.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Well, it isn't that exactly.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
It's just that Marcella's had a career and I've had
a family.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
We're both proud of our accomplishment.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I'm one of them, some accomplishment.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
I haven't seen Marcella in twenty years, and naturally I
want to put my best foot forward. Oh naturally, go ahead,
Jim side with the children.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
It's all right. I'll just call her up and tell
her not to come.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Oh no, Margaret, I'm sure the children don't really mind
staying home.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Father. I look forward to this weekend per months, ever
since Sally invited me two days ago.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Dad, the guys will think I stayed home on purpose.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
I'll be glad to stay home.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Where else could you go?
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Now, Betty, Bud, this may be a little inconvenient, but
your mother has given up many things for you, and
the least you can do is give up one weekend
for her. But Dad, if she wants Marcella to meet
her happy little family, then that's what you're going to be,
a happy little family.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
But father, Jeanie Leggot's on her way over here to
pick me up.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Practically, well, go call her up and tell her not
to come.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Practical.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Jumping creeper.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
When you finish telephoning, put on your blue dress, Daddy, Yes,
and Bud, you go comb.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Your hair, yes, ma'am? Shall I pe it on a
clean dress?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Mommy later, Dear, she won't be here for an hour,
and there's no point in dirty and two dresses. I right, Mommy,
and Jim, I think you should take Marcela on a
drive around the city tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Me, it's Saturday. You won't have to go to the office.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Margaret, ed Davis has invited me to go duck hunting
with him with all the children and Marcella here.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
You won't need me, Jim.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I want her to meet the whole family, and you're
a part of it.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
Yes, Daddy, you're the hair Margaret.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
You showed me off to Marcella twenty years ago, and
I was in better shape then.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Than I am. Now.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
That's not the point, Jim. I want her to see
us all together.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
You can go duck hunting next month.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I can go to jail too.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Jim, if you don't want me to have my friend
to the Margaret.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I think it's wonderful that Marcella's going to visit you, father.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I just talked to Jamie Leggett.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Betty.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Please, what can I say to Marcella except hello?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
After twenty years? What could we possibly talk about?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Father? That's what I wanted to tell you. I've just
been talking to Janie Niggott and she knows all about
Sedri Traine Junior. This is going to be the most
similating weekend this family's ever had. Why she isn't just anybody,
She's a New York fashion expert.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Oh No.
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Speaker 2 (15:34):
When the Andersons are alone, they sometimes eat supper in
the kitchen when the minister comes to call, they eat
in the dining room, But when a fashion expert like
Margaret's old girlfriend Cedric Crane Junior, comes to visit, they
do it upright and even have after dinner coffee in
the living a drawing room like this, Margaret, why can't
(15:56):
I have my coffee now?
Speaker 9 (15:57):
We're waiting for Marcela Jean.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Waiting for Marcella. That's all I've done since she got here. First,
she couldn't play ping pong till she changed into something comfortable.
Then we couldn't eat until she changed into something for dinner.
I'll bet you a dollar to a donut. She's changing
her clothes so she can drink her coffee, Jim.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
She just went to get her stole.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
She was cold, and the dress she's wearing, I wouldn't
be surprised if she got pneumonia, Jim. Margaret, I never
heard such drivel as she hands out, Jesus.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
I should always wear clothes with the.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Future, Kathy, The way you wear out clothes.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
They don't even have a present, they don't And the
questions she asks.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Jim, it's part of her job. She's making a coast
to coast survey.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
You should have heard what Dad told her.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Never mind, but what did you say, Margaret? It's not important, Jim.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
And she asked me when I thought about women's clothes,
and I said I was in.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Favor of them. Oh dear, well, that's better than not
being in.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Fair Jim, you could have been courteous.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Well, how do I look bad? He wants that stuff
you've got on your eyes, green eyed ashes. Missus Crane
said I could wear them.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well, your father says you can.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I think they make me look wonderful.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
They make you look poisonous. Go take them off.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
He'll only take you a minute, Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Mother, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
When I think of three whole days wasted here with Marcella,
when I could be out hunting ducks with Ed Davis, Jim, here.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
She comes, darlings.
Speaker 11 (17:31):
I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting, But I
looked everywhere from my red stone, and I simply couldn't
find anything but my white one, and white is so grabbed,
don't you think so?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
There was just nothing to do with change.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I told you so, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Here's your coffee. Marcella or should I call you Cedric Darling?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
An old friend? Like you?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Can call me anything? You like you too, Jim.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Uh, Jim, here's your coffee.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
You know, Darling, I've thought of the most exciting thing
for us to do tomorrow. Well, I thought you might
like to go for a drive and see how spring
Fields changed.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
We could take you to the new library, the new park.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And the new railroad station.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
Well, Darling, of course, that would be nice, but I
had something else in mind. I'd just like to follow
you around, Margaret, through a perfectly normal day with your family.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
This family doesn't have any normal days.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
We just go around the clock together.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Gosh, how do you do that?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Skip it? Kid?
Speaker 11 (18:47):
That way I can get a first hand idea of
what a woman in your position should wear in every situation.
It would be terribly helpful for my survey, Darling. Well,
if you really want to, oh I do. We'd start
with breakfast. Have some coffee, thanks, Jim, I have something
oh now. For that, of course, you'd need a brunch coat,
(19:10):
and then to do the housework. For that you'd need
a morning dress. What do you think of the idea, Darling?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
It's fine with me, Marcella, of course. And what do
you think, Jim?
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Well, Jim, will you please get some mar cream?
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:26):
All right, Martin, but you come help me, sure, Dad, Jim,
you don't need Bud to pour one picture of cream?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, he can tie my apron, Josh.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Dan, I don't know how to tie aprons. Maybe you
better call Katholin.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
But I don't need you for anything. I just wanted
to get you out here where your mother can't hear
us talk.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Oh, you want to put one over on a handad.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, that's one way of putting and you can count
on me. Good.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
You know I can't go hunting tomorrow because your mother
wants me to stay home with Marcella.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, Dad, but I don't see why you're beef and
the guys on the team won't even speak to me
when I don't show well.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
But I've helped you out a great Okay, okay, Dad,
what's the dope?
Speaker 10 (20:09):
Now?
Speaker 7 (20:09):
What would your mother do if I wanted to stay
home with Marcella?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't get it, but the idea is this. I
want to make her jealous.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Say it.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
It's pretty good and you'll help me.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Sure? How are you gonna do it?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Well, that's where you come in. You can suggest to
your mother that you think Marcella might be very attractive
to men.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Dad, she's old enough to be my mother.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And she's the right age for your father.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Oh yeah, I never thought of that.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
You kind of hint to your mother that you think
I really like Marcella.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But I'm just covering up.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Tell your mother you think Marcella's got something?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Okay? What?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well, I don't know. You make up something?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Okay, Dad, I'll try.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Come on, well, Margaret, is the coffee still warm? Where's Marcella?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
She's upstairs for a minute helping Betty with her eyelashes.
Betty used the wrong kind of glue and they won't
come off.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Fine, how about small coffee, Margaret? Of course, Jim cream too.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
You didn't bring it back?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I didn't. Well, what do you know I didn't. I'll
go back and get it. It won't be a minute, bod.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Oh sure, Dad, I'll come help you out.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
No, Bud, you wanted to talk to your mother, remember.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Oh, I get your dad.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
What was it you wanted to tell me?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Bet Mom?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Do you think Dad is a wolf? What do you
think you can really trust Dad around Marcella?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (21:52):
I think so.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I don't know, Mom.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Maybe he's just pretending that he doesn't like her. She's
pretty sharp.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Bud.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
That's no way to talk about miss Crane.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I know, but I promised i'd say something nice about her.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Promised who.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Whom?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Mom? Not who.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Bud? Whom? Did you promise?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Well, Margaret, here I am with the cream Johnny on
the spot, Jim, Bud seems to think you're smitten with Marcella.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Margaret. Where did he ever get an idea like that?
Speaker 9 (22:29):
And I assume from his father? Oh, about two minutes.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Ago in the kitchen, I tried, dad.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Jim, if you're still thinking about that hunting trip back door, Daddy,
I'll go.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
No, I'll go good night.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
I assume Margaret that you won't care if I at
least look outside.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh hello, man, Hi you Jim. I brought your oil
can back. Thanks. All set to go with us? Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Sure, I've got my gun, oil and the bagpack with
six pairs of pajamas, three suits, and two razors. Razors.
We aren't even gonna wash on this trip.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Well, I'm not even going to go.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
I couldn't get one of the kids to stay home, huh.
I got all of the kids to stay home, plus
an old girlfriend of Margaret's that I have to stay unentertained.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's tough. Margaret insists that i'd be nice to her.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I had the same problem with Ethel one time, but
I figured out a plan to get out of the house.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
What did you do?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
I pretended I really liked the girlfriend so Ethel would
get jealous.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I tried. That didn't work. Huh, Nope, didn't work for
me either. Margaret says, everything is going to be just
the way Marcella.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Wants it the whole weekend. Hey, I got an idea, Well,
I could use one. What if the girlfriend insisted on
you going duck hunting? She doesn't even know I've got
a gun, which is just as well for her peace
of mind. But if she knew you were missing a
good time on her account, she'd probably be upset, wouldn't
she say?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Ed, Maybe you've got something there.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Sure, the only way Margaret could make her happy would
be for you to go hunting.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, it's worth a try. She just came downstairs. All right,
you introduced me. Now, don't worry, I'll fix.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
It up well, Ed, thanks for coming over, or sure, Jim,
we'll say before you go, I want you to meet
an old school with charm of Margaret's come on in,
Miss Crane, our neighbor. Mister Davis, I'm glad to know you,
Miss Crane.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Margaret.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Hello, Ed, look at Betty's eyelashes now, Daddy, what eyelashes?
Kathy minds your own business. Miss Crane says they'll grow
out in two or three weeks.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Well, I gotta be running along. Glad to have met you,
Miss Crane.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Good night, mister David, Good night.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Ed, Matt.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Margaret, Sorry you you can't go tomorrow, Jim, I'll catch
it another time, Miss Crane, being here and all I will.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Oh, Missie, Oh, Jim, I hope you're not staying home
from something because of me.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh no, Marcella, just some of the boys going hunting, and.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Before I came, had you planned to go with them? Oh?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
We talked about it a little four or five hours
last night, yesterday day before.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
But Jim, that's ridiculous. You shouldn't give up a wonderful
hunting trip because of me.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Marcell I can go hunting lots of other times, even
though we do have a short season.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
At all.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Margaret and I haven't had a chance to visit with
you in twenty years, have we? Margaret?
Speaker 7 (25:41):
No, Jim, and who knows, it might be another twenty
years before we'll see you again.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
But Jim, that's no reason for you to stay home.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh, I don't mind.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Really, no, Jim, you're not going to miss your hunting trip. Well,
we'll pack eye bad and we'll all go with your.
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It's Monday at the White Frame House on Maple Street.
In fact, it's Monday next door at the Davises too,
where Ed calls to his neighbor Jim Anderson, who has
put his car away in the garage and is headed
for his house like this, Hey, Jim.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Oh, hello Ed, Jim. You should see the ducks we got.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Everybody in the party took the limit. Hey, what happened?
I thought we were going to meet you and your
gang up there? Well, we stayed home. I'll come.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Marcella checked over my hunting outfit and decided we couldn't go.
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Why not, I didn't have a thing to wear.
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Speaker 6 (01:02):
Fashion is a fickle dame.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
She's not to be relied on.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Sometimes she says a skirt should drape, sometimes it should
be tight Han, But women bow and scrape to her.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They treat her like a duchess. But Heaven helped the.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Husband who is caught within her clutches agree. Well, maybe
you will after a half hour spent for the Andersons
in Springfield.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Like this, Margaret, Oh, hello, Bud, did you want it
for something?
Speaker 7 (01:29):
I just want to ask her a question. Maybe you
know where it is, what it is? Where does your
mother keep the machine oil in.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
The machine I guess in the.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Bud.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I got to get something out of you at it.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
I don't know anybody else could ask a perfectly normal
question like where do you keep the machine oil and
get a perfectly normal answer, But not the Andersons.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Margaret ed Davis.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
Bosson, go look at my new perman It's absolutely awful.
Speaker 9 (01:57):
I told them, man, I want a soft curly rings.
What did I get? Friz? Do you ever see anything
so horrible in your whole life?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Sure, I mean no, I mean Margaret, I don't see
why you're so upset.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Well, I guess I am upset over nothing. After all,
A permanent isn't permanent?
Speaker 9 (02:19):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Exactly? Now? Margaret, if you'll just tell me where the machine? Betty? Please?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Oh hello, father? Are you home.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
In my home?
Speaker 9 (02:32):
Jim?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well, what kind of a question is that?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Mother? I'm absolutely guessing.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
If you don't mind, I'd like to finish talking to
your mother.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
But father, this lomly take a minute, and I just
can't wait just a minute, Jim, Betty, what is it?
Look at this formal? I just got it at Gorman's.
And what am I going to do with it?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Well, considering the fact I advanced you your June allowance
to buy it, you might wear it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
But father, it's sold fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh of course you've only had it a full forty
five minutes.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I bought it on the sale rack, but I didn't
know it was so out of date. It's got a
four months old Hamline tragedy. Jad Niggatt says, everybody who's
going to the weekend party in Middleton is going to
take a right formal, and this is the only right
formal I have.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
How do you think I'll feel in a formal two
inches longer than anybody else's warm? Go get my sewing box, Diddy,
and I'll see what I can do. Oh.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Thanks, mother, you're a doll.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Thanks a million.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
No, Jim, what was it you wanted?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Ed Davis is going hunting and he wants to bim.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Wait did you say that box was?
Speaker 9 (03:51):
But I thought it was that old green trunk.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But I turned everything inside out and I couldn't find it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But I was talking to your mother, I know.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
But the basketball team is leaving in half an hour.
The coach will say, I'm a poor sport. You don't
want me to get kicked off the team, do you?
Speaker 7 (04:07):
But now, Jim, Margaret, I've been trying for five minutes
to find out where the machine oil is.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
Let me think a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I know now you stored it the oil.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
No, the box Bud is looking for. It's one of
the things you put up in the Attequen Bud was born.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
You remember it, Margaret?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 9 (04:26):
Jim, you could at least try to remember why.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Because I gotta find it?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Dan?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
What for?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Because of the skid?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What skit?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
The one the basketball team is going to put on
at the varsity club camping trip this weekend. It's about
the long long ago, you know, when you and Mom
were young.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh, not that long ago.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Everybody on the team plays apart. We all do score,
so so the box is where they are? Or what
are it is?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The Bloomer Bloomers.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I got the short straw. I have to play the girls.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
That's why I have to find the costume. With a
coach of Samuel poor sport.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
He's going to wear my old Jim Midian Bloomers.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But I know you'll be lovely, just lovely.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I don't even know what bloomers are, but you know
the shorts.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The girls wear for their high school gym classes.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Sure, Dan, well, you go back up and look in
the attic until you find something that doesn't look anything
like them.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Those are bloomers.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Gosh, thanks Dad.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Now, but it's not too much to ask.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Kathy, Dolly, what is it?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
There? We go again.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
For take about Kathy? What's in the matter. I'll just be.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Jim.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Can't you do something to stop Kathy?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Tell us what the trouble is, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Daddy wants to help you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Kathy. I just raised your allowance to fifty cents a week,
really well temporarily. Now tell us what's wrong.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Daddy Davis said I'd be a wallflower at the squirt
Dancy class, and I don't want to be a wallflower.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
Why does Patty say you're going to be a wallflower?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Because my skirt doesn't twirl. Everybody else looks like sunflowers
and I just look like a platuonia.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Well, don't worry about it, angel, Mommy will get some
more material and make you a real full skirt.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You will, Mommy?
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Yes, dear?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh boy, you want me to get the door, Daddy?
Never mind, I'll go, Kathy, get out of my way, Daddy,
I'm gonna be a sunflower.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Oh, hello, Ed, come in Hello, Jim, Margaret, Yes, Jim, Oh, hello, Ed.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Hello, Margaret, Betty, Kathy, Well.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Mister Davis. Hello, mister Davis. Do you really think you
can shorten the dress? Mother?
Speaker 9 (07:11):
It doesn't look too difficult, Dear.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Well, I'll get the phone, mother, Father.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Here they are, Oh, hello, mister Davis.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Hello, Bud.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Oh, I'll caller god By Bloomers.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Dear, that's what I wore when I took gymnasium.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Margaret, don't you think they're kind of moomy?
Speaker 8 (07:37):
That's the way they're supposed to be, Bud. Maybe I
can take them in a little at the waist, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Ed doesn't have all day the phonems for you?
Speaker 9 (07:45):
Mother, Oh, thank you, dear Margaret. Betty, will you help
your father for me?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
What do you want? Father?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Well, it's a little number about three inches tall, and
it has a little plastic cap. Jim, all I want
is the can of machine oil for my gun. That's
what I said. Well, Betty, where is it?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You'll find it in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Father, we're in the broom closet.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
No, in the sugar band.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
With the sugar, of course.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Not the sugar's in the bread drawer.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Oh naturally, Uh, Jim, if it's too much trouble, No, Ed,
we'll find it out here somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Come on, it's not here, No, al right here you are, Ed. Oh, swell, thanks, Jim.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Priceless, wonderful little oil can in the vernacular of the Andersons.
Did you ever see anything so demure or in better
taste such a silhouette?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You sound like you've been reading Harper's Bizarre.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Ed with this family, I don't have to read the
fashion news. I just walked through the house and inhale it.
And now, Jim, what you should do is go hunting
with us this weekend. I thought you already had a
car full from your office. Well, I just got a call.
We're gonna have one extra place. Guy changed his mind,
His wife changed hers. Oh, it's almost the last of
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the season for ducks. You better take your chance when
you can.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I'd sure like to.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Lady and Butter are both going away tonight. I hate
to leave Margaret here for a whole weekend alone.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Won't Kathy be here? Well? Alone with Kathy?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Well, maybe you can get Butter Betty to stay home
it's worth a try. I'll just go out the back door.
Call me if you can make it. We'll be leaving
about three okay, Ed, I see now, maybe Betty would
stay home if I bought her address with a three
months old hamline.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Oh Betty, how would you like to No?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
All right, then, children, I'll just call her and tell
her not to come.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
What's going on in here?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
We're gonna have company?
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Nothing, Jim, nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, I'm sure of that, But tell me anyhow.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Mother's phone call was from Cedric Crane Junior.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Who's he?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
It's a she dad.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
You know her, Jim. She used to be Marcella Crane.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Oh, she dropped the Marcella when she went to New York.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I remember her when she lived in Springfield, Jim.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Marcella was a very nice girl.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I suppose so.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
If you like her type, you seem to forget that.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Marcella and I were once very close friends. She's just
passing through town, and I'm very flattered that she wants
to come out and spend the weekend with me.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Margaret, she was a bird brain and this weekend.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Yes, Jim, she's on her way to the coast. And
she thought it'd be fun to come out and talk
over all time.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Spend the whole weekend with you.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yes, we'll have a real old fashioned gap session.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Well it sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
I'm sure you two girls will have a wonderful time
together alone.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
But Dad, that's just the trouble. Mother says, Betty and
I have to stay home too.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
She wants to show us off.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Well, it isn't that exactly.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
It's just that Marcella's had a career and I've had
a family.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
We're both proud of our accomplishment.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I'm one of them, some accomplishment.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
I haven't seen Marcella in twenty years, and naturally I
want to put my best foot forward. Oh naturally, go ahead,
Jim side with the children.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
It's all right. I'll just call her up and tell
her not to come.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Oh no, Margaret, I'm sure the children don't really mind
staying home.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Father. I look forward to this weekend per months, ever
since Sally invited me two days ago.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Dad, the guys will think I stayed home on purpose.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
I'll be glad to stay home.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Where else could you go?
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Now, Betty, Bud, this may be a little inconvenient, but
your mother has given up many things for you, and
the least you can do is give up one weekend
for her. But Dad, if she wants Marcella to meet
her happy little family, then that's what you're going to be,
a happy little family.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
But father, Jeanie Leggot's on her way over here to
pick me up.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Practically, well, go call her up and tell her not
to come.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Practical.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Jumping creeper.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
When you finish telephoning, put on your blue dress, Daddy, Yes,
and Bud, you go comb.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Your hair, yes, ma'am? Shall I pe it on a
clean dress?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Mommy later, Dear, she won't be here for an hour,
and there's no point in dirty and two dresses. I right, Mommy,
and Jim, I think you should take Marcela on a
drive around the city tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Me, it's Saturday. You won't have to go to the office.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Margaret, ed Davis has invited me to go duck hunting
with him with all the children and Marcella here.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
You won't need me, Jim.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I want her to meet the whole family, and you're
a part of it.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
Yes, Daddy, you're the hair Margaret.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
You showed me off to Marcella twenty years ago, and
I was in better shape then.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Than I am. Now.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
That's not the point, Jim. I want her to see
us all together.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
You can go duck hunting next month.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I can go to jail too.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Jim, if you don't want me to have my friend
to the Margaret.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I think it's wonderful that Marcella's going to visit you, father.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I just talked to Jamie Leggett.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Betty.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Please, what can I say to Marcella except hello?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
After twenty years? What could we possibly talk about?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Father? That's what I wanted to tell you. I've just
been talking to Janie Niggott and she knows all about
Sedri Traine Junior. This is going to be the most
similating weekend this family's ever had. Why she isn't just anybody,
She's a New York fashion expert.
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Oh No.
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Speaker 2 (15:34):
When the Andersons are alone, they sometimes eat supper in
the kitchen when the minister comes to call, they eat
in the dining room, But when a fashion expert like
Margaret's old girlfriend Cedric Crane Junior, comes to visit, they
do it upright and even have after dinner coffee in
the living a drawing room like this, Margaret, why can't
(15:56):
I have my coffee now?
Speaker 9 (15:57):
We're waiting for Marcela Jean.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Waiting for Marcella. That's all I've done since she got here. First,
she couldn't play ping pong till she changed into something comfortable.
Then we couldn't eat until she changed into something for dinner.
I'll bet you a dollar to a donut. She's changing
her clothes so she can drink her coffee, Jim.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
She just went to get her stole.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
She was cold, and the dress she's wearing, I wouldn't
be surprised if she got pneumonia, Jim. Margaret, I never
heard such drivel as she hands out, Jesus.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
I should always wear clothes with the.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Future, Kathy, The way you wear out clothes.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
They don't even have a present, they don't And the
questions she asks.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Jim, it's part of her job. She's making a coast
to coast survey.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
You should have heard what Dad told her.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Never mind, but what did you say, Margaret? It's not important, Jim.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
And she asked me when I thought about women's clothes,
and I said I was in.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Favor of them. Oh dear, well, that's better than not
being in.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Fair Jim, you could have been courteous.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Well, how do I look bad? He wants that stuff
you've got on your eyes, green eyed ashes. Missus Crane
said I could wear them.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well, your father says you can.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I think they make me look wonderful.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
They make you look poisonous. Go take them off.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
He'll only take you a minute, Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Mother, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
When I think of three whole days wasted here with Marcella,
when I could be out hunting ducks with Ed Davis, Jim, here.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
She comes, darlings.
Speaker 11 (17:31):
I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting, But I
looked everywhere from my red stone, and I simply couldn't
find anything but my white one, and white is so grabbed,
don't you think so?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
There was just nothing to do with change.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I told you so, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Here's your coffee. Marcella or should I call you Cedric Darling?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
An old friend? Like you?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Can call me anything? You like you too, Jim.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Uh, Jim, here's your coffee.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
You know, Darling, I've thought of the most exciting thing
for us to do tomorrow. Well, I thought you might
like to go for a drive and see how spring
Fields changed.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
We could take you to the new library, the new park.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And the new railroad station.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
Well, Darling, of course, that would be nice, but I
had something else in mind. I'd just like to follow
you around, Margaret, through a perfectly normal day with your family.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
This family doesn't have any normal days.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
We just go around the clock together.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Gosh, how do you do that?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Skip it? Kid?
Speaker 11 (18:47):
That way I can get a first hand idea of
what a woman in your position should wear in every situation.
It would be terribly helpful for my survey, Darling. Well,
if you really want to, oh I do. We'd start
with breakfast. Have some coffee, thanks, Jim, I have something
oh now. For that, of course, you'd need a brunch coat,
(19:10):
and then to do the housework. For that you'd need
a morning dress. What do you think of the idea, Darling?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
It's fine with me, Marcella, of course. And what do
you think, Jim?
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Well, Jim, will you please get some mar cream?
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:26):
All right, Martin, but you come help me, sure, Dad, Jim,
you don't need Bud to pour one picture of cream?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, he can tie my apron, Josh.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Dan, I don't know how to tie aprons. Maybe you
better call Katholin.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
But I don't need you for anything. I just wanted
to get you out here where your mother can't hear
us talk.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Oh, you want to put one over on a handad.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, that's one way of putting and you can count
on me. Good.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
You know I can't go hunting tomorrow because your mother
wants me to stay home with Marcella.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, Dad, but I don't see why you're beef and
the guys on the team won't even speak to me
when I don't show well.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
But I've helped you out a great Okay, okay, Dad,
what's the dope?
Speaker 10 (20:09):
Now?
Speaker 7 (20:09):
What would your mother do if I wanted to stay
home with Marcella?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't get it, but the idea is this. I
want to make her jealous.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Say it.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
It's pretty good and you'll help me.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Sure? How are you gonna do it?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Well, that's where you come in. You can suggest to
your mother that you think Marcella might be very attractive
to men.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Dad, she's old enough to be my mother.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And she's the right age for your father.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Oh yeah, I never thought of that.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
You kind of hint to your mother that you think
I really like Marcella.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But I'm just covering up.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Tell your mother you think Marcella's got something?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Okay? What?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well, I don't know. You make up something?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Okay, Dad, I'll try.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Come on, well, Margaret, is the coffee still warm? Where's Marcella?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
She's upstairs for a minute helping Betty with her eyelashes.
Betty used the wrong kind of glue and they won't
come off.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Fine, how about small coffee, Margaret? Of course, Jim cream too.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
You didn't bring it back?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I didn't. Well, what do you know I didn't. I'll
go back and get it. It won't be a minute, bod.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Oh sure, Dad, I'll come help you out.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
No, Bud, you wanted to talk to your mother, remember.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Oh, I get your dad.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
What was it you wanted to tell me?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Bet Mom?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Do you think Dad is a wolf? What do you
think you can really trust Dad around Marcella?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (21:52):
I think so.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I don't know, Mom.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Maybe he's just pretending that he doesn't like her. She's
pretty sharp.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Bud.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
That's no way to talk about miss Crane.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I know, but I promised i'd say something nice about her.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Promised who.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Whom?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Mom? Not who.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Bud? Whom? Did you promise?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Well, Margaret, here I am with the cream Johnny on
the spot, Jim, Bud seems to think you're smitten with Marcella.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Margaret. Where did he ever get an idea like that?
Speaker 9 (22:29):
And I assume from his father? Oh, about two minutes.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Ago in the kitchen, I tried, dad.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Jim, if you're still thinking about that hunting trip back door, Daddy,
I'll go.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
No, I'll go good night.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
I assume Margaret that you won't care if I at
least look outside.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh hello, man, Hi you Jim. I brought your oil
can back. Thanks. All set to go with us? Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Sure, I've got my gun, oil and the bagpack with
six pairs of pajamas, three suits, and two razors. Razors.
We aren't even gonna wash on this trip.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Well, I'm not even going to go.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
I couldn't get one of the kids to stay home, huh.
I got all of the kids to stay home, plus
an old girlfriend of Margaret's that I have to stay unentertained.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's tough. Margaret insists that i'd be nice to her.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I had the same problem with Ethel one time, but
I figured out a plan to get out of the house.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
What did you do?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
I pretended I really liked the girlfriend so Ethel would
get jealous.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I tried. That didn't work. Huh, Nope, didn't work for
me either. Margaret says, everything is going to be just
the way Marcella.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Wants it the whole weekend. Hey, I got an idea, Well,
I could use one. What if the girlfriend insisted on
you going duck hunting? She doesn't even know I've got
a gun, which is just as well for her peace
of mind. But if she knew you were missing a
good time on her account, she'd probably be upset, wouldn't
she say?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Ed, Maybe you've got something there.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Sure, the only way Margaret could make her happy would
be for you to go hunting.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, it's worth a try. She just came downstairs. All right,
you introduced me. Now, don't worry, I'll fix.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
It up well, Ed, thanks for coming over, or sure, Jim,
we'll say before you go, I want you to meet
an old school with charm of Margaret's come on in,
Miss Crane, our neighbor. Mister Davis, I'm glad to know you,
Miss Crane.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Margaret.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Hello, Ed, look at Betty's eyelashes now, Daddy, what eyelashes?
Kathy minds your own business. Miss Crane says they'll grow
out in two or three weeks.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Well, I gotta be running along. Glad to have met you,
Miss Crane.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Good night, mister David, Good night.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Ed, Matt.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Margaret, Sorry you you can't go tomorrow, Jim, I'll catch
it another time, Miss Crane, being here and all I will.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Oh, Missie, Oh, Jim, I hope you're not staying home
from something because of me.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh no, Marcella, just some of the boys going hunting, and.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Before I came, had you planned to go with them? Oh?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
We talked about it a little four or five hours
last night, yesterday day before.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
But Jim, that's ridiculous. You shouldn't give up a wonderful
hunting trip because of me.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Marcell I can go hunting lots of other times, even
though we do have a short season.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
At all.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Margaret and I haven't had a chance to visit with
you in twenty years, have we? Margaret?
Speaker 7 (25:41):
No, Jim, and who knows, it might be another twenty
years before we'll see you again.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
But Jim, that's no reason for you to stay home.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh, I don't mind.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Really, no, Jim, you're not going to miss your hunting trip. Well,
we'll pack eye bad and we'll all go with your.
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Speaker 2 (27:22):
It's Monday at the White Frame House on Maple Street.
In fact, it's Monday next door at the Davises too,
where Ed calls to his neighbor Jim Anderson, who has
put his car away in the garage and is headed
for his house like this, Hey, Jim.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Oh, hello Ed, Jim. You should see the ducks we got.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Everybody in the party took the limit. Hey, what happened?
I thought we were going to meet you and your
gang up there? Well, we stayed home. I'll come.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Marcella checked over my hunting outfit and decided we couldn't go.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Why not, I didn't have a thing to wear.
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