September 30, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Why did daddy switch to post him?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Your father says there's no caffeine in post them, nothing
to spoil your sleep. And your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Transcribed in Hollywood Starrying Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors. The Anderson brought to you
by instant post them a good tasting drink that's entirely
caffeine free, and by post forty percent frand plates America's
largest selling brand, flakes. They say a man's home is
(00:49):
his castle, so possibly by the same token, you might
say that.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
A boy's room in the home is also his private domain.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Take Bud Anderson for example.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
He has always felt that his room upstairs in the
white frame house on Maple Street was traditionally his personal property.
That's why on this Saturday morning, we find young Budd
protesting violently against an unprovoked invasion of his territory like this.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Cut it out, will you? I don't go in your
room and tear everything up? Do I?
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Oh, stop grousing. I'm not hurting your own room. I'm
just looking for a pin.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I haven't got any pins.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
How do you ever find anything in this mast looks
like an old gopher's nest.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I don't go in your room and tear up everything.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I'm not tearing up anything.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
What's in this box? Ganata?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
There?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
That's my stuff?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
What are you doing with this old moth eaten squirrel tail?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
That's a foxtail and leave it alone?
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Well, you must have a pin in this junk somewhere.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Holy cow, recognize room looking for a pin.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
I've got to pin a bowl on my blouse.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Janie liggots Ann is visiting her from New York, and
she's taking Janney and me do a tea this afternoon.
It's very ultra ultra tea.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Ugh, Look, will you get out? I'm trying to build something.
I haven't got any pins.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I found one right here, smarty, okay, hit the road.
Janey's little cousin came along with her aunt. She's just
about the right age for you.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Stop you're making me sick.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
She's a real cute girl.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You ought to see her.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I've seen a girl.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Oh oh, oh, Joe, for Pete's sake, what's that?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
It's a telephone? Get out, will you?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Where are the wires?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
It doesn't have any wires. It's an invention.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I made it with a cigar box.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It's an invention.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Works on airways. Joe's got one too. I'm trying to
call them.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Will you get.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Out o stale cigar bocks. I don't raise the roof.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
I'll get out of your old room. What an old
ruggy thing.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Darn women.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
Oh Joe?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
Joe? Oh? Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Did I leave my bowl in here?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Holy call.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Kathy? Have you seen my blue velvet bowl?
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Oh Joe? Oh with velvet ball? Oh Joe?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh you know the little blue one with a rhinestone
clip in the center.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Can you hear me, Joe?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I didn't have it, Oh, creepers here it is on
the floor, but practically he had his big foot on it.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Look, I'm calling Joe. How can I hear him? With
everybody yacking?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You're talking to that cigar box?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Is Joe in there?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
No, he's at his house.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Is my power straight in the back?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Kathy, pull it up a little.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Do you have to dress in here?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I'm not dressing. I'm just using the mirror.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
This is my well.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
This is the only room that has two mirrors where I.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Can see in the back. Move that other mirror around
a little, will you, Kathy?
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Hello, Joe?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hello, your collars still crooked in the back. I see it,
but I can't reach it.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Fix it for me, will you, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Who I can't reach it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We'll stand on a chair, Bud, can Caddy have your
chair a minute.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
I'm sitting on it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It'll only take a minute. I told Jennie i'd be
over in fifteen minutes. Nine five minutes late.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Already, all right here, take my room, take my chair,
use the mirrors, get perfume all over the place.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
No privacy anywhere women, women? This is the end. Where
are you going silly downstairs? This is the end.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
The guy gets pushed around just so long and then bang,
it's the end.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Guy can't have anything anymore, can't do anything without darned
women walking in.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
What's all the uproar about?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Have you got some cardboard, Dad, cardboard? I'm gonna make.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
A sign coming to den. Maybe we can find something
that's kind of a sign that you're going to make.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
No women allowed.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Oh, I'm gonna put it on the door of my room,
and I'm gonna put a big lock on it.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What's women allowed?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Oh? It doesn't mean you, mom, You're not a woman.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What seems to be the trouble. Son.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
It's the end, that's all, just the end.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Women come into a guy's room, they take everything a
guy's guard.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, now, but if it's Kathy and Betty.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Women are women. We have them at school, every place.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Well, I'll admit there are a number of them around,
but you get used to it after a while.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Not me.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I'm through. This is the end, oh now.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But just because you've had a little argument with your sister,
I didn't argue.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I'm just gonna put a lock on the door, and
if a woman tries to come in, look out.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
What's wrong with old? But all right, Bud, that was funny.
Do it again.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But I think you'd better run along and play angel.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
She's got perfume on.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, it's just a little cologne. I gave it to her.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
It hurts my nose.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Been along kidding. We want to talk to bud O king.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
What a good I'll be back in a minute, dear.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yeah, he went over to Jie.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Let's have a little talk, so a man the man.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
Yeah, no, women, I know that girls are bound to
get on your nerves sometimes, but they're really not so bad.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
They are to me.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well, I know you feel that way right now. Yeah,
but that's just because you're a little upset with Betty
and Kathy. Now you know there are some girls.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
You like, Bud, Nope, I don't like any girls.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, there must be one or two at school that
are kind of nice.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Have you seen him?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
No, but always wiggling around and going he whispering to
each other, yacky, yackity yack.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I know, I know.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
And they're always simpering around looking at their dumb old
faces in a mirror.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Who cares what they look like? Well, I don't.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Why can't there just be guys in the world like
you and Joe and a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Well, so as you get older, girls.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Are always trying to be so cute, walking around on
those high heels, putting powder on their faces, pouring perfume
all over.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
It makes a guy sick.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
When I was your age, I knew a couple of
little girls I thought.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Were pretty nice.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
No kidding.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You, sure?
Speaker 9 (07:48):
I remember one was a little blonde, the kind of
curly hair, real cute.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
But there's nothing wrong with liking girls.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Well, I'm not going to old girls. I think I'll
go up and air out my room.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well how'd you make out, dear?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Do I have to get married? Is it a law?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
No good?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I'm gonna be a bachelor and a hermit.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I guess that answers your question, honey.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Mmmm. Well, one of these days he'll change his to him.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'm not too sure, you know, Bud. When he gets
something into his.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Head, you wait, some little girl will come along and
wind him right around her finger.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I don't know about that. If you think back to.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Mother, I'm in the damn betty, mother. I was just
over at Janie Niggetts and hello, father, her aunt was there?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Really?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
What is hello, princess? This aunt's name?
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Father?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
But I wanted to tell you mother.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Janie's cousin, little Jennifer Marsh is there with them, and
they have simply no place for her to sleep. So
I said it would be perfectly all right for her
to come over here and stay with us. It will
be all right, won't it. I don't mind. I know
missus Leggett would do the same.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
For how old is this little girl? We're a little
short of baby food, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh she's not a baby. She's twelve or thirteen and
just ascue.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
As a bug.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oh who hello?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What is that?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He's bellowing into that cigar box again. Well, let's see,
we'll have to figure out where Jennifer is going to hello.
We could put her in with you, Betty, but then
there's no place for Cassie. Missus Leggett insisted we shouldn't
put ourselves out.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
Oh hello, missus Leggett's father just to say hello, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Hello, but that was me. We have the cot we
can put down in the playroom, or.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We couldn't ask her to sleep down there.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Father. Let's face it, the only thing we can do
is give her Bud's room and let Bud sleep on
the cot in the playroom.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Bud is going to be delighted to hear that. Just delighted?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
What am I going to be delighted?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Here?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hello, Bud? What's that for?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Stop this growling at people. You're beginning to act like
a crotchety old lion.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I wish I was an old lion. I'd have a cage.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
No girl's running in an hour anyway, I'm gonna get
a padlocked on my door in any girl that tries
God huh, we.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Have a little problem.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Son, I told you about Jennifer, Janie's cousin. Yeah, well,
she's coming over to stay with us for a few days.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Another girl coming here.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh no, I just keep your feathers down.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
We have no place for her to sleep at the legates.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
There's no place here.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
God, we're going to set up a cot in the playroom.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You gonna let a walk around the house. Oh creeper,
But and I've come on my room.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I'd quit waving your arms.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
The fact is, Jennifer will have to take your room, and.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You'll have the cots in the playroom.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I'm being thrown out out of my own room.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
You're not being thrown out. There's no other way we
can arrange it. And you've slept on the cot before.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Holy cow, why can't she sleep downstairs? Put her in
the basement.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Mother, will you please control him, bod Little Jennifer is
going to be our guest. I but Anderson, if you
so much has open your mouth while she's here, Mother,
make him be nice to her.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Perfume all over my room.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Don't worry about the perfume. When she leaves, we'll burn
some old shoes up there. Get it just the way
you like it.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
But she'll be here in the house.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Whatever, it's stupid. She isn't poison.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I'll have to look at her.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
All right, I'll get you a pair of dark glasses.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh I'm sick.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
What's now?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
A bud for Heaven said?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I stop this carrying on? Now we've had enough.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Do I have to sleep down in the playroom?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
No, you can sleep in the piano if you'd be
more comfortable.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Do I have to stay in the house?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Where's he going?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
There's a big tree out in back you could sleep in.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I'm gonna call up Joe.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You going over there.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I'm gonna borrow his tent in the sleeping bag.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh, no, Bud.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Wait, if that Juniper whatever her name is, is coming,
I'm going.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, where do you think you're going?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
She's gonna be inside. I'm gonna be outside.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But where are you planning to go?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Out in the backyard. I'll pitch the tent, put the
sleeping bag in it.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
That's why I'll stay out there.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, Bud, don't be an old stick in the mud.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
See you later.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Dad going over to Joe's.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, Well, you can't carry a tent back alone, can you.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Don't you want us to drive you over. No, there
goes the world's most stubborn boy. Look at him prowling
down the driveway. Why doesn't he get a haircut?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
You know something, Margaret, what dear, but not only sounds
like a grumpy old lion, he's beginning to look like one.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, it's easy to see why Bud is acting like
a grumpy old lion.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
But speaking of grumpiness, let's hear.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
What our friend ed Prentice has to say on the subject.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Ever, find yourself acting grumpy and cross.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Ready to fly off the handle at the least little thing.
Speaker 11 (13:44):
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Speaker 3 (14:05):
Or spoil your sleep.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
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Speaker 3 (14:13):
To sleep well.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
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(14:36):
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Speaker 4 (15:01):
You see that tenth out in the backyard at six
or seven Maple Street, That's.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Where young Bud Anderson is going to be living for
a few days.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Bud, it seems, has developed an almost hostile attitude toward girls,
and since little Jennifer March is coming over to spend
a couple of days with Anderson in Bud's room, Incidentally,
Bud the woman hater is packing up bag and baggage
and moving out right now. Bud's upstairs gathering up his belongings,
and Jim and Margaret are down in the kitchen listening
to the sounds from.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Above like this, what's he doing up there? Tearing out
the plumbing.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I don't know. He came in with a big box
and went stomping upstairs, said he was going to pack it.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
This worries me a little, Honey.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
I don't want the boy to grow up to be
a grouchy old bachelor.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'll give him time, Dear. He'll need a girl. One
of these days. She'll have our grumpy lion purring like
a kitten.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
How big was that box he took up?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It was an apple box. I guess why.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Sounds like he's trying to put the bed into it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Well, Harry comes.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
I know when I was Bud's age, if a cute
little girl was coming to visit, I'd be up getting
my hair comb getting slicked up.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Oh, really tell me more, dear.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Well, that was nothing. My mother insisted that I do it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh, I see it.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Well, I'm going, what.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
In the world do you have in that box?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
A lot of valuable stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
All automobile horn full ten floors, cigar boxes, magazines. What
are you dragging all this stuff outside for?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
They could be stolen, stolen out of your room. I
don't trust that, Janitor.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
March Jennifer Jennifer, Well.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I'm going if any girls start to come out to
my tent. They better look out. Oh Joe's gonna lend
me his dog. He hates girls.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Ooh Joe or the dog.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
The dog big cocker spaniel bites, got big teeth.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Well I'm gone.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
I hope you and the cocker spaniel with the big
teeth have an enjoyable stay in the tent.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Keep yourself warm, now, you sure you have enough blankets?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Sure, Well that's going to be a picture for you.
Bud sitting out there in that tent beside.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
A moth eating cocker spaniel with a mouthful of teeth.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And you say girls are hard to figure out.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Bud isn't hard to figure out. He's just stubborn.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We're in the kitchen, Betty.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I brought Jennifer over. Jenny.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
This is my mother and father.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
How do you do missus? Anderson?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Mister Anderson, Hello Jenny.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Oh, hello there, my you.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Have such a pretty house. I hope I'm not causing
you a lot of inconvenience, No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I want you to make yourself right at home.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
When we came in, I noticed a tent out in
the backyard. Do you keep things out there?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
There's an old thing out there right.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Now, our uh sun Bud uh stays out there occasionally.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He likes to be outdoors.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Jenny, just don't pay any attention to Bud. He's strange
but harmless.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Buds.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Just a boy.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You know how boys are.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I certainly do. If he takes after you, mister Anderson,
he must be very nice looking.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Well I couldn't say as to that.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Come on, Jenny, I'll show you your room.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, thank you for letting me stay with you, missus Danderson.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Well, we're happy to have you, Jenny. Well, yes, dear,
you said that.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And it's a lovely intelligent little girl.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well, I'll have to admit she's a strikingly beautiful child.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Did you see those eyes?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, she knows how to use them to Did you
ever see such long.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Every time she blinked, I could.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Feel the breeze.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh, that gorgeous complexional. Wish I could trade with her.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Well, here comes Leo the Lion again.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, power things in the backyard.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Okay, Joe can't lend me his dog though what happened?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Doesn't the dog work on Saturday?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Joe didn't want to send him over to stay all night. Oh,
he's afraid of the dark, probably.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Worried about his big teeth.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
Doesn't want to make a mistake in the dark, bite
a post or something.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I've got to go upstairs and get my pliers, why
the flyers, and putting some barbed.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Wire around the tent. I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Better be careful upstairs, Bud. Dangerous territory.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Yeah, well, if Kathy or Betty is in my room, oh.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Excuse me, I was just coming downstairs, and well you
must be Betty's brother.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Bye.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, uh that's she.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I mean I'm her.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, I'm Jennifer March.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Hello, Bud.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't know I was taking
your room.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
You am? I mean I are?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And you have to sleep out in that oh tent
just because of me.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Oh gee, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I feel awfully small beside you. You're so big.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Oh yeah, but Jenny, don't pay any attention to him.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He's just an old grouch. But he didn't.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I didn't do anything, Jenny.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Then, and see my scrapple, all right, but I want
to show you my dolls too.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Don't you be mean to Jennifer, Bud. I'll be upstairs,
but I'll be missing.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
What happened, Bud, I'm coming.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
What's wrong?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
God?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Where are the flyers?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Flyers?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
That's what you went upstairs for.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I did you.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Look like you've been in over the head with a mallet.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I never saw a girl like that.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Oh, you met Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That explains it. What do you think of her?
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Son?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Well, she's well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
She certainly is.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm glad you met. She was looking forward to seeing you.
She she's pretty, Betty told you.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Not like just girls. She's real nice.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Look, I have an idea. I don't think Jenny's doing
anything this afternoon. Why don't you take her to the movie?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Take her?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I think that's a nice idea. She'd love to go
with you.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh, how would I know if she wants to go?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Go in and ask her.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Just go in and.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Ask her, certainly, go on, What'll I say?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Just say, would you like to go to the movies?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I don't think I can say that.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Of course you can. I'll go on in there.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
I can't, Mom, she's in the den with Kathy. I
can't ask her with Kathy in there.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Well, I'll go get Kathy out.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
You come on here?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
You think I should?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Dad? Why sure, Just go in and be natural. Relax,
She won't hurt you.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well, okay, i'll try it.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I'll adventure the money for the tickets. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You in there? Oh? Hello?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That sure?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Is it? Uh? All right? If I come in?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I wish you would?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Well?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Here we are?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Pretty nice day? Yes it is nice yesterday too?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yes it was.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Yup?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Did you come in to ask me something?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Yeah? I wanna go to the movies with you? Oh,
i'd like to go, you would, I'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (23:44):
She said? Yes? What do I do? Now?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
What do you do? Well? Take her?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well, how did it work out? Bud?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
You ask her?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, she'll go, but holy cow her Pete's sake.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Relaxed, Bud, you're a very lucky boy.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Yeah, but why do I do?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Just go?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
She looks at me and, oh, gosh, bye.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Are you in the kitchen?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Oh? Oh yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'm ready to go if you are sure.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Well, I'm ready if you are.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But it's taking me to the movies, missus Anderson.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Well that's nice. Have a good time.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Goodbye, mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Goodbye, enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Kids.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Shall we go, buz.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's the broom closet.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh bad? Would you like to take my arm?
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Okay, bye, see you later, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Don't be like for dinner.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
We won't.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Come here to the kitchen window.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Dear, Will you look at that?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think they make a very attractive couple.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I'm not sure if Bud has her arm or she
has his.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Oh and I tell you about our grumpy old lion.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Eh, you were right.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Little Jenny Mars has everything under control.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Reminds me of an old saying, Oh March.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Came in and the lion went out like a lamb.
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Speaker 4 (26:57):
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they see there's no longer any doubt. The lion has
been tamed. The tent which stood in the backyard has
been dismantled, and there are other great changes taking place
in the household. Witness the scene and the upstairs hall.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
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Speaker 9 (27:19):
Just look through the doorway into Betty's room.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Who's that man standing in front of a mirror.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Guess good?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Heavens it's good.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yep, has his new suit on, white shirt tie.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I didn't recognize him. His hair is combed.
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his castle, so possibly by the same token, you might
say that.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
A boy's room in the home is also his private domain.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Take Bud Anderson for example.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
He has always felt that his room upstairs in the
white frame house on Maple Street was traditionally his personal property.
That's why on this Saturday morning, we find young Budd
protesting violently against an unprovoked invasion of his territory like this.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Cut it out, will you? I don't go in your
room and tear everything up? Do I?
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Oh, stop grousing. I'm not hurting your own room. I'm
just looking for a pin.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I haven't got any pins.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
How do you ever find anything in this mast looks
like an old gopher's nest.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I don't go in your room and tear up everything.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I'm not tearing up anything.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
What's in this box? Ganata?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
There?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
That's my stuff?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
What are you doing with this old moth eaten squirrel tail?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
That's a foxtail and leave it alone?
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Well, you must have a pin in this junk somewhere.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Holy cow, recognize room looking for a pin.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
I've got to pin a bowl on my blouse.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Janie liggots Ann is visiting her from New York, and
she's taking Janney and me do a tea this afternoon.
It's very ultra ultra tea.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Ugh, Look, will you get out? I'm trying to build something.
I haven't got any pins.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I found one right here, smarty, okay, hit the road.
Janey's little cousin came along with her aunt. She's just
about the right age for you.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Stop you're making me sick.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
She's a real cute girl.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You ought to see her.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I've seen a girl.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Oh oh, oh, Joe, for Pete's sake, what's that?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
It's a telephone? Get out, will you?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Where are the wires?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
It doesn't have any wires. It's an invention.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I made it with a cigar box.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It's an invention.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Works on airways. Joe's got one too. I'm trying to
call them.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Will you get.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Out o stale cigar bocks. I don't raise the roof.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
I'll get out of your old room. What an old
ruggy thing.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Darn women.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
Oh Joe?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
Joe? Oh? Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Did I leave my bowl in here?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Holy call.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Kathy? Have you seen my blue velvet bowl?
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Oh Joe? Oh with velvet ball? Oh Joe?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh you know the little blue one with a rhinestone
clip in the center.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Can you hear me, Joe?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I didn't have it, Oh, creepers here it is on
the floor, but practically he had his big foot on it.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Look, I'm calling Joe. How can I hear him? With
everybody yacking?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You're talking to that cigar box?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Is Joe in there?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
No, he's at his house.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Is my power straight in the back?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Kathy, pull it up a little.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Do you have to dress in here?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I'm not dressing. I'm just using the mirror.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
This is my well.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
This is the only room that has two mirrors where I.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Can see in the back. Move that other mirror around
a little, will you, Kathy?
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Hello, Joe?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hello, your collars still crooked in the back. I see it,
but I can't reach it.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Fix it for me, will you, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Who I can't reach it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We'll stand on a chair, Bud, can Caddy have your
chair a minute.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
I'm sitting on it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It'll only take a minute. I told Jennie i'd be
over in fifteen minutes. Nine five minutes late.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Already, all right here, take my room, take my chair,
use the mirrors, get perfume all over the place.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
No privacy anywhere women, women? This is the end. Where
are you going silly downstairs? This is the end.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
The guy gets pushed around just so long and then bang,
it's the end.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Guy can't have anything anymore, can't do anything without darned
women walking in.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
What's all the uproar about?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Have you got some cardboard, Dad, cardboard? I'm gonna make.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
A sign coming to den. Maybe we can find something
that's kind of a sign that you're going to make.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
No women allowed.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Oh, I'm gonna put it on the door of my room,
and I'm gonna put a big lock on it.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What's women allowed?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Oh? It doesn't mean you, mom, You're not a woman.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What seems to be the trouble. Son.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
It's the end, that's all, just the end.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Women come into a guy's room, they take everything a
guy's guard.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, now, but if it's Kathy and Betty.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Women are women. We have them at school, every place.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Well, I'll admit there are a number of them around,
but you get used to it after a while.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Not me.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I'm through. This is the end, oh now.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But just because you've had a little argument with your sister,
I didn't argue.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I'm just gonna put a lock on the door, and
if a woman tries to come in, look out.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
What's wrong with old? But all right, Bud, that was funny.
Do it again.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But I think you'd better run along and play angel.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
She's got perfume on.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, it's just a little cologne. I gave it to her.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
It hurts my nose.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Been along kidding. We want to talk to bud O king.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
What a good I'll be back in a minute, dear.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yeah, he went over to Jie.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Let's have a little talk, so a man the man.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
Yeah, no, women, I know that girls are bound to
get on your nerves sometimes, but they're really not so bad.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
They are to me.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well, I know you feel that way right now. Yeah,
but that's just because you're a little upset with Betty
and Kathy. Now you know there are some girls.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
You like, Bud, Nope, I don't like any girls.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, there must be one or two at school that
are kind of nice.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Have you seen him?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
No, but always wiggling around and going he whispering to
each other, yacky, yackity yack.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I know, I know.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
And they're always simpering around looking at their dumb old
faces in a mirror.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Who cares what they look like? Well, I don't.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Why can't there just be guys in the world like
you and Joe and a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Well, so as you get older, girls.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Are always trying to be so cute, walking around on
those high heels, putting powder on their faces, pouring perfume
all over.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
It makes a guy sick.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
When I was your age, I knew a couple of
little girls I thought.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Were pretty nice.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
No kidding.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You, sure?
Speaker 9 (07:48):
I remember one was a little blonde, the kind of
curly hair, real cute.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
But there's nothing wrong with liking girls.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Well, I'm not going to old girls. I think I'll
go up and air out my room.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well how'd you make out, dear?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Do I have to get married? Is it a law?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
No good?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I'm gonna be a bachelor and a hermit.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I guess that answers your question, honey.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Mmmm. Well, one of these days he'll change his to him.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'm not too sure, you know, Bud. When he gets
something into his.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Head, you wait, some little girl will come along and
wind him right around her finger.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I don't know about that. If you think back to.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Mother, I'm in the damn betty, mother. I was just
over at Janie Niggetts and hello, father, her aunt was there?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Really?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
What is hello, princess? This aunt's name?
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Father?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
But I wanted to tell you mother.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Janie's cousin, little Jennifer Marsh is there with them, and
they have simply no place for her to sleep. So
I said it would be perfectly all right for her
to come over here and stay with us. It will
be all right, won't it. I don't mind. I know
missus Leggett would do the same.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
For how old is this little girl? We're a little
short of baby food, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh she's not a baby. She's twelve or thirteen and
just ascue.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
As a bug.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oh who hello?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What is that?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He's bellowing into that cigar box again. Well, let's see,
we'll have to figure out where Jennifer is going to hello.
We could put her in with you, Betty, but then
there's no place for Cassie. Missus Leggett insisted we shouldn't
put ourselves out.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
Oh hello, missus Leggett's father just to say hello, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Hello, but that was me. We have the cot we
can put down in the playroom, or.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We couldn't ask her to sleep down there.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Father. Let's face it, the only thing we can do
is give her Bud's room and let Bud sleep on
the cot in the playroom.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Bud is going to be delighted to hear that. Just delighted?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
What am I going to be delighted?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Here?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hello, Bud? What's that for?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Stop this growling at people. You're beginning to act like
a crotchety old lion.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I wish I was an old lion. I'd have a cage.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
No girl's running in an hour anyway, I'm gonna get
a padlocked on my door in any girl that tries
God huh, we.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Have a little problem.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Son, I told you about Jennifer, Janie's cousin. Yeah, well,
she's coming over to stay with us for a few days.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Another girl coming here.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh no, I just keep your feathers down.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
We have no place for her to sleep at the legates.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
There's no place here.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
God, we're going to set up a cot in the playroom.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You gonna let a walk around the house. Oh creeper,
But and I've come on my room.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I'd quit waving your arms.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
The fact is, Jennifer will have to take your room, and.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You'll have the cots in the playroom.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I'm being thrown out out of my own room.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
You're not being thrown out. There's no other way we
can arrange it. And you've slept on the cot before.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Holy cow, why can't she sleep downstairs? Put her in
the basement.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Mother, will you please control him, bod Little Jennifer is
going to be our guest. I but Anderson, if you
so much has open your mouth while she's here, Mother,
make him be nice to her.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Perfume all over my room.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Don't worry about the perfume. When she leaves, we'll burn
some old shoes up there. Get it just the way
you like it.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
But she'll be here in the house.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Whatever, it's stupid. She isn't poison.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I'll have to look at her.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
All right, I'll get you a pair of dark glasses.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh I'm sick.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
What's now?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
A bud for Heaven said?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I stop this carrying on? Now we've had enough.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Do I have to sleep down in the playroom?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
No, you can sleep in the piano if you'd be
more comfortable.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Do I have to stay in the house?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Where's he going?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
There's a big tree out in back you could sleep in.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I'm gonna call up Joe.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You going over there.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I'm gonna borrow his tent in the sleeping bag.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh, no, Bud.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Wait, if that Juniper whatever her name is, is coming,
I'm going.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, where do you think you're going?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
She's gonna be inside. I'm gonna be outside.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But where are you planning to go?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Out in the backyard. I'll pitch the tent, put the
sleeping bag in it.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
That's why I'll stay out there.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, Bud, don't be an old stick in the mud.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
See you later.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Dad going over to Joe's.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, Well, you can't carry a tent back alone, can you.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Don't you want us to drive you over. No, there
goes the world's most stubborn boy. Look at him prowling
down the driveway. Why doesn't he get a haircut?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
You know something, Margaret, what dear, but not only sounds
like a grumpy old lion, he's beginning to look like one.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, it's easy to see why Bud is acting like
a grumpy old lion.
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Speaker 4 (15:01):
You see that tenth out in the backyard at six
or seven Maple Street, That's.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Where young Bud Anderson is going to be living for
a few days.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Bud, it seems, has developed an almost hostile attitude toward girls,
and since little Jennifer March is coming over to spend
a couple of days with Anderson in Bud's room, Incidentally,
Bud the woman hater is packing up bag and baggage
and moving out right now. Bud's upstairs gathering up his belongings,
and Jim and Margaret are down in the kitchen listening
to the sounds from.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Above like this, what's he doing up there? Tearing out
the plumbing.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I don't know. He came in with a big box
and went stomping upstairs, said he was going to pack it.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
This worries me a little, Honey.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
I don't want the boy to grow up to be
a grouchy old bachelor.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'll give him time, Dear. He'll need a girl. One
of these days. She'll have our grumpy lion purring like
a kitten.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
How big was that box he took up?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It was an apple box. I guess why.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Sounds like he's trying to put the bed into it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Well, Harry comes.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
I know when I was Bud's age, if a cute
little girl was coming to visit, I'd be up getting
my hair comb getting slicked up.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Oh, really tell me more, dear.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Well, that was nothing. My mother insisted that I do it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh, I see it.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Well, I'm going, what.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
In the world do you have in that box?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
A lot of valuable stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
All automobile horn full ten floors, cigar boxes, magazines. What
are you dragging all this stuff outside for?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
They could be stolen, stolen out of your room. I
don't trust that, Janitor.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
March Jennifer Jennifer, Well.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I'm going if any girls start to come out to
my tent. They better look out. Oh Joe's gonna lend
me his dog. He hates girls.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Ooh Joe or the dog.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
The dog big cocker spaniel bites, got big teeth.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Well I'm gone.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
I hope you and the cocker spaniel with the big
teeth have an enjoyable stay in the tent.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Keep yourself warm, now, you sure you have enough blankets?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Sure, Well that's going to be a picture for you.
Bud sitting out there in that tent beside.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
A moth eating cocker spaniel with a mouthful of teeth.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And you say girls are hard to figure out.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Bud isn't hard to figure out. He's just stubborn.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We're in the kitchen, Betty.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I brought Jennifer over. Jenny.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
This is my mother and father.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
How do you do missus? Anderson?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Mister Anderson, Hello Jenny.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Oh, hello there, my you.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Have such a pretty house. I hope I'm not causing
you a lot of inconvenience, No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I want you to make yourself right at home.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
When we came in, I noticed a tent out in
the backyard. Do you keep things out there?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
There's an old thing out there right.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Now, our uh sun Bud uh stays out there occasionally.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He likes to be outdoors.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Jenny, just don't pay any attention to Bud. He's strange
but harmless.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Buds.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Just a boy.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You know how boys are.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I certainly do. If he takes after you, mister Anderson,
he must be very nice looking.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Well I couldn't say as to that.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Come on, Jenny, I'll show you your room.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, thank you for letting me stay with you, missus Danderson.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Well, we're happy to have you, Jenny. Well, yes, dear,
you said that.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And it's a lovely intelligent little girl.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well, I'll have to admit she's a strikingly beautiful child.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Did you see those eyes?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, she knows how to use them to Did you
ever see such long.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Every time she blinked, I could.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Feel the breeze.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh, that gorgeous complexional. Wish I could trade with her.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Well, here comes Leo the Lion again.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, power things in the backyard.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Okay, Joe can't lend me his dog though what happened?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Doesn't the dog work on Saturday?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Joe didn't want to send him over to stay all night. Oh,
he's afraid of the dark, probably.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Worried about his big teeth.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
Doesn't want to make a mistake in the dark, bite
a post or something.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I've got to go upstairs and get my pliers, why
the flyers, and putting some barbed.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Wire around the tent. I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Better be careful upstairs, Bud. Dangerous territory.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Yeah, well, if Kathy or Betty is in my room, oh.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Excuse me, I was just coming downstairs, and well you
must be Betty's brother.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Bye.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, uh that's she.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I mean I'm her.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, I'm Jennifer March.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Hello, Bud.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't know I was taking
your room.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
You am? I mean I are?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And you have to sleep out in that oh tent
just because of me.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Oh gee, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I feel awfully small beside you. You're so big.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Oh yeah, but Jenny, don't pay any attention to him.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He's just an old grouch. But he didn't.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I didn't do anything, Jenny.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Then, and see my scrapple, all right, but I want
to show you my dolls too.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Don't you be mean to Jennifer, Bud. I'll be upstairs,
but I'll be missing.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
What happened, Bud, I'm coming.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
What's wrong?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
God?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Where are the flyers?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Flyers?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
That's what you went upstairs for.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I did you.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Look like you've been in over the head with a mallet.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I never saw a girl like that.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Oh, you met Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That explains it. What do you think of her?
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Son?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Well, she's well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
She certainly is.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm glad you met. She was looking forward to seeing you.
She she's pretty, Betty told you.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Not like just girls. She's real nice.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Look, I have an idea. I don't think Jenny's doing
anything this afternoon. Why don't you take her to the movie?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Take her?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I think that's a nice idea. She'd love to go
with you.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh, how would I know if she wants to go?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Go in and ask her.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Just go in and.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Ask her, certainly, go on, What'll I say?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Just say, would you like to go to the movies?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I don't think I can say that.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Of course you can. I'll go on in there.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
I can't, Mom, she's in the den with Kathy. I
can't ask her with Kathy in there.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Well, I'll go get Kathy out.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
You come on here?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
You think I should?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Dad? Why sure, Just go in and be natural. Relax,
She won't hurt you.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well, okay, i'll try it.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I'll adventure the money for the tickets. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You in there? Oh? Hello?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That sure?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Is it? Uh? All right? If I come in?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I wish you would?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Well?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Here we are?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Pretty nice day? Yes it is nice yesterday too?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yes it was.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Yup?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Did you come in to ask me something?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Yeah? I wanna go to the movies with you? Oh,
i'd like to go, you would, I'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (23:44):
She said? Yes? What do I do? Now?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
What do you do? Well? Take her?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well, how did it work out? Bud?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
You ask her?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, she'll go, but holy cow her Pete's sake.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Relaxed, Bud, you're a very lucky boy.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Yeah, but why do I do?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Just go?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
She looks at me and, oh, gosh, bye.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Are you in the kitchen?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Oh? Oh yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'm ready to go if you are sure.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Well, I'm ready if you are.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But it's taking me to the movies, missus Anderson.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Well that's nice. Have a good time.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Goodbye, mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Goodbye, enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Kids.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Shall we go, buz.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's the broom closet.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh bad? Would you like to take my arm?
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Okay, bye, see you later, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Don't be like for dinner.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
We won't.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Come here to the kitchen window.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Dear, Will you look at that?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think they make a very attractive couple.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I'm not sure if Bud has her arm or she
has his.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Oh and I tell you about our grumpy old lion.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Eh, you were right.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Little Jenny Mars has everything under control.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Reminds me of an old saying, Oh March.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Came in and the lion went out like a lamb.
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Where was evening settles over the white frame house, and
they see there's no longer any doubt. The lion has
been tamed. The tent which stood in the backyard has
been dismantled, and there are other great changes taking place
in the household. Witness the scene and the upstairs hall.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Margaret, Margaret Merriman, I want you to see something.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Just look through the doorway into Betty's room.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Who's that man standing in front of a mirror.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Guess good?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Heavens it's good.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yep, has his new suit on, white shirt tie.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I didn't recognize him. His hair is combed.
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