October 1, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now listen to Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young, his father.
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The things women do to their hair, they wash it,
they oil it, they put eggs in it, they dry it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
If they diet, they faded.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
They braid it, but most of the time they're bending
it into little waves. Just look into the white frame
house on Maple Street where Margaret and Betty Anderson are
engaged in operation Permanent like this.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Mother, We've been at this since eight thirty this morning,
and now it's noon. Are you sure you know how
to give a permanent? I'm doing the best I can,
but it's so important. I want Bill Higgins to be
proud of me tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
There now, I'll start taking the curlers out.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
He's coming all the way down from Tech for my
sorority dance.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Hi, mommy, Hello, Angel, is Bill Higgins here you?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
He's at the Oliver Hotel downtown. I can hardly wait
to see him.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
He sounds important, he is.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I'm wearing his pin pin safety pin.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You don't understand, Angel, this is a fraternity pin.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
How does my hair look? Mother?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Oh, I think your hair looks very pretty.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
You do?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Uh huh? He hang straight down, just like a pony's tail.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's supposed to curl. Give me the mirror quick. Oh no,
it doesn't do anything. It just lays there.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I thought I followed the directions. Who's Bill Higgins?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Mother?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What am I gonna do about my hair?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I've read?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I'm old Daddy's home.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Hello, honey, Betty.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Hi Daddy, Hello, father, Hello, darre you Homer.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yes, I'm tired.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Well, go into the den and relax.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Is this today's mail on the table?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yes, I've had my hands full all morning. I don't
even know what they are.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, i'll look them over in the den.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Mother, my hair. The only a beauty parlor can straighten
this out.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I've already straightened it out. The problem now is to
get it curled.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I'm gonna need more than that maybe a whole new
hairdo I know, I'll get a poodle cut.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Yeah, but who can tell the difference between you and
Bill Higgins?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I don't know, Betty. It seems a little radical to me.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
Hi at lunch ready, Hi, Bud.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I haven't had time, Bud. I've been busy with Beddy.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
She has a date. That's so funny about my going
out with Bill Higgins.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Bill Higgins, you remember him?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
God, I haven't seen Bill in months, and look at me.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm a mess.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Well you want him to recognize you, don't you?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
But go talk to your father.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Where is he in the den? Okay?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
You can tell him? Lunch will be ready soon.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Okay, I'll tell him.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Ah, Hi you Dan, Oh, Bud.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Mom says lunch will be ready pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'm not very hungry. Say what happened to you?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Something wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well? No, not if you're in the habit of walking
around with your clothes all pulled out.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
Oh, Joe Phillips and I get up a wrestling team
at school. Want me to show you.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
A flying mayor?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No thanks, I'm wrestling with some bills. Listen from the
doctor list from the garage. This there's a letter for
your mother. I'd better take it to her.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Really, Betty, a poodle cut is so extreme. Please, mother,
let me think about it. In the meantime, get your
gallon out of the closet. I still have some sewing
to do on it.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
All right, I'll run up and get it.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
There's a letter for you, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Thank you? Whow from Ronald Atkins?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Really, Ronald Atkins? What do you know?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Isn't this exciting?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Certainly is Margaret?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Who is Ronald Atkins?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
You remember when we were in college. He was one
of my most ardent admirers.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Ronald Atkins. That's funny. I can't play something.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I haven't heard from him in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You had so many admirers.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Was he the one who used to follow you around
like a sheep dog?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
No, dear, that was you.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Imagine after all this time, he finally writes, I wonder
what's on his mind?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Whatever it is, he's twenty years and three children too late.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Oh he was such a lively boy.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh sure I remember him now, The all around athlete,
that's right, the man with muscles like iron and head
the match.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I wonder why he wrote?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, open it. Let's hear what Superman has to say, unless,
of course, you rather read it a load.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, Jim, don't be silly, Jim.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
He says, he's coming through town and it's very anxious
to see me. He got my address from the alumni Association.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
How nice, Oh for Ronald.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
He took my marriage to you pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Uh. Does he say anything about me in there?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Yes he does.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
He says, my best regards to the president of the
poetry Club.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I was never president of the poetry club.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Well you only lost by one vote poetry club.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
After all, I won my letter in school too. You know,
of course, you did two years in a row captain
of the squash team, Ronald Atkins. Now look here, Margaret,
that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Oh those were the days, weren't they, Dear.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You're happy now, aren't you, honey?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Certainly, Jim. But then we were carefree and gay.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
There was nothing on our minds but what dress to
wear to what dance and what boy was taking it?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That was never on my mind, Old.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Jim, you know what I mean. Those romantic days of youth.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They were fine, honey. But times change change. You can't
live in the past, Jim.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Wouldn't it be wonderful you serenading me in the moonlight again.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Oh well, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I'd wake up the kids.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Dear, you're getting old, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Just because an old bowl of yours is coming to
town has no reason to start getting giddy about it. Oh, Jim,
those days are gone. Hm, I wonder Oh excuse me,
I have to get back to the dear, carefree days
of today, paying bills. I'll be in the mother.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Mother, I need the dress out on the bed. Mother.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Hm. Oh oh, what's the matter, nothing, dear, I was
just thinking, Oh, well, back to reality.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
What about my here do Betty? A girl is only
young ones. I want you to go down and get
your hair done.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh creepers, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I'll phone for an appointment, and dear, I'm going with you.
I want to be sure they don't go to extremes. Hello,
Nancy's Beauty Shop. This is missus Anderson. I'd like to
make an appointment this afternoon for a haircut in a setting. Well,
I was thinking of a poodle cut, but I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
You really think so? All right, put me down for
four poodle cut. Was there something you wanted? Jim?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
H did you say poodle cut? Yes, Margaret, don't you
think you're acting a little silly about all this?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Jim?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
A girl should do everything she can to keep herself
looking young and pretty, I.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
See, especially for the important events in her life.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Important events? You call him an important event?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Naturally? Now, did you want something?
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
No, no, I guess not.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Well, excuse me. I've got some fast sewing to do
on a dress. Come on, Betty, you can help me.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well if that doesn't beat all a poodle cut?
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Gosh, mom, I'm sure in a hurry. Where's she going?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I'm not sure it's either a beauty parlor or a veterinarian.
She's in a big hurry to fix a dress for herself.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
What's all that for?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But I'm surprised at you. Don't you know that a
girl should do everything she can to keep herself looking
young and pretty?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Especially for the important events in her life? Thinks I'm
getting old? Does she excited about Ronald Atkins? Huh? I
hope my son has spared this when he gets married
married dead.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Yes, I'm not getting married.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Who said you were? You did? Well? Don't be frightened.
It happens to lot of people to me married to
a girl somehow seems to work out better that way.
Don't let your wife start taking you for granted. Okay,
I'll tell her. There'll come a time the excitement has
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died down and she thinks you're pretty dull. Of course,
it works both ways. By this time, you're probably taking
your wife a little too much for granted.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Oh jee, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's the danger point because when women get to a
certain age they start acting silly. They do they expect
to be catered to, and by Caesar, that's exactly what
I'm going to do.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Do what Dad, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Huh? What I said?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Talking? But the time for talking is past. It's now
time for action. Excuse me, I'm going down to the
barber shop and gets bruced up a bit. I think
i'll stop buying, order some flowers and yes, some candy too. Yes,
that's exactly what I'll.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Do him, daddy.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Excuse me, kitten, I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Kathy, how old his dad?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Well, he has a driver's license, so I guess he's
at least eighteen.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Why, I was just thinking, when men get to a
certain age, they start acting silly too.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
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Speaker 2 (13:14):
There comes a time when a man must do something
to make an impression on his wife so that she
doesn't regard him as merely a fixture around the house,
or so Jim Anderson reasons. It is now one hour,
one shade, one shoe, shine, and one dash of cologne. Later,
feeling like a million, Jim is homeward bound, the flowers
and candies ordered for Margaret already on their way. Will
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these gifts do the job he's expecting?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Well, let's see money.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Money, Mother's upstairs sewing my dress. Don't disturb her.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Look what a delivery boy just broad her.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Let me see that. Are you sure it's for her?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
The boy said, for missus Anderson.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh, you must have heard wrong. Who in the world
would be sending mother candy? Oh that's what I thought,
he said, Wait a minute to the sweetest little girl
in the world. Well, of course he must have said,
Miss Anderson.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Oh, I guess it's for me.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
For you, this is probably from Bill Higgins for me.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Ooh, they're so pretty? Should I take this one or
this one?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Kathy? Don't bite into it and put it back?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Here?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Take the box into my room.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Can I have a box afterwards?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Dear.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Here's your dress. I just finished it.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Oh, mother, it's lovely. All run upstairs and try it
on a front door.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Mother, Go ahead, dear, I'll get it, yes, missus.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Margaret Anderson. Yeah, delivery from vocal La florist.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Flowers for me. Who could have sent them?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Who knows? I just get paid for the livering lady,
not for snooping.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Oh, oh, thank you?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Mommy?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
In here, Kathy, Mommy, Benny just got a big Oh
what's in the box?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Flowers?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
May I see them there?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Roses?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Gosh they're pretty, they're beautiful.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Oh, here's a card to Margaret. I've never stopped loving you.
Oh this is dreadful.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
May I have one rose? Mommy, the impertinence of the man.
Just one, Mommy, the very idea. Ronald Atkins should know better.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Than that, Margaret, Kathy, quick throw these flowers away where
I throw?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
The trash box anyplace, all.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Right, Mommy, Hell honey.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Why Jim, have you been out?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Didn't you know? I was gone?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
No, I've been very busy.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh how the the dress come up?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Oh? Just fine, it's really lovely.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
That's nice. And the beauty.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Parlor, Oh that's not a four?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I see. Did did anything arrive while I was out?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Arrive?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I mean anything come or anything like that?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
No? Nothing, well, nothing of any importance.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I see. Well I'll be in the den finishing up
those bills, if anything, I mean, if you need any dear,
nothing arrived. I wonder if that floor is oo daddy?
Oh hi kidding? Well, who put that big red rose
in your hair?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I did?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I'll be pretty. Where'd you get it?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
I took one from the beauquet. Okay, what mommy told
me to throw away?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Throw away?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Where right there in the waves basket?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
She threw away my flower?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
My flower.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I've got to do something fast.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
Cafy mom says, if you're going to a show tonight,
you gotta take your afternoon nap.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Now, okay, I'm going, Bud.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I want you to do something for me.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Yeah, you know that big old trunk in the attic.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
There's some things in there. I want you to bring
down here. What kind of things she likes to pass
so much, I'll bring it back to her.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
What kind of things?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh, you'll find some old colleague pictures and old sweater,
a few things like that.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Okay, what do you want all that stuff for?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
For fuel? Bud? For fuel? I'm going to try to
rekindle an old flame boy this year. There is a
lot of junk, But that junk, as you call it,
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represents a lot of romantic memories for your mother and me.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
What do you want me to do with these pictures?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh? Well, put them around the room where your mother
can see them. I want to reminder of the time
we fell in love.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
How about this old sweater with them on it?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh, that's my varsity sweater.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Varsity sweater? What team?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Dan? The squash team?
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Oh, Kyle, they had a team for squash? Certainly was
that for growing and or eating it?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It used to be a very popular sport once, Bud.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Oh, well, what do you want to sweater now?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
For it?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Sull of holes?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Right after I got it, your mother and I went
to the varsity drag. Uh drape it on the chair
where she can see it.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Oh, okay, Jam Oh what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Look, Margaret, I accidentally ran across some of these things
from school.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Where were they at the bottom of the old way,
up in the attic on the four dusty boxes?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Bud? Never mind? These bring back memories, don't they. Honey?
Speaker 5 (19:07):
What have you done to this room?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh? Just brighten it up a bit, A few pictures
and some other stuff here and there. You like it, dear.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
None of it goes with the color scheme at all.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh. Well, you see, Bud and I we were just
discussing athletics. Why weren't we, Bud? We were. Yeah, I
was very interested in the wrestling team. But and the
boys are starting in school.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Come on, Bud, show me that flying mayor again again.
I'll teach you a defense for that hole.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Okay, now, Jim, be careful.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Careful, listen. I can certainly go in for a little
vigorous exercise if I want to come at me, Bud.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Okay, Jim, look out the throw rug.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Watch this, Margaret, Jim.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Dear, oh dear, get up.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I slipped on that dark rug.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Oh, dear, I warned you.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I'll be okay, just a little sprain. Oh uh, I'll
go get some linenents.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
No, Bud, don't blame me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
That must be why they call it a throw rug.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, miss Betty Anderson. Yeah, here you are, Betty, turn
it out. What's this? Bouquet of flowers? Bogel of forest?
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Okayvogel, Betty. They just delivered this bouquet of flowers for you?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Flowers for me?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Ooh, daffodils an iris. Bill promised he'd send them to me.
You'll always be my best girl. Call me in room
four fifteen Oliver Hotel and let me know what time
you want me to pick you up tonight. Oh, he's
so sweet. I'll put these in water right now there, Bud,
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carry these into the living room for me. I have
a million other things.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I have to do.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Holy cow, I always have to carry things to somebody
around here. Just a mule, that's all I am.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Oh my back, Hey, flowers, Yeah, it's a long what's this?
You'll always be my best girl? Call me in room
four fifteen Hologa Hotel and let me know what time
you want me to pick you up tonight. Tonight. So
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musclehead is in town. Well that does it, my flower?
She throws away, But the ones from Atkins. She keeps, Oh,
wait till I tell him more. Try to break up
my home, will he? Well, I'll tell him. Hello Oliver
Hotel Room four fifteen, Please sneaking around behind my back?
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Oh my back?
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Listen you you bush league Romeo. This is Jim Anderson.
I've had just about enough of you. Yes, you. The
Anderson family has been perfectly happy without you for a
long time. I don't want you to ever show your
face in my house. If you do, I won't be
responsible for what happens.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Jim, I've been looking for you. I just want to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I want to tell you something, Margaret. It's about time.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yes, it is hostill, dear, Well.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
What was that for?
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Just being you?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Margaret? Now, as far as this whole silly business is concerned.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Jim, it isn't silly.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It's wonderful, wonderful those pictures, that old sweater you were
trying your best to make me remember well, I twenty
years ago when I first fell in love with you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But honey, why didn't you acknowledge my gifts? The candy
and flowers, flowers.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Good heavens, they were your flowers.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You threw them away?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Jim, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I thought you kept the other Bulkuete, the one from Musselhead.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I didn't get another one from Musclehead. I mean Atkins.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, I told him off, all right. I told him
that I you didn't get any from Atkins.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
No, and I didn't get any candy from you either.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Ooh, then who did I? Oh? This is terrible, Jim.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
What about the candy?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Oh it's Cathy.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
What happened? What's wrong?
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
My stomach, it hurts, Jim.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Look the box of candy. I said, it's half empty and.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Every piece that's left has been bitten into?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
How did she get it?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
No, no, now, what's up?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Betty?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Come in here? How could he do that?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
How could he do such an awful thing?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
How could who do such an awful thing?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Bother, it's not hard. I've been practicing all day. What
did I do? Now?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Called up Bill Higgins and told him not to come here.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Ooh that's who it was, Jim.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
How could you?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well? I thought it was Ronald Atkins.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
He called up to break the day, and he never
wants to see me again.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh wait a minute, I can straighten this all out
in a Jimmy, Betty get Bill on the phone for me. Oh, honey,
I really mess things up today, broken date, misunderstand these
spring back stomach ache, and you.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Did it all for me. Oh, Jim, You're.
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Well, things are peaceful once again in the Anderson household.
It's the next morning, and Jim and Margaret are at
the breakfast.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Table what's the matter, dear.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I was just thinking of Ronald Atkins last night when
he came through the door.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
What's funny about that he.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Could hardly get through the door. Now there's a man
who not only kept his figure, he doubled it.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Now, Jim, his.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Wife, Laura's cute, though, hasn't changed much either.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Just imagine little Laura Blake with three children.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
That was a surprise as being married to Laura.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
They got married right after we did.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
When we were all in school. She used to be
pretty sweet on me, almost broke her up when I
married you.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Now, Jim, that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I know Laura and I were talking about it last night.
She thinks I'm still a pretty romantic guy.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Jim, Honey, stop trying to live in the past.
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The things women do to their hair, they wash it,
they oil it, they put eggs in it, they dry it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
If they diet, they faded.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
They braid it, but most of the time they're bending
it into little waves. Just look into the white frame
house on Maple Street where Margaret and Betty Anderson are
engaged in operation Permanent like this.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Mother, We've been at this since eight thirty this morning,
and now it's noon. Are you sure you know how
to give a permanent? I'm doing the best I can,
but it's so important. I want Bill Higgins to be
proud of me tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
There now, I'll start taking the curlers out.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
He's coming all the way down from Tech for my
sorority dance.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Hi, mommy, Hello, Angel, is Bill Higgins here you?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
He's at the Oliver Hotel downtown. I can hardly wait
to see him.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
He sounds important, he is.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I'm wearing his pin pin safety pin.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You don't understand, Angel, this is a fraternity pin.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
How does my hair look? Mother?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Oh, I think your hair looks very pretty.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
You do?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Uh huh? He hang straight down, just like a pony's tail.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's supposed to curl. Give me the mirror quick. Oh no,
it doesn't do anything. It just lays there.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I thought I followed the directions. Who's Bill Higgins?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Mother?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What am I gonna do about my hair?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I've read?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I'm old Daddy's home.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Hello, honey, Betty.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Hi Daddy, Hello, father, Hello, darre you Homer.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yes, I'm tired.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Well, go into the den and relax.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Is this today's mail on the table?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yes, I've had my hands full all morning. I don't
even know what they are.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, i'll look them over in the den.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Mother, my hair. The only a beauty parlor can straighten
this out.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I've already straightened it out. The problem now is to
get it curled.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I'm gonna need more than that maybe a whole new
hairdo I know, I'll get a poodle cut.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Yeah, but who can tell the difference between you and
Bill Higgins?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I don't know, Betty. It seems a little radical to me.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
Hi at lunch ready, Hi, Bud.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I haven't had time, Bud. I've been busy with Beddy.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
She has a date. That's so funny about my going
out with Bill Higgins.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Bill Higgins, you remember him?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
God, I haven't seen Bill in months, and look at me.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm a mess.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Well you want him to recognize you, don't you?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
But go talk to your father.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Where is he in the den? Okay?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
You can tell him? Lunch will be ready soon.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Okay, I'll tell him.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Ah, Hi you Dan, Oh, Bud.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Mom says lunch will be ready pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'm not very hungry. Say what happened to you?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Something wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well? No, not if you're in the habit of walking
around with your clothes all pulled out.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
Oh, Joe Phillips and I get up a wrestling team
at school. Want me to show you.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
A flying mayor?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No thanks, I'm wrestling with some bills. Listen from the
doctor list from the garage. This there's a letter for
your mother. I'd better take it to her.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Really, Betty, a poodle cut is so extreme. Please, mother,
let me think about it. In the meantime, get your
gallon out of the closet. I still have some sewing
to do on it.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
All right, I'll run up and get it.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
There's a letter for you, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Thank you? Whow from Ronald Atkins?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Really, Ronald Atkins? What do you know?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Isn't this exciting?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Certainly is Margaret?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Who is Ronald Atkins?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
You remember when we were in college. He was one
of my most ardent admirers.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Ronald Atkins. That's funny. I can't play something.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I haven't heard from him in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You had so many admirers.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Was he the one who used to follow you around
like a sheep dog?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
No, dear, that was you.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Imagine after all this time, he finally writes, I wonder
what's on his mind?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Whatever it is, he's twenty years and three children too late.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Oh he was such a lively boy.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh sure I remember him now, The all around athlete,
that's right, the man with muscles like iron and head
the match.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I wonder why he wrote?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, open it. Let's hear what Superman has to say, unless,
of course, you rather read it a load.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, Jim, don't be silly, Jim.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
He says, he's coming through town and it's very anxious
to see me. He got my address from the alumni Association.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
How nice, Oh for Ronald.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
He took my marriage to you pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Uh. Does he say anything about me in there?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Yes he does.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
He says, my best regards to the president of the
poetry Club.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I was never president of the poetry club.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Well you only lost by one vote poetry club.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
After all, I won my letter in school too. You know,
of course, you did two years in a row captain
of the squash team, Ronald Atkins. Now look here, Margaret,
that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Oh those were the days, weren't they, Dear.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You're happy now, aren't you, honey?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Certainly, Jim. But then we were carefree and gay.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
There was nothing on our minds but what dress to
wear to what dance and what boy was taking it?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That was never on my mind, Old.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Jim, you know what I mean. Those romantic days of youth.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They were fine, honey. But times change change. You can't
live in the past, Jim.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Wouldn't it be wonderful you serenading me in the moonlight again.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Oh well, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I'd wake up the kids.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Dear, you're getting old, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Just because an old bowl of yours is coming to
town has no reason to start getting giddy about it. Oh, Jim,
those days are gone. Hm, I wonder Oh excuse me,
I have to get back to the dear, carefree days
of today, paying bills. I'll be in the mother.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Mother, I need the dress out on the bed. Mother.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Hm. Oh oh, what's the matter, nothing, dear, I was
just thinking, Oh, well, back to reality.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
What about my here do Betty? A girl is only
young ones. I want you to go down and get
your hair done.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh creepers, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I'll phone for an appointment, and dear, I'm going with you.
I want to be sure they don't go to extremes. Hello,
Nancy's Beauty Shop. This is missus Anderson. I'd like to
make an appointment this afternoon for a haircut in a setting. Well,
I was thinking of a poodle cut, but I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
You really think so? All right, put me down for
four poodle cut. Was there something you wanted? Jim?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
H did you say poodle cut? Yes, Margaret, don't you
think you're acting a little silly about all this?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Jim?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
A girl should do everything she can to keep herself
looking young and pretty, I.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
See, especially for the important events in her life.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Important events? You call him an important event?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Naturally? Now, did you want something?
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
No, no, I guess not.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Well, excuse me. I've got some fast sewing to do
on a dress. Come on, Betty, you can help me.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well if that doesn't beat all a poodle cut?
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Gosh, mom, I'm sure in a hurry. Where's she going?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I'm not sure it's either a beauty parlor or a veterinarian.
She's in a big hurry to fix a dress for herself.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
What's all that for?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But I'm surprised at you. Don't you know that a
girl should do everything she can to keep herself looking
young and pretty?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Especially for the important events in her life? Thinks I'm
getting old? Does she excited about Ronald Atkins? Huh? I
hope my son has spared this when he gets married
married dead.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Yes, I'm not getting married.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Who said you were? You did? Well? Don't be frightened.
It happens to lot of people to me married to
a girl somehow seems to work out better that way.
Don't let your wife start taking you for granted. Okay,
I'll tell her. There'll come a time the excitement has
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died down and she thinks you're pretty dull. Of course,
it works both ways. By this time, you're probably taking
your wife a little too much for granted.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Oh jee, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's the danger point because when women get to a
certain age they start acting silly. They do they expect
to be catered to, and by Caesar, that's exactly what
I'm going to do.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Do what Dad, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Huh? What I said?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Talking? But the time for talking is past. It's now
time for action. Excuse me, I'm going down to the
barber shop and gets bruced up a bit. I think
i'll stop buying, order some flowers and yes, some candy too. Yes,
that's exactly what I'll.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Do him, daddy.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Excuse me, kitten, I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Kathy, how old his dad?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Well, he has a driver's license, so I guess he's
at least eighteen.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Why, I was just thinking, when men get to a
certain age, they start acting silly too.
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There comes a time when a man must do something
to make an impression on his wife so that she
doesn't regard him as merely a fixture around the house,
or so Jim Anderson reasons. It is now one hour,
one shade, one shoe, shine, and one dash of cologne. Later,
feeling like a million, Jim is homeward bound, the flowers
and candies ordered for Margaret already on their way. Will
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these gifts do the job he's expecting?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Well, let's see money.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Money, Mother's upstairs sewing my dress. Don't disturb her.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Look what a delivery boy just broad her.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Let me see that. Are you sure it's for her?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
The boy said, for missus Anderson.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh, you must have heard wrong. Who in the world
would be sending mother candy? Oh that's what I thought,
he said, Wait a minute to the sweetest little girl
in the world. Well, of course he must have said,
Miss Anderson.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Oh, I guess it's for me.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
For you, this is probably from Bill Higgins for me.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Ooh, they're so pretty? Should I take this one or
this one?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Kathy? Don't bite into it and put it back?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Here?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Take the box into my room.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Can I have a box afterwards?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Dear.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Here's your dress. I just finished it.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Oh, mother, it's lovely. All run upstairs and try it
on a front door.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Mother, Go ahead, dear, I'll get it, yes, missus.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Margaret Anderson. Yeah, delivery from vocal La florist.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Flowers for me. Who could have sent them?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Who knows? I just get paid for the livering lady,
not for snooping.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Oh, oh, thank you?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Mommy?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
In here, Kathy, Mommy, Benny just got a big Oh
what's in the box?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Flowers?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
May I see them there?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Roses?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Gosh they're pretty, they're beautiful.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Oh, here's a card to Margaret. I've never stopped loving you.
Oh this is dreadful.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
May I have one rose? Mommy, the impertinence of the man.
Just one, Mommy, the very idea. Ronald Atkins should know better.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Than that, Margaret, Kathy, quick throw these flowers away where
I throw?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
The trash box anyplace, all.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Right, Mommy, Hell honey.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Why Jim, have you been out?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Didn't you know? I was gone?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
No, I've been very busy.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh how the the dress come up?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Oh? Just fine, it's really lovely.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
That's nice. And the beauty.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Parlor, Oh that's not a four?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I see. Did did anything arrive while I was out?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Arrive?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I mean anything come or anything like that?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
No? Nothing, well, nothing of any importance.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I see. Well I'll be in the den finishing up
those bills, if anything, I mean, if you need any dear,
nothing arrived. I wonder if that floor is oo daddy?
Oh hi kidding? Well, who put that big red rose
in your hair?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I did?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I'll be pretty. Where'd you get it?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
I took one from the beauquet. Okay, what mommy told
me to throw away?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Throw away?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Where right there in the waves basket?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
She threw away my flower?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
My flower.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I've got to do something fast.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
Cafy mom says, if you're going to a show tonight,
you gotta take your afternoon nap.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Now, okay, I'm going, Bud.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I want you to do something for me.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Yeah, you know that big old trunk in the attic.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
There's some things in there. I want you to bring
down here. What kind of things she likes to pass
so much, I'll bring it back to her.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
What kind of things?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh, you'll find some old colleague pictures and old sweater,
a few things like that.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Okay, what do you want all that stuff for?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
For fuel? Bud? For fuel? I'm going to try to
rekindle an old flame boy this year. There is a
lot of junk, But that junk, as you call it,
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represents a lot of romantic memories for your mother and me.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
What do you want me to do with these pictures?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh? Well, put them around the room where your mother
can see them. I want to reminder of the time
we fell in love.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
How about this old sweater with them on it?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh, that's my varsity sweater.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Varsity sweater? What team?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Dan? The squash team?
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Oh, Kyle, they had a team for squash? Certainly was
that for growing and or eating it?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It used to be a very popular sport once, Bud.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Oh, well, what do you want to sweater now?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
For it?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Sull of holes?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Right after I got it, your mother and I went
to the varsity drag. Uh drape it on the chair
where she can see it.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Oh, okay, Jam Oh what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Look, Margaret, I accidentally ran across some of these things
from school.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Where were they at the bottom of the old way,
up in the attic on the four dusty boxes?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Bud? Never mind? These bring back memories, don't they. Honey?
Speaker 5 (19:07):
What have you done to this room?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh? Just brighten it up a bit, A few pictures
and some other stuff here and there. You like it, dear.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
None of it goes with the color scheme at all.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh. Well, you see, Bud and I we were just
discussing athletics. Why weren't we, Bud? We were. Yeah, I
was very interested in the wrestling team. But and the
boys are starting in school.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Come on, Bud, show me that flying mayor again again.
I'll teach you a defense for that hole.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Okay, now, Jim, be careful.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Careful, listen. I can certainly go in for a little
vigorous exercise if I want to come at me, Bud.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Okay, Jim, look out the throw rug.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Watch this, Margaret, Jim.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Dear, oh dear, get up.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I slipped on that dark rug.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Oh, dear, I warned you.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I'll be okay, just a little sprain. Oh uh, I'll
go get some linenents.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
No, Bud, don't blame me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
That must be why they call it a throw rug.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, miss Betty Anderson. Yeah, here you are, Betty, turn
it out. What's this? Bouquet of flowers? Bogel of forest?
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Okayvogel, Betty. They just delivered this bouquet of flowers for you?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Flowers for me?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Ooh, daffodils an iris. Bill promised he'd send them to me.
You'll always be my best girl. Call me in room
four fifteen Oliver Hotel and let me know what time
you want me to pick you up tonight. Oh, he's
so sweet. I'll put these in water right now there, Bud,
(21:24):
carry these into the living room for me. I have
a million other things.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I have to do.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Holy cow, I always have to carry things to somebody
around here. Just a mule, that's all I am.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Oh my back, Hey, flowers, Yeah, it's a long what's this?
You'll always be my best girl? Call me in room
four fifteen Hologa Hotel and let me know what time
you want me to pick you up tonight. Tonight. So
(22:01):
musclehead is in town. Well that does it, my flower?
She throws away, But the ones from Atkins. She keeps, Oh,
wait till I tell him more. Try to break up
my home, will he? Well, I'll tell him. Hello Oliver
Hotel Room four fifteen, Please sneaking around behind my back?
(22:23):
Oh my back?
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Listen you you bush league Romeo. This is Jim Anderson.
I've had just about enough of you. Yes, you. The
Anderson family has been perfectly happy without you for a
long time. I don't want you to ever show your
face in my house. If you do, I won't be
responsible for what happens.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Jim, I've been looking for you. I just want to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I want to tell you something, Margaret. It's about time.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yes, it is hostill, dear, Well.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
What was that for?
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Just being you?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Margaret? Now, as far as this whole silly business is concerned.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Jim, it isn't silly.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It's wonderful, wonderful those pictures, that old sweater you were
trying your best to make me remember well, I twenty
years ago when I first fell in love with you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But honey, why didn't you acknowledge my gifts? The candy
and flowers, flowers.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Good heavens, they were your flowers.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You threw them away?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Jim, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I thought you kept the other Bulkuete, the one from Musselhead.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I didn't get another one from Musclehead. I mean Atkins.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, I told him off, all right. I told him
that I you didn't get any from Atkins.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
No, and I didn't get any candy from you either.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Ooh, then who did I? Oh? This is terrible, Jim.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
What about the candy?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Oh it's Cathy.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
What happened? What's wrong?
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
My stomach, it hurts, Jim.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Look the box of candy. I said, it's half empty and.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Every piece that's left has been bitten into?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
How did she get it?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
No, no, now, what's up?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Betty?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Come in here? How could he do that?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
How could he do such an awful thing?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
How could who do such an awful thing?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Bother, it's not hard. I've been practicing all day. What
did I do? Now?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Called up Bill Higgins and told him not to come here.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Ooh that's who it was, Jim.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
How could you?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well? I thought it was Ronald Atkins.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
He called up to break the day, and he never
wants to see me again.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh wait a minute, I can straighten this all out
in a Jimmy, Betty get Bill on the phone for me. Oh, honey,
I really mess things up today, broken date, misunderstand these
spring back stomach ache, and you.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Did it all for me. Oh, Jim, You're.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
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Speaker 2 (26:30):
Well, things are peaceful once again in the Anderson household.
It's the next morning, and Jim and Margaret are at
the breakfast.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Table what's the matter, dear.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I was just thinking of Ronald Atkins last night when
he came through the door.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
What's funny about that he.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Could hardly get through the door. Now there's a man
who not only kept his figure, he doubled it.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Now, Jim, his.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Wife, Laura's cute, though, hasn't changed much either.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Just imagine little Laura Blake with three children.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
That was a surprise as being married to Laura.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
They got married right after we did.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
When we were all in school. She used to be
pretty sweet on me, almost broke her up when I
married you.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Now, Jim, that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I know Laura and I were talking about it last night.
She thinks I'm still a pretty romantic guy.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Jim, Honey, stop trying to live in the past.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
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