October 10, 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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(00:50):
is still a few weeks away, but out in the
white frame house on Maple Street, it looks like the
season of showers and mayflowers has already arrived. Anyway, the
living room of the an Us in Homestead, it's about
to be redecorated this afternoon. Margaret, surrounded by home magazines
and color samples, is discussing the problem.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
With Ted the housemater Like this, Now, this shade might
do for the walls. How would that go with the rug?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Really got to go? All right?
Speaker 6 (01:17):
You planning on a moderaten color scheme or do you
want to stay with the tradition.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, everything in the house is traditional.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I don't think we should change over to the modern
Muttin's all right, of course.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
M it's all right, you like it?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I can if I want to with horror or excuse me, ted, Cathy.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
I can get a show my own if I want to.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Howar's the matter now?
Speaker 7 (01:40):
Buttons?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You're getting up a magic at We'll let them. I
want to be in it, or the dole will be
in it.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
Oh, dear mommy, would you like me if I was
twins triens? But wants to saw me in half?
Speaker 8 (01:55):
We gotta have somebody?
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Can you put me back together?
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Children?
Speaker 7 (01:59):
I'm trying to talk to mister Hi, mister Hodges.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
Hello, Kathy, Hi, buy Hi.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
I can be in the magic Act without getting sought up,
can I?
Speaker 8 (02:07):
Mommy?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, let's talk about it later.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
We gotta have a little shrimp like her.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
The trick will work.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
How do I get back together?
Speaker 8 (02:15):
You're not gonna get her.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I'm not gonna be in the show. I'm staying here
with mommy.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Okay there?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Where were we?
Speaker 7 (02:24):
What are you doing? We're just aiding on colors for
the living room.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Well, I hope this is the right combination. You don't
think it's too bright, do you?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I think it'll be real pleasant.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
As kind of an early American feeling about it.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
We're gonna have early Americans in here.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We're talking about colors. Angel, Hello, Joel, Bud, Bud.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
If you're going to use the phone and the day
and close the door.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Na, Kathy backed out. We gotta find somebody else to
saw in half, Bob. That was my mom. No, she
doesn't want to get sawed in half. What do you want?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Close the door.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I think that will look nice on the wall. Then
we'll use the lighter shade for the trim.
Speaker 9 (03:08):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
I think you'll like it.
Speaker 10 (03:10):
It isn't flashy, but it's comfortable, and that's important thing.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
No, maybe I'm old fashioned, but some of these extremely
modern color ideas.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
He's so well strange by the way.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
I feel. They're nice. If you like them, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I hold hey, they're daddy, Daddy Hall. I'm in the
living room, dear Hello.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Oh, hi, Ded, Hello, Miss Jandison.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Daddy. Guess what we're gonna have Early Americans all colors?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
What's this?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Kitten head's ready to start the painting in here. We're
just deciding on some colors.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Oh good, I think those are fine.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
You haven't seen them yet?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Oh, well, whatever you pick out is fine with me.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I thought we'd have purple walls and an orange ceiling.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Good, it looked very nice.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Purple wall, just testing, Dear, these are the colors we
had in mind here in the folder.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Yes, this would be for the ceiling, and this for
the trend.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Well, it should be easy on the eyes. By the way,
where's Betty?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
She added? Day with old Ralph.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I'm surprised she isn't in on this decorating job.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
She and Ralph went to an art exhibit this afternoon
with some friend of Ralph, young man with a beard,
I think his name was author, a.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Young man with a beard and a friend of Ralph's. Mum,
that's about as dubious the recommendation as.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I've ever heard.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Well, we all decided on these color They look good
to me.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Fine, then I'll buy that maple chair you liked and
make some new flowered slip covers.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
And mother, we're in here, Betty, Oh mother, Oh, hello, Father,
Hi ted, Old Betty, which you got? Oh, I've had
the look utterly magnificent.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Afternoon, Mother, I've been in another world, simply in another world.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Transportation must have been good. It didn't take you long
to get there and back.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Old, don't be cornball, father, I discovered an entirely new
pain of thought, mother, beauty and inspiration beyond description.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
What led to this discovery?
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Modern art?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Oh? No, what you got on your arms? Look?
Speaker 7 (05:16):
I have a painting, mother, an original by Arthur. He
gave it to me. Isn't it stupender?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Are you sure that's the front of it? Let's see
the back?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
You wouldn't understand. This is not for infants.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Just look at it, mother, Doesn't it do something to
you inside?
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
It does. What's it supposed to be?
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Looks like an explosion in a paint factory?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh, father, what's the title of it?
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Betty?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Anger and boiled Egg? Where's the egg? You don't have
to see the egg. That's only what the painting's about.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Oh, well, that explains it.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
You don't understand it at all, Father, I can tell
by the look on your face.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, I know a lot of people say they understand
pictures like.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That, But mother, don't tell me you're not aware of
the depth and inspiration in this picture.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Or maybe if I looked at it for a while.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Oh, you and father have lost touch with life. You're
a man in placed his very soul on Kansas.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
If that's Arthur's soul, he's in trouble.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Father, you can't mean what you're saying. You just can't.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
All right, I'm coming take care of Arthur's soul for
a minute, to see what Bud wants.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Look at this can You're a painter, you can appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Why are you Bud? Oh? What's your problem?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Dead? Do you know where I could find a straight jacket?
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Well, after what I've just heard, I think there ought
to be one kicking around the house some work.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Joh and I are working this magic act, you see,
and we thought if we got a straight jacket and stuff.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
We could do one of those escapes underwater.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Maybe I think you better try something else.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Well, we found a silk hat, and Joe knows a
guy that's got a rabbit.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
That's better. That's a fine trick.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
It won't work though. The rabbit's too big. He won't
fit in the hat. His ears stick out the top.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Father, you better come in, Daddy, there's gonna be a
big fight.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Fight about what.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Maybe we could hold the rabbit's ears down the tape.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Well, I won't be able to live here that's all.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'll die off of me, die.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Danny, call mister Hodges a square.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
You see, the rabbit isn't supposed to be in the
hat at first, and if his ears were sticking out,
people would get suspicious.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Which time you aren't, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I think I'll go along with a rabbit.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Very old things in the past.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It'll be like living in a museum.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Why don't we get the mummies? An old bone?
Speaker 8 (07:55):
What's wrong with tallula?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Oh you're here, father, please leave.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Say you're not going to have these awful old fashioned
colors in here.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Oh wait a minute, I don't know what we're going
to do. Dear, be insists matter.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
How can you think of living in a stodgy, outdated house.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
This is nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
We know that, Princess.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Look at Arthur's painting. We have to move on to
new world.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
That's the new world.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Oh, you keep out of it?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Holy cow, What.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Do you suggest we do, Princess? What's your idea?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
There's only one thing to do, father, Out with the old,
in with the new. Let's be modern. Throw everything out,
furniture and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh dear, throw out the rugs too, everything that would
be keen.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
We could slim the floors.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Well, it looks like Arthur in his painting. It created
something of a problem. Did you see this, Ted? Yeah,
I saw it. What do you think?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Well, I don't know. I guess I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Letty called him a square. Well I didn't mean it
just that way. He's just living in bygone days like
the rest of you.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Oh, why can't.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You all be modern and alert and alive like Arthur.
He's only twenty five and he's already been psychoanalyzed twice.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
How do you explain this?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I don't know. He's just lucky. I guess.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
What do you want me to do? Miss Randerson? Shall we
go ahead?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
No? Father?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
No, well I'll tell you.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Let's hold everything, Ted, I'll get in touch with you
later and let you.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Know what we've decided.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
It's all right with me as long as I know.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I see goodbye, And thanks Ted, Oh, thank you father.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
You've awakened. Your eyes are open at last.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
Yes, I think I'm getting a new slant on this
modern idea.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Jim, you're not seriously, because.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Honey, maybe we are clinging to the past.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
How can I clean to the past.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I haven't got one.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Talking about yous rims.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Daddy said, we and that's us and that's just us.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
But dare do you mean you're thinking of changing everything?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I say, let's try it. These modern houses are pretty
popular right now.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
All the intelligent people are going modern. You know that.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Mother, Well, I guess we're ignorant. But we've been so happy.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
But the mother, what's happiness if you're not modern?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
That's Joe calling about the magic Act.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Well, don't hang on the phone. I want to call Ralph.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh, and I can't wait to tell Arthur. You'll hang
is painting right over the natle. Do you might don't
understand this sudden change?
Speaker 9 (10:36):
We Oh, we have to accept the new things. Honey,
time doesn't stand still. You know, I wonder how i'd
look with a beard.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
You're gonna buy a beard, Daddy?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Oh, for heaven's sake, you look devastating in a beard.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Father, that's wrong with it, Margaret, Arthur has a beard.
Can't you just see me with beard.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
And cigarette holders, sitting in one of those beautiful modern
chairs made out of string and gas pipe.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
There.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Maybe you've been working too hard.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
Yes, sir, we'll take everything out of the room, strip
it right down to the wood.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Throw all this old junk away.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Throw it away.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
My furniture, honey, you call this furniture? Why this is
just a lot of stuff to sit on and be
comfortable in it. It doesn't have any inspirations.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It doesn't have any flow to it. The lines of
furniture have to flow.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, maybe you could do this a.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Lot cheaper by just turning the hose in here. Oh, mother,
don't be a stick in the mud.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I'm just worried, worried about what about your father? As
Bud would say, I think he snapped his cap.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Oh, sir, I think this is going to be great.
I'm really getting excited about it.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Oh wonderful. Let's talk about the idea.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
Oh, we're going to have the most modern house in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Now take this living room. You know how I see it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Dear, stop squinting your eyes and pacing up and down.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
I'm tuning in my subconscious I've got the colors for
the living room walls fire engine red with black and
white coach dogs to kind of break.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
It up, futuristic dogs.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
See les will be a pale pink with green blue birds.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Oh father, you're inspired, positively empired.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
You like it?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Ooh, it's gone, father, but utterly gone.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
How about you, mother, I'm almost gone.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
Well, I feel we should go all the way on this,
and Sir, I might even take a little time off
to more and go over and be psychoanalyzed.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Hit you father, Oh, I gotta tell Ralph, but you
out the phone, dear.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Relaxed Margaret, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, I know what you're doing too, Dear, at least
I hope I do.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
You can't handle a situation like this any other way.
The only way we can bring Betty out of.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
His passion for the modern is to go completely overboard.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Well, just don't go so far overboard that you can't
get back on the boat.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
No, No, you try the red walls.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And green bluebirds, and she calls your bluff on there.
Where do you go from there?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
That's just the beginning, Honey.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Before we're finished, our modern daughter will be ready to
go back to hoopskirts. Well, if Belly and Father really
go modern, let themselves go, they'll do more than just
redecorate the old homestead. They'll probably end up by having
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Speaker 3 (15:05):
Over the action in the Anderson households today. You know
that pleasant living room, fluffy curtains, nice early American furniture. Well,
daughter Betty says it's.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Got to go.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
From now on, everything has to be modern, a full
expression of the subconscience, artistic inspiration running rampant as we
joined the Andersons. Now about twenty four hours have passed
and it's noon of the following day. Jim isn't home yet.
Betty's in the den wading through magazines on modern living,
while Bud lies on his back on the floor, gazing
at the ceiling, engrossed in great problems of his own.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Like this, I get the guy could get a couple
of dogs and train them.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Oh, here's when they've used automobile tires for picture frames.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Magic Dag's on so hot. You could get up a
pretty good act for a couple of dogs.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
What are you mumbling about?
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Join me are getting up an act?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Oh that again, Betty? Have you seen Kathy? She's over
playing with Patty Davis.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Look here, mother, here's some terrific ideas for the living room,
we paper.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
One whole wall with old newspapers. Wouldn't that be striking?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes, very nice.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
If we could get a couple of sheep dogs, then
maybe we could save up and buy a sheet.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
What's this, oh, mother, I'm just getting bills of ideas
from these magazines. Now here's the house in Sculp in
Oklahoma where they have the most original floors, no rugs
or anything, just sand. Oh that would be good. You
wouldn't have to vacuum. Just give the living room a
good raking now and then.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I wonder if you can train the sheet.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
When do you think we can start, Mother, redecorating our means?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Well, I don't know. That's up to your father.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Oh, I can't wait to get all those musty old
things out of the living room.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
I called Ralph, you know, and Arthur was there, so
Ralph put him on the phone.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
He was simply thrilled.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
When I told him we were doing our house over
modern and well, dear, we've talked about the living room
but weren't.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Get to start. And when we finished there, we'll start
on the dining room.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Up, Charlie, Up, Up, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh, there's a stunning idea for a chandelier in the dining.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Room over though, Sam, Up, you take a.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Bowling ball and hollow it out and put a light inside.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Bound Jack, Down, down.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Jack, and the light comes through the holes where your
fingers going.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Okay, over here, George.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Wouldn't that be striking?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Mother? Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yes, very roll over, Clyde, Bud, Who are Clyde and George?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
And Jack and Charlie.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
I'm trying your names for dogs.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
I'm we're in the den.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Father, Hello, Margaret, Bud, Hello, dear hi Dad.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Well, this has been a busy morning.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Didn't you forget something?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Father?
Speaker 7 (17:59):
No, but he usually can't snother when you come home.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Oh well, we've given that up. That's old fashioned.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
We're modern now, a right, honey, Oh, none of that
dull sentimental foolishness around here anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
This is nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
After this when I come home, just a good brisk
handshake all around.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Stuff.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Well, I guess you're right.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Father, you bet, I'm all in favor of this new life.
We're gonna go modern with a vengeance.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Well, dear Dad, pez Margaret, let's not call each other
deer and honey anymore?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
So out of date?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
All right, Jim.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Oh that Jim and Margaret. That's not for this modern day.
We've got to speed things up. You just call me
Jay and I'll call you m.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Right, okay, m all right, Jay dear, have.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Great news for you, b b Certainly I can't call
you Betty anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
We've got to sharpen things up around here. Get on
the ball.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Well, if you're gonna use be for Betty, how about me, Bud,
let's be We'll.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Call you b minus.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Wow. Big news.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
I've decided we can't do that living room over by ourselves.
We need a decorator, a real help artist.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Gee. If we could only get Arthur, but he's too busy.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
I thought of that, and I scurried around this morning
and found another young artist. He gave me one of
his paintings to bring home. I see what you think
of it? Ah, how do.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You like that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
It's magnificent.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Holy caw, you got another one.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
This young man is a genius. Look at that princess,
I mean, bee, there's a painting that's real. Gone, Oh
it is.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's even goner than the other one.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Is that a picture? Of course?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
It is stupid, it's beautiful.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Look at that flow look at those dynamic colors. A
brilliant example of an inverted expression of the subconscious and
a throbbing the symbolization of exquisite frustration.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Oh it's wonderful.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Let it be called Oh the title will send you.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
It's called blob. Isn't that great? This fellow will do
a decorating job for us. That'll be out of this world.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh, I know it, father, But before we do anything,
let me take the painting over and show it to Arth.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
It'll only take a minute.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'll be right back, Jim, what is going.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
To be all right, honey, don't get worried.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You aren't really going to have this decorator come in
and sure he'll.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Be here this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
But dear Ted has always done the pain.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Worry about Ted?
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Maybe a juggling act would be better, better than what
dogs think.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
I'll go out in the kitchen and find something to juggle.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Now, don't start with the plates. Get some apples.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Okay, did you notice Margaret Betty's beginning to cool off
on his modern idea?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Already cool off?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You should hear some of the ideas she has for
the living room.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Stand on the floor, chandeliers made out of bowling balls.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Hi, daddy, Hello kitten, where have you been.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Over to Patty? How's Patty? She's fine. I was telling
Patty's mother about our new living room.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I told her about the red walls and the green bluebirds.
What'd she say?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
She didn't say anything. I guess she had a headache.
She put her hands over her eyes and walked out
of the room.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'm surprised she was able to walk.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
I'm going out in the kitchen, father, Father, Oh, I
mean Jay? Yes?
Speaker 9 (21:33):
What?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Well? What did I have to say about the painting?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
He said, it's the most original and exciting piece of
work he's ever seen. Explosive, uninhibited, great thought and magnificent.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Excuse Well, I knew it was a masterpiece, but I
wanted art to see.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Us to be sure.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Then this is the artist who's going to do in
the living room.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Who else he'll be over in a little while.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Come on, let's go in the living room and start
getting rid of all that old junk.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
I can't believe we're really going to start.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Don't you think we should?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Everything has to go now. Look at this rug. What
an outdated old thing this is. I don't know why
we haven't gotten rid of these things long ago. The
rug goes the very first thing.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
I think we ought to put down a nice coat
of asphalt.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
In here, so that would be original.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
This rug, I.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Think the only reason we've held on to it is
because of silly, old fashioned sentiment.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Remember when we first moved in the house, all we
had in here was this rug.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We didn't have anything in the dining room.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
I'll never forget how we ate dinner picnic style here
in front of the fireplace.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We didn't have taffy.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Barn's just flooding me.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Well, that's clinging to the past. Out with the rug.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I guess this big old chair will have to go.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yes, throw that thing away.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
I saw a chair downtown today, perfect for this spot.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
It was made out of an oil drum. Oh, chrome plated.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
That sounds unusual, this old chair.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Remember the day we brought Kathy home from the hospital.
Weighed six pounds, looked like a dog.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And I sat down in that chair and I held
her for the first time. Geese is cheer Well, I
suppose it has to go along with the coffee table.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Oh, the coffee table. How cornball? Can you be?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:24):
And it's all marked up.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I happened to turn it over the other day.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Did you ever see this one?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
To hear?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Betty? Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Ralph put that on the other night we graduated from
junior high school. Look, father, a heart with an arrow
through it and RB love ba.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
I'd forgotten all about that.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Well, we'll get a new table. I saw beauty downtown.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
The top was solid stone, and we'll throw out all
this old stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Father.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I hate to be corny, but well, some of these
things do, I mean an awful lot to us.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
They do.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
They're not modern.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Dear, well, geez, I was just thinking what it'd be
like without them. It wouldn't seem like home.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Oh, you're being sentimental, princess.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Well, I like to be sentimental. I don't care, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
What things do you want to keep here?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Oh? I want to keep everything. I don't want to
change anything.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Well, if you insist, front.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Or body, okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well, I guess the artist is here.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
I'm telling we've changed our minds, all right.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I hope you'll understand.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
I'll explain to him.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Hey, did mister Hodges is here?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Come on here, ted behid folks, Oh.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Mister Hodges, Thank heaven's it to you? We died with
some artists that father had told to come over.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Oh, I have news for your princess. This is the artist.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Ted mister Hodges.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Jim, why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 8 (24:59):
But I didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh, you could paint a painter all my life. That's
the decision on the living room.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well, Betty, we've decided mister Hodges to paint the living room.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Just the color that it is.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Smart girl, smart. Father could be.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
An How before our final surprise of the show, let's
go along with Jim to the kitchen as he peaks
him on Kathy.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
What are you up to, Kathy?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Nothing? Just fixing us? Awesome?
Speaker 9 (25:44):
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Speaker 9 (26:01):
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Speaker 5 (26:19):
Much as coffee cup for cup.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
How about treating your family to post them often.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, it looked like the living room of the white
frame house on Maple Street was in for some pretty
startling changes there for a while. But the slightly worn
rug and the quaint old chair have a.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
New hassan life.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
In fact, about all that remains of the supermodern influence
in the Anderson living room this evening is a carefully
framed painting on the mantle, A strange piece of art.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Indeed, Father, I can't understand.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I can't understand what princess is.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Painting by mister Hodges.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Well look at that painting that Arthur did, that anger
and boiled eggs.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Who understands that?
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Well, that's not what I mean. How could mister Hodges,
a house painter, do something like this?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Arthur said, it was brilliant, showed great depth and understanding.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Well what's so amusing?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Oh, nothing except that that isn't the painting at all.
I framed it myself.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
If it isn't the painting, what is it?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
I took it out of Ted's pocket this morning.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
It's a rag you used to wipe his brushes.
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is still a few weeks away, but out in the
white frame house on Maple Street, it looks like the
season of showers and mayflowers has already arrived. Anyway, the
living room of the an Us in Homestead, it's about
to be redecorated this afternoon. Margaret, surrounded by home magazines
and color samples, is discussing the problem.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
With Ted the housemater Like this, Now, this shade might
do for the walls. How would that go with the rug?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Really got to go? All right?
Speaker 6 (01:17):
You planning on a moderaten color scheme or do you
want to stay with the tradition.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, everything in the house is traditional.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I don't think we should change over to the modern
Muttin's all right, of course.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
M it's all right, you like it?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I can if I want to with horror or excuse me, ted, Cathy.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
I can get a show my own if I want to.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Howar's the matter now?
Speaker 7 (01:40):
Buttons?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You're getting up a magic at We'll let them. I
want to be in it, or the dole will be
in it.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
Oh, dear mommy, would you like me if I was
twins triens? But wants to saw me in half?
Speaker 8 (01:55):
We gotta have somebody?
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Can you put me back together?
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Children?
Speaker 7 (01:59):
I'm trying to talk to mister Hi, mister Hodges.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
Hello, Kathy, Hi, buy Hi.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
I can be in the magic Act without getting sought up,
can I?
Speaker 8 (02:07):
Mommy?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, let's talk about it later.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
We gotta have a little shrimp like her.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
The trick will work.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
How do I get back together?
Speaker 8 (02:15):
You're not gonna get her.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I'm not gonna be in the show. I'm staying here
with mommy.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Okay there?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Where were we?
Speaker 7 (02:24):
What are you doing? We're just aiding on colors for
the living room.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Well, I hope this is the right combination. You don't
think it's too bright, do you?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I think it'll be real pleasant.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
As kind of an early American feeling about it.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
We're gonna have early Americans in here.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We're talking about colors. Angel, Hello, Joel, Bud, Bud.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
If you're going to use the phone and the day
and close the door.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Na, Kathy backed out. We gotta find somebody else to
saw in half, Bob. That was my mom. No, she
doesn't want to get sawed in half. What do you want?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Close the door.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I think that will look nice on the wall. Then
we'll use the lighter shade for the trim.
Speaker 9 (03:08):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
I think you'll like it.
Speaker 10 (03:10):
It isn't flashy, but it's comfortable, and that's important thing.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
No, maybe I'm old fashioned, but some of these extremely
modern color ideas.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
He's so well strange by the way.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
I feel. They're nice. If you like them, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I hold hey, they're daddy, Daddy Hall. I'm in the
living room, dear Hello.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Oh, hi, Ded, Hello, Miss Jandison.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Daddy. Guess what we're gonna have Early Americans all colors?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
What's this?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Kitten head's ready to start the painting in here. We're
just deciding on some colors.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Oh good, I think those are fine.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
You haven't seen them yet?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Oh, well, whatever you pick out is fine with me.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I thought we'd have purple walls and an orange ceiling.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Good, it looked very nice.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Purple wall, just testing, Dear, these are the colors we
had in mind here in the folder.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Yes, this would be for the ceiling, and this for
the trend.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Well, it should be easy on the eyes. By the way,
where's Betty?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
She added? Day with old Ralph.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I'm surprised she isn't in on this decorating job.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
She and Ralph went to an art exhibit this afternoon
with some friend of Ralph, young man with a beard,
I think his name was author, a.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Young man with a beard and a friend of Ralph's. Mum,
that's about as dubious the recommendation as.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I've ever heard.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Well, we all decided on these color They look good
to me.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Fine, then I'll buy that maple chair you liked and
make some new flowered slip covers.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
And mother, we're in here, Betty, Oh mother, Oh, hello, Father,
Hi ted, Old Betty, which you got? Oh, I've had
the look utterly magnificent.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Afternoon, Mother, I've been in another world, simply in another world.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Transportation must have been good. It didn't take you long
to get there and back.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Old, don't be cornball, father, I discovered an entirely new
pain of thought, mother, beauty and inspiration beyond description.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
What led to this discovery?
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Modern art?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Oh? No, what you got on your arms? Look?
Speaker 7 (05:16):
I have a painting, mother, an original by Arthur. He
gave it to me. Isn't it stupender?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Are you sure that's the front of it? Let's see
the back?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
You wouldn't understand. This is not for infants.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Just look at it, mother, Doesn't it do something to
you inside?
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
It does. What's it supposed to be?
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Looks like an explosion in a paint factory?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh, father, what's the title of it?
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Betty?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Anger and boiled Egg? Where's the egg? You don't have
to see the egg. That's only what the painting's about.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Oh, well, that explains it.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
You don't understand it at all, Father, I can tell
by the look on your face.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, I know a lot of people say they understand
pictures like.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That, But mother, don't tell me you're not aware of
the depth and inspiration in this picture.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Or maybe if I looked at it for a while.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Oh, you and father have lost touch with life. You're
a man in placed his very soul on Kansas.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
If that's Arthur's soul, he's in trouble.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Father, you can't mean what you're saying. You just can't.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
All right, I'm coming take care of Arthur's soul for
a minute, to see what Bud wants.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Look at this can You're a painter, you can appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Why are you Bud? Oh? What's your problem?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Dead? Do you know where I could find a straight jacket?
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Well, after what I've just heard, I think there ought
to be one kicking around the house some work.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Joh and I are working this magic act, you see,
and we thought if we got a straight jacket and stuff.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
We could do one of those escapes underwater.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Maybe I think you better try something else.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Well, we found a silk hat, and Joe knows a
guy that's got a rabbit.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
That's better. That's a fine trick.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
It won't work though. The rabbit's too big. He won't
fit in the hat. His ears stick out the top.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Father, you better come in, Daddy, there's gonna be a
big fight.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Fight about what.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Maybe we could hold the rabbit's ears down the tape.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Well, I won't be able to live here that's all.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'll die off of me, die.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Danny, call mister Hodges a square.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
You see, the rabbit isn't supposed to be in the
hat at first, and if his ears were sticking out,
people would get suspicious.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Which time you aren't, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I think I'll go along with a rabbit.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Very old things in the past.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It'll be like living in a museum.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Why don't we get the mummies? An old bone?
Speaker 8 (07:55):
What's wrong with tallula?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Oh you're here, father, please leave.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Say you're not going to have these awful old fashioned
colors in here.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Oh wait a minute, I don't know what we're going
to do. Dear, be insists matter.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
How can you think of living in a stodgy, outdated house.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
This is nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
We know that, Princess.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Look at Arthur's painting. We have to move on to
new world.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
That's the new world.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Oh, you keep out of it?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Holy cow, What.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Do you suggest we do, Princess? What's your idea?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
There's only one thing to do, father, Out with the old,
in with the new. Let's be modern. Throw everything out,
furniture and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh dear, throw out the rugs too, everything that would
be keen.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
We could slim the floors.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Well, it looks like Arthur in his painting. It created
something of a problem. Did you see this, Ted? Yeah,
I saw it. What do you think?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Well, I don't know. I guess I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Letty called him a square. Well I didn't mean it
just that way. He's just living in bygone days like
the rest of you.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Oh, why can't.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You all be modern and alert and alive like Arthur.
He's only twenty five and he's already been psychoanalyzed twice.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
How do you explain this?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I don't know. He's just lucky. I guess.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
What do you want me to do? Miss Randerson? Shall we
go ahead?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
No? Father?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
No, well I'll tell you.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Let's hold everything, Ted, I'll get in touch with you
later and let you.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Know what we've decided.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
It's all right with me as long as I know.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I see goodbye, And thanks Ted, Oh, thank you father.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
You've awakened. Your eyes are open at last.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
Yes, I think I'm getting a new slant on this
modern idea.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Jim, you're not seriously, because.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Honey, maybe we are clinging to the past.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
How can I clean to the past.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I haven't got one.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Talking about yous rims.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Daddy said, we and that's us and that's just us.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
But dare do you mean you're thinking of changing everything?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I say, let's try it. These modern houses are pretty
popular right now.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
All the intelligent people are going modern. You know that.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Mother, Well, I guess we're ignorant. But we've been so happy.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
But the mother, what's happiness if you're not modern?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
That's Joe calling about the magic Act.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Well, don't hang on the phone. I want to call Ralph.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh, and I can't wait to tell Arthur. You'll hang
is painting right over the natle. Do you might don't
understand this sudden change?
Speaker 9 (10:36):
We Oh, we have to accept the new things. Honey,
time doesn't stand still. You know, I wonder how i'd
look with a beard.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
You're gonna buy a beard, Daddy?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Oh, for heaven's sake, you look devastating in a beard.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Father, that's wrong with it, Margaret, Arthur has a beard.
Can't you just see me with beard.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
And cigarette holders, sitting in one of those beautiful modern
chairs made out of string and gas pipe.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
There.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Maybe you've been working too hard.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
Yes, sir, we'll take everything out of the room, strip
it right down to the wood.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Throw all this old junk away.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Throw it away.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
My furniture, honey, you call this furniture? Why this is
just a lot of stuff to sit on and be
comfortable in it. It doesn't have any inspirations.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It doesn't have any flow to it. The lines of
furniture have to flow.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, maybe you could do this a.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Lot cheaper by just turning the hose in here. Oh, mother,
don't be a stick in the mud.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I'm just worried, worried about what about your father? As
Bud would say, I think he snapped his cap.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Oh, sir, I think this is going to be great.
I'm really getting excited about it.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Oh wonderful. Let's talk about the idea.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
Oh, we're going to have the most modern house in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Now take this living room. You know how I see it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Dear, stop squinting your eyes and pacing up and down.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
I'm tuning in my subconscious I've got the colors for
the living room walls fire engine red with black and
white coach dogs to kind of break.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
It up, futuristic dogs.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
See les will be a pale pink with green blue birds.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Oh father, you're inspired, positively empired.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
You like it?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Ooh, it's gone, father, but utterly gone.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
How about you, mother, I'm almost gone.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
Well, I feel we should go all the way on this,
and Sir, I might even take a little time off
to more and go over and be psychoanalyzed.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Hit you father, Oh, I gotta tell Ralph, but you
out the phone, dear.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Relaxed Margaret, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, I know what you're doing too, Dear, at least
I hope I do.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
You can't handle a situation like this any other way.
The only way we can bring Betty out of.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
His passion for the modern is to go completely overboard.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Well, just don't go so far overboard that you can't
get back on the boat.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
No, No, you try the red walls.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And green bluebirds, and she calls your bluff on there.
Where do you go from there?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
That's just the beginning, Honey.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Before we're finished, our modern daughter will be ready to
go back to hoopskirts. Well, if Belly and Father really
go modern, let themselves go, they'll do more than just
redecorate the old homestead. They'll probably end up by having
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Speaker 3 (15:05):
Over the action in the Anderson households today. You know
that pleasant living room, fluffy curtains, nice early American furniture. Well,
daughter Betty says it's.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Got to go.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
From now on, everything has to be modern, a full
expression of the subconscience, artistic inspiration running rampant as we
joined the Andersons. Now about twenty four hours have passed
and it's noon of the following day. Jim isn't home yet.
Betty's in the den wading through magazines on modern living,
while Bud lies on his back on the floor, gazing
at the ceiling, engrossed in great problems of his own.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Like this, I get the guy could get a couple
of dogs and train them.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Oh, here's when they've used automobile tires for picture frames.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Magic Dag's on so hot. You could get up a
pretty good act for a couple of dogs.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
What are you mumbling about?
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Join me are getting up an act?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Oh that again, Betty? Have you seen Kathy? She's over
playing with Patty Davis.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Look here, mother, here's some terrific ideas for the living room,
we paper.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
One whole wall with old newspapers. Wouldn't that be striking?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes, very nice.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
If we could get a couple of sheep dogs, then
maybe we could save up and buy a sheet.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
What's this, oh, mother, I'm just getting bills of ideas
from these magazines. Now here's the house in Sculp in
Oklahoma where they have the most original floors, no rugs
or anything, just sand. Oh that would be good. You
wouldn't have to vacuum. Just give the living room a
good raking now and then.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I wonder if you can train the sheet.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
When do you think we can start, Mother, redecorating our means?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Well, I don't know. That's up to your father.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Oh, I can't wait to get all those musty old
things out of the living room.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
I called Ralph, you know, and Arthur was there, so
Ralph put him on the phone.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
He was simply thrilled.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
When I told him we were doing our house over
modern and well, dear, we've talked about the living room
but weren't.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Get to start. And when we finished there, we'll start
on the dining room.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Up, Charlie, Up, Up, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh, there's a stunning idea for a chandelier in the dining.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Room over though, Sam, Up, you take a.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Bowling ball and hollow it out and put a light inside.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Bound Jack, Down, down.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Jack, and the light comes through the holes where your
fingers going.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Okay, over here, George.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Wouldn't that be striking?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Mother? Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yes, very roll over, Clyde, Bud, Who are Clyde and George?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
And Jack and Charlie.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
I'm trying your names for dogs.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
I'm we're in the den.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Father, Hello, Margaret, Bud, Hello, dear hi Dad.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Well, this has been a busy morning.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Didn't you forget something?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Father?
Speaker 7 (17:59):
No, but he usually can't snother when you come home.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Oh well, we've given that up. That's old fashioned.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
We're modern now, a right, honey, Oh, none of that
dull sentimental foolishness around here anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
This is nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
After this when I come home, just a good brisk
handshake all around.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Stuff.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Well, I guess you're right.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Father, you bet, I'm all in favor of this new life.
We're gonna go modern with a vengeance.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Well, dear Dad, pez Margaret, let's not call each other
deer and honey anymore?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
So out of date?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
All right, Jim.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Oh that Jim and Margaret. That's not for this modern day.
We've got to speed things up. You just call me
Jay and I'll call you m.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Right, okay, m all right, Jay dear, have.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Great news for you, b b Certainly I can't call
you Betty anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
We've got to sharpen things up around here. Get on
the ball.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Well, if you're gonna use be for Betty, how about me, Bud,
let's be We'll.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Call you b minus.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Wow. Big news.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
I've decided we can't do that living room over by ourselves.
We need a decorator, a real help artist.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Gee. If we could only get Arthur, but he's too busy.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
I thought of that, and I scurried around this morning
and found another young artist. He gave me one of
his paintings to bring home. I see what you think
of it? Ah, how do.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You like that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
It's magnificent.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Holy caw, you got another one.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
This young man is a genius. Look at that princess,
I mean, bee, there's a painting that's real. Gone, Oh
it is.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's even goner than the other one.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Is that a picture? Of course?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
It is stupid, it's beautiful.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Look at that flow look at those dynamic colors. A
brilliant example of an inverted expression of the subconscious and
a throbbing the symbolization of exquisite frustration.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Oh it's wonderful.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Let it be called Oh the title will send you.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
It's called blob. Isn't that great? This fellow will do
a decorating job for us. That'll be out of this world.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh, I know it, father, But before we do anything,
let me take the painting over and show it to Arth.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
It'll only take a minute.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'll be right back, Jim, what is going.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
To be all right, honey, don't get worried.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You aren't really going to have this decorator come in
and sure he'll.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Be here this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
But dear Ted has always done the pain.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Worry about Ted?
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Maybe a juggling act would be better, better than what
dogs think.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
I'll go out in the kitchen and find something to juggle.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Now, don't start with the plates. Get some apples.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Okay, did you notice Margaret Betty's beginning to cool off
on his modern idea?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Already cool off?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You should hear some of the ideas she has for
the living room.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Stand on the floor, chandeliers made out of bowling balls.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Hi, daddy, Hello kitten, where have you been.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Over to Patty? How's Patty? She's fine. I was telling
Patty's mother about our new living room.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I told her about the red walls and the green bluebirds.
What'd she say?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
She didn't say anything. I guess she had a headache.
She put her hands over her eyes and walked out
of the room.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'm surprised she was able to walk.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
I'm going out in the kitchen, father, Father, Oh, I
mean Jay? Yes?
Speaker 9 (21:33):
What?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Well? What did I have to say about the painting?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
He said, it's the most original and exciting piece of
work he's ever seen. Explosive, uninhibited, great thought and magnificent.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Excuse Well, I knew it was a masterpiece, but I
wanted art to see.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Us to be sure.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Then this is the artist who's going to do in
the living room.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Who else he'll be over in a little while.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Come on, let's go in the living room and start
getting rid of all that old junk.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
I can't believe we're really going to start.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Don't you think we should?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Everything has to go now. Look at this rug. What
an outdated old thing this is. I don't know why
we haven't gotten rid of these things long ago. The
rug goes the very first thing.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
I think we ought to put down a nice coat
of asphalt.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
In here, so that would be original.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
This rug, I.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Think the only reason we've held on to it is
because of silly, old fashioned sentiment.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Remember when we first moved in the house, all we
had in here was this rug.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We didn't have anything in the dining room.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
I'll never forget how we ate dinner picnic style here
in front of the fireplace.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We didn't have taffy.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Barn's just flooding me.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Well, that's clinging to the past. Out with the rug.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I guess this big old chair will have to go.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yes, throw that thing away.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
I saw a chair downtown today, perfect for this spot.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
It was made out of an oil drum. Oh, chrome plated.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
That sounds unusual, this old chair.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Remember the day we brought Kathy home from the hospital.
Weighed six pounds, looked like a dog.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And I sat down in that chair and I held
her for the first time. Geese is cheer Well, I
suppose it has to go along with the coffee table.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Oh, the coffee table. How cornball? Can you be?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:24):
And it's all marked up.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I happened to turn it over the other day.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Did you ever see this one?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
To hear?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Betty? Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Ralph put that on the other night we graduated from
junior high school. Look, father, a heart with an arrow
through it and RB love ba.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
I'd forgotten all about that.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Well, we'll get a new table. I saw beauty downtown.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
The top was solid stone, and we'll throw out all
this old stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Father.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I hate to be corny, but well, some of these
things do, I mean an awful lot to us.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
They do.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
They're not modern.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Dear, well, geez, I was just thinking what it'd be
like without them. It wouldn't seem like home.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Oh, you're being sentimental, princess.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Well, I like to be sentimental. I don't care, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
What things do you want to keep here?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Oh? I want to keep everything. I don't want to
change anything.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Well, if you insist, front.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Or body, okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well, I guess the artist is here.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
I'm telling we've changed our minds, all right.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I hope you'll understand.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
I'll explain to him.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Hey, did mister Hodges is here?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Come on here, ted behid folks, Oh.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Mister Hodges, Thank heaven's it to you? We died with
some artists that father had told to come over.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Oh, I have news for your princess. This is the artist.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Ted mister Hodges.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Jim, why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 8 (24:59):
But I didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh, you could paint a painter all my life. That's
the decision on the living room.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well, Betty, we've decided mister Hodges to paint the living room.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Just the color that it is.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Smart girl, smart. Father could be.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
An How before our final surprise of the show, let's
go along with Jim to the kitchen as he peaks
him on Kathy.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
What are you up to, Kathy?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Nothing? Just fixing us? Awesome?
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Post him, Daddy, post him fine, Thank goodness, there's something
this family agrees on.
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Speaker 9 (26:01):
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Speaker 5 (26:19):
Much as coffee cup for cup.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
How about treating your family to post them often.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, it looked like the living room of the white
frame house on Maple Street was in for some pretty
startling changes there for a while. But the slightly worn
rug and the quaint old chair have a.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
New hassan life.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
In fact, about all that remains of the supermodern influence
in the Anderson living room this evening is a carefully
framed painting on the mantle, A strange piece of art.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Indeed, Father, I can't understand.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I can't understand what princess is.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Painting by mister Hodges.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Well look at that painting that Arthur did, that anger
and boiled eggs.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Who understands that?
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Well, that's not what I mean. How could mister Hodges,
a house painter, do something like this?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Arthur said, it was brilliant, showed great depth and understanding.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Well what's so amusing?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Oh, nothing except that that isn't the painting at all.
I framed it myself.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
If it isn't the painting, what is it?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
I took it out of Ted's pocket this morning.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
It's a rag you used to wipe his brushes.
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