Maggie: Ah, shut up Jason!
Jason: Speaking of babies, can we just get on with this one? Thank you. Carol: Its ok mike. We got the right room this time.
Jason: Hi kids. Come on in. Where’s Ben? Mike: Ben. Ah, I mean Ben. Carol: We're certainly not here looking for him. Jason: Where is he? Mike: The cafeteria. Carol: The waiting room. Mike: the waiting room. Carol: The cafeteria.
Mike: He's waiting in the cafeteria. Jason: A little squeamish about coming in hu? Mike: Yeah. We got to tare this place apart until we find him. Carol: I know. Jason: You just go tell him its not so scary being in here. Mike: I've being trying to tell you for the last hour Carol. Maggie: and Jason: (making birth noises) Voice: Doctor Sullivan call your wife. Patient: Damn. Yo pal. Can you fetch that for me? I don’t bend over so good.Ben: Uh yeah. Patient: Thanks, I owe you. Ben: Can you smoke in a hospital? Patient: Are you a doctor? Ben: No. Patient: A nurse?Ben: No. Patient: An orderly? Ben: No. Patient: I can smoke in a hospital. So who the hell are you?Ben: Ben Seaver.Patient: Ben Seaver! The Ben Seaver?Ben: You've heard of me?
Ben: Nothing.
Patient: I mean talk. jaw, chat. Get down. Come in. Nice place hu? Oh, by the way, I’m Chris
Ben: Ok. Patient: So, let me guess, you wander hospitals for a living? Ben: No.
Patient: You're not much of a conversationalist, are you? You got some problems? Ben: I don’t know. Patient: Oh come on. You're the first person I’ve seen around here without a needle in his hand. Maybe I can help you out with your problem. It would make me feel better. You know I love to have guys tell me their problems. That’s what I do for a living. Ben: My dad does the same thing. Patient: No kidding. He's a bar tender too?
Mike: I don’t know what that must have been. I must have inhaled some of the anesthesia or something. Jason: Yeah.Carol: Probably your socks.Jason: Now I just want you to take it easy for a while. OK? Maggie: Excuse me Jason, there is another patient here. Jason: Oh yes, yes. This is my special patient. My one and only patient. Carol: You're not going to wimp out of helping me look for Ben, are you?
biggest lesson I’ve learned is, well, all those old clichés are true. Time does heel all wounds. Life does go on. Twelve year olds do not listen to you. Now look, cos I didn't now it was your birthday, I didn't have time to wrap your present. But take it anyway hu? Its a little advice from an old man. You know, I’ll tell you, I’ve been a lot of things; a bar tender, a veteran, a cowanian, or is it a Rotarian, I can never get that right. Also, I’ve, I’ve also been a husband, a father, a son. But you know the thing I enjoyed being best? A big brother.Ben: Big brother. Patient: You got a big brother? What do you think of him?
Ben: Oh he's the best. He treats me like a doofus, but he's the greatest guy I know.Patient: Now think about how nice it will be to have someone around who thinks that same way about you. I mean, even if you did treat him like a goofus. Ben: Doofus. Patient: Whatever. Ben Seaver, you are a lucky man. You are not being replaced. You're being added on to. Hey pal, this is not a gift you are going to get every birthday. From now on, you are going to be Big Brother Ben. Ben: Big Brother Ben? Patient: Another thing I’ve learned as a bartended is that if you can’t solve a guys problem,
Ben: I know. My big brother told it to me. Patient: Well that’s enough of corrupting the morals of a minor. Let’s get back to gambling. Alright, you ready? Ben: Ready. Patient: Got any sevens? Ben: Go fish. You know Chris, smoking those things is bad for ya. Patient: Ah, it’s alright Bennie. These cigars won’t hurt me. Nothing will. Ben: So, are you getting out of here real soon.
Patient: Yeah. Soon. Ben: Great, cos maybe you can come visit me then. Chris? Patient: Your turn, your turn. Mike: Hey Ben. What the heck have you been doing? Ben: Gambling and telling dirty jokes. Carol: Ben, we've been looking all over for you. Ben: I didn't know. Mike: Yeah, I hope my stupid brother hasn’t been bothering you. Patient: Oh, he's been a real pain in the neck. Mike: Come on Ben. The new babies here. Lets go.
Carol: Can I hold her? Now it’s finally even. Mike, do you want to hold her?
Mike: No, I might break her or something.Carol: Weenie. Ben: Major weenie. Mike: Alright I’ll hold her. Wow, she weighs less than a bowling ball. I was never this small. Maggie: Oh you were. Mike: A whole new Seaver. I guess that makes six of us now. Well I’m... Jason: Growing up? Mike: Yeah. Never thought I’d be this..alergic.
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Jason: Well there are some things in life that no amount of planning can ever make you ready for. Maggie: And holding a new born baby is probably the best one in the whole world. Mike: Hey Ben, you want to hold her? Jason: You're big brother Ben now. Ben: Big brother Ben. Jason: So what do you think? Ben: I think she's cool. Jason: She's cool. Maggie: Look Jason, we can’t hold off naming her any longer now.
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沪江英语Maggie: Jason, if I tell you something, will you promise not to laugh? Jason: Sure. Maggie: I miss Mike already. Jason: Excuse me. Ah ha ha ha. Eggs or pancakes. Maggie: You know what I think? Well I’ll tell you what I think. I think you miss Mike as much as I do. Jason: Honey, he just moved out seven hours ago for crying out aloud. And its just over the garage. Maggie: I guess this is something that all parents have to go through. Facing the day when their baby leaves the nest and doesn’t need anything from them anymore. Mike: Dad I need your tool box. Jason: Basement, behind the dryer. Mike: Alright thanks. Maggie: Mike, have a meal. Mike: Sorry mum, no time. I have tons of work to do on my place. Believe me, you guys will not be disappointed. I am taking to independence like Carol takes to food. Jason: Still miss him? Carol: Good morning all. The first Mike free morning. I love it. Mike: Behind the washer or dryer? Jason: Dryer. Carol: I thought you moved? Mike: I thought you showered. Maggie: Well I have to change the baby. Carol, will you set the table please? Carol: Well it was my day yesterday. Today is Mike’s day. Jason: Well Mike has chores at his own place now. Some of the load will have to shift. Carol: So how come every time a load gets shifted, it plops on me? Jason: Carol, I’m trying to cook food here.
Carol: Ok, ok, its beneath me to complain. Ben: Anything beneath you.. Carol: One word from you, and you will wish, as I do, that you’d never been born. Ben: What? Carol: So now that Mikes gone, its your job to insult me? Ben: You got it jumbo. Jason: Ben! Mike: Alright. Electrical tape? Jason: Living room end table drawer. Mike: Thanks.
Mike: Thirty, forty and fifty. Jason: Well congratulations Mike. You're first months rent on your first apartment, paid in full and on time. Mike: The first of many dad. Jason: Carol, I think you should consider having a little more faith in your brother now that he's out on his own. Maggie: Jason, do you have any cash? I need to go shopping and I just lent all mine to Mike.
Jason: Mike! Mike: Hey dad. What’s up? Jason: Your scam. Did you really think it was alright to borrow your rent money from mum?Mike: Yeah. Hey could you hold this? Jason: Mike, come on. Now we had an agreement about you renting, that we, uh, agreed to. Now here is your first day and.. Mike: Yeah, but you didn’t say anything about where I got the rent money. Jason: No, but come on. Mike: Can you pull it a little tighter? Jason: Sure. Mike: Thanks.
Mike: Yeah thanks. See you later. Jason: Well what do you know. What do you know what do you know, what do you know wo wo. Maggie: Jason!Jason: Listen to this. Do you know what Mike just said?Maggie: Mikes not here Jason and you're hopping up and down all alone. Jason: No but he was here. Listen to this. He just said he was going to class. Maggie: Mike who?
Jason: Our son. That’s not all. He also said that he wanted to honor our agreement. I'm not making this up. Maggie: Wow.Jason: And, he also apologized for borrowing the rent money from you so he could pay the rent. Maggie: That’s why he wanted the money? Jason: Yeah.Maggie: But he said that was for food. He lied to me. Jason: He realizes that.Maggie: Of course he realizes it. He did it.Jason: Calm down. Maggie: Well Jason, I certainly cant let him get away with lying to me. Jason: Oh yes you can, wait a bit.Maggie: I can. Jason: He lied to you to honor our agreement. Maggie: Oh and that's more important?
Maggie: And he was so sweet about it. I didn’t even have to ask. I mean, I got to hand it to you. You were right and...wait a minute, there's a bag missing.Jason: well, we're going to have a son missing too. Maggie: You don’t know that he took it. Jason: Took what? Maggie: What have we been talking about?Jason: Talking about the fact that Mike is still here when he said he was going to class. Maggie: We were?
Jason: Yes Maggie. He lied to me. Maggie: You seem upset. Jason: Of course I am. Wouldn’t you be? Maggie: I would. I was. I am. Lets go talk to him. Jason: No Maggie. Wait a minute., The easiest thing in the world for me to do would be to go up there and treat him like a spoilt child. But we agreed, we're going to give him some room, some freedom. The freedom to fail.Maggie: we gave him the freedom, he failed. Lets go.
Jason: Ok. Boner: Thanks. Though, I’ve got to hand it to you , doctor Seaver, I think its great that you are letting Mike move out, screw around and stay out all night, miss classes, and not yelling at him or anything. That’s what I call being a decent father. Jason: You have no idea what hearing you say that means to me Boner. Boner: I mean my dad gets nervous if I spend more than five minutes in the bathroom. Can you imagine what he'd do if I spent three hundred bucks on a water bed? woops!
Mike: Hey there dad. Jason: Hey Mike. Long day? Mike: Yeah. College aint no nine to five job.Jason: Hungry? Mike: Yeah, just a little bit. Jason: well never mind that cold baloney. I saved you a plate. Mike: Ah thanks. That’s mighty nice of you dad. Jason: I good hot meal to help you study.Mike: It didn’t all through high school. Jason: So that’s meat loaf, green beans, and potatoes. Mike: Yep, sure is. what’s this? Jason: Your check. Mike: You're charging me now? Jason: Uh hu.
Mike: what did you do? Hire some private detective or something? Jason: Oh come on. Don’t change the subject.
Mike: I'm not. The subject is that you have been acting more like a dad ever since I moved out, than you did when I lived here. Jason: Look, I gave you total freedom mike. Unfortunately you showed that you cant handle it. So now I got to take it back. Mike: Well you cant have it. Jason: So what. So you don’t want my help anymore? My guidance? Mike: No.Jason: Oh wait a minute. Just before you say that Mike, just think. Think. Yeah, I could treat
you like a stranger, like a tenant. With no freebies and no bending of the rules. Or I could treat you like my son. Now yes, there's occasional interference which goes along with that, but also all the love and support. Now come on. So what’s it going to be, tenant or son? Mike: I'll take tenant! Jason: Oh fine. If that’s the way you want it.. Mike: That’s the way I want it. Jason: Well if that’s the way you want it then. that’s the way it will be. from now on, I have no son.
Jason: And he's naive enough to think he's got it made.
Boner: Hey, us trio of guys are going to have great times in this bed. Mike: Boner! Eddie: Shut up Bone head. Michael, I’m ashamed of myself man. I mean when I heard you wee moving out over the garage instead of a real apartment, well I’ll just say it, I thought you were wimping out. Boner: Bite your tongue!
Eddie: Hey you bite it. But I now see I was wrong. You have got your parental units all wrapped around your little finger you dog. Mike: Nah, I don’t have any units. my parents disowned me.Eddie: You lucky stiff. Now this apartment aint quite as big as mine, but it will do.Mike: Yeah, well you got to share yours with your cousin. Eddie: Yeah well, Dennis goes his way and I go mine. At least I still don’t live at home with mummy and daddy. Boner: Hey, I want to move out. I'm just not allowed to. Mike: Hey, who turned off the water?
Mike: Hey, what’s going on?
Mike: See you later guys. Eddie: Have a good time.Boner: Bye. Mike: Yep, this is great. I can do anything I want. This is living.
Jason: Hold on to it Ben. Yes that’s it. Yes, swish. Almost swish. Good, lets see how you do against a little defense. Ready? Ho ho ho ho. Up and in. Hey, great move son. Ben: Thanks for showing it to me dad.
Jason: Well that’s what fathers are for. Spending some quality time with their sons. You'll appreciate that when you get a little older. And speaking of getting older Ben, isn’t it about time I raised your allowance? Ben: Say, it sure is. Jason: What would you say to another ten dollars a week? Ben: How bout we make it twenty? Jason: We rehearsed this Ben. Ben: So you will give me twenty?Jason: Well there it is lad, another twenty dollars. Ben: Gee being the oldest son is OK. Jason: That’s enough Ben Ben: I wouldn’t be surprised if I live here my whole life. Jason: Don’t get carried away. Ben: Man, when I grow up, I’m never moving out.
Ben: With me? Mike: Yeah with you, mum, carol, the baby and uh, you know, everybody. Ben: Well, carols in a panic because she gained a pound and a half. Mums not talking to dad, dads not talking to mum, and I made twenty bucks. Is this thing legal? Mike: Yeah, in some states. Hey, why don’t you stay for dinner? Ben: Dinner. Um, I’m supposed to.. Mike: I got your favorite, baked beans. Ben: Um, no, see, that’s what I’m here fro. I'm supposed to invite you to a family dinner at
that restaurant with the ninety none foot salad bar. Mike: Family dinner. Uh, whose inviting me? Ben: Well, I’m not supposed to say. Dad would kill me.Mike: Dad! Ben: Oh, no.. Mike: No worries Benny. I wont tell dad that you spilled your guts. Ben: Thanks. Mike: Well, well. Dads inviting me to a family dinner. Isn’t that interesting. Carol: Did you tell dad that you invited Mike?
Maggie: That’s it. That’s it, I am not going to stand here and listen to the two of you butt heads.Mike: Do you hear what she called us? Jason: Maggie, you are getting so excited. Maggie: You bet I am. And I should have got excited the minute you two started acting like tenant and landlord instead of father and son. I mean what a load of poppy cock. Pardon my language. But the truth is Mike, you can never be just a tenant. I mean if it were that easy to get rid of a child who was acting like a total jack arse, and lets face it mike, skipping class,
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lying, not paying your rent because you wasted it on a water bed, is being a total jack arse. If it were that easy to turn your kids into tenants, there would be parents with renters in every home in every garage in North America and Canada. And Jason, what burns me up is that you know better. But honey sometimes you've got the temperature on high, and nothing in the oven.Jason: Well I’m.. Maggie: Don’t interrupt me. I'm hungry. Ben: Me too! Maggie: But I don’t want to go out anymore. I want to cook for my family, my entire family.
