Ben: Did you see that sucker blow? You tell me I'm gonna screw up now, huh? Jason: Ben, come on, you ruined every thing here. Ben: No, I'm sure, if I can get it to work once, it will work...
Mike: Ah, excuse us, excuse us. Dad, we have food right here staring us in the face, and the
people are showing up here in eight minutes, what are you doing? Jason: Mike, I can't lie to the guy. Mike: But Dad, think of all the people you're gonna be helping with your health clinic. Jason: Mike, there's never a time to lie. Son, we ordered five pizzas, not one. And that was thirty one minutes ago, so they're free. Pizza boy: Oh, come on. Jason: Don't mess with me kid, I got nothing to lose. Mike: And I thought there was never a time to lie. Jason: I was lying! I was lying! look, I'm not Cussman, I'm a psychiatrist, but I need this food
Mike: Is this a fabulous machine, or what? Jason: Alright, everything's all cleaned up, we got five minutes to shower shampoo and get dressed.
Maggie: Alright, bite-sized pizza. Jason: Oh honey, I'm sorry I called you pudding head. Maggie: Mmm, and I'm sorry I said I wished you'd got our wedding date wrong. Jason: When'd you say that? Maggie: Several times today. Jason: Be faster if we shower together. Carol: Oh great, this sink is clogged. Mike: Hey, that's no problem at all for the owner of a wet-dry vac. Just step aside, both of you. Allow me. Just put your hose in the right port, and blow your problems away. If you'll notice, I'm not even working up a sweat. Maggie: Carol!Jason: What's going on? Maggie: The food!
Maggie: Oh, Stinky, you are wonderful. Jason: How'd you know we needed food? Stinky: Ben called me. Maggie: Our Ben. Stinky: And I brought my accordian in case you wanna get down and get funky.
Jason: now just get everybody casual now. Casual. Maggie: Casual. Jason: Somebody should get the door. No, I'll get it. Stinky: If I can do anything to help, just ask. Jason: Yeah. Hello, come in, welcome. Rich: Hi, I'm Rich. Mike: Boy, these people just come right out and say it.
Jason: Drive safely, thank you. Listen, thank you so much for that contribution, Rich. Rich: I had a fabulous afternoon. Rich's wife: Your eclectic display of food was an eloquent statement on the needy causes of today. Maggie: Well, we figured...why put on a show. Jason: And hey listen, your donation was really more than I ever could have hoped for. Rich: Well I figured, the more people we have feeling good about themselves, the less people we have calling me a heartless slum lord. Jason: Words to live by. Rich: Ta-ta. Maggie: Ta-ta. Jason: Thank you.
Rich's wife: Good bye dear, nice to meet you. Maggie: Nice meeting you. Jason and Maggie: Woo!Jason: We did it. Carol: How can you say that? I didn't even get to meet Donald Trump. Stinky: Oh, I forgot that dude was here. Maggie: What?
Carol: You met Donald Trump! Stinky: Yeah, who is he? Mike: I'm not the only stupid one around here. Stinky: But he told me to give you this. Jason: Ten thousand Dollars!!! Ben: For some beef jerky and Cool-ade! Jason: Hey, hey, we did alright guys! Maggie: Oh, we did! Jason: Yes. You know the true test of character is grace under pressure, and I think we all scored pretty darn well today. Come on, we pulled together as a family, as a team. Nobody got petty, nobody got selfish, nobody got irrational. Maggie: Here here! Jason: Now, let's remember that in the troubled times ahead. Ben: I'm really glad you made that speech, because for a while there, I was starting to think
Jason: Ah, you're not alone Ben. For a while I had my doubts about this whole silly episode.
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favourite child. Maggie: Get your ear pearled! Ben: Ah, yeah. Maggie: Right, Benny, in your dreams. Ben: Mom, can't we at least discuss this? Maggie: No we can't. I am not going to have a child of mine disfiguring his face for fashion. Mike: That's what I told him. Maggie: Mike, what do you have to do with this? Mike: Well, I'm just trying to help, Mom. Look, if you need the kid smacked around a little bit, I'm happy to serve! Jason: Hello everybody, I'm... Ben: Dad, will you tell Mom, it's just a small hole that can grow shut. Jason: ...home. Ben: Hey, all the other guys are getting 'em.
Jason: Save it, it's not what it looks like, OK? I am not whipped. I am simply empathizing with your mother's position here; she wants me to step aside so she can do the parenting, and that's very important for her own self-worth.
Mike: I was just gonna ask you to borrow some money. Jason: I thought you wanted to talk... Ha ha. Mike: Ha ha. Jason: Ha ha. Mike: So what do you say? Jason: Na, na.
Maggie: Where do you get these ideas? From now on I am gonna have to keep a much closer eye on your friends, your TV viewing habits, your record albums, and maybe I'll even monitor a phone call or two. Ben, you've had too much freedom, and it's coming to a halt. Ben: Is Dad coming in soon? Maggie: No, Ben, I am handling this, not your father. Ben: Yes, ma'am. And I was just telling Stinky how you're so understanding and your so much
better than Dad is. Maggie: Don't try to con me... Really? No, no, Ben, getting an earring is just not something I'm gonna allow you to do. Ben: But you have your ears pearled, right? Maggie: Yes, I do. Ben: And so does Carol, right? Maggie: Yes... Ben: So, this is sexism. Maggie: Sexism! Ben: Yeah, it means making a decision... Maggie: I know what it means, Ben. Nice try, but ah ah! Ben: Well can I at least go down to the mall and tell Stinky, I'm not allowed. Maggie: Stinky's already there! Ben: Yeah, he's waiting for me in women's underwear.
Jason: Fine. Maggie: Fine. Jason: Being sensitive to your needs here, Maggie, I recognize that you want to get back into that day-to-day parenting mode, without me, over your shoulder, second guessing you all the time. Even though...you know, not all the things you do are...quite right. Maggie: I see. Jason: I don't mean that they're wrong, either Maggie, just err... Maggie: Ah ha.
Jason: Boy, something smells good around here! Maggie: Oh! I can't imagine why, I haven't started dinner yet. Jason: No, that's my point; imagine how good it's gonna smell when you do.
Maggie: So, Stinky's not there either. Aha, well when Ben shows up, please send him home, he was due back an hour ago. Yes, thank you Mrs. Sullivan. Don't say it. Jason: What? I wasn't gonna say a word about how this is the first time I can remember Ben being late for a meal. Mike: Oh, Mom, I am starved, when’s dinner? Maggie: After Ben gets home and I check his ears for holes, which I better not find, or he will rue the day he was born. Mike: Well can I get something to go? I'll wait. Hey, Dad, why are you smiling? Jason: No, n...n...no I'm not smiling. I'm not. Yes, I'm smiling but it's just the love that I have
for all of you bubbling out. Carol: Hi! Sorry I'm late for dinner. Mike: You're not. Mom and Dad are fighting. Jason and Maggie: We are not. Mike: See. Maggie: Carol, sit, we'll eat as soon as Ben gets back. Carol: Back from where? Mike: From not getting an earring. Carol: An earring. Well Dad, I assume you nipped that in the bud. Maggie: No, he didn't, I did. Not your father, me; the woman who bore you after eighteen hours of labour. Carol: Sorry, I just assumed that Dad jumped in and took over like he always does. Jason: I certainly did not.
Maggie: A tattoo, a tattoo, you got a tattoo! Ben: But it says, mother. Maggie: I don't care what it says, Ben. Do you realise for the rest of your life you'll be walking around with my name on your arm?Ben: Well, we could add an S, and it would say, smother. Maggie: Oh. Don't tempt me, Ben. How could you do this to your body? Do you realise that when I was pregnant with you, I walked around for nine months and didn't have a single cup of coffee so that your body would be perfect. Now look at you, I could have gone to Columbia and sucked beans off trees. Ben: You never said I couldn't get a tattoo. Maggie: OK, fine, fine. Then let's go over all the other possibilities. You not stick Knives up you nose, you may not gargle with razor blades, you may not drink water directly out of the toilet. Ben: So, Mom, are you saying that this tattoo is a lot worse than a little hole in my ear?
Jason: No. Maggie: I'm saying it means no more short-sleeved shirts, ever. Mike: Why don't you go up there and straighten this thing out? Jason: No, no, that wouldn't be fair to your mother. Maggie: Ben, I am starting to get angry. Mike: Well, don't you think she's a little nuts over some tattoo that just washes off. Jason: Yeah. Mike: You think that maybe she doesn't know that it's a fake? Jason: Hey Mike, it's not my place to second guess what your mother does or doesn't know about these matters. Mike: Oh, come on Dad, somebody's got to tell her that Ben's just trying to freak her out with this tattoo, so that an earring would be a relief. Jason: Hey, wait, wait, wait. Don't you go anywhere. Mike: Dad, if this keeps up, she's gonna throw him out the window!
Maggie: Carol, please, I don't need any more advice right now, please. Carol: But Mom, I see your strategy here and I just want to tell you, woman-to-woman, I think it's brilliant. Maggie: Pardon me. Carol: You're gonna have the last laugh on Dad. Maggie: What are you talking about? Carol: He's down there with Mike, just waiting for you to blow it. Maggie: He is! Carol: He actually thinks that you're foolish enough to believe Ben's tattoo is real. Maggie: He does. Carol: Now I see where Ben gets his gullibility. Maggie: Yeah, well, I... Carol: So, what's next?
Maggie: Well, I... Carol: Of course, you let the weasel stew in his own juices until he admits what he was trying to pull. Maggie: Carol, there is never an excuse for calling your father a weasel. Carol: I meant Ben. Maggie: Oh, well right, I can see Carol, that you're on to my plan. Carol: Men, who needs 'em.
Maggie: Ben... Ben: Mom, there’s something I wanna tell you... Maggie: Let me guess. That that tattoo washes off. Ben: You knew that! Maggie: Of course I did. Ben: Wow. Maggie: Didn't you expect me to be that smart?
Maggie: Jason, is it too much to expect you to trust me to handle a little thing like this? Jason: Well, is it too much for me to ask you exactly what was said? Maggie: No, no, no, it's just the reason why you're asking. I mean you were dying to jump in
to tell me what to do, and now you're dying to know what I did so that you can see that I didn't blow it. Jason: Oh, come on honey, now that's not true. You know, it's just that all those years that you worked, well this was my job, and I kind of miss it. And I have every confidence that you just dealt with it great. Maggie: Good. Good night. Jason: Bet I can even tell you what you did. Maggie: Oh? Jason: Yep. I bet you punished Ben for that whole tattoo scam and then you hung tough on your decision for no earring, right? Maggie: Possibly. Jason: Possibly! Maggie: Oh, Jason, if I tell you what I did, do you promise not to criticize, do you promise not
to second guess? Jason: Word of honour. Maggie: OK, I didn't punish Ben for his fake tattoo thing. Jason: Oh, Maggie!!! Maggie: Jason, you promised. And I told him that if it was really important to him that he could have his earring. Jason: No, come on Maggie. Maggie: Jason I... Jason: No, I was going like this.
Mike: Oy Dad, Dad, what did Ben get? Jason: Mike, this doesn't concern you. Mike: Oh, come on, Dad, what did Mom give him? One month, two months, no allowance?
Maggie: You want Ben to get his ear pearled now? Jason: Oh, I don't know what I told him Maggie... Wait a minute, isn't that what you told him? Maggie: No, I told him he had to wait two months and then see if he really wanted it. Jason: Well you didn't mention that last night! Maggie: Well with all the clapping it must have slipped my mind. Carol: Did, I hear the little rat-face right? Dad put his two Cents in and messed everything up. Jason: Carol, basically...yes. Maggie: Carol, go tell Ben that my original punishment still stands. Carol: Gladly, and if he resists, I'll slap him around. Jason: You were playing with me. Maggie: God help me, I was. Jason: Why? Maggie: Oh, Jason, it's important that you trust me, I mean totally trust me to deal with the
