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Who can turn the world on with her smile?

Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

Well, it's you, girl, and you should know it.

With each glance and every little movement you show it. Love is all alone,

need to waste it. You can never tell, why don't you take it?

You're gonna make it after all.

You're gonna make it after all.

I'm here at City Hall. Could you pick up a fishing license application for me?

Yeah, sure, Mr. Grant.

What kind of fish are going after this time, Lou?

Who cares?

They all look alike.

Hi, guys.

Hello, Ted.

Mary, you're going to have to come back to work after you're finished over

there. Oh, thank you.

Where are you off to, Mary? Oh, just running down to the Civic Center to go

through some records.

Oh. While you're there, could you pick up the new Montevati album?

Kinds of records. I'm doing some research.

Oh, well, in that case, forget about the Montevani.

Besides, I can pick one up anyway. There's a little record store in my

neighborhood. I'm there all the time.

It's buying them and taking them home, right, Ted?

I'm learning a language.

English?

Swedish. I've got a great 12 -lesson album. Why Swedish, Ted?

Well, here in Minneapolis, there are a lot of people with a Swedish persuasion.

You don't have a first language.

I'm getting a fishing license from my boss. What about you?

I'm getting a license, too.

Oh, fishing?

No. Marriage.

Oh.

Well.

Congratulations,

Dan. Who are you marrying?

Her.

Mary Richards, I'd like you to meet Judy Conrad.

Mary and her friend Rhoda took my journalism class last year. Oh, and he

wonderful teacher.

Gee, has it been a year already?

Yeah. Are you still living in the same place?

You still have that great little apartment?

Yeah.

See, we dated a little. I mean, it was nothing serious.

He only gave me a C.

A C plus.

He's still teaching? Yeah, you still at WJM? Yeah, still there.

Mr. Grant's still there.

Murray's still there.

And Ted?

Yeah, Ted is still there.

Excuse me, is this death certificates?

Oh, this is motor vehicle registration.

Oh, that'll do.

We're having our engagement party on Saturday. Why don't you come and bring

Rhoda, too?

Yes, please come.

I'd love to see you.

I mean, we'd love to see you, wouldn't we, Judy?

Love it.

God damn this thing.

Daddy, why are you putting yourself through all of this?

Honey, I just don't like the idea of you being up here alone with a lock that

any burglar can slip in five seconds.

I just hate to see you getting yourself so aggravated. Dear, when you're

retired, aggravation is about all the fun you have.

Hello, Dr. Richards.

Hey, Rhoda, how are you? Fine.

Hiya, ma 'am. You ready? Just a second. Good.

Tell me, when you were a surgeon and a heart didn't quite fit, did you ever

to... All dead.

Good, ma 'am. Hey, tell me again why we're going to an engagement party for a

guy you used to go with, but who is now marrying someone else.

Because he's a nice guy, a friend.

He asked us, and there's no reason not to.

Now tell me about her.

Was she young?

Yes. Young? How young? I don't know, 16 or 25.

Yeah, I blur in there, too.

You seem like a very nice couple.

Well, I'd say it's a very insecure relationship.

Married girls who need big engagement parties are very insecure.

I ought to know. I used to have them myself.

Without a fiancé.

Yes, won't you come in? Thank you.

I'm Judy's father.

Oh, hello. I'm Mary Richards, and this is Rhoda Morgenstern. Hi. Well, you're

just in time for the toast.

You hear that, Mayor? We're just in time for the toast.

I thought you said she wasn't going to come. No, I said she might not come.

Well, she's here.

Oh, hi.

Hi, Mary. Hi, Rhoda. Hiya, Dan. Oh, you're looking good.

Thanks.

This is another ex -pupil of mine, Rhoda Morgenstern. It's my fiancée, Judy

Conrad. Hello.

It's not like with Mary. I just took a course from him.

Judy, it's just a joke.

Okay, it's true. But it's also a joke.

Your parents have a lovely home. It's just lovely.

Thank you.

Dan, I want you to meet Millie and Frank. They just got here. Okay, in a

Well, I'll be over there.

Whenever you're finished.

Well, we just stopped in to say hello. We really have to be going. No, please,

please, don't leave.

Judy's just a little nervous about the party.

Now, there's some really interesting people here. Yeah, hiya, Dan. And this

isn't one of them.

Now, this is my best man, Jonas Slasser. What is it about you that suddenly made

me want to come over and say hello?

Dan, can you come here a minute, please?

Go ahead, Dan. I'll handle this.

Excuse me.

Hi, Rhoda Morgenstern, Janice. I'm Mary Richards.

Oh, you're the one they've been fighting about.

Rhoda, I think we've put in enough of an appearance. Let's go.

Don't go.

How can you leave now?

This is so exciting.

Exciting? Well, it is to me.

You see, I teach paleontology. Oh, yeah, birds.

No, fossils.

Bones, mostly bones.

That's the same thing day in and day out. Dead stuff.

This, this is life.

Do you know what I mean?

Live stuff.

Rhoda, I really think we ought to leave.

Can I get you something to eat? Yeah, I'd really love it. Mary, let's just

a bite to eat, huh? Well, I'll be waiting for you here by the door.

Rhoda?

Has anyone ever told you you have very nice bones?

Oh, yes.

And I came already assembled.

Mary, you haven't got a drink. Oh. Come on. Well.

Gee, it's nice to see you again.

You really look terrific.

Thank you.

We used to have some good times, didn't we?

Yes, we did.

How come we stopped seeing each other? Oh.

I don't know. You went your way, I went my way, and here we are.

And here's Judy.

Hello.

Dan,

I told you I wanted you to meet Millie and Frank. Well, I just did.

No, that was Iris and Paul.

Oh, they seemed like Millie and Frank.

Well, come meet Millie and Frank.

Uh, in a minute.

Dan, I would like you to help me get something in the den.

What do you want in the den? Just something in the den.

Mary, excuse me a minute. I've got to get something in the den.

You want it on the rise?

No, with some water.

Thanks, John.

Luda, I think we have put in more than an appearance.

Okay, Mia, we'll leave just as soon as I finish eating. Dan, I told you I didn't

want her here, and now I want your friend Mary to go.

Judy, this is ridiculous. The only reason I invited her is because Mary is

old friend.

Mary, I...

I've heard so much about.

You know, it's really nice spending an evening at home for a change. Yeah, it

must be really great not to have to worry, where is Dan taking me tonight?

To the theater? To the movies?

To a cozy little French restaurant?

That sort of stuff can drive a person crazy.

It's not having dinner in a French restaurant that bothers me.

It's having dinner with his parents.

You've had dinner with his parents already?

Yeah, four times in the last three weeks.

Had to keep going back till you finished the roast, right?

You know where Dan is tonight?

This is the first night this week that Dan and I haven't gone out. He's at a

basketball game with my father.

Aren't you glad they get along so well, ma 'am? Oh, yeah, everybody gets along

just great.

Dan and Dad are the best of pals.

Dan's folks love me.

I love his folk.

Folks love my folks.

My folks love his folks.

I think Dan's the greatest guy I've ever known. There's just one problem.

I think he's going to ask me to marry him.

What's the very least you could do after you busted up his engagement?

Hold on.

He did not bust up his engagement.

I know. I know that, kid.

What's wrong?

Don't you love him?

Yeah, I do.

Maybe. I don't know. I need time.

Well, the guy obviously loves you, ma 'am. Well, he's said so a couple of

but, you know, he must have said so to Judy.

He couldn't have loved her that much. I think he's just in a mood to get

married, you know?

Well, if he is, I don't want to encourage him because I'm not.

I mean, not right now, anyway. I don't think.

But I might.

You do, but you don't, but you might, right?

Right. Oh, I have to meet Jonas in half an hour. Where are you going?

He's taking me to dinner tonight.

Well, that ought to be fun.

Well, Mary, going to dinner with a paleontologist can get very

Last restaurant we were in, he started reconstructing the bones of his duck.

Move your lips to a tape of Walter Cronkite. You just might have something.

Where is she?

Mary? You only have one hour for lunch. I know, Mr. Grant, and I'm sorry.

But if you need two hours, that's okay.

Hi, Dan. Hi, Lou.

Hi, fellas. Hi.

Hi, Tom.

How you doing?

I'm terrific.

Yeah, I can see that.

Say, for me to ask you, when are you going to come by and lecture to my class

again? Uh, sorry, Dan, I can't. Why not?

Well, because the reason is, uh, I hate that stuff.

Uh... Oh, uh, speaking of class.

You teach at the university, right? That's right, television journalism.

I'd be glad to do it.

How much does it pay?

Well, all of our guest lecturers work for nothing.

Oh.

Well, it's wonderful, isn't it?

So many people are willing to give of their time.

Yeah. The only trouble is we haven't figured out what kind yet.

I'll see you tonight, Mary. Right. Thanks for lunch. Okay. So long, Marie.

So long. Drop by any time, Dan.

Any time at all.

Sometimes we've talked about things that were kind of personal to me,

and it helped.

I thought I could return the favor.

Oh, maybe you're right, Mr. Grant.

It's just that everybody seems to think that Dan is a great guy.

You do.

Murray does.

My mother does. My father does.

It's probably better if I do.

Well, are you sure? Because this sounds awfully personal. Well, I know it is,

but... How about your father? He's probably a good person to talk to. No,

too close to Dan to be objective.

I don't know. Mr.

Dan, it just seems like I... Like something's missing.

Well, 24 years ago, when I was working as a stringer on the AP,

Edie didn't want to marry me either.

We had different interests.

She didn't like baseball.

And she said she wasn't sure she loved me either.

But I pressed her, and she married me.

And over the years, she came to me.

She learned the strike zone.

Anyway, all I'm trying to say is head over heels may never

happen.

Mr. Grant?

Are you head over heels in love with Edie now?

You know, if you had a man around here, you wouldn't have these problems.

I do have a man around here. That's why I'm having these problems.

My father.

Oh, he's really a great guy.

Yeah, he is. I just wish he wouldn't worry about me so much.

Well, I can't blame him.

I mean, I guess he won't stop worrying until you get married.

Oh, thank you. Why don't I see if I can't get that keto?

open up a subject like this.

You want to get married?

Boy, that really opens it right up, doesn't it?

Well?

Dan, I know what I'm going to say may sound a little, you know, negative,

have scared me, but now that I know I don't have to get married, it doesn't

scare me.

Oh. Then why did you say no?

Dan, it's not that I don't care for you. Chinese food!

Wait,

don't tell me your father finally found a foolproof lock. Right.

Hi, Jonas.

Hi, Mary.

Guess what we have in here? Chinese food. We heard you. Listen, Rhoda, when

get upstairs, would you call my father and see if he can come over and let us

in? Well, come on up. Thus, we'll all have Chinese food. Why are you so

about Chinese food? Well, you never had it before.

Can you believe this? A man who has never had Chinese food in his whole

Listen, Rod, I owe you a lot. You're opening up a whole new world for me.

What did you say that was again?

An egg roll.

thing about no.

Boy, Dan, it's not that I don't care for you a lot.

Mary, I don't get it. I mean, we're very compatible.

We're both mature.

We have a lot of the same interests. We both like music.

And we both hate anchovies.

I mean, what else do we need?

Time. Dan, what would you say if I said I just wanted to wait a little while?

Well, I'm ready now.

No, but Dan...

I've been thinking about this all week long, and I figured that if I have to

think about it, then I'm not ready, you know? No, I don't understand. Here you

go.

Lychee chicken.

Also, pork fried rice and Chinese pea pods with water chestnuts. Yeah. And

envegral. Jonas, I don't think they want lychee chicken.

Oh, just eat the rest of the stuff, then.

Do you know how to use chopsticks?

Yeah, yeah. Thanks, Jonas.

Rhoda's going to teach me. Yeah, right now, Jonas.

Come on.

I guess we've said it all. Goodbye, Mary. It's been a lot of fun.

Dan.

What? Don't go.

I mean, just because I said I don't want to marry you right now doesn't mean we

have to stop seeing each other, does it?

Well, it's kind of a waste of time, isn't it?

Is it a waste of time when two people like each other and hate anchovies?

All I know is I'm ready to get married.

I know. I mean, I'm really... ready.

I mean, I don't know how long I can last.

I don't know either, but I do know something. I know that you are not going

leave me alone with two plates of leachy chicken.

What about Rhodey? You think she's ready?

Hi,

Walt. Hi, Dad. Oh, hi.

What seems to be the trouble here? The lock doesn't work.

Oh, the lock works? Look.

It's this damn key that doesn't work.

You know, if you'd hurry up and ask her to marry you, I wouldn't have to worry

about locks.

I did ask her to marry me.

You did?

Oh, wonderful.

Congratulations. Honey, I'm so happy for you. Now, Walter, she said no.

Oh?

Well, she knows you better than I do.

Glad to hear that, ma 'am. You know something, though? I think he was

to find out that I am not living my life in a constant search for the right man

to marry.

You know something?

I was pretty surprised to find that out myself.

I know.

There was a time when I went to bed every night thinking, well, there goes

another day not married.

Now, I just wait till New Year's Eve and think, there goes another year not

married.

Mary, I tell you, it's progress.

Hey, listen, I have really got to get to bed. Yeah, kid, me too.