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What would we do, baby, without us?

And there

ain't no nothing we can't love each other through.

What would we do, baby, without us?

Sha -la -la -la.

We did it. We won.

Yay!

You know how lucky you are, Andy?

Born under Reagan, raised under Bush. I mean, with any luck at all, you will

have a completely Democrat -free childhood.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

What about Dad? He took it really hard.

Yeah, well, you know, what can you say? The man was completely decockethized.

He said you were bushwhacked.

Good morning.

Oh, I feel great.

Me too.

I bet I know why, Jen.

It's a shopper's sky.

Shopper's sky?

I knew you'd like that.

Oh, I didn't realize that another meeting of the Young Republican Gloaters

was in session.

Want to sit in?

Yeah, Jed.

Join us.

Just to refresh your memory, Bush won.

I'm warning you, Alex. I've had enough of this.

Read my lips.

That felt good.

Shopper's sky.

What?

You don't want to know, Mom.

Hi. What happened to you? We were stride for stride there for a while. I had to

stop. I got a pain right here.

A burning feeling.

Must have been something I ate.

What'd you eat?

Just my usual breakfast.

Already helping your tofu buckwheat loaf.

Look no further, Dad.

There it goes again. What is that?

Does it hurt really bad, Dad?

No,

Andy, it just hurts a little.

Think about Mickey Mouse.

No.

It worked for me.

I don't know what to say. The buckwheat was fresh.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Dad, Jennifer and I really need to go shopping.

I'll let your dad finish his paint first, dear.

Well, how long are you going to be?

And just a few more good, sharp stabs, I'll be with you.

Well, because there's a really big sale going on, and, well, I'm sure you

noticed the shopper's sky.

I heard the birds singing all about it.

Don't forget to fill the tank.

Okay. Feel better, Dad.

Hope you feel better.

The tofu was fresh, too, I swear.

You know, Dad, it may not be that tofu buckwheat loaf after all, although it

certainly remains our prime suspect.

No, Dad, my guess is that you're suffering from a little -known malady

Dukakis separation anxiety.

Go away.

All right.

Come on, George.

Oh, no.

I'm telling you. I don't care, Andy. Enough's enough.

Alex, come quick.

Jen's got George.

Freeze, Democrats.

Now.

Give me George.

Come on, nice and slow. Nothing fancy. Come on.

Okay, Alex, but I'm throwing out your Ron and Nancy pillowcases.

Don't let her out of your sight.

George.

George, George, George, George, George.

George.

Aren't you glad you listened to me, George?

I told you, lose that high -pitched squeaky voice.

Look people straight in the eye.

and never, ever mention Pearl Harbor again.

And you did it, George.

You won.

Congratulations.

Of course, it's not perfect.

Democrats have the Congress.

All right, okay, we still have the veto.

And if we want to, George, for the next four years, we can make sure absolutely

nothing gets done.

George.

Excuse me, Alex. I didn't realize you were in conference.

It's all right, Dad. We're just winding down.

Oh, look at you, Dad. You look like you're obviously feeling better.

Much better. I just cycled down to Darby Creek Park. You know, I think it might

have been all that jogging that wasn't working for me.

You know, all that pounding may have shifted the buckwheat.

Very possibly.

when that happens.

Well, listen, I think I'm gonna throw that buckwheat loaf out, okay?

I'll give you a call if I need a hand lifting it.

You know, I've had about enough of this.

I'm going to get something out of them.

Excuse me.

All right. Okay. All right.

Okay.

He's still being examined.

He'll let us know, you know.

What do you think happened, Mom? I mean... Oh, honey, we obviously don't

But we're just going to make ourselves crazy if we try to guess.

Shortness of breath.

Dizziness, pain?

You know, it could be something he ate.

Yeah, we've considered that possibility.

I'm sorry.

I couldn't help overhearing. I'm Ruth Hobart. Hello.

Hi. I'm Elise Keaton and this is Mallory and Alex.

Hi. My husband had the very same symptoms and they told me it could very

food poisoning.

It was a heart attack.

We came in from Greenville two days ago, and Tony had surgery yesterday morning.

They said it went okay, but it was tough.

His heartbeat wasn't normal. He had these arrhythmias. That's what they

them. Anyway, he's in the intensive care unit, and he's doing okay.

Well, that's good. Of course, he still thinks it was food poisoning. He says,

I've been trying to kill him with my meatloaf for years.

I know how he feels.

Yeah, well, it sounds like things are going in the right direction.

I'd love to take him home right now, but they say he's going to be here for a

few more days.

I've been sleeping here and changing my clothes in the washroom.

It's not the Hilton, but I'm not leaving until Tony's ready to go home.

Mrs. Hobart, I'm going down for a sandwich. Can I get you anything?

No, thank you, Mr. Myers.

How about you nice people?

No, thanks.

That's Mr. Myers.

His wife had heart surgery and it was a big success.

She's going home soon and I only hope he doesn't tell her that he and I slept in

the same room last night.

I feel sorry for these people having to wait around the hospital day after day.

Remember the last time I sat in the hospital?

Brought Alex in.

He swallowed the dollar.

Well, you know what they say.

You are what you eat.

I remember.

You said they pumped his stomach and they came up with $11 .35.

You know, if they had left that in there, you know how much I'd be worth

now?

Mrs. Keaton?

Yes, doctor.

It's very good that you brought your husband in when you did.

He had a heart attack.

Now, the angiogram shows there is some blockage of the left coronary artery.

But he's an excellent candidate for bypass surgery, and we're checking his

schedule to see how soon we can fit him in.

Okay.

Come on, Jen. One more game of chutes and ladders, please.

I can't, Andy. I just can't do it. I've been down more chutes and not more

ladders than anyone my age in America.

You can't poop out now, Jen.

Mom's paying you to watch me.

Well, why don't you turn on the TV?

There's nothing on.

Maybe there's a ball game.

There's not. I checked.

Well, maybe there's one of Dad's documentaries.

There is. I checked.

Ah, the sound of grown -ups were saved and he kissed me.

I can't.

Hi. Hi.

Where's Dad?

Um, Dad's... Dad's in the hospital. He's gonna... He's gonna be staying there

for a while.

Did he get lost?

We don't want to scare you.

We want to tell you the truth, too.

The thing is, your dad had a heart attack, honey.

What that means, honey, is that his heart, which is right here, has a boo

in it.

And the doctor is going to fix it, make it better.

Was it a massive coronary?

It's got a TV show on it. Could they operate?

Yes. Okay, no problem.

They don't marry another week.

I'm going to go out and get some of Dad's things together.

Come on up, Andy. Maybe you can console me.

It's just so hard to believe this would happen to Dad.

I mean, he did everything right. He exercised. He ate right.

I mean, you think about what he ate.

It's quite a testimonial to sprout.

You know, I'm really scared. This is dangerous, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.

How could somebody like Dad have a heart attack?

Well, Grandpa Jake did have a heart condition.

That's right, he did.

That means I could have one.

That means any of us could have one.

Well, women don't get heart attacks nearly as often as men do.

Yeah,

ain't that a kick?

I mean... I mean, men, we work, we slave, and we die.

And you women, you sit back and eat bonbons and collect the insurance.

Well, some insurance policies come with bonbons.

All right, okay, you laugh.

You laugh. It's true.

Men, men, we men, we're up every morning, crack of dawn.

Job to do, we get it done.

Close shave.

Suit and tie, bag lunch, and we're out the door.

Bye, honey.

Have a nice day.

Oh, no, sweetheart, don't worry about me.

I'll be dead soon.

We must remember these moments, Mallory. We must write them down because no one

will ever believe them.

Where am I going?

Mr.

Keaton, please. Now, you must get back into bed.

He's a bit of a conduct problem.

Oh, well, that's nothing new.

Now, you only have a moment. We have a blood test to run.

More needles? Why don't you just run me through a sewing machine?

Calm down, sweetheart. Just let them do what they have to do.

They're going to do it anyway.

If I could just stick them with a few needles.

Well, maybe when you're feeling better, you can sneak up on someone.

I really missed you.

Me too.

Everyone else is out in the waiting room.

I'm the only one they let in.

Lise.

I think there are a few things we need to discuss.

I will never serve the buckwheat loaf again.

The key to the safe deposit box.

I don't want to talk about it. that.

I don't want to talk about it either, but this may be our last chance to talk.

I'm not going in for a haircut here.

Don't, don't talk like that. We are not going to need a safe deposit key for at

least 50 years, by which time we'll be living off Alex anyway.

Look, Lisa.

It's possible I... You're going to live a long time, Stephen.

I want to live a long time.

I want to live a long time with you.

I want to be old with you. I want to sit on a porch and rock with you.

I want that, too.

And when we die, I want us to die together.

I want us to get real old.

And then say, one, two, three, die.

That sounds like fun.

I want it to be that way, Lisa.

Me too.

Because I cannot imagine being on this earth without you.

How about them Browns?

Not really that interested in sports.

Not so, a young fellow like yourself.

What are you interested in?

Banking.

How about them interest rates?

I feel they're artificially inflated at the moment.

due to rampant fluctuations in the price -earning ratios of certain blue -chip

stocks in the industrial quadrant.

Although I surely agree that the EAP's recent proclamation on the possible

reactivation of the gold standard, making petrodollars a more financially

lucrative option in this quarter, may help mitigate the crisis brought on by

refinancing of the Deutsche Mark.

I think the

Browns got a shot.

What? Oh, no, no, no. He's fine. Sit down.

He's fine.

He's making everyone nuts back there. I take that as a good sign.

Way to go, Dad.

This is some beautiful family you have, Elise.

Reminds me a lot of my own until they grew up, moved out, and never called.

Are you the keepers?

Yes. Hi, I'm Peggy Vincent, Dr. Harrison's secretary.

Hi. And if I may, I'd like to describe the surgical procedure to you. Sure.

It's about time.

All right.

Oh, God.

Well, is this the heart?

Yes, it is. And this right here is the left coronary artery.

That's the one that has the blockage. So what Dr.

Harrison will do is open the chest cavity. Is that a must?

Yes, it is, dear.

That's where the heart is.

I see.

The doctor is going to sew the new artery into Mr. Keaton's left coronary

to develop a flow of blood around the blocked area and thereby bring a supply

vital nutrients to the heart.

And that's it.

Now, the surgery will take place tomorrow morning at 7, and the procedure

normally takes about five hours.

So, Are there any questions?

Just breathe normally, Mr. Keaton.

Good.

Very good.

Now, this is a team effort, Stephen.

And we're going to need your help here.

Okay.

You lie down. I'll do the surgery.

I'm all scrubbed up.

Better let me do it.

That's a beautiful family you have out there.

You're going to be seeing them very soon.

I had a nice chat with your wife.

She's a lovely woman.

What's her first name?

Elise.

That's a beautiful name.

Come on, Stephen, tell me.

There's something on your mind.

Elise. Hmm?

I was accepted into the Peace Corps.

Stephen, that's great.

They're sending me to Africa.

Zambezi. Your first choice.

Good for you.

I want you to come with me.

I want to go.

I called and asked.

They can't guarantee that we can go to the same place.

That is, unless we're married. I know how we feel about marriage.

It's so unnecessary when the love and the commitment is real. Then we're so

right. And that's how we feel.

Funny, last night after you left, I was thumbing through this.

Listen to this. It's a quote from Euripides, who is no fool, by the way.

Never say that marriage has more joy than pain.

Is that saying it?

Says it all.

It's funny, when I got home last night, I picked up some Shakespeare.

Same subject.

When daisies pied and violets blew, and ladies mocked all silver white, and

cuckoo buds of a yellow hue do paint the meadows with delight, the cuckoo then

on every tree mocked married men, for that things he, cuckoo, cuckoo,

cuckoo.

A word of fear, unpleasing to the married ear.

Do you have any idea what that means?

Absolutely none.

Will you marry me?

I want nothing more.

We got a problem here. His blood pressure's falling. His heart is

Quick, let's shock it.

Hurry up!

We're going to lose him.

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