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All right.

When can I come down?

Momentito, oh, impatient flower.

Is that the ribbon, the ceremonial ribbon? It's the plate.

Okay, the ceremonial scissors?

Ceremonial orchestra.

Oh,

lovely flower.

Of this house. You may come down now.

I say unto you.

Now, what is all this about?

Good morning, Mrs. Huckable. I am your escort for the morning.

Theodoro, Duke of Brooklyn.

Yes.

Good morning, Duke. Where do I go with sweet?

Well, that is for me to knoweth and youeth to find out. Just go with it,

All right.

Here we go.

Right this way, please.

Claire

Huxtable,

do you remember some time last summer?

When I looked at you and I said, I'm going to build a room for you.

Claire Huxtable, you see this before... Please come back, dear.

You see before you that this is a room that you will be able to move into

and no longer will you be able to hear.

Will you please pick me up at the mall?

Will you... Please make my dental appointment.

Will you please get the bubble gum out of my hair?

No! This is it! The Claire Hanks Huxtable Memorial Room, and you don't

be dead to enjoy it.

This is very sweet.

Yes. But the room is not done yet.

Ha -ha! You underestimate your loyal subjects.

Would you do the honor, Your Eminence? But of course.

Craftsmen would say, flight of hand.

Or in French, le jour de mort.

This rock wasn't due for another week.

Le jour de mort.

Wow.

Le jour de mort.

A telephone?

Le jour de mort, Mom.

All I can say is this is the best gift that anyone has ever given me, and I

thank you. Thank you, one and all. No, Ma, you're welcome. You're welcome,

Cousin Clare.

Don't mention it. You're welcome, Cousin Clare. You people walk around acting

like you had something to do with this. You had nothing to do with this. You

didn't plan it, you didn't build it, and you certainly didn't pay for it. The

only thing you did was make this room necessary.

For that, I am grateful. You see, Cousin Clare, we did help.

Yes. Excuse me.

Come inside.

There you go. Now, everybody outside.

I thought this was a room -warming party. Yeah, we came here to celebrate.

yeah, yeah. Come on now. Let's go. We're in sparkling cider.

You people are going into the living room and drink there. Take one last look

this room because it's the last time you'll see it. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Boy, pushy. Thank you very much. Act like he owns the place. Thank you very,

very much.

Acting like I own the place. Now, before you get busy touching everything, check

this out.

Here is your special private room packet.

Now, listen to me carefully.

And this is the number for your private phone.

Now, step this way. Now, when you want to get into this room, madame, you're

going to be able to set this. This is a thick letter code.

You set this, and nobody can get in except the person who knows the code.

the secret code, you see. So you have six letters. For instance, if you want

to be back off, B -A -C -O -F -F.

Or stay away, S -T -A -W -A -Y.

Stay away, you see.

That's your code, huh? My room.

My room. Six letters. All right. Honey, enjoy this.

And just, yes, yes.

Yes. Oh, yes.

Here we go.

So,

now,

if you will, I'm just going to go check. Oh, boy.

I'm just going to go check on the children. So if you will give me the

code number for the door. You know, just so I can have in case of emergency.

Emergency? Yes.

Well, listen.

You know.

Oh. Yes.

Oh, I see.

Well, you know what? I have to sit here by myself and think about that.

I have to sit here alone and figure out.

What my secret code will be.

Alone.

Thank you. Alone.

You need some help in getting up? No, no, no.

Now, that was nice. Yeah, we hooked it up right.

Now, time to do science.

Yeah, warm it up.

No, we should wait for Mom.

Mom!

Let me tell you something. Your mother is enjoying the room.

Understand? She'll come out when she wants to come out.

So in the meantime, everybody just chill.

She's going to come out soon. We have to go grocery shopping. You know...

This is not a fox hunt.

So you stop hounding your mother.

But, but dad.

What kind of word is that? But dad, but dad, but dad.

Okay.

Dad, I was just going to go and ask where the cookie cutters were because

going to make Christmas cookies.

Right. And you don't know where the cookie cutters are?

No. Have you looked for them?

No. Ha ha.

Mom. She knows where they are, and Mom's right there, so why should I just go

looking for her?

She's going down the back stairs. That's at her house. No, Ava, stop it.

I'm telling all of you. Sit down.

Your mother wants to come in here.

She will come in here.

Okay? That's fair enough, isn't it?

Where are you going?

I'm going to make Christmas cookies.

I'll help.

Go make your cookies. And don't send her either. Don't try that old trick of

sending the young dumb one.

I'm just going to make out a grocery list. And the same thing goes for you,

I think I'm going to get the Christmas

lights and fix them. Get them ready to decorate the house.

Any volunteers?

love to help you, but... No, no, no, no. It's not you really would.

Huh? I'm giving you a chance to volunteer.

Yeah. Let me just explain. The only reason I'm not volunteering is because

blood sugar's low, man.

It's low?

It's low. You need something to carry it up? Yeah, and there's nothing in the

refrigerator. Okay.

Well, let's put it this way.

We'll work on these Christmas lights. And then I will rush you to the

All right?

Gosh,

this thing has been answering me for...

Hello, this is Claire.

One of the Wisps, Free Spirit.

I don't feel like... talking to you right now.

Nothing personal. I'm just not in the mood. But should my mood shift, I'll get

back to you.

Hello?

Hi, Daniel.

Hi, this is Aunt Claire. How are you?

Is your mom home?

Can I speak to her?

Thank you.

Sister Sarah.

Hi, girl.

Guess where your big sister is at this very moment, even as we speak.

That's right.

No, it is finished.

Listen. Listen to this.

Wasn't that gorgeous?

Isn't that beautiful?

No, no. I said I'd live in here for a little while before I put the furniture

in. Oh, but wait, wait, wait. There's something else I want you to listen to.

Hold on.

French doors.

Inside.

Outside.

Inside.

Outside.

Isn't that great?

Wasn't that lovely?

No, I've not lost my mind.

But listen, I do need your help. Yeah, I've got these pictures that I need to

hang and he's doing what?

Well, Sarah, I'm going to let you go, dear, but I just want to tell you that

room is your room. If you ever need refuge, my room is your room.

Where's your spontaneity, dear? Of course it's a long haul from Denver for

minutes of solitude.

But it's worth it.

I love you, too. Bye.

Oh, it took me 28 years to get here, but I'm here.

Listen, I finished testing all the Christmas lights. Uh -huh. Yep, I

them in, and the bulbs that were burnt out are unscrewed, and that's that.

May I ask you a question?

Yeah.

You've seen me put these lights together before, haven't you?

Yeah. When you were a little boy, you helped me, and I explained how to do

Yeah. Did you ever hear me say, now, the way to do it?

Is to just plug them in and the lights are out, you unscrew them, and then

that's it?

No. Uh -huh. Well, why did you think I was doing all that other work?

I don't know, Dad. I thought maybe you didn't have anything better to do.

Okay, man, never mind. I just thought that, you know, working with these

is passing down family tradition.

Dad, let me ask you a question. What? Okay, and please take no offense. No.

Shouldn't you be passing this tradition down to Sandra?

I mean, one, she is your oldest child, and two, she lives here.

Check with Sandra.

She's not ready.

And Denise is in Asia.

And if Denise were here, she wouldn't be ready.

Now, are you ready? No, Dad, I'm not ready.

Okay, Dad.

No, no. I don't have any kids.

Hey, man. I'll tell you what.

When I have kids and when it's Christmas time, I will come back and I will pick

up that tradition. Pick it right up, yeah. Pick up the tradition.

Well, you'll do it in somebody else's house because you won't be allowed in

here.

No, I'm not threatening you or anything, man. I'm just talking to you.

Father to son, please don't touch me.

Father to son, man. Look, I'm just trying to build a family tradition.

And if you don't want it,

Then, I cried with him.

I'll take that.

And then on the guest one, son, and look at what he got.

because he said we can decorate them. But look at them, they're inflated.

And why are they like this?

I don't know.

Mom would know, but you're not letting us ask her.

Well, Rudy, it doesn't matter how they look, it's how they taste.

You still have to ask Mom.

We didn't have all the right ingredients, so we had to do a little

We could have avoided this disaster if we had access to the proper channel.

Are you telling me that this is my fault?

Yes, sir. These cookies are puffy and bad because I said for you all to

go... I'm telling you right now, they aren't just puffy and bad. These are

and disgusting.

I'm confused because why are you eating them?

I told you before my blood sugar was low, but I don't know you.

The point is, you can't say that because you can't get in touch with your

mother, that's why these cookies are puffy. If you go shopping, who buys the

ingredients to put in the cookies? There's where the fault is. We're

about purchaser's power.

You get it? Yeah.

Got any money?

Did you hear that? Yeah. Cousin Claire!

Mom! That was her desk, man.

She's moving in that room.

Well, she's supposed to, son. That's her room.

Dad, this is getting weird. She's not coming out.

Yeah, Cousin Cliff, aren't you worried? She doesn't have any food in there.

Well, I'll take her a sandwich.

Now, that's a good idea. She must be hungry, because obviously we're

Dr. Huxville, got a delivery.

Anybody call for Chinese food?

Not me. Not me. Not me. We'll take it, though.

I'm afraid there's some mistake.

Oh, no, no, no. I have specific instructions. It says, head straight for

kitchen, turn right into the dining room, take a left, and come alone.

Yes, sir.

There you are.

There you go. Hey, why is the door open? It's cold in here.

We're putting the Christmas lights up. You guys are just in time to help.

Okay, have a cookie.

Have a cookie. No, no, thank you. I'll get some later, thank you.

You know, it's not that we really need Mom to make Christmas cookies, but it's

just more fun with her.

I can understand that. It's like you have someone to share it with. Kind of

hanging Christmas lights.

We'll tell all of you something about privacy.

Privacy is is being able to have a complete thought and follow it all the

through without somebody coming in, but dad, but dad, but dad.

To this day, I don't know how smart I actually could be because

people keep coming in and jamming my thoughts. I don't know how many

I could have created had I been able to have a complete

thought.

And that's what I'm trying to give to your mother. You people are always

and jamming. That's why I do these Christmas lights.

Because as soon as I start work on them, people disappear.

I just hope that my wife is in that room just being

within herself.

Roll that street all the way. No, no, take her hand. Watch yourself.

Watch yourself.

Watch yourself. Look both ways when you cross the street.