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Thank you.

All right, honey, now take care.

Don't you want to stay a little while?

Do you have to leave?

Well, no.

But I better.

I better leave right now. You better go now. Well, Washington's gain is our

loss. I want you to behave yourself.

In this dress?

Hey, I don't want you going out there running up and down the hallways.

knocking on strange men's doors and streaking past the White House.

Well, what can I do then?

Because I know what you'll be doing. What will I be doing? Tell me. No, you

shouldn't go out this way.

Tell me to behave myself. Yes. And you've got an unsupervised weekend ahead

you. I don't need any supervision.

Don't go up under there, dear.

How did you know I was going up under there? You're only going to get soot,

that's all I'm telling you. Soot.

Soot. There is cholesterol in this kitchen.

No, there's not.

I know you. There are cookies and chips hidden. No, there's no chips. Nothing,

I'm telling you.

That's what we're eating. See?

That's what I'm eating.

Look at the greens on top. Please, please, please don't demonstrate those

little uncut vegetables to me. I know you.

As soon as I walk out of the door, you're taking them back to the market.

going to trade them in for some sad lunch meat. Oh, this is pitiful. I'm

I am hurt. What's in there?

Seven grain bread.

Yeah, right. Would have been 11, but I got to the bakery too late.

So, that's it.

Now, go on and go to Washington, D .C. You'll want out your welcome.

Go ahead.

There's nothing there. I'm going to drag it out in the light. I'm going to be

late.

See, your son's calling. Bye -bye.

All right, honey.

Take care.

Okay. You be good now.

I will. All right.

Go ahead.

Here we go. I'll call you soon if I get there. Please.

I miss you.

Bye. Especially in the dark.

Oh.

Oh.

I'm cooking.

I've turned over a new leaf now, I'm telling you. You never know when I'm

to show up.

Well, I'll be ready for you.

Okay, what do you think about this skirt and this top?

No way.

What's the matter with this?

It doesn't make a statement at all. Hey, you're wearing daisies. What kind of

statement does that make?

Now, look what I'm wearing. What do these say to you?

Susan, those are so...

She pairs for a dollar at the accessory hut.

Do you know how Sharon Williams and her two so -called friends, Mary and Joanne,

are getting to the dance?

Isn't their mom dropping in? Yeah, that's what I heard.

Nope.

Their mother's giving them money for a cab. No, no way. I don't believe it.

She's probably just making that up. Yeah. No, it's true.

Oh, you know them. We're going to hear about this forever. I know how we could

make a statement and show Sharon who's really hot and independent.

What? Forget about the cab.

We could take this.

Subway to the dance.

Subway? Into Manhattan at night?

What is more hot and independent than an adventuresome woman? Rudy, you are so

right. Can you imagine the look on Sharon and her friends' faces when we

them how we got to the dance? Yeah.

Wait, what about our parents? What about them? Yeah. Do you think they'll let us

go? Hey, as long as we can tell them that we're responsible and that we know

what we're doing, I don't see why they wouldn't let us go. Yeah.

By the way, how do we get there?

Are you finished with my gold hoop earrings?

Pam, Charmaine, come on in.

If you were going to take the subway tonight into Manhattan near LaGuardia

how would you get there? By the subway.

Well, that's easy, girlfriend. You just go to the Clark Street Station, take the

number two to three, either to 241st Street in the Bronx or 148th Street in

Harlem. Make sure you stay in the middle of the cars, transfer from Fulton

Street Station, go up the stairs, and this is also the Royal Nassau Street

Station. Then you take the A to Washington Heights.

Thank you, Charmaine.

Now, why would we want to go there?

We don't. We're going to the movies.

Talk about them, Charmaine.

Oh. Rudy.

There's going to be a dance there tonight.

And you think your dad's going to let you take the subway there at night?

how old were you when you first took the subway at night?

I was ten.

And I was nine. I was just tall for my age.

Wow. If our parents would let us do that... We'd be really mature by now.

I know. Instead of being dropped off like a bunch of kids.

Listen to that. They don't want to be driven places.

Imagine that. I mean, if my family had a car and they had time to drive me

around, honey, I would call people to come out their house to come watch me

leave.

Well, we want to take the subway. Instead of people saying, who are they?

be saying, there they are.

And we have to show them that we know what we're doing.

So could you go over those directions again, please?

Sure. You take the number two to three to 241st Street in the Bronx. Hold on.

Wait, wait, wait.

Let me get a pencil and pad so I won't miss a thing.

They're going to get lost.

Well, Tracy just got in town today, so we're going out to dinner at Abbott's.

Oh, my goodness. Well, bless you. We thought we'd stop by here first and say

Where's Mom? I want to return this law book that I borrowed from her.

Mom is away at Washington, D .C., pardon me, at Lawyer's Convention, you see.

But you know, you guys can join us. Come on.

Oh, no, no.

We're celebrating.

Tracy just drove in from Oregon.

You're kidding.

How long did it take you?

Six weeks.

Well, you know, they've upped the speed limit.

No, Dr.

Huxtable, I stopped to take photographs.

Yeah, Tracy's going to be publishing a book.

Really? What's it about?

Well, I'm driving cross -country, but I'm taking the back roads, not the main

highway, photographing my impressions of small -town America.

Photography. Was that your major at Princeton?

Uh, no.

It was architecture.

But you see, one day I realized that I was not enjoying what I was doing. So I

picked up my camera and I told my parents that this is what I want to do.

Are your parents, how do they feel about this career change after they spent

$140 ,000?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Tracy takes very good photographs.

Yeah? All right. Well, good luck.

Good luck. Oh, Dad, broccoli?

Steamed.

And chicken.

Boiled.

Brown rice. Brown rice, the only way you can do it.

Yes, indeed.

Well, Dad, where's the stuff that you're going to eat?

That's it.

Tracy, every time my mother goes out of town, my dad gorges himself on junk

food. I'm telling you, I turned over a new leaf.

Well, Dad, you know, you turned over a new leaf a couple of times before, but

the problem was that the old leaf was always right under there waiting for

Go ahead, sing something.

Oh, okay, the attire for going out. You got it all together?

Yep, it's all ready.

Okay, and your mother is going to pick the three of you up here and take you

to the dance.

I'm asking you a question.

Yeah, okay.

And your mother is going to pick the three of you up at the dance.

And drop Rudy off here.

That's the plan.

Or maybe we'll take the subway.

Nice try.

Nice try.

I have to...

give a lecture. I know none of you like lectures.

But Rudy is our last child.

And I knew from experience, the other four, that when the three of you came

in a line, there was something tricky going on.

So then, you walk off and you say, oh, we take this that way.

Like, hoping that maybe...

one of those steam plants.

Well, it didn't.

I heard subway.

Not car. I heard, well, maybe it takes a subway.

Now, all I want to know is subway.

I mean, how are you going to do that?

Oh, we'll buy some token.

going to knock me out, tie me up, throw me down in the cellar, and the three of

you take off on a subway to go to this dance.

We'll be in high school only two years.

This changes the subject, doesn't it?

We've gone to the subway to now when you're graduating and going to be in

school. What does that have to do with tonight's subway?

See, all we have to do is take the 2 to the Bronx or the 3 to Harlem, then

transfer to the CRA to Bronx or Washingtonite, and then get off at

Square, West 4th Street.

Good.

So you keep that in mind two years from now when you're in high school.

Okay? But, Dad... But, no, no, no, please don't but, Dad, me.

I've got three young ladies.

supposed to have somebody pick them up and take them to the... And now you all

are changing this thing around on me. I need two parents, a volunteer, to ride

the subway train with you.

But, Dad, if a parent goes along, it's the same thing that's driving us there.

Could you clarify that?

Well, the point is we want to go by ourselves.

Ah!

Ah! Then the answer's easy.

No!

Very much.

And that doesn't help either.

Get me in trouble.

Oh, yeah, sure, go ahead.

Right, and I'll be popular with the kids. And then the parents call up. Have

seen our children?

They're on the 11 o 'clock news, you know.

Spinach, mushrooms with a vinaigrette sauce, and I mixed it all around. Go

ahead, hit it.

Salad?

Yes, the crunchy green stuff. You've all eaten it before. Good for you.

Nutrition. Oh, okay, I get it. The nutrients before the feet. Right.

So what's the second course, Cousin Cliff?

Cooking!

No.

Chicken!

Boiled, with the skin taken off.

You're serving a lot of green food, Cousin Cliff. No.

Balance it out. Have a carbohydrate.

French fries?

and 30.

And what time would this movie be letting out?

9 .30.

9 .30, the same time our dance ends.

Well, you know Dad won't let us ride the subway alone at night. We need a

chaperone. Since we're going to St. Moira, do you think that we could...

with you there?

You're going to have it. I already did. She says it's okay.

And I guess... I did too.

Go ahead.

Catching up on the news.

Oh. Mm -hmm. Can I read the newspaper, too?

Okay,

I'll give you the funny.

No, no, no.

I want to catch up on the news.

I'll give you the front page.

That's the front part of the paper.

I'll give you all...

thought you'd live to see the day what, dear?

You have to wait until I'm finished.

Boy, oh boy.

Boy,

oh boy, huh?

Boy... Boy, oh boy.

Says here that Olivia Kendall

Has to wash the dishes and clean the stove

and do the kitchen floor.

be able to get all that by 830 tonight?

I don't know. Look in your paper. It has all the big news.

It was great. I had Tracy drop me off here. Yeah, you did?

Mm -hmm. Oh.

Oh, good.

Yeah, so the dinner was fine, and all the children are gone now,

and Olivia's upstairs, got her all bedded down, and I'm thinking

about turning in myself.

You planning on staying?

Mm -hmm.

Hi.

Dr. Huxtable, here you go.

Buffalo wings, extra sauce on the side.

One pizza and one pint of coffee ice cream.

Mrs. Huxtable must be out of town.

fight tonight.

Olivia, this food you ordered is here.

Thank you. Enjoy the fight, Doctor.

Thank you.

They're not allowed up here, you know, and you are the first.

And so, I want you to enjoy this to the fullest, because I'm going to enjoy

you.

Hello?

sweetheart.

And how are you?

I'm fine.

I owe you an apology.

This morning I doubted your commitment to your diet and that was wrong.

Yeah, well, listen, honey, don't make a big thing out of it. Don't wear yourself

out, you know. Just let bygones be bygones.

So how was your dinner?

Dinner? Yeah.

Oh, it was fantastic.

Just enjoyed it. You know, the broccoli florets, they were like little brooms

sweeping out the arteries.

Oh, I'm glad you feel better.

You must be very, very exhausted by now, so get yourself some rest. Well, I

am. I am tired, but...

I attended a most interesting seminar today on partnership assessment.

And do you know what the most important element in a successful partnership is?

Trust. I love you.

Good night.

Yes, I love you too, honey.

Good night.

Okay.

Dirty, dirty.

Dirty. Dirty.

Dirty. Dirty lowdown.

No good wife.

Dirty.

Able to look through the telephone.

Ah, you're no good dirty.