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Here we are, face to face, looking through the silver spoon.

Hoping to find we're two of a kind.

Making it go, making it grow.

Together, we're going to find our way.

Together, taking the time each day.

To learn all about those things you just can't buy.

Two silver spoons together.

You and me.

I hate to rub it in, but I am a full -fledged badger while you're nothing but

lowly muskrat.

Derek, you've pointed that out three times in the last five minutes.

Oh, have I? I'm sorry.

Okay. I guess that embarrassing blank space where your badger paws ought to be

just keeps reminding me that I'm a full -fledged badger while you're nothing but

a lowly muskrat.

Keep it up, Derek, and there'll be an embarrassing blank space where your

ought to be.

After next weekend, I'm going to be a full -fledged badger, too.

Oh, sure.

You'll never get your old man to spend 24 hours camping in the woods with you.

No problem.

My dad loves to spend time with me.

Come on.

Fathers hate to waste weekends on their kids.

I mean, the only way I got my dad to go camping with me is to threaten to tell

Mom all about his girlfriend.

How'd you know he had a girlfriend?

I didn't. I took a stab.

help me get my badger paws.

I hope so.

I'm tired of being reminded that I'm a full -fledged badger while you're

but a lowly muskrat.

Derek, did your parents have any kids after they had you?

No. Think about it.

Ricky, that's an awful thing to say to Derek. But, Daddy... It's okay, sir.

After all, I am a badger, and part of the badger code is to be kind to the

-tempered.

That's a very nice sentiment, Derek.

Kind to the foul -tempered?

Yeah, it comes right after a badger never pokes fun at another person's body

parts.

Who wrote this code?

Colonel W. Morton Strathmore.

Who's he?

Some old dead guy with a big nose.

Well, isn't that what you said, Richard?

Dad, I never... Well, it's always a pleasure conversing with you, sir, but

afraid I must beg my leave.

No need to beg, Derek.

Well,

goodbye, Mr. Stratton.

Richard?

Oh, I was going to give you the badger handshake, but I forgot. I'm a full

-fledged badger while you're nothing but a lowly muskrat.

Well, how'd this week's meeting of the badger patrol go, son?

Oh, Kenny, but Derek keeps on rubbing it in that he's a full -fledged badger,

and I'm nothing but a lowly muskrat.

Well, you've only been in a badger patrol a week. I think it's pretty good

you're already a muskrat.

Dad, as soon as you join, you automatically become a muskrat.

I mean, it's humiliating. All the badgers make fun of me.

They treat me like I'm slime.

Like I'm dirt.

Well, why don't you quit?

Because all my friends are in it.

This weekend's my last chance to get my badger paws before spring.

Well, how does a muskrat get his badger paws?

Okay, all we have to do is go camping from Saturday morning until Sunday noon.

Well, son, I'm not sure I like the idea of you and a bunch of kids spending a

weekend in the woods alone.

Oh, no, Dad.

It's not me and a bunch of kids.

It's me and you.

Well, son, I'm not sure I like the idea of me and you spending a weekend in the

woods alone.

You'd have a fantastic time. Dad, I dreamed about this all my life.

How would it be to go camping with my father?

I keep picturing it over and over.

Well, son, you see, I... First we set up our tent.

Then we go fishing.

Well, that's nice, Rick. We catch six beautiful rainbow trout.

And we cook them over a crackling campfire.

When it gets dark, we tell ghost stories and sip hot cocoa. And then we fall

asleep under the stars.

Wait a minute.

We have a problem here.

See, I already have plans.

Oh.

Well, son, I think it would be great for you and me to go camping sometime, but

I was really looking forward to this weekend.

It's okay. You have a good time.

I'm sorry.

No, it's okay, really.

Is it my imagination or is Ricky depressed?

He's not depressed. He's disappointed in me.

And I don't want to talk about it, okay?

Okay, fine.

Ricky wants me to go camping with him this week.

He wants to earn his badger paws.

He already had plans to go skiing with Leonard.

Oh, well, then you just can't go camping.

Well, I could change my plans.

Great, then change your plans.

Well, Kate, it's just that... I've never been camping before. for my whole life.

Your father never took you?

Never. Oh.

It's the one thing I'm grateful to him for.

No, Kate, I'd do anything for Ricky.

Except go camping.

Edward, I don't understand. You love outdoor sports.

Camping isn't a sport.

Camping is going to a place where there's mud and bugs and snakes.

You don't have a roof over your head. You don't have indoor plumbing. I'm

telling you, Kate, it's unnatural.

That's an interesting perspective.

Well, on the other hand, Ricky has his big dream about how terrific it would be

if we went camping together.

I hate to disappoint him.

Yeah, well, he'll probably get over it.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I think.

Although if he didn't, that disappointment could turn into

And that resentment might develop into a cold, gnawing emptiness inside him.

And that would alienate him from society and eventually drive him into a life of

crime.

So that he'll spend the remainder of his wretched days in prison.

But you'll be able to visit him on weekends.

That is, of course, unless you'd rather go skiing.

Hey, Rick!

camping. All right!

Isn't this great, Dad?

Yes, it is.

Something strange about this air.

This stuff's got oxygen in it.

Tent's almost ready, Dad.

Attaboy, son.

I got the wood, you get the tent. We're a great team.

This camping stuff's a breeze.

I didn't know that fish sleep.

Well, they must.

You know how tired you get after swimming all day.

Yeah, but I thought I read somewhere that fish don't have any eyelids.

How can you sleep without eyelids?

Even if you could, how do the other fish know you're asleep?

I mean, there you are in the middle of a dream. Some bass swims up to you and

says, Hey, hey, you asleep?

Don't be silly, Dad.

A fish would not sound that way underwater.

He'd say,

point there. And there's one more thing I've always wondered about fish. What's

that? How can a fish eat...

Rick.

detail like a rampaging 3 ,000 -pound bear ruin our good time?

Right. Right.

We're going to stay right here until Sunday noon and get you those badger

That's the spirit, Dad. You betcha.

So, since all our food is gone, that bear won't come back.

That's right.

Okay.

Okay.

We didn't catch any fish.

And this is a very important but.

We can live off the land.

The fat of the land.

Dad, if there's so much fat on this land, how come the bear had to eat our

Good point.

Well, we only have 16 hours left.

We can survive.

Get us a good night's sleep, okay?

Okay. Okay. You build a fire with what you've got and not with more wood. Okay.

Ghost stories are more fun without a fire.

Scarier.

Besides, as soon as it gets dark, we'll have plenty of light from the stars.

It's gonna rain, Dad.

No way, no way.

After everything else that's happened to us, it can't possibly rain on us. It's

the law of everything.

Chocolate -covered grasshoppers?

Yeah. Well, these happen to be light on the chocolate, heavy on the grass.

who got to receive.

you can survive for weeks in the woods without food.

As long as you got fresh water.

Goodness knows we're wearing enough fresh water to last the rest of our

That's for sure.

What we need is something to take our minds off our misery. Let's play a game.

What do you want to play?

I don't care.

Well, I don't care either.

Play 20 questions.

Fine. Okay.

I'm thinking of something animal.

Is it a four -legged animal?

Yeah. Do you find it on the farm?

hamburger, hot food. Ricky!

You're not playing the darn game.

I'm sick of the darn game. I want to eat.

Well, so do I. And why is my leg itching like this?

Fine, how do you do?

So you were getting my grasshopper? That's right.

That was your brilliant idea.

It was not my brilliant idea.

It was his brilliant idea.

Who is this jerk?

Colonel W. Morton Strathmore, founder of the Badgers.

Well, he does have a big...

Unfortunately, it turned out exactly the way I'd imagined.

Ah,

son.

Everybody has perfect images of the way they want things to be, but sometimes, a

lot of times, things just don't turn out the way we want them to.

There's even a word to describe that.

But even if things go badly, you know, you can almost always think back and

something positive.

Yeah.

Yeah, I bet we could hear a thing about something positive about this trip.

I bet we could.

You first.

Well, um, we survived the bear attack, and we lived through a terrible storm.

That's right. And we had a great adventure.

You know what the best part is?

What?

We did it together.

Together, taking the time to stay.