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Here we are, face to face, looking for 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 I together.

We're gonna find our way.

You and I together.

We're gonna find our way.

You and I together.

forget my birthday.

What can I say? Perhaps the poor human has defective memory banks.

It's not just any birthday food.

It's my very first birthday with my dad.

Greetings and felicitations.

You don't have to get all mushy now.

By the way, nice hat.

Thank you.

Happy birthday, Richard.

Thanks, Dexter.

Well, can I blow out my candles?

Don't worry. Ho, ho, ho, ho. First, I want to give you your birthday card.

Son,

13 years ago today, your life began.

A little less than a year ago, you came to live with me.

And my life began.

I love you very much.

Me too, Dad.

Phoebe, a drumroll, if you please!

Well, let's just say I cared enough to set off the very best.

Edward, I am deeply impressed.

Was it my creativity?

No, your spelling. It is correct.

Right, Father.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, let's keep this a festive occasion.

Let me share a little anecdote with you.

It seems that Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford got into an elevator together.

Kate, the party's just begun.

My grandfather and father are fighting already.

It's my first birthday with them.

I want everyone to get along.

I'll tell you what.

They won't fight as long as you and I remain a couple of chuckle puppies.

Hey, Pat.

If you continue to aggravate me, I shall remove your insides, fill you with

sardines, and sell you as the largest tin can in the world.

Candles, son. You're now officially a teenager.

Yep. From here on out, the living's fast.

Hugh Richard, from the accounting firm of Duffin, O 'Hara, Mobutu, and

A company tag?

Well, technically, this is a business deduction.

Thank you, sir.

Hey, look, a book.

101 uses for a dead cat.

Her name is Fluffy. Oh, don't let Fluffy read it.

Dexter. Kate.

Chuckle puppies.

Oh, why don't you open my gift net? Right.

Here we go.

To the

adorable, intelligent, and compassionate Ricky.

Kate, this is embarrassing.

It is?

Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

Congratulations, you struck wow.

It's a radio -controlled airplane.

Oh, wow.

It's mine.

Thanks, Kate. Oh, you're welcome, Rick.

Richard, this is for you.

skateboard I showed you. It was on sale last week.

Richard, very few traffic accidents are linked with briefcases.

All right, time for my present, son.

Jenkins!

He gets a butler?

Gosh. Come on, grandfather, try it.

Richard, avoid these githmos. They are habit -forming and lead to arrested

development.

Meaning, I suppose, that I never grew up.

Beautifully stated.

Here we go, it's starting. The king has once again publicly...

his son to be a royal disappointment.

I have to run.

Jackie O is throwing a supper party and she always has the best baklava.

Goodbye, Richard.

Goodbye, sir.

Yes, yes.

Let's have some cake, okay?

Father, I would appreciate it if you withhold your gratuitous insults.

I merely hinted.

that you're perhaps not altogether mature.

And your reaction to my comments amply justified that observation.

That does it for... Time out.

Look, I just decided to tell you what my wish was when I blew out my candles.

I wish that we could only just have one night together without arguing.

So now it's up to you guys.

fight and tear each other apart?

Or are you going to help make a kid's birthday wish come true?

I'll ask him. I am not the one who starts them.

Edward, may I have a word with you, please?

Excuse us.

Edward, Ricky wants us all to get along. I know, Kate, but my father... Now, I

understand your father gets you crazy.

But there are ways to manage that anger.

For instance?

Well, one way is to take a nice deep breath from the diaphragm.

Kate, I don't think that's going to work for me.

Although it looks great on you.

If that doesn't work, then the next step is you just smile politely, say, I'll

be right back, and then just walk away.

I don't know.

What else you got?

Well, if that isn't enough, then you whistle.

You can't walk, whistle, and be angry at the same time.

Now, come on.

of such up guys.

Believe me, Richard, it is not my intention to insult your father.

In fact, I am trying to help him by pointing out those areas in which his

behavior can be improved.

You should emerge from this process a better man.

Better? Meaning more like you?

God willing, yes.

I've decided to try to honor your request. I'm going to do everything in

power to get along with him.

As will I with him.

I just hope he doesn't muck it up.

See, technically, Grandfather, that's already a violation of the deal.

I agree.

And I apologize.

Oh. That's okay.

No big deal.

Good, good. That's the way.

Now let's all shake on it, okay?

Okay.

Come on, you too, Kate.

This

is

going to be the best birthday... of my life.

Look at us.

Is this great or what?

Grandfather, father, son, and Kate.

This is exactly what I wanted.

All of us getting along, just happy to be together.

in my life, I feel like one of the Waltons.

Did you hear me at fuselage, Rick Boy?

Sure thing, Dad Bob.

You know, happiness was pretty much par for the course in the Summers family.

Really? Yeah.

We had an old clapboard house with a little white picket fence on Apple Tree

Lane.

You had apple trees?

Oh, hundreds of them. We used to share them with our neighbors. Oh, Dale and

Dode Soddy.

Every fall, Grams would always bake the very best apple pies.

And believe you me, there is nothing like a hot slice of homemade pie and a

glass of ice -cold milk.

to pre -thread a screw before I attach it.

Yes.

But may I point out to you that the work has already been done.

Oh.

Thanks.

That's a big help.

All right, then I'll just, uh, let's see, assemble the rudder. Where is it?

Okay.

What?

Edward, do you remember when you broke off the head of my Lalique Swan?

He tried to glue it together and thought I wouldn't notice.

But it was impossible not to notice because he glued the head on back.

gave you two live swans once?

You'll never guess what I named them. Dale and Doad Sawdler.

No, Doad.

Snuggles and Ruffles.

Gramps and I would go rowing on the lake behind the house.

Oh, and Snuggles and Ruffles, they always trailed behind.

That's really great, Kate.

No.

You are forgetting Slabber.

Slabber was hardly a pet.

You should have been proud that he could do something besides fetch.

What else could he do?

Slabber was our killer guard dog.

And he was very devoted to me. Well, he bit me.

It was your own fault. I told you over and over, don't look at him funny.

same time. Watch!

I forgot about grumpy.

That is being negative, Edward.

Now, I know it sounds corny, but my grams always used to say the optimist

the donut and the pessimist sees the hole.

I don't want you to take this the wrong way, Kate, but your grams can take her

donuts and her pie and your grams and take a flying...

glass of ice -cold milk.

Father, I have decided once again to try to honor my son's birthday wishes.

Edward, why are you picking on my family? I'm not picking on your family,

Guys, would you still love me if my eyes looked like this?

All I've been trying to do is share a few experiences with you. A few...

I'm glad you have loving memories.

I'm thrilled you have loving memories.

But there are only so many loving memories I can take.

Hey, look.

I'm a blonde Mr.

T.

You know what you are?

You're jealous.

Of what?

Of the fact that I really enjoyed my childhood.

Why not? You lived on Swan Lake.

Just a hot skip and a sawdust from never, never...

Unnecessary roughness.

You just stay out of this, Father. I can't juggle more than two arguments at

once. Juggle? That's a great idea.

Stop it!

Couldn't do it, could you?

And you promised you'd do it.

Sure, you faked it for a few minutes.

But then you went right on fighting with each other.

Well, I don't like it.

Why don't we play a game? Oh, good. Okay? Sure.

Let's play a word game. Oh, love it. I'll start.

Okay. All right.

My Uncle Dave, he owns a grocery store.

And he sells something in it that begins with the letter G.

Great. Well, nice try, but wrong.

Gooseberries.

Graham's Graham Cracker Crust.

That's a shock.

Oh, come on, Kate. Wait a minute. It was not.