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(♪ Humming ♪)

Ahh.

Are You Enjoying Your Breakfast?

Yes. Are You Enjoying Yours?

Are You Going To Drink That Orange Juice?

Yes, I Am.

I'm Saving It For Last.

I Don't Have Any Orange Juice.

You Took It All.

I Know.

That Used To Happen To Me A Lot.

Now I Wake Up Very Early.

How Would You Like To Trade

A Delicious, Thirst Quenching Slice Of Cantaloupe Melon

For That Little Shot Glass Of Orange Juice?

Two Pieces.

But Then I Won't Have Any!

That's The Deal.

You Used To Be Such A Warm Person.

You've Changed.

Take It Or Leave It.

Okay, On The Count Of Three--

One, Two, Three.

There You Go.

No Fair!

I'll Tell You Now.

All Is Fair In Love And Breakfast.

I'm Telling Mom.

♪ Tattletale, Tattletale ♪

♪ Sitting On An Ice Cream Rail ♪

Hello.

Hey.

It's Such A Beautiful Day Today.

A Beautiful Day?

Why? You're Not Going To School?

I'm Going. Why?

I've Just Never Seen You In A Mood Like This

Before Going To School.

Today Is Friday.

This Weekend I Have No Homework

Tests Or Papers Due.

It's Going To Be The Perfect Weekend.

You Know What Will Make It A Great Weekend?

We'll Get The Ladder

Go To The Roof, And Clear Those Gutters.

I Need To Relax This Weekend.

I'm Under Lots Of Pressure.

Pressure?

Our Lives Are Different.

You're A Doctor.

When You Finish Work

You Have Nothing To Think About.

But I'm In High School.

I Always Have To Think About What I'm Doing.

If I'm Not Studying For A Subject

I've Got To Think About It.

How Do You Do It?

I Don't Know

But It's Weekends Like This That Get Me Through.

Then I Guess You Better Make The Most Of It.

Oh, Dad, I Will.

Tonight's The Pep Rally, Tomorrow's The Game

And The Party At Maxine's.

Uh-Oh.

Your Grandparents Ararar Coming Over For Dinner Tonight.

I'll Be There.

I Was Just Hoping I Could Be Excused After Dinner.

Is It Okay?

Sure That's Okay.

I'm Happy You Could Fit Us

Into Your Perfect Weekend.

Thanks, Dad.

Who Took My Orange Juice?

Who Took My Orange Juice?

All's Fair In Love And Breakfast.

Do You Know Who I Am?

I Am The Man Who Loves You--

Who Works

To Buy The Orange Juice For You.

Did You Really Want It?

I Faked You Out!

Hi, Dad.

Hey, How's School?

Great. Is Mom Around?

She's In The Kitchen.

I Need To Talk To Somebody.

Vanessa.

What Am I? A Bag Of Oats?

No, But I Think I Should Talk To Mom About This.

Okay, You Might Know About This, Too.

How Were You Going To Know That I Know

If You Don't Ask Me?

You See, It's Boys.

Boys?

Boys And Girls.

You've Come To The Right Person

Because I Used To Be A Boy And Your Mother Was A Girl

And I Have Four Girls And One Boy.

What's Your Problem?

There's This Thing Next Week At School

Called The "Turn-Around Dance."

Turn-Around Dance?!

They Had Turn-Around Dances In My Day--

In The O-O-O-Old Times.

That's Where The Girls Have To Ask The Boys To The Dance.

Right.

There Are Two Guys I Want To Ask.

One Of Them I Don't Like, But He'll Say Yes.

The One I Like Will Probably Say No.

Is One Of Them Robert?

No, Dad.

Rob And I Broke Up A Long Time Ago.

First, He Went Steady With Stephanie Johnson

Then With Beth Peterson

And Now It's Amy Gordon.

Sounds Like Roberto Is Wandering Around The World

For The Rest Of His Life Searching For You.

Dad, The Guy I Want To Go Out With Is David Butler.

Ahh.

I See.

Why Do You Like Him?

He's Cute.

He's Probably Got A Great Personality...

I Hope.

I Never Really Talk To Him

But I Heard Him Say Something In Class, Dad

And He Has The Best Voice!

It Cracks.

What Did He Say?

He Stood Up In Class To Answer A Question

And He Said--

( Cracking Voice ) "The Suez Canal."

It Was So Adorable, And It Was The Right Answer.

Cute And Smart.

And All My Friends Say We Will Look So Good Together.

If Your Friends Say

That The Two Of You Look Cute Together

Call This Boy.

But If He Says No, I'll Feel Awful.

Suppose He Says Yes?

Let Me Put It This Way:

A Long, Long Time Ago--

And I'm Not Naming Any Names--

There Was This Cute Young Girl

And She Wanted To Ask This Fellow

But She Was Like You.

She Was Kind Of Afraid And Nervous.

And Then She Got Up Enough Courage

And She Called The Boy

And The Boy Said Yes

And They Went To The Dance

And They Are Married Today.

Is This About You And Mom?

Yes, But Don't Tell Your Mother I Said It.

Don't Tell Her.

But, Dad, I'm Not Mom.

I Don't Think I Can Do This.

You Can Always Take Me To The Dance.

I'll Call David.

Hey.

Hello.

How's Everything?

Just Fine.

Need Any Help?

I'm Almost Finished.

You Know, It's So Funny How Life Repeats Itself.

Well, I Was Sitting There Talking To Vanessa

And She Is Nervous About A Turn-Around Dance.

Oh.

So I Told Her The Story

About How You Called Me

And Asked Me To Go

To The Halloween Dance.

I What?

I Told Her How You Called And Asked Me To Go To The Dance

And How You Were Nervous.

Cliff, Why Did You Lie To Our Daughter?

I Didn't Lie.

No, I Didn't.

Let The Record Show...

Oh, Here We Go With "Let The Record Show."

Get The Story Straight.

The Truth Of The Matter Is

You Called My House While I Was At Cheerleading Practice

Because You Knew I Wasn't There.

You Had The Audacity To Ask My Mother To Tell Me

To Take You To The Dance.

You Said I Had To Hurry

Because There Were Many Girls In Line

Waiting To Ask You.

Get Out Of Here!

You Know It's True.

You Promised My Mother If I Said Yes

You Would Have Me Home By 9:30

And Mow Her Lawn And Wash All The Windows.

And I Think You'd Better

Put The Top Back On That Silver Polish.

My Mother Will Be Here This Evening

To Verify The Facts.

Okay, Good.

Good, Good.

And Then After She Does That

You'd Better Be Ready

To Do Some Heavy Apologizing

And Begging For Forgiveness.

We Shall See.

We Shall See What We Shall See

But Humiliation From Thee.

Hi.

Hey, How You Doing?

Wait A Minute.

This Isn't The Face Of Someone

Who's About To Start A Perfect Weekend.

It's Not A Perfect Weekend.

I Got A "C" On My History Paper.

I Thought I'd Get A "B."

Mr. Pierce Said I Can Redo The Paper

And Try For A Higher Grade.

You Get Another Chance.

Yeah, But It's Due On Monday.

If I Rewrite The Paper, I'll Miss Everything--

The Pep Rally, The Game, The Party At Maxine's.

It's Going To Be The Greatest Party Of The Year.

Go Upstairs And Work A Couple Of Hours On Your Paper

Come Down And Have Dinner With Us

And Then Go Back Up

And Work On Your Paper Some More.

Tomorrow You Go To The Football Game

And Maxine's Party.

Okay?

Makes Sense.

I'll Try It.

I'll Get Started.

And Then

We'll Get The Ladder And Go Up

On The Roof...

Just Kidding.

Just Kidding.

Cliff: So The Pirate Said:

"Not In My Hat You Don't."

Cliff, Where Did You Hear That?

I Made That Up.

I Thought That.

Claire, The Dinner Was Delicious.

Thank You.

Everything Was Delightful, Except For My Son's Jokes.

Hey, Listen.

You Can Go Home Now, If You Want To.

I'm Pouring Tea.

Who Wants Some?

Grandpa And I Will Have Some.

Can I Leave?

Yeah, Sure. Go Ahead.

Where Are You Going?

I Have To Redo A History Paper.

I Got A "C" On It.

What's It About?

The March On Washington.

You Didn't Tell Me

You Were Writing About That.

Your Father And I Were There.

But I Did Research On It And Everything.

You Could Have Done Research With Us.

That's Right.

We Were There.

But I Went To The Library.

Theo, Go Get That Paper.

I Want To Hear It.

Now?

I Want To Hear It.

So Do I.

My Pleasure.

I Want You To Hear How Good It Is.

Can I Be Excused?

I Want To Make That Call.

Yes.

Can I Come?

Needs A Little Privacy

For This Call.

That's Okay, Mom.

I Could Use The Support.

Just Don't Make Any Kissing Noises

While I'm Talking.

I Won't.

What's That About?

There's A Turn-Around Dance

And Vanessa Has To Ask A Boy.

Since We're On The Subject Of Turn-Around Dances--

Mother, Dear

I Would Like You To Settle A Little Dispute

Between Your Daughter And Myself.

What's That?

Do You Recall

The First Time We Went Out Together?

Of Course, The Halloween Dance.

Yes.

You Tried To Bribe Me.

You Asked Me

To Talk Claire Into Asking You To The Dance.

( Sigh )

Thank You, Mother.

He Promised To Wash My Windows And Mow My Lawn.

You Always Were Desperate.

By The Way, You Never Mowed My Lawn.

I Guess We'll See You On Sunday.

And Bring A Rake.

I Fed You Tonight, And You Turn On Me Like This?

Okay, Here It Is.

Are You Ready?

Uh-Huh.

"The March" By Theodore Huxtable.

"On August 28th, 1963

"There Was A Civil Rights March On Washington, D.C.

"250,000 People Were There.

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gave A Famous Speech--

" 'I Have A Dream.'

It Was An Important Day For America."

What Do You Think?

That's It?

No, That's The First Paragraph.

What Do You Think?

Well, You Have Your Facts Straight.

I Know.

Does This Sound Like A "C" To You, Grandpa?

Maybe We Should Hear The Rest Of It.

"There Were Many Celebrities At The March--

"Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston

"Paul Newman, Lena Horne

"Joan Baez

"Jackie Robinson

Harry Belafonte, Burt Lancaster..."

Why Did You Hang Up?

I'm Not Ready Yet.

Want Me To Call?

I'll Do It.

I Just Have To Decide What To Say.

I Know What To Say:

"You're Going To This Dance With Me."

Rudy, That's Not How You Do This.

I Do.

That's Not The Grown Up Way.

You're Not A Grownup.

I'm More Of A Grownup Than You.

No, You're Not.

You Go To Bed At 10:00.

So? You Go To Bed At 8:00.

You Can't Drive A Car.

You Can't Ride Your Bicycle In The Street.

I Don't Want To.

Look, I Don't Want To Fight.

I Have Enough Problems Right Now.

I Have To Call David Before It Gets Too Late.

Then Do It.

I Will.

Don't Be Afraid.

If He Says No

You Can Stay Here And Play With Me.

Thanks.

( Anxious Sigh )

Hello, Is David There?

Oh, Hi, David.

His Voice Cracked!

Ask Him!

Okay. Shh!

This Is Vanessa Huxtable.

You Don't Know Me Very Well, But I'm In Your Science Class.

Yeah, That's Where I Sit.

I Was Wondering About Something.

You Know About The Turn-Around Dance

At School Next Week?

Yeah.

Um...

Would You Like To Go With Me?

He Said Yes!

Yay!

Shh.

I Think It Will Be Fun, Too.

I'm Delighted.

( Kissing Sounds )

Shh.

"At The Conclusion Of The Day

"The Leaders Of The March

"Met With President John F. Kennedy.

"And Thus Ended An Important Day We Should All Remember.

The End."

Well... Interesting.

Yes, It Was.

Very.

You Didn't Like It.

Well, You Had The Facts.

Where Did You Get The Information?

At The Library.

From Which Book?

The Pocket Guide To American History.

How Many Pages Did It Have About The March?

One, With A Little Bit On The Next Page.

It's A Condensed Version Of Historical Events.

Right.

And No Mention Of A. Phillip Randolph?

Right.

I Can Just Imagine

What They Wrote About The Boston Tea Party.

"Some Men Jumped Up On A Boat

"And There Were Celebrities

"And They Threw The Tea In The Water

"And Sam Jones, John Havlicek And Bill Russell

Have Been Winning Championships Ever Since."

Theo, Maybe Your Teacher Wanted Something Else.

What?

You Could Write About The People--

Why They Got Involved, What They Felt.

I'll Tell You What They Felt-- Hot.

Yes, It Was Rather Warm That Day.

We Were Lucky.

We Were On An Air-Conditioned Bus.

So Many Buses...

Hundreds And Hundreds Of Them.

And The Singing...

You Could Hear The Singing Coming From Every Bus.

We Sang All The Way Down There.

Not Everyone Was Singing.

Please Don't Start On Me.

We Had To Tell Your Father To Keep Quiet.

He Had A Tendency To Drag Out The Words

And Sing Off-Key.

What Really Happened Besides The Heat And The Singing?

I'll Tell You

What You Should Put In That Paper.

The Mood Of That Day--

Oh, Theo, It Was So Friendly.

Yes, It Was.

People We Didn't Know At All

Waving To Each Other Like They Were Old Friends.

We Were Old Friends

By The Time We Walked

From The Parking Lot To The Great Lawn.

It Was A Couple Of Miles.

We Had To March To The March.

You Saw All Kinds Of People--

All Colors, From Every Part Of America.

They Carried Signs And Buttons Saying Where They Were From.

I Traded Buttons With A Man From Portland, Oregon.

He Wore That Button All Day-- "Kiss Me, I'm Irish."

Your Father Collected Buttons All Day.

He Kept Putting On New Buttons--

"Kiss Me, I'm Jewish."

"Kiss Me, I'm Polish."

"Kiss Me, I'm Japanese."

And I Still Have Those Buttons Upstairs.

We Have A Drawer Full Of Reminders.

It Must Have Been Great Knowing You Were Making History.

No. No. No.

That Wasn't What It Was About.

We Were Just Expressing The Way We Felt Then.

When We Stood Outside The Church Waiting For The Bus

There Was Only About 50 People.

I Thought, "What If We're The Only Ones Who Show Up?"

We Were A Small Group.

Till We Got Down There.

There Were So Many People!

To Stand In Front Of The Washington Monument

Surrounded By 250,000 People...

To Be Heard...

That's One Thing

You Can't Get In The History Books.

That's The Thing You Can't Capture--

The People.

And Then, When We Went Back To The Buses...

People Held Hands And Smiled.

There Was A Feeling Of Joy And Pride.

The Newspapers Had Said There Would Be Trouble

But It Was A Lovely, Peaceful Day.

It Was Peaceful.

I Still Carry A Little Of That Day With Me.

Dr. King Said--

And I Don't Think I'll Ever Forget--

"In A Sense, We Have Come To Our Nation's Capitol

"To Cash A Check.

"When The Architects Of Our Republic

"Wrote The Magnificent Words

"Of The Constitution And The Declaration Of Independence

"They Were Signing A Promissory Note

To Which Every American Was To Fall Heir."

This Is Great.

I Didn't Have To Go To The Library After All.

All I Had To Do Was Have Dinner With My Family.

Whoa, Wait A Sec.

Up In The Bottom Drawer Of Your Mother's Dresser--

Pictures, Old Newspaper Clippings.

Your Father's "Kiss Me" Buttons, Too.

Thanks.

I'm Glad Theo Had That Paper To Write.

It Brought Back A Lot Of Memories.

It Certainly Did.

Russell, Do You Remember

Someone Way In The Back Of The Bus

Starting To Sing:

♪ Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory ♪

♪ Of The Coming Of The Lord ♪

♪ He Is Trampling Out The Vintage ♪

♪ Where The Grapes Of Wrath Are Stored ♪

♪ He Hath Loosed The Fateful Lightning ♪

♪ Of His Terrible Swift Sword ♪

♪ His Truth Is Marching On ♪