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Monday, Monday, happy days. Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days.

Thursday, Friday, happy days.

The weekend comes, a cycle hums, ready to race to you.

These days are ours.

Bye -bye.

Bye -bye.

These days are ours.

Share them with me.

These days are ours.

Happy and free.

These happy days are yours and mine. These happy days are yours and mine.

days.

Oh, Howard, would you give me two dollars for the boy who mows the lawn?

dollars? What happened to the kid who used to do it for a quarter?

He's a doctor now.

Dad, Dad, as long as you have old Betsy out, can I have $10 to buy a blouse? No.

All right, then. Can I have $10 to buy books?

I want a receipt.

And if you two are here, where is that big redhead?

How are you? How are you? How are you?

How are you? How are you?

How are you? How are you?

How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you?

How are you?

How are you?

How are you? How are you?

How are you?

But you weren't getting discharged for another three months.

Yeah, well, I threatened to re -up, so they let me out early.

In any case, it's good to see you.

Yeah, and it's nice to see that some things are exactly the way you remember

them. Ralph,

if you're out of the Army, where's Richie? Yeah.

Oh, well, you know how the Army tends to make little mistakes?

Yeah, like Korea.

Well, they've done it again.

I'm afraid Richie had to stay back and...

Let's all sit down and talk one at a time. Me first.

Listen, Fonzie's closing down Arnold's so all the guys can come over, we can

have a little reunion, and I know it's our first night back and everything, but

do you mind if I win? Oh, honey, of course not. I know how you've looked

to this. Oh, thanks.

You know something?

Your mother is the greatest.

Oh. Get out, Fonzie!

Get out, Fonzie!

Hey, Rich, you remember Bill Selkirk, my old lodge brother?

The Peeping Tom?

No, no, that's Bill Sussman.

Bill is an editor now for the Milwaukee Journal, and he's always known how you

wanted to write there. What do you say I try and get you an interview, huh? Oh,

honey, that's great.

Thanks, Dad.

Yeah, great. Well, listen, I'll think about taking you up on that sometime.

Oh, well, okay, but don't take too long, huh?

Oh, and hurry up. Mom's got dinner ready. Okay. All right, partner, back to

stable, huh?

Get in, bossy!

Yeah.

Honey, I'll go help your mom with dinner. Isn't this great? Our first day

and you've practically got a job already.

Yeah. Yeah. Great.

Great.

Writing for the journal.

Just what I always wanted.

Or used to want.

I got a question here. Am I overdressed? Always.

Is this all the guys you got for this party, huh?

Oh, come on, Roger. Let's go round up the gang. All right. We're going to make

this the biggest party since Roger got drunk and proposed to a mannequin.

I didn't propose.

We just danced.

Well, what are we waiting for, huh?

We got a lot of catching up to do.

Sure do. Sit down in our old spot. All right. This spot. I remember.

missed him. Oh, right. Sorry.

I'm telling you something right now.

This is great.

Oh, yeah. This is G -R -E -A -T. Yeah.

Great. Just great.

Really great.

We sure have been through a lot

together, huh? Oh,

Yeah.

Well, now you're in a divvy, huh?

What are you going to do? You're still going to open that chattering teeth

factory?

I've been talking it over with Dad. He loves me. He says anything I want to do

with my life is great, as long as I become an optometrist and go into

with him.

An optometrist?

Well, when you think about it, it's what I've always wanted. I mean, you've got

easy hours and big bucks.

You get your hands on one fuzzy eye chart, and you're a millionaire.

But now, you always told your father you wanted to be a comedian.

Ah, that was just to scare him. Kids owe that to their folks.

But now, now I'm a grown -up.

Tomorrow, Dad's buying me one of those new Mustangs, and I'm driving up to

Madison to start optometry school.

But you just got home.

I know, but it's time for me to move on. If Dad doesn't give me the car. Well,

there's no reason to ask Richie where he's going. He's staying right here with

me.

Congratulations. Lori Beth told me about that interview you got with the

Milwaukee Journal, huh? What interview?

Oh, well, it's nothing concrete.

Well, anyway, you're staying right here, aren't you? That's great, eh?

You're going eyeball college? I see.

I propose a toast.

This is more like just you and me, like old times, huh, Richie? Yeah.

You know, Richie, I heard a guy say once that if you got one true friend in your

life, you're very lucky.

I'm very lucky, and I'm very glad you're home.

Are you?

Bunch, that's what I wanted to talk to you about.

I want to go to California.

Hey, that's a great idea.

Take a vacation.

Relax. Everybody should do that. Knock your socks off.

No, I mean to live.

Forever. Why would anybody want to do that?

Fonz, there's something that I want to do even more than work on a newspaper.

You can't do that here in Milwaukee.

Look, I haven't even told Lori Beth about this, but one of my jobs in the

was to be the projectionist at the Bass Theater.

You want to be a projectionist?

Fine. We show movies every week. You understand?

Yeah. Well, one week I saw the audience totally entranced by On the Waterfront.

That's when I knew what I wanted to do. You want to be a longshoreman?

All right, look. It's okay. It's okay. I'll talk to the union. I'll get you in.

I'll get you a hook, a wool cap. I want to write movies.

And you can't do that here in Milwaukee?

No.

All right, just tell me. Tell me honestly. Honestly, what do you think?

If you want to move family away from everybody that loves you, it's no sweat

my back. You're shot.

Thanks for your support. Sure.

Hey, Lenny.

I just bet my friend you got a birthmark. Let's find out where.

That's enough, pal. You want me to call the manager?

You're shot, Hans.

Yeah, any sec.

Hey, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold.

This woman don't want to spend time with you. I understand why. You smell.

Spit it out, greaseball.

Hey, onion face, you want me to go teach you a lesson or what? Try it!

Rich,

isn't that my job?

I'm going to teach you he's a writer.

Hey, Joanie.

Got some homework, huh? Mm -hmm.

Want me to give you a hand?

That's sweet, big brother, but I'm taking some pretty complicated courses.

a lot more out of this if you do it yourself.

Can't do it, can you, Rich? You know, I've waited a lot of years for this

moment. Oh, yeah?

I'd like to see you put a rifle back together blindfolded.

Oh, good. Rich, you're here.

Marion! Listen, where's Laurie Best? She should hear this, too. Oh, well, she

took little Richie down to the mall.

We promised to Mighty Mouse slippers.

He saw my pair and he just went crazy.

Listen,

you remember me telling you about Bill Selkirk, the editor for the Milwaukee

Journal? Yeah. Well, I had lunch with him, and I gave him some of the articles

you wrote while you were at college and for the Stars and Stripes. Dad, I really

wish you wouldn't have done that. No, no, he loved the stuff, and I always

thought he was a jerk.

Well, I was just hoping for an interview, but something even better

Monday morning, you start work as a staff reporter.

Oh, Richard, I am so...

Thank you, but look, I'm not sure that's exactly what I want to do. Or is this

what you've always wanted to do?

Well, look, I've been thinking about it, and I don't know, I might prefer

moving to California and becoming a screenwriter.

A tree climber? You want to be a tree climber?

No, a screenwriter.

You know, in the movies.

What do you think, huh?

The movies?

Richard, that isn't exactly the kind of thing I expected from you.

No, we thought you would say something sensible, something, you know,

responsible, something... Something predictable, right?

Something safe?

Good old Richie.

Good old right down the middle Richie.

Don't eat before you swim, Richie.

You see? You see, this is exactly why I didn't tell you about it. So you're

going to throw away a wonderful opportunity for some half -baked pipe

Why are you doing this? He is a grown man.

Then why doesn't he start thinking like one? I don't have to listen to this.

When you're in this house, you listen to your parents.

I might be in my parents' house, but I don't have these feet nailed to any

floorboards. And if I want to take my family to California, I'm going to do

and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Well, you handled that one real...

of young people going out to Hollywood every year thinking that they can break

into the movies.

Yeah, there are, but I'm a little bit different, Dad.

Because I've been working on my ideas. I want you to see something.

Look at this.

I wrote these scripts, and I've got connections, too.

A guy I was stationed with, his brother lives in California, and he said he'd

listen to any idea I have, and he writes for Leave It to Beaver.

Look, until you sell your first script, how do you expect to support your

family? We managed to save some money. Oh. How much?

About $600.

Richard, $600.

You're going to have to pay that much to the hospital when Lori Beth delivers.

That much?

In the Army, all that stuff was free.

Well, everything costs a fortune these days.

Those little Mighty Mouse slippers that Richie went to buy, they cost...

No. Look, son, I know exactly how you feel.

When I was in the Army, I had a dream, too.

You know how much I loved baseball.

When I got discharged, I wanted to go to umpire college.

Then I came back down to Earth and realized that I had to do what was best

Mother and for you. And I've never regretted it.

Hey. Dollars for Mighty Mouse slippers.

So this guy at the journal, he really liked my stuff, huh? He flipped.

It's a respected paper.

It's right up there with the New York Times.

Start Monday?

Nine o 'clock, $120 a week, a medical plan, and two weeks paid vacation.

And our whole family would be together.

I'll do it.

Oh, thank you. I'm so happy. Ah, that's my son talking.

Now, I'll tell you what. Let's all get ready, and as soon as Laurie Beth gets

here, we'll go out and celebrate. It's my treat.

Oh, no, Howard, I've already started dinner.

Better yet.

How lucky can a guy get, huh?

to do this once more for old time's sake.

Boy, this used to be a lot easier.

I got to tell you something.

My dad just got me a job down at the journal and I took it.

What are you talking about?

What about Hollywood?

The thing you've been boring me to death about for the past year.

Oh, come on, Ralph. What do you think? I've got to go out there and get into

movies just like that?

No, I've got to be much more realistic and responsible than that. I got a

to think about.

And I've been writing for newspapers since I was 14 years old. I'm a damn

reporter.

This is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Hey, hey, I understand.

When it comes down to it, we're both doing the same thing.

Exactly what our dads want us to.

Only I got a new car out of it.

Well, I'm going to head up to Madison.

Send my love to everyone, Rich. I guess I'll be seeing you a lot sooner than I

thought. Hey, Ralph.

Three years in the army.

I never could have made it without you.

You're the greatest, Rich.

Hey, Rich.

You know, I just got back from Africa.

I was playing cards with the natives.

Zulus? No, I won!

I still got it.

These happy days are yours and mine.