All language subtitles for family_ties_s02e17_double_date

I bet we've been together for a million
years.

And I bet we'll be together for a
million more.

Oh, it's like I started breathing on the
night we kissed.

And I can't remember what I ever did
before.

What would we do, baby, without us?

What would we do?

And there ain't no nothing we can't love
each other through.

What would we do, baby, without her?

lost your touch.

Thank you. I'm so rusty. I must have
plucked 20 bad notes. Oh, come on, Mom.

you didn't. I counted 23.

I only counted 19.

That's as high as you can count.

Listening to you really reminded me of
the old days, Elise.

Makes me want to go out and boycott some
lettuce.

Did you know my mom used to be a folk
singer?

I wasn't really a folk singer, honey.
Occasionally, I'd pick up a guitar or

Oh, don't be so modest, Elise. Kids,
when we were in college, your mother

to perform every Thursday night. It was
in a tiny, jam -packed, smoke -filled

coffee house, two floors underground.

The Age of Darkness Cafe.

Sounds like a fun place.

I remember Wednesday was Anarchist
Night. People in favor of violent

of the government got a free cocktail.

Hey. Do you remember that time we came
there after the rally? Oh, no, Andy,

don't get started. Don't get started.
We've got to go.

You know, Elise, you really could have
made a career out of singing. Why didn't

you ever follow up on it?

Not a family to raise, another career to
build. Singing was never more than a

hobby. A passing interest.

You did have a pretty decent following,
though, didn't you?

A decent following? Elise, everybody who
heard you thought you were going to be

the next Joan Baez or Judy Collins. Oh,
you sing great, Mom.

I bet you could have been the next Joan
Collins.

Judy Collins, honey, and your dad is
exaggerating. Oh, no, he isn't. You were

really something special, at least.

The world may have gained an architect,
but lost a great singer.

Maybe you could have combined the two.
You could have been the singing

architect.

I ought to watch A Great Mind at Work.

You know, Elise, I just got an idea.

Andy and I went to a new nightclub
downtown called The Top Spot. They have

comedians and musicians and singers.
There's no Age of Darkness Cafe, but it

fun. Maybe we could all go sometime.

Oh, sounds good. Good.

Oh, we've got to go.

Thank you. Okay.

Bye -bye.

Good seeing you.

Bye. And you, baby. Time for bed.

Good night, Mom. You were great. Thank
you.

Dad, will you tuck me in, please? Oh,
come on, I'll tuck you in.

I'm going to go to bed early, too.

Alex is giving me a driving lesson
tomorrow.

That's right. Tomorrow we're going to
work on opening the car door.

Alex, stop selling. I want to actually
drive.

Look, Mallory, you know, you may be
carrying packages sometime.

You ever think of that? Opening the car
door is not always easy.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

It's a pleasure to be here tonight.

Oh, you're a beautiful audience.

Hi, Mel.

Hi.

Hi, Mel.

How's the driving lesson go? Great. I
think I'm a natural -born driver.

Where's Alex?

How's the lesson go?

I thought I'd never see this house
again.

Oh, Alex, don't be so melodramatic.

Oh, don't worry, Mallory. I don't blame
you. It's not your fault.

I just assumed that when you saw a red
sign marked stop, you'd take it at face

value.

I told you I didn't see the sign.

Right? How could you? You were going in
reverse.

Oh, come on, Alex. It couldn't have been
that bad.

It wasn't, Dad. Alex just has no
patience. He was yelling at me the whole

I wasn't yelling at you.

I was yelling at a cop. to shoot her on
tires.

You're not being very helpful, Alex.
Your sister needs a patient, tolerant

teacher. Will you take me tomorrow, Dad?
Sure, Mallory. I'll be glad to.

You might need this.

What is that?

Hi, honey. You're late. Where have you
been?

Oh, I'm glad you asked that question.
question.

Are you going to answer it?

You're not going to believe this, but on
the way home from work today, I stopped

in at the top spot and I have an
audition tomorrow afternoon.

You want to hold down the enthusiasm a
bit? Oh, honey, honey, that's great.

How are you going to be a singer, Mommy?

Are you going to quit your job?

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Hold the
phone.

Nobody's quitting any jobs around here.

People got kids to support. They got a
boy to put through college.

I'm not going to quit my job. It's just
I had such a good time last night

singing and reminiscing about the past
that I just was thinking how nice it

would be to perform again.

In front of people?

Well, that's the basic idea, Mal.

Well, Mom, I think you're a great
singer, but you're a mother.

I try to keep a low profile on that.

I just thought, why not? I mean, what
have I got to lose?

Your mother is very brave to try
something like this, kids. It is very

to pursue your dreams, no matter how
great the odds against you may be.

Sort of like you trying to get a
driver's license.

Now, Corky, don't you think you've
talked enough? Why don't you try

for a change?

Well, I'm certainly not going to listen
to a dummy like you.

Hey,

Corky, I hear you got a new girlfriend.
Is that true?

Oh, Dennis, she's the greatest. Her skin
is so soft, when I touched her, I only

got three splinters.

Okay, Dennis, you were great.

Hey, what about me? Oh, you were... You
guys crack me up.

Pretty soon you're going to be able to
kiss that dishwashing jug goodbye.

Well, we got to dump that. He washes and
I dry.

All right.

All right, you're the opening act. We do
two shows a night.

$50 a week.

Congratulations. Thank you, Uncle Luke.
Thank you, Uncle Luke.

I don't know, Stephen.

What if he doesn't like me?

Of course he'll like you. He liked
Dennis and Corky, didn't he?

Are you saying I'm as bad as they are?
Of course not.

I never see your lips move.

Excuse me, sir.

I'm Stephen Keaton. This is my wife,
Elise.

She sings.

What do you do? I manage a public
broadcasting station.

Okay, Stephen, you'll follow the
juggler.

It's a joke.

He's here for moral support. I'm the one
with the audition.

Okay. Ah, Leith Keaton. Folks, we're
ready for you.

Right up there.

Thank you.

Good luck, honey.

Thank you.

the world today we tend to forget about
people who have less we're less

fortunate than we are we take things for
granted we don't realize how lucky we

are excuse me miss why are you telling
me these things look if i want to feel

guilty i'll call my mother

here and we'll talk, okay?

You were great, honey. Did you think so?
Well, look at Lou. He is visibly moved.

So, how'd they do?

You definitely didn't think.

I mean that.

Welcome to show business.

Start Saturday.

Two shows a night, $25 a week.

Oh, what?

Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a
minute, wait a minute. You're paying

Dennis and Corky $50 a week.

Of course. There are two of them.

Jennifer, I just had my best driving
lesson ever. I'm really getting good at

this. Maybe when you get your license,
you could take me to school and stuff.

Sure, I'll be driving all over town.

I explained to you, officer.

confused. Excuse me, Dad, but I didn't
get the pedals confused. I got my feet

confused.

Mallory, let me handle this, please.

Dad! She violated almost every traffic
ordinance known to man.

She made a few little mistakes.

Nothing out of the ordinary.

Hey, Dad?

What are you doing in the front yard?
Alex, put that back, please.

Oh, Mallory's driving lesson.

Gotcha. I'll just put this with the
other stuff. Alex?

Officer, please, if you come down hard
on her now, you'll destroy her

confidence.

I tell you what, just this one time, I'm
going to let her go.

But please, keep her off the street.
She's really not a bad driver. She has a

lot of potential.

So, Dad, what time tomorrow are we going
to go driving?

Mallory, you're my daughter, and I love
you very much, but I'm never getting

into an automobile with you again.

Which one of these do you think I should
wear tonight?

I told you, you gotta go casual.

Could you wear something with a veil?

Mallory, why are you so embarrassed
about this? Your mother has always loved

sing. She misses doing it, and it's
important for her to try it now.

Well, when Allison Weber's mom was going
through a midlife crisis, she just went

to law school.

When Nancy Hefner's mom was feeling
blue, she ran off with the college

sophomore.

Let her sing.

Going through a midlife crisis. I just
want to do something that I haven't done

in years.

Midlife crisis.

Classic.

Hey, have you chosen a stage name yet?

A stage name?

Yeah, something with a little more
pizzazz, something other than Keaton. I

thinking Elise L 'Amour.

Alex, she's a folk singer, not a
stripper.

All right, all right, how about, uh...

Ramblin', Elyse L 'Amour.

No, thanks, Alex.

Come on, Elyse, you better get dressed,
huh?

Well, honey, I'm just having trouble
with this land. Oh, I love that song.

Can you sing it now?

Well, I could show you the practice.

Let me see.

This land is your land.

This land is my land.

From the redwood forest. Honey, I'm from
California, right?

This land is your... California.

Start again. Start again. Pick it up a
little bit.

This land is your land.

This land is my land.

From California to the New...

the century.

Sounds like beat it or murder by
numbers.

Ah,

those old standards.

You know, mom, amazingly enough, Mallory
may have a point.

You should at least be ready with one of
those songs.

How does one go?

Just do blowing in the wind first and
keep the in -ears flying and then go.

you just do it the way you rehearsed it.
You'll be wonderful.

Count your blessings, knothead. There
are very few ventriloquist acts around

these days.

Yeah, you're right. There are a lot of
dummies out of work.

You could be next.

Hey, pal, you're moving your lips.

I'll stop if you will.

came into our Wednesday audition and
really knocked us for a loop and a half.

So put your hands together.

Let's have a warm, top spot welcome for
Miss Elise Keaton!

Come on! Woo!

Woo! Come on!

My name is Elise Keaton.

I'm a singer.

Actually, I'm an architect.

But I can't very well come up here and
drop pictures of houses for you, can I?

Well,

I'd like to dedicate this first set to a
man who changed the course of my life.

A man named Woody Guthrie.

I'm just one person.

Maybe we'll try something else.

upset. Come on.

I was so horrible.

Isn't that funny?

I thought you were just great. You sang
beautifully, Elise.

Yeah, really, Mom.

The crowd just wasn't ready for you,
Mom. They were too concerned.

You're very kind, but I just wasn't any
good.

I was rusty. I should have rehearsed
more.

I just didn't sing well.

Mrs. Keaton?

I thought you were wonderful myself.

Great vocal ability.

It's your material, honey, that's all.
Mind your own business, Corky.

No, let him speak.

Well, it's the songs you're singing.

It's not what everyone today wants to
hear.

They have too much meaning.

Sure, you and I can relate to them. But
what about guys like Dennis here?

I gotta admit, I couldn't follow it.

But those are the songs I want to sing.

Then sing for your own pleasure. Forget
the audience.

If you believe in yourself, they'll
believe in you.

Corky makes an excellent point, Elise.

Thanks, Steve. Let's have lunch.

Elise.

Steven, please don't try and talk me
into going back out there.

That was so horrible.

So frightening.

She'd never have done it in the first
place.

It all came back with a rush.

What did?

Sitting in clubs like this.

Watching you up there.

Listening you sing.

Cheering you on. Hoping you'd sing
another.

Loving your voice.

Loving you.

I love you so much, Dan Steven.

I love you even more now.

But that's separate from this.

See, I made a mistake.

I can't go home again.

I'm such a jerk.

I was out there trying to recapture
something. It's over.

I'm too old for this, you know.

It had its time and so did I.

I'm such a fool.

There's another audience at 10 o 'clock.

They don't know what a fool you made of
yourself. I, for one, promise not to

tell them.

Look, like Corky said, go on out there
and do it for yourself.

For your own pleasure.

You can go home again, Elise.

You may not like what's happened to the
neighborhood, but you can go home.

Do it, Elise.

You won't be alone.

Your best friend will be with you.

As you can see, he cannot see a thing,
ladies and gentlemen.

Not a thing.

Can you see anything? Nothing. How many
fingers am I holding up? Uh, two.

The amazing Corky. How does he do it?

Thank you and good night. Thank you.
Dennis McCain, Corky. Let's hear it for

him.

Now, I'd like to introduce the little
lady who made her debut here this

And here she is again for her second
debut.

Miss Alice Keaton.

The 60s.

Anyone out there remember the 60s?

We tried to ban the bomb and beautify
America.

And we sang songs, folk songs, songs of
social protest.

And I'm going to sing a few of those for
you tonight.

And we'll just see how it goes.

I'd like to dedicate this first set to a
man who changed the course of my life.

A man named Stephen Keaton.

Come gather round, people.

Sit, Ubu, sit.

Good dog.