All language subtitles for family_ties_s04e15_where_s_poppa

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, baby, without us?

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

What would we do, baby, without us?

Okay,

Andy, let's go over this again. This is
a gift catalog.

I'll turn the pages.

That's right, and you point to the
things you like best.

He doesn't know what you're talking
about, Mallory.

Jennifer, I mastered mail order by the
time I was his age.

I remember.

That's how we got our good China.

What's going on?

Oh, we're buying Andy a gift, and he's
pointing out the things he'd like to

wear. So far, he's picked out a bath mat
and a wrench.

Just make sure he doesn't wear them
together.

Good news, everybody. You're looking at
the newly elected chairman of the Leland

College Parents Student Weekend
Committee.

Yes, sir. I was singled out for this
honor.

Unanimously chosen by my peers.

Handpicked from a pool of over 50
qualified candidates.

They pulled his name out of a hat.

Congratulations. I'm really excited for
you.

Yeah, we'd like to hear all about it.

Well...

Just what does the job involve?

Mom, I'm in charge of the entire event.
I have here a computer printout with the

name and phone number of every Leland
student and parent.

For this one weekend, I'm in complete
control of their lives.

Well, that is frightening.

Well, but it's nice. We'll finally get a
chance to meet Alan's father.

Actually, I don't know if he'll be able
to make it.

Oh, that's a shame.

Well, it's partially my fault.

I didn't invite him.

You didn't invite him?

Ellen, this is parents' weekend. You're
legally obligated to invite him.

Alex, there wouldn't have been any point
in calling him. He doesn't like these

things and he wouldn't have come.

He was just saving us both the trouble.

Um, Ellen, look, just let us know if we
can help you in any way.

Thanks. Bye.

Well, I gotta go. I gotta get back and
study. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute,

Ellen.

I can't really say I'm happy about this.
I mean, it's Parents' Weekend, and your

dad's not coming?

Alex, I told you, it's not his kind of
thing. Even when my mom was alive, she

always came to these things by herself.

Yeah, well, how do you know unless you
call him? Believe me, I know.

Just give him a call, will you? No,
Alex.

All right, all right.

You can use our phone.

Alex, that's it. I'm not calling him at
office.

Alan, I'm just worried about you being
alone for Parents' Student Weekend.

be okay. Everybody else is going to be
having fun. There's going to be potato

sack races and egg tots. Who are you
going to toss your egg to?

It's not a major worry in my life.

You'll be lonely.

I'll be okay.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Well, what do you think?

It's an awfully full schedule, honey. 10
o 'clock, parents welcome.

10 .15, written exam on that, welcome.

That's right. They don't pass, they go
home.

Alex, how come there's so many pictures
of you on this pamphlet?

The printer insisted.

Alex, all these events you planned seem
pretty boring.

Boring? Jennifer, look at the bottom of
the page.

Parent -student rodeo.

And? Parent -student... wet t -shirt
contact.

And?

Parent -student full contact kickboxing.

I don't know if we're in good enough
shape for this weekend.

Well, you can start training by helping
me carry all this stuff out to the car.

All right, all right. You can carry it
as far as the porch. I'll take it from

there.

I just got this message from my father.
It says he's coming here for Parents'

Weekend. It says that the chairman of
Parents' Weekend invited him. It says

the chairman called him personally to
ensure that he was coming.

Let me see that.

You had absolutely no right. This is a
personal matter and you shouldn't have

interfered.

did not interfere in a personal matter.
It was a very official call. I said the

same thing to your father that I said to
all the other parents I called. Oh,

really? You said to all the other
parents, Ellen really wants you to come?

Yes, I did.

And they're all coming and they're very
anxious to meet you.

I am very angry about this. I don't want
to see my father.

Well, Ellen, he wants to see you. He
said he was real excited about coming.

That's really strange.

What's so strange about it?

My father and I don't get along at all.

We've hardly said a word to each other
in the last five years. And when we do

speak, it usually turns into a fight
within the first two minutes.

I guess I shouldn't have called him
then, huh?

The man has no respect for the way I
live my life, for the things that are

important to me.

All he cares about is business, profits,
making money.

and put me on hold for 15 minutes.

Car phone?

What kind of car does he have?

It was probably the limo.

Limo?

He was on his way to the stables.

Okay.

Car phone, limo, stables.

I'm starting to get a warm glow this
time.

This guy sounds rich.

Guys, your father, Ellen, you're rich.

I love you.

Ellen, calm down.

No, I can't believe this. I've fallen in
love with a girl who I think has no

money, and she turns out to be rich.

My instincts are incredible.

Ellen,

when do we get married?

Stand on him.

Stop it!

Come on, you know I'm kidding.

Look, I'm sorry that I got you into such
a difficult situation.

I don't know how I'm going to get
through this weekend with him.

Well, look, he's coming all this way,
right? And he did say he wanted to see

you.

Give him a chance.

Okay.

Hey, what do you two have there?

Oh, we decided instead of getting Andy a
gift from a catalog, we're going to

make him a ski sweater.

I didn't know you two knew how to knit.

We don't, but Andy does know how to ski.

Excuse me, I'm Franklin Reed. I'm
looking for an Alex Keaton.

Well, I just happen to be one.

Please, come in.

Take your coat.

Ellen told me to meet her at her dorm
room, but she wasn't there, so her

roommate said I might find her here.
Yeah, well, I'm sure she'll be here any

minute.

In the meantime, please sit down. Make
yourself comfortable. Thank you.

So, Ellen tells me you're rich.

That is richly deserving of many
compliments.

So you're Ellen's boyfriend?

Yes, I am.

What are you?

Poet?

Dancer?

Communist?

Absolutely not, sir.

No, I'm against all those things.

Oh? Well, that's refreshing.

I assumed you'd be another one of those
bohemian punk hippie parasite types.

No, I stand before you as the
representative of all that is good and

this country.

And I may add, I'm very sympathetic to
the upper classes.

Well, this is a pleasant surprise.

Thank you.

Uh, getting back to your wealth.

Ellen, Ellen tells me you're a corporate
lawyer.

That's right.

We deal in... Acquisitions, antitrust
matters, takeovers, statutory mergers.

Are you interested in the law?

Oh, yes, sir. As it pertains to money.

Alec, I think I like you.

Thank you, sir.

I know I like you.

Excuse me.

She's here, Ellen.

She's here.

Ellen, where were you?

I've been waiting for you at the
airport.

You said meet you at your dorm room.

Why would I say that? Well, I don't
know, Ellen, but that's what you said. I

not say that.

I'm not making this up, Ellen. You know,
you two look alike.

Well, anyway, hello, Dad.

It's nice to see you. Hello.

Ellen, I have to admit it.

I'm surprised.

Alex here impresses me.

He's a straight thinker.

He's got his priorities.

he's in line and he's not a communist.

I expected him to be another one of your
modern art boobs.

Dad, art happens to mean a lot to me,
although I know you don't appreciate it.

Alex, what do you think about this
modern art nonsense?

Me?

What do I think about this modern art
nonsense?

I love it.

Sometimes.

Fine, thank you very much.

What happened?

A little mishap during the parent
-student football game. A little mishap?

tell you what happened.

I took a handoff. A 20 -yard line.

Faked out a few parents.

Drew Bob Lemkowski's mother into a
block.

I had the whole field ahead of me. I'm
running along. All of a sudden, I'm hit

from behind by some crazy parent with a
bone -crunching illegal tackle.

How many times do I have to apologize?

Alex,

she didn't hit you that hard.

Oh, no, the football coach offered her a
scholarship.

Oh, come off it, Alex. It was a clean
hit. Don't be such a mama's boy.

Let's go give Andy a sweater.

Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Wait a
minute. Mel.

Where'd you get this? The octopus shack?

Not for you, Alex. It's for Andy. This
is not a one -person sweater, man.

I am aware of that.

I made it for him to wear with a friend.

You should have played, Ellen.

Dad, I told you, I'm not very good at
football.

Yeah, well, maybe you can get some
pointers from Elyse Hacksaw Keaton.

Actually, Ellen is a great athlete. Did
you know that, Alex?

Dad, please.

No, no, no, no.

Ellen was good at everything.

Swimming, ice skating, baseball,
horseback riding.

Do you ride, Alex?

Uh, me?

Uh, no, used to, used to. Uh, had to
give it up. And a bit of a mishap. I,

got thrown.

Actually, it was off a merry -go -round.

But, uh, but the point is, I got right
back on.

Well, Ellen didn't fall off much.

If she had kept riding, she could have
been really good.

She could have made it to the Olympics.

But she stopped.

She didn't have that killer instinct
like your mother does, Alex.

I wanted to do was ride a horse. You
were the one who wanted me to come home

with a ribbon or win a prize.

And what is wrong with winning? With
showing you're the best at what you do?

Nothing. Nothing is wrong with it.

I gotta go.

I've got some things I gotta get done
back on campus.

Do you want to lift back to your hotel?

All right.

Well, I guess I'll see you tonight at
the big dance.

Yeah. Looking forward to spending some
more time with you, sir.

I'll save the last dance for you, Alex.

Well, this is a wonderful party. I'm
very impressed.

Alex has fine organizational qualities.
Oh, yes, yes. We've been aware of it

ever since he was in diapers and he
organized that parent -baby weekend.

It was approved.

Well, Alex is a fine boy. You should be
very proud of him.

We are, and you should be proud of
Ellen, too. She's a wonderful girl.

been a great influence on Alex.

Alex is almost to the point where he can
say feminist without laughing.

Feminist.

Did somebody say feminist?

Dad, where have you been? I was waiting
downstairs.

Ellen, you said we were going to meet up
here.

Well, I said we'd wait downstairs in the
lobby.

Well, the important thing is we're all
together.

Excuse me.

Can we have this dance?

Thought you'd never ask. Excuse.

Would you like to dance?

No, thank you. I don't really enjoy
dancing.

Ellen, it's your major.

Well, you always thought dancing was a
waste of time.

Well, maybe I changed my mind. People do
that, you know.

Even fathers.

Whatever you say.

I don't really enjoy being treated like
a stranger, Ellen.

Well, I'm sorry, but who are we kidding?
We are strangers.

I am not a stranger. I'm your father,
and I deserve some respect.

Smile.

Look, Dad, do we have to get into this?

I don't expect anything from you now. I
don't want you to try to apologize or

make up for lost time.

Just don't expect me to suddenly pretend
that everything is fine between us.

All my life, you've either been ignoring
me or criticizing me.

My grades were never good enough. My
friends weren't good enough.

Nothing I ever did was good enough for
you. And nothing I ever did was good

enough for you. You were always
rebelling against everything. If I said

said no, just for the hell of
disagreeing with me.

Enjoying yourself?

Yes. No.

Okay.

Do you know why I always disagreed with
you?

Do you have any idea why I argued with
you about everything?

Why I... Stop competing in those horse
shows.

Or why I ran away from home.

Because I wanted you to notice me.

I know I didn't spend enough time with
you.

And I regret that. But we can't change
the past, Ellen.

I know I made mistakes with you.

But I want to make a new start.

But now I can make it on my own.

I have my artwork, and I have my
friends, and I have Alex, who is just

opposite of you.

He knows that there's more to life than
making money.

that happened tonight?

Come on, Mom. I brought this all on
myself.

I called Mr. Reed without asking Ellen.
I forced them to spend time together,

and as a result, I helped break up an
already shaky parent -child

And I lost a potential father -in -law.

Well, tomorrow's a new day.

If you want to talk, honey, we're here
for you.

Sorry, it's been a rough night. Yeah,
thanks, guys. Appreciate it.

Hi. Hi.

How you feeling?

Okay.

Where's your dad?

He's on his way back to the airport.

Yeah.

Listen, Ellen, I'm sorry about all this.

I mean, if it wasn't for my calling your
father and pressuring you to see him,

none of this would have happened.

It would have happened eventually.

You just kind of sped the whole thing
up.

It's because I couldn't accept it when
you said you didn't want your father to

come up for parents' weekend. I mean, it
didn't seem right to me.

I couldn't believe it.

I mean, sure, I argue with my parents.
We have our share of fights, but that's

all they are, arguments and fights.

When we have it out, they see where they
were wrong, and it's

over.

We never stop caring about each other.

Alex, what you have with your family is
very special.

If I had lived here, I never would have
run away.

Don't be so sure, Alan.

I never told you this, but I had a fight
with my parents one time and I ran

away. Why? What happened?

Well, I was six years old.

It was 1972.

They voted for McGovern.

couldn't stay.

So I got all my important papers
together, tied my briefcase to the end

stick, set out.

Where did you go?

I wanted to go to Washington, you know,
to live with the Nixons.

But I got as far as Skippy's house, and
after ten minutes there, I was ready to

come home.

Good.

I like happy endings.

I'm sorry about what happened this
weekend.

I'm sorry for you.

I'm sorry for your dad.

I mean, I actually like the guy.

I guess maybe deep down inside, I like
him, too.

I don't know. I feel like we're trying
to reach out, but we just don't know

Mr. Reed.

Hello, Allie.

Ellen.

I just came to say a proper goodbye.

We may not be seeing each other for a
while.

I guess not.

And I wanted to give you this.

What is it?

It's a picture from tonight.

Despite the circumstances, I think it
came out all right.

But I'm not smiling.

I'm sort of smirking.

Sometimes you take what you can get.

Ellen, I know I'm not the easiest man in
the world to get along with.

But I'm trying.

You have to believe that. I really am
trying.

I know it.

Ellen, I love you.

And I don't want to lose you.

Maybe we can try again.

I'd like that very much Well

Daddy

Have

a good trip back

I will

Bye, Mr. Reed.

Well,

what do you want to do next weekend?

Laughter.

Sit, Ubu, sit.

Good dog.