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Okay.

Honey, you better get the potatoes
started. Mom and Dad will be here in a

minute. I'm on it. One order of sauteed
potatoes coming up.

Oh, baby, the table setting looks
fabulous.

Well, I like to make things extra
special when Mom and Dad come over.

Hi. Hey. Come on in.

Oh, looks like we're going to have to
eat out tonight.

A little grease fire, nothing ruined.
No, you're in for a delicious meal. I

think we ought to get a little air in
here, please.

Dad.

Let me give you a hand with that.
There's a little trick to that, okay?

Hammer here.

Your phone. Yeah.

Thanks a lot.

Now, why didn't I think of that?

Well, Mom and Dad, look around. You
notice anything different?

Um... Oh, your neighbors across the way
have new curtains.

Oh, come on, you're not looking close
enough.

Okay. Come on, come on.

Ta -da!

This is the baby's room.

The baby's room?

Yes. Behind the screen?

Yeah. You see, this way, the baby has
privacy.

And we have privacy.

Well, Alvin, if you've got enough of
these Chinese screens, you could turn

into a nine -room apartment.

Well, why doesn't everyone sit down?
Okay. I'll help you, sir. Now, Alvin,

you've got to help me because the last
time I was here, wherever I sat,

something fell apart.

Yeah, it's not like that anymore. Just
pick a seat. Okay. Try this one. Now,

what about the arm on this one? I
remember this arm.

But this is...

I took an arm from another chair and I
fixed this chair. I'm really into home

repair now. Yes, you did. You took an
arm from... Uh, Elvin, why are the wires

hanging out of the wall? Oh, this is
another one of my repairs.

See, this used to be like three bare
wires sticking out of the wall, but what

did was I put an outlet on top of it. I
can plug an air conditioner in here now

if I ever get one.

Yeah, you can put an air conditioner
there if you get a window.

landlord be doing that electrical work?
Yeah, well, you know, I called Mr.

Reeder about these things five or six
times just this week, but, you know,

like wasting your time, so I just
figured I'd do it myself.

Well, you gotta keep at him. I mean,
lots of landlords try to get out of

repairs. Yeah.

Well, bon appetit.

Okay.

That's veal, Dad. We splurged. How long
did you cook it, son?

Uh, six hours?

Well, Alvin, veal only takes about an
hour to cook. Mom, I know, but our stove

only goes up to 95 degrees, so... I have
to cook it a few extra hours, and then

I zap it in the microwave to seal in the
juices.

You cook this for eight hours and then
put it in the microwave?

Yeah.

Listen, how about some hot dogs? I can
pop them in the microwave. They'll be

done in a minute, yeah. Hot dogs.

Get with the hot dogs. All the way
around. Make mine done.

Coming up. Okay. Well, Mom, why don't
you have a roll? They're homemade.

Thank you, sweetie.

Yeah.

These are potatoes, aren't they?

All right. Got that right.

Cajun style.

Yeah.

Cajun experimental.

Yeah. Burnt on the outside.

And, uh... Raw on the inside.

Crispy, Dad. Crispy on the inside.
Whatever it is, I gotta wash this stuff

Just wash it down with a glass of water.

Hey!

Look out there!

Oh, Dad, that happens when someone takes
a shower. on the third floor.

Yeah, I can believe it. I'll send this
to the lab in the morning.

Thundra, you're paying rent here and
you're having a baby. You need fresh,

water, dear.

Well, Mom, we're going to get bottled
water.

It's all right, Mom, Dad.

Come up, Dad. It's all right. These hot
dogs, they just, they exploded.

It's not like I don't know how to use
this thing. We have these power surges

the time.

Well, we invented something.

Wiener bits.

Albert, call the landlord and ask him to
come down here right now. Dad, he's

probably having dinner. I don't really
want to bother him. Come here, Albert.

I see a lot of cases of landlord neglect
all the time. You've really got to stay

on these people.

Hello, Mr. Reeder?

Yes, it's Elvin Thibodeau.

5B?

Yeah, hi.

Listen, we're having some problem with
the water and the pipes and electricity

and some other things, too.

I was wondering, could you, I mean, is
it possible if you could maybe come up?

Oh, no, no, that's fine. You know, next
week is okay.

Elvin. Tell the man that your mother -in
-law is here and that she's an

attorney. Uh, Mr. Reeder? Yeah, my
mother -in -law, who's here now, would

you to know that she's an attorney.

Oh, great.

Great, thanks.

Thanks a lot.

Uh,

he's coming right up.

Oh, now, Mom, please, when he comes
here, let us handle it. Well, of course.

This is your home.

That's Fritz. He plays tuba in a polka
band.

Does he play often?

No, only during the day. And sometimes
we move the furniture out of the way and

dance.

Hi, Mr. Reeder. Come in. Easy, Mr.
Thibodeau.

Mrs. Thibodeau. Hello.

I'd like you to meet my in -laws. This
is my father -in -law, Dr.

Huxtable. How do you do? My mother -in
-law, the attorney.

I got here as fast as I could.

Mr. Reeder, we need to discuss something
with you.

The brown water, we don't want it
anymore.

Oh, but I have explained that to you.
The entire building needs a plumbing

overhaul. But if I do that, then I have
to raise everyone's rent.

Well, what about the window? Can you fix
that?

Okay, okay, that I can do.

Oops, that's my beeper. I gotta go.

Goodbye.

You know, that guy works too hard. Every
time he's up here, he gets beat.

He probably had somebody to beat him,
Elvin, to give him an excuse to get out

here. Oh, you think so?

Well, I think the man should be reported
to housing authorities, and I think the

papers will be ready and on my desk
Monday morning, because I don't want my

grandchild growing up in this place,
sticking his fingers in light sockets,

drinking brown water from behind that
screen.

And I think you need to think about the
child being able to sleep through the

night without people showering and the
sink attacking the child.

Dad, are you telling me that I won't be
able to take care of my own child?

No, that's not what I'm saying. Well,
you implied it. Well, you look like

going to knock somebody down.

That's not what I implied.

Can we not do this? My wife is pregnant.
I don't think she should get upset.

Well, listen now, I think everybody...

Needs to just settle down here so that
we can state very calmly what it is we

want to say. And I want to say, Elvin
and Sandra, very calmly, that the two of

you should consider, very seriously
consider getting out of this apartment.

Well, look, if it's a problem of money
moving to a new... Mom, Dad, as we have

told you many, many times before, we
insist on supporting ourselves.

We appreciate your offer, Dad, but no
thank you.

Okay, fine, and stay here.

Okay, fine.

We will.

Fine.

Fine.

Oh,

I'm telling you, brown water coming out
of the faucet. The microwave that gets

power surges and turns veal into rubber
tires.

I looked out the window and there was a
pigeon out on the ledge looking at me

going...

when they're in this place. They're in
love with it. They say it has character.

You're not going to get those two out of
that apartment.

Russell is right. He's because you have
a daughter who's just as mule -headed as

you were. I always told you that someday
you're going to have a child that

frustrated you just as much as you
frustrated me.

I'm just glad I'm around to see it.

I'm not the issue here.

But you are the issue. This girl learned
everything she knows about stubbornness

from you.

Mom. No, don't mock me. I remember it
clearly.

You were in that school.

Claire was carrying Sandra.

You lived in a one -room apartment over
a trucking company.

Eighteen wheelers winning out of there
like bees.

The noise was like a thunderstorm.

Dying day, when that one of those trucks
rolled in, the whole room began to

bounce up and down.

And I was always saying to you,
Heathcliff, let your father and me help

Yeah, but you were too proud.

The original mule head.

Mommy, and Claire loved it.

When did they ever say I loved it?

ever say I loved it. I said I would live
in it because I loved you, but the

place was a dump.

And you two should go over and talk to
Thunder.

Yes, you should.

You're the ones who talk. Listen to
them. Go into that place.

I was over there the first day they
moved in. I sat in the chair. The bottom

fell out. I was on the floor.

Then I sat on the couch and a spring
popped up and stuck me in the behind.

And then a bus.

set foot in that place again. You know,
I've even had nightmares about that

apartment.

So, Denise, how's it been going?

Now, I'm not here to talk about me. I'm
here to talk about you guys.

Well, what's up?

Well, I heard you guys had a fight with
Mom and Dad last night.

Yeah, we did.

That's why I'm here. Now, you know that
I've been behind both of you guys 100 %

when you decided to drop out of law
school, med school.

I thought, hey, that's great. These guys
are deciding to live their own lives.

When you told me that you wanted to open
a wilderness store, I thought, it's a

little flaky, but... Wacky kids, they
just might make it work.

But when Mom and Dad told me that you
turned down their offer to help you move

into a better apartment, that's when I
thought, they're nuts.

Come on, Sandra, Alvin, pack up.

Move.

Wait a minute.

Did Mom and Dad put you up to this?

No. No, they don't even know I'm here.
I'm acting alone.

Denise, we happen to like our apartment,
even if you don't. I'm not putting down

your apartment.

It's wonderful. It's got character.

It's charming.

But come on.

You can't have, like, children for the
rest of your life. It's time for you to

grow up.

Oh, who are you telling to grow up?

You dropped out of school, and then when
Mom and Dad wanted you to go back, you

wouldn't even listen to them.

Sandra, that is because in my case, Mom
and Dad didn't make any sense, okay?

talking about here. Come on.

You guys are having a baby, a little
bambino, another life.

Would you actually consider raising a
kid in this place?

Look, Denise, as long as we love this
child, it doesn't matter where we raise

it. Please.

As soon as this kid can talk, it's going
to say, call me a taxi. I'm out of

here.

I just don't remember a more difficult
time with the children. Every time I

around, there's a kid with bad news.

Well, hello everybody!

There's some people you know out in the
living room who have

something to say to you.

Please, don't say anything, just follow
me.

I know exactly what this is all about.
She's told all the children to drop out

of school, then they're going to make an
album called Parents Don't Know What

They're Doing, and they're going to turn
our bedroom into a recording studio.

Well,

let's get this meeting started here.

Now, something happened last night that
involved some bad feelings between

members of this family, so I think it's
only appropriate that we kick off this

meeting with some apologies, Sandra,
Alvin. We're sorry.

We're very sorry.

Mom?

Dad? Don't you just apologize?

We accept.

I told Ponder and Elvin that I'd be able
to get you guys to apologize.

But that's your problem.

All right, we apologize. We are very
sorry that we had words last night.

Cliff? What?

I apologize.

Oh, our son just apologized.

He's not as mule -headed as we thought.

It's not over yet, Russell.

Mom and Dad, we came over because we
agree that for the baby's sake, we need

new apartment.

All right!

Oh.

Now, we may need to borrow a little
money. Not a lot, just a little, so that

can get a larger place and one that's in
better shape.

Yeah. We're very happy to hear that. And
we'd like to give you the conditions.

under which we will borrow the money.

You're going to tell us the conditions
under which you're going to borrow our

money.

Dad, Dad, just hear them out. Okay,
well, number one, you have to charge us

interest. Yeah, you better believe that.

Number two, if we don't pay you back
within one year, you charge us a 5 %

penalty. I can think even better than
that.

And number three, We offer you as
collateral all of our furniture.

What else you got?

Just our word.

Well, that's better than the furniture,
and you got a deal.

Gentlemen, perhaps you should shake on
this. All right, shake.

Consider shook. All right. Now, Elvin,
you know, if I were you, I wouldn't have

agreed so soon. I would have insisted on
one more turn.

What's that?

At no time during the loan can Cliff
hold it over your head that you owe him

money. Yeah.

It's too late. We already shook on it.

Hey, how's everybody doing?

Sandra and Elvin are moving and they
agreed to borrow the money from Dad.

Where are you guys moving to? Well, we
don't know yet. We're going to start

looking immediately.

Really? Hey, you guys are in luck.

This apartment I saw today would be
perfect for you. I thought it was

that you were going to live in a dorm,
not an apartment.

Oh, well, I wasn't officially looking at
the apartment.

I just couldn't resist the ad in the
paper, so I checked it out. Here, it's

circled.

Bachelor Pleasure Den, Young Singles
Building.

The other one is circled. Yeah, yeah.
Ah, yeah.

One bedroom.

family building reasonable rent. Honey,
look. Hey, we should go check it out

before somebody takes it. I'm all for
that. All right, let's hit it. Let's get

to this station wagon.

I think I'll stay behind. I don't want
to see this apartment until someone

assures me that it won't give me
nightmares.

Dad, um, if Sondra and I like this
place, we're going to take it. I mean,

there's nothing in the agreement that
says you have to approve of it or

anything. Yeah, but we can put it in the
agreement.

It's too late. We already took one.

And then Marlowe Myers, famous girl
detective, looked the evil scientist in

eye and said, I'm not afraid of you, Dr.
Dredd. I have the truth on my side.

Dr. Dredd took a step forward and
laughed evilly.

Then Marlowe Myers picked up an ancient
Egyptian vase and said, We'll see

who laughs last when you get this
between the eyes.

Hey, Grandpa.

Hey, Grandpa.

Where's everybody else?

They are at Sandra and Elvin's packing
boxes.

Does that mean they've taken the
apartment?

Oh, yeah, they loved it. Everybody
flipped out as soon as they walked in.

Dad had to admit I came through.

What's the apartment like?

It's nothing spectacular.

Water's clean.

They get power all the time.

You know what I mean?

Nothing's making noises.

And the pigeon on the windowsill looked
at me and said...

That's a gorgeous chicken.

Smells delicious.

Yeah, I think takeout was a good idea.

Well, Elvin, weren't you going to make a
salad?

Yeah, I burned it. Sorry.

Elvin, how did you burn a salad?

Well, you see, it was one of those
gourmet warm -em -up spinach salads.

Something got out of control. I'm not
sure.

Fritz is playing Misty.

That was the song that he was playing
when I carried Sandra over the

It brings back such memories.

Well, Elvin, I ran into Fritz today in
the hall, and I told him that this was

our last evening in the apartment.

You mean Fritz is playing a farewell
song for us?

I'm going to miss this place.

I say let's have a toast. Let's lift our
glasses high in honor of Sandra Elvin

and the new apartment.

Yes, and hear, hear. Let us have a toast
also to the fact that Sandra and Elvin

are moving to a place with clear water.

Here's to the baby's wonderful
grandparent whose generosity has made

possible. Here, here, here. And here's
to Fritz. Hmm, what's he got to do with

it?

I wonder who that could be. Must be
Fritz.

Mr. Reeder, hi.

Mr. Thibodeau, I have a young couple
here who are interested in renting the

apartment. Could I please show it to
them?

Does anyone mind if Mr. Reeder shows the
apartment?

Very much, sir. Thank you.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, this way, please.
Hi. Hi. Sorry for intruding. No, that's

fine. Come in. Thank you. Hi.

Well, here you are.

This is nice.

I know.

We've seen a lot of places, but nothing
comes close to this place.

Sounds like you're interested.

Yeah, we'll take it.

Why don't we go down to my office so you
can sign the lease?

Okay. All right.

Come on. Sweet pie.

The furniture really goes with the
apartment. I mean, it's eclectic funk.

I wonder if they're taking it with them.

Well, it doesn't hurt to ask.

Uh, excuse us.

Uh, we were wondering if maybe you'd
consider selling us your furniture.

Well, we were thinking of taking it with
us.

No, you weren't.

Make us an offer, son.

Is $200 fair?

$10.

It's amazing. We just graduated from
Yale a week ago without a clue where

been living. Your parents must be
tickled as they can be. They are.

Nobody could be happier for you than me.
Let's go downstairs.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. All
right. Take care. Bye -bye now.

Oh, uh, what about that cracked window?

Ah, no problem.

It will be fixed by the end of the week.

That's right. You'll be gone, too.

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