All language subtitles for All In the Family s09e21 Edith Gets Fired.eng

* Boy, the way
Glenn Miller played *

* Songs that made
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* Guys like us,
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* Those were the days *

* And you knew
where you were then *

* Girls were girls,
and men were men *

* Mister, we could use a man
like Herbert Hoover again *

* Didn't need
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* Everybody
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EDITH: Oh, no, Mr. Tucker,

I don't want to
play cards now. [GIGGLES]

Miss Critchen,
did you want to see me?

Yes, Mrs. Bunker.
I have a special job for you.

Oh.

MAN:
Give me those teeth. Give me back those teeth!

Come on, Mr. Berkvist.

Those teeth belong
to Mrs. Collins.

This will teach her
not to bite me.

Oh, Mr. Berkvist!

Mrs. Collins
had every right to bite you.

For being nice to her?

Nice?

Nice is crawling
into bed with her?

That's not nice?

Oh, he don't
mean nothin'.

He just gets cold.

Come along,
Mr. Berkvist.

Let's sit down
and watch television.

That's a good idea.
This took a lot out of me.

Mrs. Bunker, I want you
to stay with Mrs. Dillon.

[GASPS] She's back?

She must be
feelin' better.

No, no. I'm afraid
the hospital just couldn't do anything else for her.

Oh, but we mustn't
give up hope.

My aunt Elizabeth
from Elizabeth, New Jersey--

that ain't the reason
they called her Elizabeth.

She was very sick--

Mrs. Bunker, is this
going to take long?

Yeah.

Then you'd better
tell me tomorrow.

All right, remind me.

Maybe Mrs. Dillon
would like me to read her a story.

Be sure it's a short one.

Is she that sick?

You better read fast.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, we mustn't make jokes.

If I didn't joke,
Mrs. Bunker, I'd cry.

Well, is there anything special
you want me to do for her?

Give her whatever
she asks for.

But if you do need me,
push the buzzer.

Loretta? Look
who's here to see you.

Hi, Loretta.

Hello, Edith.

How nice.

Welcome home.
We missed ya.

You know, I had
another heart attack.

I know.

You know what
those terrible people did?

No. What?

They kept me alive.

Why don't they
just let me go?

Where?

I lived a good life.
Why can't the end be good, too?

I guess it ain't up to us
to decide them things.

God decides?

Yeah.

God decided.

When I was in the hospital,

God said,
"Loretta, it's time."

And I saw
my husband Arthur, too.

He waved at me and said,

"Come on, Loretta,
I'm waiting for you."

Really?

He was a good husband,
an unusual man.

Never a harsh word
between us.

That is unusual.

I should be
with Arthur now.

They shouldn't make me
go through this.

Edith, I can't even
go to the bathroom by myself.

Don't worry about it.

Ain't there something
I can get ya, a glass of water?

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, no.
Please, sit down.

It's nice
to have company.

Nobody comes
to see me anymore, not even my daughter.

Norene is afraid of sickness.

She's always been like that.

But you know
that she loves you.

And I love her.

She's not strong.
She never has been.

My Aunt Ethel was like that.

She wouldn't
even boil a cabbage,

because she said when
she dropped it in the pot,

she could hear it scream.

I know what we could do.

We can fix you up,
and then we can call Norene

and tell her
you're feeling better

and tell her
to come and see ya.

Maybe tomorrow.

Now I want to rest.

Will you stay with me
if I go to sleep?

Oh, sure.

Can I get you
another blanket?

No. Just sit here.

Ain't there somethin'
I can do for ya?

Just hold my hand...

...and don't let go.

I want to know why
my mother-in-law is dead,

why something
wasn't done to save her.

When Miss Critchen went
into her room, it was too late.

Why wasn't somebody
watching her?

Oh, I was watchin' her.

And we had
a nice long talk before sh-she...

I told Mrs. Bunker
to stay with Mrs. Dillon,

but to call
if she needed me.

Did you go in
as soon she called?

I didn't call.

You didn't call?!

If Mrs. Bunker
had called someone,

it probably
wouldn't have done any good.

Probably?!

"Probably"
isn't good enough!

When I get through with you,
this place is gonna be a parking lot.

It's not gonna
change anything.

Negligence!
What are you gonna do about it?

We're letting
Mrs. Bunker go.

Where?

Your services
are no longer required.

You mean I can't work
at the Sunshine Home no more?

Thank God for that.

But, Mr. Johnson,
Mrs. Bunker can still work in the kitchen,

she can read to the patients,
write letters for them--

No.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Bunker.

You're fired.

Hey, Edith, I'm home.

Are you up in the "terlet?"

No. I'm out here.

Oh, you're out
in the kitchen there.

[SCOFFS]

Uh, Edith...

if there ain't nothin'
on the outside table

and nothin'
on the inside table

and there ain't
nothin' cookin' on the stove,

should you really
be sittin' down?

Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't know
it was so late.

Sure, it's late.
Did you feed the kid?

She's spendin'
the night at the Blooms'.

Well, I'll set the table.

Who's the long face for,
for me?

Mrs. Dillon.

Oh, Mrs. Dillon.

[SIGHS]

What did she do?

She passed away.

Oh, she passed away.

Ah, that's too bad.

Who was she?

She was from
the Sunshine Home.

Oh, one of them people.

Well, geez, I mean...

Edith, you gotta
expect them things workin' over there, you know?

I mean, the people
you work with,

they ain't exactly
the Mouseketeers.

I got fired.

What for?

Because Mrs. Dillon
passed away,

and I was there with her
when it happened.

Oh, well, now, geez,

Edith, I mean, you know,
them things are to be expected, all right?

I mean, when you're
working with invalids there,

especially a lot
of kinda "decrapit" old people.

Hey, there's a guy
named Shorty McCracken comes in to our bar.

He can tell you
all about that.

He does the same
kinda work you do,

but with a men's hospital,
you know, there.

Lots of times, Shorty would
get lost in his thoughts...

and that cost a few lives.

Yeah.

Like one time,
he was turnin' over a mattress, see,

and he forgot to get
the guy that was on it off it.

So the guy hits
the tile floor and curtains. [SNAPS FINGERS]

Then another time he's taking
a phone call from his bookie,

and he forgets a patient
in the whirlpool bath.

So he lost a patient and $25.
[SNAPS FINGERS]

And, you know,
them things happen.

Shorty never felt bad,
so why should you?

Did he get fired?

No, he's still working
over at the Veterans' Hospital.

You know,
you can't fire civil servants.

Well, I never did
none of them things.

No, you never did that.

I'm only tryin'
to explain to you, see?

They want to make you
the fall guy.

What's that?

Tsk, a fall guy--

well, that's a guy
who takes the rap, you know,

usually for somethin'
that he didn't do.

Hey, you remember that picture
there with John Garfield--

or maybe it was Jimmy Cagney--

and also in the picture
was Lana Turner--

or it coulda been Joan--

Joan Crawford.
Joan Crawford.

She was in the movie.

Well, the girl,
she gets herself, you know,

in the family way, right?

So now, the older brother--
that's John Garfield, see--

Now, he says that he done it

so's that the younger brother

can go away to the university

and study to be a, uh--

a prize fighter?

Yeah, a prize fighter

who writes the symphonies
for the violin.

So, see, in that case,

uh, the younger brother, see,

he was the guy
that was really in there.

See, he got off the hook.

It's the older brother,
John Garfield,

he took the rap for that.

See, he was the fall guy.

But that ain't fair.

No, that's why
at the end of the picture,

Joan Crawford walks
into the water.

I know it ain't fair, Edith,

but that's life in
these United States.

A lot of them
old people depend on me.

What are they
gonna do without me?

The same thing
they do with you--croak.

I love workin' there, Archie.

I'm gonna miss my old friends.

Especially Mrs. Dillon.

Yeah, but you'd miss her even
if you was still workin' there,

'cause she ain't
there no more, right?

Well, they must have
hauled her away by now.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Oh, God.

- I better go.
- No, it's all right.

I know how you feel.
I'll get it for you, Edith.

Jeez, the doorbell always rings
when you're doin' somethin'.

Just once. I'd love
to hear that damn bell ring when I ain't home.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Okay, okay. Geez,
keep your pants on, huh?

Oh, uh, excuse me there.

I didn't know it was panties.

What I mean is, uh...

Look, lady, whatever
it is you're sellin',

my wife and me,
we got that.

No. I'm not
selling anything.

I'm Norene Hammer, um,

Mrs. Dillon's daughter.

Oh, yeah, yeah,
the woman with the mother...

until today.

If it's okay, uh,
could I see Mrs. Bunker?

Yeah, yeah.
Sure, why not?

Come on in, come on in.

Yeah, that's right.

Take your coat off,
you can throw it on the hook up there.

Oh, I can
help you with--Ooh!

I didn't touch
nothin', did I?

I'll take it. There.

Uh...
[CLEARS THROAT]

Sit down, sure. Yeah.
Make yourself at home.

But not that chair.

There's a wild spring
in the middle of this chair and women never like it.

Try the sofa.

Hey, you know, we all
gotta lose a mother, even me.

It's true.

Take my mother.

All the time I was overseas
in WWII, you know, the big war,

my mother was alive and well.

The minute I come home,
she went like that.

Well, I'll call
Edith for you.

Hey, Edith, the woman
whose mother died and got you fired

is here to see you.

And, by the way,
I want to thank you for that.

I mean,
it was bad for you, but good for me.

Hello, Mrs. Hammer.

Hello, Mrs. Bunker.

How are ya?

Hmm, okay.

She's okay.
She's fine, she's fine.

Sit down, sit down.

Sit down, sit down.

Ooh, excuse me there.

Go ahead, go ahead.
Talk, talk.

Mrs. Bunker...

I want to apologize
to you for what, uh,

Charlie did today.

That's all right.

I guess maybe I was
doin' too much anyway.

Oh, you said it, Edith.

Hey, Mrs. What-do-you-call,
my wife here's got a million things to do.

She's got the raising
of a child on her hands,

which she took on herself.

A helpless human being,
not to mention me.

And then look around.
Well, like the walls, you know.

Walls can always
stand a washin' down.

But I'm gonna
miss all my friends at the Sunshine Home,

especially your mother.

[SIGHS] Yeah.

So will I.

Mrs. Bunker...

This afternoon you, uh,

you said you had
a long talk with my mother?

Yeah.

Could you please
tell me what she said?

She talked
about your father,

and she told me
what a good life she had,

and she told me
that while she was havin' her heart attack,

she saw your father...

you know, waitin' for her

and wavin'.

Hey, you know,
that's another thing

that was in that picture
with John Garfield.

I was telling
my wife, you know.

That waving from beyond...

God, was that sad.

Hey, you know, there was
too many things in that picture.

Mrs. Bunker...

What did my mother
say about me?

She said that she loved you

and that she knew
that you loved her.

She really said that?

Yeah.

I've been so ashamed,
you know,

because
I wanted to visit her,

and I--I--I just
couldn't make myself.

It ain't easy seein'
somebody suffer that you love.

No, it isn't.

Mrs. Bunker...

I want to thank you
for what you did today.

I didn't do nothin'.

Oh, yes, you did, because
you stayed with my mother,

and I couldn't.

I don't know.

Death frightens me.

Oh, hey, you shouldn't
worry about that.

Everybody's scared of death...

until it hits you.

After that, you never
give it another thought.

Thank you, Mr. Bunker.

No thanks required,
Mrs. What-do-you-call.

Good night.

Oh, good night.

Oh, and I want to
apologize to you

for the condition
of that lawn out there.

But, see, we got
a neighbor with a big dog.

He calls her Rusty,

but I always call her
"Rambling Rose,"

if you follow my meaning.

Ah...

You've seen plenty
of lawns in that kinda shape.

[CLEARS THROAT]
Mrs. Bunker...

you're a very strong woman,

and I'm very grateful
that my mother had you with her today.

Well, you see that?

You got nothin'
to feel bad about.

There's the woman herself,

she thanked you
for what you done for her mother.

What'd you do?

I did what
she asked me to do.

I held her hand...

and I didn't let go.

That's all?

Well, uh...

You mean...

when you seen the woman
was slippin' away there,

you didn't do nothin'?

Edith, listen to me.
Listen to me for a minute.

[CLEARS THROAT]
I want to tell you somethin'.

You know what I think?
I think you done right.

Yes.

I'll tell you why.

The way I look at it, see,

dying is like
being born, you know?

I mean,
that's God's business,

and you ain't got no right

to butt
into God's business, hm?

So, this time, you minded
your own business for a change.

Now, this woman
she says you got strength.

She's right.

You got a lot
of strength in you.

I only wish
when the time comes

that I would have
that same kind of strength

in regards to you.

Or "voice versa," God forbid.

- Oh, thank you, Archie.
- Well.

Uh, what is this?

It's yesterday's meatloaf.

I'm still tasting
yesterday's meatloaf.

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