316 State of the Union
Mike: Ah, Dad, we don't want to disturb you. I've known the school night. We
know we should be in bed. But would you mind that Ben and I sit up to watch the late movie on cable tonight? It's hard to abolish too. Thank you, dad, you are very understanding.
Maggie: Hi, guys. Mike and
Ben: Mom.
Maggie: Oh, now you are going to bed because it's so late.
Ben: Not.
Maggie: Oh, honey, that's so sweet of you to wait up for me again.
Jason: ‘Cause we will have a lot to talk about. This is the only time we have.
Maggie: Oh, honey, I am sorry, work was so late again. But this feature series turn into more work than I imagine.
Jason: What feature series?
Maggie: Jason, you don't have a clue what I am talking about?
Jason: Of course I did. You told me all about it last week.
Maggie: Last night.
Jason: Ah, indeed. Last night.
Maggie: No, no. wait a minute, you couldn't possibly listen.
Jason: I did, I swear in Mike's life.
Maggie: No, I just remembered that I fell asleep before I told you.
Mike: Hum hum, as going to break the news to Mike.
Maggie: I am so sorry; I am so befuddled these days.
Jason: It's ok. It's ok. The important thing to remember here, sweetheart, is I
wasn't in the wrong at all.
Maggie: You are mad at me.
Jason: No, come on, why was I mad at you? I don't mind doing all the cooking and cleaning and laundering.
Maggie: Oh, Jason, I didn't know this job would be so demanding.
Jason: Did I mention the laundering?
Maggie: twice.
Jason: Yeah, I must take the chance to tell you. Getting the roof fixed.
Maggie: I love you.
Jason: Hum, not distract me.
Maggie: I won't.
Jason: We have a plenty of options to discuss.
Maggie: Oh, it sounds interesting.
Jason: Well, yes. There is a handy man, who is, by the way, is far cheaper, and…
Maggie: Oh, It's 11.
Jason: Let's go to bed.
Jason: I think we were about to have a conversation.
Maggie: Hush…the feature series is next.
Jason: Hush…
Maggie: Hi, I am Maggie Malone all this week, all this spotlighting physicals on wheels. Mobile vans provide a checkup curbside. With me today is project coordinator Doctor Buhl.
Doctor: Yup.
Maggie: Doctor, don't you think we should have it even we feel being healthy? Doctor: Yup.
Maggie: And all this week, you will see how the physicals on wheels works as this report undergoes a complete compelling and riveting series.
Jason: Well, Maggie, wake up.
Maggie: Oh, I am sorry. What will we say?
Jason: What have you assumed if you fell asleep when I was talking?
Maggie: I am sorry.
Jason: Well, the last thing I remember, we were watching your news feature.
Maggie: That's right. Oh, no. we fell asleep during my news cast.
Jason: Honey, it happens.
Maggie: It was boring, wasn't it?
Jason: I don't know if it was boring, I fell asleep.
Maggie: Turn out the light?
Jason: Only God can turn out the light, Maggie, it's morning.
Maggie: Jason, Jason, I am late. I cannot be late.
Jason: Honey, relaxed. Come on. You worked late last night. You worked late all last week.
Maggie: Honey, You just don't get it, do you? I am still new one on this job. I've got to improve myself constantly. That's not easy either. TV news is a man's world.
Jason: Well, in that case, you want to hit your boss with my boxy shirt?
Ben: I want my breakfast, Where the hacker mom and dad?
Mike: We are not kids anymore. I mean, how hard could it be to make breakfast? Ha ha, all right, Ben, you've got the pizza from last night. What do you want, plain or Anchovy?
Ben: Anchovy.
Carol: Cold pizza for breakfast I see is disgusting.
Mike: Yeah, you are right, we'd better heat it.
Maggie: I'm just saying I am competing with men who don't mind working long hours because his wife divorced him years ago for working long out.
Jason: But that explains everything.
Carol: Mom and Dad, I had nothing to do with getting breakfast this morning.
Maggie: Well, you could pitch in your help, Carol.
Carol: What?
Ben: That was my pie, Mike.
Jason: Pizza for breakfast?
Mike: Yeah, well, Carol wouldn't show little Ben and me how to make eggs.
Carol: What?
Jason: I'll show you. A good breakfast are today, right?
Jason: Eggs, Maggie?
Maggie: Just a thought of eggs makes me sick.
Ben: How about pizza? It's Anchovy.
Maggie: That does sound good.
Jason: Honey?
Maggie: Is there some peppers and cheese?
Mike: Now, you've done Ben, you give mom right over the age.
Maggie: Got one.
Jason: Maggie? Honey?
Maggie: Yeah?
Jason: I have an idea. Since we cannot find a time to talk at home, when will we have lunch today?
Maggie: I don't know, I haven't had that much appetite really.
Jason: Well, a lunch will give us a chance to catch up on things, just a lot going on around here, such as leaky roof.
Maggie: The roof leaks, why didn't you tell me?
Jason: I did, last night.
Maggie: Yeah, that roof leaked.
Jason: We definitely should have lunch.
Maggie: Sure, I can pencil you and at…. One?
Jason: Pencil me? I have to have an appointment?
Maggie: Jason, don't be silly. This is not an appointment. Or we have lunch tomorrow at 9.
Jason: Hey…..Today at one is fine.
Ben: Hi, dad, you want just a slice of pizza or you escape breakfast?
Maggie: Delmar, I've been waiting for Mr. Sid Sidlevich all morning. Where is he? Delmar: Racket ball. If anyone unimportant asks, He is meeting with the mayor.
Maggie: Well I only need 5 minutes this time. I have to talk to him.
Delmar: What about?
Maggie: Did you happen to see part one of my health series last night? Delmar: I am sorry, I fell asleep.
Maggie: I wouldn't be surprised if I put all of long islands sleep. That was one I
take a physical all week?
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Man: Is there any sign sheet on this?
Maggie: No.
Delmar: Maggie, Mr. Sid Sidlevich will be back any minute. If he won, he will be
in terrific mood.
Maggie: Oh, Mr. Sid Sidlevich, could I talk to you for just several minutes?
Sid Sidlevich: Doctor Clite, get your crug bug my office now, Mr. Weather Mister. Delmar: You'll win next time, sir.
Maggie: I am not going anywhere. I've got to talk to him before lunch.
Sid Sidlevich: A long pressure, friend, does not roll across the mat like an army
on the march, well, how were you thinking?
Maggie: After lunch is good.
Sid Sidlevich: Do you have that? Doctor Clite :…
Maggie: Mr. Sidlevich, I've just to talk with you.
Sid Sidlevich: Maggie, this is going to have to wait, I've got to go somewhere.
Maggie: I'll go with you.
Sid Sidlevich: Fine.
Maggie: I can wait. Delmar: Doctor Buhl.
Maggie: Yes, hi, doctor. Yes, it's afternoon at 3. Yes, the whole physical complete workout. Yes, I'll bring it. In a bottle. Right, bye.
Sport Reporter: A ball control is everything.
Sid Sidlevich: Look, you call yourself as sports reporter Frank, Doctor Jay was the best basketball player in the history of the game.
Maggie: I should've stayed in there when I had of the corner in your honor. Delmar: Maggie, they need you in editing.
Maggie: Oh...
Guard: Mrs. Malone. Any possible idea of this squirrel?
Maggie: This squirrel is my husband.
Ruffer: But why just the driver license says his name is Seaver?
Jason: My name is Seaver.
Maggie: Please release him, Ruffer. Ruffer: It was a pleasure, Mr. Marlon.
Maggie: Jason, our lunch wasn't until one o'clock, it's only 5 to.
Jason: That man frisked me.
Maggie: Oh, Rougher frisks everybody.
Jason: That'll be ok.
Maggie: I have to run the edit just one minute. Then we can go, I'll be right back, accounts.
Jason: He checked for weapons in places they couldn't possibly be.
Maggie: You are so understanding.
Jason: Wasn't that bad.
Frank: Did you ever see Wilt still playing?
Sid Sidlevich: Of course I did. But the man couldn't play defense well. Did he? Frank: But he did have blocked 432 shots.
Sid Sidlevich : How do you know he blocked 432 shots? Frank: I counted them, ok?
Jason: I like Doctor Jay myself. Sid Sidlevich: There, see?
Sid Sidlevich: You are hired, ever do sports casting before? Frank: Ha ha, You're funny. I'll see you at lunch.
Sid Sidlevich: Ha…I'd like to do him a hard time. Are you with sports cast by the way?
Jason: No, no, I am a psychiatrist. I am Jason Seaver. Maggie Marlon's husband.
Sid Sidlevich: Oh, yeah, it's especially fine to meet you. Sid Sidlevich. So you‘re big doctor Jay's fan?
Jason: Oh, yeah, kidding? Doctor Jay is the reason why I became a doctor myself.
Sid Sidlevich: Oh, I got you kid that I'll tell him then.
Jason: You know doctor Jay?
Sid Sidlevich: Frank is interviewing him at lunch, I am horning in, care to come along?
Jason: To meet the doctor, in person? Are you kidding? You can get my left arm. My right arm. Oh, my wife… Not good to take her to lunch.
Sid Sidlevich: Well, I can keep her busy if you duck out.
Maggie: Excuse me.
Sid Sidlevich: Maggie, I know you were over there.
Jason: Me too.
Maggie: Well, my husband and I will have lunch today. Sid Sidlevich: But he is coming with us.
Maggie: Yes?
Jason: Oh, yeah.
Sid Sidlevich: Maggie, do you want to tag along?
Maggie: I sure don't want to be in the way.
Sid Sidlevich: Don't worry about it. Come on.
Maggie: Jason, is it your idea?
Jason: no, It's his….hahaha…...great
Jason: Look at the lines on this, from Julia to Jason, one Doctor Jay and I. Frank: Tell you what? You'd better tell that baby frank or start this smell.
Jason: Sid, how can I thank you?
Sid Sidlevich: You can't. Nice to meet you, Jason see you again.
Jason: Maggie, you didn't tell me Sid was a sports nut. Maggie? Where are you in?
Maggie: I missed the elevator to lunch, I have been here the whole time.
Jason: Oh, no, you were not, come on, were you? No, I saw you going there, at the end of the table sitting there all quiet.
Maggie: Very good.
Jason: Well, see you at home. I'll get this a frame. Oh…..Unbelievable, Doctor Jay. Yes……. Honey, thanks for the best lunch we have ever had together. Yeah. Delmar: I answered you the questions. No, he doesn't realize that he is totally
a piggy fan.
Sid Sidlevich: Maggie, I need to talk to you.
Maggie: Oh, coming. Finally been what the guys at lunch paid off. Yes, Sid. I
want to talk to you about my health series.
Sid Sidlevich: I don't have any time to talk about that. Do you family plan for tonight?
Maggie: What? Oh, well, no. I can stay late. We can talk about this later.
Sid Sidlevich: Nor can I do. Here is the ticket for the NEX game for tonight family
come through.
Maggie: the NEX?
Sid Sidlevich: Yeah, I am pretty darn excited by it myself. I just want to make sure if Jason would be free to join me.
Maggie: He is free, all right.
Carol: Perfect, Ben. What you learn is I carefully whisk the delicate white sauce.
Ben: All some series I could be very happy with a jam of peanut butter on the spoon. I don't even need spoon.
Mike: Hi, Carol, how comes it your delicate white sauce is brown.
Carol: What?
Ben: Fire!
Carol: Oh, no, my snapper scraggy.
Carol: It's supposed to shrink a little when you cook it.
Ben: Cook it some more, a lot more.
Carol: Ben, it's very nutritious.
Mike: You know, Ben, if dad leaves for basketball games, we get some with no nutritional value whatsoever.
Maggie: Hi, everybody.
Mike: Mom, What are you doing here?
Maggie: I live here.
Ben: It's great, there goes dinner.
Maggie: Pardon me?
Carol: They are just mad, since you are here. They have to eat the fired meal I
cooked.
Maggie: Didn't you get your good father making you dinner before his big game?
Carol: I volunteered to cook.
Maggie: Nice Jason, Nice. It smells like he didn't take out the garbage either.
Ben: That's not the garbage. That is Carol's snapper.
Jason: What do you think?
Maggie: So you are grown up, really did frame a lobster bit.
Jason: I think It should go all right over the...
Maggie: Volvo.
Jason: Volvo is in the garage.
Maggie: That's right.
Jason: Well, come on, What is it?
Maggie: Oh, Nothing. You are enjoying your basketball game?
Jason: I know what it is, Maggie. You think, Hey, it's first night you are early at home, and why I am going out.
Maggie: Yes, why?
Jason: Honey, it's not for a silly reason.
Maggie: I know, it's basketball, I understand.
Jason: Well, thank you for your……But if you don't want me to go out, I recognize
my responsibility in this relationship as an adult. If you don't want me to go, just
say don't go.
Maggie: Don't go.
Jason: Oh, the nit. Honey, come on, the court side seats, they are expensive seats.
Maggie: I knew you wanted to go.
Jason: Well, you just said you understand.
Maggie: You just said you wouldn't go.
Jason: I didn't mean it.
Maggie: Well, Nor did I.
Jason: That must be Sid.
Maggie: We don't want to keep your good buddy Sid waiting. Sid Sidvich: Maggie
Maggie: Hi, Mr. Sidvich. Sid Sidvich: Jason.
Jason: Hi, Sid.
Sid Sidvich: Hey, You are ready for a great game?
Maggie: Well, you guys had better hurry up if don't want to miss the kickoff. Sid Sidvich: No, that's football. And in basketball, it's called…
Maggie: The tip-up. I know. It was a joke.
Maggie: Thanks off bunch, Jason. What are you doing, you were going to the game?
Jason: Well, I am not about to go off to a silly basketball game when you are so upset.
Maggie: You mean you cancelled on my boss just for me?
Jason: Give up the Nex.
Maggie: Oh, honey, that's so nice.
Jason: Well, even the court side seat is not as important as you.
Maggie: I may frame this ticket…
Jason: Yeah.
Maggie: Better yet I mean.
Jason: No, no, no!
Maggie: So as soon as you pass by me, that is after the game.
Jason: It's expected for a long fight?
Maggie: Go, Jason, go.
Jason: Oh you say you want me to go.
Maggie: Yeah.
Jason: Ok.
Jason: I am staying.
Maggie: Good, I am going to bed.
Jason: No. Why don't we talk, Maggie? Why don't we start with the roof repair situation?
Maggie: Maybe it's better if we don't.
Jason: Why are you so edgy?
Maggie: Jason, I was hoping for a conversation about something other than little
things.
Jason: Maggie, the leaking roof is not little thing.
Maggie: Can you fix it yourself?
Jason: Well, of course I could. We always discuss the little things.
Maggie: So you admit the roof is a little thing.
Jason: Why didn't I just go to the game with Sid.
Maggie: Jason I would rather talk about the roof than my boss.
Jason: That's definitely about your boss.
Maggie: Oh, it is? It is about you and my boss. You two are powers, hitting it off, having the final time. While I am trying my damned skit to get attention of a man, I barely see.
Jason: Honey, I am here.
Maggie: Not you, my boss. You meet the guy just 2 minutes and you are invited
to lunch. I can't get 5 minutes of his time after waiting all morning. I even went to men's room with him.
Jason: All right, so, next time I meet your boss. I will not be so friendly.
Maggie: Jason, can you understand me? And honestly tell me you are just being friendly?
Jason: Yes, you went to the men's room with Sid?
Maggie: Don't change the subject.
Jason: What's the subject ?
Maggie: You are hiding motives.
Jason: I have none.
Maggie: Not even on the subconscious level? Like maybe, like maybe somehow you want to show me up in front of my boss.
Jason: Why would I want to do that?
Maggie: Because on that subconscious level, you resent my working.
Jason: Resent your working?
Maggie: There you said it.
Jason: Maggie, I love you working. And I always have, I loved you fulfill it, I
don't mind the long hours as I didn't mind you using your maid name.
Maggie: What my maid name got to do with this?
Jason: Oh, nothing, nothing. I am sorry, don't mention it.
Maggie: It bothers you.
Jason: No, no. yes yes.
Maggie: I thought you understood.
Jason: Yes I understood until people started coming up to me at supermarket called me Mr. Marlon, until the guard started patting my bottom.
Maggie: Jason, he is just doing his job.
Jason: Maggie, he wouldn't be doing anything if you are still Maggie Seaver. How
I used to love when I saw the bylines I was so proud of by Maggie Seaver that's when you worked for a little paper.
Maggie: Little?
Jason: Oh, no. you know what I mean.
Maggie: You just don't want me to have a big job. Just a cute teeny-weeny little… career.
Jason: You know you overworked, Maggie, you are tired. We always talk about your work. Then get up in the morning. You start barfing.
Maggie: I am so sorry.
Jason: You know what? I tell something else, I've noticed recently, Maggie?
Maggie: Lately we've been drifting apart.
Jason: Yeah.
Maggie: Jason, level with me, am I crazy? In your deep down inside of you is that part of your wishes that I didn't work?
Jason: No, come on.
Maggie: Be honest.
Jason: Honest?
Maggie: Totally honest and selfish.
Jason: Ok, you are not crazy.
Maggie: I sensed it.
Jason: Maggie, that is just a little part of me, the rest of me just knows how important the career is. You want me to be honest.
Maggie: You know that‘s a part of me that I wished I didn't work either. But then there is another part of me, Jason, that dreamed of a career in journalism further long as I can remember.
Jason: All right, now let me ask you to be totally honest. Don't you ever resent, just sometimes you resent for a moment if you had to quit your career and start
all over again.
Maggie: No, Jason, there is no, just no connection.
Jason: Come on, Just, just, just be honest. Remember to be totally selfish.
Maggie: Jason, I have never ever regretted quitting news week and having the three children.
Jason: Oh, I know that, Maggie. But don't you ever ask yourself that …I couldn't be around now by ever quitting Newsweek.
Maggie: Occasionally.
Jason: Hum, When?
Maggie: Whenever I am running to keep up with the kids half my age. Whenever
I am frightened that I might never really succeed. And now I see that you are afraid that I just might.
Jason: Hello. Yes, Maggie Marlon is here.
Maggie: Hello. Hi, Doctor Bhl. No, this isn't good time, right. What? No. are you sure? Thank you.
Jason: Maggie, I know we can work this thing out. I don't know how …
Maggie: We are going to have a baby.
Jason: Sure, that‘s one way we……
Maggie: That's part of my physical. Doctor Buhl ran a pregnancy test.
Jason: You were barfing not at me, but barfing at having a baby. So great!
Maggie: Maybe that's why I was so intensified when you hit it off with my boss.
Jason: I know probably it was too jealous, I probably show you up at work.
Maggie: That's so sweet.
Jason: Am I a jerk?
Maggie: But it's the so sweet of you to admit you are a total jerk.
Jason: I didn't say a total jerk?
Maggie: Oh, yeah. I add that.
Jason: A brand new, little baby.
Maggie: And we thought we were drifting apart.
Jason: Well, obviously not that apart.
Maggie: What was it we were just talking about?
Jason: I don't remember.
Maggie: It was about the fact, wasn't it? There is a tiny part that we… we should think we are different.
Jason: Yeah, but there is a mother big part that just links just well.
Maggie: Let's go tell the kids.
Jason: Look, wait, wait, wait, in the morning. Let's just be selfish. Keep this for ourselves. Have a baby? Haha…
Maggie: Yes.
Jason: How did this happen?
Maggie: Let me show you.