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he just wants to be a silly dilly that's all.
yeah you are.
too cold that's too cold Steve.
xxx I'll, I'll go like this.
that's you're going to karate your corn?
nope, I'm going to karate my grandma.
you are.
like this...
grandma 'll karate you one on the tussie.
no you can't, I'll karate you and you'll fall over.
yeah, I'll bet that would make you very happy too, right?
he knows he's only fooling.
and because she's 'cause she couldn't...
he knows he's only fooling because he really loves his grandma Lilly, right Steve?
[gm cuts him off]
Stevelet!
if you would give me a spanking I would do it.
yeah, but I wouldn't give you a spanking, you know that I love you.
'cause you know that I'm very strong for it.
uhhuh.
grandma won't give you a spanking.
I will!
and I'll do it to you.
Susan would you like coffee or tea?
yeah?
and you'll fall over.
sue?
yes please.
what is it?
coffee or tea?
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tea.
one more cup of coffee today and I'll scream.
he works so hard when he eats Steven, haha.
soon his friend Mr Cracker 'll be back.
no!
who's cracker Jack?
his friend Mr Cracker.
no.
not cracker, Graeme.
oh!
are you silly.
Graeme?
daddy are you silly 'cause his name is Graeme?
yeah.
Steven!
he teaches you in school?
nah.
he just watches.
yeah.
Steven!
what did you do today in school?
tell me when I came up to take him today he was playing so nicely on that thing there.
were you cold though?
did you feel cold on the roof?
no.
no?
and he was playing so nicely with all the little children.
I said I can't believe Steven could be such a good boy.
on the, on the roof they were playing?
yeah they were on the roof playing.
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oh boy it must have been so c c c c c cold.
huh!
it, it was, it was not cold, and there was no mud.
yeah it was nice on the roof.
and because and because people come up to the roof to sweep the mud.
but you know Steven I saw a little wet on the roof when I came up to get you.
a little wet.
was that the same, was that the same roof I use to play on when I was...
yeah, it was the same way, they fixed it up, they fenced it in though, didn't they Steve?
it's got a fence on there.
know what?
looks different, looks different.
yeah.
it's so, the people they don't, stand there and fall out, so they'll have...
that's right.
something to hold on to.
yeah I used too.
I useta play on that roof too.
your daddy useta go there too when he was your age, Steven.
but daddy, daddy, did, did, you ever stand there when there was no gate?
no.
no, it's too dangerous.
they always had the gate.
no one stays there without a gate.
no one stays there.
they would fall off.
right.
it's very dangerous.
and they would die.
right.
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very dangerous.
dad, just if you're not too high.
dad, just if you had something to slide down.
yeah.
like a sliding park.
sliding park.
do they have a sliding park up there?
they xxx do they?
I remember they useta have one.
uhuh.
I useta have one up there.
they have those round things like they have in the park here, don't they Steve?
the little round thing.
like you sit on it, that goes around.
no you know these toys that they climb on, the...
no.
I saw I saw you, you were climbing on one of those when I came in.
I useta have a see saw up there, and a sliding park.
know why it's...
it was very nice even when I went there.
[gm cuts in]
know why, know why there's none on now?
why?
people could hurt theirself.
well the floor is very hard, isn't it?
yeah.
Steven do any other people go there besides the little kids like you do, grownups go there?
dad did you dad did you...
Ma do you want thursday's paper?
no, love.
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thursday, today's thursday, Feb'uary sixth.
oh, I bought this last night though.
I was going to say how come it's next to my bed.
did you read it yet?
wanna look at it?
Sue?
I looked at it last night Ma.
I'm not like you I can't read the news past four weeks old.
dad, did you slide down the sliding park?
she's picking on me again, Jackie.
well, is there any rubber?
no.
is there rubber now?
uhuh.
just the hard floor, right?
if there was rubber, and you and you were sliding on your hands you wouldn't hurt yourself.
the park has rubber, right?
right, and they don't want people to hurt themself if they fall.
they won't bleed, they'll fall on the rubber.
Asherasherbobatcher...
[this is Steve right before bedtime]
[before bed]
hurry up Steve so we can get...
Asher, Asher, bo batcher, Asher Asher bo Asher Asher bo batcher, batcher bo ba blu blub, du du.
[Steve interrupts here]
du du.
[his mother has just given him a bath. she's putting him in, pagamas. Steve interrupts here]
penis!
yeah, so...
I know what you mean girls have penises and boys have va vaginas.
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no they don't you have it backwards.
I know that.
you have it all backwards.
boys have penises and girls have va...
will you please sit down!
[Steve's mother interrupts here]
boys have penises and girls have...
[Steve continues only to be interrupted again]
Steve maybe I wonder if we can hook you up to that tape recorder with a little switch, the same way it works on the tape recorder.
that would be nice.
put your other hand in.
so I could never talk?
not never, but there comes a time Steve.
ha.
a little limitation.
that you've said before.
you see eight o'clock at night is my bewitching hour.
what time is it?
after eight.
I must leave what are you picking on it?
Asher, Asher bo batcher batcher.
give me your foot.
the other one.
Asher, Asher bo batcher Asher, Asher bo batcher, Asher, Asher bus...
why are you silly?
are you a silly goosie kid.
Ash er Ash er, bo batcher, Asher, Asher bo batcher.
stand up.
pull on your pants.
Asher, Asher bo batcher, batcher la la Asher, Asher.
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this is quickly tonight.
usually it's ah, ah hour's project.
watch out!
wouldn't you like to have that energy at this hour after a full day?
mhm.
Asher Asher bo batcher, Asher er.
I, I liked to have it at any hour of the day.
haha.
Graeme, you been you you were keep comin' in and out, right?
in and out of here?
[refers to the room]
in, yeah in and out.
uhhuh.
when you're in you should stay in and not go in and out.
I, I hafta keep running out there to check on my ah, recorder.
okay get up we hafta put your shirt on.
okay now it's time for this again.
[Steve must put the shirt with the microphone back on, Steve is interrupted]
I I think I'll...
that shirt came with a little pocket like that in the back?
no, we hadta do that.
oh I was wondering how you found just the right shirt to have a thing like that.
it's the right shirt because I like it.
Bloomingdale's did that for you?
no.
they took it apart or you...
one of the girls at ah, rockefeeler did it.
[Graeme and Steve are talking at the same time here]
bought an extra shirt you know ah, took it apart for the pockets on the others.
that's the right shirt for me.
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it has, it has a few different kind of micreephones, right it has micreephones?
oh I see, that was a good idea.
yes.
mhm.
these are all...
is he on?
[Steve's mother interrupts]
he's on.
ready to go again.
Steve do you wanna play the ring toss game?
yes.
where is it?
where did daddy put it?
I don't know.
that's a good place.
an' I don't know place?
pa, pa pa, no.
[Steve makes sound as if he was spitting]
let see.
[Steve's mother has gotten out a ring toss game which, they are going to play]
here it is.
okay.
holding it up?
what?
is this the way it's suppose to spin on?
is it suppose to fall on like that?
oh, just in time.
[Steve's father has just arrived]
the show is on?
yes the the late show.
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the late alright.
I think daddy came in.
yeah.
yes.
yahoo.
daddy!
oh my god xxx.
wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, watch yourself watch yourself, watch yourself.
[Steve runs into his father]
Bob.
[he's pulling on his father's finger]
Steve wait a minute.
[his mother calls him to come play the ring toss game]
let me take...
come on Steve I'll play with you.
yeah!
do you want yellow or do you want blue or do you want red?
which one do you want?
did you...
what?
I mean from the rings which one do want blue or red?
blue.
hey daddy do wanna join our game?
mommy, I want blue.
yeah I'll count.
you'll what?
I'll count.
you'll count?
yeah, there won't be too many points scored.
mom, where'd the other blue oh my g...
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there's two and two that's all.
you're spose to stand over here.
I'll get you dad.
oh you're moving it?
no, put 'em here Steve.
I think it's better over here.
put it here.
[he drops the ring with a clatter. Steve tosses. Steve is playing the ring toss game with, his mother while the father keeps score. ring are tossed, into pegs]
put it over here.
I'll stay here, so it won't go won't go too far and you and mommy play.
boing.
but don't be wild and throw it in, because I don't feel like eating that.
what?
oh.
ke er er.
oh oops, mommy goes.
my turn?
yeah.
right.
alright hm.
almost!
nothing, nothing.
even score.
my blue ones?
[Steve has the blue rings, his mother the red rings]
yeah, even score.
[Steve's father is picking up the rings, giving them, back to Steve and his mother]
my turn.
do it easy.
go ahead, Steve.
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mommy's turn.
hm.
we're both not so good Steve.
oh, I think you're both very good it just take time to practice, right?
I haven't played this in you know how long?
what does that mean?
it takes, it takes a lot of time to practice.
I haven't swam in, in quite awhile.
do you think I I would drown if I get in the water?
what kind of comparison is that?
you turn mom.
come on, come on.
oh son of a gun look how it bounced off.
that doesn't count?
it wasn't even close.
I got it!
yeah!
yeah ah!
you see, Steven cheers even when somebody else gets it.
one for mommy.
oops.
one for mommy.
you're throwing it too just and too hard.
Steven, easy, back up a little bit just of all.
come back over here.
dad throw it to me!
go ahead.
make it a good one mom.
make it a good one?
dadum.
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bounced!
your turn go ahead.
dadum.
dadum.
two for mommy.
what color do you have?
blue.
blue.
der...
mommy can't bend down that's why.
haha.
hm hm hm.
you're not even aiming Steve.
hm.
oops.
is that the way you aim?
right.
you can have a shot too if you want.
haha.
I'm not suppose to get involved.
oh.
haha.
no, no one will tell.
haha.
seven!
oo, oo.
throw mine back dad.
bet you can't throw just one.
I can xxx.
oo that was close.
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[Steve interrupts his father but his father continues]
tell me...
was...
who are you looking at when you're throwing but what are you throwing at?
that.
[refer to the peg]
you are?
you sure about that?
you'd never know it.
it just takes a little practice, right dad?
right go ahead.
[Steve's father caught the ring as it flew by and dropped, it over the ring]
good shot Steve!
he got it on?
yeah, how about that.
I don't know.
I don't like the way that went on.
it went on very funny.
did you get that on?
came on from the back.
sort of bounced on, ha.
yeah.
sort of.
oh, okay.
it bounced around the back of it and it went back.
oh, okay.
hurray!
how about that?
take another shot maybe you can get on two.
go ahead.
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maybe mommy's will get on that way too.
you can never tell what happened.
oo.
take...
[father interrupts]
if you didn't throw that so hard, it would have went right on.
see?
very!
very good.
we saw it coming Steve told you don't throw it so hard.
[Steve's father threw a couple of rings on first, then, Steve got one himself]
how about that?
that's right.
you saw it.
that's one.
haha.
[Steve's father interrupts here]
and that's...
that's foresight and hindsight.
got one point...
I told you I got it!
you did.
you're getting very good.
you're going to win, I think.
I practiced.
the score is two to one Steven's favor.
okay.
two to one mommy's favor.
yeah.
go ahead Steve.
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a little gentler...
could...
[Steve trys to interrupts but his mother continues]
gen gent more gentle.
oo, that was close.
dad, tha', tha', tha', that's why you hafta do it wery slowyly.
you can't do it like this!
oh, I wasn't watching.
no you hafta take it nice and easy.
bat'room.
like this.
don't watch me watch that.
watch the thing.
that's better.
watch where you're aiming.
almost went right in...
you've gotta watch where you're going.
okay.
go ahead.
xxx your turn.
oh sorry.
can't stand a slow player.
go ahead Steve it's your turn.
tadah, woah ow!
you got that on Steve?
he he ha.
haha.
dada.
[Steve's father threw another ring on for him]
dada.
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I also got one on!
right, that's great.
boy you guys are great.
hi ha.
got um.
alright.
oop.
another one.
okay.
to me.
close.
dada um.
wow.
hm:.
don't get anymore on because you'll wanna go on tour next.
haha haha.
hey daddy how about if you say or I'll say bllaprp so we'll get away with it?
[Steve makes a blurping sound]
no, no, no we don't hafta jinx her.
if she wants to get it on good.
hm:.
it's fun when you get it on right?
right.
[Steve sighs this reply]
hm:.
wow.
haha.
did you get that on Steve?
[mr drop the ring on peg]
yeah.
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honestly?
yeah.
you sure?
yeah.
he ha.
what do you think I put it on?
you would never do a thing like that.
not me.
that will turn out to be a lie.
not me.
yeah don't you...
[Steve is interrupted]
let's see.
I wanna know who's who's fooling who?
you want us to do something else?
no, just whatever he usually does.
he's going to have milk and cookies in two minutes.
no!
yes.
what do you mean no?
and then I'm gonna go back to playing?
no.
no.
[father interrupts]
then...
then you're gonna get your book and then it's time to...
no!
no.
you brush your teeth and you get a book.
no!
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[climbs up on his father]
he's doing what he always does now getting nice and excited.
here you go, come on.
come on.
we're not going two more minutes.
it's in front of the chair daddy, the other red one.
hm.
you wanna catch it too?
yeah.
haha.
hey you almost caught it!
yeah that's it Steve.
put your hand out like this, see if I can make the ring, the ring toss.
put your hand out straight.
hold it straight.
oh, I wanted you to hold your hand out.
hey how about let's use the bat?
no, no we did that the last time.
let's use what?
the bat.
we got tired of this so he held the bat this and I hadta throw it on the bat.
oh.
wow!
look what mommy did!
look what Steven did!
hey Steven got another one.
you're acting a little slow.
think you if you're gonna do it, you can sneak up a little.
how much points am I getting?
do I hafta sneak up so...
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them he, then he might get two on together.
that would look strange too.
not two more minutes!
nice shot.
haha.
haha.
I didn't even get it xxx.
should I get another one one?
yeah.
[mother tries but misses]
you want me to do it for you too?
no.
I won't, haha.
no, I'm a big girl.
oops.
dad it's because you didn't do it for me right?
would I do a thing like that?
no.
go ahead.
oo that's pretty good.
you didn't get too much help that time did you Steve?
stick your hand out like that.
more that's it.
straight out.
[Steve extends an arm towards his father who attempts to, throw the ring onto it]
just leave it straight.
straight out like this, Steve.
like this.
elbow straight.
okay let's see if I can get it on.
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oops.
watch it Jack you'll poke him in the nose yet with that.
that's okay, it's only his nose.
oh, maybe you'll knock if off, dada!
dada!
hey how about that?
now my turn to throw it on yours.
fine.
oo, almost.
okay let's get back to er, to the rings.
pretty good.
Steve let's just have a few more throws and then we'll go out...
no not a few more!
[Steve interrupts]
alright, yeah, two more turns each.
no.
two more and that's it.
and we'll both get 'em.
throw, I'll catch right?
dad you're suppose to try to get it on my...
no, that's alright, ah now you're getting wild.
haha.
can't even make that one look good.
blap!
[Steve makes this sound with his tongue and lips again]
haha.
what was that about?
what he means he doesn't want you to get it on.
oh he gave me the raspberries?
ha yeah.
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you are gonna get it over the Vaseline bottle, aren't you?
whatever.
it's in back o' you.
you thought you were gonna be cute.
eee eee eee oo oo.
there you go.
w well try to get it mom.
come on Ma!
blap!
boo.
ei blapo!
boo.
I'm not playing you guys anymore I quit.
come on Steve, let's go, last time.
I quit.
boo.
hafta be insulted.
[Steve's mother leaves]
alright let's put this...
not the last time!
hey.
relax.
let's play throw it on the arms.
relax.
let's throw it on the arms.
how about let's play throw it on the arms?
ho ho ho how about let's milk and cookie?
I'm a sore loser.
[the mothers says this in the background]
no!
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no, let's play throw it on the...
milk and cookies.
[Steve is interrupted here by his father]
milk and cookies time.
no, dad...
it's milk and cookies time.
[and again here]
I'm smarter...
put...
[Steve trys to interrupt but is ignored]
than the average bear.
dad?
what?
put your arm up.
there.
I don't think it will fit on daddy's arm.
they say they...
alright put them in the box.
there.
oh oh.
I like xxx...
[Steve is interrupted here]
you gilly silly dilly.
alright careful, careful, careful.
some of these blocks it could hur' if you fall under the blocks.
Asher Asher bo batcher, batcher.
huh?
Asher, Asher, bo atcher.
what?
who you wanna play ring toss with us?
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[Steve is preparing to play ring toss with his parents, before he goes to bed]
no.
[mr talking his mother, gm]
there is an argument there because I instigated it.
why?
[why does he not want to play]
why, what happe'd?
over the cards?
yeah.
well what did they want?
it's in the closet.
[goes to closet and gets out the ring toss]
nothin'.
alright I'll get it out.
they didn't like the idea of you playing cards there huh, Jack?
[gm and mr continue their conversation in the kitchen while, Steve and his mother go into his room]
no, why shouldn't...
now put it over there how we did the other night.
Steve what's laying on the floor?
tha', that's a piece of Lisa's orange.
that's a piece of Lisa's tangerine.
oh, that's nice.
and because we had tangerines today.
you did?
[cleanliness]
e'cuse me, you're looking at a fanatic.
yeah bam!
[Steve his a doll on chair]
bam!
you're hitting that doll on the chair?
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well, this is Bambam.
Bambam'll never get hurt.
hm.
indestructible, is it?
Bambam.
[Steve's parents are talking in the bath+room]
wanna see his head turn to the back?
look his head can turn into the back.
and in case he falls he, he never can hurts his 'self.
just bounces, huh?
he falls he goes kaplunk.
he does like this.
will you get off my slipper!
what a klutz.
bam Bambam is really strong!
if Bambam plays he'll really get it!
Steve where's your ring toss?
[mrs comes back into Steve's room]
um there.
do you wanna play ring toss, or do you wanna play trouble?
ring toss ring toss ring toss ring toss.
Graeme you wanna watch us?
uhhuh.
sit on the rocking chair.
'cause it rocks like this.
well I don't wanna be in the way of the player.
no you wont.
[points to other side of room indicating where ring will, be placed]
were not putting it here we're putting it there.
with a ring around my head or something.
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you wanna rock?
[Steve rocks the chair]
Jackie!
[mr is still talking to gm]
what?
we need you to bring back the rings, or do you have plans for the moment?
ruff ruff.
[implies he is a retriever]
ah, come on rover, like we did last night.
ah haha.
no, well I'll give you the rings, you, you toss with Stevie.
dad, dad...
Jack, does Hymie play with you?
[play cards]
who?
Hymie, you know Anne Marie's brother.
mom you toss them with me.
no.
let's keep taking turns.
what about daddy tossing and I'll bring 'em back to you?
how about we toss you?
[meaning Steven]
no.
why not?
dad you're gonna hafta stand here.
which direction?
in which direction?
do it any way.
you can put it on the bed it will be easier.
okay.
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put put those on the bed?
good idea.
is that considered cheating, Graeme, if we put the ring things on the bed?
no, definitely not.
no, it's okay?
okay.
I consider it saving steps.
okay, he's the referee.
Mama maybe we can stand over here.
[mr places ring on the bed. red rings]
I know you want the red, right?
no I want the blue.
I'm sure you want the red, right?
he always takes the blue one.
I go.
I go.
[mr leans forward and places his ring over peg]
oh is tell him that's not fair Steve.
that's, that's a cheater dad.
that's a cheat?
why?
it, it, 'cause you went over here and went like that, you went like this.
well I'm taller than you.
your not allowed to do it, an' 'cause you put it...
okay.
[mr throws ring and it goes over peg]
ah haha.
just a lucky shot.
just happened to fall in that way.
one nothing!
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whose favor?
stand further back, stand further back the two of you.
whose favor?
daddy's favor.
no.
me.
you don't like to give in do you?
ah haha.
try it xxx xxx.
[Steve makes a noise to distract his father x]
uh!
missed.
your turn Steve.
I'm gonna get the next one on that's all.
eee.
I am angry, 'cause you went xxx!
ah.
okay.
haha.
[Steve makes the noise]
I was lucky, the first shot, wasn't I?
that's very juicy Steven, when you do that.
you try that.
I was lucky the first time.
dadahum!
got it on anyway.
got it over.
eee, I'm gonna get ya this time.
[Steve's turn]
what's the score?
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two.
two what?
nothing.
whose favor?
mine.
uh huh.
maybe it'd be better if you use the red ones.
maybe the red maybe the red ones know how to go on Steve.
yeah, maybe the red ones know how to go on.
red ones know how to go on?
let's see.
[Steve throws red ring]
uh, got closer than the blue one.
right your turn.
see the blue ones know how to go on.
oh he's a smart one.
alright, he can take another turn there was interference.
maybe we oughta maybe we oughta get orange ones.
I think we should get green ones, haha.
blue I I mean...
come on let's get it on, the score is still two nothing, favor, uh 'em, favor of uh 'hem.
I have hafta get the rest, 'cause 'cause the rest are...
I'm gonna get at least one one now I know it.
[mr cuts in]
no you're not.
oh.
yes.
you oughta see his red xxx.
watch.
ahhah.
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[Steve makes a noise as his father pretends to throw]
all you're doing is washing the floor.
you didn't throw it.
right on!
[it misses]
'cause I said.
didn't it go on?
no.
who took it off?
nobody.
you go.
oh excuse me.
[mrs yawns]
you know it's more difficult for him, Jackie, when it's high.
yeah, casue he's a line drive thrower.
yeah.
well good, let's keep it this way and then we'll hafta win.
its because the reds are too good at it.
the reds go very fast.
okay, use the blues then.
no, the red!
I don't want it on the bed!
see you gave him an idea.
oh, well let's put it down there.
[she puts the peg on the floor]
I'll get it, I'll get it for you on the floor.
come here.
put it over there.
somewhere where you don't hafta run.
yeah, that's a good idea.
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don't hit Graeme, doing it.
we know.
okay I knew you'd do much better with it on the floor.
[Steve gets a ring on the peg]
that's not, that's that's not fair, you're gettin' too close now.
your turn.
I'm exhausted.
you try it, see how you like it.
try ity you didn't throw it.
you went oh I can't even come close.
you have a you have a chance of winning now.
tadahum!
daddy's got another one.
you go, you go, come here!
[Steven making noises while father's throwing]
no after I get the red one out, it ah...
[Steve chases a ring]
it's behind the door Steve, it's all the way in the corner.
[door squeaks loudly as Steve gets ring]
er amr.
Jackie I think we hafta put a little oil on that door.
why?
sposta have a door like that...
oh Steve that was close.
nobody can ever sneak in and out.
that, my my my, mine almost went ta bed.
that's right.
I hear him in the morning, as he's ready to come in.
first the door squeaks, then I hear the little patter of feet, he he he [giggles] comes into the bedroom.
daddy, see me do it?
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you can get them for us Steve.
I can do it.
mommy's...
you have all of them.
[mrs interrupts]
mommy seems to have pooped out already.
Jackie I walked today from park row...
come on, bring 'em over.
to south ferry.
yeah.
going in and out of all the buildings.
I had sixteen places I went to.
that, that's not so ah...
good.
keeps you busy.
physical fitness.
I didn't even, I didn't even eat lunch, I didn't...
here, I'll get...
I had coffee in three different offices.
[she interrupts]
here dad.
catch.
no don't don't do it like that Steve that's not a good idea.
what is the score?
thirty eight?
thirty eight throws he means, thirty eight misses.
no, thirty eight throws.
this time I'm gonna get you dad.
you're a very tempermental ring tosser.
you go through a ritual before you throw it.
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blow your nose, close the closet.
haha.
almost threw a somersault onto it.
hm.
[Steve gets a ring on]
tadah!
hooray for Steven.
yeah!
very good.
I don't wanna play, you're getting too good.
no you have to play.
you're not too bad.
eee.
now I'm gonna show ya.
Steve you know what I was looking for today?
what?
tomorrow.
I I wanted to buy you a game of chinese checkers, with the marbles.
that's what I want.
I can't believe how junky they make things today.
I remember when I was a kid I had such a beautiful chinese checker set...
didn't I give him but Susan!
[gm calls from kitchen]
didn't I give him a?
with a metal board, and the marbles were kept in cups with lids...
didn't I give him a game of checkers a long time ago?
ah cleaning lady!
please, cleaning lady, just go about your business.
cleaning lady, haha.
what did she ask for?
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I don't know, we...
I gave him a checker game.
your turn.
try to get me.
not chinese checkers.
this I don't know.
what's chinese checkers?
haha.
Graeme, what's a good game for him, four years old?
they're all usually six and up, seven and up.
what do do they have xxx in school?
does he play that in school?
no we don't have.
or he's not too enthused about that.
one more Steve.
I don't know.
I don't know much about the children's games.
I really don't know what to tell you about that.
I hate the stupid toys, see he gave me an argument and I brought him home a book.
bring me home, bring me home something.
I brought him I I do that, bring him home a book to read.
y y you you sposta be happy when somebody gets it.
and I wanted a toy.
[she initates Steve]
now try, xxx.
this one's gonna go on.
I have a feeling.
no you're not.
[gb continues to converse with mrs while Steve and his, father play]
well, if you can get him interested in books it's a much better idea, but...
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well we read every oh since he's a that whole chest is, is ninety per cent full of books.
yeah, I noticed.
did it.
and I scored it dad.
know what happened?
'cause I scared it.
you did?
yeah.
he gives me an argument when I come home.
[makes noise like a machine gun]
I didn't want a book, I wanted a toy.
eh eh eh ah.
whatever happened to his ah...
what dear?
t r a i n s.
dad, where's the other...
has your sister forgotten?
no.
you know what I really should do?
go over to the lumberyard and get xxx Waterman, he has an electric set sitting over there.
a little one a xxx.
and I need a board too, to nail on to, to hook it up for him.
daddy I, I almost got it.
and haha try to get it now and he he, and haha.
the next time I'm gonna get one of the two on.
or else...
Jackie you know what I'll do?
I'll just get a board, large enough to fit this, that's all, and put it on and then we'll get some little houses or something.
or I'll make something for it.
make something right now then.
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come on, Steve, pick 'em up.
Steven, I think you think you're a bird.
[Steve was flapping an arm]
what is this?
excess energy.
yeah.
watch out, dad, catch.
isn't funny how he woke up, did you notice when you, arrived?
[Steve woke up rather slowly and she thought he was ill]
you.
I xxx it went under there!
under where?
there!
see if you can get it?
daddy's tired too Steve, because if he's playing this sitting down, that means he's tired.
no, I'm not.
[Steve crawls under a chair for ring]
daddy, uh, ya!
get it?
yeah.
I found a head, oh it's yours.
I found a head.
oh, I'm gonna get it on now.
oh, do I know I'm gonna get it on now.
no you're not.
it's so easy, I'm gonna do it left handed.
tadah!
how come nobody claps and carries on when you get it on?
I didn't get it on.
oh.
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you try it dad.
just bull dozed you.
try to get that one.
come on, that's a little rediculous.
Steven, that's silly.
no, I want you to miss.
ahhah.
[mr gets another ring on]
I'm angry, I'm gonna get ya this time!
ah haha.
he he he.
[they both giggle as Steve throws and misses]
you missed.
this time ya not gonna trick it, this time you're not gonna get it.
this time I'll get it on and I won't even look I'm so good.
you don't even look?
no, that's alright.
I can beat you.
you're not, not this time, you try...
I can beat you.
try it, see how you like it.
ready?
xxx xxx.
try it, you'll like it.
you're going to run out of water.
no I'm not.
xxx xxx.
never.
tadah!
haha.
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and almost...
Steve!
[enough x]
I think that's enough.
'cause I want my...
oh!
[mr points out the window trying to distract Steve]
look over...
haha.
there goes Super man flying out the window.
there goes Zoe's giant.
hi meatball!
there goes, meatball.
that's not xxx.
who are you doing next, Graeme?
[mrs and gb talk while Steve and his father play on]
Zoe's meatball.
either Zoe or Todd.
I think it's Zoe.
going to interview his giant too?
huh?
oh almost you almost broke the door, that's what you almost...
it, it almost, went falling back on to that.
going to interview his giant too?
Zoe's giant, meatball?
oh, I I haven't met him yet.
I throw at so fast...
yeah, you'll hafta interview both of them, haha.
that it went flying.
where's the other one?
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here dad.
there's one there.
first catch this.
oh gosh, Steven.
[Steve throws a ring to his father]
eh eh eh.
did it go underneath again?
[under the bed]
yeah.
here we go again.
see this one?
watch how easily this goes on see, no problem, see that?
boy, I bulldozed him into that one, haha.
hey you got it on too.
see how easy it is?
now why can't you do that?
let me see.
see that?
got close.
wow, that's pretty good.
did I do it?
I think he would make a good bowler, he has that form when he throws the ring.
whistle all the way up in the air [whistles].
it fell, 'cause I bloop?
let's see, he's a good ring tosser, he's a bull shooter, a pin ball machine player and a horseshoe player, right?
the left hand isn't always as good as the right.
you get that mim.
wanna see me throw this high?
no, no I don't want [pretends to cough].
got 'im scared.
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[Steve throws ring, mr throws his at Steve's ring]
got 'im.
interference, they collided in mid air.
that's alright, I, I bet you we couldn't do that again.
daddy, I knocked yours up, right?
no I knocked yours down.
no I knocked yours up.
and I knocked yours down.
I knocked yours up.
and I knocked yours down.
no I knocked yours down.
no I knocked yours up.
I knocked your down.
I knocked yours up.
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[before school David, Michael, and Joe are getting ready for school. David is wearing the shirt but it is put on Michael at the end of on the way to school segment, after David complains]
look it.
oo!
gang green xxx green, xxx green.
Michael I wanna put your sweater on.
alright.
it's very cold out.
oh yeah.
you can take it off when you get to school.
how come?
because it's chilly out.
and Joe...
I could wear another sweater, that, like one like that.
[Michael cuts in]
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why don't you wear that one?
I don't wanna.
I wanna wear it.
next.
maybe a little later David.
does Joey?
no.
why?
no touching.
what are you gonna do?
hm?
what are you gonna do?
well, I guess we're gonna get ready to ah, go to school.
I'm gonna go to school with you.
hey, ah...
ah oo, you have one too.
mhm.
let me talk to it.
I'm talk to David.
you can talk to David without using it.
one, two, three.
oh I have a letter for you too, ah, which I was sposta give to you last week, but I couldn't get in touch with you.
you hafta wait for a little while.
David was sick for a couple of days.
wasn't he out of wasn't he out of school for a couple of days?
yeah, he had ah, tonsilitis.
they all have had it.
it's a big xxx right?
mhm.
you're going to take a bus.
|
right?
you're going to take a bus.
yes.
your bus?
hm?
your bus?
real bus?
well how do you usually get to school?
w well ah, a blue bus, or a green bus...
excuse me Joe.
uhhuh.
or a yellow bus.
a school...
or a red bus.
[laughs]
you gonna wait for a little while here?
mhm.
then what I'm gonna do?
that doesn't hafta be plugged in in any place or anything?
no.
no he can go anywhere and do anything he wants.
oh.
it's no problem.
sweater.
I put the wrong one on you.
this is Joe's.
he, he, he.
[giggles]
this is Joey's, right.
I told you.
|
your is over there Joe!
Joey.
this mine?
xxx when you get to school you can take it off.
alright?
mom look inside here.
here, put your sweater on.
too heavy.
you wanna get your coat David?
and get a tissue for your nose.
he's gonna stay in David's school?
will you be staying?
mhm.
okay?
[they get dressed in sweaters and coats]
get your coat.
didn't I call there all ready?
why I wear, wear dis on for?
what?
I won't to wear dis any.
you don't wanna what?
wear it anymore.
I can't hear you.
I don't wanna wear it anymore.
ah, ha he.
[chuckles]
button up?
he says he doesn't wanna wear it.
don't wanna wear it?
why not?
|
I don't wanna wear it.
it's a nice shirt David.
let, let the kids go first.
I'm gonna eat the breakfast.
didn't you have breakfast already?
yeah but I have two.
he, he.
[giggles]
oh no, no, I've gotta take you first.
how come?
because you know you go in earlier.
I wanna go in the bus.
I don't wanna wear this what's this for?
yeah when you get your coat on.
I don't wanna wear it anymore.
no leave it on.
come on.
I don't wanna wear it.
it's a nice shirt.
I don't wanna.
it keeps you warm too, you don't hafta put a sweater on.
hey Graeme.
I don't wanna.
the green one keeps staying on and the red one keeps staying off.
[refers to reciever lights]
I don't wanna.
why?
the two green ones keep staying on.
don't wanna.
you were so happy about it.
|
what happened now?
the three red ones should stay off and on off and on.
I don't wanna wear it.
wanna see a cricket?
mhm you have a cricket?
no, it's his.
oh, Joe has a cricket?
yeah.
show him.
that's a cricket.
mom, I don't want.
oh come on David.
[David sobs]
what do you feed the cricket?
you see the cricket?
he's here.
[Joe shows gb the cricket in a jar]
cricket.
oh, wow, that's a good one.
I don't wanna wear it.
[sobs as he goes into the bed+room followed by his mother]
uh uh.
what is that in there, some meat?
you going to take Joey?
yeah, they eat raw beef.
hm [I see].
and that's a mother cricket.
Michael put your xxx out.
mom I don't wanna wear this.
huh?
|
careful this doesn't ah...
[refers to jar lid which is held on by a rubber band]
why?
don't you wanna?
oh there it is.
come loose and he gets out.
let me see if can tie it.
I don't wanna.
but why?
because I, I don't wanna.
you hold it down, I'll...
you must have a reason.
hm?
move your thumb down just a little.
[she straightens David's jacket]
right.
now, we're going to go on to the bus now okay?
cmon don't act like that David.
you came here late right?
yeah, lil yeah a little bit.
when xxx when I go into school right I could take it off?
yeah, when, when Graeme gets to the school and whatever.
alright.
I've gotta get my coat.
well is he going with us?
yeah he's going with us.
[they return to living room]
remember I told you, he'll be going on the bus with us?
xxx could I xxx...
where's you hats?
|
could xxx gonna leaving do dings here?
where's my book bag?
where are your hats?
where's my book bag?
your book bag is on top of the...
huh?
it's in the closet right?
where?
up on the chair?
it's right here.
but first you gotta put on your coats.
David where is your hat?
it's right up dere.
no it isn't.
you got two things.
[a door slams]
mhm.
you got, you got a, you got a book you got a book bag, and you got a bag.
we you know something?
no, no, but I lost it...
don't tell me you left them at school?
I l, I lost it.
you lost your hat?
great.
he lost it.
what about you Michael?
I, I, when, mine hat?
yeah.
I lost it when we, when I, I was...
both of youse lost your hats?
|
no, it when I, when I was going out to, when Anne Marie.
I lost mines.
where am I going to find another?
I didn't lost it.
here's my hat.
oh that's right.
I don't have one.
then you'll hafta go like this.
ee u, ee u.
I lost mine for real.
look at that.
you have a hole.
uhhuh.
who's that?
[refers to stop watch]
oh you hafta press zis?
yeah.
or turn it?
[gb winds stop+watch]
oh.
let me hear the clock goes?
oh wow.
why, why, why da soft one?
xxx I want the hard one.
look this is the only one there is.
look Margie.
mom.
alright I will wear it.
okay, wait a minute.
did you take a tissue and put it in your pocket?
|
no.
no.
here let me get you a package.
me too?
no David.
where's my tissue?
[he sniffles]
wait a minute.
and Graeme, how come, how come, how come you don't take dese out?
antennas.
well, because ah, all this packs away in that little black bag there.
so I hafta take it all apart, and it won't all fit there if these are stuck on.
did I do my homework?
you look like a bee.
right.
antennas.
cricket got um...
xxx I have a book bag just like your one.
mhm.
Graeme look it.
oh yeah, what's that?
it's mine.
what is that?
a, a, a wheat.
it's growing up.
a wheat.
a piece of wheat?
uh huh?
it's growing.
she gonna grow.
|
it's gonna grow.
oh, he ho.
tickles.
I don't think grows any higher.
it go tickle.
no.
he's had it there for some time already.
I think if he takes these out and plants the, the grains, the grains will grow.
oh, cause she just said to put it in water.
I don't know.
I don't, it might but I don't think so.
this is a wire attached to both of those hand cuffs.
[refers to the antenna wires]
look xxx I've a book about, to learn about that hand cuff.
that if you put these, they'll grow.
so maybe when you come today you can come to them.
xxx oh look it, look it, more, three microphones wight over here.
[refers to sockets in the recorder]
here David.
David.
one two three, and, look it, three microphones.
look it.
uhhuh.
come on.
mom, put this in my pocket?
yeah, put 'em in your pocket.
I can't find my xxx.
how you gonna put it in your pocket?
I blowed out.
[they leave the apartment]
|
okay.
you gonna wear this?
hm?
you gonna wear this?
David's gonna wear this?
no, I don't think so.
get off of me.
you'll tie that up.
right?
let me see it!
oh tie this.
[father talks in background]
oh, oh, ah.
[noises]
what no I put that on, Joey.
[giggles. Joe and Michael are in the living room, Joe has, some cards]
gimme it.
he, he, he.
copying this?
you copying this?
xxx Michael, wanna play concentration?
concentration?
yeah.
no, I wanna play knucks.
[knucks is a card game in which the loser gets hit on, the knuckles with the deck of cards]
okay you go first.
you hafta hit your, when, when, when you when you have tange it and it w when I get red I get a real hard one.
[when one picks a red suit he is hit extra hard with the, deck]
right?
pow with the cards.
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have a good day.
take care.
you too.
pah.
I'm going out without feeling nothing.
when, when you gonna go?
where is that xxx?
[Joe sorts some cards]
oh.
xxx okay Michael, you pick a card.
there's a...
pick it up.
four cards.
um no all the cards.
no four cards.
one two three four.
no that's...
one two three four.
uhuh.
now watch.
you see?
like that.
oh.
okay.
they don't play knucks like that.
okay.
they don't play it like that.
[in background]
you go first.
I go?
|
I go first?
deuce is wild.
go ahead don't show it to me.
this yours?
I go no, you you hafta pick.
whenever you see one of these, one of those pictures you put you, you s stop.
okay?
keep, looking for it.
I on, I don't have it.
well look for it.
[Michael is plucking from the deck, looking for a certain, card]
keep on.
Joey?
[Michael continues plucking]
keep on?
two.
oh xxx he's gonna get to knocks.
oh you got it.
now you could put it down.
this?
okay xxx.
is that yours?
no, that goes there.
[father returns]
how come you came back, Bapo?
[nor]
okay I'm going now.
ohhoh.
I don't have any.
let me see?
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[mother comes into room]
what are you playing?
um knucks.
you got it, so xxx.
oh shit.
[David comes over]
xxx I'm gonna hold dis no dose are nothing.
[picks up the extra cards]
those are nuttings.
I know, I, I just wanna hold it that's not that's not mine.
no one gets it.
oh shit.
throw out that.
xxx I'm just holding it.
I don't got it.
pick, until you find it.
got it.
okay, okay.
into you get these pictures.
oh.
yeah, now put it down.
[Michael loses. he gets hit with the deck]
you get da knocks.
oo shit!
how many cards do you have?
one two three four five six knucks.
oh shit.
okay let me...
I hafta pick it.
when I get, when I get a red on, when I get a red one I get hard knucks.
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when I get a black one I get soft.
if I go like dis that means you give me the knucks.
that's how we play knucks.
okay.
first you hafta pick a card.
there's a red, card.
[whispers]
hey, come on!
oo a red!
dat's red.
dat ain't red.
[in background to mother]
you be on Michael's side.
you're not on my side Michael's side okay.
I wanna get this off.
[whispers]
come on, time to go.
doesn't matter.
wait a minute mom we almost finished.
just needta knucks.
okay now watch.
xxx okay.
[whispers]
I don't even know myself.
go ahead.
pick xxx okay Michael come on, don't take so long.
red you picked the wrong one.
okay.
I've got six.
put it down.
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watch how you hit with those cards.
hey.
[Joe hits Michael's knuckles]
that's six!
that's why I don't like that game.
that's six.
all you do is hurt each other that way.
that's six.
now I hafta do it back to you.
uhuh.
oh yes.
come on, let's...
you said.
no if I went like this.
I ain't playing now I ain't playing.
if I go like this.
[gestures]
you 'posed to do that.
[they get ready to leave]
ah I'm not playing no more.
you cheater anyway the that's not the how you play it.
oops xxx.
Margie.
what?
oo shit oo.
oh Michael I wish you'd stop that.
oo look, it fell down.
[refers to a photograph that was hanging on the wall]
oh shit.
mike.
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[warning tone of voice referring to his cursing]
okay.
mom xxx.
we had that for a long...
hey we had that for a long, long time, that hanging up ding.
yeah?
I had we have dat for a long long time.
right Margie?
there.
what's this for?
that's an antenna.
there.
that's, that's for...
Joey get your coat.
I'm working with him.
right?
mhm.
let me see these?
[refers to the side of the recorder]
these, you know what's this, you know what's this?
it's like this one inside here.
like that, right?
well almost.
it's for the plug though, not a microphone.
don't.
let me see that?
open it?
open that again?
Michael.
the microphone, right, that's the microphone?
|
no it's just a plug.
why do you put it there?
yeah well, they're so that I can pick up the...
we're going to take a bus again.
pick up his voice.
we missed the red bus before.
right?
then we we missed the red bus when we're going home.
we xxx we, we we're go, going to store to buy candy right?
mommy, I have xxx...
I don't like that xxx on the alligator.
I don't hafta xxx eat in school because I have an apple.
you didn't have an apple all that time in that pocket?
he had a xxx.
yeah, but...
xxx you didn't eat breakfast here, you said you were gonna eat in school you eat in school.
I have a snack.
no, you eat the cereal.
and then you can have your apple as a snack.
cereal perial.
I'm sposta eat breakfast when I go to school too.
didn't you have breakfast?
yeah, but I'm still hungry.
want this one?
[David takes out his apple]
haha, haha.
[laughs]
can I eat it?
no, I'm taking it to school.
okay, you get in trouble now, you got a xxx.
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okay I could eat it.
xxx he, he, he.
[giggles, then coughs]
Joey go brush your hair.
a pear.
I like some pear.
could you buy a whole pack of pear, Margie?
I like pears, you know.
you like pears but I buy the fruits and then they just go to waste if you don't get to eat 'em.
I like pear.
[they leave the apartment]
when I, when I went to meet grandma I ate a pear.
I was hungry.
you watch and see I was gonna eat a pear.
[they leave the apartment and walk to elevator]
wanna make a bet?
[on the way to school]
alright, I believe you, no bet.
David.
every time I breathe down, I breathe xxx and my tummy stick outs.
[exhales loudly at xxx]
Michael don't touch.
[refers to antennas]
that's a sharp one, that's a big one.
where did you put it?
he, he.
[giggles]
crunchy?
on it?
Joey.
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xxx xxx.
I don't know if the elevator's working this morning.
xxx I hadta walk up the stairs.
touch it.
be get off of it.
because I was waiting and waiting.
oh boy.
[they wait for elevator]
Joe you got my thing.
you got my...
oh.
Graeme.
hey Graeme, you gotta xxx say, what thing?
got my thing.
your thing?
I don't have your thing.
what thing?
you say a dingaling.
uh uh, he got me like that this morning.
yeah.
where's my thing, den say, what thing?
what thing?
dingaling.
dingaling.
oh.
why do you...
give or slap?
me forty.
stick 'em up shortie.
oh, shoot me, would you?
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[in background]
Margie what'd you do if xxx?
if I know you can read it?
no.
give or slap?
me ten.
you look like a hen.
oh yeah?
xxx right?
five, slap me ten.
[they get to elevator in 4 seconds pause]
you look like a hen.
that means that...
that means that xxx.
huh?
what?
xxx know me for three months?
no.
oh yes.
uhuh, uhuh.
I didn't know you for three months.
Margie, will I know Joe for three months?
you know Joey for all your life.
I didn't, I did, I didn't know for three months.
I didn't know for three months.
you've known Joey for five years.
five years?
no.
I...
that's how old you are.
|
I, I'm, I know him for six years.
not five, I l I don't know him for five years.
leave it David.
David.
what?
stop pulling on the door.
say knock knock.
knock knock.
who's there?
who's there.
you say, what.
oh, what.
oh, forget it.
didn't work, huh?
what's on my back?
[they get into elevator]
oh.
oh, microphones.
those are microphones inside there.
right?
well not really, those are just plugs for different things.
hey, hey look xxx black.
black, black went to shacks.
he, he.
went to blacks.
I'll press them all.
[refers to floor buttons]
one.
one, two, three, three four five...
six, seven, eight, none, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve.
|
relax xxx.
David, that's enough.
oo he pressed the one.
five.
oo he pressed two of them.
no he didn't.
oh yes.
he went like this.
and he pressed that one together.
he didn't touch it.
and then ge pressed it.
oh yeah.
David get your hands away from there.
[elevator stops to let others on]
alright now be careful with that.
you don't wanna loose an eye.
[refers to antennas]
hm?
hm.
uhuh.
I'm shaking around a xxx ah, I'm shaking around like a xxx.
[sings]
you going up?
up?
I'm shaking?
[sings]
around xxx a xxx.
[elevator arrives at ground]
be careful.
oh wow.
|
no running here.
[they leave building]
David.
[the side walk is flooded from an open hydrant]
water coming out!
ahhah.
wow, it's milk.
wow, it's milk.
sidewalk is full.
coming out.
splash.
[talking and noises to himself mainly. a lady avoids some, dog shit on th sidewalk]
go under the bridge.
blub blub blub, blub, blub blub the lady go round the kah kah.
haha it's xxx if you eat it.
[giggles. sneezes at end]
Michael and David, come over here.
oh they're making a model airplane.
[refers to some boys who have paper planes all over the, sidewalk. they are trying to put them in a bag]
oh sweat.
[exclamation]
what?
let me see?
some of us don't know xxx.
right.
what's that?
oo look it.
oo Joey picking up, airplane!
huh?
Joe you're picking up, garbage.
|
[Michael runs a bit in 2 seconds pause]
he's picking up garbage can.
look xxx.
hi.
he's picking up paper.
mike too.
well not me, ah haha.
[sort of laughs]
and you didn't even give me my mittens.
he he he he.
[giggles]
your medicine?
it's cold!
his mittens!
medicine for his cold?
no, mittens.
oh, your mittens.
shoom.
[Michael sprinkles some sand on davids back]
David.
he he he, I put crumbs on his back.
[giggles]
what?
I put crumbs on his back xxx.
one's full, buttons.
[refers to tape recorder]
right.
have some thing up here.
[crossing the street]
oh.
|
I'm xxx back?
just wait a minute.
oo ah haha.
[Michael jumped up on the sidewalk and tripped, nearly, falling down]
xxx where da flowers?
[runs ahead, gb turns off recorder while they pass under the bridge]
oh.
hoo the gate.
oh, look at the flowers!
look at the flowers!
Ma look at the flowers.
these are nice.
right?
all the kah kee.
David don't push.
xxx rab blab blib blib butter cups.
[whispers, sings a bit]
ah shit.
oh, come on.
move out a the way.
mm.
well you don't go like that.
ah, what are you laugh...
haha well he wouldn't get out of my way.
[laughs]
out of the way xxx.
that's what I told you.
xxx on the wrong way.
he he.
but I have on the wrong way.
|
there's a crow.
[refers to a starling flying by]
a crow.
there's a crow.
a little crow.
I wish I could xxx.
a little crow black crow.
I could reach that crow with a stick, plick.
a rae chae I'll xxx in my xxx.
right mom, for a long, long time age, you know Bapo caught, he caught a, a bird.
[referring to his father, they wait for a bus]
he caught a bird, right?
a long, long time ago.
you know he caught a bird, a sick bird.
right?
soon you'd ask for a pet.
a pet.
right?
hey we went that way, then we went this way, now we go back that way.
camping.
what camping xxx whee come on, give me your hand.
wait a minute.
wo look.
[another bird flies up in front of them]
oh, a tinny, tinny bird, crawls.
oh wow, up in the air.
[they pass some mounted policemen, Joe and Michael shake a sign post]
come on, I wanna...
xxx krip krop, kwip kwop.
what do like that?
|
who?
makin' the noise?
a like a, a cowboy.
what?
leave it.
or you'll break it, ahhah.
Joe.
what?
go to jail.
leave it.
ah, stop.
you better stop, you be...
oo going around like a bloom bloom.
swing, swing, kafee xxx swing swing, go away, xxx play your game.
[short break in continuity. tape skips. Michael is sitting, on a chain fence, swinging back and forth, and singing, tape skips again in one second pause. Michael, continues to sing]
swing, swing go away.
rain rain go way, Cathy wants to go out and play.
rain, rain go away, Cathy wants to go out and play.
wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa rain rain go away...
Joey and David.
Cathy wanna xxx.
[Joey and David are wrestling with something]
oo!
[David, Michael, Joe, their mother and gb leave the, apartment and walk down hall to elevator]
oo!
er I don't like this building, it smells yucky.
I don't like this building.
er smells yucky out here.
I don't like this one.
I wish we could move to another house.
|
yeah people don't, people don't take care of the building very well.
then you won't, then you won't see pabla.
I don't wanna.
I, ah...
[they wait for the elevator]
er, er, er, er.
ah ah.
better not throw that tissue out there.
hafta walk all the way down there.
[looks down stairwell]
come on.
stay out in here.
I'll hold the door.
I throwed the tissue down alright Graeme xxx.
it's a miracle.
each morning there's a fight over who's going to open the front door, and who's going to open the elevator.
hm.
who's gonna open it downstairs.
should assign them all days.
each has a day that they...
oh ah.
I did that but then it would drive me crazy.
ah haha.
[laughs]
dae ah.
better stop doing that.
oh shit.
even about who's gonna sit where in the bus.
he, he, going crazy, going down.
[chuckles]
|
ah, be careful these don't get in the way of your eyes.
they break.
well, your eyes might break.
xxx don't touch.
these won't break.
they'll poke you.
come on.
or scratch you.
[the elevator arrives and they get in]
today I'll push the elevator.
you can all get a chance, right?
I, I'll do the downstairs one.
can I?
can I open the downstairs one?
yeah David don't get next to the door.
yeah.
you know the elevator gets stuck.
Graeme opened dis door and I opened the nother door.
I'm open this door.
I'm opening another door.
I open that door.
you're not opening it.
I am.
I am, I open, I'm opening it.
I hafta open it!
I'm open it.
I am.
don't lean against it.
you know it'll get stuck.
you'll fall in the...
|
David...
you'll fall inside the wall.
haha.
pushed it back and it got stuck.
woo!
[elevator arrives at ground. Joe and David run out]
woo!
k kae, koo and we never move out.
wou.
thank you.
take it easy you guys.
xxx push pull.
here.
cold outside?
not cold not cold outside.
here David.
what?
he got a tail.
oh that's just an antenna.
it's sposta go showing down?
yeah.
it's sposta just hang down.
okay.
ah, you can tack it into his pants if you like, but it might be a little uncomfortable.
no, it's alright then.
okay.
he he he he.
[giggles]
mommy.
David don't pull on it.
|
ah haha.
no it's, it's okay.
he Michael it's not funny, you're gonna make David...
alright tuck it into his pocket.
let's fix it.
yeah, I'll put, I put it in your pocket.
mommy.
okay there.
in your pocket.
put it in your pocket.
put it in your pocket.
I have one too.
[gb shows David his antenna]
let me see it.
he gots one.
mine goes down my shirt.
that's his shirt.
xxx right?
that's crystal street, right?
look at those flowers xxx.
no Joe.
[Joe finds a feather in a hedge]
oh.
[David chases it]
hey.
David xxx.
I caught it.
you, you know what Graeme?
he was trying to catch the xxx feather David, he ran, he was trying to get it.
yeah they're hard to catch.
|
mommy, there's something, rocks on my shoe.
[David stops. his mother goes to see what the problem is]
what?
rock.
how did you get a rock in there?
xxx you alright now?
there's still a rock.
still a rock.
okay?
mom there's still a rock.
won't come out.
only one way, only one way.
[they resume walking]
this street.
only one way.
hey look, only one way.
only one way.
you, you should have seen my bike, and this bike, this kid his bike is too big and my, and he keeps falling on the bike.
he's falling on the big bike.
you usually see the bike.
and when he comes next well I, I'll, I sh, I sh, I show you the bike.
where?
out of my way Joe.
we hafta walk pretty far just to get to the bus and then it's only two blocks, four stops.
yeah, ah.
but, you know, like I started doing this ah, it was in the winter...
uhhuh.
when it got cold.
by the time we gotta the bus stop...
how we got in here?
|
[traffic noise drowns out everyone]
how we got in here?
how we got here?
yeah in winter time you don't wanna be walking too far, or when it's raining.
I like those yellow bicycles up there xxx.
don't worry about it.
[they pass under a bridge with a train crossing overhead]
hey, look.
red.
there goes our red bus again.
well, David.
oo oo.
is this just like you know ah a job or is it that you're studying or what?
ah, well it's a job for me.
xxx eeoo.
[they pass some pants on the sidewalk]
oh, somebody lost their pants.
some one I lost my pants?
somebody did.
a pair of pants lying there on the sidewalk.
oh I was gettin' too cool.
now I have, I, I don't wanna wait for that bus.
I'm gettin' too cool.
yeah it's always full.
I wanna wait for another bus.
no, I don't know.
come on.
[bus pulls up and they get on]
oh oo.
sit down.
|
hey Graeme xxx.
okay.
do you wanna sit on my lap?
I'd better put that here.
okay thank you.
where's your tissues?
I'll get it.
Margie.
hm?
I want xxx I wanna take this off.
I wanna take dis shirt off.
oh why?
yeah, yeah a lot of those kids that he worked with used the shirt.
it's a nice shirt.
no but I'm not, but I'm not talking about that.
hm?
but I'm not talking about that no more.
mm, what about?
Margie xxx when it's time to go to bed xxx, den den, den could Graeme could read us a story?
yes you can ask him to read you a story.
and he'll read it for you, pick a book and he'll read you a story.
okay.
okay?
you know where the books are at home, right?
xxx can I go first?
what?
can I go first.
no you know Joe hasta go first.
he always.
I know, because he goes in earlier there, and I explain that to you almost every day.
|
by the time I take you in I when I don't take him it will be late.
I wanna xxx.
where?
no.
why?
Graeme's gonna be with us and I have we're just gonna cook.
[passengers talk]
we're gonna go for a walk and then we're gonna go up stairs.
don't kick.
David don't kick.
I'm not kicking.
[tape is stopped until they get of the bus]
take it off.
you take it off.
what?
[they walk down the street]
take it off.
I think the only thing that's bothering him, he's very fussy about clothes.
yeah?
xxx I have his clothes and he doesn't want this, doesn't want that.
and I says, you know, like you're kind of young to start picking your own.
haha.
[laughs]
you put on what I, you know, what I put there, but once he says no.
so I usually give them to xxx.
yeah, well I have a couple of other shirts in the room here.
I'll give him a choice of those.
and, ah, he's very xxx he doesn't like anybody else's things.
and ah since the''re the same size, I usually you know, xxx because he'll fight over it.
mommy xxx.
|
he's been saying xxx I wanna take off the shirt, I wanna take off the shirt.
well if he really insists I'll just put it on Michael.
would you like to wear it Michael?
what?
the shirt with the microphone.
[they enter the school building]
this one will xxx.
the microphone?
yeah.
well if David doesn't wanna wear it you can wear it.
well I'll wear it.
you'll wear it?
you don't, you don't wanna wear the shirt?
Michael's going to wear it.
I don't wanna wear it.
okay.
xxx and then you look like a doctor.
right?
yeah.
did dis is two, two weeks?
[Michael and GB are outside the class+room. GB is, adjusting the microphone on Michael]
[arriving at school]
hm?
already?
dis is two days?
yes, this is the second day.
already.
then, den I give it back?
mhm.
come on.
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hey Filipe xxx.
[in background]
you eat something, alright?
[Michael goes around the corner to the drinking fountain, adn drinks. returns to the cubby area where mother is]
okay.
gimme?
kiss.
hm?
[mother kisses Michael in 5 seconds pause]
see you later.
bye dad.
Michael, xxx.
[Michael goes into class+room]
I saw...
hey, Michael.
I saw Tommy.
yeah?
and Margaret.
you have two pockets.
you saw me?
one in the back.
Tommy, don't do that to the xxx.
I don't, I don't have two.
Harold.
hi Roy.
is this where you sit when you wanna eat?
[Michael goes to the breakfast table. Harold, Roy and, Filipe are having breakfast. mother to Michael]
yeah.
when I was in the bus...
well sit.
|
now you know you're at home tonight from xxx.
when I was in the bus I saw your sister.
what sister?
your sister.
uhuh.
dat's not my sister.
you want me to pour it for you?
who?
yeah, only pour a little bit.
I tell you when to stop.
she's sleeping right now.
xxx maybe Michael would like some chocolate drink.
no she's not.
no.
we made pudding last night and it never hardened.
that's all.
so we're drinking it this morning.
that chocolate, chocolate pudding?
I think I didn't cook it long enough.
yeah.
it's a new kind that I've never used before...
it's chocolate pudding xxx just cook it myself.
hey!
just put milk on it.
it didn't come out so so she made it like to drink it.
Roy is doing it all.
[Roy is pouring everyone's drink]
well, Harold's been doing it Roy.
you know how you like to do things for other children, and Harold does too.
you could be pouring it for other people.
|
you wanna do this yourself?
first I hafta put da sugar.
oh.
no you got xxx.
uhuh.
do you want some cereal, Roy?
[in background]
everyone take a little bit.
don't.
right?
yeah, Michael has already.
Michael got a little bit.
just put a little bit more.
and xxx, and Graeme, want some?
what have you got there?
chocolate pudding.
pudding.
it came out wrong.
chocolate pudding?
oh.
want some?
here.
well, maybe a little later, Harold.
okay.
[there won't be any more a little later on]
little later is gonna be no more.
yes.
oh yeah?
what's my name?
I don't know.
|
you tell me your name.
Filipe.
Filipe.
Filipe.
Filipe.
eat it now!
xxx okay, I'll see you later.
[kisses Michael goodbye and leaves]
alright?
this is not chocolate pudding?
xxx right, this is chocolate pudding?
yeah.
it tastes like chocolate.
would you like some chocolate pudding?
would you?
Clifford, why don't you come in here?
I was?
calling you and you didn't hear me.
Joseph!
I can see you, I can see you.
hi, Joseph!
Dorothy?
[in background]
do you wanna do a paint xxx?
he's not Joseph.
uhuh.
he's Joseph.
nothing inside dere.
something...
oo watch out.
|
stop doing that Michael.
[FC comes over and takes some cups]
cups.
that's not all yours.
because I'm saving these cups here.
why you moving for?
cooking.
Harold, you...
you got chocolate on your face, right here.
uhuh.
oh yes.
have I got chocolate on my face?
yeah.
on, on, on, on the side.
right there.
but...
yeah, right dere.
on here, right?
yeah, right here.
you've got something over here, Michael.
[points to Michael's forehead. there doesn't seem to be, anything there]
xxx yah.
uhuh, you wrong.
ah, just look, and you...
you have choc'...
you have cereal on there.
'cause you're a mess.
uhuh he's lying, he's lying.
all what you said is a piece of bread.
[sings]
|
no, all I said a piece of jelly bread.
you can say oo what you said is a piece of bread.
you got something in your nose.
you can say any word what you want to.
you don't hafta tell me.
I wouldn't listen to you.
you're not the boss.
you got something in your nose.
you're so stupid.
you.
[no, you are]
you got something in your nose.
you.
you.
you.
you.
and why did you eat dis sugar spoon?
ah, I didn't, dis is not mine.
dis is yours.
yes, you had it in your cereal.
ah, that's Filipe's.
xxx you want me to splash this chocolate in your face?
how you come back over here?
because I like it.
you came that way?
what?
you want me to splash this chocolate in your face?
oh, not that way.
Clifford xxx.
you ever been dat way?
|
you didn't go dat way?
what?
don't xxx.
'kay.
[whispers to Michael]
only dat way, right?
I wanna tell a secret.
okay?
xxx I wanna tell Chicon not being Michael's friend or Harold's friend.
ah when she point at you, um, you say no.
[whispers to Michael]
okay?
I heard you.
well I'm call Chicon, for you.
I know...
Wayne told you.
he wouldn't listen to you.
I tell him...
Wayne is my friend.
right, Chico?
right, Chico, listen to me, me, right, Chicon, listen to me?
can I talk tru here?
no.
aw.
[referring to gb]
how come he can talk on it?
well you can't.
because he's the man.
I wanna talk to him.
come on, stop it.
|
here you eat like a pig.
Roy huh?
you want some more?
Danny xxx eat like a pig.
you want some more xxx?
oo you can't eat that in there.
so?
right?
what's wrong with you, jackass?
you hafta ea'.
yeah man.
oh, oh, knock him in your face.
right?
no or yeah?
yeah, man I'll go ah xxx.
and it get into your eyes.
[mock pain]
ah ah I can't see.
xxx those are like a kahkee on your eyes, haha.
[laughs]
and we're not gonna give you no chocolate.
yeah.
you've got you, you took some um, more pudding and den you pour it back and dat's not fair.
you have a bad cold!
ah I don't have a bad cold.
how you're gonna give every one a bad cold.
because everyone is drinking it.
xxx you, drink it.
now you got a bad cold because he gave you a bad cold because it's from here.
uhuh.
|
see, he pour, ei, um he poured s some here and den he drink it and den he put it back and den you took some from dere, you got a bad cold.
[laughs at end]
ho, ho, ho.
xxx it's for real, man.
I didn't xxx there's a bug.
what bug?
there's no such thing as...
it went that way.
uhuh Peter.
he just...
oh there she is!
April fool.
uhuh hey look!
there's a fly!
oo cheeoo there it is, on the table.
I got it.
hey!
ah shit!
[they all get up to chase the fly except Roy]
let's chase the fly!
where?
Jacky, you xxx.
where, where?
over dere, he got away!
hi.
where?
he got away, fathead.
where?
the three of you know that in the morning we have a lot of things to do in the room.
fathead you fathead.
|
got the fly?
no, gotta catch dis like dis.
[picks up a box]
where, there's no...
[burps at xxx]
xxx excuse me.
this is how I catch a fly.
[refers to a small box]
you cannot get...
the fly will get out through that hole.
[refers to a couple of holes in the box]
uhuh that's too little.
too big, you mean.
uhuh.
right this too little, this hole?
it could get out from that big hole.
right?
no.
uhuh.
look, look, look.
oh, right, he can't get out.
that's why I gonna get one like this.
'cause these holes could not get out, he could breathe.
give it back.
he got thingses to breathe.
'cause I got a xxx and I...
I want it, Harold!
but you can take some things from here xxx.
[summer arrives]
I'm catching da butterfly.
|
hi, Summer.
would you like some cereal?
I want no pudding.
you want some more?
you don't want some more?
yeah.
okay, throw away your cup if you don't want any.
it all fell in, it's already in.
I don't like it.
you don't want it?
okay, pour it out then.
he got soft?
put it inside here?
[refers to container of pudding]
no.
pour it, um, into the sink and then xxx.
ah it's xxx.
I thought you said let us have some more?
[Michael pours out his pudding]
xxx you usually get cereal in the morning.
oo.
Michael do you wanna get a sponge?
oh, who, who's that?
who did that?
we did.
oh pudding?
yes have some.
it never, uh, it never got solid.
I'm sharing, I'm sharing this.
mommy I'm sharing my food.
|
oh good.
Sally, I brought you some legs I made from chicken xxx.
Graeme, you want some more?
no thanks, Harold.
that's chocolate?
later there's gonna be no more.
that's coffee.
know why you hafta put this out?
why don't you buy it already cut up?
yeah, I do, sometimes.
let me, let me see?
[GB adjusts his microphone]
no, Michael.
let me put it back.
put it over there.
okay.
how you did that?
just with that little clip there.
it sticks on.
oh.
[Joe goes to a table where Tom is playing with some blocks]
how come to fifteen to six?
you put it like up, up, up, up.
l let me do it.
let me...
ei one drop in.
one drop in.
thing, song, sung, ping, thing, thing.
sang sung ping.
sing, song, sung, sing, song.
|
take, dese ones...
no that's no good.
no.
how about this?
these are...
xxx sing, song, song xxx...
three...
I put this over here.
dis is no good.
why?
[sings last line]
ah, it's no good.
I make a building now.
happy birthday to me.
you belong in the zoo.
[sings]
ah.
[sings]
happy birthday to me.
don't do xxx hockey!
koo koo koo koo koo.
xxx what are you making?
[Michael goes to t1 who is cutting paper dolls]
what are you making?
I don't know.
I'm just going to do some cutting.
what are you making?
I wanna make one.
dat's a cow?
xxx there and the paper is there.
|
stop Roy.
stop it.
good.
hey Harold xxx.
paint, maint?
[softly to himself]
look Bobby, look it.
[Michael joins Bobby and Clifford for breakfast]
I hate Michael xxx I hate Michael.
[refers to microphone]
my bruh my brother have dis.
don't touch.
what?
oo Clifford.
Bobby took more than me right?
look how much.
y y y you can't do that.
I don't have a spoon.
[Bob takes a handful of cereal]
I dig it out with my hand, that's my spoon.
oo!
[GB talks to Harold]
man!
lit's go back to the kitchen and get some cereal.
no, here's cereal.
a little bit, Bobby.
taking all of it.
there's no more cereal Nancy.
I'm go' go back, and go get, and get, and go get some cereal.
there's a lot Clifford!
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bull shit, Bobby.
right there's a lot Michael?
yeah.
there's still xxx you shouldn't have do that.
see you Michael.
feel my dick!
the milk is right here.
eat it!
[giggles]
ei ei mister!
he, he, he.
but he's no mister.
[refers to g. b]
hi Bobby.
ei mister, tomorrow I'm leaving.
you're leaving, huh?
I leaving tomorrow and get me a basketball so I can shove it in your neck.
how come Michael has one of those?
where are you going, Bobby?
I'm not telling you.
Michael knows.
yes I know.
camp.
I like that Sharleen's dick.
not Sharleen I mean.
going to camp.
huh?
going up to a health camp.
what's that cereal, Michael?
rice crispy.
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I'm gonna buy it.
Bobby has, Bobby tant buy dat.
Bobby buys that one.
I buy this one.
Bobby buys that one, because I don't like that one.
you like xxx I don't buy that one.
I xxx on this.
how, how, how, how if we could turn like that?
huh?
you don't know how he's turn.
[GB goes to the table]
oh, I'm glad to see that you're eating some breakfast this morning, Bobby.
you don't know that I'm leaving.
yeah, I know you're leaving.
what?
I know you're leaving.
guess what?
oh, oh I was, he was in my home, right?
oh, right.
he was in my house, too.
I went to Bobby's house.
when you gonna to my house?
you gonna go...
oh, I don't think I am Clifford.
because my house is just right down there, and I go, just walk across da ah, parking lot den go over the street, keep on going straight...
walk, walk...
[Michael plays with his microphone. puts it to his ear]
and den my, my building's right dere.
uhhuh.
just forget about is Michael, don't worry about it.
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it'll listen to you.
everything you say it'll hear.
no problem.
heavy.
oh, you'll get useta it.
are you gonna have some cereal?
want some cereal?
I want this.
no, no, no, no...
oh!
no, no, 'cause there's no sugar.
there's no sugar?
no.
you don't need sugar this stuff is sweet.
sugar's on it.
he he, they they took all the sugar.
not me!
don't don't say me Michael.
I didn't took...
Bobby.
Bobby took, Bobby took, three spoons.
I took one, two spoons.
and you, you're gonna get a worm in your stomach.
no.
guess how many spoons he took?
six, three spoons.
no I did not Bobby!
oh yes.
I took two spoons.
don't lie.
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didn't.
he went to my house.
goody for you!
you, you went to her house?
yeah I went to his house.
and you went to Bobby's house.
mhm.
I know where Bobby lives.
I have a microphone on.
that's a microphone here.
I know where Graeme lives!
right.
I know where Graeme...
he lives on eight, eighty sixth street.
no, no, no.
fourth.
right?
eighty fourth street.
no, just fourth.
oo Clifford.
you sh oo.
look.
it was all dirty, right?
I poured it and it went doing right over there.
Clifford, you're stupid.
[Michael kneels on the floor between Bob and Clifford. loose connection causes break in transmission]
you're so stupid, right?
xxx because you should xxx it's not the truth.
well you, you, you, took all xxx I, I have your xxx xxx you know xxx because I have a little xxx.
oh.
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come here, Michael, stand up.
no.
well, don't stand up.
right, Karming?
if Bobby had a little xxx.
xxx testing, two three.
I find out your xxx.
I wonder when Peter's coming.
he's sick.
uhuh.
he was sick yesterday.
uhuh.
yes he was.
he was sick yesterday.
not Pete.
I don't mean Peter.
that was Johnny who got sick.
he was over there.
uhuh.
he was over there, and you was here, right?
[someone spills some cereal. probably Bob]
he was in his cubby crying because he...
some one do that.
Michael did that.
no, no, it was you Bobby.
I didn't go like dat.
I went like dis.
I'm keeping my eye on you Bobby.
I'm I'm a kill you.
[Bobby stands up]
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wanna start something?
wanna?
Nancy!
[Bob imitates Clifford. Bob pushes Clifford off his chair]
oh wow.
Clifford's a scaredy-cat!
[Clifford gets up and goes to Nancy]
Bob!
Nancy!
Bobby pushed me off my chair and hurt my feet on my chair.
Bobby come on.
cut it out.
he started it!
no, no.
[Clifford begins to cry]
what was he doing?
he was bothering me.
no, no, he was bothering me.
alright, alright, alright.
come here, come here.
were you bothering him?
no.
[sobs]
okay, just stop it.
go eat your cereal.
you sit on this side, you'll be away from him.
you pushed me like dis.
no, no I did not!
look, but...
you pushed me off my chair!
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look, when, when, when I, when I was standing up he went like this.
no I did not!
right, Michael?
no I did not!
oh yes!
xxx oh yes!
I, I was sitting on my chair!
your no, your nose is bleeding, your nose is bleeding.
[Bobby points to Clifford's nose which is not bleeding]
no, xxx.
Clifford just eat on the other side.
yeah just eat the, just eat the scrambled eggs.
I did not do that.
a, and you pushed me off my chair.
okay we talked about it.
that's enough.
wanna start something again?
[Bob stands up]
shut up.
you shut up.
you shut up!
you shut up.
you better clean that!
you clean that!
you spilled it.
Clifford, just eat and stop.
you clean your dick.
you clean your head.
xxx shut up.
shut up.
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xxx shut up!
shut up!
xxx I got cough drops.
who?
you know you wanna stop.
Bobby.
Bob.
xxx wanna do something about it?
show me, Clifford.
[Sharleen comes over]
here man.
[Harold stands behind Clifford]
what's the matter Clifford?
he pushed me off my chair xxx.
so Sharleen, I mean Bob xxx.
[t3 comes over and takes Bob's arm]
are you gonna eat now?
right?
no.
because I want you to stop.
both of you.
if he bothers you I, call me.
okay?
huh?
if not then you'll hafta go and sit in the office for a while.
I beat you up!
beat you up.
I beat you up.
xxx give you one more xxx.
you better xxx you wanna start something too?
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at least I have xxx.
dey want start fighting with me!
just me.
Sharleen no, this is none of your business.
so get away from here.
oh two against one, that's fair.
yeah, man.
no, three against two?
then four against three.
because xxx gonna be on our gang.
'cause I'll go against you Clifford.
uhuh.
and I'm gonna get you Harold.
no I'm on your side.
[Michael stands by the table just watching]
on Clifford's side, right?
you on Clifford side?
I ain't on your side.
ah, haha.
well, Harold could you beat Sharleen up?
yeah!
but this, only if...
you you take Sharleen.
[Bob cuts in]
I take Clifford.
uhuh.
oh yeah, here's Martha.
you xxx hey, Tony, you, you and Martha.
Harold and Tommy, go sit down at the table.
xxx but we're gonna fight all these guys.
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no Harold, this is none of your business.
you have work to do now.
are you eating?
I wanna eat.
okay go to another table.
I wanna eat.
and you know something Michael?
give me that.
I'm not fighting.
I'm not fighting, too.
just kick me.
he just kicked me xxx.
that's dangerous, what you have in your hand.
[Harold has something sharp in his hands]
you could stick someone.
could you pass that milk?
Roy, don't be Sharleen's friend.
pass that milk please.
I'm everybody's friend.
thank you xxx.
den I'm telling Chicon.
so?
Chicon's my friend.
Chicon said that when you wasn't here, Clifford was here, now he said that he, he, he's just gonna be my friend every day and Roy's.
we are.
oh.
because Chicon said if I say Roy don't do this and that, Roy hasta listen to me or else he won't be my friend.
Nancy!
and me too.
Nancy!
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