03x12 - Chained

[bunniefuu]

[bright upbeat music]

♪ Set in my ways ♪

♪ Losing track of the days ♪

♪ Never getting caught up ♪

♪ Love was never brought up ♪

♪ It's not the thing to do ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, it was you ♪

♪ Then came you ♪

♪ You made me leap without taking a look ♪

♪ I never thought forever was the best I could do ♪

♪ Then came you ♪

♪ It was you and me and you ♪

♪ Then came you ♪

♪ It was you and me ♪

♪ And Then came you ♪

[bright music]


- And we'd like a white cake

with chocolate icing and happy birthday in blue letters.

No, I don't think we're gonna need the candy cowboys.

He's gonna be years old.

[audience laughing]

[chuckles] Thank you.

I'll pick it up on Friday. Bye.


- Hi, darling.


- Hi. Did you get Papa's present?


- Yeah, I got him a jogging suit.

[audience laughing]


- He doesn't jog.


- That's because he's never had

a jogging suit before, sweetheart.


- Well, he is gonna love my present.

I enrolled him in the cheese of the Month Club.

Mm!

This is Gorgonzola followed by a wheel of sharp Cheddar.


- Oof.


- And then, oh, we're gonna have to stay away

from him in June.

That's Limburger.

[George chuckles]


- Hi, guys.

Ma'am, can I have stamps please?


- Why?


- For protection.


- From what?


- I know, they said I have to send up copies

or something that will happen.


- Can I see the letter?


- Sure.


- Oh, it's a chain letter.


- I have to mail the copies out on time.


- You don't have to mail the copies out on time.

I'll throw it in the trash.


- You can't.

They have to go out in four days

or something terrible will happen.


- Web, nothing terrible's gonna happen.

That's superstition.


- But it says right here,

"If you break the chain letter

bad luck will be befall you

and your love ones within four days.

I have to look up befall.


- Well, I'm very proud of you for using the dictionary

but I agree with George.

Tear it up and throw it away.


- Okay, if you guys say so.

[paper tearing]


- Well, this is gonna be great.

Web, I hope you didn't forget,

Friday's Papa's birthday.

What are you gonna get him?


- I'm gonna get him a scuba mask.

[audience laughing]


- He doesn't scuba dive.


- Of course not.

He never had a scuba mask before.

[audience laughing]

[bright transition music]

[Webster] George?


- I'm in here, champ.


- Remember the chain letter that said

I was gonna have bad luck?


- Yeah.


- Well, it's already starting.


- Oh, man.

You got a D in math.

Come on, you always get As and Bs in math.


- Letter said something bad would happen.


- Well, did you study?


- Well, kind of.


- What does that mean, "Kind of"?


- It means, no.

[audience laughing]


- Well, we can see,

I mean you can't blame that on the chain letter.

If you didn't study, you don't get good grades.

It's as simple as that.


- Well, the letter said something bad would happen

to me and my loved ones.

That means you could be in trouble too, George.

[audience chuckles]


- And if you forget about the chain letter

nothing bad's gonna happen to anybody.


- Okay, I'm going to go down to Rob's play.


- Oh

there's an old Greek saying little boy that gets D

in math studies at home and doesn't play at Robbie's house.

[audience laughs]


- I mean, you have to study.

No playing.

Boy, bad luck just keeps on coming.


- You ready?

Tada!


- Boy, he's gonna be so surprised.


- Hmm, you think that's something

wait 'til he gets a load of the Gorgonzola.

[audience laughs]


- That's right. A party for four at :.

Thank you.

I love calling down a Papa's favorite Greek restaurant.

You know why?

Because they never asked to spell Papadapolis.

[audience chuckles]


- Is the birthday cake Greek too?


- No, it's regular old American cake.

But if Papa complains,

we'll just stick a candle in his baklava.

[George laughs] [doorbell rings]


- Oh.

Oh, Katherine, that man has never been on time in his life.

He's always early.

[audience laughs]


- Webster, would you let him in

and take him upstairs to your room

and we'll get all this stuff in the car?


- Check

[doorbell rings]


- I think there's still a carton out here.

Would you get it?

It's in the garage.


- In the car or in the garage?


- Just look for it.


- It's in the garage, in the car?

I'll look in both places.


- Papa!


- Come let me look at you.

[both laugh]

How's my favorite boy?


- Fine. Happy birthday.


- Don't remind me.

Katherine! Georgie! No hugs, no kisses.

What's going on here?

Where are they?


- I think they're out in the kitchen.


- Oh good.

Then we go and we hug them.


- Wait.

Oh, we can't.


- Why not?


- Because you have to see my new video game.

It's upstairs.


- A video game is more important than your parents.


- This one is, it's called Squish.

And see all these little electronic spiders

come out and you have stomp

on them before they eat up all your flies.


- Nobody plays with a bat and ball anymore.

[audience laughs]


- Please!


- Alright, first we squish, then we hug.


- Okay. You go upstairs and the game is in my bed.

And I'm gonna tell Mama and George you're here.


- Hurry up.


- The coast is clear.


- That's great, champ.


- Honey stall him for just another couple minutes

'til we get this stuff in the car. George
-


- I'll try.

But he's in one of those real huggy moods.

[audience laughs]


- Webster, there's no spiders on your bed.


- Oh, game must be closet.

I'll come and get a Papa.


- That's alright. We wait till after dinner.

[ominous music]


- Mom, George Papa fell!


- Oh my God. I'll call an ambulance.


- Papa, are you okay?

[Papa groans]


- You okay? Pop you'll be alright.

[sad music]


- Hi there, I'm Dr. Chenin.

Which one of you is George Papadapolis?


- I'm George Papadapolis?.


- I was him first.

[audience laughs]


- And this is
-


- His wife, not his wife and our son.

How do you do?


- Is Papa gonna be okay?


- Well, he was lucky that heavy coat cushioned his fall.

He's got a few bruises but no broken bone.


- Good, then I can go home.


- No, not just yet.

I want to keep you overnight for observation.

Can't be too careful at your age.


- Oh. And you are going to be young forever?

[audience chuckles]


- Papa


- If you have any questions, give me a call.

Nice to have met you.


- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.


- So what really happened?


- I fell.


- Was there something on the stairs?


- I didn't leave any toys out, honest.


- So, Papa, let me ask you something.

Now, don't get excited.

I want you nice and calm. Nice and calm.


- I'm calm.


- Is it possible you forgot

to take your blood pressure pills

and you fell down the stairs? Huh?


- Oh, now you think I'm getting senile.

I don't remember to take my own pills.


- Papa, please.

We're just trying to figure

out what happened so it doesn't happen again.


- You know why it happened?

Bad luck. That's all.

Bad luck!

[sad music]


- Bad luck.

[mellow pensive music]

[audience chuckles]


- Webster, What on earth are you doing up?

It's two o'clock in the morning.


- Putting together the chain letter.


- Why?


- I have to. Pop fell down the stairs

because I didn't send it in in time.


- Oh, that's a lot of rubbish.

He fell down the stairs and it had nothing

to do with that letter.


- I don't believe you.

You said nothing bad would happen and it did.


- [Katherine] Oh honey.


- So I'm gonna send him the letter.


- Web, listen, I want you to go up to your room

and go to bed and I'll put the rest of those pieces together

and tomorrow I'll take it down to the station.

I'll make up copies and I'll mail 'em out


- George.


- And then all the bad luck will stop.


- Even though I missed a deadline?


- Well, it's worth a try. Come on.


- Okay. Goodnight guys.


- Goodnight sweetheart.


- Thanks.


- You don't think sending out those chain letters

is the solution, do you?


- Well, we have to do something

before he starts blaming himself for world hunger.


- Well, that puts other kids in the same boat.

Oh, there has to be another way.


- Darling, we don't have to send these letters out.


- Very tricky.


- You think how much money we're gonna save on postage.

[audience chuckles]

[George sighs]


- You know, superstition is a silly thing.

I remember when I was a girl, I had this wart

on the back of my wrist.

Could you get some spoons, honey?

And my Aunt Charlotte said that she had the guaranteed cure.

Oh, I had to take a raw egg out in the front lawn at sunrise

and spin six times and say

Wart to Venus. Wart to Venus.

Wart to Venus. Oh, I'm dizzy.

And then I had to smash the eggs

and put it all over my hands.


- Did it work?


- Of course it didn't work.

My mother took me to the doctor and he removed it.

I'm not superstitious.


- Really?


- Absolutely not.


- Why do you have that lucky penny in your wallet?


- It's not lucky.

It's just a penny.

Oh, I don't carry it for luck.


- Good.


- What do you mean good?


- I took it outta your wallet

and I bought some bubble gum.


- Are you crazy?!

You took my lucky penny?!

George, I've had that penny since I had my first job.

Since I first met you.

If I don't have that penny
-

Okay, you've made your point.

So, I mean, some of us are a little superstitious

and we just don't wanna admit it.


- Right. And if you believe

that the penny was lucky then the penny's lucky.


- Yeah. It is a matter of belief.

I believe if Webster should have a dose

of Aunt Charlotte's raw egg remedy.

George, you didn't really take my lucky penny, did you?

[audience laughs]

[mischievous music]

[peppy theme music]


- Boy, I'm glad that's over with.


- Well, lifting a curse is ugly business

for you and the egg.

Ooh


- No. That was the fun part.

I'm just glad nothing bad will ever happen again.


- As long as you don't drop that goopy mess in here.


- You better go get your hands cleaned up.

'Cuz we gotta go see Papa.


- I'm gonna tell Papa that my bad luck made him fall

but now it'll never happen again.


- Good. I think Aunt Charlotte's remedy's working

Well, as soon as Webster's ready, I got my purse,

and we can
-

George, isn't this Papa's pill case?

I found it over there by the steps.


- Oh yeah, he must have dropped it when he fell.


- Oh.

[shakes pill case]

It's numbered for every day of the week

but there are three pills in here:

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.


- He didn't take
-

he didn't take his pills.

He told fib, Katherine.

You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna call him up

and I'm gonna tell him to tell Webster the truth.


- Good idea.

[upbeat music]


- Guys, it's okay if I took Pop alone?

Maybe you guys can wait out here in the fresh air.


- Fresh air? That's a hospital smell.

We could go to the, you know where


- Maybe. No, no.

We're not gonna go to the babies darling.

Uh
-uh, no way.


- Oh, come on George.

I just wanna go and look in the window.

You know, like browse.


- Darling, every time you go shopping

you bring home something, every time.

[audience laughs]

We'll be back in a little while.


- Papa.

Papa.


- Webster

How is my favorite boy. Huh?


- Better.


- Me too.

Where's Katherine And Georgie?


- They want to take a look at the babies.


- Again with the babies, huh?

Well, we can't blame them for that.


- Papa, I know why you fell down the stairs.


- You do?


- It's all my fault.


- Why do you say that?


- Because I got this chain letter and it said something bad

would happen to someone I love.


- Your letter didn't make me fall downstairs.


- Yes it did.

You said yourself, it was bad luck

And it had to be the letter,

but it's okay now. I'm lucky again.


- Oh, Webster, Webster, Webster.

Listen, you know that Papa has a little bit

of high blood pressure, huh?


- Yes.


- And you know that he takes

a pill every day to help him control it.

Well, Papa forgot to take his pill

for three days and that's why he got dizzy

and that's why he fell downstairs.


- But you told George you took them.


- I know.

I told a fib.


- How come?


- Well, you know that yesterday

Papa became years old, huh?

And he feels like

and he acts like

and he looks like fifty
-

eight

but he is .


- What's wrong with ?


- Nothing!

It's just that some people think you get a little soft

in the head when you get a little older.

So I was just ashamed to tell Georgie

I forgot to take my pills.

I don't want him to think his Papa's getting senile.

And that's why I fell down the stairs.

It was my own fault.

Not yours. Not the letter.

Oh, Webster, I'm sorry that you had to worry about me.


- Good morning, Mr. Papadapolis. I've got good news for you.


- Ah, I'm fit is a fiddle and you're sending me home.


- He's a mind reader.

[Katherine chuckles]


- Well, you can go home, but you can't check out till noon.


- Not more tests!


- No, no, no.

The nurses wanted you to stay a little longer.


- You see Dr. Smarty pants?

The young ones still like a little snow on the roof.


- Ma'am, George, I still have a little last minute

shopping to do if you catch my drift.


- Oh right.

Okay, well, we'll be back to get you at noon.


- If the nurses don't get me first.

[audience laughs]

[optimistic music]


- ♪ Happy birthday to you. ♪
- ♪ Happy birthday to me. ♪


- ♪ Happy birthday to you. ♪
- ♪ Happy birthday to me. ♪

♪ Happy birthday to Papa. ♪


- ♪ Happy birthday to you. ♪
- ♪ Happy birthday to me. ♪

[all cheering]


- Make a wish


- Blow the candle.


- Oh, I didn't get my wish.

That pretty little nurse didn't jump out of the cake.


- Well, the cake won't scream when you cut it.

[Papa laughs]


- Hold the cake, presents first.


- Good.


- Oh, Katherine, he's just like a little kid.


- [Papa laughs] I know.


- Okay, here's my present, mine first.


- Georgie, please. It's my birthday. I get to pick, huh?

Webster, what have you got for Papa? Hmm?


- Something that I think is very special

and I know you don't have it.


- Oh look.

A new pill box for my blood pressure medicine.


- Yes. See, there's a timer and it goes

off every day to remind you to take your pills.

I mean, not that you would forget or anything

but just to be sure.


- Aww
- Okay, open mine.


- What a wonderful son you have.


- You like it?


- I like it. I love it!


- Good because I was gonna get you a scuba mask.


- Webster, I'm years old.

I need a scuba mask like I need a jogging suit.

[Papa chuckles]

[audience laughs]


- Papa, How do you feel about Gorgonzola?


- Oh, Gorgonzola's good.

But Feta's is better.


- August.

[audience laughs]


- Well, let's go. Let's cut the cake.

[indistinct chatter]

[audience applauds]

[optimistic music]


- Hey guys.


- Hiya champ. How's it going?


- I got a problem.


- What's wrong?


- You said there's no way a chain leader

could bring bad luck, right?


- [George and Katherine] Right.


- And Aunt Charlotte's a treatment

couldn't bring good luck.


- Well, I never thought about it, but no.


- Aha. How do you explain this?

I got an A on my social studies test.


- Oh.

Oh, that's fantastic.

Darling, maybe that egg thing
-

maybe there really is something about that egg thing.


- Oh, well maybe you're right.

Oh, Aunt Charlotte can make good luck.

Thank you Aunt Charlotte for helping Webster.


- Wait a minute, guys.

I studied two whole days for this test.

I even studied things that a teacher didn't even ask.

Go ahead, ask me anything.


- Okay. Let's see how much you really know.

Now, where did they sign the Declaration of Independence?

[George laughs]


- Gosh, I don't think I remember that one.


- I do.

The Declaration of Independence will signed
-

at the bottom.

[Webster and George laugh]

What?

[audience applauds]

[instrumental of the opening theme song]