11x04 - Welcome Home: Part 1

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♪ Sunday, Monday, happy days ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday, happy days ♪

♪ The weekend comes, my cycle hums ♪

♪ Ready to race to you ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Happy and free ♪
- ♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Share them with me ♪
- ♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ Good-bye, gray sky, hello, blue ♪

♪ There's nothing can hold me when I hold you ♪

♪ It feels so right it can't be wrong ♪

♪ Rocking and rolling all week long ♪

[organ solo plays over rhythmic hand claps]

♪ Sunday, Monday, happy days ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday, happy days ♪

♪ Saturday, what a day ♪

♪ Groovin' all week with you ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Share them with me ♪
- ♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Happy and free ♪
- ♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ These happy days are yours and mine ♪

♪ These happy days are yours ♪

♪ And mine, Happy Days! ♪

Two dollars for the boy who mows the lawn.

Two dollars?

What happened to the kid who used to do it for a quarter?

He's a doctor.

Oh,

Dad, Dad, as long as you have old Betsy
out, can I have $10 to buy a blouse?

No.

All right, then, can I have $10 to buy books?

I want a receipt.

I'll get it.

Look.

How big he's grown.

Oh, look how big she's grown.

Wait a second, wait a second.

If you two were here, where is that big redhead?

Ralph, how are you, how are you, how are you?

Rich.

Joanie.

Joanie?

Wow.

Wow.

Give me a break, I just got out of the army.

I thought you weren't getting discharged
for another three months.

Yeah, well, I threatened to re-up,
so they let me out early.

Well, in any case, it's good to see you.

Yeah, and it's nice to see that some things
are exactly the way you remember them.

How are you?

Ralph, if you're out of the army, where's Richie?

Yeah.

Oh, well, you know how the army tends to
make little mistakes?

Yeah, like Korea.

Well, they've done it again.

I'm afraid Richie had to stay
back and... Pay the cab driver!

Richie!

Joanie?

It's me.

You better stay away from Ralph.

I know.

Welcome home, son.

Thanks, Dad.

Can't believe it!

Oh, God!

Family!

Family!

Together!

Why haven't you gone on with it?

Hold it!

Hold it!

Hold it!

Hold it!

Now, let's all sit down and talk one at a time.

Me first.

You can come to Grandma's.

Sit on Grandma's lap.

Red!

Red!

Five!

Red!

Red!

Get over here.

Get over here.

Get over here.

My boys are back, huh?

Honey, where do you like your underwear?

Usually around my waist.

Three years with Ralph.

I can't help myself.

Hey, listen, Fonzie's closing down
Arnold's so all the guys can come over,

we can have a little reunion, and I know it's our first
night back and everything, but do you mind if I wait?

Oh, honey, of course not.

I know how you've looked forward to this.

Oh, thanks.

You know something?

Your mother is the greatest.

Oh.

Get out, Fonzie!

Hey, Rich.

You remember Bill Selkirk, my old lodge brother?

The Peeping Tom?

No, no.

That's Bill Sussman.

Well, anyway, Bill is an editor now for the Milwaukee
Journal, and he's always known how you wanted to write there.

What do you say I try and get you an interview, huh?

Oh, honey, that's great.

Thanks, Dad.

Yeah, great.

Well, uh, listen.

I'll, I'll think about, uh, taking you on a date.

Oh, well, okay.

But, uh, don't take too long, huh?

Oh, and hurry up.

Mom's got dinner ready.

Okay.

All right, partner.

Back to the stable, huh?

Get out, Ponce!

Yeah.

Honey, I'll go help your mom with dinner.

Isn't this great?

Our first day back, and you've practically
got a job already.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Great.

Great.

Writing for the journal.

Just what I always wanted.

Or used to want.

Wait a second, I got a question here.

Am I overdressed?

Always.

Is this all the guys you got for this party, huh?

Oh, come on, Roger.

Let's go round up the g*ng.

All right.

We're going to make this the biggest party since
Roger got drunk and proposed to a mannequin.

I didn't propose.

We just danced.

Well, what are we waiting for?

Huh?

We got a lot of catching up to do.

Sure do.

Let's sit down in our old spots.

All right.

This is the spot.

All right.

Remember.

I really missed him.

Oh, right.

Sorry.

Fine.

I'm telling you something right now.

This is great.

Oh, yeah.

This is G-R-E-A-T.

Yeah.

Great.

Just great.

Really great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You sure have been through a lot together, huh?

Oh, do we go back?

History.

We grew up together.

History.

Excuse me.

Yeah.

Oh, hey, Rich, Rich, you remember Greg Blackman?

Oh, sure, what a guy.

He's dead.

I found my thrill.

I'll be very ill.

On Blueberry Hill, where I found you,
the wind in the willows played,

love's sweet melody.

But all of the vows we made.

Were never to be.

Were never to be.

We're apart.

You're a part of me still.

For you were my thrill.

On Blueberry Hill.

All right, guys, here you go.

Look at this.

That's how I get this party rolling, huh?

I got the whole g*ng here.

Except for Greg Blackman.

You heard, right?

Oh, I'm sorry.

There you go.

Thanks.

Well, Malph, now you're in a civvies, huh?

What are you going to do?

You still going to open that chattering teeth factory?

I've been talking it over with Dad.

He loves me.

He says anything I want to do with my life is great.

There's a lot of things I want to do with my life.

As long as I become an optometrist and go
into business with him.

An optometrist?

Well, when you think about it,
it's what I've always wanted.

I mean, you got easy hours and big bucks.

You get your hands on one fuzzy eye chart
and you're a millionaire.

But, Malph, you always told your father
you wanted to be a comedian.

Ah, that was just to scare him.

Kids owe that to their folks.

But now, now I'm a grown-up.

Tomorrow, Dad's buying me one of those new
Mustangs, and I'm driving up to Madison to start up Topshop.

But you just got home.

I know, but it's time for me to move on.

Your dad doesn't give me the car.

Well, there's no reason to ask Richie where he's going.

He's staying right here with me.

Congratulations.

Lori Beth told me about that interview
you got with the Milwaukee Journal, huh?

What interview?

Oh, well, it's nothing concrete.

Well, anyway, you're staying right here, aren't you?

That's great, eh?

You're going to Ivor College?

I say, I propose a toast to the four of us.

His time goes on.

Goodbye.

May we always be friends, whatever we may be.

All right.

Are you crazy?

Yeah, see, now this is more like just you
and me, like old times, huh, Richie?

Yeah.

You know, Richie, I heard a guy say once that if
you've got one true friend in your life, you're very lucky.

I'm very lucky, and I'm very glad you're home.

Are you?

Fonz, that's what I wanted to talk to you about.

I want to go to California.

Hey, that's a great idea.

Take a vacation.

Relax.

Everybody should do that.

Knock your socks off.

No, I mean to live.

Forever.

Why would anybody want to do that?

Fonz, there's something that I want to do
even more than work on a newspaper.

You can't do that here in Milwaukee.

Look, I haven't even told Lori Beth about
this, but one of my jobs in the Army was

to be the projectionist at the base theater.

You want to be a projectionist?

Fonz, we show movies every week.

You understand?

Yeah.

Well, one week I saw the audience totally
entranced by On the Waterfront.

That's when I knew what I wanted to do.

You want to be a longshoreman?

Okay, look, it's okay.

It's okay.

I'll talk to the union.

I'll get you in.

I'll get you a hook, a wool cap.

Sure.

I want to write movies.

And you can't do that here in Milwaukee?

No.

All right, just tell me.

Tell me honestly, what do you think?

If you want to move family away from
everybody that loves you, it's no sweat off my back.

You're shot.

Thanks for your support.

Sure.

Hey, Lenny.

I just bet my friend you got a birthmark.

Let's find out where.

That's enough, pal.

You want me to call the manager?

You're shot.

Yeah, in a sec.

Hey, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it.

This woman don't want to spend time with you.

I understand why.

You smell.

Put out, grease ball.

Hey, onion face, you want me to go teach
you a lesson or what?

Try it!

Richie, isn't that my job?

Army training.

Wow, your friend's really tough.

What are you guys, cops or something?

No, I'm gonna teach you he's a writer.

Hey, Joanie.

Got some homework, huh?

Want me to give you a hand?

That's sweet, big brother, but I'm taking
some pretty complicated courses.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Let me have a look at that.

Shh.

You know, you get a lot more out of this
if you do it yourself.

Can't do it, can you, Rich?

You know, I've waited a lot of years for this moment.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Oh, yeah?

I'd like to see you put a r*fle back together blindfolded.

Oh, good, Rich, you're here.

Marion!

Listen, where's Lori Beth?

She should hear this, too.

Oh, well, she took little Richie down to the mall.

We promised to Mighty Mouse Slippers.

He saw my pair and he just went crazy.

Sit, sit, son, sit, sit.

Listen, you remember me telling you about
Bill Selkirk, the editor for the Milwaukee Journal?

Yeah.

Well, I had lunch with him, and I gave him
some of the articles you wrote while you

were at college and for the Stars and Stripes.

Dad, I really wish you wouldn't have done that.

No, no, he loved the stuff, and I always
thought he was a jerk.

Well, I was just hoping for an interview,
but something even better happened.

Monday morning, you start work as a staff reporter.

Oh, Richard, I am so proud of you.

Way to go, big brother.

Uh, thank you, but look, I'm not sure
that's exactly what I want to do.

Richard, this is what you always wanted to do.

Well, look, I've been thinking about it,
and, uh, I don't know, I might prefer

moving to California and becoming a screenwriter.

A tree climber?

You want to be a tree climber?

No, a screenwriter.

You know, in the movies.

What do you think, huh?

The movies?

Well, Richard, that isn't exactly the kind
of thing I expected from you.

No, we thought you would say something sensible,
something, you know, responsible, something that...

Something predictable, right?

Something safe?

Good old Richie.

Good old right-down-the-middle Richie.

Don't eat before you swim, Richie.

You see?

You see, this is exactly...

Exactly why I didn't tell you about it.

So you're going to throw away a wonderful
opportunity for some half-baked pipe dream?

Why are you doing this?

He is a grown man.

Then why doesn't he start thinking like one?

I don't have to listen to this.

When you're in this house, you listen to your parents.

I might be in my parents' house, but I don't
have these feet nailed to any floorboards.

And if I want to take my family to California, I'm
going to do it, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Well, you handled that one real neat.

Richard?

Yeah?

Can we come in?

Yeah.

Look, uh, we'd like to apologize for
talking to you like a kid.

Look, son, I'm no expert, but aren't there
thousands of young people going out to

Hollywood every year thinking that they
can break into the movies?

Yeah, there are, but I'm a little bit different,
Dad, because I've been working on my ideas.

I want you to see something.

Look at this.

I wrote these scripts, and I've got connections, too.

A guy I was stationed with, his brother
lives in California, and he said he'd

listen to any idea I have, and he writes
for Leave It to Beaver.

Look, until you sell your first script,
how do you expect to support your family?

We managed to save some money.

Oh, how much?

About $600.

Richard, $600.

You're going to have to pay that much to
the hospital when Lori Beth delivers.

That much?

In the Army, all that stuff was free.

Well, everything costs a fortune these days.

Those little Mighty Mouse slippers that
Richie went to buy, they cost $8.

No.

Look, son, I know exactly how to do it.

I know exactly how you feel.

When I was in the Army, I had a dream, too.

You know how much I loved baseball.

When I got discharged, I wanted to go to umpire college.

Then I came back down to Earth and
realized that I had to do what was best

for Mother and for you, and I've never regretted it.

$8 for Mighty Mouse slippers.

So this guy at the journal, he really liked my stuff, huh?

He flipped.

It's a respected paper.

It's right up there with the New York Times.

Start Monday?


and two weeks paid vacation.

And our whole family would be together.

I'll do it.

Oh, I'm so happy.

Oh, that's my son talking.

Now, I'll tell you what.

Let's all get ready, and as soon as Lori
Beth gets here, we'll go out and celebrate.

It's my treat.

Oh, no, Howard.

I've already started dinner.

Better yet.

How lucky can a guy get, huh?

Oh, Rich.

Oh, what are you doing?

I just had to do this once more for old time's sake.

Boy, this used to be a lot easier.

I got to tell you something.

My dad just got me a job down at the
journal, and I took it.

What are you talking about?

What about Hollywood?

The thing you've been boring me to death
about for the past year.

Oh, come on, Ralph.

What do you think?

I've got to go out there and get into the
movies just like that?

No, I've got to be much more realistic and
responsible than that.

I've got a family to think about.

And I've been writing for newspapers since
I was 14 years old.

I'm a damn good reporter.

This is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Hey, hey, I understand.

When it comes down to it, we're both doing the same thing.

Exactly.

Exactly what our dads want us to.

Only I got a new car out of it.

Well, I'm going to head up to Madison.

Send my love to everyone, Rich.

I guess I'll be seeing you a lot sooner than I thought.

Hey, Ralph.

Three years in the Army.

I never could have made it without you.

You're the greatest, Rich.

Hey, Rich.

You know, I just got back from Africa.

I was playing cards with the Navy.

Tornadoes.

Zulus.

No, I won.

I still got it.

Goodbye, gray sky, hello, blue.

There's nothing can hold me when I hold you.

It feels so right, I can't be wrong.

Rockin' and rollin', oh, we go.

These days are ours, share them with me.

These days are ours, happy and free.

These happy days are yours and mine.

These happy days are yours and mine.

Happy days.