06x26 - Family Contest

[bunniefuu]

(Theme music)

- [Narrator] Robert Young.

(upbeat orchestral music)

And Jane Wyatt.

With Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin

in Father Knows Best.

- Come on, daddy, hurry up.

We gotta take the picture.

- Look, I don't mindhaving my picture taken

but not in this silly hat.

There's a limit to what a man has to put up with.

- Oh this won't hurt you, Father.

And you wanna make a trip to Hawaii, don't you, for free?

- Sure, it'd be great!

But just sending our picture into a contest won't do it.

- It has to, Daddy>

All my life I've alwayswanted to go to Hawaii.

We just have to win this, come on.

Hurry up, You go out by the barbecue and sit by Mommy.

- Why does it have tobe a barbecuing picture?

You have me looking like a clown.

- I don't know where you'vebeen but we're after something.

- But why?

- I'll tell you why.

Ideal family photo contest.

And very ideal familiesare always pictured

around the barbecue.

- You're right here.

Okay, now, everyone, tryto look pleasant, huh?

(Jim grunts)

- Bud, come on!

- Oh, you haven't taken it yet.

- Come on, get in here now.

This is for you.

- Come on, get in so I can see you.

Bud, let father hold the fork.

- Well, what am I gonna hold?

- You can have these.

- Oh!

Oh yeah.

Here, you can have it, you can have it all.

- All right, now try and act

as though we've just won the contest.

- Fat chance.

- Don't you wanna win?

- Oh sure, it'd be great!

I'd love to go to Hawaii.

Live it up for free.

Wow, all those hula girls!

But we never win anything.

- We're gonna win this.

I know we are.

We've got to.

- Oh now, don't get your hopes up too high, Angel.

- [Bud] I don't think we have a chance.

If it weren't for you--

- Father, don't look so pained.

The look ought to be an ideal.

Okay, now that's fine.

Just hold that now.

And smile!

Wait, what's the matter with me?

I'm not in the picture.

(laughing)

- Oh, the whole idea--

- Oh, I'll take it, you wear the cap.

- No, no you don't.

Stay right there, and keep the hat on.

We all have to be in the picture.

I'll run next door and ask Mrs. Davies--

Maybe she can help us out.

(whistle)

- Pastry man!

Hello, Miss. Betty.

- Hello, Mr. Henslee you're just in time

to help us out.

- Oh, you ran out of bread?

- Hello, Mr. Henslee.

- No, we want you to take our picture.

Come on, here's a camera.

- Now, I'll be happy to, Miss. Betty.

But you'll have to show me

how to work this thing.

- Oh, you just look in the viewer here

to get all in the picture,

- Yeah.

- and adjust here, andpress this little button

and that's it.

- Well now, I ought to be able to do that.

(laughs)

Oh, what's the occasion?

You folks having a party or something?

- Oh no.- No.

- The children just wantto enter our picture

in some little contest.

- It's not a little contest, Mother.

We're gonna win a free trip to Hawaii!

(laughing)

- Hawaii?

Say now, that is something.

I'd better do a good job here.

- Father, put your hat on.

Don't be so embarrassed.

Okay, Mr. Henslee, we're ready.

- I can see you just as plain.

If the picture turns out this good I'd like a copy

to take home to Amy.

Amy's my wife, you know.

Wife and chief baker.

Oh, incidentally she baked up a new item

you folks might like,prune-filled bear claws.

- Oh, we're ready, Mr. Henslee.

- Oh, sure, sure.

Prunes and nuts, mighty tasty.

- Fine, Mr. Henslee, we'll take a dozen.

- Yeah.

- Good, you'll like them.

Oh, yeah, well.

Hold it now.

Watch the birdie as they say.

- Yeah, that's right.

- [Mr. Henslee] All right, hold it.

(clicks)

- Ah!

(laughing)

- Well!

- Good!

- I hope I did all right.

- Yeah, thank you very much.

- Well I'm glad to do it.

I hope you win.

Uh-oh, oh!

(laughs)

It's hot.

That's a mighty fancy camera you have there.

Oh, have a cookie will you, Kathy.

- Oh thank you.

- I was wondering, Miss. Betty.

Today is ouranniversary, Amy and me.

And I was wondering how much you'd charge

to make an anniversary picture of us.

- Oh, I'd love to do it.

But there won't be any charge.

- Oh, no, no, I insist on it.

- Oh the cost is practically nothing.

Because Betty develops these pictures herself

in a little dark room she's fixed up in the basement.

So you just tell her what time you'd like to have her

come over tonight.

Oh and excuse me, I'll get my purse.

- Well, anytime is convenient for her, seven?

Any time--

- It would be fine.

- Oh I sure appreciate this and so will Amy.

- Oh!

(laughs)

Say, where do you live?

- Oh yeah.

(laughing)

That's fairly important isn't it?

We live over the bakery.

Have to keep an eye onthe business, you know?

Like they say, the eggs won't hatch

if the hen doesn'tstick close to the nest.

(laughing)

Ah, yes, huh.

A dozen, you said?

- Yes.

- Come on, let's show it to Daddy, hurry up.

Look, Father, the enlargement came out pretty well.

- We better start packing our ukeleles.

- Oh, Kathy.

Stop building yourself up to a big disappointment.

The paper here says

there are over contest entries already.

- Well, that's their tough luck.

Here look.

- Hey, how you like that, Dad?

It's not bad, huh?

- [Jim] Say, this is pretty good.

All except that fool cap.

- Well I like it.

- Oh!

- Hey, wouldn't that be something if we really did

win that free trip?

- It certainly would.

I'm beginning to wishit weren't just a dream.

- A dream?

What's the matter with you people?

You act as thoughwe're not going to win.

So why bother sending our picture?

- I'm with you Kath.

We are gonna win.

And father, you're going to drive me to the post office

so I can mail this in.

- Right now?

- Certainly, tomorrow night's the deadline.

And besides, you have to drive me over

to the Henslees so I can take their anniversary picture.

- Okay, if I have to.

- Now remember, everybody,keep thinking that we are going

to Hawaii.

Aren't we, Bud?

- I'm as good asthere right now.

(singing in mock Hawaiian)

- Oh, that's fine.

That's fine.

- Oh, that's perfect.

Hold it.

- Oh!

Perfect!

(camera clicks)

(exhales)

- Oh, I bet I ruined it blinking.

- Oh, no, you didn't.

It'll be just fine.

- Oh, dear.

(laughs)

I'll try to have a proofready for you next time,

Mr. Henslee stops by the house.

- Well, it's awfully nice of you folks

to go to all this trouble.

- Why, it's no bother.

Besides, it's good practice for Betty.

- I know you folks are in a hurry, but before you go

we want you to have a piece of our anniversary cake

and meet the children.

(laughs)

- Yes.

- Children?

You never said anythingabout children.

- Oh.

- Why, Henry, you didn'tmention the children?

- Oh, Amy.

Nobody wants a bakery man to stand around and brag

about his kids.

(laughs)

- Oh, but we are quite proud of them.

- Yes, especially tonight.

They're all slicked up for our anniversary.

(laughs)

Hey kids!

Susie May, Katie, all of you.

- I'm so sorry I'm so rude--

- No, no, not at all.

- Oh, you better stand back or you'll get caught

in a stampede.

(clamoring)

- Whoa!

(laughs)

- Uh, Miss Betty, Mr. Anderson--

(chatter)

This is Susie May, our oldest, and Katie.

They help in the bakery after school.

Here's Lee, just got himself a new paper route.

- Congratulations!

- And this is our littleactress, Lorraine.

And, uh--

Hey, where's Toby?

- He's sneaking in another piece of cake.

(laughs)

- Oh, Toby!

Toby!

- Hi!

- Oh, isn't he darling?

- [Mr. Henslee] Our oldest boy, Tom, found Toby

up around Seoul, in Korea, and sort of took him

under his wing.

Tom never made it home so Toby came instead.

- Hi, Toby.

You look like you've been having yourself

quite a feast.

(laughs)

- You take picture, please?

Okay?

- Now, Toby--

- Oh, that's all right.

I'd love to take Toby's picture.

- You take Toby's whole family, okay?

- [Children] Yeah.

- Now, Toby--

Now, children, really.

- Oh, sure.

Anything you say, Toby.

Whole family, okay?

The whole family, bettergroup yourselves around

in front of your mother.

- Oh, yes.

(chatter)

You can stand right over there.

- Come on, Toby, come on, kids.

Right over here.

We'll get back in here.

Here now.

- You sit down with Susie.

- You come over here, Susie May.

All right, here we go.

- You sit down here.

- Oh, yeah, yeah.

- Oh, dear.

- What's the matter?

- Move back.

- Oh, oh!

(laughs)

- Let's see.

- Where's Toby?

- Where's Toby?

- Oh, here Toby.

Come on.

- [Jim] Hey!

(laughs)

Oh, there he is.

(laughs)

Put your hat on, Toby.

- [Mr. Henslee] Oh!

- That's it, now--

- Oh, this is one group I don't have to tell to smile.

Okay now.

Hold it.

(camera shutter clicks)

(chatter)

- Oh, that will make a wonderful picture.

- Right.

- You know, with a fine-looking family like this,

you ought to send it in to that Hawaiian trip contest.

- Oh, our familywouldn't have a chance,

with anything that fancy.

(chatter)

Oh, no, no.

- Oh, of course you would.

- Oh, I'm afraid it's a little late to send it in, Father.

- Well, not with youdeveloping the picture.

They can still sneak itin by tomorrow night.

- Yeah.

- Oh, we couldn't get away from the bakery

even if we did win.

- Well, it wouldn't hurt to try.

- Uh-Uh.

Now, Any, you and thegirls bring in the cake,

or what's left of it.

(laughing)

- Isn't that a wonderfullooking family?

- I doubt Kathy would think so.

- Oh, now.

Now, now--

- I wanna go pack.

- Shh!

No, we can't go to Hawaii.

No, sir, we can't do it.

(laughing)

- [Toby] Come on.

- Are you ready?

(drum music)

(singing in mock Hawaiian)

- Hurry!

Up we go!

(laughs)

- I thought you had gone to bed.

- Where did you get all that junk?

- I borrowed it from Patty Davies for our trip.

- Okay, but they haven't posted it yet,

and the thought--

- Mother, that's negative thinking.

Now, the way to win a contest--

- Kathy, what a sight!

Uh, could you just--

Anybody wanna see my latest masterpieces?

Here's a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Henslee

and here's a picture of their whole family.

- Oh, but these are very good!

- Oh, yeah, get a load of that little guy!

Talk about your scene stealers.

- [Jim] Yeah, that's Toby.

Isn't he something?

- [Margaret] I've never seen such a wonderful happy family.

- Yeah, and guess what our darling father was doing

over there this evening.

Urging them to enter this in the contest.

- What?

Dad, you're a traitor.

- Well, the contest is open to everyone.

- Isn't it such a good looking family?

- [Bud] Well, that's the trouble, they're too good looking.

Yeah, nobody will have a chanceagainst old smiley there.

- Well, stop worrying.

They decided notto enter anyway.

- You know, sometimes Dad doesn't show very good sense.

(phone ringing)

- Hello?

No, we're still up.

- If anybody would knockus out on this trip,

I'd just die.

- I think your childrenare right, Mr. Henslee.

You should enter the contest.

(dramatic music)

- Daddy!

- Oh, uh, no bother at all.

In fact, Betty has already developed the print

and you can pick it up tomorrow morning.

- Daddy what are you doing?

- Not at all, glad to do it.

Fine, Mr. Henslee.

Goodbye.

- Don't you want me to go to Hawaii?

- Now, look, Kitten.

Just because they enterthe contest doesn't mean

they're gonna win.

- But they have morepeople in their family.

- Oh, come now.

- Yeah, how can they miss with a picture like this?

I mean if the judges hasgot one look at Toby,

the rest of us might as well pick up our marbles.

- Yeah, Daddy!

Bud's right!

With them in the contest, we won't have a chance.

- But they have just as much right to go

to that contest as we have.

- I know--

- Where's your sense of fair play?

- Maybe Kathy's got something, Mom.

Why should we promote another family

for something we want ourselves?

- Yeah, Daddy!

- Kitten, what happened to your positive thinking?

- Well--

- [Margaret] That's right, angel.

After all, we have a pretty good looking family too.

- Yes, but I--

- I say we're good looking and if we wanna stay that way

we better get to bed.

- But Daddy we couldn't--

- Come on, come on.

- Now stop that.

Everything will work out the way it should.

- I know--

- Yeah, but not for us.

- [Margaret] But Betty did a good job developing them.

- [Jim] Yeah.

(laughs)

- [Bud] Yeah, you know,if we had any brains,

we'd just tear the thing up,

and throw it away and tell them it didn't come out.

Well, C'est la vie.

- [Jim] Fine upstanding attitude, very exemplary, son.

- [Margaret] Come on, Kathy.

(melancholic music)

(exciting music)

(Hawaiian music)

- [Bud] If we had any sense, we'd tear the darn thing up.

Tear the darn thing up.

Tear the darn thing up.

Tear it up!

Tear it up!

Tear it up!

Tear it up!

Tear it up!, tear it up!

Tear it up, tear it up!

Tear it up, tear it up!

(dramatic music)

- [Margaret] Kathy.

- Good morning.

- Why, Mr. Henslee.

You're early this morning.

- Well, to tell the truth, Mrs. Anderson,

I couldn't wait to see the pictures.

- Oh, I don't blame you.

They came out beautifully!

- They did?

- Come along, I think they're still in the living room.

- Actually, I shouldn'tbe bothering with this

contest thing at all.

But you know how children are.

- [Margaret] Well, of course.

- [Mr. Henslee] Especially that little dickens, Toby.

He's practically got uson the boat right now.

- I know, we're having the same problem with Kathy.

- Last night, Toby evengot out a little box

and started packing his things.

(laughs)

- Oh, Kathy was running around here in a grass skirt.

Now, here's the one of you and your wife.

And the other one is--

Well, now, I was positive that it was here

on this table last night.

That's strange.

Well, maybe Betty put it some place for safekeeping.

All I can do now is waituntil she comes home

from school and ask her.

I'm sorry.

- Oh, that's all right.

I wouldn't even bother if it wasn't for the kids.

- [Margaret] I hate to have you make another trip,

but could you come backlate this afternoon?

Of course it'll be too late to mail it in.

But you could take it straight to the Chamber of Commerce.

- Oh sure.

I'll come back.

(laughs)

And thanks an awful lot, Mrs. Anderson.

- Hello Dear.

Did you put the Hensleesfamily picture anywhere?

- [Betty] The Henslee family picture?

No, I didn't put it anywhere.

Last time I remember itwas on the coffee table.

- Oh, dear!

I was so sure that you had.

I told Mr. Henslee to come back later this afternoon

and pick it up.

Now, I don't know what to say.

- [Jim] Oh, we just haveto find it, that's all.

Bud, you sure you didn'tput it some place?

- No, Dad, I didn't touch it.

- What about Kathy?

- Well she couldn't havedone anything with it,

she hasn't come home from school yet.

She probably stopped over at Patty Davies' to borrow

some more Hawaiian clothes.

- Well, the darn thing couldn'tjust walk away by itself.

Wait a minute, Betty, can't you develop another print?

Well, I could, but I don't have a negative.

- Why?

- Well, I clipped that to the picture.

I figured they'd want the negatives too.

- Say, maybe this is fate.

Huh?

Maybe this is the way it was meant to be.

- Meant to be?

Hm?

- Well, you know, we were nice guys,

helped our competitors.

And now their picture has disappeared,

through no fault of our own,

so we get our reward and win.

Huh?

- Oh, cut it out.

Just get up and help us hunt.

Henslee will be showing any minute.

- Bud, are you sure you didn't do anything

with that picture?

- No, Mom, honest, I cross my heart.

- Well, if someone's playing a joke,

it's a very bad joke.

It's gone far enough.

- [Betty] Now Mother, we're not that diabolical.

Actually, it's Father's fault

we got into this in the first place.

- Well, now, don't start that again.

- Maybe we'd better tryto track Kathy down.

Just in case she might know something about the picture.

(exhales)

(doorbell buzzes)

- Uh-Oh!

That's probably Mr. Henslee.

- Oh, dear!

I feel so embarrassed.

- Well, you tell him we'll find that thing

if we have to turn thewhole place upside down.

(dramatic music)

- Well, here I am again.

- [Margaret] Mr. Henslee, I,

I'm ashamed to tell you, we haven't found your picture.

- Oh, you haven't?

- No, but we're still hunting.

Oh, please come in.

We have one moresource to check.

Kathy.

- Uh-huh.

- That is, if we can find her.

(laughs)

Come along.

- Now, look, if this is too much bother--

- [Margaret] Oh, none at all.

This is our fault.

The problem is getting it so that you can get it

down to the Chamber of Commerce before they close.

- [Mr. Henslee] Yes.

(sneezes)

(slow dramatic music)

(suspenseful music)

- You Kathy?

I Toby.

You shake hands, okay?

- Sure.

(cheerful music)

- Hey, Toby got something for you, Kathy.

Papa say okay for me to give.

So, here, take.

- For me?

But, but why?

- Because your family good to Toby's family.

Take.

You help us get big, happy trip.

All my new brothers and sisters, and mama, and papa,

whole bunch.

Boy, we're gonna have fun.

Toby gonna ride real canoe and eat pineapples,

and see hula-hula girls.

Mama say, "Papa, you not look at hula hula girls."

But Toby look.

Then we're gonna go to Pearl Harbor

and see lots of boats.

Kathy, you cry?

Boy!

That's funny.

Kathy don't like cake?

- I just don't know what to say to you, Mr. Henslee.

That thing just disappeared into thin air.

And we can't find Kathy, but she probably doesn't know

anything, anyway.

- Well, if there was only time to take another picture.

- Wel, don't worry aboutit, you've done more

than you should anyway.

And actually, as I said,even if we would've won,

we couldn't haveleft the bakery.

Foolish of us even to consider it.

- [Bud] You know I oughtto be happy the Henslees

are out of the running.

I don't think I am.

I'm not sure I could enjoy our trip now

even if we did get it.

- Me either.

- Well, nothing we can do about it now, I guess.

(exciting music)

- Betty, psst, Betty.

- Hey, we've been searching all over for you.

Do you know where that picture--

- Shh!

Not so loud.

(crying)

Betty, I've done an awful thing.

I've never felt so miserable in my whole life.

- What did you do?

- This, I hid it.

- Kathy Anderson!

Is the print in here too?

(crying)

- I tore that up.

- Oh, no!

- Don't blab me out.

It's just that I didn'twant anybody to keep us

from going on that wonderful trip.

And when Is aw Toby on the backyard,

he tried to give me some cake.

Oh, Betty, I feel awful.

(crying)

- Oh, don't, don't cry, Kathy.

(loud crying)

Listen, listen, Bud and I are just as much to blame

as you are, joking around the way we did.

Hey look, I can still make a print from this negative.

Look, you run out and catch Mr. Henslee

before he leaves, okay?

And tell him that, tell him that we found the negative

and I'll make him another print in five minutes.

- Betty.

Thank you.

- Oh, run, hurry.

(exciting music)

- Is it gonna work?

- Oh, sure.

Of course, you realize this practically rules out

your chances to get to Hawaii.

- I don't care.

All I want is to feelgood again, that's all.

Betty, I'd just die if anybody ever found out

what an awful thing I did.

Especially Toby.

- Well,

maybe they won't have to know.

Oh, look, Kathy.

(exciting music)

- [Jim] Well, they finally made it.

And look at old Toby.

Boy, that grin is aboutthree pineapples wide.

(laughs)

- Oh.

They certainly look as ifthey're having a wonderful time.

- Did they say anything on the card?

- Oh, wouldn't you know it?

Having a wonderful time.

Wish you were here.

(laughs)

- I wish we were too.

- Oh, so do I.

(laughs)

- Gee, if this was only us.

- Oh, now don't look so sad, Kathy.

We'll get there someday.

- But when?

- Well, we'll start saving towards it right now.

- We'd never be able to get away.

You always have to work.

- Well, look, the Henslees thought that same thing.

And they made it.

- Sure.

They found a goodpastry cook to take over

for Mrs. Henslee.

(whistle)

And a new delivery man.

- Get your red-hot prune-filled bear claws here.

Man, this job is k*lling me.

- Oh, Bud, it isn't that hard.

- All you have to do is drive around

in a comfortable truck and carry that little tray.

- Oh, it isn't that.

I just can't keep from sampling the stuff

and I'm getting sick.

- Bud, you're not supposed to eat any of that.

- Of course not, we wantthem to show a profit.

- That's right, we maywanna borrow some money

from them for our trip.

- Mm, what trip?

- Didn't you hear?

We plan to go to this little island ourselves, someday.

Come on, Kath.

(humming)

- Oh, come on.

I just washed the floor.

- What?

(gasps)

- That's what you get.