02x34 - Mr. Wilson's Paradise

[bunniefuu]

-Hi, Mr. Hubbard.

Can I talk to you
about my project?

-School's over, Dennis.

Run along, now.
You'll miss your bus.

-I already did.

My dad's going to
come and get me.

-Oh.

Well, you may wait
here if you wish.

Here, you may sharpen my pencil.

Nothing like having
everything ready

and starting the morning
with a clean slate.

-Gee, thanks, Mr. Hubbard.

Mr. Hubbard?
-Hmm?

-You said we had to write four
whole pages in our project.

Is it OK if I make it bigger?
-Certainly, Dennis.

The more material you include,
the better your grade.

-Oh, boy.

I'm gonna have the best
project in the whole class.

[footsteps]

MR. HUBBARD (OFFSCREEN):
Afternoon, Mr. Mitchell.

-Afternoon, Mr. Hubbard.
-Hi, dad.

I'm helping Mr. Hubbard.

-Well, that's nice.

-I sure am sorry for the kids
that are younger than me.

-"Than I."

-Than I. The kids that
are younger than me

are gonna have some
new teacher that

won't be half as
good as Mr. Hubbard.

-The whole school is going
to miss you, Mr. Hubbard.

By the way, what do intend
doing after you retire?

-Well, I'm going
to write a book.

I'm calling it My Years
In The Public School System.

-Well, it sounds fascinating.

-Boy, it sure does.

-Of course, that's
only the working title.

The publishers
will probably want

something a little snappier.

Dennis!

-I sure got it nice and
clean, huh, Mr. Hubbard?

-But that was
tomorrow's assignment.

It took me over half
an hour to put it up.

-Jeepers, you said you
wanted a clean slate.

-Come along, son.

Um, I'm sorry, Mr. Hubbard.

Terribly sorry.

-Gee, I was only trying to help.

I'm sorry, Mr. Hubbard.

-We're both very
sorry, Mr. Hubbard.

Uh, it-- it'll make an
amusing chapter in your book.

[theme music]

-George, will you please
move the television set?

-Oh.

Martha, no wonder our
picture isn't as clear

as it used to be.

Just look at the dust on
the back of this thing.

-I don't see how a
little dust on the back

could affect the picture.

-Well, some of it's bound
to have seeped inside.

-George, what are you doing?

-Just taking the
back off, my dear,

so that we can dust it out.

I know what I'm doing.

-I'm not through
with the carpet yet.

-Well, it'll only take a minute.

DENNIS (OFFSCREEN):
Hey, Mr. Wilson!

-Tell him I'm not home.

Tell him I'm taking a nap.

Tell him I've gone to Timbuktu.

-Hello, Dennis.

-Hi, Mr. Wilson.

Is mister-- hey,
Mr. Wilson, will you

help me with my project?

-Project?

What project?

-It's for school.

We're studying
Mexico, and each kid

has to pick out some place
there and find out all about it,

and tell how we'd like to
go here on our vacation.

-Sounds like a master's thesis.

-It's more like homework.

-Why don't you come
back a little later?

Mr. Wilson's very
busy right now.

-Oh, no, this won't
take long, Martha.

I have the material right here.

As a matter of
fact, Dennis, I was

reading about Mexico in an
article in one of my travel

magazines just the other day.

If I can get it out.

There it is.

Now, you just take this
home with you and read it.

-Gee, thanks, Mr. Wilson.

You sure are swell to me.

Boy, that's the biggest fish
I ever saw in my whole life,

even in a picture.

-Oh, that's a striped
marlin, pounds,

caught off the La
Isle de Felicidad.

That means the
Isle of Happiness.

Just take a look at that beauty.

-Boy, this is sure going
to be a swell project.

You sure know a good
place for a vacation.

--[laughing] You know, the
writer of this article says that

it's a sportsman's paradise,
and he's traveled all over

the world.

Why, there's nothing to do but
enjoy the scenery and fish.

Oh, just take a look
at this view, Dennis.

Isn't that beautiful?

See the blue skies and the
blue ocean, white sands,

palm trees swaying in
the evening breeze,

and there's a stream
winding its way

through the green jungle
where orchids grow wild.

Imagine that, Martha.

Wild orchids, and I can't get
one bloom from that $ plant.

-It will, dear.

It just takes patience.

Dennis, why don't you
take the magazine home?

-Hey, here's a man
digging in the sand.

-Oh, yes.

He's getting clams.

Clams, fresh steamed clams,
and oysters in the bay.

-And if I wanted a
necklace, I could just

reach down and grab
myself a pearl.

George, if we're going to get
this room clean by lunch time--

-You go ahead, dear.

I'll finish up in here.

-Jeepers, I really would
like to go to the ee-- ee--

-Isla de Felicidad.

-On my vacation.

Wouldn't you, Mr. Wilson?

Huh?

-Uh, Martha, turn on the
switch, will you, dear?

Oh, never mind.

I can reach it.

Oh!

-George, you've
got the blower on!

-[coughing]

Oh!

Great Scott!

[music playing]

-George?

-You should have seen
the one that got away.

Oh, excuse me, Martha.

I must have been dreaming
there for a minute.

-You better take the
trash barrel out.

-Why?

-Because if you don't
get it out by o'clock,

the men won't empty it.

-Well, supposing they don't?

Supposing just for once I don't
take out the trash barrel?

-Well, all right, dear.

If you feel that way about
it, I'll take it out.

It's not that heavy.

-Oh, no, Martha.

I'll take out the trash.

It's a husband's duty
to take out the trash.

And then when the men
have emptied the barrel,

I'll bring it back in again so
that we can start filling up

our waste baskets
once more, so that

by o'clock next
Wednesday, I can

take out a full trash barrel.

Then they will empty it.

I'll bring back in the barrel.

We can start filling up
our waste baskets again,

and fill up the trash
barrel, ad infinitum.

Ah!

-George, I don't understand you.

You've never objected to
taking out the trash before.

-Oh, it's all right, Martha.

I don't expect
you to understand.

-Don't you feel well?

-Oh, yes, dear.

I feel fine.

-But something's troubling you.

What is it you want?

-I want to go to Mexico.

I want to catch a marlin.

-You want to go all the
way to Mexico just to fish?

But why, dear?

You can fish at Lake Bailey.

And what's that got
to do with trash?

-A marlin isn't just a fish.

It's a dream, a challenge, a--

-Of course it's a fish, George.

I better call Dr. Simpson
for an appointment.

You sound bilious to me.

-Martha Wilson,
I am not bilious.

I'm a normal,
perfectly healthy man

who's in the prime
of his life and who

would like to catch
a marlin before he's

too old and feeble
to pull him in.

-But George--

-Oh, that's all right, Martha.

Let's just forget about it.

I'm sorry I said anything.

-But George--

-Oh, it's probably
too expensive, anyway.

It's silly to even
think about it.

-It might not be too expensive.

It wouldn't do any
harm to find out.

-Well, it's-- Martha!

Well, I could go downtown right
now and see our travel agent.

I-- oh, you-- you mean it?

I mean, would-- would you go?

-Well, of course, George.

It doesn't matter to me where
I am as long as I'm with you.

-But would you like to go?

-Well, frankly, it
seems like a long way

to go just to catch a marlin,
but if that's what you want.

-Oh, Martha!

Me on the Island of Happiness.

[music playing]

Hello, dear.

Alice.

Well, the trip is off.

There's no hotel on the island.

-Well, it can't be
a very popular spot

if there aren't any hotels.

-You mean there's
no place to stay?

-There is a house we could rent.

-Well, let's rent it.

-But they won't let us rent
it for just a couple of weeks.

We'd have to lease
it for a whole year.

You wouldn't want to do
that, would you, Martha?

You wouldn't want to go off
with me to a tropical paradise,

and live in luxury
in a pile house

with all the modern conveniences
on a beautiful beach

where the water's as warm as
your bathtub and free servants

to wait on you hand and foot?

In the evening we could
stroll down to the plaza

and dance in the moonlight to
the strains of a native guitar.

And all it costs is $ a
month including everything,

would you, Martha?

-Call him up right now and
tell him we'll take it.

-Martha!

You mean it?

-Of course.

-But Mrs. Wilson, a whole year!

-I'm just as thrilled
about it as you are.

More!

-Martha, darling!

Come on, let's do the fandango!

-That's the most
impractical thing

I've ever heard of
in my life, spending

a whole year on the
Isle of Happiness.

I can understand Mr.
Wilson talking himself

into such a wild
idea, but why would

Mr. Wilson go along with it?
DENNIS (OFFSCREEN): Hey, mom!

Hey, dad!

-Oh, you know Mrs. Wilson.

Anything he wants, she wants.

Oh, come in, Mr. Wilson.

We were just talking about you.

-How are you, Mr. Wilson?

Come on in, sit down.

-Mr. Wilson's going
to give me a dollar.

-He is?

-Ah, this is quite an
enterprising young man

you have here, Mitchell.

You ought to set
him up in business

in an office of his own.

-I just rented Mr.
Wilson's house for him.

-Rented your house?

-To whom?

-Yo know my teacher,
Mr. Hubbard?

-Your teacher?

-Why would he want
to rent a house?

He's already got a house.

-Not for very long, he hasn't.

He just got it paid for,
and kazoom, the new highway

bought it.

-So Dennis heard he was
looking for a place,

told him mine was going
to be vacant, [laughing]

and here's the check for the
first and last month's rent.

-What does Mrs. Wilson think
of you're renting the house?

-Oh, she's just as
thrilled about it as I am.

Frankly, I've never seen Martha
so enthusiastic about anything

before.

-Yeah, she's so
happy she's crying.

-Time for our first
Spanish lesson.

[speaking spanish]

-I asked the Mitchells
to come over.

They thought it would be fun
to study Spanish with us.

-Oh dear, they're not bringing
Dennis along, are they?

Oh, well, it doesn't matter.

I guess I can put up with Dennis
for a little while longer.

[doorbell]

-Come in, dears.

-Hello, Mrs. Wilson.

-Hi, Mrs. Wilson.

-Well, hello there, Mitchells.

-Hi.

-Where's dear little Dennis?

-Here I am, Mr. Wilson.

I just stopped to get a banana.

-Come on over and
sit down quietly.

-Could I put the
record on, Mr. Wilson?

Mr. Hubbard let's met do it all
the time in music appreciation.

-Let Mr. Wilson do it, dear.

[record in fast motion]

-Great Scott!

-George I can't learn
to speak like that.

[record in normal motion]

-You had it on the
wrong speed, Mr. Wilson.

MALE VOICE (ON RECORD): Buenos.

-Buenos.

MALE VOICE (ON RECORD): Dias.

-Dias.

MALE VOICE (ON
RECORD) Buenos dias.

-Buenos dias.

MALE VOICE (ON RECORD):
Buenos dias, senor.

-Buenos dias, senor.

MALE VOICE (ON RECORD): Usted.

-Usted.

MALE VOICE (ON RECORD):
Como esta usted.

[doorbell]

-Como esta usted.

MALE VOICE (ON
RECORD): Buenos dias.

-Hey, it's Mr. Hubbard!

-Mr. Hubbard.
-Hello, Mr. Hubbard.

-No, no.

Don't let me disturb you.

I just came by to see
how my Mercury would

look on the mantle.

Please to right ahead with
whatever you were doing.

I insist.

-Well, it it'll make
you feel more are home.

After all, the place is
practically yours already.

-Thank you.

I felt at home the moment
I stepped in the house.

[music playing]

My, my.

You do look nice there.

I'll leave him there
for you to enjoy.

-George, Mr. Hubbard
is going to--

-Ah ah, speak Spanish only.

Uh, habla Espanol, solamente.

-Senor Hubbard esta
aqui ella-- I mean,

aholla-- oh, I'll
tell you after lunch.

Mazel tov.

-Bueno.

Es muy necessario habla Espanol.

-Si.

-Oh, Marcia?

Marcia?

-Oh, that's me.

Si?

-De me un cuchillo, por favor.

Cuchillo.

Un cuchillo.
Cuchillo.

-Oh!

No a cuchillo.

Es, um, cucharita.

-No, no, no.

Es cuchillo.

-No es cuch-- es cucharita.

-Es cuchillo.

-Es cucharita--

-Es cuchillo.

-Cucharita.

-Es cu-- charita.

-No es cuchillo.

Es cucharita.

Es la montauila.

Es la casa.

[knock on door]

-Your front door was open
so I just breezed in.

Don't let me distribute you.

I just dropped by to measure
space for my bookcases.

-Hey!

Martha, he acts as though
he's moved in already.

-Now George, he'll make
an excellent tenant.

He'll treat the house as
if it belonged to him.

-Well, he does now!

-I was afraid it might
be a bit crowded in here.

If I move all of this stuff
into the back bedroom,

there will be plenty of room
for my small possessions.

Oh, I am going to enjoy it here.

-We hope so, Mr. Hubbard.

George and I love
this old house.

Well, just make
yourself at home.

-Well, what is he
doing in there?

-Measuring.

-Golly, I'm going to remind
that his release doesn't

start for another two weeks.

If you don't mind, Mr. Hubbard!

-Not at all, Mr. Wilson.

I've finished downstairs now.

-It can't be.

But it is!

-Where are you going?

-To measure the wall
space in the back bedroom.

-But I haven't
made the beds yet.

-Martha!

Come and look at my orchid.

It's got a bud on it.

It's going to bloom!

-Yes, dear, it should with
all the care you've given it.

-Martha?

Do you realize we won't
be here when it flowers?

-I can't bear people
seeing my beds unmade.

-We'll be on the
Isle of Happiness.

-Yes, dear, where the
orchids grow wild.

-Yes, but they
won't be my orchids.

[music playing]

-Well, buenos noches, dear.

-Oh.

Buenos noches, Martha.

[phone ringing]

-Hello?

Long distance?

Yes, this is-- Georgiana!

How is our favorite niece?

Are you all right, dear?

-Georgiana?

Is anything wrong?

Hello, dear.

Uncle George.

Yes, how are you?
Oh?

What news?

Well, go ahead and tell us.

-Oh, how wonderful!

Oh, Georgiana, I can
hardly believe it.

-Well, that's-- when's
it going to happen?

-In August?

Oh, we're so happy
for you, dear.

And Bob, too.

Now you take care
of yourself, dear.

We'll write you tomorrow.

Give our love to Bob, dear.

Good night.

We're just terribly
happy for you.

Imagine, our little
Georgiana having a baby.

George, what's the
matter with you?

You look absolutely stunned.

Children do grow up, you
know, and have babies.

-Oh, yes.

Yes, indeed, Martha.

Our own little Georgiana
going to have a baby.

In August.

-Isn't it wonderful, dear?

Buenos noches, dear.

-Buenos noches, Martha.

In August--

[music playing]

Where are you, Martha?

Wait for me!

MRS. WILSON (OFFSCREEN):
Over here, George.

You have to hurry, dear, if
you want to see the baby.

-I'm coming!

Wait for me, Martha!
Martha!

MRS. WILSON (OFFSCREEN):
Goodbye, George.

Goodbye, dear.

-Oh, Martha, wait!

Oh, let me through, please.

I've got to see the baby.

Yo quiero ver el nino.

Comprende?

-[gibberish]

-No, no, no, no, no, no!

No!
No!

No!
No!

No!

-George!
George!

Wake up, dear!

-Oh!

Oh!

Oh, Martha, Martha.

We can't go to the
Isle of Happiness.

-Why, of course we can, dear.

You've just having a nightmare.

-No, Martha, I don't want to go.

I don't want to be
in a foreign country

when Georgiana is
having her baby.

Oh, I know what a
disappointment this is to you,

but I'll make it up to
you some way, my dear.

Oh, but can't we just stay home?

Do we have to go to
the Isle of Happiness?

-Oh, George.

You know my Isle of
Happiness is where you are.

-Oh, Martha, you're my dear,
sweet, understanding girl,

and I'll see Hubbard the
first thing in the-- uh-oh.

Suppose he won't let
us out of the deal?

-Oh, now, George.

Mr. Hubbard's a very nice man.

He'll understand why
we changed our minds.

-Why, of course he will.

Why, he's got to.

I'll explain our situation
to him and ask him nicely.

He'll say yes.

-No.

-Mr. Hubbard, I'm giving
you your money back.

Well, you can rent
another house.

-Not a house like this, not
for what I can afford to pay.

-But Mr. Hubbard,
the only reason

we rented you this
house so cheaply

is because we thought
of you as a friend.

-And I hope we'll always be
friends, Mrs Mrs. Wilson,

but you have to see
my side of it, too.

A school teacher's pension
doesn't go very far,

and I have to think
of myself, you know.

And a bargain is a bargain.

-Well, to tell you the
truth, Mr. Hubbard,

this house really
isn't such a bargain.

-It is to me.

-Oh, there are a lot of
things wrong with it.

It's full of drafts,
and the windows

are swollen, loose doorknobs.

-When you're in
an old house, you

expect a few things to go wrong.

DENNIS (OFFSCREEN):
Hey, Mr. Wilson!

-And the neighborhood
is full of kids.

Now how do you expect to
write your book with Dennis

running in and out
of here all day

long, breaking windows,
trampling down the garden?

DENNIS (OFFSCREEN):
Hey, Mr. Wilson!

Is Mr. Hubbard here?

-Now, you see?

You haven't even moved
in yet, and Dennis

is bothering you already.

-Mr. Wilson, I've been a
school teacher for years.

Children don't bother me.

Hello, Dennis.

-Mr. Hubbard, I finished
my project book.

Would you like to see it?

-You may turn it
in with the rest

of the class on Monday, Dennis.

I'll read it at the proper time.

-Jeepers.

Can I read it to
you, Mr. Wilson?

-Oh, no, not now, Dennis.

The last place in the
world I want to hear about

is the Isle of Happiness.

Now you look here, Hubbard.

-If necessary, I shall sue.

[music playing]

-I'll show him!

-You may read it to me, Dennis.

-"The place I would
rather go on my vacation,

by Dennis Mitchell."

-A bargain is a bargain.

-"The place I would
rather go on my vacation

is called La Isla de Felicidad.

That means the
Isle of Happiness,

and the reason it's called
that is because it is."

-Hello, Harry?

This is George Wilson.

I have a small legal problem.

-"The Isle of Happiness is
just about the prettiest place

in the whole world, and I've
got some pictures to prove it.

The temperature is
degrees all year around,

and you can go swimming any
time you want, even at night,

because the ocean's real
warm and there aren't

any rocks on the beach
to stub your toe on.

And you can sail a
boat on it, too."

-But Harry, how did I
know I'd need a lawyer?

-"And wild orchids and coconuts,
and any time you want a banana,

you just reach right up
into a tree and grab one.

And you can catch all the
fish you want, so it hardly

costs anything to
live down there."

-Oh, a fined lawyer you are!

-"With flowers climbing all
over the wall and three servants

to take care of you, and all
it costs for everything is only

$ a month.

And here's a
picture to prove it.

So that's why I picked
the Isle of Happiness

for the place I'd rather
go on my vacation.

The end."

-Let me see that, Dennis.

$ a month, degrees
all year around.

[music playing]

-"The Isle of
Happiness is everything

I thought it would be and more.

So as we say down here, 'Mi
casa es tu casa.' Come any time,

stay as long as you like,
and be sure to bring

Dennis and the Wilsons with you.

Sincerely, Alfred D. Hubbard."

-Well, isn't that nice.

-Look at the size of that fish.

The Isle of Happiness, a
real fisherman's paradise.

-Oh, boy, we better start
studying our Spanish some more.

Can I put the records
on, Mr. Wilson?

-That's a good idea, Dennis.

-It's only a couple
hours by jet.

Maybe we could do it.

-Henry, do you think we could?

We'd have a wonderful time.

-Why not?

-Yes, why not?

Of course, we'd have to
wait till after August.

Look at the size of this bootie.

[record in fast motion]
-Jeepers!

-You know, if Georgiana's
baby turns out to be a boy,

I hope he grows up to
be just like Dennis.

[theme music]