all right let me tell you about my
family
again
let's take a look and see what have fun
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you could say Grunwald met the day
before we were born and we've been best
friends ever since our families grew up
together
we shared everything good
but like all friendships ours would be
tested by something unexpected something
known as don't work what about sending
your kid to work while you stay home and
take a nap game you know you realize
they're announcing a promotion today
nothing like a little humiliating
rejection to teach the offspring about
the real world
I hope they announce my name so I can
turn them down that's right
hey Dad do they have lunch at work you
kidding it's the best part of the day
it's the only reason I go oh right the
widget XR 200 the finest widget in the
Western world without this puppy in the
world my chest got revolt Dan how do you
know when it's quitting time well when
your feet feel like them but stapled to
the floor your back feels like this
Bunny's been ripped down your head then
it's quitting time now it just means you
have another half hour to go wonder what
they're doing in math class attention
floor workers we're pleased to announce
mr. gruenewald has been promoted to
lower middle management congratulate the
newest manager in charge of widget
tightening quality control girl involved
can't wait to see the look on their
faces when you turn them down
come on son
we're going upstairs to turn them down
get on their chair see you Louie Oh Andy
I think girl's promotion is good news oh
yeah I'm telling you this changes
everything we can't be friends of the
groom walls anymore he speaks a
different language now he's a suit
what are you slacks let me show you
something
it's very simple we're yam a side dish
hey ya feelin absolutely nothing well he
used to be a year but now the forces
behind all control
he's a main course yam on the inside
pork chop announcer there's a w*r going
on for his soul side dish worships named
horse
anyone want to guess who win yam just
falls right off
pork chops wins every time thanks dad
really clears things up so a couple of
weeks went by and we hadn't seen much of
the grown woman's but I was afraid maybe
his father was a pork chop but Mike and
I we would be a mess forever hey guys
long time no see Oh a nice sniffer dog
of justice lunch Bow Wow where'd you get
it
one of dads new co-workers knows Knight
sniffers next-door neighbor oh come on
hey Anderson now what can I say my dad
started buying the good stuff and the
bathrooms have this thing that squirts
liquid soap right into your hands yeah
not good enough for you anymore
coffee he can afford finer lunch meats
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Saturday you in or what thanks but I
can't we're going skiing this weekend so
what my dad takes a skiing every winter
really oh yeah Aspen the Rockies Mount
Rushmore skied down Lincoln's nose once
Wow how come you never said anything
about this before I like to brag you
know how it is when people find out we
teach me the slalom can I see you drop
this you have trophies this is great
Louie you should come skiing with us
this weekend what the truth is I'm not
such a good skier but if an expert like
you showed me a few things
I'm gonna call my dad maybe your whole
family can come
well wasn't it nice of the groom wants
to invite us to go skiing I don't buy it
he's toying with us here's the little
people wants to see us squirm Oh Randy
no one wants to see you squirm believe
me I've seen it and it's not attractive
I can't wait to learn how to skate
you're the Grunwald snow we're beginners
absolutely not I mean why should thing
will we we've never been skiing before
I'm sure the Grunwald's will be happy to
show us some of their fancy lower middle
management news
mom I don't feel so good
maybe we shouldn't go it's just your
conscience dear what I said it's the
altitude you're conscious of the
altitude you know keeps talking about
something called a double spread eagle
corkscrew like I'm supposed to know all
those fancy upper-class beverages it's
funny mrs. Grunwald keeps asking me
about Aspen and Vail I tell her aspirins
for headaches and veils for funerals
it's all my fault
I told on the wall that we were a family
of expert skiers and go skiing every
winter because he had an expired jug of
milk in the night sniffer lunchbox
yeah expert skiers what I loved is he'd
grown wild face when hear that Louie how
many times have I told you that lying is
wrong
isn't that right Andy why I am the
airline's a terrible thing as soon as we
get there you're telling the Grunwald's
the truth right mom let's not be hasty
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now remember Louie as soon as we see the
Grunwald's you tell them the truth
that's right the truth and nothing but
the truth
of course nothing wrong with a little
embellishment here and there there is
that's the kid I was telling you about
boy doesn't look like much of a hot
dogger to me hey Anderson about time you
got here didn't know you had an
itinerary girl I was just telling
everyone how you skied on all seven
continents tell me the gorgeous skiing
you didn't Arctic how does it compare to
Everest
I didn't whoa was it through they named
one of the Italian Alps after you you
can't name the whole mountain range
after me everywhere that Andes now aura
you must tell us all about the latest
European speed fashions or buck
Louise been skiing all over the world
isn't that what you said oh yeah we'll
see how he does in the Junior Masters
Cup oh please tell me that's some kind
of athletic supporter no it's a big ski
competition I signed you up so you can
show these amateurs how it's done oh no
you don't understand I've never really
lived in Europe that's exactly how I
feel whenever I'm there
those stretch pants are fabu you must
tell me where you got them it's just a
simple polyester blend oh it's what you
do with it or I love it when an underdog
fabric makes a comeback
want you bounce cute a giant Yeti and
the slopes of Kilimanjaro skiing the
Rockies is as easy as taking a nap for
weeks we've been wanting to go on a
backcountry ski trip quit right what do
you say Anderson care to lead the way
you kiddin I'm your man
just call me grizzly Anderson
next contestant for the experts class
mogul run Iceman Anderson Hey you wanted
a middle name hey gulag
looks like your friends turning a less
experienced skier might be worried right
about now but not you
right Iceman
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[Applause]
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country reminds me of the time I crawled
across the Siberian tundra and my hands
and knees lost four fingers of frostbite
of course they grew bad had nothing to
eat for a month of its no snow and snow
special occasions we got sloshed
Anderson then three weeks then we
discovered the snow and slush are the
same thing please step off the lift
jazz practicing emergency evacuation
procedures be prepared that's my motto
I thought that was a boy Scout's motto I
wrote it for him okay let's get moving
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pick up the pace meatball should we be
concerned about avalanches wants to be
concerned about just know how bad can
still really aura are you all right whoa
that was a doozy
oh just a tiny hole I'll run over to the
lodge and patch it up in a jiffy don't
go too far I'll be right back
intermediate class hey Kate you know I
seem to have lost and found to the right
bathrooms to the left
thank you very much this might work
hello me again listen I found a glove
and well it's not mine but could I just
borrow it lady that gloves been there
for three years you can have it
Oh aren't you sweet bye-bye now
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make I want to sing it that have a
yellow line
anyone up for a round of Terry adoring
I'll start
all right on the floor I use the
cuspidor II that's what it's boring join
in fellas
what's the matter Jack Frost nipping at
your lungs
come on daylight's wasting what does
that sign up ahead say it says be quiet
avalanche area did you read um I just
remembered I have to call my stockbroker
before the end of the business Jimmy oh
me too i've got lunch reservations at
the summer lodge you know Anderson I'm
beginning to suspect you don't know what
you're doing you can just kiss those
negative thoughts goodbye girl I'm in
total control here
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got it mentally when you first told me
you were good skier I thought you were
making it up well while we're on the
subject of stuff I made up the expert
class downhill run ice bad you can do
this Louie you are the Iceman no I'm not
I can't do it
the truth is I've never been skiing
before I got maybe have to blow it off
but I can hey where did everyone go
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Anderson you're a fountain of fashion
tips the rip says out of my way but the
glove says give me a hands
Anderson original I must have it and
have it now can a glam star lady then
where did Tommy scamper off to remember
lean forward keep those knees bent yes
this is real funny
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all right with ace the first two events
this last one should be no problem why
is it the zip hot chocolate in the lodge
of that it's almost that easy
it's the dead man's folly ski-jump oh
look there it is now that's I quit
Iceman
what's wrong I can't ski all right I've
never been skiing before in my life I
don't ski what are you trying to tell me
here no you were bragging about your new
lunchbox and your dad's job and stuff so
I made up all the junk about scheme you
made it up if it wasn't for your stupid
lore middle-management chocolate milk
I'd be playing kickball right now with
my real friends fine
go ahead I don't need you I've got new
friends now
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[Applause]
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oh yeah will you be cold to me ever
since I got the promotion
you mean the promotion you've been
rubbing in my nose every day maybe if
you knew your widgets you would have
been promoted you just better than any
man alive since I was 12 years old I
stuck with a widget clutched in my vest
I legally changed my middle name to
widget yeah Andie widget Anderson hey wh
why'd you do that what's the name
nutcase re taking on kids I'm here I
don't know
I'm the lower-middle manager in charge
of widget lightning the timecode
trackers step aside
what's the holdup I don't recognize this
widget it must be a new model your
softer and wall giving off the floor too
long
kids release the pressure from the
fourth casein let go the rotator I can't
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yeah Andy I'm sorry me too
you're the best friend a nutcase like me
ever had thanks widget
sorry gone for everything no I'm sorry I
was trying to impress those dumb kids
friends friends come on let's get out of
here maybe they'll let us take the chair
down no I'm gonna do it oh really you
don't have to I know
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
I can honestly say that our first ski
trip was a great success
not because I won the gold medal here
you go kid you just serve it yeah but
because the friendship between the
Grunwald's and the Andersons had been
put to the test and had grown even
stronger
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Anderson Grunwald what are you doing
down here company cutbacks lower middle
managers in charge of widget quality
control were the first ones cut well
well well look who's here come to do
some slumming Grunwald's the best widget
tight now in the state public sconce and
first guy you mean about the Florentine
management obviously has no idea what
they're missing
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[Applause]
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hmm overrated
so kickball this weekend sorry can't do
it what is it this time goon well ever
since my dad changed back to his old job
he's had all this free time on his hands
he's taking us rafting this weekend
really you guys go on the best trips
what's the big deal we go rafting all
the time whitewater rafting whitewater
blue water ma we've done all the cause
of the rainbow
why don't you come with us this weekend
although call my dad right now and let
him know you're coming see you on the
rapids Louie okay your helmet dad
my family goes over Niagara Falls every
summer this is the last time I tell you
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02x03 - Anderson Ski Weekend
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Based on the childhood of Anderson, growing up with his family in the fictional town of Cedar Knoll, Wisconsin during the early 1960s, although Anderson himself was actually from Saint Paul, Minnesota, also situated in the Midwestern U.S.
Based on the childhood of Anderson, growing up with his family in the fictional town of Cedar Knoll, Wisconsin during the early 1960s, although Anderson himself was actually from Saint Paul, Minnesota, also situated in the Midwestern U.S.