03x02 - Schemer's Alone

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and directly across the road from

jenny's farm tonight's episode star

stacy jones

schemer mr conductor the kids from

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hmm here we go

one more little adjustment here put

these little

temporary pins in now is all we need

some more nails should i go get the

nails

that's a good idea

okay out with the old in with the new

now shining time station will shine even

brighter

and stacy if everyone is doing all this

work

how come schemer isn't helping oh i

think schemer's gonna be busy enough

today you see his mother is going to

snarlyville overnight

but mommy mommy come on mommy i already

promised

all right if i have to

i schemer do solemnly swear by the

schemer pledge to be responsible for

myself while my mommy's away

i mean what'd you think i was gonna do

anyway huh fall apart

okay bye-bye

[Laughter]

my mommy's gone my mommy's gone and i

don't even know how to brush my teeth by

myself

i mean look at that look at this list of

stuff that she wants me to do look at

this thing

take out the trash make your bed say

please and thank you

i mean what does she think i am some

kind of mature adult

oh schemer hasn't your mother ever gone

away before

not overnight no i can't do all this

stuff

oh yes you can no i can't yes you can i

believe in you schemer

sure you just got to learn to be

responsible for yourself and

if you ask people for a little bit of

help i'm sure they'll pitch in it might

be worth a try

it might be worth a try not she cares

she's got everybody working for billy

the kids

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genius time a children children or

children

rush over here please to see schemer oh

hello

children how would you like to play a

game today

what's the game called well i'm glad you

asked the name of the game

is do stuff for schemer and here is how

it works

there's a list of stuff here you go to

my house and you do the stuff

huh deal deal deal

okay here's how it goes take this list

right here go to my house

do this stuff and i'll pay you on the

completion of the whole stuff we can't

do all this

hey come on come on get your friend

karen to help you or something have i

got to do everything for you kids come

on move it move it let's go let's go

go go go go go go

well few more phone calls an old schemer

is gonna be living on easy street

yeah kind of strange when you think

about schema without his mother around

oh i think it's

kind of sad what's so sad about it

schemer may not have his mother around

but then

schemer's mother doesn't doesn't have

schemer around

that makes her the lucky one

billy have you seen dan uh

nope i haven't seen becky either

well i'm here to work what's our first

step your first step mr conductor is to

watch your step that shelf

him mr is are you all right all right

i appear for work and fall off a shelf

i've had better jobs i'll tell you

oh sorry about that mr conductor becky

and i were working on the shelf but we

never got around to finishing it

now you'll have to finish it without her

she and dan went over to schemer's house

to do all his chores for him

schemer's house well i suppose it's good

that they went to help schemer but they

should have told us where they were

going before they left us

and before they left me rolling down the

shelf

well shall we get to work

this is my mommy's favorite picture of

me

[Applause]

cute kid here's your bill mac

sure no problem my friend no problem

at all

i owe you for this bill signed schemer

are you kidding me mac we need real

money hard cold currency cash this is

nothing but a dumb little piece of paper

hey you'll get paid

when when you do

instead of paying us this wise guy here

handed me an iou

so uh when do me and my partner here get

our money

did i mention a tip

a nickel a piece cold hard cash

and uh about those ious forget about

them

there's plenty more where those came

from what in the world

well schema what is all of this uh uh

just a few things from home miss jones

to give this place the illusion of three

dimensions oh schemer you can't be

thinking of

living and sleeping in this station just

because your mother's away

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what are you kidding me huh you are

wheeling around

schemer's world-famous threads and

clothes in a wheelbarrow

oh stop your whining i hosted out

beforehand

you did huh that's dirty

dirty dirty dirty involved 30

30 ah now this is clean and take the

rest of those and do them

now when do i get paid glad you asked

that jenny

what's this an iou

a piece of paper i want some real money

you'll get real money right now i just

happen to have a shortfall of nickels

i've been

kind of de-liquified

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well uh jenny did i mention a tip tip

did i mention two tips gold

next time i might even wash your clothes

in water

oh schemer getting ginny to do your

laundry

what about taking responsibility for

yourself

miss jones why should i when other

people would do it for me

what what did i say what did what did

schemer say what

you want me to be responsible ms jones

okay i'll be responsible lyla

i'll play some music on the old jukebox

yeah you are always thinking schemer you

are a thinking man's thinking man

i owe you one song

i don't think so man those other cats

may fall for this

paper money thing but not me

what do you say g*ng no

no no play you know what i'm gonna do

i'm gonna unplug you and be done with

you for good

well he's gonna shut us down ted he's

gonna

unplug us tito i think

now's the time to do that charity gig we

always talked about

you said it sister a one two three

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i went down south to see myself sing

polly wanna doodle all the day

myself she is a spunky gal sing party

while i doodle all the day

or myself she is a maiden fan sing palo

while a doodle all the day

with curly eyes and laughing hair sing

polly while i do

all the day fairly well

tell the world my pharisee

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foreign

oh a grasshopper sitting on a railroad

track sing polly while a doodle all the

day

picking his teeth with a cop attack sing

by the wall a doodle all the day

well fairly well very well my favorite

thing

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foreign

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well

got one more nail and this shelf won't

be going anywhere

oh i can't stand this have you seen

what's going on out there

uh schemer's got everybody working for

him does he yeah he's even got ginny

doing his

laundry sounds like a dirty job and one

that can end up badly for everyone

doesn't it sort of remind you of james

and percy well i don't follow you on

that one mr c i can't see percy writing

an iou

no but he still got himself in an awful

mess

[Applause]

[Music]

sounds to me that the way schemer's

going he's gonna end up in a bigger jam

than percy

be a doll and toss it over here

man can't take his midday nippy nap well

that is flanky okay mitch

go ahead of course but before i start to

read your favorite story from your

favorite storybook

you're not going to give me a betty by

kiss are you

no schemer i was only going to say

pay me first or this story ends before

it begins

oh is that all okay

hey you are

oh once upon a time there were three

little pigs no no no

skip that part about the two dopey pigs

did that wolf go to page eight paragraph

three

paragraph sweet page eight

and so the first little pig said to the

other two

you can certainly stay in my house made

of brick

i love this part but you'll each have to

pay me a nickel to get in

it's called protection money isn't that

beautiful

the two other pigs didn't have any

nickels

and they said but the big bad wolf will

eat us if you don't let us

in so the first pig said to the other

two pigs

hey what do you think i made a money let

the wolf

eat bacon schemer this

is the most awful version of the three

little pigs i

ever heard you mean there's another

version

i'm not going to read another word okay

schemer

we did everything on your list we don't

want to do any more

we want to be paid as you wish

there you are payment in full

but this is a piece of paper good i

owe you for working for me this isn't

real money

a touch that is what is known in

contractual law as a blinding

agreement uh i will pay you in 60 days

hence

hence i can pay you whenever i want to

hold it

open my eyes and shine in a flashlight

but are you telling us

that you haven't paid anyone well

depends what you mean by pay pay with

money

schemer if i hear that you haven't paid

anyone

hey there barton hey what's the word

ginny

okay streamer i got that grub you

ordered

and it's drool city you dig

wow crazy crunchy crisp

chips mmm pistachio popsicle and the

pista resistance

a double whammy triple cheese cowboy

beef burger

swimmin in relish wow oh

i don't think i can eat those i just had

15 chili willy bars

now ski man let me lay it straight here

i don't care whether you eat it or not

you're gonna pay me for it barton it's

not my place to say

but i have it from a very reliable

source

that schemer hasn't paid anybody

anything

except in ious is that true schemer

you're not paying anybody i mean

haven't you people ever heard of

creative financing

hit me yet hold it hold it martin

this slimy scheming worm is mine first

[Music]

popped me out of a toaster that weasel

took a powder

barton fire up that overgrown paint

mixer of yours

we're going weasel

[Music]

did someone say trouble you know if

people were just more careful

they wouldn't wind up in anything

trouble at all how do you do that

this oh this is just a little trick of

mine and speaking of tricks

it sounds to me like schemer's been

tricking some very good people

he sure has he broke his promise to pay

everyone

yeah he's been really responsible

he cheated people and that's not good

it's a shame when people don't take

responsibility

for things they say they will be

responsible for

you mean like helping billy with the

shelf yes

i found out about that the hard way

i forgot to help aunt stacy and there's

something else

perhaps if you draw nearer i can make

things clearer and explain such trouble

with this magic bubble

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i have a lot of friends so i take good

care to pull my own weight

to do my own share cause i really don't

need to ask somebody else to do the

things for me that i can do for myself

my real good friends will come if i call

to help me

if i can't manage it all cause i do

sometimes need a little help

but most of the time i try to do it

myself

i can make my own room nice and neat

every day take the toys around my feet

and put them away

i can pick up all of my clothes so

there'll be enough room for my heels and

my toes

i can want my puppy most every day cause

it's mine though i'd rather run out to

play sometimes

we walk along the street and down the

lane around the park

and back again

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so if you have good friends i think

you'll find they'll help you

if you're in a really big bind or if

there's more than you can handle alone

but the rest of the time

you can do it on your own your real good

friends will come a full call

to help you if you can't manage it all

cause we do

sometimes need a little help but most of

the time we try to do it ourselves

i can wash my own dishes clean it's

essential put them in the dishwashing

machine

in a pinch i just take them from the

table when i finish my food cause to

leave them all over is a little bit rude

i can make myself good things to eat

let me think i'd like a peanut butter

sandwich something sweet and a drink

i can spread it on the bread right out

of the jar grab an apple for a drink and

there you

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i can do it myself

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i can do it myself

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on my own

looks like there are a lot of things we

can do on our own

and there's something else you can do on

your own you can admit when you've made

a mistake

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well look who walked in yeah it's about

time you two got here

stacy billy becky and i have something

to say to you

yeah we're really sorry we didn't finish

our jobs

i guess we could have been more

responsible well

the first step in becoming more

responsible is learning to do better

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you and dan you are responsible people

you know how i know well

responsible people realize when they're

wrong

and you were responsible enough to admit

it

which is more than i can say for some

people

he's absolutely schemer and he's me the

wonderful me schemer

we're gonna have to talk ms jones i am

so far ahead of you i

already am you mean you're ready to

start to take responsibility for

yourself

take aj

good joke jonesy no i just realized that

i had overestimated the intelligence of

my employees but

schemer has rectified that situation

to all those people i wrote io use how

i'm willing to repay them

that's right with this

a lifetime membership to schemer's

arcade

and i read for every nine times someone

uses one of the machines they get

one free machine used once a week every

other month leap year

excluded schemer sounds like they'll

have to come here an awfully long time

you'll be able to pay them back 460

years to be exact miss jones i'm always

thinking

and remember one thing if it's not in

here

it's in here oh schemer i don't think

all your employees are gonna be so happy

with that

idea you think that i

am scared of midge smooth barton

winslow and jenny

who's that lady who just got off the

train

jenny and mitch smoot are talking to her

the lady has a big great big hat with

flowers on it

and a plastic skunk the plastic

a plastic skull

i have to break the place up i told my

mommy i would be responsible for myself

and i haven't been so fast please

come help me quick see please please mr

i promise you i'll give you a two year

subscription to my place

no not this time you've got yourself it

because you

have to get yourself out of it

i took the family schemer pledge i gotta

fix this place up

i know i can do it she'll never know it

i know i can do it i know i can do it

she'll never know

she will never

[Applause]

she know already i told your mommy

every last detail

what did she say she said one of these

days you're gonna have to learn to take

care of yourself

and how to be kind to others even when

she's not here to take care of you

well where is she now oh she's at home

waiting for you she wanted to be there

when you got home

so that she could help you brush your

teeth and find your blankie

and tuck you into your betty vine oh

good

i guess that means i'm finished cleaning

up right here anyways

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reach for the speed reach for the

whistle

go where the rail may run

reach for the words reach for the story

follow the rainbow sun

[Music]

to a shining tide station

where dreams can come true waiting there

for you so much to see

so far to travel so much to learn

to know friends by your side

hopes to hold on to who knows how far

you'll go

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to a shining time station

where dreams can come true

your own imagination waiting there

for you

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