10x02 - Letting Go

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It still looks the same.

Tony, we've only been gone for three months.

What did you expect, erosion?

Erosion?

Oh, it seemed like an eternity.

This is the worst summer I've had since my
parents sent me to convent camp.

Joanie, please don't ever leave me again.

Oh, Jenny, I've missed you.

Joanie, Joanie, Joanie, don't start
getting misty on me, all right?

Because you're going to blow everything.

You've got to go in there.

You've got to convince your parents that
you'll come back and live in Chicago.

That's easy for you to say.

You don't have to tell them.

I know it's going to be hard, but don't worry about it.

I'm going to be behind you every inch of
the way, all right?

I just remember the game plan.

Go in there and fight.

Yeah.

All right, Joanie, let's do it.

Oh, my.

Judge, it's the same on the inside, too.

Joanie, the soldier in the best years of
our lives didn't make this big a fuss.

What are you doing here?

You're telling your parents you're going back to Chicago?

Are you kidding?

I wouldn't miss this for a weekend with
the Green Bay Packers as their towel girl.

Oh, Judge, the table's the same, too.

Wow.

Really, Howard, I make you breakfast in bed,
and all you do is whine about one broken yoke.

Hold on, Marion, I'm coming.

I'm coming.

Oh, Joanie.

Chachi.

You.

Are you grown?

Look at that, Marion.

Oh, yes, let's see.

Come on.

Oh, it's a family tradition.

Now stand up straight.

All right, let's see it.

When you look at that, it's almost a half inch.

Oh, come on.

I gotta tell you, she's just like crabgrass.

She always grows in the summertime.

Hey, Joanie, you know, I bet your folks
are just dying to hear all the great,

great things that happened to us in such a
short, short time, right?

That's right, yeah.

Me, me, too.

Oh, please.

Everybody, let's sit down and tell us everything.

Well, everything that you can tell your parents.

Well.

It's been like a fairy tale.

One minute we're playing at Arnold's, and
then all of a sudden we're the toast of Chicago.

Oh, Windy City.

What a great town.

That's my kind of town.

Oh, Howard, it is wonderful.

They're famous, just like, just like Louis
Prima and Keely Smith.

Boo.

No.

You, that magic has me in its spell.

That old black magic that I leave the rest.

Oh, Joanie, Jo, we are so thrilled.

You have no idea how tough a decision it
was for us to let you go to Chicago.

I know, I know.

But we're sure glad we did, huh?

We sure are.

Yeah, we let her, we let her be out on her
own and, and really learn all about life, huh?

Oh, we certainly did, Howard.

Yeah, and now that she's got that out of her
system, she's back home here where she belongs.

I'm so glad we did that for her, Howard.

Yes, I am.

Wait a minute.

Now, listen, you kids take Joanie's things up to her room
and I'm going to fix you a nice welcome home breakfast.

Yeah.

That old magic that we leave the rest.

That old black magic that you leave the rest.

Oh, you guys have just got them eating
out of the palm of your hands, I can see, so.

Joanie, I'll give you a call a little bit later.

Oh, what's the hurry?

You're not going anywhere.

Back home where she belongs.

Why didn't you say anything?

Oh, no, Chachi, they were so happy I grew a half inch.

It just didn't seem like the right time, you know?

Well, I'll tell them at lunch.

Maybe dinner.

You know something?

You were right.

Nothing at all has changed around here.

You're still scared to death of your parents.

I am not.

I am.

Not.

I am not.

All right, I'm taking your orders here.

Get this, I'm giving orders to the Fonz.

You keep laughing and you and your teeth
are going to ride home and sip with cards.

Arnold Burger and fries, onion rings.

That's better.

Hmm, let me see.

How are the pigs in the blanket prepared?

We don't got them.

Yes, you do.

No, you don't.

That's right.

Yo, Fonz.

Hey, look, please.

Tell me that my garage is all right.

Hey, you tell me.

Mrs. Johnson came in.

She wanted an estimate on her rear end.

You know, I was in a good mood.

So I took one look at her and I said, about 220 pounds.

Oh, Fonz, the movie can't take a joke.

You think she's big.

You ought to see her husband.

And you probably will.

All right, Clarence, listen up.

I want an Arnold burger, I want fries,
and I want some onion rings.

Get back in there.

Where are you going?

Traffic court.

What are you going to traffic court for?

I got to take care of some parking tickets.

You don't go to traffic court to take care
of parking tickets.

You do when you got 300 of them.

How do you get 300 of them?

Think about it, Fonz.

All right, get out of here.

All right, you lucky guys.

You bust, you wait, you cook.

Ah, ah, you can't make me cook.

It's bust or nothing.

Come on, Fonz, we're not in class.

You can't make us do anything.

I love to cook.

Oh, goodness.

Listen, Fonz, I need your help.

You need my help?

I got no leg.

I'm teaching auto shop to idiots.

I got Henny Youngman working for me in the
garage, and I'm reduced to waiting on

tables, and do you know the people that
eat in here are lousy tippers?

Fonz, that's not important now.

You gotta do me a favor.

You have to come to dinner tonight
straight now, Mr. and Mrs. C.

Because if you don't, my life is over.

What I just said was not.

You see, if Joanie's parents make her stay
in Milwaukee, right, and I'm in Chicago,

I'm gonna drift apart.

And she'll wind up marrying some doctor or some lawyer.

And my life will go straight down the tubes.

Not important.

And then in a couple years, you know what
might happen to me?

No.

You might find me in a drunken stupor, Fonz.

Peeking through the bushes of her front yard.

And watching Joanie.

And little Bucky.

And little Buffy.

And wishing that I could have shared some
of that happiness.

You're right.

Your life is worse than mine.

I'll be there.

Thank you.

You gotta do me a favor, though.

What?

Don't you name your kids Bucky and Buffy.

So the bartender says, hey, we don't get
many gorillas in here.

And the gorilla says, at these prices, I don't doubt it.

Howard, you k*lled me.

Boy, nobody tells a joke like your father, Joanie.

Now.

All right.

Mom, Dad, I'd like to discuss something with you.

Now.

I've given this a lot of thought,
and I hope that instead of yelling and

screaming, we can talk this over maturely
and intelligently.

Well, that's not too much to ask.

Just don't talk with your mouth full.

At the beginning of the summer, I
was just a silly little high school girl.

Well, I'm not the same little girl anymore.

I've grown up.

A full high school girl.

That's right.

I've grown.

We've started a real career in Chicago, and I
think the best thing for me to do is to stay there.

Well, Joanie, I'm a little disappointed
that you'd think we'd just fly off the

handle and rant and rave like Khrushchev at the U.N.

You see that?

You're worried about nothing.

As far as you're staying in Chicago,
I mean, we could talk about it until we're

blue in the face, and the answer's still gonna be no.

Now, who wants ice cream on their pie?

Mom.

That's one.

That's two.

Mom.

Dad.

I'd appreciate it.

I'd appreciate it if you would keep an
open mind and hear me out.

Joanie, you're barely out of high school.

You're just too young to be living by yourself.

Sweetheart, it is time for you to start
thinking about an education.

I agree 100%, Mr. C.

Joanie's already enrolled in college.

Oh, sure.

One of those correspondence schools she
found in the back of a matchbook.

No, no, no.

Northwestern University.

Oh, Howard, that's the school you couldn't get into.

I would have, Marion.

It just so happens my transcripts were late.

And we're not talking about... About me?

Now, look, who do you expect to pay for
your education, huh?

No one.

I pay for my tuition with the money I made last summer.

Howard.

Marion.

Well, now that that's all settled, I think I
will have some ice cream in my pie, Mr.

C.

Joanie, you've made a very good case for yourself.

But you have to understand that your
mother and I have your best interests at heart.

So you will go to Chicago over my dead body.

How can you do this to me?

We're your parents.

It's our job.

But you haven't heard a word I said.

Joanie, Joanie, let me handle this.

I love this woman.

And she's mine now.

She doesn't need your permission to do anything anymore.

Sit down, Chachi.

Yes, sir.

Now, look.

He's my boyfriend, and he can stand up if he wants to.

Stand up.

Stand up.

See?

He understands.

And he'd never be as selfish as you're being right now.

Out of my way, Marion.

Now, that's enough out of that fresh mouth
of yours, young lady.

You go to your room.

Oh.

No.

I'm not going to my room.

Joanie Louise Cunningham, you go to your room
right now, and you wipe that lipstick off your face.

No.

I'm tired of being treated like a baby.

Well, then stop acting like one.

Oh, Dad.

I don't care.

She's going to come home and start telling stories.

You weren't older.

Neutral Corners.

Neutral Corners.

I am outraged.

This is not a Brazilian soccer match here.

This is supposed to be a nice family convo
done with rational and intelligent talking.

I am through talking.

Now, I have asked my daughter to go to her room,
and I would appreciate it if she'd do what she's told.

No, no, no, no.

Joanie.

I don't think anybody is saying,
go to your room, go to your room.

Why don't you just go to your room
until this whole thing just blows over, huh?

Nobody's going to tell me what to do anymore.

Not you, not them, not anybody.

And if you think I'm going to my room right now, I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I say this calls for action, and now, nip it in the bud.

You got to nip them things in the bud.

I'm going to get my bud nipper and go over
there and nip some bud.

There's only one way to take care of it.

Nip it in the bud.

That bud is nipped.

There's no place like TV land.

Nip it.

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Hey, Joanie.

Don't waste time.

I'm gushing about what a genius I am.

Just make like Dorothy and hit the yellow brick road.

Jenny, splitting isn't going to solve anything.

And locking yourself in the bathroom is.

Well, as long as I'm up here.

Do you have any nail Polish remover?

Sure.

Joanie, can I come in?

I'm alone.

Mom, I told you, I'm never going to my room again.

I realize that, dear, after your father
threatened to smoke you out.

Please, dear.

All right.

There, now.

I brought you everything that you're going to need.

Here's your PJs and some bedding and Flaxseed Morgan.

Mom, I haven't slept with Flaxseed Morgan for years.

Oh, Lisa, that's great.

Oh, really?

You two used to be so close.

Do you remember that year we would have to
lake white fish and we forgot him?

And you cried and cried and locked
yourself in the outhouse?

Yes, and your father drove all the way back to fetch him.

He was really P.O.

Flaxseed still had eyes then.

That doesn't seem so long ago.

Mom, do we have to argue about this?

Oh, Joanie, it's you and your father.

You're just cut from the same cloth.

I've never met two more stubborn people.

Whereas Richard takes after my side of the family.

Same disposition and hair coloring.

Do you really think what I want to do is so wrong?

No, I agree with you.

And I agree with your father.

See, I love you both so much.

I don't want anybody to get hurt.

I want you to go to Chicago.

And I want you to be home, too.

Well, good night, dear.

I love you.

I love you.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, that was beautiful.

Oh, Joanie, she's even sweeter than any of them.

Oh, Joanie, you can't run away from those
wonderful people, no matter how mean they are to you.

Life was so much easier when I was a kid.

And you still had eyes.

Yes.

I know what to do.

Very snazzy shorts there, Mr. C.

Letting the neighbors check out the new car, huh?

Look at the gleam on this baby.

Very middle class.

Fonzie, if you intend to start up about Joanie, let me
remind you that you rent here on a month-to-month basis.

Furnishing for my mom?

Not back and forth, Mr. C.

Little circles.

Good little circles.

Thank you.

Oh, sure.

Here.

Well, there's nothing like the smell of a new car.

Make a man feel alive.

Well, after all those years driving a huge
DeSoto, I thought I deserved something sportier.

So what happened?

I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

You're my idol, Mr. C.

You keep this submissive.

The wind, the condition.

It's fabulous.

Change the oil every 3,000 miles.

I do my best.

Yes, you do.

So how come you let your daughter lock
herself in the bathroom two days in a row?

That just proves she's not mature enough
to be out on her own.

You didn't give her any of the choice.

Get back upstairs.

No, I'm staying.

This has as much to do with me as it does with Joanie.

And I'm not budging through this whole thing.

Shut up.

If you don't mind, I'd just like to finish waxing my car.

Hey, look.

Look, I'm just a tenant here.

I understand.

You don't want to talk about it, Mr. C.

I do not want to talk about it.

In a few minutes, you're going to step back from this car.

You're going to admire your job,
how it sparkles, how it shines.

Don't you think it's time to step back and take a look
at your daughter, see how she sparkles and shines?

What are you driving at?

When this job is done, you can rub it,
you can Polish it until your elbow falls off.

Am I right?

And it ain't going to get any brighter.

The same thing is true of your daughter.

Mr. C., you have done a great job.

You have done a great job being a parent.

You should be proud.

You should be happy, not sad.

You should step back and see how she sparkles like a Jewel.

Mr. C., I appreciate what you're saying, Fonzie,
but I think I know what's best for my daughter.

Indeed you do.

You are a great dad.

It's just real important to know
whether you're doing what is

best for Joanie or whether
you're doing what is best for you.

Perry, do you think we're doing the right
thing about Joanie?

Of course, Howard.

We have to feed her.

There's no meat in here.

Joanie, it's me, your father, remember?

Joanie, will you please open this door?

I'd like to talk to you.

It's your dime.

Well, I can't talk to you with those on.

You look like a sea bass.

Now, look, Joanie, I don't know whether you've
ever noticed, but sometimes I can be a little stubborn.

Oh, you didn't have to come in here to tell me that.

Well, I know I didn't have to, but I wanted to.

You see, this has not been an easy time
for your mother and I.

I guess maybe we've been a little selfish.

It's just that I keep remembering the day
you were born when the nurse butchered my

arms and you were my little girl, so pink and so little.

I didn't want to let go.

I still don't.

But I look at you now and I realize that
we can't hold you any longer, so your

mother and I, we want you to go to Chicago
and knock them dead.

Oh, damn it, I guess.

I didn't mean to grow up.

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Guess this is it.

Goodbye, sweetheart.

Now, if ever you need anything, we'll be right here.

You always help me.

And always wear clean underwear in case
you're in a bus wreck.

Marion, it's time to let go.

Goodbye, sweetheart.

Okay, bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Goodbye, Grace.

Next on The Brady Bunch, Jim Backus guest
stars, but not as the ghost town guy.

Now he's Mike's boss, Mr. Matthews,
who up until this episode was named Mr.

Phillips and played by another guy.

Stay tuned for episode 116.

The Hustlers.

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baby These happy days are yours and mine.

These happy days are yours and mine Happy
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