- Oh, my goodness, Webster,
that's quite animpressive house of cards.
- Took me hours to build it,
but I have to moveit before dinner.
- It's a shame you'llhave to take it down.
- No, I won't. [laughing]
[audience laughing]
[Webster laughing][audience laughing]
♪ Set in my ways, losingtrack of the days ♪
♪ Only me to live for ♪
♪ Had no need to givemore than I wanted to ♪
♪ Spending my timejust holding the line ♪
♪ Never getting caught up ♪
♪ Love was never brought up ♪
♪ It's not the thing to do ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, it wasyou, then came you ♪
♪ You made me leapwithout taking a look ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, it wasyou, then came you ♪
♪ You reeled me right in,line, sinker, and hook ♪
♪ Never thought foreverwas the best I could do ♪
♪ Then came you ♪
♪ It was you, me and you ♪
♪ Then came you ♪
♪ It was you, me and you ♪
♪ It was you and me ♪
♪ Then came you ♪
[bright upbeat music]
- George, ma'am, come quick.
George, you come with me.
Oh, ma'am, could youkeep the door open
and kind of stay out the way?
- [George] Webster?
- Shh, come on. Come on.
- [George] Yeah, sowhat do we do now?
- [Webster] Now we ringthis guy's doorbell.
[doorbell rings]
- [George] Yeah, and then what?
- Now we run likecrazy. I not here!
[audience laughing]
- I know. You're not here.
- [Webster] Overhere, hurry. Shh.
- Hello. Ramon Caballero.
- Ah, KatherineCalder-Young Papadopolis.
- Pleasure. Have you seen a, uh-
- Tall man?
- Yes. And a, uh-
- Small boy?
- Yes.- No.
[audience laughing]
- Well, if you do-
- I will.
- Fine.
- Pleasure. Coastis clear, boys.
Time for milk and cookies.
- That was great, George.
You think just likea nine-year-old.
[audience laughing]
- Well, I would'vesaid 10-year-old,
but I'll bow to you, Webster.
- Since when are you such anauthority on nine-year-olds?
You're only seven.
- Yeah, but all my newfriends are all nine.
- Did your new friendsteach you that little trick?
- Yep. They taughtme lot of new tricks.
[audience laughing]
- Yeah, well, here's somethinga seven-year-old should know.
Those pranks you'replaying are pain in the=
- George.
- I was gonna say neck, darling.
- Yeah, sure. [laughs]
[audience laughing]
- Well, from now on,there'll be no more pranks
played aroundhere, you got that?
- Well...
- Huh?
- Okay. It's a deal.
- Okay.[toy buzzes]
[audience laughing]
- [laughs] Last one, I promise.
Here, I want you have it.
- Webster, youbetter get a move on.
The school bus'llbe here any minute.
- Yes, ma'am.
Nine year olds. Wow!
[audience laughing]
- I don't like it, Katherine.
- Next time, makeyour own coffee.
[audience laughing]
- Not the coffee, darling.
I don't like the idea ofWebster hanging around
with nine-year-old pranksters.
- Well, I don't think Webstershould play practical jokes
on the neighbors, but come on.
When we were kids, we allplayed practical jokes.
- Not me. Not then, and not now.
Pranks are silly,immature, and childish.
- I see.
So there's nothingsilly, immature,
or childish aboutGeorge Papadopolis?
- Amen.
[doorbell rings]
Odds.
- George.
- Oh, okay, then evens.Once, twice, three times.
sh**t.
- The door, Mr. Adult.
- Ah, god, I shouldhave taken odds.
[audience laughing]
- Hi, George. Garbagedisposal on the fritz again.
Hi, Katherine.
- Trudy.
- Ooh, I'm just beinga good neighbor.
Don't worry, I'll have thatsucker humming in no time.
- Uh, Trudy.
- Just a littlespinning action here.
- Trudy, you're really making
a mistake.- Stand back, Katherine.
I'm working here, thank you.
[audience laughing]
- Uh, we don't havea garbage disposal.
- Then I guess this is silly.
[audience laughing]
- Guess so.
- Oh, of course. It mustbe the Penske's disposal.
You see, they have a disposal,and my little Melanie plays
with their little Barry,but she doesn't play
with Webster becauseWebster plays with hoodlums.
Well, have a nice day.
- Hoodlums.- What are you talking about,
hoodlums?
- Webster's new friends.
They're gangsters, all of them.
Of course, that's just onecaring mother's opinion.
Well, I gotta fly.
- Don't forget your broom.
[audience laughing]
- Maybe we should, uh,pull Webster out of school
and talk to him.
- You were a joy buzzered,honey. Life goes on.
[audience laughing]
[George clears throat]
- Well, maybe we shouldtalk to him after school.
- We can't comerunning back here
in the middle of the afternoon.
- Why not?
- As a consumer advocate,
I get to listen toa lot of complaints.
Today is small appliance day.
By 3:00 this afternoon, I willbe knee-deep in waffle irons.
- Yeah, well, I'll meet him.
- Well, what about your biginterview with B.J. Thomas?
- O.J. Simpson.
- Whatever.
[audience laughing]
Uh, tell you what,we'll both be back here
as soon as possible andjust cut our day short.
- That's a deal.
[toy buzzes][Katherine yells]
[audience laughing]
[audience clapping]
[bright upbeat music]
- Never saw that one before.
- Hey, Maurice.
I thought you said the specialof the day was swordfish.
- It is swordfish.
- Well, this swordfishtastes like meatloaf.
[audience laughing]
Well?
[audience laughing]
Why do I come here?
[boys laughing]
- Whoa, all right![hands smacking]
- See that prank?
- Oh, god!- Totally!
- You got it that time.
[boys laughing]
- Yo, Web, how you doing?
Oh, I see you brought yourfriends in here today.
- Maurice, thisis Petey Sullivan,
Matthew Blake, andDwight David Heisenower.
- Dwight David Eisenhower.
- Heisenower.
- Hey, hey, hey! Youhear this, Harry?
- Leave me alone.
- All right, all right.
- So what'll it be, Ike, alittle tutti frutti maybe, or?
- Maurice.
Tutti frutti forseven-year-olds!
- You are seven.
- Yeah, but those guys are nine.
- Oh, I'm impressed.Aren't ya impressed, Harry?
- Nothing impressesme. Life stinks.
- Eh, how aboutsomething more grown up?
Say, like, uh, chocolate sodas.
- [Boys] Yeah, chocolate sodas!
- And because youWebster's friends,
there's a special price.
Only 50 cents a piece.
- All right!- Hey, Web,
why don't you bringthe man the money?
- Wow, thanks guys.
- I'm telling you guys, wecan't let him in the club.
You gotta be nine.Now, that's the rule.
- Yeah, but if wedon't let him in,
who's gonna carry our books,
dump our lunch trays,tell us we're great?
- You're right. We need the kid.
[audience laughing]
[machine whirring]
- Hey, I got an idea.
[boys whispering faintly]
[boys laughing]
- [Petey] All right!
- There you go. Enjoy.
[boys laughing]
- What's so funny?
- Should we tell him?
- I don't know. He might squeal.
- I won't squeal. I promise.
- Come on, guys. Let'slet him in the club.
- Yeah, then we can tell him.
- Okay, but yougotta hate liver.
- I do.
- And spinach.
- I do.
- And girls.
- I will.
[audience laughing]
- [Matthew] Okay, come here.
[boys whispering faintly]
[Petey, Matthew,and Dwight laughing]
- Are you sure that's funny?
- It's a crack up.
- Well, okay.
Maurice, my tummy hurts.
- What? Come here, sit down.
Let me take your temperature.
No, I'll call you folks.
- [Dwight] Come on,Web. We gotta go.
- Okay. We'll see ya, Maurice.
- Hey, what about your tummy?
- It's a joke. Get it?
- Oh! No.
[audience laughing]
- Maybe I did it wrong.Oh well, see you later.
Hey guys, wait for me.
- Boy, kids, they getyounger every day.
I don't believeit. He stiffed me.
- I forgot my glasses.
- Yeah, you alsoforgot to pay me.
- I left it under theashtray as always.
- Well, it ain't there now,and the only other people
that were here wasWebster and his friends.
[gentle melancholy music]Oh, no.
[bright upbeat music]
- Jerry, are you coming in?
- [Jerry] No.
- Come on, Jerry.
- Barbarians. Brattlings.
- So how's it going, Jerry?
- Hellions, hoodlums, hooligans!
- That good, huh?
[audience laughing]
- Well it's your own fault.
- Very nice. An employerto her devoted secretary.
- Did you really think thatkid could tell your fortune?
- Of course not.
- Then why'd yougive him a dollar?
- I thought it would befun to have my palm read.
- Well, it's red. [laughs]
[audience laughing]
- And it's your fault.- [gasps] My fault?
- Well, if Websterweren't hanging out
with those bad seeds,
we would've worked late, likeevery small appliance day,
and I wouldn't have run intothat hoodlum who hoodled me.
- He hoodled you?
- Oh, he didn't hoodle me?
- Jerry!
- Katherine, I'm sorry.
I can't possibly workhere this afternoon.
- I was thinking thesame thing, Jerry.
[audience laughing]
- I'll be going to Eduardo'sto return this suit.
- Jerry Silver!
- Well, it was damaged!
[audience laughing]
[Katherine sighs]
[Katherine grunts]
- Hey.- Hey, George. Hi, ma'am.
- Hi.
- Webster, we'd like to talkto you about your friends.
- The new ones or the old ones?
- The new ones.
- Good, because I don't playwith the old ones anymore,
especially Melanie.
- Why? What's thematter with Melanie?
- First, she's a girl and mynew friends don't like girls.
- Well, we'd like to meetsome of your new friends.
- That's great.
- Is it?
- I'd love myfriends to meet you.
I think you guys are neat.
- Thank you.
- I'll bring them home tomorrow.
- You see, there'snothing to worry about.
- Yeah, maybe Iwas overreacting.
[doorbell rings]
Odds.
- Please just get the door.
[audience laughing]
- You never play withme anymore, Katherine.
Maurice.
- Hi, George. I'm reallysorry to bother you.
- No bother at all. Come on in.
- Hi, Maurice.
- Oh, hi Mrs. P.
[audience laughing]
- What can, whatcan we do for you?
- Well, it's like they say,
I got good newsand I got bad news.
You see, uh, myestablishment was robbed.
- [gasps] Oh, that's terrible
- I know. And that'sthe good news.
[audience laughing]
The bad news is that Webster
was one of thealleged perpetrators.
[gentle melancholy music]
- Webster, did you and yourfriends take the money?
- I can't tell.
- You mean you won't tell.
- Webster there was no oneelse in the restaurant, right?
- Right.
- And Maurice wouldn'tsteal his own money, right?
- Well, I don'tknow him that well.
- Webster.- Webster.
[audience laughing]
- So you and your friendswere the only ones
who could have taken it, right?
- I can't tell.
- Well, you've gottatell us something
or we're gonna haveto assume you did it.
- What's gonna happen to me?
- Well, nothing'sgonna happen to you.
[audience laughing]
- Well, he's gonna be punished.
- Wait a minute.
She just said nothing'sgonna happen to me.
[audience laughing]
- Webster, we would be badparents if we didn't punish you.
- Not in my eyes.
[audience laughing]
- Please go to your room sowe can decide what to do.
- Can I make one phone call?
- All right, go on.
- Thank you.
- That sad little face.
- Yeah, well, he should besad. He did something wrong.
- Hello, Dwight,this is Webster.
Did you guys take anymoney from the restaurant?
Of, of course I didn'tsqueal. I'd never squeal.
But stealing is bad.You gotta give it back.
Listen, I am gettinginto deep trouble.
[audience laughing]
Hello? Hello?
Have you decidedon my punishment?
- Not yet.
- Then I'm not beingpunished yet, right?
- Well, technicallythat's correct.
- Good. I thinkI'll go take a walk.
- A walk?
- I'll be back ina little while.
I just have some thinking to do.
If one of you wants to comewith me, I won't stop you.
- Is this goingto be man-to-man?
- Well, only if George comes.
[audience laughing]
[gentle light music]
- Penny for your thoughts.
All right, 75 cents.
You know, I got afeeling you and I
are thinking the same thing.
- You're thinkingabout Raymond Seltzer?
[audience laughing]
- Mm, no. Who's Raymond Seltzer?
- He's in my class.Second row, third seat.
- Yeah, go on.
- Susan Lipa losther pencil case.
- What does this have todo with Raymond Seltzer?
- Teacher blamed iton him for taking it.
- Was he innocent?
- Yep, Neil Conrad took itand Raymond told on him,
and Susan got herpencil case back.
- Well, that's good.
- Not for Raymond. Everyonecalls him a tattletale.
No one talks to him anymore.
- Oh, so you're afraidif you tell the truth,
no one will talk to you anymore.
- Maybe.
- Well, you know whatI think the truth is?
I think the truth is thatthose guys took the money,
and you didn't knowanything about it.
- I didn't say that.
- Oh, I didn'tsay you said that.
It's just a hunch.I could be wrong.
- Well, you could be right.
- Well then, you'rein trouble, kiddo.
I don't see any of those boys
coming over hereand helping you.
- But they still might.
- What if they don't?
- But George, I gave my word.
[gentle light music continues]
- Yeah, that's honorable,but the question is,
did you give it tothe right people?
- George? Webster'sbeing punished.
I mean, I thought weagreed to ground him.
He's not supposed to be havingparties with other children,
especially WillySutton and the boys.
[audience laughing]
- Well, he, uh, invitedthe boys up to apologize.
- He did?
- Yeah, that's whatI think he did.
I mean, he invited the boysand he invited Maurice up.
What else could it be?
[doorbell rings]
- I'll get it.
Hi. Come on in, Maurice.
- [Maurice] Oh, thanks, Web.
[audience laughing]
- You remember myfriends, right?
- Yeah. They look familiar.
- [Boys] Hi, Maurice.
[audience laughing]
- Oh, hi, George.Uh, hi, Mrs. P.
- Maurice.- [laughs] So, uh,
what brings mehere you might ask.
- Uh, didn't Webster tell you?
- Well, uh, he was alittle oblique, uh,
but he said if I cameover, I'd be a happy man.
- So?
- Not yet.
[audience laughing]
- Hey guys, think wecan make Maurice happy?
Dwight.- I didn't do anything.
- Matthew?
- I got nothing to say.
- Petey?
Well, I have something to say?
- Web, you promised!
- Don't worry. Ikeep my promises.
- So, uh, how's life inthe fast lane, Mrs. P?
- Full of small appliances.
[Maurice laughing]
[change jingling]
- Maurice, I can't tellyou who stole the money,
but I can give it back.
Sorry, piggy.
- Web.
- You're right. Whyshould the pig suffer?
[audience laughing]
Here.- I can't take it.
- Oh, you must.
- Yeah, but the moneyain't important.
- Well, he knows that. That'swhy you have to take it.
- You're right. I'm a happy man.
[audience laughing]
- What'd you do that for?
- How would I know?I'm only seven.
- Yeah, seven-year-oldsdon't know anything.
- We know who our friends are.
- Let's get outta here.
- [Petey And Dwight]Yeah, let's go.
- [Petey] What're wedoing around here?
He's gonna get us in trouble.
- Giving away yourmoney. Boy, what a sap!
- [Matthew And Petey] Bye, sap.
[gentle somber music]
- George, ma'am, doyou think I'm a sap?
- What do you think?
- I hope not, but I might be.
- But you did dosomething honorable.
You made a promise andyou kept your word.
And you know something?You didn't do it for them.
- I didn't?
- Mm-mm. You did it for you.
- Yeah, and I don'tcare what anybody says.
I like liver and spinach
and girls.
[audience laughing]
[audience clapping]
- I do too.
[audience laughing]
- [laughs] Well, are youfeeling better about everything?
- Yeah, I feel alot better about it.
- I was talking to Webster.
- I'm okay, except I don't haveanyone to play with anymore.
- Well, what about Melanie?
- Yeah, Melanie!
What ifshe doesn't talk to me?
I wasn't very nice to her.
- It's ringing.
- Okay, but it'snot gonna be easy.
[audience laughing]
Hello, Melanie? Wannacome upstairs and play?
Yeah, I know you're a girl,
but us seven-year-oldsgot to stick together.
[audience laughing]
Yes, I'll give youice cream and cookies
and balloons.
[audience laughing]
What? Can Melanie have a pony?
[audience laughing]
- A pony?- A pony?
- I told you itwasn't gonna be easy.
[audience laughing]
What color?
[bright upbeat music]
[audience clapping]
Piggy looks happy.
- Yeah, me and thepig are always happy
when an old pal visits us.
- What's that?
- It's a thing witha picture in it.
One of my olderfriends gave it to me.
He said not to look atit till I'm married.
[audience laughing]
- I don't see anything.Must be my eyes.
[audience laughing]
[Webster laughing]
[audience clapping]
[bright upbeat music]
[bright lively music]
01x12 - A Question of Honor
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Set in Chicago, revolves around Webster Long, a 5-year-old African American orphan whose biological parents were recently k*lled in a car accident and is taken in by his godfather, retired football star George Papadopolis.
Set in Chicago, revolves around Webster Long, a 5-year-old African American orphan whose biological parents were recently k*lled in a car accident and is taken in by his godfather, retired football star George Papadopolis.