01x11 - The Ice Cream Promise

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I'll teach you to hope you'll find that

I have something worthwhile just let me

stay here

for forever I promise a life full of

smiles

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oh it looks marvelous

just like a scene from A Midsummer

Night's Dream

dream whose dream William Shakespeare's

I should think it's the name of a

theater play he wrote the evenly book

club read it this month the decorations

are to inspire tonight's discussion oh

Midsummer Night's Dream how enchanting

what did you think of it Marilla wasn't

the ending absolutely thrilling don't

tell me I haven't finished yet morning

Gilbert

what are you doing with Mr Samuel's ice

cream maker her sister just had triplets

triplets

when it rains it pours

so she won't be able to make the ice

cream for tonight but it's our only

refreshment we never got ice cream when

I lived at the orphanage our guests

won't get any now either and I can

make it now and Mrs Lind needs our help

and I'd so love even the teeniest Taste

of ice cream

oh all right

Marilla are you sure you have time of

course it will be my pleasure our

pleasure how are the lines coming

Gilbert just about memorized lines

memorized Gilbert's performing a scene

from tonight's play but I thought the

book clubs were grown-ups only well I

guess I'm an exception I guess

if there's an exception for Gilbert

there's surely an exception for me I

simply must find a way to attend

tonight's book club and I know just the

thing

you want to perform a Shakespeare scene

too

are you sure you've got the time

absolutely well I suppose we could have

a little something to finish off the

night oh Mrs Lind you won't regret it

see you this evening

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don't tell me it's Autumn already

I'll finish my chores let's start

now hold your horses ice cream is a very

long process and I can't wait I have all

sorts of things to do and this ice cream

will take all day to make you haven't

got a spare second and nor have I oh

really well I'm sure I'll be all right

what do we do first you fetch some cream

from Matthew I'll get some ice from Mr

Lawson's what a full day this is going

to be

I'll just have to squeeze in the time to

prepare a scene for the book club

oh I'd best to something for marilla's

book first and quick before she leaves

everything looks so special I wonder if

we shouldn't add something extra special

to your performance too like what a

costume which part are you playing the

character who turns into a donkey a

donkey why that's perfect now you get

right on that I've got to start

squeezing lemons for lemonade

how am I gonna make a donkey mask

I know who to talk to

picking a Shakespeare scene is harder

than I thought these plays are big and

complicated now where has my book Gone

uh oh

there it is I I was just having a look

well quit your dawdling child and fetch

the cream I'll be back from Lawson soon

enough

no Shakespeare and no other ideas what

do I do now I suppose I should get that

cream before anything else

I just love a lick of ice cream wish I

could have a taste tonight but Mr Lawson

you will you're leading the discussion

not since a shipment got held up I'll be

in comedy

then who will lead the discussion

tonight perhaps you might

I've quite enough on my plate you do a

splendid job Marilla

I suppose you're a lifesaver here's the

ice shall I take it to your Carriage I

can manage you've quite a lot to manage

now Marilla

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Matthew is that the butter man leaving

yep I just finished churning all the

cream into butter all of it but I need

cream for the ice cream it's the book

club's only refreshment well there's

always grumpy Gussy in the back pasture

haven't milked her

grumpy Gussy

would you like some help

thank you the

perfume and I shall fix it myself

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come on Gussy uh-huh

mmm yummy good grass

oh this is never gonna work

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Mr Cuthbert up here

what can I do for you I promised Mrs

Linda I'd make a donkey mask for the

role I'm playing tonight ah you must be

performing bottom speech from A

Midsummer Night's stream when he has a

fairy spell put on him and becomes a

donkey you know it I saw it once a real

hoot so you think this old fella could

help yes well not the old part but the

helping part well I've done most of my

chores for the day so I suppose I can Mr

Cuthbert thanks a bundle

oh I should be finding my dramatization

I'm not shoving you in for milking oh

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please

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that works wait for me

laughs

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good gravy how am I going to make ice

cream and read the play perhaps if I

read a few pages on the way home

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ah now this is working just fine

come on Gussy just one pail of milk

the whole book club is eagerly

anticipating a taste of ice cream

what an utter disaster

Rachel's right it is a thrilling

conclusion

flying fiddleheads I've taken the wrong

road

that ice will be water before I get back

to Green Gables that'll teach me to do

two things at once come on

back we go

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is this a donkey I see before me

not yet but it will be soon I'll show

off these knobby bits you slap on a coat

of paint we can do the finishing touches

when it dries I sure appreciate your

help

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I'm grumpy Gussy barely gave me a drop

how'd you end up with grumpy Gussy I

made most horrible error and got to the

barn after Matthew had turned all the

cream into butter didn't I tell you not

to dally

that my mind has been so distracted I

told Mrs Lind I would perform tonight

just like Gilbert you can't possibly

manage all of that I can Marilla I must

I shall

what a pair we are you'd Best Buy cream

at Mr Lawson's before this ice melts

completely right away and on the way

home I'll pick some blueberries for

flavor

where shall we play town or Forest play

what

hide and seek wanna join us oh yes I

love hide and seek ow wait I can't I

have previous commitments come on it'll

be fun how can you play Gilbert don't

you have a dramatization to practice

I've learned it I'm only waiting for the

paint to dry in my costume costume

you've got a costume too so what'll it

be town or forest forest

hello Anne oh a bottle of cream please

coming right up

hide and seek is one of my favorite

games why don't you play for just a

little while because I want to make the

ice cream and I want to do my

dramatization but hide and seek such fun

there must be a way to make ice cream

find the speech and enjoy yourself

you sure you don't want to play in

oh I don't know

maybe just a short while great come on

and

and

now where did she go

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I'm gonna get you no you're not gonna

catch me and come on

gotcha all right Gilbert said

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[Laughter]

let me catch my breath

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one two three four five six seven

eight eight nine nine and a half and one

more is ten this is so much fun I'm so

glad I did this

and there's blueberries

blueberries oh no I should be helping

Marilla or at least be learning my scene

I lament ever making all those silly

commitments they've made me miserable

I just want to forget all about them

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I know what you mean about commitments

dryad what have you committed to I

promise to transport the fairy queen

back to a castle after her royal retreat

first we gotta get this boat in good

working order

good working order that's my job uh

could you help me with yours what's

yours that's just it we don't have any

yet I think I know there are some good

branches they'll make gray doors come on

I'll test this boat don't you worry

first the snooze

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hey

grab one

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then I can swing further than you

bet you can't

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let me try yippee

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that was fun yes but we haven't found

oars yet no problem but we promised the

queen would pick her up oh we will for

fairies what doesn't get done today can

get done tomorrow what a wonderful way

to deal with commitments

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um

yes yes good working order

I sure hope so we better fetch the queen

oh

Oh Yes siree ready as we'll ever be life

jackets

life jackets

uh we'll use our arms to paddle dryad

and I didn't have time to find oars

that's fine arms can do the trick and

sure is easy when people don't hold you

to your commitments

hey we're sinking

have you been napping the whole time uh

maybe I didn't test our boat after all

fulfilling commitments is important

after all but look how we let people

down if we don't hold to them

commitments are silly

uh-oh

oh no

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I've got my work cut out for me me too

I'd better see to my commitments

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yeah

Gilbert you found my favorite hiding

spot yes but I'm not playing anymore why

not I promise to fetch cream and berries

oh well look on the bright side what

bright side you're sitting in a berry

patch I'll help you pick the Bears if

you like oh Gilbert Blythe I am

eternally in your debt

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what's the rush Peg Bowen I'm in the

most horrible predicaments I have to

find a Shakespeare scene for the book

club tonight the only problem is I I

don't know Shakespeare I do you do well

never met the man myself but there's

always been one scene struck my fancy

what is it the witch's seen from the

play Macbeth

witches it's good and spooky

well spooky is dramatic that's what I

always say

so long as it's brief that's very kind

of you head bone

whatever took you so long gorilla I

ignored my commitments only to realize

their importance to you and the book

club

so long as you have the ingredients oh I

do then let's get to it

right then and you churn I'll press

tonight's outfits and then I'll take

over

I'm going to do the witch's speech for

Macbeth tonight ooh scary have you

memorized it that's precisely what I'm

going to do while I turn Double Double

Toil in trouble the throttle with his

note so true the retin with little quill

huh the the rent oh no I've already done

that line

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well what if I forget my lines I'll be

standing up there in front of everybody

oh what if I'm terrible

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goodness

we have quite a ways to go and almost no

time left your turn I have to find my

costume I haven't had a second to finish

A Midsummer Night's Dream how can I lead

the discussion if I don't even know the

ending and was reading while she churned

oh no

I already tried doing two things at once

earlier today you'll never guess where

it got me well then let me turn no I got

myself into this and I'll get myself out

I have a few pages left could you read

them out loud well I'm I'm no actor

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hmm

Gilbert what are you doing here Matthew

helped me with my costume

oh

it's lovely so why are you so glum I

can't remember my lines I I think I have

stage fright yeah

what am I gonna do real think of

something

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come on I can't and I can't go on don't

worry I have an idea

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um with great pleasure I introduce

Gilbert blid's dramatization from A

Midsummer Night's Dream

now remember what to do if you forget

your lines I will I see that navry this

is to make an a*s out of me into

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to Fright me if they could but I will

not

I will not

I will not stir from this place

do what they can I will

walk up and down here and I will sing

that they shall hear I am not afraid the

also so black of you with orange

Tony Bill the thrustle with his notes so

true the ren with little quill the finch

the sparrow and the lock the plane song

cuckoo gray whose note fooled so many a

man doth Mock and there's not answer nay

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well done

thank you

thank you thank you very much

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a wonderful Point Mrs Brown

and on that note we'll wrap up our

discussion of Shakespeare's magical

mystical Midsummer Night's Dream well

done Marilla you knew that play inside

out in all truth I wish I'd had more

preparation time I only hope I can do as

well next month when I lead the

discussion now where on this green earth

is the ice cream

I'm ready

ladies and gentlemen may I present a

last minute Edition and Shirley my scene

is short so we can get to the punch line

all the quicker I've also taken the

liberty of well improving on what Mr

Shakespeare wrote Whatever is that girl

up to imagine I'm a spooky witch

standing over a cauldron I'm about to

tell Macbeth his fortune Double Double

Toil and Trouble while you're burning

cauldron Babble round about The Cauldron

go in the cream and sugar throw add the

berries 10 or 20 and make ice cream for

friends of plenty

laughs

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pig pig Bowen boo

oh Gilbert I thought someone out here

might have liked some ice cream there is

me who will share it is divinely

delicious

we read a book by Charles Dickens next

month

wouldn't it be fun if Anne and Gilbert

performed something from A Christmas

Carol

what did we get ourselves into hmm

now where have they gone

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I think they really should keep their

grown-ups only rule I agree

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