07x04 - Partners in Crime/Thumbs Up

[bunniefuu]

[ Snoring]

[ Gasps]

[ Kids laughing]

[ Snoring]

[ Laughing]

No, dil, that's mine.

Oh...

Angelica:
not bad, kid.

Not bad at all--
you just may got what it takes.

Not like those other dumb babies

Who are all nice
and sharing stuff.

Don't listen
to her, dil.

You don't want
to grow up

To be like
angelica.

Oh, brother.

[ Gasps]

Boring.

Wow, that's more like it.

[ Snorting]

Hey... Where's my fishing show?

It was just getting
to the exciting part.

Oh, hey, I remember this one.

It's a real humdinger!

Johnny, you
got the loot!

Couldn't have done it
without you, doll.

Step on it!

[ Crowd crying for help]

Wow, grandpa,
who's that girl?

She's almost
as pretty as me.

And who's the guy

And what
are they doing?

Well, they're what you call
"partners in crime."

They go around pulling off
big bank heists.

She drives the getaway car
and gets half the loot.

Really?

I could drive
like that.

[ Tires screeching]

Uh-oh... Now, you don't
want to be like her, angelica.

She's up to no good.

So?

She gets loot,
doesn't she?

Oh, she doesn't
get to keep it.

They're the bad guys

And you can be sure
they end up in the slammer.

[ Sirens blaring]

[ Gasps]

See? The coppers
are on their tail now.

Wow, chuckie, that's
a policeman's car.

They must be chasing
after some bad guy.

[ Siren continues blaring]

Calling all cars,
officers in pursuit.

Repeat, officers in pursuit.

[ Tires squeal]

What are they doing
in that dinky house?

That's their hideout

So's the coppers
can't find them

And that's where
they stash the loot.

Wow.

Uh... But not for long.

Remember, crime doesn't pay.

Didi:
honestly, pop!

What were you thinking

Letting them
watch that?

Who knows what effects
those images

Could have
on their little psyches.

Aw, horsefeathers,
it's just a movie--

And one I'd like
to see the end of.

Well, it's time
to get some fresh air.

We're going to the park.

You can watch
a movie anytime.

[ Grumbling]

Hmm...

Ah...

Pop! We came
to the park

For fresh air and
exercise and... Hey...

Is this about
the couple on a crime spree?

It's a classic.

Darn tootin'.

[ Kids giggling]

Uh, babies...

Didi:
angelica!

[ Gasps]

I made a dozen

And they's only two left.

I'm surprised
at you.

That's it, no more
sweets for a week!

No, no, not you,
jonathan.

Now where were we?

[ Gasps]

Hmm, what are you
dumb babies looking at?

[ Dil googling]

Hmm, another dumb baby.

Oh, yeah, maybe that one's
not so dumb.

Hey, I gots the getaway car...

And I think I just found
my partner in crime.

I'm going to check

For a first-aid
station--

Can't be too careful.

I wonder where stu and pop went.

What do you say we
look for them

Over by the coffee
on a stick cart.

How'd you like
to sink your pearlies

Into a double-dip,
triple espresso bar?

Does it come in a decaf?

Thanks for watching dil,
charlotte.

We'll be right back.

Take your time.

[ Googling]

Okay, dil, let's go
for a little ride.

Hey, what's dil doing
in angelica's car?

That was okay
for practice, kid.

You ready for the big time?

[ Burps]

This is terrible, you guys.

Angelica's teaching dil
to be bad.

We gots to go after them!

We're going after angelica?

First, it's a bottle, chuckie

And before you know it he's even
taking other kids' cookies.

Come here, spike!

Chuckie, you go in back
and be the lookout.

You mean I'm the guy
that's got to yell "look out?"

Spike, follow that car.

Charles:
there you are.

Wow, a little tv.

But I thought we came
to the park to...

Whoa, film noir!

A shadowy and intriguing genre.

Shh!

[ Siren blaring]

[ Electronic bell ringing]

Calling all cars,
officers in a suit.

Those will do for a start.

Oh, no, dil's after
the cookies, you guys.

We gots to stop angelica
before dil takes
those cookies.

Faster, spike!

Uh-oh, coppers
on our tail.

Stop, in the name
of the craw!

You'll never get me, coppers!

No, spike!

Look out!

[ Yelling]

[ Both gasp]

Mud!

[ Evil laugh]

Now, back to business.

Look, dil, cookies.

Ow!

Not me, you baldy,
the cookies, remember?

[ Giggling]

That a boy.

[ Struggling]

Come on, you guys,
we gots to keep tying.

Dil already stealed
the cookies, tommy.

He's a goner.

No, you guys!

I'm never giving up
on my baby brother.

Besides, we want
to make mud men.

Sorry, tommy.

What about you, chuckie,
you with me?

Well, okay, tommy

I guess that's what
bestest friends are for.

Thanks-- now alls you
gots to do is pull the wagon.

What?!

Let me explain
"share the loot," kid:

You get one,
and I get the rest.

Betty:
that dame drives
a mean v- .

Honestly, betty, how can
you waste a perfect day...

Oh, I do love
those ' s clothes.

I wonder how I'd look
in shoulder pads.

Hey, you been
holding out on me?

After all I taught you
about sharing.

What I needs is a...

Yeah, a hideout
to stash the loot

Where you can't get it.

[ Groaning]

I need a rest,
tommy.

Okay, chuckie, but hurry.

It's not resting
if you gots to hurry to do it.

[ Angelica laughs]

No one will ever
find it there.

Now it's time for a bigger
haul-- the biggest heist of all.

Man:
ezekiel davis...

Years old today.

Oh, no, chuckie,
they're after that big cake.

Come on!

You mean I got to pull again?

No, I gots
a better idea.

Old man:
hey, what's that
girlie doing?

Uh-oh.

To the hideout!

She took
the cake!

Get that
little girl!

I told you you'd never get me.

[ Laughs scornfully]

[ Screams]

Oo.

Hand over the baby,
angelica.

Never.

Both:
hey!

It's mine, mine, all...

Oh, I don't
feel so good.

Person [ distantly]:
there she is.

[ Angry voices approaching]

Angelica, you're in
big trouble, missy.

See that, dil?

Grandpa was right--
crime doesn't pay.

You're back with
the good guys now, dil.

Charlotte:
and no new toys, no new clothes

No tv for a month...

I'll take real life
over a movie any day--

No cops and robbers
around here.

Thanks for watching dil,
charlotte.

Any time, didi--
he's such a good baby

It's as if he
weren't even there.

[ Laughing]

[ Nailing]

Playing "follow the
leader" makes me tired.

How long till we can
stop kicking, tommy?

Dil's the leader, lil.

We gots to do it
till he stops.

He can stop now.

You babies look like
upside-down-side turtles.

You want to play "follow
the leader," angelica?

I'm not following any babies.

I'll play if I'm the leader.

But, angelica...

It's dil's turn.

That trolly blob?

If you followed me, we could do
all kinds of neat stuff

Like building cynthia
her own city-- cynthianati!

[ Coos]

Sorry, angelica

We gots to do
what dil does.

[ Indignantly]:
what are you going to do next,
poop and drool?

[ Giggles]

Come to see your daddy
hard at work?

[ Yells]

[ Stu whimpering]

Stu, are you okay?

I'm fine.

The hammer must
be defective.

Or maybe quick reflexes
skip a generation.

Didi:
stu, look.

They're all
sucking their thumbs.

Is that bad
for them?

I don't know.

It just
so happens I
saw a report

That says thumb-sucking can lead
to poor college grades

And bad job skills, not
to mention social isolation.

Oh, mule muffins!

The only thing
thumb-sucking leads
to is buck teeth.

Poor grades?

Buck teeth?

Lipschitz.
Lipschitz.

Go on, guys,
dil's still the leader

And he's not sucking
his thumb no more.

I kind of like
sucking my thumb, tommy.

Yeah, me too.

Even if it does
make it all clean.

Didn't you babies
hear what the
grownups said?

If you keep sucking your thumbs,
you'll get duck's teeth.

Duck teeth?!

You guys, you gots to
stop sucking your thumbs.

Go ahead, dilly.

Do something else
and we'll follow you.

Oh, it's so
disappointing.

If you babies had just been
following me instead of dil

None of you would have been
going to turn into a duck.

All:
duck!

Of course--
first, you get duck teeth.

Then you turn into a duck.

I don't want to be a duck.

But I don't want
to stop sucking my thumb.

Don't worry, babies,
I'll come visit you.

At the
duck pond.

Duckie, duckie.

Well, what does
lipschitz say?

I'm looking, stu.

Every time
you turn a page

Tommy and dil lose
another chance at harvard.

Yep, but they'll b*at the
competition bobbing for apples.

"Thumb-sucking," let's see.

"While some believe infant
thumb-sucking can lead

To peer ridicule
and low achievement..."

Aha!

"And others say
infant thumb-sucking

Can lead to dental problems..."

Oh, no.

This is strange.

Looks like
there's a page missing.

The book goes right
to "ticklishness."

A page missing?

A page missing!

What kind of crazy
book is this?

Where could it possibly be?

Just remember, shorty--
look, but don't touch.

Chuckie, just try to
stop sucking your thumb.

See, you did it.

Oh, tommy, help.

It's coming back.

Tell it no, chuckie.

Stay away, stay away, stay...

Phil, lil, you gots
to stop, too.

We don't want to.

But you'll grow duck teeth, and
then maybe you'll get feathers

And pretty soon,
you'll be laying eggs.

I like eggs.

Especially when you
drop them on the floor.

What about these, you guys?

You did it!

Mmm-- I forgotted
how good mud tasted.

Yeah, a thumb's only good
if it gots a bug on it.
All right, you guys.

Now, what about chuckie?

I think I'm growing a duck nose.

And here's where
the cynthianati theme park goes

And the ice cream factory
and the candy store.

[ Gasps]

Dil, now I have to
build it all over again.

I don't even know
how to be a duck.

Hmm... Maybe I don't.

[ Chuckles mischievously]

Pop, are you sure these
are the right ingredients?

Of course, I'm sure.

It's an old
pickles recipe.

A little of this
on the sprouts' thumbs

Ought to do the trick.

Mommy, aunt didi, can I have
a healthy piece of fruit?

Mm-hmm.

Stu:
the missing page

Isn't in the vacuum
cleaner bag.

Oh, good-- soup.

Stu, wait.

That's
for the...

Children.

Was that a teaspoon or a
tablespoon of cayenne pepper?

I am notputting this
on my children's thumbs.

Now, hold on, didi.

It'll still make
a zesty barbecue sauce.

Chuckie doesn't
look so good.

I think he's got
about - minutes

Till he becomes a duck.

[ Gasps]:
oh, no!

It's worse
than I thought.

What?

What, angelica?

Chuckie's laying eggs!

[ Babies gasp]

You might as well start
calling me chuckie the duckie.

Will you guys come down
to the pond and feed me?

Chuckie, don't give up.

We'll think
of something.

I could probably help chuckie.

Maybe.

Please, angelica,
you gots to help.

I don't know.

I've been sobusy trying
to build cynthianati

And it's not
even done yet.

We'll help you,
angelica.

We'll get it
done real fast

So's you can
help chuckie.

Well... Okay,
if you really want to.

Phil and lil, start building
a fence, and make it high.

I don't want any babies
getting into my...

I mean, cynthia's city.

Tommy, you and
chuckie bring me
all your blocks.

This city has to be big.

You hear me? Big!

That's no way
to build a fence.

Tommy, that block goes there.

Chuckie, be careful.

Angelica, when are you
going to tell us

How to make chuckie
stop sucking his thumb?

Just as soon as you're all done,
now keep working.

[ Giggling]

Dil, stop it--
you'll mess up the whole thing.

[ Angelica gasps]

[ Gasps]

[ Gasps]
[ gasps]

I'll save you, dil.

[ Rumbling]

My city!

Who wrecked my city?

Do you babies know how hard
I worked to build it?

Goodness, what
happened here?

[ Giggles]

You okay, little man?

Angelica, did you see
what happened here?

Mommy, the babies
wreckded cynthianati.

Deed, look!

I'll be pan-fried.

Not one of them's
sucking their thumbs.

[ Cooing]

Hey, deed,
look what I found.

It's lipschitz.

"About thumb-sucking

"All in all, it is best
to let the child

"Make his or her own decision
about thumb-sucking

"And for parents to take action

Only if the behavior continues
at an advanced age."

Well, of course.

Didn't I mention that?

Now that that's settled,
who's up for a barbecue?

Chuckie!

You stopped
sucking your thumb.

Oh, yeah.

I guess I was so worried about
dil, I forgotted all about it.

Hey, you babies, back to work.

We don't have to help you
anymore, angelica.

Chuckie stopped
all by himself.

Ha!

[ Giggling]:
I guess I did.

Anyone want to play
"follow the leader"?

Sure, chuckie,
you be the leader.

[ Giggles]

Quack, quack, quack...

[ Babies join in]:
quack, quack, quack, quack...

Whoa!

Dumb babies.

[ All continue quacking]

Lil:
I like eggs.

Phil:
especially when you drop them
on the floor.