My Three Sons

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Douglas, when do you figure on getting to California?

Well, now we thought we'd get there on Sunday.

How about you?

Well, your furniture ought to be there about the same time you are.

Well, that'll be fine.

You think the house is going to miss us?

Sure it'll miss us.

The minute we get out of sight, it's going to break right down and start to cry out of all the fossils.

The neighbors will sell tickets to see the crying house.

I like to think the house is going to miss us, Charlie.

Look, are we going to California or are we going to stand here waving bye-bye to a pile of lumber?

No, well, Charlie's right, fellas.

Let's, uh, let's all pile in.

Come on, let's go.

Come on, move it.

Boy, Dad.

Now, Chip, when they transferred me to California, you fellas all thought it was

a great idea, so, uh, well, there's no turning back now.

I know.

Hey, you crying, Ernie?

I don't know.

I'm trying.

Chip just breathed on my glasses and they steamed up.

Got.

Him, huh?

That's a beautiful.

Look at that, huh?

Fantastic.

Look at it.

Boy!

Boy!

Looks even better than the pictures you sent us before you bought it.

Yeah.

Let's take a look inside.

You got a key?

Here I have, Charlie.

Right in my hand.

Hey, we got some mail already.

Ah, looks like a telegram.

Let's see.

That's, uh, from the moving company.

It says the truck is still on the road but ought to arrive here sometime this afternoon.

Well, that's fine.

Well, everybody into the new house.

Hey, come on.

Go ahead, Rob.

Well, how about this, huh?

Boy, it's really big.

I think it doesn't look big, Rob, because it hasn't any furniture in here.

Gee, Dad, where are our rooms?

Well, you know, it's about the same as the old house.

Charlie's room is off the kitchen there, and we're all upstairs.

Let's go take a look.

Yeah.

Well, Charlie, I hope we made a good move.

We didn't move to Siberia.

This is California, the land of milk and money.

Milk and honey, Charlie.

Well, I'm too old for the honeys.

I'll take the money.

Hey, there's a trap door upstairs, but if you throw junk in, it shows up downstairs.

That's a laundry chute, Ernie.

It's big enough for me to get into.

Could I?

No.

I don't want anybody sliding down that laundry chute.

Okay.

Get Tramp out of there, Chip.

Dad says no.

Hey, Dad, this is really great.

Really gonna be great.

You know, I think Uncle Charlie was right.

We kind of have to forget Bryant Park.

You know?

We'll make a whole new thing.

Hey, I don't want to scare anybody or anything, but Ernie's turning kind of purple.

Turning purple?

Yeah, he got his head stuck in one of those windows where he turned the handle, and the handle fell off.

Now, what are you fellas planning on doing today, after you finish Uncle Charlie's finishing package?

Is it okay if me and Chip... What was that?

Oh, is it okay if Chip and I go look for movie stars?

We won't pester them for autographs or anything.

What?

We'll just stare at them.

What are you planning to do today, Ron?

Oh, I thought I'd go down to the campus and just look around.

Look around for what?

As if I didn't know.

Uncle Charlie, you're gonna have to readjust your thinking on me.

Well, I like girls, sure, but they aren't the be-all and end-all of life.

I just want to meet a few new friends.

Then start on the folks next door.

I saw a few of them stirring around this morning.

Any girls?

I'll be able to tell you more after they hang out their washing.

You think we ought to go over there and say hello, Dad?

Go now for a while.

Besides, I think it's the custom for the old established people in the neighborhood

to welcome the new ones that come in, and so they'll probably be around in a day or two.

Be sure you don't go over there and pester them.

Oh, we run down to the sea in chips.

Run down.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Nice day.

Yes, it is.

I'm sorry.

That was an accident.

Okay, you guys, just get the principal and grades I put in the envelopes.

And Chip, you make sure that he's in the schoolyard before you go to that high school of yours.

Okay, Uncle Charley.

Don't get in any fights.

And if you do, don't take anything from anybody.

Now, use good English and don't tell a bunch of lies.

Well, I think that's about all.

Oh, wait.

Here's your lunches.

I put a couple of first-day cookies in there.

Bye.

All right.

See you, Uncle Charley.

You all set for that college of yours?

Yeah.

I sure hope it's better than the rest of California.

See you, Uncle Charley.

Hi.

All right.

Two, three, four, let's see.

We just came out from the east yesterday.

Twelve, fifteen.

Three, seventy-three.

The weather out here is really something.

Is it like this all the time?

Seventy-seven.

Four, twenty-five.

Five, fifty.

Three, fifty-six.

All right.

That'll be forty-two, fifty.

Here.

And thanks for the nice, friendly little chat.

Your stamps.

Next, please.

I'll send all my friends here for courteous, personal attention.

And I'll remember you in my will, right after my worst enemy.

And I got further news for you.

I don't have to trade this place at any time from now on.

Go ahead.

When you get in the crosswalk, you're supposed to cross.

And get splattered all over the pavement by jokers like you?

Not on your tin hat.

Will you move, knothead?

I haven't got all day.

Go on, honk your California sound, son.

Come on.

Not a soul.

The lady dragging at the Mark at the people next door.

Nobody so much as opened up their trap to say hello.

And that girl over there, she just stared when I said hi.

And so did her brother, whoever he is.

And we didn't see one movie star.

No, I wouldn't say the people next door are exactly friendly.

But this is a big city, and I suppose people are a little more standoffish until they get to know you.

Well, I'm not enchanted with California so far.

If that's the way they want it, then don't any of you guys break down and talk to them first.

Oh, no, Rob.

That's a little childish, don't you think?

Well, they don't call things like that childish anymore, Dad.

It's called rejection compensation.

I don't care what you call it.

Don't any of you guys talk to them crumbs next door.

Charlie.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Don't any of you guys talk to those crumbs next door.

Steve, I'm going to hit the sack.

I've been knocking my brains out trying to make this joint into a house.

Steve, are you asleep?

No, no, no, Charlie.

I was just resting my eyes.

Good night.

Good night, Charlie.

Steve, I know this has been kind of a rotten day for all of us, but that's the way it always is in the Newport.

But tomorrow, the boys will be meeting new friends in their new school, and everything will be great.

I know.

Sure.

No point mooning all over the joint.

So put Bryant Park and that old house out of your mind.

Right, Charlie.

Good night.

Yeah, yeah.

And don't forget, Ernie, when things get rough, you always have a friend you can pray to.

Oh, I already did that.

Oh, you did?

I prayed for you to come in here.

Well, you know, Ernie, that's the nicest compliment I ever had.

Why don't you lie down, Ernie?

You're going to sleep, right?

Yes, sir.

Would I be baby if I asked you to stay in here for a while?