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Hey, Normie, watch my wallet, will you?
I got to go see a man about a horse.
Look at this!
Pumpkin seeds are up to nine cents a pound!
This world is going crazy.
Yeah, I know what you mean, Wood.
The dollar ain't worth what it used to be.
I don't understand.
How can a dollar be worth less than a dollar?
Well, perhaps I can illustrate using one of Cliff's bills here.
Think of this, Woody, as the 1975 dollar, okay?
It's probably been in that wallet since 1975.
Now, taking account of inflation, okay,
the high cost of living, increased dollars in circulation,
increased buying power of that pesky yen,
and all you have left is a little bit of George Washington's left eye.
Wait a minute, now.
Would the same thing apply to...
...say, a 20 dollar bill?
Ah, macroeconomics. Yeah, perhaps.
We'll just try it and see... The same principles.
Okay, inflation...
Cost of living...
I just don't get this inflation stuff.
All right, Woody. Once again,
think of this beer as the 1975 dollar, okay?
Now it's a 1980 dollar.
Fill it up, I'll take you through the Reagan years.
All right. You might as well forget it, Mr. Peterson.
I'm just not getting it.
Woody, I am willing to sit here all night
if that's what it takes, buddy.
Sorry I'm late. I just got back from my stylist.
Well, gee, Sam, your hair doesn't look any different.
No. This was just for an estimate.
I'm thinking of doing a body wave and my insurance company
wants me to go to three different places.
Sam, you have hair insurance?
Yeah. What, like I'm gonna just walk around with fire and theft?
Got to get some more pretzels for the bar.
I don't know if my phone is working right or not.
- Have I had any calls? - Yeah, Robin called.
He did?
Yeah, about three weeks ago. Don't you remember?
Carla, do you think Robin's losing interest in me?
- No, but I am. - Wait.
Come here, please. Sit down. This is important.
Now, look. I know my relationship with Robin
got off to a flying start, but recently,
I think that maybe he's finding me boring.
Now, how could that be?
You're dull.
I am only dull on the outside.
On the inside, I am a seething cauldron of fun.
All I have to do is find something
that will make Robin sit up and take notice of me,
something that will make him realize what a special person I really am.
- Have you gone to bed with him yet? - No...
That's always been a good icebreaker for me.
Wait. Wait. Now, look.
I did not go to bed with Robin on the first date
because I was out of practice.
I thought I'd be rotten, and he'd dump me.
And on the second date, I didn't go to bed with him
because I thought he respected me
for not going to bed with him on the first date.
And then, by the third date, it was already an old habit.
All right. Now I'm going out with him my fourth time, and frankly,
I'm hot to trot.
So?
So? He's coming in town tonight,
I haven't seen him for a month, and I don't know...
You know, I really need some help here.
Now, you've got a reputation of being uninhibited,
lowdown, dirty, perverted...
You should have known me when I was a real slut.
Let me ask you a question.
What is the wildest thing you ever did
to really get a guy's attention?
Well, now... Let me see.
There was the time I was making love
to a guy on a carrousel.
- Where? An amusement park? - No, LaGuardia Airport.
- Want to give it a try? - I don't know...
You're getting dull on me again.
I've just been so darn dull for so darn long.
Wait a minute. Whoa! What do you think about this?
You're going to like this one.
He comes in tonight, I sneak into his apartment,
I put on some nice soft music, I chill some champagne,
he walks through the door, and I greet him.
Whoa. What an idea.
- Way to go, Rebecca! - Thank you.
Dull de dull, dull dull
Economics is so complicated.
Woody, I could sit here
and try to discuss the principles of economics
with you till I'm blue in the face,
but I've always found that nothing
will explain the process quicker than a simple game of Monopoly.
- Anyone care to join me? - Monopoly, eh?
- Yeah! - I don't know.
Well, Lilith's at home with the baby,
they both seem rather tired and cranky,
so I really ought to get home by...
...Thursday.
All right. I'm the banker.
No, no. I'm trying to explain this to you, Woody.
I have to be the banker, all right?
I'm always the banker.
No, no. I'm always the banker, okay?
Look. if I can't be the banker, I just won't play. How's that?
Well, maybe I'll just go get my own Monopoly board
and play with my real friends.
Now, let's not be childish.
If Woody wants to be the banker, let's let him be.
I mean, he can learn from his own mistakes.
All right, all right. I'll be the race car, though.
No, I am always the race car.
- I'm the race car! - No, no, no. Oh, really?
How well do you do this?
You can argue all you want,
but I'm not playing unless I'm the thimble.
It's yours, Cliff. Okay. Well...
So Cliff's the thimble. I'm the race car.
What do you want to be, Norm?
I'll be the lead pipe, I guess.
I don't remember any lead pipe in Monopoly,
or this Chinese checker, or these Candyland children.
What is this?
Oh, you know, over the years, we've sort of lost parts
from the original game, so we mix and match from others.
Well, all right. Give me the dice.
All right.
Carla...
Everything's all set up.
You're going to LaGuardia Airport? Great!
Use carrousel "D." It's the bumpiest.
No. No, Carla, look.
I was talking to Robin's valet, Jonathan.
He kind of likes me.
Anyway, he said that he was gonna chill some champagne
and he would open the door for me,
so I could get in Robin's apartment. And then he'll disappear,
and I will greet Mr. Colcord at the door
wearing nothing but a skirt, a shirt,
my underwear, and a smile.
All right, all right, I'll get naked!
Now you're getting the hang of it.
Thank you, Carla. Thank you so much.
I'm buying Reading Railroad, and I'm putting up a house.
Woody, you can't put a house on railroad tracks.
Why not? My uncle Jim used to do it all the time
back in Hanover,
on these tracks near where we lived.
I mean, it wasn't a real house, though.
It was just a fake one made of sticks and canvas.
Yeah. He used to hide in the bushes
and take pictures of the engineers screaming.
He was funny, but he had a twisted side.
Cheers.
Oh, hello, Mr. Colcord.
This is a bad connection. Where are you calling from?
Hold on a second.
It's Richie Rich calling from his airplane.
She's not here right now. Can I take a message?
Aw, she'll be sorry to hear that.
Yeah, I'll be sure to tell her.
You flying that plane all by yourself?
Really? Watch out for that telephone pole!
No, I know there are no telephone poles 40,000 feet up.
That's what makes it funny.
200 million bucks.
Buy yourself a sense of humor.
Where is Rebecca, anyway?
She's waiting for Robin at his apartment.
Well, I guess I ought to...
...call her and tell her.
He's going to be about three hours late.
Yeah. She said she wanted to...
...surprise him by waiting there for him buck naked.
Say, where's Sam off to?
He's off to a luxury apartment to meet a naked woman.
Boy, that guy leads a pretty exciting life
compared to us, huh?
Cliff ie, compared to ours, a tapeworm leads a pretty exciting life.
You know, I happen to be a bit of an expert on tapeworms.
It all goes back to my eighth grade science fair.
Everybody else had rabbits and guinea pigs.
I had a tapeworm.
- Really? - Yeah, so I couldn't go.
Or was that a ringworm?
Check, please.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
Me and parasites, don't get me started.
Robin?
I'm on the couch in the den.
Hang a Louie at my undies.
I'm so glad I came.
Hey, I've had half a bottle of champagne.
Now I'm standing in front of the TV, naked.
What are you watching?
Don't look at me!
Quick! Throw me something!
Okey-dokey.
No!
Throw me something to wear!
Let's see here.
- Here we go. - Give it to me.
Give it to me! Give me that!
God, Sam, what are you doing here?
You saw me standing in front of the TV naked!
I just came to give you a message.
Robin said he's going to be a few hours late.
Get out of here. Get out of here right now.
Damn, a Kodak moment, and me without my camera.
You get out of here.
Whew! You are so cranky when you're naked.
You are getting out of here right now,
and you are getting out of here right now.
What is with this elevator?
Honey, that's the elevator button.
I don't know what the hell this is.
Good evening, Mr. Colcord.
The Triton Sonic 5000 Security System has now been activated.
Please step away from all entry points.
Oh, God, we'd better go out the back!
Oh, my God. Let's go out the way back!
Oh! Sam...
What are we going to do?
I say we set the table.
What is with people nowadays?
When I was a kid, we used to keep our doors unlocked all the time.
Used to get ripped off a lot,
but at least we could get out of the damn house.
This whole thing is your fault.
Hey, I wasn't the one who pushed the stupid buttons.
Oh, yeah?
Well, Robin is gonna be back here in a couple of hours,
and what's he gonna do when he sees the two of us together, huh?
It would have been one thing if he saw me standing naked
in front of the TV. That would have been romantic.
What's he gonna do when he comes back here
and he sees the two of us together?
Boy, honey, this...
This is one of those complicated situations.
I think what we ought to do
is go back in the bedroom, take our clothes off,
and make hot, passionate love.
- That is not going to help. - It's not going to hurt.
All right, fine.
I'll call the police. They'll get us out.
We happen to be in the apartment, illegally,
of one of the richest men in the world.
Well, so he'll vouch for us.
Yes. He may vouch for me after he dumps me, laughs at me,
and never wants to see me again.
You, he will leave rotting in jail, where you and your pretty boy features
will be traded nightly for a pack of menthols.
Well, I hate to see you get dumped.
There's just got to be something around here
that either has a key or a combination or... here it is.
- Here it is, jackpot. - What do you got?
It's the alarm system manual.
Find out how to turn the thing off.
Okay, it's right here.
"To deactivate the Triton 5000 Sonic Alarm System,
find the control panel marked A,
and press 4-4-1-2..."
- Great. - "...for example.
Of course, your code will be a special personalized number
that you will choose yourself."
So what did I just do?
Attention, attention, attention.
You have activated the internal laser beam motion detector.
What does that mean?
Oh, this is great. It's just great. I come over for a little action,
and I'm stuck in the middle of Star Wars.
Give me that thing.
"Beams."
"If the beams are interrupted,
there will be an armed response
from this company, the Boston Police, and the FBI."
Oh, God, Sam.
Now not only are we trapped in here,
but we can't even move around in here,
or we'll set off the alarm system.
Boy, I wish Cliff and Norm were here.
Why?
They'd think this was really cool.
That is probably Robin's valet.
It could be somebody that can help us get out of here.
I've got to go for it.
- Here, take this. - Give it to me.
Lower. Lower.
- Is this good? - Yeah, it's great.
Hello?
Just a second.
- It's for you, Sam. - Take a message.
May I say who's calling?
Oh, it's Carla. Carla!
God, you would have been so proud of me!
I was standing in front of the TV set naked...
Yeah, well, put it back on.
Your boyfriend just called and said
he's not going to make it tonight at all.
He's not getting back into town until tomorrow.
Thank goodness.
So, how are you and Sammy getting along?
You're the one who told him to come over here?
Carla, I am never gonna confide in you again.
That's thanks enough.
Now listen to me, Carla. Do not blab this all over the bar,
but Sam and I are trapped
in Robin's high-security apartment building,
and we can't get out.
Hold on a minute.
They're trapped in Robin's high-security apartment building,
and they can't get out!
Carla, listen to me. Listen to me.
Now, I want you to tell me straight.
How good are your kids at breaking and entering, anyway?
And do not brag about them just because you're their mother.
Well, that depends.
What kind of system are we talking about here?
It's a Triton 5000 Sonic with laser beams.
They're not that good. But feel free to call
if you're ever trapped in a late model car.
They'll have you and the radio out in 60 seconds.
Oh, damn.
Shoot!
That'll be $1,300 and your "get out of jail free" card.
Enjoy your stay at Boyd's on boardwalk.
Wait, Woody, I just realized something.
Every time anybody deposited any money in the bank,
you put it with your own.
Prove it, Peterson.
I don't believe it.
I have sat here for the last five hours
watching each of you lie, steal and cheat his way
to a small fortune while I sit here with $5.00, St. James place,
and this stupid picture of uncle Wiggly.
You people have no scruples or moral standards whatsoever!
What was the purpose of this game after all, anyway?
Just trying to teach Woody the nature of economics.
Oh, well, then, bravo.
What am I gonna do, Sam? I have blown this.
I have blown the entire relationship.
Come on, take it easy.
- You're off the hook until morning. - Yeah, yeah.
That just gives me more time to think about it,
how humiliated I'm gonna be when Robin walks through that door
and finds me in here without permission,
lying on the floor with a bartender underneath a grid of laser beams.
Oh, calm down.
Enjoy the light show.
You know what we could do to take your mind off this?
Why don't I crawl over there, and we could just talk?
You can crawl over here if nothing on your body
touches anything on my body.
There is one good thing about this whole deal,
seeing you crawl on your belly like a worm.
I am secure enough of my masculinity
to accept that as a compliment.
This was going to be the most fabulous night
of my entire life.
Oh, come on. It's not that bad.
I'm kind of enjoying myself.
I can't remember the last time that I laid awake at night
just talking to somebody.
It must be back when I was a kid,
sharing a bunk bed with my brother.
You're trying to tell me
that with all those thousands of women
you supposedly slept with,
you never stayed up and talked to one of them?
What's to talk about?
I mean, a guy does all his talking beforehand.
So, like what did you and your brother talk about?
Oh, you know, the usual things.
Comic books, movies, records,
all the babes we were gonna score with
once we got our own room.
Did you ever share a room with your sister?
Yeah.
But I'll tell you one thing, we didn't talk about stupid stuff
like you and your brother talked about.
- All right, what did you talk about? - Dreams, aspirations,
- the meaning of life. - In other words, boys.
You betcha.
And then we'd do each other's hair all different ways,
and then we'd dream about owning a ranch
- and a bunch of horses. - What is it with horses?
Why do girls get all goopy over horses?
Oh, yeah, and like guys are real rational about cars.
Hey, listen, you take a '57 Chevy rag top,
and you park it right next to some dumb spotted horse,
now, you tell me which one you'd want to make out in.
That's a good point.
You know what? It's sort of interesting.
Here you and I are, you know, talking to each other like this,
intimately, and I can see that we have our differences,
but basically, you know, besides the fact
that you're a man and I'm a woman,
I don't think we're that different.
What do you think?
I do like you better like this.
Man...
Not one split end.
What is this guy's secret?
Good night, Sam.
Someone's coming. Hide.
Huh? Who is it, your husband?
Sam, wake up.
Somebody's coming! We have to hide!
What? Oh.
Here, here, here.
Let's get out of here before she sees us.
Geez!
- No, no! - Oh, right.
You look kind of sexy when you first wake up.
Oh, thanks, Sam.
Sam, you're not gonna tell the guys at the bar some wild tales
about what happened last night, are you?
No, no, I'm gonna tell them the absolute truth.
I walked in here, found you buck naked,
spent the night on the floor with you,
surrounded by colored lights.
All right. At least tell them I was good.
I think I could sell that.
You know, Sam, I do have to say that I am very proud of you.
- Why? - Because we spent
the whole night together and you didn't lay a hand on me.
I want to thank you for that.
I want to thank you for being a gentleman.
Oh, you're welcome.
And I want to thank you.
- For what? - For being such a sound sleeper.
You're welcome...
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