Dad | 1989

Butter, anyone?

You want some butter, honey?

I would like to make a toast.

Uh-oh.

A lot's happened in the past two weeks.

We've overcome a lot of adversity,

overcome a lot of pain.

Pulled together as a team.

And now we're taking time to say thanks.

That's beautiful, Mario.

It's my regular halftime speech.

Actually, I just wanted to say

how happy I am to see the family together.

It's a thrill for me, too. Are you finished?

My chicken's getting cold.

I'm finished.

Very good.

I'd like to make a toast.

Hmm.

Well, hey, Dad.

To my lovely bride.

Your bride?

Did you have a drink today, Jake?

Before you came home, Mom,

we had a couple of glasses of coq au vin.

To my lovely bride.

Bette, you're back in the bosom of your family,

where you belong.

It's good to be home.

Hear, hear.

Well said, Dad.

It's good to have everybody here, too.

I can't remember the last time

we had John and Billy together.

Billy looks good.

I like that earring.

Think I should get one of those?

Yeah. It's very nice.

I have a pin that goes with that if you want.

Oh, leave him alone, Mom. He looks fabulous.

I bet the girls are falling all over themselves.

Don't worry about me.

This isn't at all embarrassing.

I hear the dorms are co-ed now. Is that true?

Yeah our dorm's co-ed.

Good thing they didn't have it when I was in school.

I never would've got any studying done.

Some student you were.

Mario was an excellent student, Mom.

He was a physical education major.

He didn't read books, he ran laps.

Yes, but good students like me read books

and ran laps at the same time.

Now John was a good student.

Thank you, Mommy.

From kindergarten on,

every Saturday we'd go to the library.