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Income Tax

Father Knows Best · March 9, 1950 · 29 min · 4,411 words

The transcript of “Income Tax”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast March 9, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Father Knows Best plays Father Knows Best free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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It's Father Knows Best, Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as Father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Anderson's, brought to you by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of coffee at any price.

Maxwell House, always good to the last drop. You know, there are two things that you can do. to the last drop. You know, there are times when the poets come up with some pretty silly ideas.

John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, for example, what moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie? Well, in Springfield, in the White Frame House on Maple Street, the Andesans have a very definite answer for it, and it has nothing to do with pumpkin pie, like this.

Frankly, Margaret, I think the whole idea is ridiculous. But Jim, after all, I had to be pleasant, and he's only going to be in time for a few days. He sounded cute on the telephone.

Dad, they'd be quiet and drink your milk. Gee whiz. Ha ha ha. He hasn't been in Springfield for almost 20 years. Why does he suddenly have to come busting in and get everything all upset?

He isn't getting anything upset, dear. I merely ask him to have dinner with us tonight. Why didn't you ask him to spend the weekend? We could have blood sleep in the chandelier. Jim, there's nothing wrong in asking you to dinner, is there?

Why can't he eat in a restaurant? There's nothing wrong with eating in a restaurant once in a while. Why, Jim? When I had business in another town, you don't see me going around mooching dinners.

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