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Meaning of Freedoms

Father Knows Best · July 5, 1951 · 29 min · 4,395 words

The transcript of “Meaning of Freedoms”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast July 5, 1951. 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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My mother is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world? Well your father says so and your father knows this. Yes, his father knows this. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbor's The Anderson.

Brought to you by America's favorite coffee. Maxwell House. The coffee that's always good. To the last drop. Be it ever so peaceful and ever so fair, be the sun shining bright at your door. There's nothing so sad or so full of despair as the morning after the night before.

It's breakfast time in Springfield and in the White Frame House on Maple Street, all is not well. The Fourth of July was a big day for the Ambisans, but not as big as it might have been.

That's why, on the Fifth of July, the family goes to work on the greatest fall of the night. The world is ever known. Poor old father. Like this. But you said we weren't allowed to shoot off firecrackers.

That's right. Well Jimmy, Woody had firecrackers and he shot them all. Kathy, I've told you a dozen times. Shooting off firecrackers is against the law. Hey, shot them off in the park. You... each of breakers.

Well, didn't they? Betty, do what your father tells you. You're not even talk. Each of breakers, deaners, The new genius, Jomp and Kringford. Everybody else got to shoot off firecrackers except me. I never get to do nothing.

You never get to do anything. You said it. Everybody else. Cassey, for the ten millionth time, the use of firecrackers within the city limits of Springfield is illegal. Then why did they shoot them off in the car?

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