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Father and Son Banquet

The Life of Riley · February 7, 1948 · 29 min · 4,323 words

The transcript of “Father and Son Banquet”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast February 7, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Life of Riley plays The Life of Riley free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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It's new, it's amazing, it's proud, P-R-E-L-L, Proctor & Gamble's new radiant cream shampoo in the handy tube. All brings you the life of Riley. Who that removed on slightly dangerous in as little as three minutes and leaves hair radiantly clean, radiantly lovely presents the life of Riley with William Vendakes as Riley.

When Chester A. Riley and his friend and co-worker Jim Gillis start bragging about their respective sons, Junior and Eggbert, the superlatives fly thick and fast. At the moment Gillis and Riley are walking home from work. All I say Riley is, is that you ever stop to ask yourself what kind of a boy your junior is? My junior, well, he's a boyish type boy. Believe

me, Riley, your juniors are nothing. But look at my egg way. Look at my egg way. Look at my egg birth. Well, I've looked at your egg birth and you've got my deepest sympathy. Calm down, Riley. Why should we lose your temper? Well, you're always slighting my junior's hurt. All I mean is

if you want your boy to amount to something, you got to watch him when he's young. Find out what's his talent and nourish it. Why? Why? A delicate flower won't grow unless it's fertilized. Well my egg boy does a flower and I mis-fitalize it. Well my juniors got talent, plenty of talent. Oh yeah? What? Well, last summer at the beach he swam

underwater for five minutes without coming up for air. That's a talent. Oh sure, Oh, sure, that's a fine talent. If you want them to grow up to be a barracuda, I'm talking a talent for a career.

Oh. Here, here, look at this. It's a copy of what they're going to say about my egg bite in the class yearbook. What yearbook? Didn't your junior show you his? Well, I can guess why.

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