{29}{131}In all the years I spent growing up at my parents' house,
{132}{267}I don't think I ever heard them use the word "relationship". Not once.
{305}{372}JACK: Damn taxes are givin' me indigestion.
{373}{508}"Indigestion"... "taxes"... "damn" - these were words you heard a lot.
{546}{672}I guess my mom just expected my dad to be a good man - honest, loyal,
{673}{794}a good provider... hopefully possessed of good table manners.
{825}{879}JACK: Excuse me.
{890}{1037}And my dad expected my mom to be a good woman - honest, loyal, a good mother -
{1085}{1143}JACK: What is this?
{1151}{1277}NORMA: Tuna tetrazzini.|And hopefully a good cook.
{1397}{1572}And that was about it.|But if my parents didn't know much about relationships, they knew a lot about marriage.
{1573}{1713}Like how to make a joint-decision.|Mom would choose what she liked...
{1724}{1803}Dad would choose what he liked...
{1822}{1956}Then they'd settle on something...|No one of our species could like.
{1998}{2163}They could completely disagree about something, without directly contradicting each other.
{2171}{2339}NORMA: That was twenty-nine.|JACK: I told you - I'm stayin' on seventeen till Abbotsville.
{2404}{2570}JACK: You think I should have taken twenty-nine.|NORMA: I didn't say that. You can stay on seventeen.
{2579}{2633}JACK: Thank you.
{2686}{2838}NORMA: But that was twenty-nine.|One thing my parents would never, ever do...
{2899}{2974}Is yell at each other in front of the kids.
{2975}{3062}JACK: Kevin! Wayne! I told you to knock it off!|NORMA: Boys! That's enough!
{3063}{3199}Course, they had no problem yelling at the kids in front of each other.
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{4079}{4167}I guess I never really thought of my parents as being in love.
{4168}{4287}But maybe that's the best thing for a kid - to never have to think about it.
{4288}{4396}It's just always there. Like the ground you walk on.
{4449}{4529}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): The surface of the earth may look stable...
{4530}{4671}MR. CANTWELL: But it's in constant motion, shifted by molten forces below.
{4700}{4747}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): The shapes of our continents...
{4748}{4904}MR. CANTWELL: So familiar to us today, will shift and reform like so much pond scum.
{4910}{5015}Mr. Cantwell had such a rosy view of the miracles of science.
{5016}{5052}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): For example...
{5053}{5189}MR. CANTWELL: Scientists estimate that in a mere two million years, the United States...
{5190}{5283}MR. CANTWELL: Which now looks like this...
{5293}{5383}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): Will look like this.
{5402}{5481}Our once-proud nation... shaped...
{5482}{5539}Like a wiener-dog.
{5553}{5619}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): Lights up.
{5620}{5783}MR. CANTWELL: Tomorrow, Section 6, of "Our Changing Planet", "Earthquake and Cataclysm. "
{5829}{5961}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): "Man's Dalliance with Death". Have a nice day...
{6068}{6175}KEVIN: Paul, are you coming?|PAUL: Why does our planet have to change?
{6176}{6285}KEVIN: What?|PAUL: Why does our planet have to change?
{6286}{6415}PAUL: I like it the way it is.|Paul had a way of taking things a little too much to heart.
{6416}{6533}PAUL: Did you feel something?! I think I just felt something.|KEVIN: Paul.
{6534}{6661}PAUL: I swear I felt something!|KEVIN: Paul. It's not gonna happen for billions of years - it's not like
{6662}{6779}the world's gonna turn upside down overnight or something.
{7099}{7198}NORMA: Oh, Kevin?|NORMA: Will you look at this bowl?
{7203}{7360}KEVIN: Yeah?|NORMA: You think it's big enough for the Swedish meatballs?
{7363}{7411}KEVIN: Sure.
{7458}{7536}NORMA: Oh, Wayne? You see that bowl?|WAYNE (V/O): Yeah.
{7537}{7618}NORMA (V/O): Will you take it over to the table?|WAYNE: Sure.
{7664}{7749}NORMA (V/O): Oh, not there.|NORMA: Karen... That bowl there?
{7750}{7887}KAREN: This one?|NORMA: Yeah. Will you put that in the middle of the table?
{7888}{7953}NORMA (V/O): Well... I guess that's everything.
{7954}{8056}NORMA: Oh, uh, Jack - could you lift up that bowl?
{8057}{8130}Something about a bowl, here?
{8308}{8427}JACK: What?|NORMA: Notice anything different?
{8428}{8517}JACK: You changed your hair.|NORMA: I changed my hair three weeks ago...
{8518}{8627}JACK: That's what I meant. Three weeks ago...|NORMA: No... The bowl.
{8655}{8749}NORMA (V/O): Didn't anybody notice the new bowl?
{8750}{8844}NORMA: I made it!|WAYNE: Hmmm...
{8858}{8927}KEVIN: Wow!|KAREN: How'd you make it?!
{8928}{9027}NORMA: Well, I signed up for this ceramics course at the community college.
{9028}{9072}NORMA (V/O): I never would have thought of doing that...
{9073}{9139}NORMA (V/O): But Joyce Lynn Sedakis was signing up for it...
{9140}{9229}NORMA (V/O): And she said it sounded really neat...|NORMA (V/O): And I thought...
{9230}{9336}NORMA: Why not?!|NORMA (V/O): So, I didn't tell anyone...
{9337}{9431}NORMA (V/O): Cuz I didn't know if I'd be really good at it.|NORMA: I mean, I know it's not really good...
{9432}{9523}NORMA (V/O): But it's just my first one.|WAYNE: It's supposed to be lopsided?
{9524}{9568}NORMA (V/O): Well, no...|NORMA (V/O): I tried to...
{9569}{9692}KAREN: I think it's cool that it's lopsided.|KAREN: I mean, it's like... more natural-looking.
{9693}{9813}NORMA: It really is kind of neat, you know.|NORMA (V/O): You put this piece of clay on the potter's wheel...
{9814}{9874}NORMA (V/O): You flip the switch, poke your fingers into it,
{9875}{9943}and it just turns into a bowl... like magic.
{9944}{10019}NORMA (V/O): It's amazing to think of all the things you could do with this...
{10020}{10129}WAYNE (V/O): Mom? That's fascinating.|WAYNE: Maybe we could talk about it over dinner.
{10130}{10194}I could tell my mother was waiting for something.
{10195}{10272}Although she wasn't gonna come right out and ask it.
{10273}{10372}She wanted my father to say he liked the bowl.
{10373}{10461}And he knew she wanted him to say he liked the bowl.
{10462}{10549}And she knew he knew she wanted to to say he liked the bowl...
{10550}{10717}But for some reason...|That I don't think any of us understood... he wasn't saying it.
{10723}{10833}NORMA: So what do you think, honey?|A direct question.
{10834}{10918}This was a bold and unexpected move.
{10938}{10996}JACK: Smells great!
{11023}{11077}JACK: Let's eat.
{11203}{11300}PAUL: The entire sub-continent of India was once an island.
{11301}{11405}PAUL: In the early Tertiary period, it began moving toward Asia,
{11406}{11541}and eventually the two collided, forcing the Himalayas violently upward.
{11542}{11645}KEVIN: Paul... all we have to do is find four major fault-lines, and then we'll be done.
{11646}{11784}PAUL: Where is India going?|PAUL: Asia's not gonna budge! It's crazy!
{11785}{11919}KEVIN: Come on, Paul. Fault-lines.|PAUL: Oh, you want fault-lines? There's millions of 'em.
{11920}{12032}PAUL: They're everywhere!|KEVIN: I don't care about millions of 'em. We only need four.
{12033}{12128}PAUL: There could be one right under this house - it could blow any time.
{12129}{12222}KEVIN: Paul!|PAUL: OK, um...
{12223}{12263}PAUL (V/O): Where's the map?
{12264}{12401}But Paul was startin' to get to me. I kept thinkin' of the time we cut open the golf ball.
{12402}{12564}All nice and smooth on the outside, and on the inside - all that wound up, wormy rubber.
{12616}{12716}It was creepy. And, then I started to think, what if -
{12717}{12807}PAUL (V/O): Kevin?|KEVIN: Huh?
{12808}{12911}PAUL: W-what's this?|KEVIN (V/O): I don't know...
{12912}{13002}KEVIN: I think it's... a candle-holder, or something.
{13003}{13179}PAUL: It's weird!|KEVIN: No, it's not weird. My mom made it. She's taking a pottery class.
{13181}{13343}PAUL: How come?|KEVIN: I don't know. Maybe she figured we need... pots!
{13401}{13473}JACK (V/O): Where's my cup?!
{13501}{13568}WAYNE: Uh, I think Kevin used it.|KEVIN: I did not!
{13569}{13703}WAYNE: I'm sorry...|WAYNE: But in a situation like this...|WAYNE (V/O): We must explore all avenues.
{13704}{13779}JACK: Norma?! Where's my cup?!
{13791}{13882}I guess I should mention, here... that my dad had this cup.
{13883}{13965}It had a picture of fish playing poker on it.
{13966}{14068}And it said "Greetings from Independence, Missouri".
{14069}{14126}He loved that cup.
{14200}{14287}JACK: What is it doin' way back there?
{14300}{14419}NORMA: I made you a new one.|JACK: Oh...
{14420}{14515}NORMA: See? I made the handle bigger so it's easier to use.
{14516}{14599}JACK: Oh...|NORMA (V/O): I just thought this was all stained and chipped...
{14600}{14711}NORMA (V/O): And I just wanted you to have a nice, new cup for a change.
{14712}{14817}JACK: But I don't wanna change. I like my old cup.
{14828}{14908}NORMA: Honey, if you don't like the cup I made...|NORMA (V/O): You don't have to use it.
{14909}{14976}JACK: Oh, OK. Alright, I'll use it.|NORMA: No, you don't have to!
{14977}{15096}NORMA (V/O): I don't want you to use it if you don't like it, Jack -|JACK: I want to use it!
{15130}{15214}Ya notice he didn't say he liked it.
{15274}{15338}KEVIN: Well, maybe you could use both cups, Dad...
{15339}{15404}KEVIN (V/O): See, that way, you wouldn't have to...
{15405}{15520}KEVIN: Get up... and... pour yourself... a... second cup.
{15587}{15704}KAREN: This is nice, Mom.|NORMA: Yeah? You really think so?
{15705}{15827}KAREN (V/O): Yeah! Yeah I do.|KAREN (V/O): I... I think it's really interesting.
{15828}{15984}NORMA: Richard said it has a real feeling of... texturality... or textuality, or something.
{15985}{16043}JACK (V/O): Nhhhnn.
{16056}{16118}Dad's grunt meant "who is this Richard... "
{16119}{16215}"And why is he talking to my wife about textuality? ".
{16216}{16271}NORMA (V/O): Richard had to teach a blind man, once...
{16272}{16411}NORMA: How to throw pots... so he taught himself how to do it with his eyes closed.
{16412}{16485}KAREN (V/O): That's really beautiful!
{16486}{16580}And that meant "I wonder how far I could throw this guy with my eyes closed? "
{16581}{16663}NORMA: Now, Richard's teaching himself to pot with his feet.
{16664}{16775}NORMA (V/O): Because there's this man with no hands...
{17528}{17597}That night at dinner, things were quiet.
{17598}{17770}Too quiet. I didn't know what my parents were so mad about. I just wished they'd say something.
{17794}{17855}I didn't even mind...
{17875}{18019}If they yelled at me, at least it would be something they could do together.
{18032}{18147}That was it!|If I just did something really, really bad...
{18148}{18259}Then Dad would yell at me...|Then Mom would yell at me, and then both would yell at me...
{18260}{18380}And before ya knew it they'd be thinking and feeling as one!
{18497}{18611}JACK: Kevin, what the hell are you doin'?!|OK. That's great.
{18612}{18658}Now, Mom...
{19085}{19181}WAYNE: Tonight? (Nods. ) Why you sleep, pal!
{19229}{19268}Woops.
{19333}{19412}MR. CANTWELL: Who can tell me where the most-devastating earthquake...
{19413}{19503}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): In the last 200 years took place? Hmmm?
{19504}{19598}MR. CANTWELL: 1811, Missouri. One minute...
{19635}{19688}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): A peaceful plain of small towns...
{19689}{19790}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): And rolling farmland. The next minute...
{19791}{19929}MR. CANTWELL (V/O): Bingo, a hellish nightmare of death and devastation.
{20048}{20122}KEVIN (V/O): I glued it together!
{20123}{20189}KEVIN: So it works, now.
{20209}{20327}KEVIN: So, if anyone wants to use it - it'll be right here.
{20360}{20454}KEVIN: Unless it... gets up and walks away.
{20467}{20545}I thought I'd close with a joke.
{20566}{20659}JACK (V/O): Don't we have any Pepsi?|NORMA: Oh, no... we're out.
{20660}{20706}JACK: Oh...
{20746}{20846}JACK: You goin' to the store?|NORMA (V/O): I hadn't planned to...
{20847}{20955}JACK (V/O): Where are ya goin'?|NORMA: Class.
{20956}{21072}JACK: I thought you had class on Wednesday...|NORMA: I have to take my vase out of the kiln.
{21073}{21173}JACK (V/O): Well, you gonna stop at the store on the way home?|NORMA (V/O): If you want me to...
{21174}{21221}JACK (V/O): I didn't say I wanted you to...|JACK: But if you're going to, you can get me some Pepsi.
{21222}{21270}NORMA: OK...
{21333}{21435}NORMA (V/O): You want Pepsi? I'll get you Pepsi.
{21438}{21515}JACK: Nah, forget it. I'll drink the Fresca.
{21516}{21579}NORMA (V/O): You want Pepsi, I'll get Pepsi.|NORMA: I said... I'll get it, OK?!
{21580}{21690}JACK (V/O): Nah, forget it.|JACK: OK!
{21702}{21800}NORMA: Fine!|JACK: Fine!
{21801}{21894}This was gettin' weird! I'd never seen my parents like this.
{21895}{21968}The tension was becoming unbearable.
{21969}{22021}We all felt it.
{22089}{22149}Each in our own way.
{22223}{22345}TV ANNOUNCER:... through the sceondary and it looks like he'll go all the way... however,
{22346}{22447}he's tripped up at the forty yard line...|KEVIN (V/O): Fourth down.|KEVIN: Think they'll go for it?
{22448}{22599}KEVIN: They were in the same situation last week. And they went for it. Remember?
{22656}{22840}KEVIN: Yeah, it was really stupid. It almost cost them the game. So, what do you think they'll go with?
{22904}{23024}KEVIN: The draw play. Think that'll be their best shot, huh?
{23209}{23277}JACK: What is this?|KEVIN: It's an ashtray.
{23278}{23355}JACK: Doesn't look like an ashtray...
{23356}{23556}KEVIN: Well, uh, I think, um...|KEVIN: These are where the cigarettes go, and... the ashes fall down here.
{23573}{23765}KEVIN: See?|JACK: What does she think? We're gonna have two-hundred people smokin' here at once?
{23766}{23829}KEVIN: I don't know...
{23835}{23959}JACK: Why can't she make an ashtray that looks like an ashtray?
{23990}{24168}KEVIN: I don't know...|I didn't know. I didn't really know why it mattered what her ashtray looked like.
{24169}{24249}But something here obviously mattered.
{24250}{24336}KEVIN: So, Dad.|JACK: Hmmm?
{24373}{24447}KEVIN: Did you know that India... used to be an island?
{24448}{24497}JACK: Hnnn...
{24580}{24698}KEVIN: Hi, Mom!|KEVIN: You made that?!|NORMA: Uh huh...
{24699}{24781}KEVIN: That's really nice! I like that!
{24782}{24890}KAREN: Hey, Mom - that is beautiful. Look at this...
{24893}{25013}NORMA: Yeah - that one didn't turn out too bad, did it?|KEVIN: No - it's really good!
{25022}{25081}NORMA: You know, I didn't follow instructions on this one.
{25082}{25226}Richard told us to keep our eyes closed, and... when he shut his - I peeked.
{25228}{25306}KAREN: You are turning into such a rebel. I mean tomorrow,
{25307}{25403}we're gonna come home and find you burning your bras.|NORMA: Karen!
{25404}{25467}KAREN: You know, Mom, you should make more like this one.
{25468}{25570}I mean, I bet you could sell 'em at the little craft store down by the movie theater.
{25571}{25645}NORMA (V/O): You really think so?|KAREN (V/O): Yeah!
{25698}{25770}JACK: Did you get the Pepsi?
{25777}{25884}NORMA: Oh - I forgot.|JACK (V/O): Great.
{25885}{25936}NORMA (V/O): Well, I'm sorry.|NORMA (V/O): I just forgot.
{25937}{26011}JACK: I know...|NORMA (V/O): I'm sorry...
{26012}{26116}NORMA: Don't get upset! I'll just go get it now.|JACK (V/O): I'm not upset.
{26117}{26178}JACK (V/O): It's just you said you were going to get the Pepsi.
{26179}{26275}JACK (V/O): If you knew you were going to forget - I could have gotten it myself.
{26276}{26388}JACK: I mean, you shouldn't say you're gonna get Pepsi for someone... if you're just gonna forget to get it.
{26389}{26456}NORMA: Oh, I see. (Nods. ) I'm just supposed to know when I'm gonna forget something?
{26457}{26549}JACK: Sure. (Nods. ) I knew you were going to forget.
{26550}{26682}Time to check the score on the old ballgame.|There really wasn't much I could add to the conversation.
{26683}{26783}KAREN: You know, Dad? Sometimes you can be such a male chauvinist pig.
{26784}{26912}Karen, on the other hand...|Somehow knew just the right thing to say.
{26974}{27103}JACK: Where're you goin'?|NORMA: I better get your Pepsi while it's still fresh on my mind.
{27104}{27193}JACK: Don't bother - I'll get it.|NORMA: No, that's OK, Jack - I'll get it.
{27194}{27309}JACK: No, I said I'll get it...|NORMA (V/O): Don't break it!|JACK: I'm not gonna break it, Norma!
{27310}{27392}NORMA (V/O): Just because you hate my pottery is no reason to smash it to pieces!
{27393}{27487}JACK (V/O): I don't hate your pottery!|Notice he didn't say he liked it.
{27488}{27584}NORMA: Well, you certainly act like you hate it!|JACK: Now, what's that supposed to mean?!
{27585}{27704}NORMA: It means that from the moment I started doing this - you haven't had one nice thing to say!
{27705}{27784}JACK: Well, maybe I'm not big on pottery!|JACK (V/O): So sue me!
{27785}{27868}NORMA (V/O): Well, you certainly seem fond of your stupid little fish cup!
{27869}{27980}I've never seen anyone so attached to anything since Kevin had to give up his blankie!
{27981}{28031}JACK (V/O): I don't want to talk about this.
{28032}{28197}NORMA: Well maybe I do, Jack! It's not fair - you're making me feel like I'm doing something wrong!
{28198}{28274}JACK: You're crazy! I'm not makin' you feel anything!
{28275}{28368}NORMA (V/O): Oh, sure - you've been a regular "Mr. Sunshine"!
{28369}{28520}NORMA (V/O): You know, Jack, the kids all say "that's nice, Mom". My friends say "that's nice, Norma".
{28521}{28673}NORMA (V/O): My teacher says "very good, Mrs. Arnold". And you say... "where's the Pepsi?! "
{28674}{28813}JACK: I really don't have time for this.|NORMA: I spend my time trying to make something nice for the family...
{28814}{28900}and you don't even have the common courtesy to say you like it!
{28901}{28945}JACK: Don't gimme that, Norma!
{28946}{29100}This family does't need an ashtray for two-hundred people! This family needs Pepsi!
{29101}{29199}NORMA (V/O): That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life,
{29200}{29338}Jack! You should listen to yourself - "I want my Pepsi! I want my cup! "
{29346}{29467}NORMA: You sound like an infant!|JACK (V/O): Don't you ever - ever!...
{29468}{29560}JACK (V/O): Speak to me in that tone of voice!
{29561}{29712}NORMA (V/O): I'll speak the way I want to...|JACK: Fine... don't expect me to listen to it.
{30491}{30611}The silence that filled our house that night - was like ice.
{30623}{30719}My dad didn't come home till after midnight.
{31799}{31853}NORMA: Ow! Damn!
{33362}{33539}I know it sounds strange - but that was the first time... I'd ever seen my parents alone together.
{33658}{33730}JACK: Did you burn yourself?
{33782}{33836}NORMA: Uh-huh...
{33931}{33982}JACK: It's OK?
{34079}{34130}NORMA: Yeah...
{34211}{34271}JACK: That's good...
{34758}{34849}I guess sometimes the ground can shift beneath your feet.
{34850}{35037}Sometimes your footing slips - you stumble. And sometimes, you grab what's closest to you, and hold on...
{35133}{35246}As tight as you can.|The Wonder Years
{35247}{35302}Season 2 Episod 6
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