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Noun. One who's

attached to another...

because of their personal regard.

Companion, a comrade, a chum...

and someone who

doesn't get serious.

- Friends never get serious?

- Never.

- Can a friend ask a question?

- No. And shut up.

Let's do Peter Piper

picked a pickle peck a

- Ah, Dickie, I'm exhausted.

- You can't be exhausted.

Peter Piper

picked a peck of"peckled"

- Peter Piper picked a peck of

- Hey, Dickie, why did you want to see me?

I wanted to play with you.

All right. Then what?

Oh, we'd play,

have a few laughs...

see what developed.

- I like you.

- You like me.

- I like you.

- All right, you like me.

- That's right. I like you.

- Oh, Dickie, what's the matter?

You think I'm one of

those gross businessmen?

You think I have a secretary that picks up

the phone and gets me whatever I want?

Jeannie, I buried eight relatives in the past

six years. There's nobody left but me.

I'm just a mild success in a dull profession,

and I wanna start over again.

And I've got a bad kidney!

[Forst Chuckling]

So?

Come on and take a bath.

I don't want a bath!

No bath?

No bath?

No bath.

People drown in bathtubs.

No hard feelings?

You're aces high with me, Charlie.

#I dream ofJeannie #

# With the light brown hair #

#Borne like a vapor on the summer air #

##[Humming]

##[Stops]

You know, you're a very strange man.

- Well, you want me to leave, I'll leave.

- But not sensitive.

And another thing

You don't make me insecure.

- That's not one of my problems.

- Good.

All righty.

Now.

[Sighs]

Okay, give me a foot.

- [Grunts]

- Those are new socks.

Yeah? Good.

- New socks make me insecure.

- [Chuckling]

Clothes make the man.

- What does that do?

- Makes your feet smell good.

Oh, that's fine.

Then I'm gonna dry them off,

I'm gonna powder them down...

and then I'm gonna

rub 'em till warm.

# Oh, dem bones, dem bones

Dey walk all over #

- # Dem bones, dem bones, dey walk all over #

- # Dry bones #

- # Dem bones, dem bones, dey walk all over #

- # Dry bones #

# Now hear the word of the Lord #

- # Dem bones, dem bones #

- # Now the backbone #

- #They walk all over #

- # Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk around ##

- I trust you.

- What?

I said I said I trust you.

Good.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

[Laughing]

Oh, Freddie.

[Laughing]

Jeannie. Hey, Jeannie.

Jeannie, you wanna hear

a secret, huh?

Oh, Jeannie, I don't give a damn

about racial, religious...

moral, economical, political problems.

- That makes two of us.

- Eating meat disturbs me.

Right. Can you imagine raising

poor little chickens, steers and lambs...

to fill our tummies?

- Now, there's a problem and nobody cares.

- Right.

- Right? Huh? Right.

- Right.

- They take all the wool off the lamb,

and then we eat it.

- Oh, Dickie.

What is all this holier-than-thou crap

that they hand us?

You know what I think?

I think we were all created evil!

Then some some wise guy

some, uh a left-winger or a

a union organizer comes along

and tells us that we all were created good.

We were all created in his image.

Right?

Wrong.

[Slaps Forst's Knee]

Hey, Jeannie.

Jeannie, come here.

Now I'm gonna tell you something.

This is serious.

You're such a lovely girl, Jeannie...

but you talk too much.

I talk too much?

Didn't anybody ever tell you that?

You talk too much.

- I?

- Now turn out the lights.

I'm spending the night.

You're a son of a b*tch.

Do you know that?

Why am I a son of a b*tch?

Because you get to me.

And anybody that gets to me

You kill me.

Let's have some music.

## [Melancholy Piano]

##[Piano And Violin]

##[Rock]

[No Audible Dialogue]

##[Continues]

[Man]

Ow!

#I said everybody #

# Throw up your hands now #

##[Continues, Indistinct]

[No Audible Dialogue]

# Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah #

#I heard of skate-a-ling #

#Skate-a-ling #

#Skate-a-ling

Skate-a-ling #

#Skate-a-ling

Skate-a-ling #

#Skate-a-ling

Skate-a-ling #

#Skate-a-ling #

[Screams]

Ow!

#I said everybody #

# Throw up your hands now #

##[Continues, Indistinct]

[No Audible Dialogue]

# Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ##

[Chuckling]

- [Chattering]

- Here we are.

## [Woman Singing, Indistinct]

Come on.

Well, come on.

Here's the living room.

[Laughing]

Come on.

## [Woman Humming]

Ooh! Oh!

[Record Scratching]

## [Blues]

Oh, oh, Chet.

Ooh, ooh, ooh.

#You know, life's so funny, baby #

# Don't even know where I'm gonna run #

#You know, life's so funny, baby #

# Don't even know where I'm gonna run #

#You're still such a little darlin' #

- # Expect so much ##

- ## [Record Stops]

Leave her alone now,

and stop it!

- Come and sit down.

- Hey.

Let's just sit down!

It's a nice place you got here.

Thank you.

It's 27 years old.

- Twenty-seven years old?

- Oh, come on, Chettie.

Let's do some more

twistin' and groovin'.

- Florence, the party's over.

- Come on, Florence.

Oh, no.

The party's just beginning.

- Right, Chettie?

- Uh, yeah, right.

'Cause I'm mixing the drinkies.

Ladies, declare!

- Gin and tonic.

- Scotch and soda.

Two glasses comin' up. Oh!

[Chuckles, Sighs]

Look, I got these records.

Can we have some music, please?

Can we have some music or something,

or are we just gonna sit here?

Where are you from, Chet?

Detroit.

Do you like Los Angeles?

Do you?

Well, I like the climate.

I do too.

Well! Well, wasn't that

some place tonight, huh?

And those dances.

The, uh the watusi and the frug.

- [Chet] Oh, yeah.

- And the dog and the jerk.

- And the

- Did you like it?

With all those young boys?

Of course I liked it.

[Chet]

Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Of course I liked it.

I did notice that you handled yourself

very well at the a-go-go.

Oh! Well, thank you.

You're definitely an individual type.

I mean, you don't seem to succumb

to the atmosphere.

Who was the, uh

the little blonde girl...

with the, uh with the big blue eyes

and the big bazoom?

And did you notice the one

in the black tights with the boots?

[Woman]

You have to have the figure for those tights.

- I have never had complaints, Louise.

- Billie-May, I didn't say anything like that.

You

Come on, now, you guys.

I mean, like, you got nothin' to worry about.

Really. Believe me.

None of ya.

Believe me, will ya?

You people are

too much, man. Look

- Are you kiddin'?

- Well, out of that whole room

full of pretty, young chicks...

what made you come over

to our table?

Oh, Billie-May, you know why?

Because there was something wrong with ya.

You guys were all

sitting there like a bunch of

like you were gonna

break into tears any minute.

Now, if I see someone

trying to join in...

and not knowing how...

I find my selfknow-how...

and always make it a point

to know how with anybody...

and I say, "Go on over, man."

Kind of like, uh, Jesus said.

You know.

#Jesus said

La, dee, da #

# God is love

Love is dead ##

Kind of like Christ said, you know.

Help thy neighbor, man.

- Is he the one that said that?

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