Gone Fishin' Page #2

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- Yeah.

- If a great football player

got a bad football...

- he's still a great football player.

- Exactly.

Hey, how about this clean,

fresh Florida air?

[Inhales] Hey, a real Florida

palm tree in the flesh.

Holy smoke! Gus,

I never thought I' d see a palm tree.

- I feel like a million dollars, Joe.

- I feel like two million.

[Laughing]

let's go eat.

- And then fish.

- Yeah.

No, no. You got the last one.

it's on me. Forget about it.

Hey, Joe, check out

them ugly sticks.

Hey, don't say that.

- They gonna break.

- [Woman] You got number nine ready?

- [Man] Here you go.

- let's sit over here.

Hey, don't say that.

Hey, Gus, I can't

believe you. You tell me,

"Look at these ugly chicks."

I was gonna laugh right

in their faces over there.

I said, "Ugly sticks."

For fishin'.

Oh, I thought you said

"ugly chicks"' cause this

girl' s sittin' there.

You gotta have ugly sticks

here because they feed

a lot of fishermen.

- Hiya.

- Hi.

Y' all know

what you want?

Uh...

Hey, Gus. What do you

think, Gus? Should I get

this Southern Plate?

Then you can have

my toast and my bacon.

Yeah, then I'll get the

Fisherman' s Feast, and you can

have my sausage and pancakes.

If you're gonna do that,

why don't I get

the Mariner and you can have

the whole side of ham?

Oh, never mind us.

This happens all the time.

Must be enjoyable for ya.

May I suggest

the Panama Platter?

It really hit the spot.

Oh, yeah? Thanks.

Um... what do you think?

Shall we get a couple of those?

- Yeah, a couple of those.

- [Waitress] Two of those?

- A couple of those, yeah.

- Yeah. Thanks.

- Gus, check this out.

- Yeah.

- Pure Billy "Catch" Pooler.

Watch this.

- Okay.

Back, drop.

- Back, drop.

- Y-you're flickin' too much.

- I can't get the flick.

- Okay, wait. Let me show you.

Which is the flick?

Which is the dip?

Think of flick

instead of flip.

- Flick.

- Flick, dip.

See, I can't...

I get the flick and the dip

mix ed all the time.

- Uh, pardon me.

- Oh, sorry.

- I couldn't help noticing you have a

fishing lure on your key ring.

- Yeah.

- That wouldn't be

a deadly invader, would it?

- It is!

- You fish?

- Not professionally.

You could call me

a frustrated amateur.

you're a frustrated amateur.

[Laughing]

- that's good.

- I was just kiddin'.

Just makin' a joke.

- It was a joke.

- Oh, yeah, yeah.

What about you two?

you're professionals, right?

Well, I guess you could

say that, in a way.

we're semipro.

We won a lot of fishin' medals

and things like that.

- Not lately, though.

- Well, scout camp...

That counts, doesn't it?

Stuff like that.

- The reason I ask is... Sorry. Sorry.

- Oh.

- Do you mind if I join you?

- No, come on.

Thanks.

You see, my father was

a professional fisherman.

- [Joe] Really?

- He was telling me...

that he was working

on the deadly invader.

You know, I think

this might have been one

of his last original designs.

- By the way, I'm Joe.

- Oh, uh, Martin.

- How ya doin'?

- Martin Jeffries.

Gus. Yeah.

- Anyway, are you two married?

- Uh, yeah, yeah.

- Children?

- No, they're our age.

- No, I don't think

that's what he meant.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Do you have children?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- They all get together.

- they're great kids, though.

- See, Fiona and I,

we never had children.

- Oh, geez.

When Fiona died,

I suddenly realized...

I' d wasted so much

of my life, you know?

- I' d spent 20 years behind a desk.

- that's a long time to sit.

- you're 100% right.

- Right, Joe?

- I was always jealous of men like you.

- Really?

Of course, I'm changing all that now,

you know. My life' s different.

Listen, I won' t hold you up.

Anyway, look, it was

a real honor meeting you.

- Hey, the pleasure' s ours.

- Yeah, thanks.

Thanks so much.

And good luck with the fishing.

- Yeah.

- Hey, try fishing.

You'll see.

- I'll give it a try.

- All right. he's a nice guy, huh?

Hey, what kind of accent

is that? Polish or somethin'?

- I think it's Irish.

- Yeah, Irish, Scottish.

Here. I'm glad y' all didn't buy

a bridge from that gentleman.

Why? He seemed

like a nice guy. He didn't

try to sell us anything.

- Seemed like a nice guy

havin' a tough time.

- Oh, really?

- Poor guy just recently

lost his wife, you know?

- Yeah.

Did you know you just recently

lost your car?

- there's a car just like mine!

- Joe, that's your car!

- It is! With my keys!

- [Tires Screeching]

- [Screaming]

- Hey, Joe!

Holy smokes!

[Woman]

it's simple.

When we find that guy

who stole my mom' s money

and broke her heart,

I'm gonna kill him.

- Food.

- What... What?

- Food.

- Oh, no. Come on.

We already lost two hours.

- Hi.

- Hi. How are you?

Okay.

What happened?

Oh, we just had ourselves

a little boatin' accident.

Some fella stole a car.

- Big mess.

- Oh, yeah?

He didn't happen to look

like this guy, did he?

Well, that was him.

- He was here!

- Well, when did he leave?

- A couple hours ago.

- Was he alone?

When he got here.

Then he sat over at that table

with a couple of fellas and...

they chit-chatted for a while

and... and he took their car.

Those guys whose car was stolen,

what about them?

Oh, you shouldn't have

any trouble findin' them. [Laughs]

[Laughs]

[Joe And Gus Panting]

My poor car, Gus.

My poor car.

My poor feet. Hey.

[Car Horn Honking]

[Boy In Car]

Hey, you dorks!

[Bird Squawking]

[Bird Squawking]

This trip ain't even a one.

it's a friggin' zero.

- It could be worse, Joe.

- How could it be worse?

You can't get any lower

than zero, right, Gus?

Hey, at least we're alive.

We almost got killed by our own boat.

My life stinks, Gus. But it stunk

a lot less when my car was in it.

- Yeah.

- That car meant a lot to me, Gus.

I got memories of that car

I can't even remember.

Yeah, but at least

we're goin' fishing.

Yeah.

- Hey, Joe?

- Yeah?

L-I was just thinkin;

Say, 100 years ago

we were goin' fishin;

- This is what we' d be doin'.

- What do you mean?

Yeah, think about it.

[Chuckles]

This is how we' d get

our boat to the water.

So we can't let that guy ruin

our Florida vacation, eh?

Hey, maybe you're right.

Yeah, and 1, 000 years ago,

we wouldn't even have paved roads.

Hey, that's right, Gus. It would be

filled with rocks and everything, right?

Y-Y-Yeah. And the boats

would be heavier.

that's right. We got

the latest technology wood.

This boat's light, right, Gus?

Yeah, and guess what, Joe?

A million years ago,

we wouldn't even have

wheels for our trailer. [Laughing]

We wouldn't even have

a friggin' trailer, right, Gus?

A-A-And Gus, if it was that long ago,

our brains would be smaller.

- We wouldn't even think

about anything like that.

- Oh, man, yeah.

- So, it may not be a ten yet,

- Yeah.

- But it definitely ain't a zero.

- [Horn Honking]

[Laughing]

Hey, hey!

- Hey, Gus, they're pulling over.

- Yeah.

- Hey.

- Hey, Gus.

- Yeah?

- Babes.

You guys need a ride?

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