Mary Poppins Page #14

Season #3 Episode #3
Synopsis: When Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael (Matthew Garber), the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family, are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews). Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert (Dick Van Dyke), the siblings try to pass on some of their nanny's sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents (David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns).
Genre: Children
Year:
1964
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Mr. Banks:

Do you know what she did? I realize it now. She tricked me into taking Jane and Michael to the

bank. That's how all the trouble started.

Bert:

Tricked you into taking the children on an outing?

Mr. Banks:

Yes.

Bert:

Outrageous! A man with all the important things you have to do. Shameful! You're a man of high

position. Esteemed by your peers.

And when your little tykes are cryin' you haven't time to dry their tears

and see them grateful little faces smilin' up at you

because their dad he always knows just what to do

Mr. Banks:

Well I mean, look, I, I don't think I ca-- -

Bert:

Like you say, guv'nor.

You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone

Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve

And all too soon they've up and grown

And then they've flown

And it's too late for you to give

Just that spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down

The medicine go down

Medicine go down

Well, good-bye, guv'nor. Sorry to have troubled you.

Jane:

Father? We're sorry about the tuppence. We didn't know it would cause you so much trouble.

Michael:

Here, father, you can have the tuppence.

Jane:

Will that make everything all right?

Mr. Banks:

Thank you.

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Come in!

Take your hat off, Banks.

Mr. Banks:

Good evening, gentlemen.

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Well, get on with it. Go on.

Mr. Dawes:

Uh, yes, Father. In 1773, an official of this bank, unwisely loaned a large sum of money, to

finance a shipment of tea to the American colonies. Do you know what happened?

Mr. Banks:

Yes, sir. Yes, I think I do. Uh, uh, as the ship lay in Boston harbor, uh, a party of the colonists

dressed as Red Indians, uh, boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and, and threw all the

tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking, even for Americans.

Mr. Dawes:

Precisely. The loan was defaulted. Panic ensued within these walls. There was a run on the

bank!

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

From that time to this, sir, there has not been a run on this bank until today! A run, sir, caused

by the disgraceful conduct of your son. Do you deny it?

Mr. Banks:

I do not deny it, sir. And I shall be only too glad to assume responsibility for my son.

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

What are you waiting for? Get on with it!

Mr. Dawes:

Uh, y-yes, Father.

Director 1:

No, not that!

Director 2:

Steady on.

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Well, do you have anything to say, Banks?

Mr. Banks:

Well, sir, they do say that when there's nothing to say, all you can say I-

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Confound it, Banks! I said, do you have anything to say?

Mr. Banks:

Just one word, sir.

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Yes?

Mr. Banks:

Supercalifragilistic- expialidocious.

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

What?

Mr. Banks:

Supercalifragilistic- expialidocious. Mary Poppins was right. It's extraordinary. It does make you

feel better!

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

What are you talking about, man? There's no such word.

Mr. Banks:

Oh, yes. It is a word. A perfectly good word, actually. Do you know what there's no such thing

as? It turns out, with due respect, when all is said and done, that there's no such thing as you!

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Impertinence, sir!

Mr. Banks:

Speaking of impertinence, would you like to hear a perfectly marvelous joke? A real snapper!

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Joke? Snapper?

Mr. Banks:

Yes. There are these two wonderful young people, Jane and Michael. And they meet one day

on the street, and Jane says to Michael, "I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith." and

Michael says, "Really? What's the name of his other leg?"

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

The man's gone mad. Call the guard!

Mr. Banks:

Supercalifragilistic- expialidocious. I'm feeling better all the time!

Mr. Dawes:

Banks, don't you dare strike my father!

Mr. Banks:

There's the tuppence. The wonderful, fateful, Supercalifragilistic- expialidocious tuppence.

Guard it well. Good-bye!

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Banks, where are you going?

Mr. Banks:

I don't know. I might pop through a chalk pavement picture, and go for an outing in the country.

Or I might seize a horse off a merry-go-round, and win the derby! Or I might just fly a kite! Only

Poppins would know!

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

Poppins?

Mr. Banks:

My nanny. She's the one who sings that ridiculous song.

A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down

The medicine go down

The medicine go down

The medicine--

Mr. Dawes:

Mad as a march hare.

Mr. Dawes (Snr):

A wooden leg named Smith. A wooden leg named Smith. A wooden le--

Mr. Dawes:

Father? Father! Father, come down! Daddy! Daddy, come back!

Admiral Boom:

Wind's come around, blowing dead on from the west!

Michael:

She doesn't care what happens to us.

Jane:

She only promised to stay 'til the wind changed. Isn't that right, Mary Poppins?

Mary Poppins:

Will you bring me my hat stand, please?

Jane:

Mary Poppins, don't you love us?

Mary Poppins:

And what would happen to me, may I ask, if I loved all the children I said good-bye to?

Constable:

Yes, sir, that's right. George W. Banks. 17 Cherry Tree Lane. About six foot one, I'd say, sir. Oh,

yes, we rang up his bank first thing this morning. The only thing we discovered was, he'd been

discharged last night. No telling what he might do in a fit of despondency.

Ellen:

Wouldn't hurt to have them drag the river. There's a nice spot there by Suffolk bridge. Popular

with jumpers.

Mrs. Banks:

Really, Ellen!

Constable:

He seemed to have been a fine, stable gentleman, sir. No hanky-panky, if you know what I

mean. Oh, regular habits, sir. Well, far as anyone knows.

Mr. Banks:

The medicine go down

The medicine go down

Just a spoonful of sugar

Mrs. Brill:

It's him!

Mr. Banks:

Helps the medicine go down

Ellen:

Or something that sounds like him.

Constable:

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