MY GIRL Page #9

The tune "Moonglow" is playing on the radio

PHIL:

Well well well, what's going on in here?

HARRY:

Nothing, I'm dressing.

PHIL:

Oh, you're dressing, uh huh, Harry Harry

Harry Harry, don't you know it's not nice to

lie to your big brother?

Phil then proceeds to give Harry a noogie

HARRY:

HEY! WATCH THE HAIR!! THIS SHIRT GIVES!!! ALL

RIGHT!!!!

Phil stops

I'm going out with Shelly.

PHIL:

Oh yes, oh that's great.

HARRY:

I'm very nervous.

PHIL:

Why?

HARRY:

The last date I had was twenty years ago.

PHIL:

That's true. Harry Harry sit down, let me

fill you in on today's women, since the last

time you dated, something happened, "The

Sexual Revolution", now before that, you used

to have to hold a door open for a woman, pull

her chair out, pick up the check, no more no

more, you wanna know what else is missing?

BRAS!

HARRY:

Oh come on.

PHIL:

Harry, I'm serious, trust me Harry this

woman's lifting us in, you gotta treat her

like every Tom Dick and Harry.

HARRY:

Are you sure about all this?

PHIL:

Did you not tell Vada I'm a womanizer huh?

HARRY:

Oh, I'm running late. Shelly'll be here any

minute.

PHIL:

Oh she's picking you up, good you're on the

right track.

HARRY:

No, she's just driving over here, then we're

taking my car. How do I look?

PHIL:

Like a Sultenfuss. Go get 'em.

Harry runs down the stairs and passes Vada on the way

HARRY:

Goodnight Vada.

VADA:

Dad, why are you dressed up to go to bingo?

HARRY:

Ahh, I just wanna look nice.

VADA:

You never cared before.

HARRY:

Well Shelly's coming over, we're gonna go

together.

VADA:

Why?

HARRY:

She likes to play bingo.

VADA:

Can I go too?

HARRY:

Naah, I think you'd better stay here and keep

Grammoo company.

Harry leaves and then Vada makes a decision, she goes out

the door

OUTSIDE THE SENNET'S HOUSE, VADA IS CREEPING ALONG NIGHT

Vada approaches the Sennet's house and signals through the

window for Thomas J to come outside, which he does

THOMAS J:

Vada? Vada?? Where are you??

Vada springs up from her hiding place

VADA:

Here.

THOMAS J:

Don't DO that!!

VADA:

Sorry.

THOMAS J:

What do you want? My mom will skin me alive

if she finds I'm out here.

VADA:

Let's go to the church, they're playing bingo

tonight.

THOMAS J:

I told you i'll get in trouble.

VADA:

Pacifist!

THOMAS J:

I am not.

VADA:

Bed wetter!

THOMAS J:

I stopped that!

AT THE CHURCH, FOCUS ON THE BINGO ANNOUNCER WHO IS CALLING

OUT THE NUMBERS:

HARRY:

Don't worry, there's a strategy to bingo. For

instance, on a given night anybody can win,

but I play the odds, when choosing bingo

cards, I use a range of theories from the laws

of probability to avoiding duplicate number

systems. This way you get much more activity.

SHELLY:

(hopeful)

Does it make it easier to win?

HARRY:

No. Just, more activity.

Harry then pulls a seat out and sits down in it, cutting

Shelly off, who has to pull her own seat out and sit down

HARRY:

(as he sits down, to the

person next to him)

Hi Carl.

OUTSIDE THE CHURCH NIGHT

Vada and Thomas J are walking up to the church

THOMAS J:

They're not gonna let us in Vada, we're kids.

VADA:

We're not gonna bet, we're just gonna watch.

THOMAS J:

Watch bingo? I don't even like to play bingo.

VADA:

Duck!

Vada and Thomas J are ducking behind a counter on one side

of the church, Harry and Shelly are quite clearly visible on

the other side of the room

SHELLY:

(in the distance, as a number

is announced)

Oh great!

THOMAS J:

Hey there's your Dad and Shelly.

VADA:

Ssshhhhh, I don't want them to see me.

SHELLY:

(in the distance again, as

another number is announced)

Aarrggh.

CLOSE UP OF HARRY AND SHELLY

As Shelly looks around the bingo table, she notices that

everyone around her is chronologically advantaged in a big

way

SHELLY:

I just had a terrible thought Harry.

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