This Is 40 Page #3

Just tell me what to do.

Can you go get

a lunch box or something?

For me or for them?

Charlotte!

I've got a test!

I'm coming, I'm coming.

Charlotte, I'm going to kill you!

Hi, Debbie.

Hi. Any day now, huh?

Not really.

Three months, still.

Hi.

Hi.

Katie's dying for a play date.

Let's hook these two up.

That would be great. Okay,

I'll call you. Great.

Okay, great.

No.

No, what?

No.

What?

No.

She's sweet.

She's evil.

Hello. Hi.

Hi.

Listen, Charlotte really

needs to get here on time

because she needs the extra

time to just settle in.

Oh. We are on time.

Being on time

means being early.

Okay.

It's nice to see you in class.

We'd like to see more of you.

I come to...

Hi, Debbie.

Grandma Molly.

How are you? I'm so happy

about the science fair.

Thank you for coming.

It's going very well, I heard.

Yeah. I love you. You

look so beautiful!

Happy birthday. I just

learned that you're 40.

Are you 40?

Yeah.

I remember when I was 40,

and then I blinked,

and there I was,

going to be 90.

My God, where did it go?

One day, you're going to blink

and you're going to be 90.

And I won't be around to see it,

and that makes me very sad.

I'm telling you.

I'm warning you.

Don't blink. Don't blink.

And then

you missed the mortgage payment,

and that's the second mortgage.

You gotta tighten your belt.

You gotta go home, sit down,

look at your expenses,

come clean with Debbie.

Oh, God.

I can't tell Debbie.

You've got to tell her, Pete.

I mean, she knows it's bad, but

she has no idea just how bad.

If you sell the house, it'll

really buy you some time.

No, Debbie's not really

into selling the house.

As your business manager and your

friend, I can't recommend that.

Hey, how funny would it be

if I bought your house?

Okay. Bye.

Hang in there.

From the

retro label, Unfiltered,

comes the first Graham Parker &

The Rumour record in 30 years.

When we play together,

the magic was just ridiculous.

And I think what we've

got is just so great.

What are you doing?

I'm contextualizing him as one of

the great figures in rock history.

You can't show him

in his prime in '77,

and then jump straight

to him as he is now.

It's terrifying.

You have got to reverse it.

You have got to show him

as he is now, very briefly,

and then show him in 1977.

You have got to

Benjamin Button it.

I don't know what you're talking about.

All rock stars are older now.

Steven Tyler, David

Bowie, Mick Jagger...

Paul McCartney.

Okay. Stop it.

Everybody that you are mentioning

looks like an old woman now.

You're just mentioning

a bunch of Jessica Tandys.

Keith Richards

gets away with it.

But that's because Keith Richards

looked 70 when he was 40.

And now that he's 70,

he looks 69.

He's regenerating.

I like it, and I think

Graham Parker's sexy.

Well, would you f*** him?

Yes.

You'd...

You'd f*** him and

you won't f*** me?

I mean, I kind of

f***ed you once,

if you could have finished.

Oh. I finished.

Okay, enough of who f***ed

who and who finished what.

I finished.

Look, it's a retro label. That's

our niche, that's our market.

It costs money to break new bands.

I can't do that.

Okay, and also, you're the guy

who turned down Arcade Fire.

Everybody turned

down Arcade Fire.

It's crazy.

There's so many of them.

We don't have the money

to market a new band.

We just need to make

Graham seem relevant.

Who's he talking to?

The Jewish Journal.

The Jewish Journal?

Apparently, old Jews are the only ones

who still buy hard copy of records.

Because they don't

like to download music.

Because they don't know

what "downloading" means.

Why is this album different

from any other album?

It isn't.

What is he wearing?

It's a hat with

the Oreo logo on it.

Why? I don't think

he's being ironic.

I think he just

really likes Oreos.

Look, Paul Westerberg

record did okay.

Frank Black record

did all right.

The Haircut One Hundred,

not so much.

We have to break this record.

Otherwise, we're not here next year.

He's coming, he's coming.

Oreo Man is coming.

Hey, guys, how are you?

Good, man.

Aren't cookies the best?

Yeah.

Jewish Journal guy

loves the record.

Great!

Got a bit of a problem, though.

A touch of gout.

Gout?

My whole family,

they all had gout.

Jesus.

That's very unfortunate.

My auntie Queenie,

she had a foot like this.

It's like a size of a small pig.

I've got a photo of it.

I'd love to see that

photo of that gout foot.

And a couple of

bunions as well.

F***.

I've got to go

to the podiatrist,

and I hope he can

shoot me up with something.

Yeah, well, let's get

you to the podiatrist.

Bye, Graham.

See you later, Graham.

Good luck with your gout.

Rock and roll, baby.

The happiest period in people's

lives is from age 40 to 60.

So, this is it.

We're in it right now.

It's true.

Says who?

Says a lot of people.

Most people say that. Oh!

We have everything we need right

now to be completely happy.

We're going to blink, and be 90.

What?

So, let's just

choose to be happy.

Yeah. Yeah.

Your eyes are

kind of glazing over.

No, I'm processing it all.

Some of these, I wrote for you.

So, we have to exercise every day.

Mmm.

Spend more time alone together.

And we have to go

to the therapist, every week.

It's a little pricey.

No stressing over tiny things.

Yeah, that's good. You should do that.

Mm-hmm.

We have to get more

involved in school.

Yeah. Have more

patience with the kids.

And we need to

work on our anger.

Yeah, I think it would be good if

you could take care of your anger.

No, I said both of us.

That's what I said.

Our anger.

Okay, and no more smoking.

Yeah, you gotta cut that out.

I don't want to make this about a fight.

I want to just be positive.

Yeah. Sorry.

Okay, and then no more

holding onto resentments.

We have to just let that go.

So, you're saying

that if we're arguing,

and I apologize,

you'll let it go?

And not throw it

back in my face later?

Well, I don't do that,

but I will continue

not to do that.

And what did you write?

All of that. That's plenty.

That's a lot.

And you're going to eat better?

Oh, yeah. I've been

doing a decent job.

But I don't think

there's anything wrong

with having some

fries every now and again.

And then I'll smoke that day.

That's not the same thing.

It is the same thing.

I like fries.

And the other thing

is your dad's stuff,

the not letting him

guilt-trip you all the time

because that puts a lot of

pressure on you, and stress,

and then the whole family feels it.

And he is a grown man, and

he's not our responsibility.

And you're not giving him

money anymore, right?

No. No, I haven't

been giving him money.

I haven't done that

for years. I told you.

Can you please put that down?

A lot of people are RSVP-ing

to your birthday party.

You sure you don't want to just

do a joint birthday party?

No.

We always used to.

No.

Did Jodi tell you she

thinks Desi's stealing?

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