Tom Bosley
(as Family Doctor)
Family Doctor:
Call my wife, will you, and tell her I'm on my way home?
[beat]
Family Doctor: And tell her thank you.
Frank Beardsley: For what?
Family Doctor: We don't have any children.
[beat]
Family Doctor: And tell her thank you.
Frank Beardsley: For what?
Family Doctor: We don't have any children.
Henry Fonda
(as Frank Beardsley)
Frank Beardsley:
[narrating why his ten kids resent him] Truthfully, I think they blamed me for neglecting their mother all those years. But there seemed to me that there was enough physical evidence I hadn't neglected her completely!
Henry Fonda
(as Frank Beardsley)
Frank Beardsley:
[narrating] It was a typical wedding: enemies of the bride on the right, enemies of the groom on the left.
Lucille Ball
(as Helen North Beardsley)
Frank Beardsley:
I don't quite understand. Am I being stupid?
Helen North: No, you're being a man. Which is sometimes the same thing.
Helen North: No, you're being a man. Which is sometimes the same thing.
Lucille Ball
(as Helen North Beardsley)
Frank Beardsley:
Is that all? Why didn't she tell me?
Helen North: Because you would have said, "Is that all?".
Helen North: Because you would have said, "Is that all?".
Henry Fonda
(as Frank Beardsley)
Frank Beardsley:
This is the last time I'm going to bring it up but... you do like children, don't you?
Helen North: Yeah, within reason.
Frank Beardsley: In that case, the hell with it.
Helen North: Yeah, within reason.
Frank Beardsley: In that case, the hell with it.