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Hello, I'm Mr. Red.
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course,
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that is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Red.
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Go right to the source and ask the horse, he'll give you the answer that you endorse.
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He's always on a steady course, talk to Mr. Red.
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You don't have to do that.
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I don't mind.
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My mother always said if you don't keep a place clean, it gets to look like a stable.
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Ed, I've got news for you.
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Uh-uh.
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Carol and I have decided to spend a few days up at Bill Parker's lodge in the mountains.
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I need a change.
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So do I. I'll pack a few things and meet you kids out front.
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Ed, we're not leaving yet and we can't take you along anyway.
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Now wait a minute, Wilbur.
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You always tell me I'm one of the family, is that right?
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Sure.
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Then how come every time you take a trip, I suddenly become a horse again?
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Stop talking like a baby.
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Well.
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Roger's gonna feed you and take care of you until we get back.
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Big deal.
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That old sourpuss hates me.
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He does not.
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Okay, so I hate him.
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Please take me along, Wilbur.
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I've never gone fishing.
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Fishing?
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Who ever heard of a horse fishing?
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Well, if you're gonna bring that up, who ever heard of a horse talking?
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Please take me along.
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I'm a little tired of being cooped up in this old stable.
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Where would you expect to live?
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This is America, where even a horse can dream of living in the White House.
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Pine Lake Lodge.
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Oh, I bet the weather is beautiful there.
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I'll get it, Martha.
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Pine Lake Lodge, Bill Parker, proprietor speaking.
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Wilbur Post.
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How are you, Wilbur?
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Great.
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Thinking of coming up?
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Fine.
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The weather?
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Couldn't be more beautiful.
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Oh, and of course have your wife bring her bathing suit.
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She'll need it.
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Reservations?
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Just a minute, Wilbur.
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Martha, we got any empty rooms?
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14 of them.
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Yeah, we got four.
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I mean, we can just squeeze you in.
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We expect to be fine.
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Just squeeze you in?
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Yeah, just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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Just squeeze you in.
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The weather couldn't be more beautiful.
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Tell me, Mr. Parker, how do you make up things like that?
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Martha, I'm a very truthful man.
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And as soon as Mr. Post registers, I'll tell him the truth.
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That I lied.
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Oh, honey, I'm so glad I finally got you to go away for a weekend.
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The rest will do you a world of good.
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Come on, let's go.
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Okay.
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You want me to carry that with you?
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Yeah.
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Honey, I'd better go see if Mr. Ed's all right.
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Hurry, Wilbur, or we'll get stuck in traffic.
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Don't worry.
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SPCA.
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I want to report a neglected horse.
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His owners are leaving him for the weekend in a cold, drafty stall.
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Hear him coughing?
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The name of the guilty party?
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Well, it's...
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Hey, what are you doing?
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I'm calling the Bureau of Missing Horses.
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Why?
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The minute you go, I'm leaving this chicken outfit.
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I tried to explain to you, we can't take you along.
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You're taking your wife.
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Well, that's different.
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We're married.
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You mean because I'm single, I'm staying home?
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Hey, cheer up.
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I told you the Addisons are going to look after you.
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Now, you just read your books.
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See you Monday.
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Oh, uh, Wilbur.
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Huh?
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Drive carefully.
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You're all I have.
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Washy.
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Oh, Martha.
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Wilbur's gone.
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Oh, Martha, Wilbur and Carol Post are checking in today.
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Did you change the linen in room 12?
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What for?
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Nobody's used it for three years.
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Hey, what's this about a town meeting here this morning?
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Well, Ida Brenner's trying to raise some more money for the children's camp.
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You better keep your Uncle Bill away.
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He's probably still paying off the pledges from last year.
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You're so right.
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But don't worry.
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I sent him off fishing an hour ago.
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And by the time he gets back...
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He is back.
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Uncle Bill, you said you were going fishing.
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That's right.
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After the meeting.
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But Uncle Bill...
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Now, Annie, you haven't got a thing to worry about.
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I won't open my mouth.
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I'll just sit there quietly in the front row.
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And why can't you just sit there quietly in the back row?
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Because nobody can hear me from there.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for your contribution, Mr. Finnelly.
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Well, some of you have donated very generously to our Pine Lake summer camp.
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But we still need $350 if those children are going to have their tables and benches.
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Now, won't somebody volunteer to donate just a small part of the money?
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Please, friends.
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How about someone who hasn't contributed yet?
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How about starting it off with $25?
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Will somebody please raise his hand?
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Oh, come, neighbors.
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Remember, this is a very worthy cause.
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How about $15?
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Please, friends, we have to have $350 for the tables and benches.
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Oh, won't somebody help raise the fund?
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I can't raise my hands, but I'll raise the money.
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All of it.
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Oh.
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I knew we could depend on you, Bill Parker.
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Yeah, I'll get all the furniture those children need.
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You can depend on me, Ida.
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Well, if you say so, Bill, that's good enough for me.
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Meetings adjourned.
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Well, you did it again, Big Daddy.
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Now, look, Annie, I've got everything all figured out.
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I'll do the work, and Dave Miller will donate the lumber.
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It won't cost a cent.
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And just what makes you so sure he'll donate the lumber?
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Because I know Dave Miller, that man's got a heart of gold.
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When he hears about those poor kids, he'll turn over his whole lumberyard to me.
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Hello, Elsie, get me Dave Miller at the lumberyard.
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You better fix up the room for the posts.
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They'll be here at 3 o'clock.
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Yes, Chief.
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I'll be there.
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That lumber's as good as in my workshop.
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Hello, Dave.
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Bill Parker.
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Yeah, I'm fine, Dave.
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Say, Dave, look, I just volunteered to build some furniture for the summer camp, and I
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thought maybe you'd like to contribute it.
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A few hundred bored feet of pine.
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But Dave, it's for those poor kids.
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Look, Dave, you were a kid once yourself.
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The stingiest kid in town, and you haven't changed a bit.
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Go.
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Let's see.
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40 kids.
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That's about 1,200 feet of lumber.
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50 cents a foot, that's $600.
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Where am I going to get $600?
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Hello, Bill.
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Oh, hello, Milo.
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Beautiful day, huh?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it sure is money.
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I mean, Milo.
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Here, sit down.
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Let me dust off a plate for you.
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Sit right down there.
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Thank you, Bill.
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Have any luck catch anything?
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Oh, yeah, sure.
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Like this.
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Oh, by heaven, that's a beauty.
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It's all yours.
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Oh, no, no.
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Oh, I insist, Milo.
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I couldn't.
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Milo, it's yours.
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Thank you.
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This is very generous of you, Bill.
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Oh, generous.
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Look who's calling me generous.
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Milo, I'd say that you were about the most generous man in these parts.
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Oh, no, you don't.
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I heard all about you offering to give that summer camp all the benches and chairs.
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You open your mouth, and now you're trying to put my foot in it.
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Forget it.
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You're right.
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It's my problem, not yours.
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Yeah.
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I'll figure out a way to get that wood.
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Don't worry.
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I'll...
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Milo.
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Huh?
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You know there's enough wood in one of those trees to furnish three summer camps?
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Yeah, but you don't think that old skin-flin Thompson is gonna give it to you, do you?
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Fat chance of that.
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He...
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But, Milo.
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Huh?
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Suppose by...
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By some act of nature, one of those trees suddenly fell over.
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And, uh, would that act of nature maybe be one man with a saw?
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No.
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Two men with a saw.
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No, no, no.
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One man with a saw.
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Goodbye.
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No, no, Milo.
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Wait a minute.
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No, no, no.
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Sit down, Milo.
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I'll think of something.
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Pardon me, gentlemen.
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I'm taking pictures for my bird watchers group.
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Have you seen a speckle-coated sparrow around here?
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Lady, can you handle a two-man saw?
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I beg your pardon?
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Then the bird went that way.
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Oh.
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Bill, you will never get anybody to help you.
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Oh, don't be too sure.
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Wilbur Post will be checking in in about an hour.
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Oh, forget about it, Bill.
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He will never help you chop down a tree that don't belong to you.
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Milo, huh?
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You know it don't belong to me, and I know it don't belong to me.
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Now, this fish will keep his little trap shut.
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Wilbur will never know, will he?
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Oh, yeah.
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Inkeeper!
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Food and drink for the weary travelers.
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Oh, hello, Bill.
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So good to see you.
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And Cindy, my, how you've grown.
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Can I have a kiss?
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Can I have a penny?
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Cindy, little girls don't ask men for pennies.
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That's right.
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They grow up, marry them, and then take it all.
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Wilbur!
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Bill!
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Carol!
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Hello, Bill.
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Well, it's about time you two got here.
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We would have been here sooner, but we got stuck in the beautiful weather.
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Oh, yeah, well, it's cleared up now.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Uncle Bill's got the whole weekend planned for you, Wilbur.
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Yeah, you know the first thing you're going to do tomorrow morning?
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Yeah, sleep until noon.
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This is strictly a rest cure for me, Bill.
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I'm going to plant myself in that old rocking chair and make sure I get a good night's sleep.
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Plant yourself in that old rocking chair and let the fat grow.
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Now, you've got a pretty good start on that garden right now.
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Honey, will you get the bags from the car?
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I'll help you, Wilbur.
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Come on, I'll show you if you need anything.
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Wonderful.
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Oh, I say, while you're here.
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Ah, there's nothing like this clean mountain air.
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Yeah, that and a little exercise and you'll be all better again.
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Better again?
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Well, what's wrong with me now?
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Oh, nothing.
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For the shape you're in, you look fine.
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For years now, I haven't had a pain or an ache since I've been doing my special exercise.
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Special exercise?
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Yeah, my secret to a long life.
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As soon as I get you unpacked, I'll show it to you.
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It's something that every man can do right in his own backyard.
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Come on, boy.
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Are you sure this is the secret to a long life?
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Guaranteed.
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Right.
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I feel like 70 already.
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Oh, you look fine, boy.
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You've lost all that paleness.
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You've got a nice red color.
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Keep sorting, we're almost done.
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I tell Carol about this.
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Uh, you better not tell anyone.
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I just remembered something.
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What's that?
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What we're doing.
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It's a federal offense.
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Well, as long as it shows up your muscles.
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Federal offense?
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Yes.
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Timber!
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Good work, Wilbur.
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Now all we have to do is sort in sections.
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What do you mean it's a federal offense?
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Oh, that's only in case we get caught.
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No, no, wait, wait.
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Look, a Forrest Ranger truck.
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Duck!
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Secret to long life.
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We better get going.
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It's getting shorter every second.
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No, no!
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Hello?
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Oh, yes, Ann.
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Yeah, I'll take the call.
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Hello?
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Hello, Wilbur.
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Ed!
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Hey, Ed!
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It's nice to hear your voice.
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How do you feel?
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I don't want to worry you,
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but I've lost 50 or 60 pounds.
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Ed, will you stop it?
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I just talked to the Addisons on the phone yesterday,
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and I happen to know you're being very well fed.
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Well, that's a big lie.
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They've been giving my food to their cat.
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Hey, Addison's cat eats hay?
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Doesn't everybody?
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Look, Ed, we'll be home tomorrow,
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so you behave yourself.
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Can I watch the Late Late Show tonight?
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You can stay up and watch the Late Late Show,
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but please don't play that TV set too loud.
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Goodbye, Wilbur.
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Goodbye, Ed.
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Poor Wilbur.
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He's been sleeping all afternoon.
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He really is tired.
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Well, the rest is going to do him a lot of good.
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Oh, that's exactly what I told you.
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That's exactly what I told him today.
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Take it easy.
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I said, Wilbur,
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the secret to long life is relaxation.
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Just don't exercise.
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That can kill you.
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Where's Jerry?
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Has he found the man who chopped down that tree?
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Butterfingers.
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Not yet, but when he called before, he was furious.
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Boy, I'd hate to be the man who did it.
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Yeah, me too.
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Jerry said that Mr. Thompson,
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he owns the property.
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He's fit to be tied.
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When he catches that criminal,
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he's going to prosecute to the fullest extent.
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Uh, how full can that be?
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A thousand dollars fine and a year in jail.
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It's pretty full.
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Oh, hello, Milo.
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Bill, Bill.
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I just heard about what happened yesterday.
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Only a lunatic would have cut that tree down.
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Now, just a minute, Milo.
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What makes you think I had anything to do with it?
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Because yesterday you said you would,
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and today the tree is down.
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So, unless I walk in my sleep, you did it.
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Milo, we live in a democracy
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where every man is innocent until proven guilty.
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And you're looking at the most innocent man
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that ever cut down a tree.
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Bill, I am ashamed of you.
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Oh, stop looking at me like you were Joyce Kilmer.
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What has she got to do with it?
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When they catch you, they are going to throw you in jail.
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And...
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There comes Mr. Thompson.
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Look, you've got a guilty look about you.
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You're liable to give me away.
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Go on, scat. Get yourself some coffee. Go ahead.
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Well, hello, Mr. Thompson.
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Beautiful day, huh?
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Is it?
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Ranger Moffat back yet? He's going to meet me here.
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Well, Jerry should be back soon.
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Why don't you pull up a chair on the porch
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and make yourself comfortable, Mr. Thompson?
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Come on. There we are.
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Sit right down there. That's it.
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Too bad about that tree yesterday.
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Ain't the sort of thing that anybody around here would ever do.
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No, sir. We're all tree lovers around here, you know.
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As a matter of fact, the sight of a man with an axe
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sets my blood to...
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Would you like a cup of coffee, Mr. Thompson?
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No.
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I wish Moffat would get here.
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I'm anxious to find out what he learned from that witness.
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Well, he's probably... witness?
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That's right.
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Some woman staying at Snowflake Inn
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claimed that she was hiking through the forest
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and she saw these two men.
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She did?
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What's more, she says she can positively identify one of them.
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Which one? The young one or the old one?
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What's that?
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I mean... well, these kind of crooks always work in pairs.
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A young one and an old one.
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It's a... the young one sort of learns the tricks of the trade
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from the old one. It's a...
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Learn what you learn.
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Well, anyway, she said he was a young-looking man
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with sandy-colored hair and a bright Hawaiian shirt.
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I've never seen anybody like that around here.
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Oh, no. No, I...
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Well, now that you mention it, there was a coconut salesman
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passed through here on his way to Honolulu.
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Coconut salesman?
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Sorry to keep you waiting, Mr. Thompson.
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Oh, never mind that.
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What did you find out from the woman?
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Oh, we're in luck, Mr. Thompson.
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She took a picture of the guys running away.
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I rushed the film right over to Debbie's candle shop.
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She's gonna phone me the minute it's developed.
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Fine.
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Mr. Thompson, Cherry,
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I got something to tell you.
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We better go inside.
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Well, why?
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Well, I got a feeling I'm gonna have to get used to being inside
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for about a year.
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Wilbur!
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Wilbur?
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Wilbur.
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Wilbur, we're cooked.
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What's going on, Bill?
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Wilbur and me, we got a confession to make.
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We cut down the old pine.
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You did?
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Yeah.
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Don't believe him. He's delirious.
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He must have been hit on the head when the tree fell.
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It's no use, Wilbur.
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I always believe in telling the truth.
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Once you get caught,
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someone's gonna snap the picture of us.
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Mommy, Mommy, Uncle Bill's in trouble again.
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Well, Moffat, what are you waiting for? Arrest them.
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Hello.
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Yes, Mr. Devery.
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You did?
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That picture will be all the proof I need.
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Well, okay. Thanks.
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I'm afraid you don't have any proof, Mr. Thompson.
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The film was underexposed.
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You mean it didn't come out?
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Nope.
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Well, we don't need that picture anyway.
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We still have his confession.
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You mean to say you believe that cock and bull story I told before?
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Ha ha!
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Ha ha!
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Ha ha!
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Ha ha!
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Wilbur, we sure had him going for a while, didn't we?
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I could hardly keep a straight face.
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Ha ha!
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You old son of a gun, you!
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Wait a minute.
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What's that?
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A lion shirt.
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Just like that woman said.
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What have you got to say about that?
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Aloha?
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What's Cindy talking about?
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What's the trouble?
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It seems...
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Come on, Moffat, let's not waste any more time.
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Place those men under arrest and I'll prefer charges.
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Here, phone the sheriff.
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Jerry, don't you dare.
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Now, just a minute.
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I'll admit that I'm guilty, but Wilbur had nothing to do with it.
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He just came up here for arrest.
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Well, if I have my way, he's gonna have a nice long one.
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Mr. Thompson...
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Cutting down your tree was wrong,
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but the motive behind it was right.
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How do you figure that?
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Well, you see, Bill was gonna use that lumber to build benches and chairs for the summer camp.
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Forty kids will be coming up here, Mr. Thompson.
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Youngsters who never had a chance in life.
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This camp is one of the nicest things that could ever happen to them.
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All Bill wants to do is make that possible.
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That's the truth!
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I know trees are expensive, but suppose we personally pay for it.
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I can let you have $100.
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And we're willing to chip in.
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I got $87 laying in the bank as you're collecting dust.
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You can take my piggy bank.
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You can take my piggy bank.
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If you needed lumber, why didn't you ask me for it?
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Because everybody knows you're a greedy old skinflint.
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I wish you'd put that to him a different way.
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Well, it's true. He's never contributed one skinny dime to the camp.
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I didn't even know about it.
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If somebody had bothered to tell me, I might have considered making a donation.
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Well, you've still got time, Mr. Thompson, and it's deductible.
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Well, all right. You can have the tree.
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Now who's a greedy old skinflint?
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Mr. Thompson, I take back every nasty thing I ever said about you in the past.
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And that includes anything I might say in the future.
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You're all right, Mr. Thompson.
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I had you pegged for a good jolt the minute I laid eyes on you.
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Take your coconut-picking hands off me.
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Mr. Parker. Yes, sir?
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Don't let me ever catch you touching one of my trees.
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No, no, sir. No, sir.
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Well, Uncle Bill, I hope this has taught you a lesson.
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Oh, it certainly has, Annie.
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You don't ever have to worry about me again.
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By golly, I think he means it.
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I sure do.
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Wilbur, what do you say? Let's you and me go fishing tomorrow, huh?
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Okay, where?
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I know a great spot over on Thompson's property.
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Ed, I'm home!
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Ed!
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Beg your pardon, stranger.
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Oh, Ed. Oh, I really missed you, old boy.
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Yeah, then why didn't you write?
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Telegram? Postcard?
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Well, to tell you the truth, Ed, I got sort of involved.
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A phone call, then.
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It was a long distance.
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Oh, what? I would have been glad to accept the charges.
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People yakety yak a streak and waste your time a day.
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But Mr. Ed will never speak unless he has something to say.
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
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And this one will talk till his voice is hoarse.
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You never heard of a talking horse?
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Well, listen to this.
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I am Mr. Ed.
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