Fathers Are People
Transcript
00:00 [ Music ]
00:29 [ Footsteps ]
00:31 >> Hey, fellas! I'm a father!
00:34 >> Congratulations, George. I see you can do it.
00:36 >> Thanks, George.
00:37 >> How's the wife? How much did it weigh?
00:39 >> Five, six, seven or eight pounds.
00:40 >> Go on, George.
00:41 >> My nose, the wife's hair, mother's eyes, my side of the family looks like.
00:46 And smart takes after me.
00:49 >> The new father should start immediately sharing the responsibility for the child's upbringing.
00:57 [ Music ]
01:24 >> Go! Boop, boop, boop, boop, boo, boo!
01:27 >> Stop it, George. Here, help me. Oil, cotton, cotton, shirt, diapers, pins, rubber pants.
01:36 [ Music ]
01:42 >> George, the bottle.
01:45 >> The bottle. The bottle. The bottle. The bottle. The bottle.
01:53 [ Baby crying ]
01:57 >> Huh?
01:59 [ Music ]
02:06 >> George, hurry, wake up. Today's the day baby visits grandma.
02:10 >> Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:15 [ Music ]
02:31 >> Junior going bye-bye.
02:34 [ Music ]
02:39 >> The floating father sometimes doubts he will get through this trying period. The average man usually does.
02:45 And even looks back with fond memories on such things as baby's first tooth, baby's first step, and baby's first word.
02:54 Such things past, father feels at last he's earned his Sunday morning snooze.
03:00 >> Oh, it's mine. I had it first.
03:02 >> Give it back.
03:03 >> I'll tell my papa.
03:04 >> No. Tis isn't. Tis isn't. Tis isn't.
03:06 >> Hair, hair.
03:07 >> Stop it.
03:08 >> What's the matter with that kid of yours?
03:09 >> My kid?
03:10 >> Yes, yours.
03:11 >> I had it first.
03:12 >> Oh, yeah?
03:13 >> Yeah.
03:14 [ Horn honks ]
03:15 [ Music ]
03:19 >> George, come in and let the children play.
03:23 >> After a hard day at the office, the tired father wins his weary way home.
03:29 >> Junior.
03:30 >> Daddy.
03:31 >> Oof.
03:32 >> Why don't you breathe?
03:33 [ Music ]
03:38 >> Bang.
03:39 >> Ow.
03:40 >> The child craves the companionship of his father.
03:43 >> There we are.
03:45 >> I don't like it.
03:47 >> Ooh.
03:48 >> Whoopee.
03:50 >> Wait a minute.
03:51 [ Screams ]
03:54 >> Letterbox.
03:55 Yippee.
03:57 [ Music ]
04:01 >> Oh, poor horsey break a leg?
04:04 >> Uh-huh.
04:05 [ Music ]
04:08 >> Wow.
04:09 [ Music ]
04:12 >> Playtime over, the tired father relaxes, knowing that his well-mannered child will respect dad's leisure time and allow father to read the news and smoke his favorite pipe.
04:22 [ Music ]
04:26 >> Junior, you keep your hands off my pipe.
04:30 >> All right, daddy.
04:32 Play football, daddy?
04:34 >> No.
04:35 >> Wow.
04:36 Play cowboy Indian, daddy?
04:37 >> No.
04:38 >> Arrarrr.
04:41 Want to play soldier?
04:42 >> I said no.
04:45 >> Wow.
04:46 [ Music ]
04:48 >> Junior, pick all those toys up.
04:52 >> No.
04:53 >> What?
04:54 Didn't daddy tell you to pick up your toys?
04:58 >> Uh-huh.
05:00 >> Well, pick them up then.
05:03 >> No.
05:05 >> The adult mind must cope with childish innocence and with superior intellect and ingenuity convince the child to obey.
05:13 >> Uh-huh.
05:15 >> Now, Junior, don't you pick up a single solitary one of those toys.
05:22 >> All right, I won't.
05:24 >> That's a good boy.
05:26 Pick up your toys.
05:28 >> No.
05:29 >> Yes.
05:30 >> No.
05:31 >> Yes.
05:32 >> No.
05:33 >> Yes.
05:34 >> George, stop growling at the boy.
05:36 >> I'm not growling.
05:37 >> You'll get nowhere arguing at his level.
05:39 >> But he deliberately said --
05:41 >> Oh, for heaven's sakes, use a little psychology.
05:44 [ Humming ]
05:52 Is that fun, daddy?
05:54 >> Huh?
05:56 >> I'll help too, daddy.
05:57 >> Ah, yes, father and son working as a cooperative team.
06:01 >> There now.
06:02 Wasn't that a lot of fun?
06:04 >> Yes, daddy.
06:06 >> Whoa!
06:11 >> Daddy, funny.
06:13 >> All right, Junior, time for bed.
06:15 >> All right, mommy.
06:18 >> I'll teach that kid a thing or two.
06:24 >> Where'd he go?
06:26 >> Junior!
06:27 >> Here I am, daddy.
06:29 >> Now, look here, young man.
06:31 I'm going to --
06:33 >> Good night, daddy.
06:37 >> Well, what do you know?
06:39 Look at that.
06:42 Oh, well.
06:44 Kids, they're wonderful.
06:47 I wish I had a million of them.
06:49 >> George, how does this look?
06:52 >> [ Gasps ]
06:54 [ Music ]