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Malcolm in the Middle

Season 5, Episode 15 โ€” Reese's Apartment

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Will you look at that?
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- He wants a trampoline for his birthday. - That's so cute, but we can't afford that.
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He can get that if he doesn't have a party.
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That is perfect. He'll be so surprised.
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โ™ช Life is unfair โ™ช
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You know Ira James, right?
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All-state fullback, state single season rushing record.
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Who am I kidding?
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- He's probably never even talked to you. - Hi.
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Ira's graduating this year.
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He's got interest from six Division 1-A colleges.
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- So? - So Ira's an idiot.
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- Mom says I have other nice qualities. - Since you're the smartest in the school,
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it's up to you non-football kids to do it for him.
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The cheerleaders understand it.
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Hi, honey.
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I'm gonna need you to be calm.
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Jeez. Which kid is it?
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I'm not gonna tell you. You're not calm enough yet.
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Reese.
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All right.
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Reese...
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That...
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That... I'm gonna...
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- Do you want some tea or a drink? - What's wrong with Dad?
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Your father just found out what Reese did.
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- What'd he do? - Your brother...
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Oh, my God.
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Did they have to evacuate?
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Oh, man, what a day.
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- We were playing catch up all afternoon. - You sit down.
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And think you could get away with it?
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- Was that "scramble" or "strangle"? - What are you talking about?
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You know very well what we're talking about.
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- Last week, you... - I can name Third World countries
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where stuff like that happens all the time.
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What am I gonna do with you, Reese?
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I don't wanna tell you this is a new low,
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because every time I do, you take it as a personal challenge!
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You know what? I've just worked my butt off for six hours,
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and I don't appreciate getting yelled at the second I come through the door.
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You're complaining?
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No complain. Yell us!
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- Hal, give yourself another minute. - Or you both could just shut up.
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- You're kicked out! - I'm leaving!
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Not if we get to the doorknob first!
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- You're out of here! - I'm out of here!
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Tie goes to the runner.
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- They kicked Reese out again? - We haven't heard from him in two days.
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I'm actually impressed. Usually by now,
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he's eating cat food off of Mrs. Harvey's porch.
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This is horrible. How can they do this to their own children?
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- Yeah, it's really traumatizing me. - Don't they care
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about the psychological damage they're inflicting?
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A home isn't conditional. A home should be safe and secure and...
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- Roomy. - What?
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The point is, I got kicked out when I was 15
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and I never got to come home again. They can't do this to Reese.
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Someone has to do something. Someone has to stop them.
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Am I the only one who understands what kind of monsters these people are?
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I don't think this is as big a deal to the rest of the family as it is to you.
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- Maybe you're overreacting. - Overreacting?
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Dewey, when you're older, you will understand.
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There are things in life called priorities,
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which I will explain to you in a few hours when I get there.
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Right now, I have to call Otto and cash in some personal days.
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Overreacting.
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- Great timing. The muffins came out. - Thank God you called me.
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I can't believe the hell Mom and Dad put you through.
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Hey, whose place is this?
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It's mine. It's completely furnished, including cable TV.
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I told them I was 18, so I got a two-year lease.
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You're a banana walnut man, right?
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Reese, you can't live in a place like this.
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Yeah, I can. They were having a move-in special.
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First month free. It's only 375 a month, utilities included.
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I can make my rent in a week if I pick up an extra shift.
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I should have done this, like, six months ago.
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We're going to the roof. The nursing students across the street
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- are taking their break. - I'm sorry, I can't.
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I'm having my brothers over for breakfast.
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Francis, this is Teddy, Lou, George, divorced, separated,
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- wife's doing the best friend. - Ex-best friend.
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Excuse me.
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Well, you know where we'll be.
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- Hey, is that a wedding ring? - Yeah.
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Start hiding the money now, friend. Come on, let's go.
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Oh, man, this place is awesome.
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I know you think this place is great,
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but any objective observer will tell you it's most certainly not.
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Whoa. This place is awesome.
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One thing's for sure.
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- I'd never, ever leave if I were you. - So who's up for some muffins?
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- I am. - No! No muffins.
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Reese, you can't keep playing house like this.
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Mom and Dad did something really horrible to you,
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just like they did to me, only you can't let them get away with it.
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You don't belong here. You belong at home.
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All right, fine.
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Tell me one thing about my life
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that would be better if I was still at home.
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I thought the "toilet seat never needs warming" argument was pretty good.
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The main thing to remember is that a college essay
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is just like any other essay you've written.
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You know, like homework.
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For one of your classes.
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Come on, Ira, I know it seems hard, but you just have to get started.
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If you had to describe yourself in one word, what would that word be?
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Ira.
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Okay. There we go.
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"Ira." See? We started.
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- Now, what else? - I don't know.
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I'm not much of a writer or a reader.
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I don't like words. They confuse me.
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- There's, like, hundreds of them. - Calm down. You can do this.
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You know what? I'm gonna say something, and you just say the first thing
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that comes to your head. My earliest memory in life is...
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Blue.
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Thing.
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Blue thing. Good, you can use that.
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Like, um...
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"Sometimes my childhood feels vague and distant,
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like something draped in a blue haze."
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- See? - Yeah. That's cool.
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Okay, my biggest fear is...
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Spiders.
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No, waffles.
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"I let my fears wash over me and I see that I am
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imprinted with a repeating pattern of optimism and despair."
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Hey, that's not bad.
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"I hope someday to free myself, to find the one thing..."
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You're not gonna do anything? You have to go and get him back.
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- Look, that's not how it works. - Oh, I know how it works.
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I was thrown into military school so fast, I still had shampoo in my hair.
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The minute a child is inconvenient to you, you kick him out.
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Francis, this is really none of your business.
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You don't even live here anymore.
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Because you kicked me out!
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And now you're doing the same thing to Reese.
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Right Now, he's sitting in that apartment with his cable TV
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and his huge stack of video games...
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miserable.
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If Reese is unhappy,
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- he brought it on himself. - Really? So what's this?
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Like the tenth time he's brought it on himself?
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And let's see, Malcolm's brought it on himself six times,
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so with my 28 times, that makes...
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40 kick-outs, three different kids,
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and the only constant through all of this is you two.
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Francis, that is not fair.
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Maybe you don't like sharing your house with your children.
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So, when's Dewey gonna "bring it on himself"? When's Jamie?
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Where is Jamie?
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- He's at the babysitter's. - Just till 5:00.
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Hey, Dave, is that you?
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What channel do you have on in there? It sounds better than what I'm watching.
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This is all...
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new to us.
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We've never...
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examined our parenting before.
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It always seemed to us like something that should just come naturally.
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Yeah, everything on the planet's been having kids for billions of years.
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I mean, look at snakes. They never take parenting classes.
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The world's crawling with them.
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How exactly did you want me to help you?
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Well, we have fallen into a bad pattern.
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Our boys misbehave and they are punished.
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And then they severely misbehave and they are severely punished.
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And then they misbehave in some outlandish,
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jaw-dropping way where, if we responded in kind,
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- we'd end up in jail. - We're at the end of our rope here.
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Well, of course you are.
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So, we were hoping that with all your training,
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you could teach us some kind of subtle trick
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that would stop them in their tracks.
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Trick?
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Yeah, you know, some kind of secret psychological thing
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that would get them to shut up and listen to us for a change.
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My husband's getting older. He can still take them individually,
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You've never met our boys.
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Yeah, you can't begin to imagine the things they do.
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I've been practicing psychiatry for 40 years.
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There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
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All right.
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Last week, Reese...
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Oh, my God. What were the cats for?
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- We don't know. - Give me a minute.
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Now...
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Even in the most extreme, breathtakingly horrifying cases,
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there are some techniques that can be useful.
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Yes. See, I told you this wasn't a waste of 90 bucks.
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- Have you ever heard of Active Listening? - No.
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Most teenagers act out because they feel no one cares.
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With Active Listening, you mirror back everything your child says,
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which shows you're hearing them, and, by extension, understanding.
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I know. It sounds simple. But believe me, I've seen it work miracles.
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Yeah, I don't think Reese would respond to that.
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- You're worried it won't help him. - Yes. What if it makes it worse?
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I don't think I could stand any more trouble with him.
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Oh, this is so confusing.
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You're feeling mixed-up right now.
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God, yes, I am. You know, I'm usually so sure of myself,
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but this whole thing has just made me question every aspect of--
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Oh, that's good.
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Oh, that's really good.
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"I now realize that blue is not the color of confusion,
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but rather, it is the color of hope." Yeah. That's it.
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Dude, the parts I understood, they were awesome.
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Great, well, now that we have the ideas all down,
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all we have to do is put it into words
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- that you would actually-- - Thanks, Malcolm. You're awesome.
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- People are going to think I'm so smart. - We're not done yet.
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- Hold on-- - Blue is definitely my favorite color now.
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Hey. Let's get going, Reese. It's Ladies-Get-Free-Shrimp Night
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- at the Red Lobster. - Maybe I'll meet you down there.
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- I got to get a jump on my homework. - You already blew off Air Hockey Night
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and Pot Luck Wednesday,
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I was counting on you for tonight, I need someone to turn the conversation
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- to my tongue trick. - I guess now that I'm on my own,
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I feel like being more responsible.
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I got three kids. You don't see me talking about responsibility.
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- Come on, I'm not taking no for an answer. - Okay, okay.
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Mom? I have a problem. I need to talk.
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Good.
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You can talk, and I will listen.
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This football player wants to use an essay I wrote
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for his college application and pretend it's his own.
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I know it's dishonest, but I might be making too much of it.
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I wanted to get your advice.
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You're hoping I can help you.
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Yeah, I just said that.
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I don't think he should get into college under false pretenses,
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but are they really false pretenses if nobody thinks he's smart anyway?
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I don't wanna be a part of his cheating. I don't want to take away
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his shot at going to college.
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I just don't know what to do.
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You're uncertain--
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what action to take.
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Yes. Why are you talking like a robot?
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You want to know why I'm...
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talking like a robot.
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I have a problem and I need your help.
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All you're doing is mindlessly parroting back what I say.
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You say one thing, and I restate it.
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Forget it. If you're not gonna help me, you don't have to mock me.
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We do not come from a family of criminals. You do not let him turn in that essay.
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God, I knew listening to our kids would be a mistake.
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- Hello? - Hello. Is this the residence of the most
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un-nurturing, callous parents in the universe?
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It's for you.
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- Hello. - Hi. I just got off the phone
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with your son, Reese.
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It's been over a week, and you haven't even talked to him?
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Congratulations. The fracturing of this family is now two-fifths complete.
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Francis, this is a very hard and complicated situation,
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and I don't need you to yell at me right now.
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There is nothing complicated about it.
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Just go to his apartment, tell him you love him
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- and ask him to come home. - Are you nuts?
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- This is Reese we're talking about. - So what?
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Come on. You know exactly how he thinks.
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If we show that kind of weakness,
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it's like showing a hyena the belly of an antelope.
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Reese will come home with no limits and no boundaries.
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Within five years, we will be saying our last words to him
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over a police bullhorn.
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All I know is that you have a child that needs you.
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He doesn't. He's happy where he is, and so are we.
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Dewey, get off the phone.
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Mom, I understand what you're worried about.
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There is more to Reese than you give him credit for.
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I wish I could believe that.
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Honey, I got to go. There's another call.
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- What'd he-- - Hello.
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Yes, this is she.
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This is Peter Noyes, Reese's chemistry teacher.
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I'm sure you remember me from last year's hearing.
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There's something new I have to discuss with you.
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Oh, my God. What did he do now?
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Your son...
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He got an A on his midterm?
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They matched the handwriting, they had him reenact the experiment.
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He did it himself.
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Mr. Noyes said it's the most remarkable turnaround he's ever seen.
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Wow.
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He also said that we should be really proud of ourselves.
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Hey, Ira.
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Listen, do you have that essay I wrote?
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- I just wanted to make one quick change. - Yeah.
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Here it is.
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The change I want to make is this.
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- Was it too long? - No.
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Listen to me, Ira.
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Everyone gives you breaks. Everyone does everything for you.
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You might think it's good, but it's not.
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They're telling you you're an idiot, and you're not an idiot.
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You can write this essay.
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You can write this essay on your own. Remember that story you told me about
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the two-pound steak you once ate?
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You thought it'd be impossible,
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but you took it one bite at a time, and you did it.
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You just need to do the same thing with your essay.
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Okay, I'll try.
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"And then I pretended I was Rocky, and I told Mr. T, 'Go for it.'
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I really wished his Mohawk fell off when he got hit.
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The end."
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Thanks, Malcolm. This is the most words I've ever put together in my life.
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Yeah. It-- it shows.
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Mm. This is amazing.
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I think the lemon zest really brings it to life.
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How's your dinner?
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- What are you doing here? Sure. - Can we come in?
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- You want some dinner? - No, but thank you.
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Seriously. I just got a convection oven.
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I can whip you up a frittata in 10 minutes.
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It's spotless.
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Reese, we came here to do something.
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It goes against all of our instincts,
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and even as I'm about to do it, it doesn't feel right. But--
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It seems our instincts aren't very good lately,
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- so here goes. - What is it?
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Reese, we love you, and we think you might be better off staying here.
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- Really? - Honest to God,
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you seem to be doing much better without us.
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I mean, let's face it, in 17 years with us, you have spent
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more days in juvenile court than you have in school.
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But now, after 10 days on your own, you--
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You're a functioning member of society.
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Wow.
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I must have really changed.
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I don't even want to rub it in.
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Mail call.
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I confiscated your Victoria's Secret catalog.
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A kid your age should-- Oh, you're entertaining.
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Teddy, these are my parents.
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- Mom, Dad, this is my neighbor, Teddy. - Hello.
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This visitation thing's a real pain in the ass, huh?
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You know, this place isn't so bad.
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Next time we come, we can bring some plants.
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Sweet. Hold on a sec.
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Hi, I just got your Deluxe Platinum Card, and I want to activate it.
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"Two-four-seven-one."
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Now, listen, I already transferred a $3,000 balance
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from the Valley Federal Card over to my Spring Mills Mutual Card,
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because I had an $8,000 limit.
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But since I'm already bumping against that,
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I might as well transfer everything to yours, because it has a $20,000 limit.
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Sure, I'd love to talk to a supervisor.
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- Hey. I was on the phone. - You've been using credit cards?
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- How much have you spent? - Ten, 11 grand.
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But I'm still way under the $20,000 limit.
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How can you spend that much in 10 days?
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I got that new convection oven that made the refrigerator look kind of shabby.
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Plus, I had to buy new clothes every time mine got dirty.
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And that giant gong in the bathroom?
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I mean, how do you guys do it?
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Ow, ow, ow.
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Reese, I really owe you some thanks for giving me some faith in myself.
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Next few days, I'll be saying very little. I will be deciding on a punishment.
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Ideas are already popping into my mind.
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It's really very exciting, but I don't want to get hasty
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and leave either of us feeling dissatisfied.
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- You're gonna drag me all the way home? - We're taking your ear there.
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If the rest of you wants to come, that's fine, too.
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It's been almost a month,
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and Mom's still coming up with fresh punishments for Reese.
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She says she's never felt more creative. She must be doing something right.
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- He has a white streak in his hair. - Hey, Malcolm. Guess what.
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- I got accepted. I'm going to college. - Really? Which school?
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All of them, A&M, Tulane, Georgia, Stanford.
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Full scholarships and everything.
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Stanford liked your essay?
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No, I forgot to put it in the envelope.
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I got in, anyway. But don't worry. That essay didn't go to waste.
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I handed it in as my math midterm and got an A.
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Thanks for making me believe in myself, Malcolm.
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You proved that I don't need all these people helping me. See you.
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Stanford. Poor guy. I'll bet he doesn't know it only has
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the third-best astrophysics department in the country.