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Dysfunctional Family Dinner
The setup
The premise
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A suburban father, his wife and their teenage daughter Karen sit down to a quiet dinner and make small talk about school, band practice and a mix-up over car keys. Every few lines the chat flips into screaming: Karen mocks her dad's stories, he insists he is an important division manager who drives a Dodge Stratus, and the women trade ugly insults over the dry cleaning. Each blowup passes as if nothing happened and the conversation resumes at once. When Karen finally storms off to a friend's house, her parents keep eating and the father praises the chicken, made from a soup-mix recipe.
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Your stories are lame, Dad.
I drive a Dodge Stratus!
Script
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- 00:29
Karen, honey, how was school today?
- 00:33
Fine.
- 00:33
Did you have band practice today, or is Mr. Larson still sick?
- 00:39
No, he's still sick.
- 00:52
I had a funny thing happen today at work.
- 00:56
When I left the office, I had trouble unlocking my car.
- 01:00
Then I realized I had the wrong set of keys.
- 01:03
Did somebody take your keys?
- 01:04
Can I finish the story?
- 01:15
Turns out that I had accidentally taken Jeff Peabody's keys,
- 01:19
and he had taken mine.
- 01:21
We really had a long laugh
- 01:23
I thought that's who took them
- 01:25
Will you ever let me finish a damn story?
- 01:29
I just assume that Jeff
- 01:30
I would love to finish one damn story
- 01:32
Your stories are lame, Dad
- 01:34
You don't talk to me like that
- 01:35
You don't talk to me like that
- 01:38
I am a division manager
- 01:40
That is very important
- 01:41
Very important
- 01:43
You don't talk to me like that
- 01:45
People are scared of me
- 01:47
Why would anyone be scared of you?
- 01:48
I hate you, you big fat turd
- 02:01
i
- 02:09
I
- 02:09
spoke with paula's mother this afternoon so i guess paul is really excited about the
- 02:15
sleepover tomorrow night oh shut up you drunken witch did
- 02:28
Did you pick up my dry cl-
- 02:43
you pick up my dry cleaning it's not
- 02:45
ready until thursday i thought you said it'd be ready today no it's going to be ready thursday
- 02:50
well you know i have that meeting tomorrow well i'm sorry i wish you weren't a liar
- 03:00
I didn't lie I just wish you weren't a liar I wish you wouldn't call me a liar don't raise
- 03:07
your voice at me I am NOT raising my voice you do not talk to me honey do
- 03:18
am a division manager in charge of 29 people.
- 03:21
Shut up, bitch!
- 03:21
I drive a Dodge Stratus!
- 03:47
Honey,
- 03:48
you want to go to
- 03:48
pottery class with me this weekend I wish you were dead I'm
- 04:03
I'm
- 04:04
gonna take the car into the shop
- 04:05
tomorrow. You mean your lame Dodge Stratus? You don't talk about my car that way. I drive a Dodge Stratus. Push
- 04:13
don't talk about my dog Stratus that way!
- 04:15
You do not talk to your father that way!
- 04:18
I'm a division manager!
- 04:19
I can do 100 push
- 04:21
-ups in 20 minutes. This
- 04:25
I'm going to Rob's house. I hate you. Both.
- 04:59
this
- 04:59
chicken is delicious. It's a recipe from Lipton Kappa Soup.
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