(As Janet talks with her mother and father, a soap opera can be heard as it plays on the television)
Emily (trying to decide where to pin the flower on Janet): "Hmmm..."


Harry: "Oh for crying out loud, Emily.  Leave her alone.  She's not a kid."
Male voice (on television show): "I want you to leave her alone."
Emily:  "Well, I wanted to see her in it."


Janet: "It's really very nice."
Emily: "The material is imported...Tiawanese."
Male voice (on television show): "It's imported.  Tiawanese."


Harry: "Dammit, Emily.  She's not interested."
Female voice (on television show): "Not interested.  Not interested."
Emily: "What are you trying to do, Harry? Start an arguement?"
Male voice (on television show): "Exactly."


Emily: "Don't you want your daughter to look pretty?"
Harry: "Who's she got to look pretty for?"
Emily: "She's got a husband."


Harry: "She's got a weirdo!  I've never been able to afford the time to have a nervous breakdown."
Male voice (on television show): "There's so little time for a complete breakdown."
Janet: "Oh, poor Brad..."
Female voice (on television show): "Yes, poor.  Ha ha ha ha..."


Emily: "Thank God he was born an orphan.  It would have killed his parents."
Male voice (on television show): "Thank goodness."
Emily (continued): "And thank goodness he hasn't ended up like that Slipstrini boy."


Harry: "What are you talking about?  Danny Slipstrini's a chip off the old block.  I played eighteen holes of golf with his father just last week...and Hank says that Danny's moved to New York to better himself."
Emily:  "He moved alright..."
Female voice (on television show): "He moved, yes, that's right."


Emily: "...when they found him in the back of Wilson's Bakery..."


Emily:  "...naked..."


Emily:  "...with fifteen other men."
Male voice (on television show):  There were others involved."


Janet:  "Mexicans."


 


Female voice (on television):  "Don't get tense."


Male voice (on television):  "I'm not getting tense."


Harry:  "I'm gonna catch up on a few jobs that need doing outside."                                                           f
ffffffffffMale Announcer voice (on television):  "We'll return to Dentonvale after this important message."


Emily:  "You shouldn't have said that."
Janet:  "But why?"
Emily:  "Your father doesn't like Mexicans."


Emily (voiceover echo) "Your father doesn't like Mexicans."
Audience:  "Yee-aah!"