:54:02
- Maybe raise the standard.
- Of commercial radio?
:54:04
What's the phrase...
"Wait for your laugh"?
:54:08
I'm a schoolteacher.
That's even worse than being an intellectual.
:54:11
Schoolteachers are not only comic...
:54:13
they're often cold and hungry
in this richest land on Earth.
:54:16
And thousands are quitting every year
to take jobs that pay them a decent living.
:54:20
- That is unhappily true.
- Then why not you?
:54:22
Because I can't think of myself
doing anything else.
:54:27
What would happen,
do ya think, if we all quit?
:54:29
Who'll teach the kids?
Who'd open their minds and hearts...
:54:33
to the real glories of the human spirit
past and present.
:54:36
Who'd help them along to the future?
:54:38
Radio sponsors?
Comic strips?
:54:40
At that, I've been
luckier than most.
:54:42
Even without what you earn,
I've managed to keep our heads above water.
:54:45
It's quite a strain over a period of time
with the water lapping at your chin.
:54:49
That's where
you've been a great help.
:54:51
You've made it a lot easier
for both of us.
:54:53
I'll admit is has upset
my male ego from time to time.
:54:57
And your overdeveloped
sense of taste and discrimination...
:55:00
which is apparently equaled
only by that of Addie Ross.
:55:03
Let's try to keep Addie
out of this one.
:55:05
I am fed up with taste
and discrimination.
:55:10
- You're not making sense.
- I'm fed up with your nobility
and wisdom and superiority...
:55:14
- and your contempt for me
in everything I try to do.
- You're talking nonsense.
:55:17
- Everything I say is nonsense.
- It's all this work. You're overtired.
You do too much.
:55:21
What do you suggest I stop doing,
this moronic radio trash...
:55:23
- with which I pay most of your bills?
- Now calm down.
:55:25
And what do I go back to,
washing, scrubbing, ironing...
:55:27
and a life of taste
and discrimination?
:55:29
I'm fed up with Addie Ross!
:55:33
- What's it all about, really?
- "If music be the food of love... play on."
:55:37
"Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
the appetite may sicken, and so die.
:55:41
From Twelfth Night, by Mr. Shakespeare,
which Addie and I played in high school.
:55:44
I thought it was a very clever note.
:55:46
And there was more to it
than a childhood memory.
:55:48
Yes, there was,
but we won't go into that.
:55:50
We're going to get a few things
straightened out once and for all. Sit down.
:55:53
- Yes, professor.
- Sit down!
:55:55
Seven years ago I made the most perfect
marriage ever devised by man, heaven or radio.