Mighty Aphrodite
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:05:00
That's right! What-- You read that
in the tabloids all the time.

:05:04
- No. A bad seed.
- That's right.

:05:06
Yeah, we adopt some sweet little boy,
and then he turns 13,

:05:08
we'd go to sleep at night,
he'd split our head open with an axe.

:05:11
Listen, why'd you have to
go and tell him that? You know
Lenny's got a vivid imagination.

:05:14
- It's a common occurrence.
- I read the same paper.
What do you want me to tell you?

:05:16
Anyway, what do you mean "he"?
Why can't we adopt a girl?

:05:19
- We're not adopting anything.
I want no sex.
- A little girl.

:05:22
Let the guy have a short stop
or a point guard, will ya?

:05:24
Can we get a check? Can we--
Can we please get out of here?

:05:26
I'll take the check.
I'm paying tonight.

:05:29
- Yes.
- You? I'm stunned.

:05:31
You pay, you break your record.
You-- One more and you break
DiMaggio's record-- 56 straight.

:05:35
That's not true.
Now, be nice.

:05:37
Laius, proud father, speak.
:05:40
I, with joy,
did have a son...

:05:43
so fair, so clearheaded
and brave,

:05:46
that I a thousand pleasures
did derive from his presence.

:05:50
So what happens?
:05:52
One day he kills me.
:05:54
And don't you think,
he runs off and marries my wife.

:05:57
Poor Oedipus, king of Thebes.
:06:00
My son, my son
did slay unwittingly...

:06:04
my noble husband...
:06:06
and did, without realizing,
hasten with me,

:06:09
his loving mother,
to lustful bed.

:06:12
And a whole profession
was born...

:06:14
charging sometimes
200 an hour,

:06:16
and a 50-minute hour
at that.

:06:19
And why a child now, out of left field?
:06:22
One hopes it's not to fill
some growing void in their marriage.

:06:25
Leave her be.
:06:27
A woman's urge to motherhood
is old as the earth.

:06:30
Children grow up;
they move out.

:06:33
Sometimes to ridiculous places
like Cincinnati...

:06:36
or Boise, Idaho.
:06:38
Then you never see them again.
:06:40
You'd think once in a while
they'd pick up a phone.

:06:42
But is there a growing void
in the Weinrib's marriage?

:06:45
We didn't say there was.
:06:47
We're all just speculating
on possible motives.

:06:50
Children are serious stuff.
:06:52
Look, here's a man
who killed his father...

:06:56
and slept with his mother.
:06:58
I hate to tell you what they
call my son in Harlem.


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