Act 2 Scene 7

Question 1

M: There they are! He’s a plundering pirate!
J: So he’s spending time with Ariel. Who cares?
M: It’s happening all over again!
J: Pop, that was 50 years ago.
G: Don’t you think you should tell your father?
D: Did you see us? Out front? We made snow angels–
M: ___

Answer 1

1. Dad, we have to talk.

Question 2

D: Mel, your mother was a saint. But Ariel–well, she’s an angel!
G: You jump in our gene pool on the lifeguard’s break?
D: The Moron’s Green Hornet! Where’d you get this?
G: Only damned thing I caught all week.
D: Can this day get any better?
M: ___

Answer 2

1. Dad I need to tell you something.

Question 3

G: Got to go fix the pickup. It’s backfiring like a cashier’s window at a titty bar.
M: ___
J: Pop. I’m getting married to Melanie.
D: I don’t understand. So you’re still with Mike.
M: ___
D: I couldn’t bear to se you alone, Mel.

Answer 3

1. Dad, Jacob and I aren’t really engaged. I made that up.
2. Not exactly.

Question 4

M: You expect me to believe you’re spending thousands of dollars on this wedding and you’ll never exchange vows.
J: I do.
D: Look at your mother and me. I stuck out that marriage like a cowboy on a kicking bull.
M: ___
D: As a wife, she was a good mother.

Answer 4

1. You just said she was a saint.

Question 5

M: That Putz put you up to this, didn’t he. So I’d miss my own son’s wedding.
J: I’m moving to New York City.
M: New York City! Why not bury me alive and dance on my grave!
M: ___
D: Los Angeles? But our family’s been in Wabasha for generations.

Answer 5

1. I’d like to move to Los Angeles.

Question 6

J: You can visit any time you like. I’ll take you to musicals.
M: Edgar Stonebryant was maimed at one of those musicals. Superhero landed on his head.
M: ___
D: To think, when I die, I was planning to leave you this–house.
M: I’m not going to live forever, you know. And when I die, you’ll be glad you were here to watch it happen.
D: Go. Do what you want. It doesn’t matter anymore.

Answer 6

1. I’ll come back every change I get.