To Mend or Repair

706: To Mend or Repair

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Airdate

March 24, 2012

Last Aired

March 08, 2013
March 08, 2013 March 24, 2012

Date Recorded

October 5, 2011

Recorded at

Salami Studio

Album

55: The Deep End

Cassette No.

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Length

25:43

Theme

Being a friend

Genre

Scripture

Luke 10:38-42

Written By

Marshal Younger
Paul McCusker

Directed By

Bob Hoose

Produced By

Bob Hoose

Executive Producer

Dave Arnold

Post-Production

GAP Digital
Todd Busteed

Engineer

Jonathan Crowe

Music By

John Campbell

Songs By

Unknown

Inventions Used

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Rating

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Summary

After learning that they can't have children, Eugene tries to keep Katrina distracted. Meanwhile, Barrett gives Priscilla a special honor -- reading the pledge of allegiance on the morning announcements.

Plot

Eugene is full of energy and Connie and Whit are worried about him. Whit finds out that Eugene and Katrina learned from their doctor that they can't have any children.

Meanwhile, Barrett is the new 'Voice of the School' and he want Priscilla to help him on his first broadcast by reciting the pledge of allegiance to the rest of the school. On air, Priscilla messes up on the Pledge and Jay makes fun of her.

Eugene goes home to Katrina who is watching TV, he decides to go return some books to the library and signs Katrina and himself up for a Book Club.

Meanwhile, Barrett tries to come up with a plan to humiliate Jay and to make Priscilla feel better which actually backfires.

At the first meeting of the book club, Eugene and Katrina decide that the book club is not what they need and leave.

Later, Connie meets Priscilla in the library for the 'open mic' poetry reading.

Eugene goes to Whit's End to talk to Whit about how to help Katrina and Barrett talks to Priscilla about how he actually should have been helping her. Barrett buys Priscilla a milkshake and they sit down and talk - what Priscilla really wanted, and Eugene goes home to Katrina to just talk about all that has been happening.

Discussion Questions

• How did Eugene try to help Katrina through her grief?
• Did Barrett do the right thing for Priscilla?
• Have you ever done something for a friend that they didn't want you to do?
• How could you have better helped them?

Cast

Characters	Actors
Eugene Meltsner	Will Ryan
Barrett Jones	Andy Pessoa
Katrina Shanks-Meltsner	Audrey Wasilewski
Connie Kendall	Katie Leigh
Jay Smouse	Whit Hertford
Priscilla Peterson	Gatlin Green
John Whittaker	Andre Stojka
Mrs. Kramer	Mitzi McCall
Ray	Keith Ferguson
Thomas Jefferson	Keith Ferguson

Notes

Goofs

• Mrs. Kramer states she hates cats, however, in #694: “Anger Mismanagement”, she has a cat and Wooton brings her favorite cat sweater to her.
• In the episode The Malted Milkball Falcon, Priscilla states she is allergic to chocolate, but in this episode she asks for a chocolate milk shake.

Quotes

Eugene Meltsner: Butter churning?
Mrs. Kramer: Well, you have to own your own cow.

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Eugene Meltsner: Book Club?
Mrs. Kramer: Boring!
Eugene Meltsner: Well, is it fiction or non-fiction?
Mrs. Kramer: Well, the books are fiction; the boredom is very non-fiction.

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Eugene Meltsner: Well, none the less, I'd like to sign up for that...is there a form?
Mrs. Kramer: Well, I can't talk you out of it?
Eugene Meltsner: No.
Mrs. Kramer: Fill this out.
Eugene Meltsner: Part of your job here at the library is encouraging community involvement?
Mrs. Kramer: Right! Absolutely.
Eugene Meltsner: That raise should be right around the proverbial corner.

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Mrs. Kramer: A hundred things I hate; by Mrs. Kramer. Mosquitoes. Poems that don't rhyme. Flimsy supermarket lettuce. My far-sighted dentist. My near-sighted hair dresser. Cats. Valentines gifts with no candy. Children laughing.
Priscilla Peterson: There are a hundred of these?
Mrs. Kramer: Vacuuming. Channel five weather man--you know, the one with the big teeth.
Connie Kendall: Yeah, I think it's time to go.
Mrs. Kramer: People who leave in the middle of poetry readings. Love songs. Democracy.

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Priscilla Peterson: Connie, is there a way to tell someone that you don't want him to help the way that he thinks he should help, but that you'd rather that he'd help in a way that really would help?
Connie Kendall: Sure...what?

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Katrina Meltsner: I was just praying. That you would be here, sitting with me, crying with me, holding my hand. And here you are. The answer to my prayer.

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Jay Smouse: Gimme back those cards! Next up, Mark Morgan's message to all math maniacs in the middle school is meaningful if you mingle by the mezzanine for a momentous mix of methodological mayhem and a menagerie of multiplicative inversions. Ha ha! I bet I could say this backwards. Inversions multiplicative of menagerie a and mayhem methodological...

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Katrina Meltsner: Eugene?
Eugene Meltsner: Yes?
Katrina Meltsner: Can you hold me? Just for a little while?
Eugene Meltsner: For as long as you need.

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