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Clips from The Jeffersons - Mother Jefferson's Birthday (S02E02)

"while you were walking on my back."
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"Uh, this may sound like a silly question,"
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"but what is a threepenny bit?"
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"Oh, it's a small British coin"
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"worth three pennies."
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"Actually,"
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"it was worth three pennies some years ago,"
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"only there's no such thing as a threepenny bit in England"
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"anymore,"
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"not since they went to the decimal system."
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"In fact, threepence"
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"would be more like sixpence today."
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"Bentley..."
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"Only they don't have sixpences anymore either."
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"Bentley, here's a nickel. You can keep the change."
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"You don't understand, Mr. J."
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"It's my lucky threepenny bit."
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"It couldn't have been that lucky or it wouldn't have got lost."
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"But it is."
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"It's been with me since the Christmas of '55."
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"Would you like to hear about it?"
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"No."
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"I'd gone into the woods outside Hertfordshire"
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"in search of a Christmas tree,"
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"and I was chopping down this rather nice Scottish pine"
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"when a sudden gust of wind came up"
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"and blew the tree over in an unexpected direction,"
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"completely crushing the bonnet of my Riley."
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"That's terrible. Who's Riley?"
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"It's an old automobile."
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"But another foot to the left"
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"and the tree would have landed squarely on Susan."
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"Good thing you didn't have an unlucky coin."
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"Let me help you find it so you can get out of here."
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"But I haven't told you the really lucky part yet."
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"See, I had to trudge seven miles through the snow"
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"to the nearest telephone,"
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"and when I got there,"
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"I found that the only coin in my possession"
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"was the threepenny bit,"
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"which, of course, wouldn't work in the telephone."
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"Well, wait a minute."
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"The tree ruined your car, you girl almost got killed,"
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"and your coin wouldn't work in the phone."
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"What's so lucky about that?"
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"Susan and I had to spend the night together"
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"in the back seat of the Riley,"
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"and if you knew Susan like I got to know Susan..."
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"Is that it?"
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"By George, you've done it, Mr. J."
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"What a relief."
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"Are you all right?"
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"Perfectly all right,"
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"thanks to my lucky coin, of course."
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"Well, I'll... Oh, I almost forgot."
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"That special little thing going all right, Mrs. Jefferson?"
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"I don't know what you're talking about."
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"Ah, mum's the word, eh, Mum?"
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"Well, goodbye."
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"There, you see? You see?"
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"If I didn't have my lucky coin with me,"
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"that could have been quite nasty."
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"Hm, that weirdo's getting weirder."
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"Oh, my, that takes me back."
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"I remember bumping into a door when I was a small girl."
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"I had a lump out to here."
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"I was chasing after Emma"
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"because she'd taken my favorite doll."
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"Who's Emma?"
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"Mama's sister."
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"How come I've never heard of her before?"
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"Because her and Mama"
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"haven't spoken to each other for years."
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"That was Emma's fault, not mine."
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"They had this big fight over nothing."
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"It was not over nothing. Emma cheated me."
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"When did she do that?"
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"25 years ago."
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"You haven't spoken for 25 years?"
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"Not since Friday, February the 9th, 1951."
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"How can you remember it was a Friday?"
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"That's bingo night at the church."
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"And that's what the fight was all about."
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"We used to go to bingo together,"
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"and this particular night,"
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"the first prize was an electric blanket,"
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"and I wanted that blanket, Louise."
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"Go on. What happened?"
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"Well, I had to go to the bathroom,"
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"so I asked Emma to play my bingo card"
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"while I was gone,"
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"and when I came back, Emma had won the blanket."
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"Well, you came close."
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"I came closer than that."
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"She won the prize with my card."
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"Now, Mama, it could have been Emma's card."
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"The card was mine."
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"Because my card had a nine in the top corner."
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"And Emma kept the blanket?"
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"Yep, and Mama said she'd never speak to her again"
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"unless she admitted that she won with Mama's card,"
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"and Emma said she'd never speak to Mama again"
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"until she apologized for calling her a cheat."
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"But doesn't it seem silly"
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"to keep a fight going all these years"
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"just over a bingo card?"
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"The nine was mine!"
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"Okay, okay."
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"Emma never used to be like that when we were young,"
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"even though she was a tattletale."
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"She was such a lot of fun to be with."
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"It seems such a shame to be wasting all this time"
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"when you two could be together."
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"Yeah, I really loved her."
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"I wish she'd come to her senses and admit she was wrong."
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"Well, would you like a cup of coffee?"
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"Oh, all right."
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"I expect we're having the champagne"
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"later on?"
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"What champagne?"
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