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follows Chester A. Riley as his family and friends try to convince him to have his tonsils removed for an upcoming operation.
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00:00The End
00:30Among the many advances America is justly proud of are the forward strides of her medical
00:41profession.
00:42Great hospitals daughter cities where delicate and undreamed of operations are successfully
00:47performed daily.
00:49Research laboratories seek the prevention of disease.
00:53Nurses and medical students are trained for the fight against discomfort and suffering.
00:57And today, we find Chester A. Reilly facing a grim situation with his usual calm stoicism.
01:04Gillis!
01:05I'm choking!
01:06Gillis!
01:07Gillis, get me a tank!
01:08I need oxygen!
01:09Gillis!
01:10Stop yelling!
01:11I told you a hundred times not to put those rivets in your mouth!
01:14Hold still!
01:15It's dark in there, right?
01:16I told you a hundred times not to put those rivets in your mouth!
01:19Hold still!
01:20It's dark in there, right?
01:21I told you a hundred times not to put those rivets in your mouth!
01:24Hold still!
01:25Oh!
01:26It's dark in there!
01:27I can't see nothing!
01:28Ah!
01:30Quiet!
01:31Quiet!
01:32What's going on here?
01:33It's a very interesting case, Hawkins.
01:35Ryle here swallowed a rivet.
01:37Now, the way I diagnose it, we got two methods.
01:41Pull it out or drive it home!
01:44Look!
01:45Those rivets cost money!
01:46Now, you men stop fooling around with him!
01:49Get him up to Doc Fisher!
01:50That's a good idea!
01:51Come on, Ryle, I'll take that one!
01:52Ah!
01:53Ah!
01:54Ah!
01:55Ah!
01:56Ah!
01:57Ah!
01:58Ah!
01:59Ah!
02:00Ah!
02:01Ah!
02:02Ah!
02:03Ah!
02:04Ah!
02:05There we are!
02:06A tiny little fish bone lodged in the upper gluttus!
02:09Ah!
02:10And you sounded like you swallowed the whole fish, fins and all.
02:14Can you imagine?
02:16I eat a salmon and he stabs me.
02:18Thanks, Doc. I'll see you around.
02:20Oh, just a moment, please.
02:21What's the matter?
02:22Open your mouth again and say, ah.
02:24What for? Is there another one swimming upstream?
02:28Please.
02:30Ah!
02:33That's all right. Go ahead.
02:38Mm-hmm.
02:40Oh, that's all right. You can shut your mouth now.
02:47Ah, I'm okay. Uh, Doc?
02:49You will be as soon as they're removed.
02:51What's removed?
02:52You can't see my appendix from way up there.
02:56You have enlarged and inflamed tonsils that ought to come out.
02:59What for? I've had them all my life. They're attached to me.
03:03In their condition, immediate and serious complications can develop.
03:08I've had them all my life.
03:10He's had them all his life.
03:13Tonsils can be a contributing factor in rheumatic endocarditis.
03:17Septicemia.
03:19You're a sick man, Ron. You've got the book.
03:21I would say an immediate operation, as necessary.
03:26Hop...
03:26Hop...
03:28Operation?
03:29There's no cause for a lock.
03:30A tonsillectomy is as simple as your ABCs.
03:34Well, I had a lot of trouble with them in a second.
03:36I'll make arrangements for you with the hospital.
03:39Let's say in about a year, huh, Doc?
03:44I'll arrange it for tomorrow.
03:47Come on, Riley. You're all through.
03:50Uh...
03:50Get me the cottage hospital, please.
03:54You can do it now, Doc. He's passed out.
03:57Come on!
03:58Look out, Junior!
04:12Gee, Pop, I didn't know you were there.
04:14Never mind, Junior.
04:15Just stand there for a minute like you are.
04:18What for?
04:19I want to get a picture of you in my mind.
04:22Playing innocently on the front stool.
04:24What's wrong, Pop?
04:26Something the matter with your leg?
04:28No, Junior. My trouble is further north than that.
04:31September simian.
04:33Holy smoke!
04:35Is it dangerous?
04:36Junior, your father is facing the Grim Reaper.
04:39No, what?
04:41You better go in the house, Pop.
04:43Where's your mother?
04:44In the kitchen with Babs.
04:47You've got to break it to her gently.
04:49Any sudden shock might lay her out flat.
04:52You've got to lead up to it, little by little.
04:55Okay, Pop.
04:56I'm with you.
04:58Thanks, son.
04:59I knew I could depend on you.
05:01Let's go in now.
05:03You can help me just a little.
05:05Sure, Pop.
05:10I think it's wonderful.
05:12Mr. Parker must be proud as a peacock.
05:14Mamie said he was expecting a boy.
05:16And instead, he got two twins.
05:19Get me a pad for the shelves, dear.
05:21Oh, sure.
05:26Oh, here comes Daddy.
05:28And he's walking with a cane.
05:30Oh, I hope he hasn't turned his ankle again.
05:33Oh, Riley.
05:35Well, what's wrong?
05:36Did you hurt yourself, Daddy?
05:37Here, sit down.
05:39It's nothing.
05:41Don't bother about me.
05:42What is it, dear?
05:43I can see by your face that there's something wrong.
05:45Here's a pillow, Pop.
05:47Thanks, Junior.
05:48You want to put on your slippers?
05:49Well, if you want to, Junior.
05:50I don't think they'll fit you.
05:52Oh, stop this foolishness, dear.
05:53And tell me, what's the matter?
05:55Sit down, Babs.
05:57You too, Peg.
05:59I want to see you as I'll always remember you.
06:02Working your fingers to the bone.
06:04Best family a man ever had.
06:07All right, Riley.
06:08Let's have it.
06:09I saw Doc Fisher today.
06:14You saw the doctor?
06:16What about?
06:17Be brave, Peg.
06:19Take this standing up like the pioneer I know you are.
06:23Daddy, what is it?
06:25Riley, what's the matter with you?
06:28Tonsils.
06:29The doc says I've got to have them both out at the same time.
06:34Oh, Riley.
06:36That's for you, boy.
06:38Go on, plant.
06:39I'm the one that's got to go through the torture.
06:42Don't be a baby.
06:44Tonsilectomy today is practically nothing.
06:47Golly, I thought you were stricken with something terrible.
06:50I thought he was going to kick the bucket.
06:53Keep going.
06:55It's a big joke.
06:57I'm glad my tonsils tickle everybody.
07:00Sorry, dear, but there's nothing really to get excited about.
07:04Nothing to get excited about, she says.
07:06All they're going to do is rip my throat from ear to ear and tear out my tonsils.
07:10They don't cut your throat, Daddy.
07:14They just snip them out through your mouth.
07:17Kid at school had them browned out.
07:21Nobody's shoving a blowtorch down my throat.
07:23I think we'll go to the hospital tomorrow.
07:27Now be sensible, dear.
07:28I'll go with you.
07:30If they have to go, they have to go.
07:32Yeah, but I don't want to go with them.
07:34Yeah, you're a brave man.
07:36You're no coward.
07:41Yeah.
07:42Yeah, that's right, Babs.
07:44I ain't yellow.
07:46I can go through with it.
07:48Well, that's a spirit, dear.
07:50Attaboy, Pop.
07:51Sure.
07:52It's a simple operation.
07:53The doc explained it to me.
07:55There's nothing to it.
07:56All they do is take a big pair of shears about that long,
07:59and then they shove them down your throat.
08:01And then they chop and chop and chop.
08:09Get the water, dear.
08:14It's almost finished, Gillis.
08:16My last will and testament.
08:20I, Chester A. Riley, being of sound mind...
08:23No good, Ryle.
08:26You can get ten years for perjury.
08:30I've got to see that Peg and the kids are taken care of.
08:34Stop worrying, will you?
08:35They go on relief.
08:37Why don't you walk the street and see Mrs. Parker?
08:41I never met her.
08:43What's the difference?
08:44She had her tonsils taken out last year.
08:46She can tell you the ropes and give you some courage, you know.
08:50Chester A. Riley don't need to go to no helpless woman for courage.
08:56Uh, but I'll drop in on her after supper just to be neighborly.
09:00Chester A. Riley, I live down the street.
09:05I'd like to speak to your mother about the hospital.
09:07Oh, just a minute.
09:08Morning.
09:09How was it, Amy?
09:10Junior and Babs Riley father.
09:11He wants to see you about the twins, I think.
09:13Oh, I don't know.
09:14I don't know.
09:15I don't know.
09:16I don't know.
09:17I don't know.
09:18I don't know.
09:19I don't know.
09:20I don't know.
09:21I don't know.
09:22I don't know.
09:23I don't know.
09:24I'm sure you're going to have to figure out.
09:25And I don't know how to do it.
09:26I don't know how to do it.
09:27I don't know how to do it.
09:28So I don't know how to do it.
09:29If you live down the street, I'd like to speak to your mother about the hospital.
09:31Oh, just a minute.
09:32Morning.
09:33How was it, Amy?
09:34Junior and Babs Riley father.
09:35He wants to see you about the twins, I think.
09:38Well, why didn't you let him in?
09:40Peg Riley must be expecting another.
09:43You go and finish the formula, darling.
09:45Okay.
09:46Good evening.
09:48Oh, hello, Mrs. Parker.
09:50I don't know how to say this, but I'd like your advice about something.
09:55Why, certainly, Mr. Riley. Won't you come in?
09:58Oh, no, thanks. I can take it better in the fresh air.
10:02Of course, Mr. Riley. I realize the strain you're under.
10:06But you must understand, it's your wife's problem, too.
10:09Yes, I know. That's what worries me.
10:12Why couldn't this thing have happened when I was single?
10:16Single?
10:17Yes, then I'd be the only one that would have to suffer.
10:20Now, now, Mr. Riley, you must remember that it's perfectly normal.
10:24It happens every day.
10:26Just look at me. I had two of them.
10:30Doesn't everybody have two of them?
10:33Not usually.
10:35Oh, you should have seen the joy in Mr. Parker's eyes when I brought them home from the hospital.
10:40You brought them home?
10:43I'd hardly leave them there.
10:45And you know, sometimes, Mr. Parker and I could hardly tell one from another.
10:50Why do you keep looking at them?
10:53Well, you come on in. I'll let you hold one.
10:55You're my bare hands.
10:58I think you'll have to use both hands.
11:01They each weigh seven pounds.
11:07And you know, Mr. Riley, they just eat like little piggies.
11:12They eat?
11:14Naturally.
11:15Mrs. Parker, your tonsils should be on television.
11:20I lost my tonsils last year, Mr. Riley.
11:23I just had twins.
11:24Twins?
11:26Tonsils!
11:27Little thing like twins, and she's laughing at my tonsils.
11:48Chester A. Riley's last will and testament.
11:50Oh, stop it, Riley. Don't be ridiculous.
11:52You're not going to die, Daddy.
11:55They only cut your throat a little.
11:58Would you kindly let me go on?
12:01Being of sound mind, accepting tonsils,
12:06do hereby, to wit and ergo,
12:09leave to my beloved wife, Peg,
12:12better known as Dumplin,
12:14my entire bank account,
12:17including, to wit, fifteen bucks,
12:20which you will find in the radio behind the little tube on the side.
12:25So that's why we couldn't get KGEB.
12:28Don't interrupt, Junior.
12:31To my son and pal, Junior,
12:34I leave my good name.
12:37He's already got it.
12:39Well, I've heard enough of this nonsense.
12:40We're late already.
12:41Dr. Fisher will be waiting.
12:43Just a minute, Peg. Let him wait.
12:45You haven't heard, but I left Babs.
12:50To my darling Babs,
12:52who won't have a father to guide her
12:54when she goes out with boys,
12:56I leave my air rifle
12:58and these two words.
13:00Watch out!
13:07Signed, sealed and delivered, Chester A. Riley.
13:12Those are my last words.
13:14Well, I should hope so.
13:15Get out of the car.
13:16Wait!
13:18Don't move.
13:20Let me take one last look at my darling family.
13:23Oh, for heaven's sake.
13:25Seeing you all together like this
13:28brings a big lump in my throat.
13:31That's your tonsils, Riley.
13:33Mr. Riley.
13:34Come on!
13:35We'll get them out.
13:45Nurse!
13:47Mr. Riley.
13:48You better feel my pulses again.
13:51I just took your pulse.
13:53Oh, no wonder it's gone.
13:54You're perfectly normal.
13:56Well, that ain't what everybody else says.
13:58They have a point.
14:00Now, give me your arm.
14:03What for?
14:04I'm going to give you a sedative
14:05to quiet you.
14:07I don't need no quieting.
14:09No, but the hospital does.
14:11Give me your arm.
14:14You wanna stick that sword into me?
14:17It won't hurt.
14:18Just turn your head away.
14:19I just swabbed your arm with alcohol.
14:32I ain't used to it.
14:33I don't drink.
14:35You won't feel it.
14:36Just close your eyes.
14:39All right, get it over with.
14:40The suspense is awful.
14:45Stop yelling.
14:46It's all over.
14:50It's quite a little bleeding.
14:52Now, just try and relax.
14:54How can I relax with nobody with me?
14:56Where's my late wife?
14:58She's in the waiting room.
14:59She'll be with you as soon as you get back
15:00from the operating theater.
15:02The theater?
15:04You mean they're gonna sell tickets to see me?
15:07It's a term for surgery.
15:09I'll be back with an order.
15:12If you're anesthetic.
15:14Bring me something to put me to sleep, too.
15:19What a hell, Ryle.
15:21I think you're hearing all the way down on Maple Street.
15:22What's the idea of coming through the window?
15:24Honey beers with Peg.
15:25She don't know I knock off work today.
15:27What'd you knock off for?
15:28Could I rib it with my best pal facing the great beyond?
15:29No.
15:30You think I'm gonna die?
15:31You got a chance, Ryle.
15:32They're betting even money on you to plant.
15:34Oh, how do you feel, dear?
15:36They just gave me something to kill my nerves.
15:38Oh, how do you feel, dear?
15:39What are you doing here?
15:40Don't tell me you took the day off.
15:41Now don't throw anything.
15:42This hospital equipment's expensive.
15:43Oh, can I ever do it?
15:44Oh, what are you doing here?
15:45Don't tell me you took the day off?
15:47Now don't throw anything.
15:48This hospital equipment's expensive.
15:49Oh, how do you feel, dear?
15:50I don't know.
15:52I don't know.
15:53I don't know.
15:54I don't know.
15:55I don't know.
15:56And I don't know how I want you.
15:57I don't know.
15:59Oh, how is this?
16:00How is this?
16:01You think I'm gonna die?
16:02You got a chance, Ryle.
16:03You took the day off.
16:05Now, don't throw anything.
16:06This hospital equipment's expensive.
16:09Can I have your tonsils, Pop?
16:11Hush, Junior.
16:13Poor Daddy.
16:15They're no good to him.
16:17And Sparky Evans will trade his stuffed frog for him.
16:21Junior, you're upsetting your father.
16:23Now go back to the waiting room.
16:25I didn't mean to.
16:27So long, Pop.
16:29Good luck.
16:30Thanks, Junior.
16:33Oops, let's watch where we're going, little man.
16:36Excuse me.
16:38Well, I see my patient is still hale and hearty.
16:40How long will it take, Doctor?
16:42Five minutes.
16:43Snip, snip, and it's all over.
16:45I don't want no expensive funeral, Peg.
16:48Just something simple.
16:50I see we still have our sense of humor.
16:53Oh, hello, Gillis.
16:54Why don't you have yours out at the same time as Riley?
16:57Doc's always clowning and kidding.
17:00Is there something wrong with his tonsils?
17:01Why, they're worse than Riley's.
17:04I told him so last week when he came to see me with a sore throat.
17:07So long, Riley.
17:09Be seeing you.
17:10Come back here, you weasel.
17:13I'll get him if I have to chase him to Glendale.
17:18Don't go to Glendale, Jess.
17:20I was trapped.
17:30Why do you think I'll have to strap him in the chair?
17:33Nurse's intuition.
17:34A simple tonsillectomy and you'd think he was facing brain surgery.
17:38Gilles can do it or I can do it.
17:51Throw him in the chair.
17:52Sit on him.
17:53No.
17:53Let go of me.
17:55Hey, Gilles.
17:55All right.
17:56Let go of me.
17:57Calm down, Mr. Riley.
17:59I ain't going.
18:00I changed my mind.
18:01Why didn't you give him a sedative?
18:03He's had everything but raw opium.
18:05Give him that aesthetic and let him go.
18:07Gilles.
18:07I ain't going to heaven or no other place.
18:10No, you don't.
18:11You're repeating yourself.
18:12Look, Mr. Riley.
18:14This is a simple little piece of cotton.
18:17On it are a couple of drops of alcohol.
18:20I've nothing up my sleeves.
18:21No string.
18:22No wires attached.
18:24I will rub gently with this saw piece of cotton.
18:28So.
18:33There was no reaction.
18:35No pain.
18:36No discomfort.
18:38It burned a little.
18:41Granddad!
18:42Hey!
18:43How are you going in?
18:58We're very sleepy.
19:00No, I'm not going in.
19:01Very sleepy.
19:03I'm very sleepy.
19:04That's right.
19:05Closure.
19:05Closure.
19:06Sleepy.
19:07Sleepy.
19:08Oh, Miss Drayton.
19:16Didn't they notify you in time?
19:17About what, Dr. Fisher?
19:19An emergency just came in from the plant.
19:21I'll have to postpone his tonsillectomy.
19:22But he's had his anesthetic, doctor.
19:25It can't be helped.
19:26I'll get to him later.
19:27Take him back to his room.
19:28Oh.
19:28Oh.
19:28I wasn't happy in the psychopathic ward.
19:35I had to get transferred to surgery.
19:39The magazine doesn't make any sense.
19:42Get another one.
19:43I'm going to go out in the hall and watch for Pop.
19:45No, you're not allowed to wander around.
19:47Oh, I can't read Farm Journal of 1943.
19:50Junior, come back here.
19:56Mom, Junior's going to...
19:57Never mind, dear.
19:58They'll send him back.
20:00Can't help worrying about your father.
20:03He's such a baby about hospitals.
20:06Oh, it's all right, Mom.
20:07It isn't as though it were anything serious.
20:10Remember when he had an ingrown toenail
20:12and wanted a specialist from Vienna?
20:15Pop may yell about everything,
20:17but he always comes through.
20:19We must all be very sweet and considerate
20:21when we take him home.
20:23Oh, we will, Mom.
20:26Pop's all through.
20:27They're wheeling him back to his room.
20:28Can we go in and see him?
20:29Oh, wait a few seconds until they get him settled.
20:32Now, remember, whatever you think about it,
20:34this has been an ordeal for your father,
20:36so don't treat it lightly,
20:37and Junior, be careful what you say.
20:40I will, Mom.
20:41We must all make a big fuss over him.
20:43Sure, Mom, we will.
20:45Poor darling.
20:46He's probably a mass of nerves.
20:49He's just the same as he is at home.
21:02He's sleeping.
21:04Some observation.
21:06There ought to be a nurse here after an operation.
21:09Maybe the dope isn't all finished.
21:12Junior, what did I tell you?
21:13I meant the anesthetic.
21:19Look, Mommy's opening his eyes.
21:23I must be in heaven.
21:25I can see my wife and children.
21:27You're in your own room, dear.
21:30We're right here with you.
21:32The operation is all over.
21:34How are you feeling, Daddy?
21:37Awful.
21:38My throat is killing me.
21:40Did it hurt much, Pop?
21:44It was agony, but I took it.
21:47You were under an anesthetic, Daddy.
21:49It didn't make no difference.
21:51I dreamt I was having my tonsils taken out.
21:54What a dare.
21:56No, I couldn't.
21:57Nothing could pass my throat.
21:59Well, just try.
22:00Go ahead, Pop.
22:01I know you're brave.
22:03I'll try it for you, son.
22:07Oh.
22:10Did it hurt, Daddy?
22:12Not much.
22:13It was just excruciating.
22:16Well, it sounds better.
22:18Not quite so hoarse.
22:19Try another sip, dear.
22:21It's doing you good, Pop.
22:22Take some more.
22:28Hey, that didn't hurt at all.
22:30And your voice is natural.
22:33Yeah.
22:34And I feel better, too.
22:36Oh, that modern surgery is wonderful.
22:39Oh, I'm glad you came through it so well, dear.
22:42Oh, I'll ask the nurse when we can take you home.
22:44No, don't ask her nothing.
22:45All she knows is to hemstitch with a needle.
22:52See that?
22:53She's got her sword basket with her.
22:56Oh, he says he feels very well.
22:58I feel great.
22:59I'm ready to go home right now.
23:01Oh, fine.
23:03Orderly.
23:04What's the matter?
23:07What's that for?
23:09I don't need no wheelchair to take me to my car.
23:11Oh, you're not going to your car.
23:13You're going to the operating room.
23:15Operating?
23:17Operating room?
23:18I thought the operation was all over.
23:22Believe me, Mrs. Riley, it would be my dearest wish.
23:26You mean, I was up there and the doc didn't, and you, and you're going to, oh.
23:33Daddy, Daddy, let me say it again.
23:41That's the first break I've had today.
23:50There we are.
23:50Thank you, Peg.
23:55You see, dear, the operation didn't hurt as much as you expected, now did it?
23:59Well, that's because I'm the kind of a man who can take it.
24:02Oh, I know, dear.
24:03You were as brave as a lion.
24:06Um, Peg.
24:08Yes, dear?
24:09I, uh, I was only kidding about that 15 bucks.
24:13There really ain't no dough in that radio.
24:15Uh, there isn't now.
24:17It'll go towards paying your hospital bill.
24:19Oh, my throat.
24:21Oh, quit stalling, Riley.
24:23$15 can't hurt that much.
24:29Here's your ice cream, Daddy.
24:30It'll taste nice and cool.
24:32Thanks, Babs.
24:33Hey, Pop!
24:36Hey, look, there's an ambulance parked in front of Mr. Gilliam.
24:39It's Tarzan's house.
24:41They got the wrong house.
24:42They're coming back for me.
24:44No, they're not.
24:45Mr. Gilliam.
24:46What?
24:48Hey, cut it out.
24:49Let me go, will you?
24:51I want to keep my tonsils.
24:53You got yours.
24:54I want mine.
24:57Can you imagine that dope Gilliam's making such a fuss over a little thing like losing his tonsils?
25:02You must remember, dear, everyone isn't a stoic.
25:05You are.
25:06That's right, Peg.
25:07You married a Tarzan.
25:09Oh, my throat.
25:14Oh, my God.
25:16Oh, brother.
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