No, I didn't see that.
Oh, well,
I was doing some thinking.
And, you know, being that their
last house burned down and all...
it's like, maybe,
somebody left the gate open.
[Rumbling, Whirring]
It's them.
They're movin' around again.
It was a night just like this
that it happened.
What happened,
Mr Weingartner?
It was a long time ago.
Hinkley Hills was a lot smaller then.
Safer too. You never had to lock
your doors. Everybody knew everybody.
I must have been maybe
nine, ten years old.
- You know where the big mall is?
- Yeah.
There used to be a big drugstore
on the corner there.
- It had a big soda fountain. Remember?
- Yeah.
The guy who ran it was a rotund guy,
had glasses.
His name was Skip.
Lived over on Elm.
Had a wife, a couple kids.
Not too sharp.
The guy's 40 years old, he's wearing
a paper hat and making cherry Cokes.
It's a cinch he's not
running for governor, right?
Anyway, it got hot that summer.
It got real hot.
It was sweltering.
That heat where your underwear sweats
and it crawls up the...
Anyway, it's hot, okay?
And they start smelling
this really vile stench over on Elm...
and they figure it's comin'
from Skip's place.
No one wants to say anything.
Do you knock on the guy's door,
"Hi, your house stinks"?
So people are trying
to ignore it, right?
They're trying to pretend it isn't
happening. You know those pine things?
They're trying to cover up with those
pine things that you can put in cars.
People are hanging those
on their porches.
[Laughing]
- Oh, you think that's funny, Ricky?
- Well, yeah.
Let me tell you
what happened next.
The state health inspector shows up.
They talk to Skip.
He says he's got a sump pump problem.
They leave.
The guy's got a sewer problem.
He says he'll look after it.
Everything's okay, right?
Wrong.
A couple hours later...
there's smoke pouring out
of the windows of Skip's house.
- The firemen go in. Know what they find?
- What?
Skip's family, dead.
Murdered...
by Skip... weeks earlier...
with an ice pick.
Yeah, the guy killed
his whole family...
- [Gulps]
- With an ice pick.
Yeah. Yeah, just put 'em
in the cool basement...
covered 'em up with a sheet and went
back to makin' treats for the townsfolk.
Only Skip didn't count on there
being a big heat wave that summer.
You know what all those people
were smelling on Elm, Ricky?
What?
Skip's family's bodies...
- decomposing in the summer heat.
- [Whistles]
Apparently, one day Skip made
Just one-too-many lemon phosphates.
[Snaps Fingers]
El snappo.
I remember that. I remember
hearing about that when I was a kid.
They-They tore down
the soda fountain that fall.
These towns are full of those stories.
They're happening right under your nose.
You know, speaking of noses...
ever since this family
has moved to this block...
I've been noticing
a weird kind of odour.
Kind of like death.
- [Shouts]
- [Screams]
- [Both Laughing]
- Jump a little higher, Spud Webb.
- Oh, slam dunk!
- Sorry, Mr Peterson. It was a mistake.
- Well, it wasn't a mistake.
- Don't apologize.
- I'm goin' home.
- Oh, come on.
- Don't be a weenie. It was a joke!
- I'm sorry, Mr Peterson.
I'm gonna go do something productive.
I'm gonna go watch television.
[Alex Trebek]
The answer is:
- What is Lincoln's birthday.
- [Trebek] Addley?
- [Addley] What is Memorial Day?
- Memorial Day is it. Select.
They combined Lincoln's birthday
with Washington's. It's one weekend now.
- It's always flip-flopping.
- It's one weekend now.
"Remain calm, float with arms stretched
out at right angles to the body..."
That's what you used to say to me
in college, right?
- [Girl] What about your parents?
- They're not home 'til Thursday.
[Laughs]
Gail, I swear to God, this is
better than anything on television.
- Why can't we go to a movie?
- "A movie"?
That's not real.
It's the