wife
has gotten over the accident.
It was your wife, wasn't it?
Oh, yeah, yes. It was nothing.
It looked worse than it was.
I should go and see her.
I should've done it before.
She'd like that.
- Shall we make a start?
- Is it all right if Joanna sits in?
Definitely. I'm sure she's got
a lot to contribute.
Well,
you want me to get you
a more comfortable chair, hon?
No, it's OK.
My drink.
Excuse me.
Well, we all know what we're here for,
so who's gonna be the first genius?
Well, how about the Christmas toys
for the under...? For the poor kids?
For chrissake, Claude,
it's only May.
Yeah, well, I guess it's a little early
to start thinking about Christmas.
I'm frankly more interested
in the overprivileged kids,
like my son hated camp.
So naturally,
Charmaine won't hear
of him going back.
What's he gonna do all summer
besides drive me batty?
I thought we might try
a tag sale here this year.
Oh, sure, put a tag on all of his toys,
we'll make a fortune.
That's a good idea.
I mean, everybody's got something
around the house that they don't need,
- and we can help sell it.
- A barn dance.
- Barn dance?
- A barn dance?
- Well, that went out in the '40s.
- Right.
I think a barn dance would be
a good idea. Well, I'd like it anyway.
You're talking about a square dance,
aren't you?
Is that what you mean,
a square dance?
Hey, hey, wait. Anybody
ever heard of a cakewalk?
- A cakewalk?
- Yeah, a cakewalk.
- It's a dance.
- It's a terrific way to raise money.
Cakewalk is not a dance.
It's a thing where all the women bring
over cakes, then you draw this circle
on the floor. And you've got numbers,
and everybody circles...
Now, look, could we just get back
to the original subject?
Now, I brought up the possibility
of a tag sale.
Do you think we can
go through with that or not?
I thought we talked about it.
Well, nobody said whether they
really were for or against a tag sale.
Well, he said something
about a barn dance.
Do you wanna do a barn dance
or a tag sale?
We even suggested the possibility
of putting the barn dance
and the tag sale together
at the same time.
Ted, Ted, wait a minute, wait.
You have a better idea about the town.
I would go for the sale because I think
you'd get, like, somebody's garage
- and you could do that.
- Whose garage could we use?
And I have to tell you
that we've always run the club
democratically, and we've...
- Claude.
- We've always...
- You are full of crap.
- It's not my fault, because...
- Claude.
- And I wanna tell you
that I'm kind of disgusted about the
way you guys are handling yourselves
- at this meeting.
- Well, now, wait a minute, Ed.
We're just trying
to get some ideas for you.
I think you ought to appoint me
chairman, I'll run the whole thing.
If you'd run the whole thing, you're
gonna alienate everybody in this town.
If I can't do it,
my wife, Charmaine, will.
Excuse me. Let me see if I kind
of get the consensus of all this.
You really are more interested
in one kind of big event rather than
a lot of little ones? Is that fair to say?
I mean, is that what you're...?
I mean, a tag sale and all that
nonsense is really not appropriate, is it?
You want something big because we
have a real need here for some...
Well, you know, I think this has been
a very successful meeting. Don't you?
I think we got enough things that we
can present to the meeting, you know.
- Walter.
- When is the next meeting?
- What?
- I'm gonna go check on the children.
- Excuse me.
- Yes, yes.
After...
- Are you still driving that big Lincoln?
- Yeah, yeah.
You should have traded it in years ago.
Well, if you drive the way you talk,
you're gonna have a lot of accidents,
I'll tell you that.
Any...? Anybody else want a nightcap?
Yeah, get me a decent brandy, will
you? Instead of this cooking sherry.
Yes.
In case you're wondering
what I've been doing.
- You're not the lke Mazzard are you?
- I'm