play around!
Are you cold?
I guess when the weather gets too cold,
you'll just fly south for the winter?
Well, to tell you the truth, I've never flown south.
It's kind of a dream of mine.
Get out of this cold, windy city,
catch that jet stream....
Fruit trees, millions of new birds to meet.
- I hear it's paradise.
- Then how come you haven't gone?
Something's always stopping me.
Something's always stopping me, too.
Everybody around here thinks
I'm too small to accomplish anything.
Hey, the way I see it, you're as big as you feel.
Yeah. Boy, I'm really glad you fell into my car.
I mean, you know....
I mean I'm not glad you fell. I just....
Want some more popcorn?
Okay.
What?
My pin.
It's fixed. How--
On my way home from school,
I drive right past where you crashed.
It was no big deal.
I mean, there was finding it...
...figuring out how the pieces fit together...
...and you know, fixing it.
And no big deal. Just...
Oh, Scottie.
...one, two, three.
Good as new.
No, Stuart, it's not.
It's much, much better.
- Stay with me.
- All the time.
Did you really think I wouldn't find out?
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about you
and your little mouse friend.
Big mistake! Never make a friend I can eat.
Now, get me that ring!
Or the mouse is lunch.
- I'll do the dishes.
- You did them last night.
For you, I'd do dishes every night.
That way, I don't have to change the baby.
She just dropped her dolly.
I'll just--
- Frederick!
- What?
- My ring. It's gone.
- What do you mean?
It's gone!
- Are you absolutely....
- Positive.
Unless....
I'll call the plumber!
What's going on?
Mom's ring went down the drain. I can't reach it.
Hey! What about me?
I can do it. Let me go, Dad.
- Go where?
- Down the drain.
I can bring it back up. It's an adventure.
I don't know. It's awfully dark down there.
And smelly. And cold.
But it's Mom's ring. She loves that ring.
Come on, Dad. Let me try.
Now, if it gets too cold, or too scary...
...you just tell us.
Don't worry, Dad. I can handle it.
- Or yank on the string, we'll pull you up.
- Will do.
How's it so far?
Wet. There's a lot of slimy stuff
all over the walls.
- What does it look like?
- Like the inside of your nose.
- Can you see the bottom yet?
- No, just more pipe.
And everything we ate for dinner last week.
And the pipe seems to go on and on.
Well, the plumber said....
What's going on?
Is that a new top?
You know, you have such taste.
Simple elegance is what I call it.
What's on the other end of that string?
- This string?
- Yes.
Well, now, don't get excited,
but someone that you and I love...
...has volunteered to go down the drain
to get your ring.
- Stuart?
- Good guess, Mom.
You let our son go down the kitchen drain?
Now, Eleanor, don't be upset.
It's been well thought out.
If there's a problem, I pull on the string and....
Now you can be upset.
Are you okay? Can you hear me?
Hurry! I'm slipping.
- Get more string.
- Great.
There must be string here.
- There is no more.
- What else can we use?
- Spaghetti?
- We're out of spaghetti.
- Well, do we have macaroni?
- That's too short.
- We can tie it together with--
- No.
Hurry!
Hang on, Stuart!
- Margalo, what are you doing?
- Stuart, I'm coming! Grab on!
Lower! Lower!
I got it!
- Are you all right?
- Are you hurt?
Don't scare me like that.
Margalo, you're the best friend I ever had.
What if someone had accidentally
turned on the garbage disposal?
I would not have let that happen.
- You let him go down the drain.
- He wanted to go.
If Martha wanted to go up the chimney...
...or George wanted to go into the toilet,
would you let them?
I love Stuart as much as you do.
I just don't happen to be quite as....
Emotional? Irrational?
What were you going to say?
I forget.
I know I'm overprotective, it's just...
...I can't stand the idea of Stuart getting hurt.
I'm sorry, Stuart.
What?
You people sure like your meat