GK: ----.after this message from the Catchup Advisory Board.
TR: These are the good years for Barb and me. We went skating and Barb slipped and fell and it seemed to solve that twinge in her back so now she doesn't have to see a chiropractor. The dry cleaners burned a big hole in my sweater that Barb's mother gave me last year, the one she knitted herself that makes me look like a hunchback. We should have been happy. And then one morning I found Barb online, typing away----- (FURIOUS TYPING). Barb, what are you doing?
SS: I am sending e-mail to Howard Dean, Jim. Just telling him I think he needs to try a different tie.
TR: You know, I don't think it's a good idea for you to get so wound up about one candidate, Barb. Remember how excited you got about Michael Dukakis? It took you years to recover.
SS: How can I not care, Jim? How can I ignore what's going on in this country?
TR: Most Americans don't have a problem with that, Barb.
SS: Well, I was looking at a Web site for a retirement village in Costa Rica, Jim.
TR: Retirement?
SS: I was thinking that after November we might like to leave the country for a while.
TR: But why Costa Rica?
SS: It's warm, Jim. That's why. Warmth. A person does not have to be cold. And it's inexpensive and it's beautiful ---- mountains and rain forest ----- and this is a gated retirement community, Jim. It's restricted to Democrats who didn't vote for Ralph Nader. There'll be a lot of people just like us and the food is cheap and we can buy medications from pushcart vendors.
TR: But we're needed here, Barb. In America.
SS: Are we? I don't know-- It's called Whispering Tortillas. I sent for a brochure.
TR: Barb-- let's talk about this later, after we have a helping of Catchup. Catchup contains natural mellowing agents that help you gain perspective when you need to make major decisions.
RD (SINGS): Going down to paradise, won't you come to see us----
The air is full of halleluias and Ave Marias----
Life is flowing like Catchup on tortillas.
GK: Catchup. For the good times.
RD (SINGS): Catchup--Catchup--