GK: Sunday is Father's Day and if you don't have a gift, it's okay, we don't need one, we don't want one ---- you took care of your mother last month, you made your mother happy, that's good enough. She was the one who gave you life. Nurtured you for nine months, raised you, fed you from her own body. Fatherhood was just a moment's impulse (ELEPHANT CRY) ----- your dad and his hormones and a moment of opportunity and (HORSE WILD WHINNY) ---- it was all over. Mom was always there for you. Dad was there and then he wasn't there. Charles Darwin.
TR: Bye, kids. Got to go off to the Galapagos and discover the theory of evolution, okay? I may be gone for a few years.
FN: But dad----
SS: Please----
FN: What about us? Our evolution?
SS: Can't someone else do the research?
TR: Sorry. It's called Darwinism and that means it's up to me.
See you in a couple years. (SHOUTS OF SAILORS, RIGGING, CHILDREN WEEPING. BRIDGE)
GK: Over and over, this same story has been repeated. George Washington.
FN (TEEN): To everyone else, he was the Father of His Country. To me, he was very distant, preoccupied. "Could not tell a lie?" Ha. Give me a break.
SS: My dad was a newspaperman. Ever so often, he'd duck into a telephone booth and put on his cape and go off and fight evil. He was faster than a speeding locomotive, he could leap tall buildings at a single bound, but he was never there for me emotionally. And because of his X-ray vision, I had no privacy whatsoever.
FN: My dad was always busy, writing poetry.
TR (FROST): When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
FN: But he never showed me how to swing birches. Wrote poems about it and apple-picking and building fences but never did it with me. He and I never stopped by woods on a snowy evening either. No. People think we did but we didn't.
GK: Dads are busy. Kids are always getting short shrift.
TR (DR FRANKENSTEIN): At last, after years of work in my laboratory, it is time to see if my great experiment will work......Attach the wires to the creature's head!
FN (IGOR): Yes, master!
SS: Why are you doing this??? Trying to make a person out of body parts. You already have a family!!!!
(THUNDER, LIGHTNING)
TR: Throw the switch!!!! (SHORTING)---- and again! (SHORTING).....Igor, he moves! (ELECTRIC SHORTING) I have created a living human being!
SS: And what am I????? CHOPPED LIVER???? I'm your daughter. Julie Frankenstein. Remember me??? Would you love me if I grunted and had big zipper scars on my face and weird knobs sticking out of my head? Huh???? (SHE GRUNTS) (BRIDGE)
GK: If you're looking for a gift for Father's Day, the best gift of all is simply to be there. That's what your dad wants most of all. Just to be with you.
FN: Dad? Hi. Happy Father's Day.
TR: Oh, thank you, Charlie.
FN: Jeffrey.
TR: Oh. Right.
FN: Charlie was the neighbor boy.
TR: So---- how's school?
FN: I'm 35, Dad. Out of school.
TR: Oh. Okay.
FN: I'm an engineer.
TR: On the railroad?
FN: Civil engineer. I build roads and stuff.
TR: And Janice?
FN: Cheryl.
TR: You got a divorce?
FN: Janice was my girlfriend in high school. Cheryl and I have been married for twelve years. We have four kids. You have grandchildren.
TR: Oh. Wonderful. Where's your mom?
SS: I'm here, honey.
TR: Oh. You. I know you. Don't tell me your name. I know it. I know I know it.
GK: Father's Day. Just being there is enough.