Denise!
Let's Go!
You Promised Me You'd Be Ready At 1300 Hours.
Just A Minute!
Make Sure You Are
Otherwise I'm Pulling Your Liberty Card.
That's The Way To Go, Lieutenant.
So, You're Off To Rhode Island
To See Your New Housing.
They'll Show Us Where We'll Be Living
On The Base.
We Come Back Here, Pack Up
Two Weeks, We're Gone.
Gone, But Not Forgotten.
It'll Be A Relief
Having Three Less People In Your House.
I Wouldn't Say That...
...Or Would I?
Cliff: Hey!
Okay, I'm Ready.
Daddy, When Are You And Denise Coming Back?
Sunday Night, Miss Goosey-Loosey.
While We're Gone You Have A Good Time
With Dr. And Mrs. Huxtable.
When We Get Back
We'll Tell You All About Our New House On The Navy Base.
Well, I'm On My Way To The Hospital.
All Right.
Can You Do That, Huh?
And You?
No, No Never Mind.
Navy, On The Way!
Hoist The Bilges!
We're Gonna Pull The Car Around.
Denise...
Huh?
Are You All Right?
Yeah, Yeah...
Um, Ma...
Do You Always Tell Dad When You, Uh...
...Make A Mistake?
Well, It Depends...
If It's Something Important...
Well, I Can't Say That I Tell Him Everything.
Okay, So What You're Saying Is, "Use Discretion."
Right.
What've You Done?
Well, Remember When I Got That Letter From The Navy
Telling Martin And I That We Got Housing On The Base?
Well Martin Was At Sea.
It Was My Responsibility
To Call And Confirm...
Denise, You Got That Letter A Month Ago, Honey.
Yeah, I Remembered Today That I Forgot To Call.
You're Driving Today
When Are You Planning To Tell Him?
In The Car.
Good Lord.
It's Okay, Mom.
We'll Go Right To The Housing Office
I'll Explain My Mistake
It'll All Work Out.
You Must Tell Martin Before You Leave.
You Just Said To Use Discretion.
Use Discretion About "Honey, I Lost Your Umbrella."
Not, "Honey, We Drove To Rhode Island
But We Haven't Got A House."
Ready To Go.
Yeah, Denise, You're Shipping Out.
We Better Hurry, I'm Double Parked.
Honey, I Want To Tell You Something.
What?
I Lost Your Umbrella.
Olivia, What's The Matter?
I Miss My Daddy And Denise.
Want To Go Shopping?
Let's Go To The Toy Store.
I Need Leotards From The Clothing Store First.
I Need School Supplies So That's Next.
But I Want To Look At Toys.
Olivia, You Must Understand Shopping Rules.
What Rules?
You Have To Do What We Want.
Because We're Your Aunts.
You're Not My Aunts.
Aunts Are Old.
You Can't Boss Me Around.
Hi Dad.
You Look Beat.
I Am.
I've Delivered The Same Baby Five Times.
Well, You'll Have Peace And Quiet.
Mom's At Grandma's
And We're Going Shopping.
Bless You.
Wait, Who's Gonna Keep Him Company?
He Likes Being Alone.
But He'll Be Lonely.
No, He Won't.
You Two Go Shopping.
I'll Stay Here.
Suit Yourself.
Hey!
No, Come Back Here, Take The Baby With You.
No, You'll Be All Alone And You'll Cry, I'm Staying.
Bye, Have Fun, Dad.
Well, What Do We Do Now?
We Nap.
But I'm Not Tired.
I Am.
You Need To Play A Game.
Daddy Bought This Before He Left.
Okay.
We'll Play The Game.
Play The Game, Play The Game...
All Right, I'll Read The Directions Here.
All Right, Find The Most Pairs Of Matching Cards.
Player Makes A Match
If The Two Cards Turned Picture Side Up
Are Identical.
When The Match Is Made
Player Takes Both Cards.
That Player Then Takes Another Turn
And Continues Taking Turns Until He Or She Misses.
Okay.
Let's Go.
Finished, I Win.
What's Next?
But I Didn't Get To Play.
You Have To Wake Up Early To Beat Me, Buddy.
I Tell You What We'll Play Next.
Look At Me, Look At Me.
Now!
We're Going To Play A Game Called A Silence.
This Is The Best Game Because It Requires Great Intelligence
Which I Know You Have.
And, There's No Talking.
The First Person Who Talks Or Makes A Noise Loses The Game
And It's Really Shameful If You Lose, Okay.
So When I Say Three We Zip The Lip
And Please Don't Be The Loser.
Okay.
Three.
Oh, No, Don't---
You Lose!
It's Unusual We'd Be Waiting To See
The Executive Officer.
Usually You Go To The Housing Office.
Martin, Maybe There's A Reason For That.
I Know What It Is.
Because I'm Out Of Annapolis
He Probably Wants To Give Us Special Treatment.
I Meant To Tell You This In The Car---
Good Afternoon, Lieutenant Kendall.
Captain Turvey.
Good Afternoon, Captain.
This Is My Wife, Denise.
Mrs. Kendall.
Captain.
Please, Be Seated.
Captain, We'd Like To Thank You
For Taking The Time Out To See Us Personally.
I Didn't Plan To.
In Fact, I'm Curious Why You Showed Up At All.
My Wife And I Came To See Our New House.
We're Moving Here In Two Weeks.
You Have No Housing On The Base.
Now Why Are You Here?
That Can't Be.
We Got Your Letter That We'd Received Housing.
Correct.
That Letter Also Stated You Were To Call
And Confirm That You Wanted It.
My Wife Did Call And Confirm, Right?
No, She Didn't.
That's What I Wanted To Talk To You About
In The Car.
You Didn't Call And Confirm The Housing?
I Told You That She Didn't.
Pardon Me, Sir, I'm Taken Completely Off Guard...
Denise, I Asked You!
You Promised!
I Know, I'm Sorry.
Would You Like Me To Leave You Two Alone?
No, Sir, We'll Finish This Later.
Captain, Please.
We've Come All The Way From New York.
Isn't There Anything Available?
There's Nothing.
You Have Nothing.
When You Don't Respond
You Don't Get Housing.
We Reassigned Your Quarters.
Captain, Is There Anything I Can Do To Rectify This?
Go Back On The Waiting List And You Wait.
Can You Give Us Any Indication Of How Long We'll Have To Wait?
Approximately Six Months.
And This Time When We Notify You, Respond!
Yes Sir, Thank You For Your Time, Sir.
Why Are You Giving Up?
Denise, I Think We Should Go.
Talk To Him, He's Reasonable.
Not Many People On The Base
Would Agree With You, Ma'am.
Sir, Couldn't You Do Something?
This Isn't Just For Me.
Martin Has A Daughter.
She's Four Years Old, My Step-Daughter.
We're All Living Together With My Family.
It's A Major Imposition.
Couldn't You Reconsider
And Find Us Someplace On The Base?
It Would Be A Shame Because Of My Stupid Mistake
My Husband Had To Give Up His Dream.
Mrs. Kendall...
I Commend You On Your Heartfelt Words.
Lieutenant...
You've Chosen
A Sensitive And Intelligent Woman As Your Wife.
Thank You, Sir.
So Are We On Base?
No.
And This Is...
My Office.
What Do You Do?
I'm A Doctor For Women.
What Do You Do
With Them?
I Deliver Their Babies.
Deliver?
When The Woman Has The Baby Inside Of Her
Then I Go In And I Take It Out.
No, You Don't.
Everybody Knows That The Stork Brings The Baby.
Who Told You That?
My Daddy.
Okay.
Well, The Stork Puts The Baby
Inside Of The Mother...
And Then I Go In And I Take It Out.
Nuh-Uh, The Stork Brings The Baby To The Hospital
Drops It In The Bassinet.
So You Say The Baby Is Not Inside The Mommy?
Then Why Is It That The Mother Gets Real Big?
Because She Eats A Lot Of Food.
Let Me Get This Straight.
You Say That The Stork Carries Over
Puts The Baby In The Bassinet
And The Mother Is Big Because She Eats A Lot.
You Got It.
I See.
Then Why Is It That The Mother Has To Go To The Hospital?
The Stork Brings The Baby To The Hospital
Drops The Baby In The Bassinet
The Mommy Goes To The Hospital
And Gets It.
If The Stork Does All That
Why Doesn't The Stork Just Bring It To The Mommy's House?
Because It's Too Far, His Wings Would Get Tired.
Where Does The Stork
Get The Babies From?
Heaven.
Okay.
There's A Zillion-Skillion Babies
In Heaven.
How Does The Stork Know
What Baby Goes Where...
What Mother?
They're All In A Line.
You Know Like You Go To The Bakery And Get A Number?
Why, When I Put My Hand
On The Mother
I Could Feel Things Moving All Around?
That's Not A Baby.
What Is It?
Gas.
Thank You For Explaining It To Me.
You're Welcome, But You Still Didn't Tell Me What You Do?
I'm In Charge Of Gas.
Come On, Martin, You Haven't
Said A Thing To Me Since We Left The Captain's Office.
You're Going To Have To Say Something.
We're Spending An Entire Weekend Together At That Inn.
Say Something.
Anything.
How...
In The Name
Of All That Is Reasonable On This Earth
Could You Have Forgotten To Make That Phone Call?
I Told You Before I Left.
We Would A Receive A Letter
And You Had To Respond Right Away.
I Couldn't Be Reached On Board That Ship.
Just One Task.
Just Pick Up A Phone.
Dial A Number.
Say, "Yes, We Want The Housing."
Can You Do That?
Our Whole Future Just Tossed Overboard
And I'm Just Supposed To Sit Here And Accept It.
Don't You Have Anything To Say For Yourself?
This Is Our First Fight.
No, No.
A Fight Is When Two People Express Opposing Points Of View.
You Have No Point Of View.
Okay!
I'm Sorry This Whole Thing Happened.
But We're Gonna Have To Get Past This.
We Can't Move On.
We Have No Place To Move To.
I Know.
You Know, Denise, Just This Morning
I Was Talking To Your Father
Telling Him We Were Getting Ready To Move
And He Seemed So Relieved.
This Look Of Peace Came Over His Face.
Now I Have To Go Back And Tell That Man
"Dr. Huxtable, Six More Months."
So Let's Not Go Back To My Parent's House.
Let's Go To Your Parent's House.
We Can't.
Why Not?
I Never Told You This Before, But...
My Mother Can't Stand You.
She Thinks You're Just As Flaky As My Ex-Wife.
Where Would She Get That Idea?
Hard To Believe, Isn't It?
Oh, Man.
I Am Bushed.
Nine Hours Of Driving In One Day.
I'm Sorry, Baby.
Let's Just Go To Bed.
Tomorrow Is A New Day.
Whoa!
How's The House?
Got A View Of The Harbor?
Well, Dad, This Is The Worst Thing That Could Have Happened
But I Completely--
It's My Fault.
What, Martin?
Denise, Honey, I'm Trying To Tell Them What Happened.
The Navy Contacted Me On The Ship
And Told Me I Had To Confirm The Housing By A Certain Date
And I Just Forgot.
So Then, You Don't Have A Home.
No, Sir.
You Going To Have To Stay Back Here.
Well, If That's All Right With You...
Dad.
How Long Is This Going To Last?
The Executive Officer Thinks It Will Be
About Six Months.
Dr. Huxtable
I Insist On Paying You Full Rent.
No, I Don't Want Your Money.
Please, I Insist On Paying Rent.
No, I Can't Take It.
Well, I Tried.
I'm Bushed.
Once Again, I'm Very Sorry.
I've Got To Get To Bed.
I'm Getting Something To Drink.
Want Something?
Good-Night, Martin.
Good-Night.
That Was A Pretty Interesting Story Your Husband Told Us.
I Can't Believe He Took All The Blame.
I'd Say He Loves You Very Much.
After You And Martin Left This Afternoon
I Thought Back To Those First Days After Sondra Was Born.
Your Father Was In Pre-Med, Wasn't Home
So My Mother Moved In
To Help Me Take Care Of Sondra.
It Was A Good Thing She Did
Because I Really
Didn't Know A Lot About Babies.
The Day Before My Mother Left, I Started Getting Very Uneasy.
Your Father Was Going To Be At School.
I Was Going To Be Left Alone With A Tiny Life In My Hands.
What Did You Do?
Pretended To Get Sick.
So My Mother Had To Stay For A Couple Of Days.
Are You Suggesting
I Didn't Call Because I Didn't Want To Leave With Olivia.
Don't Be Silly, Of Course Not.
But If You Can Get Anything At All From My Story
Be My Guest.
I Just Made A Simple Mistake, That's All.
(Sighing)
All Right, Girl, That's Enough.
You're Not Getting The Message.
How Dense Can You Be?
You Are A Married Woman With A Child
And You Are Afraid To Leave.
My Husband, Your Father Thinks You're Never Going.
I Know.
Mom, New People, Strange People
No Friends, No Family...
Navy Life, Me?
I Know, Honey.
But You Can't Stay.
You Gotta Go.
Well...
Can I Ask You Something Very Important?
Sure.
Know How To Get To Rhode Island?
Yeah, But I'm Not Stationed In Rhode Island.
My Family's Stationed Here In Brooklyn.
I Understand.
But If You Call Me...
I'll Be There.