Maggie: The senator offered me a job!
Jason: What?
Maggie: Executive director of Media Relations.
Maggie: We are thinking about moving to a wonderful place called Washington DC.
Chrissy: The murder capital of the USA?
Ben: You guys can go on ahead to Washington, but I'm not going.
Maggie: Ok everyone I have made my decision, I am taking the job in Washington.
Jason: You are?
Ban: And I'm getting a car!
Jason: You are?
Kate: Hi, I rushed over as fast as I could.
Mike: I am going to get right to the point, Kate let's do it.
Kate: Pardon me?
Mike: Let's get married.
Kate: Mike I have waited so long to hear you say that, I am so happy!
Mike: Oh, great then it's settled.
Kate: Oh this is so unexpected.
Mike: Well Kate, with my patents selling the house and moving to Washington DC.
Kate: Your parents are moving to Washington?
Mike: I mean I have got to start thinking about my future. I mean our future, dearest. I mean let's face it Kate it is going to be though.
Kate: Oh I know but we can do it. We might have to scrimp and save….
Mike: I am so glad your up for this; I was actually thinking that I was going to have to find myself a new apartment.
Kate: Oh really?
Mike: Oh yeah, but now we can stay at your place.
Kate: My place?
Mike: Oh then we agree! I was worried there for a second, I mean let's face it my mom is not going to be around to do my cooking and cleaning any more.
Kate: Poor baby. But if we were married than I could do those things.
Mike: Exactly!
Kate: I could keep the refrigerator full and I could help pay those bills.
Mike: Ah, Kate your reading my mind.
Kate: You could have your friends over and I could wait on them hand and foot.
Mike: We are so in sync, this is the perfect time for us to be together.
Kate: Mike you are amazing.
Mike: Oh well thank you but I did have a whole night to work this out.
Kate: Mike Seaver, I've got three little words for you.
Mike: I love you?
Kate: Get a dog.
Chrissy: Ben you've got to help me, Mr. Blowhole doesn't want to move.
Ben: Ok, now why won't he go to Washington?
Chrissy: He is afraid that he won't have any friends to play with.
Ben: Well, does he know that I'm going to be there and so will mom and dad?
Chrissy: I'm talking friends here Ben, you know his kind.
Ben: Oh, well, maybe he will listen to this big butt thing here.
Chrissy: That's Bertha Big Jeans.
Ben: Man, she needs to cut back on the honey.
Chrissy: You don't know a lot, all the animals talk behind your back.
Ben: Hi there Mr. Blowhole.
Chrissy: Oh, Ben one thing, Mr. Blowhole is good friends with Papa Pig.
Ben: Ok. Now see here Blowhole, you have to move with the family.
Chrissy: Mr. Blowhole says he was born in this house and it is the only place he ever lived.
Ben: Well Washington DC is nice place to live.
Chrissy: Ben he is scared.
Ben: Don't be scared Mr. Blowhole, we are your family and when a family goes somewhere they have nothing to be afraid of. Yeah, yeah.
Chrissy: What? Mr. Blowhole says he will go.
Ben: Yeah!
Chrissy: And Mr. Blowhole wants to give you the biggest kiss of all.
Ben: Oh, that's all right.
Chrissy: Come on, kiss Mr. Blowhole.
Ben: Ok, come here Blowhole. Pucker up.
Mike: Hey dad, I think it's time we have a guy to guy talk.
Jason: Yeah well that would be nice Mike but I am a little busy right now.
Mike: Oh well that's up to you dad, but can you afford to put your future on hold?
Jason: Oh my God, you got a job selling life insurance.
Mike: No dad, it's just that, did you know moving can be one of life's most stressful experiences. I mean its right up there with losing a loved one and listening to Ben eat.
Jason: Ok Mike, what's this all about?
Mike: The truth?
Jason: Well yeah, after twenty years, that would be a refreshing change.
Mike: Ok dad, the truth is, that with you and mom moving to Washington, I don't know what is going to happen to me.
Jason: I didn't know you felt that way.
Mike: Yeah well neither did I until I found myself proposing to Kate.
Jason: You proposed Mike? Hey congratulations…
Mike: She turned me down. I guess the woman is allergic to cooking and cleaning.
Jason: You mentioned cooking and cleaning in a proposal?
Mike: That's not the only thing I said dad, I mean I also covered love and rent.
Jason: Well you can't get married out of convenience.
Mike: Why not?
Jason: Because marriage is not about convenience Mike, it's about compromise. Look at me, I m moving my practice to Washington.
Mike: You are moving all your nut-cases to Washington?
Jason: No there are plenty of nut-cases in Washington, and they are not nut-cases Mike. Oh hey, it's just that when I heard about the move, I said forget it. But the thing about a relationship is that sometimes you have to consider another person's needs before your own, put yours on hold.
Mike: Dad, that's exactly what I ask Kate to do and she said no.
Jason: What I meant was maybe you could put Kate's needs first. But don't let us moving to Washington throw you into a panic Mike. You're going to be able to fend for yourself. You have grown up.
Mike: I have?
Jason: Oh yeah, you are ready for responsibility now, total re…
Jason: Ok look, here is the deal. I will give you a little more freedom; you've got to promise me a lot more responsibility.
Mike: Hey, no problem dad, I swear, I am ready for total responsibility.
Jason: Mike, I'm not ready for total responsibility.
Jason: Some responsibility.
Mike: I hear you dad, I am going to take responsibility for my life. And I am going to start be apologizing to Kate. I just wish I knew the right way to do it.
Jason: Well if you don't mind me saying so, I think the best way to a women's heart is sincerity. And if that's not working try a little gift.
Mike: Candy gram.
Kate: Mike is that you?
Mike: No, it is a hundred and fifty pound Bon-Bon. Unwrap me.
Kate: Pass.
Mike: Well then at least read the card.
Kate: I heard everything you had to say this morning.
Mike: Kate, come on, it's hot in here. I blacked out twice already. For you.
Kate: Thank you.
Mike: I had candles going, but I singed my hair.
Kate: I've got something on the stove, excuse me.
Mike: Kate, look I am sorry about this morning. Kate, it's just that with my folks moving to Washington I went temporarily insane. Asking you to marry me was just a knee jerk reaction.
Kate: You got it half right.
Mike: Kate what I am trying to say is I am selfish and immature and thoughtless and rude and spoiled and….stop me any time here.
Kate: I will when I disagree.
Mike: Kate, I am asking you to marry me.
Kate: Again?
Mike: Yes, when the time is right.
Kate: Huh?
Mike: Well first, I want to finish school and start a career, so that I can give you the life that you deserve. So will you marry me, someday?
Kate: Maybe, ask me someday.
Mike: Hey, be careful you going to crush my packing peanuts.
Mike: Hey Carol, Carol what are you doing?
Carol: Just looking, thinking; seems so weird to think soon I won't be welcome in this house.
Mike: Well, it seems like you should be use to that by now. Sorry, it's on auto pilot.
Carol: We haven't had the greatest relationship, have we?
Mike: Oh I don't know why you say that.
Mike: Hello. Hey! Aw! Hey, that hurt!
Carol: Hello. Oh, hi Bobby, lucky you caught me, I was just headed out the door.
Mike: Well, at least we won't be living under the same roof, at each other's throats all the time.
Carol: Yeah, I mean what a relief, after twenty-one years together we need a break.