The Substitute Son

[Comes in the lving room with Mother Winslow as Eddie is taking his frustrations out on his sack of dirty laundry because Carl has just taken Waldo to the Chicago Bulls game instead of him]

Harriette: That won't get the stains out.

Estelle 'Mother' Winslow: Yeah, you have to use bleach.

Eddie: I don't believe what just happened. Dad took Waldo to the Bulls game.

Estelle 'Mother' Winslow: Oh honey, I hope they don't cheer too hard. I got fifty bucks on the Knicks.

Eddie: No, Grandma. Dad took Waldo instead of me. Can you believe that?

Harriette: [unsympathetic] Yes! Eddie, your father left you three messages for you and you never called him back.

Eddie: It's not fair.

Harriette: [still unsympathetic towards Eddie's selfishess] Fair? Was it fair that you stood your father up for bowling? And what about the car show last Saturday? Your father waited at the Box Office for an hour.

[Eddie has just realized his mistake in standing up his father for the chance to go out on his date with a girl that he likes]

Eddie: Oh no, I forgot all about the car show.

Estelle 'Mother' Winslow: [sympathetically] Eddie, Carl was just about your age when he lost his dad.

Eddie: Really?

Estelle 'Mother' Winslow: Carl and his father planned on doing a lot of things together, but they never got the chance. You never know how much time you'll have together, so you have to make every minute count.

[Eddie agrees as Mother Winslow and Harriette walks out of the living room]