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Well, it's good to see everyone's adapting to their new business roles.
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Brian, I like your successories.
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I will.
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I will go get it.
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Mr. Quagmire, the Davidson account is waiting for you in the conference room.
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All right, thanks, Marlene.
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Tell him I'll be right in.
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All right, Glenn, time to go make millions.
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what happened to you man i grew up
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that's what happened what happened to the free loving quagmire was banging ten chicks at a time i still do
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that oh good yep can i have some money oh get out of here
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you bum yeah all right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he's all right daddy you're awake oh carter I'm so relieved.
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What happened?
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Where am I?
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Oh, you had a heart attack, Daddy.
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But you're all right now.
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Yeah, he cool.
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What the hell is that?
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Oh, it's an African -American heart monitor made by your company.
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What?
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Yes, it has two settings.
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Barry White and Bill Cosby.
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Beep, beep, boop, beep.
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My company makes no such thing.
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Well, you see, Daddy, when you were in a coma, Peter stepped in and took charge of Pewdishment Industries.
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Well, you made it, Peter.
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You're a big shot, in charge of a whole bunch of people.
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Peggy, hold my calls for a few minutes, please.
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Yes, Mr. Griffin.
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Well, buddy, you're in love with Peggy.
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What a mess.
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Griffin, get the hell out of my building!
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Holy crap, Mr. Pewdishment, you're okay!
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You're damn right I'm okay, and I'm here to re -assume charge of my company.
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Maybe I don't want to leave.
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Maybe I like being a fat cat.
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What are you saying?
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I'm saying it's my company now, and it's better than it ever was when you were running it.
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Security, we have a situation in the conference room.
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I'll give you a situation, you fat turd!
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Gentlemen, please remove this man from the building.
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What the?
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I'm Carter Pewterschmidt.
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This is my company.
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Throw that guy out!
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Sorry, Mr. Pewterschmidt, but we work for Mr. Griffin now.
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You can't do this to me!
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Do you know who I am?
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I'm Carter Pewterschmidt!
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I'm not getting in that elevator don't you dare throw me out of this lobby.
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Don't you damn it.
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Hey, what are you doing out here?
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I can't get in the building.
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Uh, Peggy?
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Yes, Mr. Griffin?
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That fart I have at three.
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Can you push that up to now?
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Very good, sir.
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Lois, how could you let your idiot husband take over my company?
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He fired all my staff, his stupid ideas are bankrupting pewter Schmidt Industries, and now he won't step down.
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I know, Daddy.
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He's become so full of himself.
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He's more annoying than when he's making his Christmas list.
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Now, Peter, are you sure this is all you want for Christmas?
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I'm only going to the mall once.
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Yeah, yeah, that's it.
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All new this Christmas, remote control cars that glow in the dark?
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Get that!
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I've run that company for 40 years.
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He even froze my corporate bank accounts.
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I'm broke.
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Oh, that's ridiculous.
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I'll talk to him as soon as he gets home.
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What the hell is that?
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Damn it, Peter!
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Your plane set my lawn on fire!
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Yeah, that ought to cover it.
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Peter, I don't want your money!
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Well, fine, then.
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Have a box of Jeremy Irons cereal.
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If you're looking for a prize at the bottom, there is none.
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Only more cardboard.
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Peter, this has gone on long enough.
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I want you to make things right with Daddy.
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It's his company.
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It's my company.
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It's your company.
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Three's company, where the kisses are hers and hers and his.
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What?
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I'm sorry, Lois.
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We all had some pot brownies on the plane.
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Hey, Peter, you seeing this rabbit?
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No. Well, I sure am.
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You know something?
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You're not qualified to sit in that chair.
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Oh, aren't I?
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Maybe there's a rabbit head under here.
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Peter, all of my father's assets are tied up in that corporation.
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If you freeze up his money, he's not going to have anything to live on.
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Now you are going to make amends with Daddy, and that's final.
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All right, Lois, if that's what you want.
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Mr. Pewterschmidt, be in my office tomorrow morning at 9.
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I'm sure we can figure something out hmm I don't know
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if I like the sound of that laugh I knew I didn't like the sound of that laugh
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Peter this is unacceptable what gives
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you the right to treat me like this you've been treating me like crap for 20 years mr. Pewterschmidt
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and now I'm the one in charge hang on a second
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Clean that up!
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Carter, as your boss, I command you to have a viewing party for tonight's episode of the Big Bang Theory.
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And you have to go cubicle to cubicle inviting people.
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Oh, come on, Peter.
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I'm not good with rejection.
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I'm your boss.
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Now do it!
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Hi, I was going to catch the Big Bang Theory tonight and wondered if you wanted to come over and watch.
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What?
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What?
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What is that?
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It's a comedy.
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It's on CBS.
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I'm really into it.
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I don't want to watch that.
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I don't want to watch it with you.
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All right, if you change your mind, here's a flyer.
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If you do decide to come, I'm just asking that you bring an appetizer.
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Yeah, I'm not going to do that.
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See, Peter, I told you, no one wants to come.
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This is awful.
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You're not off the hook.
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You still got to have that party.
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Babs, you want to sit and watch?
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No. I'll have you know that I can bench press over 690 billion nanograms.
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Sheldon, that's less than two pounds.
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Sounded better the way I said it.
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Ha ha ha!
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Oh!
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Oh, when I tell that joke at work tomorrow, people, people, people are going to be sorry they didn't come.
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They're going to, this, this, this was, this, this was a good night.
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Carter, as your boss, I'm ordering you to pay a compliment to this sharply dressed Asian man.
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You look very nice.
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What else?
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Uh...
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What about my shoe?
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They're nice, too.
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How do you think my house smells?
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Not onion -y.
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You good, man.
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I pat you on the head and feed you from the hand.
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And then he made me clean out the fridge in the employee lounge,
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and the employees were mad at me because I threw out food that they still wanted.
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I don't know what's in there.
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Oh, that's it.
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Peter is completely out of control.
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We've got to do something to take him down and get your company back.
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Right, right, but how?
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In order to oust an idiot, we've got to think like an idiot.
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Let's see.
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What's Peter's weakness?
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He's got to have a weakness.
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Swamp monsters.
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Swamp monsters, of course.
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Lois, what are you doing here?
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Oh, I just wanted to make sure everything was okay.
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Of course it's okay.
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Why wouldn't it be?
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Oh, you know, that whole swamp monster story.
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Swamp monster?
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You haven't heard?
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Heard what?
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Oh, I'm sure it's nothing.
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It's just apparently somebody flushed a baby swamp monster down the toilet somewhere not far from here.
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What?
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Who would flush a baby swamp monster?
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Don't they know what would happen?
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Well, apparently it has happened.
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And now it's grown up and is attacking important businessmen.
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I'm an important businessman.
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What the hell was that?
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It sounds like maybe a swamp monster who needs to project a little more.
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Whoa, whoa.
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Whoa, whoa.
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Crap, whoa, whoa.
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Ah, swamp monster.
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Whoa, whoa.
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Quick, Peter, sign this legal document giving the company back to Daddy so you won't get eaten.
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I don't understand, but nothing makes sense in these swamp monster times.
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Ah.
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We did it, Daddy.
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I have my husband back and you have your company.
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Sorry, I'm late, Lois.
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OK, we doing the swamp monster thing?
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Wait, if you're Danny, then who?
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Now, let's find out who you really are.
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Dr. House?
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Indeed, Lois.
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And if you don't mind, I'll address you in my natural speaking voice, as I've grown so weary of doing an American accent.
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Do you want to come to my Big Bang viewing party next week?
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Daddy, you don't have to do that anymore.
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I know, I know.
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I like it now.
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Well, I'm sorry you lost the company, Peter, but I think it's for the best.
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You were turning into a real jerk.
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Well, maybe so.
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But I sure am going to miss being a corporate big shot.
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Well, you'll always be a big shot in this family, sweetheart.
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Thanks, honey.
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And I got a little surprise for you.
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In that contract you signed, you got to keep the corporate plain.
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Yeah!
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Peter, how are you doing that?
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I don't know, Lois.
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I'm scared.
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Come down.
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I can't.
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Get help.
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Call somebody.
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Who do I call?
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I don't know.
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A police, a fireman, a scientist.
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Call a scientist.
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Okay, you can stay here with your father.
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I'm going to go find a scientist.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Peter owns a private airplane”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Peter, swamp, monster, daddy, Lois. Questo video contiene 313 frasi e 1637 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 9:50. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 166 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 75% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
swamp sostantivo/ˈswɑmp/palude
daddy sostantivo/ˈdædi/babbo, papà
scientist sostantivo/ˈsaɪəntəst/scienziato, scienziata
weakness sostantivo/ˈwik.nɪs/debolezza, cagionevolezza
freeze verbo/ˈfɹiːz/gelare, ghiacciare
rabbit sostantivo/ˈɹæbɪt/coniglio
businessman sostantivo/ˈbɪznəsmæn/uomo d'affari, affarista
flush verbo/ˈflʌʃ/irrorare
awful aggettivo/ˈɔːfʊl/pessimo, terribile
ridiculous aggettivo/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ridicolo
plain sostantivo/pleɪn/pianura
remote aggettivo/ɹəˈməʊt̞/remoto
buddy/ˈbʌdi/amico, compagno
bench sostantivo/ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/banco, panca
honey sostantivo/ˈhʌni/miele

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
grow up verbocrescere
find out verboscoprire
step down verboritirarsi, dimettersi
take over verbousurpare
throw out verbo/ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/buttare via, rigettare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Do you know who I am?
  • Hey, what are you doing out here?
  • Can you push that up to now?
  • Babs, you want to sit and watch?
  • How do you think my house smells?

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoI've run · has gone · haven't heard
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowas banging · were running · were turning
Comparativi -er than / more … than — confrontare due cosebetter than · more annoying than
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodois waiting · are you saying · I'm saying

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 71 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: flush /ˈflʌʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, sharply /ˈʃɑɹpli/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/, appetizer /ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: honey /ˈhʌni/, hook /hʊk/, sweetheart /ˈswiːtˌhɑːt/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: swamp /ˈswɑmp/, scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/, weakness /ˈwik.nɪs/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, rabbit /ˈɹæbɪt/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: daddy /ˈdædi/, rabbit /ˈɹæbɪt/, businessman /ˈbɪznəsmæn/, bang /ˈbæŋ/, asset /ˈæsɛt/

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  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come swamp, daddy, scientist.

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