S8 E23
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Season 8  "Fight or Flight"  8x23

Aired 6 years ago - May 16, 2017

Having finally graduated college, Axl tells Frankie and Mike that he's planning on going to Europe over the summer with Kenny. Although Frankie thinks this is a great once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Mike is less than pleased and thinks his slacker son should be putting all of his summer efforts into finding a job. Meanwhile, Sue begins to panic after she barely scrapes a parked SUV and doesn't hear back from the owner after leaving several notes on the windshield, and Brick discovers that his sudden onset of backaches is due to not sitting in his lawn chair, which was replaced by a normal kitchen-table chair.

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Made you sit in?
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Coccyx.
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I backed up and I brushed into a car
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Possible, entirely possible.
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Yeah, well, I left a note, just in case.
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You almost lost me today. Ugh!
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and you know how Kenny doesn't like to talk,
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We're just gonna buy a train ticket
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Dad, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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all that European stuff,
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the day after I finished college?
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Yeah, I-I-I-I'm just, you know,
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No, I still want him to get a job,
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and we had this two-week window where we just watched TV?
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You're a straight arrow.
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We're swashbucklers.
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Eh, well, the sooner he finds that out,
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Boo, Europe.
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So what'd you do with the bras?
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No one called my cell, either.
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What is wrong with you?
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Of course I'm going! It's Europe!
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those are my two dreams.
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Who's paying for your other expenses?
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"Underpants" popped into my head again.
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but I'm doing the real thing.
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You're just jealous 'cause you don't get to go.
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I've got long hair that hangs over my eyes.
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I left a note several days ago.
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I'll come visit.
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You want this Pillow Pet?
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Oh, my gosh!
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Respect the piles.
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No, I thought about what Dad was saying,
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You have the rest of your life to sell tie clips,
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Wait, is that stuff clean or dirty?
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Okay, this is written as a fictional conversation
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And the caves... nobody wanted to do that, and all these years,
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so I'm fine smuggling in crappy snacks.
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You can talk now.
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And that's it.
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Oh.
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Their phone numbers are all weird.
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Oh, my gosh, I'm so happy you're alive.
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