MY HOMETOWN: UNCLE'S BIRTHDAY (EPISODE 07)
Thomas and Sinchuk take the game in overtime,
Ladies and Gentlemen! Ooh... this is the biggest
game in the history of hockey and there will
never be another game like this in the entire world!
Another one?
Yeah.
Okay superstars, I need a word with you.
It's your UNCLE GEORGE's birthday...
I was thinking of having a surprise party for him.
Uncle Georges? Where's he been anyway?
Aw... mom do we have to?
Birthday parties are...
there just so boring.
Mom!
You've got to try Dad's new invention.
It's so cool!
It's a micro-radio.
Mom, you put these on your ears.
Charles, I've been talking with the boys;
we need to discuss something...
Mom, put these on your ears.
It's your brother's birthday,
a week Sunday...
and I thought it would be nice to
have a surprise party for him.
Are you sure this is the right time?
It's the perfect time and he will
come because you will get him.
And you guys will all help right?
Right.
Not if dad doesn't fix the dishwasher we won't.
(laughs)
CREDITS OVER... OPENING SONG
♪ There's a place that I can keep in my heart
♪ Full of people I can count on
♪ Wherever I go I keep their light in my life ♪
And everytime I watch the sun go down
♪ I think about the dreams I have found
♪In MY HOMETOWN♪
♪ Uh... Susan Devine likes me,
Susan Devine doesn't like me.
No, no, no.
I don't know Simon
Okay, get ready for the surprise of your life.
Look at these...
against the glass,
beside the bench.
Hey, what's all the excitement in here?
Look at this.
Oh...a ticket for the game.
Ah... it's for Sunday the 17th,
the same day as your Uncle George's party.
I'm sorry Thomas .
Mom, you can't mean this?
We're talking about a Canadians hockey game.
The seats are against the glass.
People die for tickets like this.
I'm sorry Thomas.
You're an important part of this family
and we're having a birthday party.
You'd make me miss a Canadians hockey game
for a stupid birthday party!
I haven't even seen Uncle George since... forever!
Is he even alive?
He did not come to my birthday party!
What...
That is enough, you're coming to the party!
It just isn't fair
I don't know what you're complaining about..
I'd love to go to a party with my aunts and uncles.
That's 'cause you live so far away...
you never see any of them.
It's not the same.
But I thought your uncle was a great guy...
didn't you always used to hang out with him?
Yeah, but that was ages ago
when we we were kids.
I'll never get a chance like this...
never.
Yeah, too bad.
I better take that ticket back.
No, no wait...wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...
I'll figure something out.
Do you love me...
and understand me? ..
Oh yes.
...And want to make me happy?
Hmm.
Then you know...
for me,
hockey is like...
a religious experience.
Like you, visiting the Pope.
The answer is no, Thomas.
Maybe we could change the date?
No!
Guess not!
Mom, there must be something I can do?
Well, you can get those birthday invitations out.
Wow, these are really good.
Except maybe this one.
I can dream can't I?
♪♪
Just tell him how you feel about him...
you wrote poems before.
Yeah but Lisa, I haven't seen him in a year..
he's not exactly in my best books.
He picked the worst day of the entire year to
have his lousy birthday.
♪♪
Hey Thomas... how about saying happy
birthday in five or six different languages.
That's a great idea.
( says happy birthday in Philippino)
Bucky, how do you say it in Mohawk?
( says happy birthday in Mohawk)
And there's French...
''Bonne Fête à vous.''
Uh... thanks but no thanks guys...
I'll figure something out.
I thought it was a good idea.
Thomas, if you're having problems
maybe it would help to remember that your uncle is
your father's brother.
That ... somehow
doesn't inspire me.
♪ ♪
(horse' sound)
♪♪
(horse' sound)
Whoa...howdy Thomas.
Hi Jock, Trooper.
Why so glum?
Well I'm a...
suppose to write something for my uncle's birthday party
like a poem or something.
Touchy, feely stuff,
huh.
It's funny about relationships you know.
Take Trooper and I...
you know why he's my best friend?
We don't have to talk to each other to
know what the other one's thinking.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like in the morning, Trooper knows which
side of bed I woke up on...
just by looking at me.
See you later pal...
come on. Ooh...
(horse agrees)
♪♪
Ouuu! A birthday party, how wonderful.
But where's that lad been?
..That gammy leg I bet.
He's been out of town.
He's been down?
Oh what a shame.
But where's he been?
I don't know.
Tobago...in the Caribbean?
He's been staying in the Caribbean?
At a castle in Cuba!
Boy, that sounds like fun.
Hey, did you ever hear how your
uncle won a gold metal?♪
When?
Well, when George was little...
he had Polio in his leg...
hobbled around on crutches.
But he used to like to come in here and
look at the picture books.
He especially liked one book called "Wings on Ice,
it's a book about hockey stars and ...well one day
your dad came in and saw him looking at that book.
Came over here and put five dollars on the counter and
said "Hold that book until George can walk in here and
pick it up himself."
Well you know what I did?
No.
I said... sure.
Well, later I saw George hanging
off of ropes and pulleys that your dad had put
up on your grandma's clothes line.
(voice fades out, Thomas doesn't really listen)
And he'd hobble all the way to the end and then hobble
back and back and forth, and back and forth.
Oh what a sight hmm.
♪♪
But dog on net , nine months later George
walked all the way from home to here
and picked up that book.
I don't know who had the, the widest grin,
him or your dad.
Well that's, that's the day that I figured
he won the gold metal.
That's wonderful.
Thomas, did you hear that?
YES, subliminal suggestion...
what an idea.
Thanks Mr. Hodge !
See ya Lisa!
♪♪
(interferences sounds)
♪ ♪
(clears his throat) ♪♪
Thomas must go to the game.♪
You must let Thomas go to the game.
♪(big chords)♪
You must let Thomas go to the game.
If- I- hear- game-
mentioned- one- more- time,
you will not live to see your 14th birthday.
Do you understand?
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
Thomas, I've got to get that ticket back.
The game is tomorrow.
Oh, this is so irritating.
I know that if my uncle had his say,
he wouldn't want me to miss a Canadians hockey game,
for a birthday party.
You don't worry about anything.
I got it all worked out.
I got a foolproof plan right up here.
Oh no, not another one.
You just pick me up at six-thirty.♪
Hey bud, you okay?
Yeah I'm fine.
Just fine.
Maybe you want to think twice about this.
About what?
You know.
Anyway just remember who gave you the hat.
What hat?
The one you just stuffed in your bag.
Hah...
Euh euh...
He he..
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
Oh, can I have one...
Please!
You have the whole bowl.
No, absolutely not.
You big meany.
I'm going to tell mom and dad on you.
Ha, ha!
♪ ♪
Hi Thomas!
Heh...heh, heh,
Tracy.
Aren't you supposed to be helping dad?
What's in the bag?
H-o-c-k-e-y stuff?
♪♪
Okay, okay.
Here's a whole bag.
Tracy please,
please!!!
Mom! Mom!
♪ ♪
(honk honk)
♪♪
THOMAS JOHN THOMPSON!
Don't you dare get in that car!
Ohh. Good try Thomas.
Told you he'd never make it.
Just uh...giving Simon back his um...so,
so lovely Montreal Canadians hockey ticket.
With full admission to the game.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Have a nice time at the game.
Bye guys.
I'll have a hot dog for you.
♪ ♪
(cheers and applaudes)
Hey, hey...hey...hey.
Happy birthday George!
Alright, alright,
alright...hold it, hold it down everybody,
hold it down everyone.
Listen, I want to take this
opportunity on behalf of everyone to welcome George
back from his long sojourn.
Uh, by all accounts from a castle
in Cuba.
(Everyone applauds)
♪♪
Oh... there she is!
You...
Oh... happy birthday
Thank you very much.
Hi Uncle George .
Hi Thomas.
Happy birthday.
Thank you
Um...I just got to go finish the cake.
So I'll catch you later.
Alright, that sounds great.
♪(more applauses)♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪♪ (more applause from outside)
♪♪
RADIO (hockey game) Canadians....Canadians he has
he takes the red line...
George, you may not remember this but
uh...I certainly do.
(Thomas tries to listen to the game)
One day while feeling quite sick and quite blue,
I uh...
RADIO He shoots he scores...alright!
(Mrs Kaplan catches the radio waves)
...sat all alone with um...
nothing to do.
(knock knock)
A knock on the door who can it be.
There were you with a basket of berries for me.
Whether the thought or the berries I never will know...
RADIO (hockey game) .... overtime... period....
....but following that I felt not so low.
pffrrr pfrrr pfrrr!!
(applaudes)
Uh...... Thomas uh, you're next!
Me?
Yes a poem.
It's your turn now.
Uh well...I uh...
don't really have a...
a poem.
He does I saw it.
It's in his pocket.
You have a better memory than I do.
My father's brother is having a birthday.
I hope it is jolly, happy and gay.
♪ ♪
(polite clapping)
That was lousy.
Can I go next?
Uh...sure honey, go ahead.
This is Whiskers, your cat.
What have we here? Tracy!
It's wonderful look at this.
I'll keep it forever.
Thank you.
(applaudes)
You know, its bad luck not to keep
♪ a candle for next year's cake. ♪
♪ ♪
Thomas, you haven't said two words to
your uncle all night.
Why don't you go over and give him a birthday hug.
Mom...
I'm 13!
You have to seize opportunities
before they pass you by.♪
♪♪
You know, you never know,
♪♪
this could be the last time you ever see your uncle.
For God's sake Bonnie!
Why did you have to tell him?
Tell me what?
Honey I...
What dad?
What are you talking about?
♪♪
Your uncle is going...
he's ill.
♪♪
What are you talking about?
Just after your grand-mother died...
he found out he was sick,
♪♪
very, very sick.
♪♪
That's almost a year.
♪♪
Why didn't anyone tell me?
Because he doesn't want anybody to know.♪
♪♪
♪ SONG ♪
♪ ♪
♪ There are words♪
♪ That will not come♪
♪ Nothing you can say♪
♪ Like a ship at sea♪
♪ That is tossed and thorn♪
♪ It might just, slept away.♪
♪There are secrets of the heart♪
♪ That seem so hard to share♪
♪ But seasons come♪
♪ And days pass by♪
♪ It changes ♪
♪ Everywhere.♪
You okay?
♪♪
A real shocker about Uncle Georges, eh.
I uh...
I found out yesterday.
♪♪
Is he...?
♪♪
Really gonna die?
♪♪
I don't know.
♪♪
I feel like such a jerk!
♪♪
Hi guys.
Hey.
Some weather we're having, huh.
Your dad and I used to come here when we were kids.
(TOGETHER) I know.
♪♪
Look I uh, best be heading back.
I told dad I'd help him clean up.
(loon sings)
How come no one told me? ♪
♪ Oh Thomas,
for a long time I couldn't tell anyone.
It was a mistake I know but...when I found out,
I felt like...
everything was collapsing inside of me.
I'm sorry.
Ah, don't be sad.
Here, let me show you something.
♪♪
You know Thomas, it is not that dismal.
People go into remission.
I've lasted over a year, apparently ♪
it's a good sign I've lasted this long.
♪♪
And you know something?
I feel it's one of the best things
that's ever happened to me in my life.
What?
Mm hmm... it woke me up.
See that candle there?
We all think it's going to keep on
burning until there is no more wick left...
that's not how it always happens. ♪♪
It could rain again. ♪♪
A gust of wind could blow it out. ♪♪
When you look at life like that,
it becomes very precious.
You want each day, each hour, ♪♪
to burn as bright as it can. ♪♪
And you want to grab those you love
and NEVER LET THEM GO!
And you want to make sure that they know that you love them.
♪ ♪
♪My father's brother was having a birthday,
I'd hoped it would be jolly, happy and gay.
But, I didn't know where to turn
or what to say,
when told another may not come his way. ♪♪
I'm told my father taught his brother to walk, ♪♪
And now my father's, brother has taught me to talk:
♪♪
That secrets can only stand in the way of love, ♪♪
That life is precious, like light on the wing of a dove. ♪♪
♪♪ And so to life and love, I dance and paint and sing,
And so to an uncle who lends so much to everything.
♪♪
♪ IN MY HOMETOWN ♪
♪♪ (music on credits)♪♪
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