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LOWREY:

(shaking his head)

Oh man...

He tears open the bottle of aspirin. Chug-a-lugs.

36 INT. BURNETT HOUSE - BEDROOM - MORNING 36

Burnett and his young wife, THERESA, are jarred awake bythe CLOCK RADIO BLARING on the night stand. Theresa

gropes for RADIO, shuts it OFF. Burnett playfully gropesfor her.

THERESA:

Marcus, what are you doing?

BURNETT:

We're always saying we should

spend more quality time together.

Well, I got the time... and you

got the quality...

She laughs. He kisses her.

BURNETT:

I can remember when we used to

do it every morning.

THERESA:

That was how we got a three

bedroom house filled with little

Burnetts.

She crawls from bed.

BURNETT:

Been over a week since I've had

some quality time!

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37 INT. BURNETT'S KITCHEN - MORNING 37

Pandemonium. There's the two-and-a-half-year-old,

MEGAN, who's taking bites of food and spitting it backout, looking at it, then putting it back in. Six-yearold

JILL, who is playing refrigerator magnet games on thefridge. And Marcus in the middle of it all, deftly sidestepping

his eight-year-old boy, QUINCY, who appears onroller blades whizzing through with a hockey stick andball. He body-checks Jill against the ice box.

JILL:

Mom, Quincy pushed me.

QUINCY:

Uncle Mike showed me that move.

THERESA:

Quincy, never-you-mind. And take

those things off in the house!

Jill, stop with the book and eatyour breakfast.

(then, exasperated)

Marcus, why do I always have todiscipline the kids? You playbad cop for a second.

Alongside the kitchen screen door we see Lowrey's PORSCHEROAR to a stop in the driveway.

BURNETT:

Kids, knock it off... or yourmomma's gonna whoop your butts!

Theresa laughs in spite of herself as the kids continueto fight. Into this craziness enters Mike Lowrey...

LOWREY:

Ah, family life. Reminds me

why I stay single.

JILL & QUINCY

Uncle Mike! Uncle Mike!

LOWREY:

Hiya, kids. Mornin', Theresa.

Lowrey pecks Theresa on the cheek. She recoils.

THERESA:

Don't kiss me, Lowrey. I don't

know where those lips were lastnight.

(CONTINUED)

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QUINCY:

Tell us some stories, Uncle Mike.

You know, the one about the

stewardess?

THERESA:

Don't go tellin' my son aboutyour sleazy sex life?

LOWREY:

I promise, Theresa. I only tellyour husband about my sleazysex life.

The TELEPHONE RINGS.

THERESA:

I don't want him knowing about iteither! Gives him ideas.

(answers the phone)

Hello? Oh, sure. Which one of

them do you want?

Lowrey accepts the phone from Theresa and talks.

LOWREY:

You're live with Lowrey.

(listens for along beat)

'Scuse me, Captain. I think youmean to say, 'Get the f*** downhere, please?'

Burnett automatically pulls on his jacket, hugs thechildren as Lowrey hangs up.

THERESA:

Not so fast. You were going totake the kids to school today,

remember, hon? I have a jobinterview...

Lowrey rolls his eyes.

38 EXT. BURNETT'S HOUSE - MORNING 38

Burnett's following Lowrey and the kids out his frontdoor when his neighbor, DICK, accosts him from acrossthe hedge.

(CONTINUED)

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