What's Eating Gilbert Grape Page #3

- Good boy.

- Disappear like that.

- Good boy.

The food.

- Are we ready to talk about the party?

- Sure.

- I'm ready.

Ellen's in charge of decorations.

Get this... purple, orange and green.

- Sounds good.

- Theme colours, okay?

- That sounds pretty good.

- I'm doing the food, the cake.

Okay.

Arnie, I'm making something

very special for you.

- And Mama,

you can supervise everything.

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay with everybody?

- That's disgusting.

- Sounds good.

What about me?

You are the guest of honour.

How about that?

Gilbert, what about me?

My party! It's my party!

- What about me?

- You just show up, buddy.

That's your job.

- All you have to do is show up.

- You don't have to do anything.

All you have to do is turn 18.

- You know, that just leaves Gilbert.

- Huh?

You're the only one

without anything to do.

- Got any ideas?

- Sure he does.

- No, I don't. No, I don't.

- Yes, you do.

- I'm almost 16,

and I've got pages of ideas.

- Ellen...

She designed a whole cake,

and you haven't done anything.

- Stop it, Ellen. Can it.

- Can I be excused?

- He never does anything!

- No!

- Please, can't we just do

something as a family?

- This is no fair, Mom! l...

- Can I please be excused?

- It's my party!

- We're planning this as a family.

- It's my party though!

- Is that too much to ask?

So it's gonna be an exact copy of the

one... the original they built in Boone.

- Really?

- Which is no big deal, Gilbert...

'cause they're all...

all Burger Barns are built identical.

They're prefabricated.

They just ship 'em out.

I mean, it's so efficient.

It's amazing.

In a matter of a couple days...

there can be

a whole new restaurant there.

So I was driving past

the building site today.

- You know, it's goin' up right next to...

right down the road from Foodland.

- Right.

The general manager was there.

So I says...

"Can I fill out an application?"

He said, "You bet you can."

So I did, you know,

and it looks really good. I mean...

I might be wearin' one of them

uniforms, flippin' some burgers...

saltin' some fries.

You never know. It could be the

best thing that ever happened to me.

- Hey! Get...

- What's the matter?

Get out of here! God!

I saw her!

I saw her, I saw her!

- That wasn't nice.

- What? What did I do?

- You know what you did.

- Oh.

That's your mother in there.

- Your mother.

- I know.

I don't get you, man.

I just don't get it.

- Let's go, buddy.

- Okay.

Come on.

Run, now! Run!

- Hey! Bye-bye, Mama.

- Bye, you guys.

- Bye, you guys.

- Move, honey.

- Gilbert, you're shrinking.

Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!

I'm not tired yet, Gilbert.

Well, you gotta go to sleep, okay?

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