the frank and fritzy show
EPISODE 2

In the middle of a chat about the physical and mental health of crime boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante, Fritzy gets distracted by an HBO promo for "The Woman in Red," a comedy starring the sexy actress/model Kelly Le Brock. But since Fritzy muffs the title, Frank thinks he's talking about the gal who set up gangster John Dillinger (Anna Sage, a/k/a "The Lady in Red"). But order is soon restored as the men compare notes on the prior night's installment of NBC's Mussolini mini-series. The guys give George C. Scott two thumbs up for his portrayal of Il Duce. (5:12)

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FRITZY: Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli
FRANK: Frank "Frankie California" Condo
UI: Unintelligible


FRANK: Four o'clock, I got in this morning. The rain, everything. This man is out in the rain. He's crazy. He looks like a, a dishrag. You know a dishrag?

FRITZY: I hear his blood count is still down, huh?

FRANK: All the way down. Yeah.

FRITZY: What the fuck is he, uh, what's he waiting for?

FRANK: What does that mean, Freddy? That's bad, huh?

FRITZY: That means he could be susceptible to any fuckin' disease that could infiltrate his body.

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: That's what it means. When your blood count is that bad, you're ready for any invasion.

FRANK: He went to the thing to take the calcium. He ran out, I think.

FRITZY: Whaddya mean?

FRANK: He got scared, he went out. 'Cause there was all cancer people there.

FRITZY: To get what calcium?

FRANK: To take the, they wanna take calcium out of his bones or something.

FRITZY: Yeah?

FRANK: They wanna take a little calcium test.

FRITZY: He went there, he saw all cancer people, he ran away?

FRANK: Yeah. He got scared.

FRITZY: I don't blame him.

FRANK: [UI] take the test.

FRITZY: Oh, fuck that. I don't blame him. I don't blame him. Fuck that. But I, I would straighten him out in 30 days. I swear to God, not for nothin'.

FRANK: You know what's killing him?

FRITZY: Huh?

FRANK: Stress.

FRITZY: C'mere. C'mere. Look.

FRANK: S-T-R-E-S-S. Stress.

FRITZY: Yeah. Yes, okay.

FRANK: [UI] a nutrition book. Stress'll break your whole...

FRITZY: C'mere. I gave him. C'mere. I gave him a bottle of, it's called, H, ILX B-12 Hematomic.

FRANK: Mmm.

FRITZY: Dom, the other guy, they brought the professor, another fuckin' doctor over there. No, one of the doctors, "No, it's no good." No good? I tell you what. I woulda give him three tablespoons...

FRANK: He's taking calcium with oyster shells.

FRITZY: I gave him that years ago, you remember that? What the fuck good is calcium with oyster shells?

FRANK: That's what he's taking.

FRITZY: That's bullshit. That's, that's good for the renal, for the kidneys, to build. If he's lacking calcium, uh, I gave him that. I got that here. I got it right here. I give it to him years ago.

FRANK: He's gotta go off the fuckin' rice diet.

FRITZY: You know what I went...

FRANK: [UI]

FRITZY: You hear what you said? Go off the rice diet.

FRANK: [UI]...don't eat the rice.

FRITZY: Go and fuckin' eat, go to, go to 30 fuckin' restaurants, all fuckin'. Barley soup. Go to the Greek over there, order barley soup everyday. Get this. Go every day. That's what he's got to do for 30 days. You said it. See what you said.

FRANK: He's eating that shit every day.

FRITZY: Eat a couple of fuckin' bolognas. Don't worry about it.

FRANK: Vegetables. He steams those vegetables, and everything is out of it.

FRITZY: Yeah, he shouldn't eat that, but, look, that's not the point. The point is that he saw his blood count is so low, he's got to build it up by eating.

FRANK: Listen to me what he done to himself. He went from 250 pounds down to 190 on a diet that he continued on it for five years.

FRITZY: I know.

FRANK: He never went off. He changed the whole chemistry of his body.

FRITZY: He certainly did.

FRANK: Then he went into the hospital, he took all these antibiotics.

FRITZY: That's what killed him.

FRANK: That broke him down altogether. Because he is not a well man. He is a very sick man. Mentally and everything.

FRITZY: Yeah, I know.

FRANK: Ya know he's gone off from the head too, you know.

FRITZY: I know. That's, that's, that's number one. But now...

FRANK: He's insane, you know.

FRITZY: What sane, oogatz, sane.

FRANK: He is nuts.

FRITZY: Yeah, I know that.

FRANK: He is a very sick man in the head.

FRITZY: I know.

FRANK: He thinks everybody's crazy around him.

FRITZY: I know that.

FRANK: You're nuts. I'm nuts. Everybody...

FRITZY: I know.

FRANK: ...is crazy.

FRITZY: I know.

FRANK: This man is a very, very sick man. Listen to what I tell you.

FRITZY: I know.

FRANK: You can't talk to him. You can't have no discussion with him. He knows everything. He knows it all.

FRITZY: Ooh, I'm watching, marone, "The Lady in Red."

FRANK: "The Lady in Red" is on?

FRITZY: Well, the, you know, it's a little thing. She just was dancing around with her fuckin'...

FRANK: What channel?

FRITZY: HBO.

FRANK: Put on HBO for me.

FRITZY: No, no, they just showin' a coming attraction. But, uh, her dress was blowing around. Her cunt was out.

FRANK: Dillinger's girlfriend?

FRITZY: What Dillinger's girlfriend? "The Lady in Red" is the one that, uh, uh, the one where, uh, what's his name, Gene Wilder, Gene Wilder looks up her ass, know when she's dancing, he goes crazy.

FRANK: Gene Wilder? This is Lady in Red is, uh, the Dillinger's girlfriend, The Lady in Red.

FRITZY: "The Lady in Red."

FRANK: Huh?

FRITZY: "Lady in..." Huh. "Lady in Red," with, uh, Gene Wilder.

FRANK: You see "Mussolini" last night?

FRITZY: Oh, yeah. Hey, I always knew you, I told you you were related to him. And I know I'm positive.

FRANK: Why?

FRITZY: Especially when he went and raped that broad. Did you see when he went and raped the reporter?

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: Huh. I bet you thought of me then. Huh? Ya see, that fuckin' Fritzy knows my relatives. Mussolini was a horny bastard.

FRANK: He plays the violin with that girl, huh?

FRITZY: Yeah. He played a good part, right?

FRANK: He's a good actor, huh?

FRITZY: Right. I tell ya, they gave him, you know, they showed the better side of him. They showed that he was, uh, you know...

FRANK: You know, if he would have really...

FRITZY: Imagine if he don't go with that fuckin' Hitler, what he woulda been, this guy?

FRANK: What he woulda been today? Fuhgeddaboutit.

FRITZY: He would have been dead, but he would have been, like, one of the most outstanding men of all time.

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: He was that great.

FRANK: He would have made Italy one the richest nations...

FRITZY: He was that great. He couldn't stand communism. Any communists. That's who got him in the end. The fuckin' partisans.

FRANK: Yeah.