the frank and fritzy show

EPISODE 1

An amused Frank gives Fritzy some heartfelt advice on the girlfriend front and recalls a dating miscue from his youth. And, of course, there's the obligatory talk about yogurt, Bobby (consigliere Bobby Manna), and going down "there" (the Triangle Social Club) to see "him" (Vincent "Chin" Gigante). (5:31)

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


FRANK: So how do you feel, alright?

FRITZY: Yeah, you know. I take, you know the medication, uh, Frankie, gives you ups and downs, you know? That's all. Other than that, you know, yesterday I felt great.

FRANK: Yeah?

FRITZY: Yeah. Nah, this morning. Last night I had an itch, you know? I come in, I don't know, all of a sudden, I eat yogurt.

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: I eat yogurt about 10 o'clock, 'cause I didn't eat all day from 2 o'clock. So I says, "I'll have a little yogurt." Then it had raisins and nuts.

FRANK: I thought you don't eat raisins.

FRITZY: It was inside the damn yogurt.

FRANK: What'd ya tell me about raisins?

FRITZY: Yeah, what I tell you? They were in there, alright? So anyhow, so I, I downed it and five minutes after, I started fucking itching around the balls, you know?

FRANK: From what?

FRITZY: So I says, "I wonder if, you know, I'm allergic to something." You know. But anyhow, I wound up taking an allergy pill, Atarax. Maybe that made me mushy today. 'Cause, you know, other than that there, I've been feeling very good, Frank.

FRANK: If you [UI] the plain yogurt, nothing.

FRITZY: Yeah, just that's it.

FRANK: Brown Cow.

FRITZY: I got, I got plain yogurt. I got Whitney's, the best. Whitney.

FRANK: No, that's shit. Brown Cow with the thick crust on top and you mix the crust, that's the, the bacteria. You mix that all in there.

FRITZY: Yeah?

FRANK: Brown Cow. That's what all the health fiends eat. Brown Cow.

FRITZY: Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna have that a couple of days a week.

FRANK: I'll give ya Brown Cow. Whitney's Cream? It's like, uh, eating a dessert. You get the Brown Cow, it's the real yogurt.

FRITZY: Alright.

FRANK: It tells you about it, right on the thing. On the top is a thick crust.

FRITZY: I'll buy it tomorrow.

FRANK: You chop that up and mix it all in.

FRITZY: I'll buy it tomorrow.

FRANK: I buy the big container.

FRITZY: What you doin' yesterday? What you do? You went to your mother's? You went out to your brother's, or what?

FRANK: No. I stood home and then I went out.

FRITZY: Yeah? Down over there?

FRANK: Yeah, I went over there and saw him.

FRITZY: What time were you there?

FRANK: Bobby was there.

FRITZY: Yeah?

FRANK: About 9:30, I was there.

FRITZY: He come in early, or what?

FRANK: Bobby. Yeah.

FRITZY: Yeah.

FRANK: He took Ida outta the hospital.

FRITZY: She was in?

FRANK: Ida was in the hospital.

FRITZY: I didn't know that.

FRANK: You didn't know that?

FRITZY: What happened to her?

FRANK: You mean nobody... I thought you knew.

FRITZY: What do I... Now you're telling me.

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: What happened?

FRANK: She had an accident. She went to a wedding.

FRITZY: You gotta be kidding.

FRANK: With three or four hundred people. She was going down the stairs and there was a drunk behind them, fell on top of them and knocked them, she somersaulted.

FRITZY: Oh my God.

FRANK: And she was in a coma.

FRITZY: Oh!

FRANK: Knocked out and everything. Bad.

FRITZY: This poor girl.

FRANK: She, she didn't remember. She says she couldn't remember different things and she was in a hospital for about a week.

FRITZY: I didn't see Bobby all week, you know.

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: And I would only ask him, you know, "How's Ida," whatnot and I woulda found out. I didn't know that.

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: I'm sorry to hear that. I want to send a her little something home. She's a nice girl.

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: She bought little things for my kids. Go out there. But, I would of, you know, Jesus, I feel bad now.

FRANK: Yeah. She's got, she was pretty sick.

FRITZY: ... a marone.

FRANK: She still ain't the same, he says.

FRITZY: He really, he really bought a barrel of trouble. He bought, he bought, oogatz, he bought...

FRANK: Huh?

FRITZY: Oogatz... I was telling the story about, you know...

FRANK: He bought a hospital bill.

FRITZY: I told, I told Gail's father about how my father gave you the wine.

FRANK: Yeah.

FRITZY: And Gail is laughing like a bastard, you know. So I says...

FRANK: You met the father?

FRITZY: I know the father, he's a good friend of mine.

FRANK: He's old as you?

FRITZY: What kind of talk is that?

FRANK: How old is he?

FRITZY: I look like a 20 year-old since I lost this weight.

FRANK: How old is he?

FRITZY: He's 65.

FRANK: Ain't you ashamed to go up there?

FRITZY: Why, why should I be ashamed?

FRANK: Ah, he's sixty. That means he's close to your age.

FRITZY: I gotta buy, I gotta buy...

FRANK: You're crazy.

FRITZY: I gotta buy an old lady, like this guy's got, that every week, there's another problem? Over here, there's no problem.

FRANK: Yeah, but don't meet the family.

FRITZY: Why?

FRANK: No good. You're like Angelo. Angelo does all that, takes the mother, the father out.

FRITZY: I do that.

FRANK: He takes them out.

FRITZY: I bought 'em, I bought 'em a microwave.

FRANK: Stay far away from them.

FRITZY: Why?

FRANK: Far away, my friend. You never know when the telephone calls come in.

FRITZY: Nah.

FRANK: The scorn of a mother and a father, you know. You never know what happens.

FRITZY: Yeah, but...

FRANK: You wind up with a nut family.

FRITZY: They love me.

FRANK: When you meet them, they're so beautiful. Then, all of a sudden, the daughter, they see her crying. "Ooh, that? What? That son of a bitch! That no good bastard! Call his wife up, that bastard."

FRITZY: You're right.

FRANK: "Go get him, that son of a bitch, what he's done to my daughter. That dirty old man."

FRITZY: You're right.

FRANK: Stay away my friend. The less they see of you the better off you are. Always remember that.

FRITZY: I ate a hot pepper.

FRANK: When you go with a young girl... One time I went with a young girl and I went upstairs to meet the mother. I humped her mother already. "Get him out, that bum! Get him out!"

FRITZY: Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Really.

FRANK: I been with the mother. What do you want me to do?

FRITZY: But, did you know, did you know that it was the daughter?

FRANK: No, I didn't know. What the fuck do I know? A Jewish woman.

FRITZY: Marone! You get up, "Hello, how are you?"

FRANK: Yep, I come into the house. [UI] ... my lesson. I was 25 then, a young man. "Get out!" she says.

FRITZY: But how the hell'd ya wind up with the mother? That's something else.

FRANK: How did I wind up with her?

FRITZY: Huh?

FRANK: She had a young daughter. Her daughter was about 17.

FRITZY: But that's something.