EPISODE 42

Fritzy cuts short a gripe about his household budget so as not to interrupt Frank, who's about to get tender with his gal. But first, Mr. California's got some hot gossip for his pal. Turns out loopy Genovese boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante is back in the saddle again--and Fritzy just loves the inside dish. (6:14)

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

Frank: Ya hear her?

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: She comes here to check up.

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: I gotta go watch my money now.

Fritzy: Ya gotta, ya gotta look at the sheets. She looks as if this, if they're ruffled up, and, and she smells it for perfume.

Frank: Nah, not here. [Aside, Frank talks to his gal Helen.] Pay her dry cleaning bill? Know how much her cleaning bill is? A hundred and somethin' dollars.

Fritzy: Don't remind me here. I don't believe what they're doing to me over here.

Frank: Over there, must be some bills, mamma mi.

Fritzy: Don't forget.

Frank: Huh?

Fritzy: I got three. Three big grown-ups, I got.

Frank: Mamma mi.

Fritzy: I got my wife. She goes there to make a hundred dollars and she asks me for six. [In Italian, a string of curses.]

Frank: Sixty dollars?

Fritzy: Six? Six hundred. Sixty dollars?

Frank: For what?

Fritzy: For what is right. I started hollerin' this mornin'. "What," I says, "You took money earlier in the week, now ya took money again." "Well, I gotta pay for the washing machine that broke. I hadda pay the cleaning woman, I gotta pay this, I gotta this, ada bim, bada beem, bada boom." That ain't countin' the payroll I gotta give my kids.

Frank: They get a payroll, too?

Fritzy: Sure. And, well, how they gonna live?

Frank: A payroll they got?

Fritzy: How they gonna live?

Frank: No kiddin'?

Fritzy: How they gonna live, these kids?

Frank: Ya know what I do with Selena?

Fritzy: Whattya do?

Frank: I got an ashtray, put all my change in there [UI] that's for her.

Fritzy: Selena's 14 years old, 15 years old.

Frank: Fifteen.

Fritzy: What?

Frank: Fifteen.

Fritzy: She's 15, ah, ya know. Big difference.

Frank: I know.

Fritzy: Big difference over here, now, already, ya know that, who buys the clothes?

Frank: Eh, you bought horses, you bought a horse...

Fritzy: Well.

Frank: And [In Italian, a horse] he bought.

Fritzy: [In Italian, the horse] eats, and he eats, too, the [In Italian, horse].

Frank: He eats.

Fritzy: He eats pretty good. Well.

Frank: A [In Italian, horse] he bought.

Fritzy: They got me dry and lean.

Frank: Huh?

Fritzy: They're keepin' me very dry.

Frank: At least you got it to spend it, no?

Fritzy: I says, I said, "Whatever was there is goin', is dwindling."

Frank: Yeah?

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: They're trimmin' it, huh?

Fritzy: They're trimmin' it. It's alright. Let me stay strong. This way I'll go after it, I'll put a few fazoolas, I'll catch up.

Frank: I holler when she takes $20.

Fritzy: I get, I go furious, you know what, you know what's got me? Huh? That I can't work. Well, ya know, I can but I'm sayin', when I could work and tackle and do things, then I feel like a million dollars.

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