Frank: In the meantime, my girl she's gettin' more beautiful over here.
Fritzy: What a lucky guy you are.
Frank: I know it.
Fritzy: You're a lucky man.
Frank: She's, she's gettin' old, my little chicken, though.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: Yeah. She'll be 40. [Aside to his girlfriend, Helen] You'll be 40 soon?
Helen: No. Not for another two years.
Frank: Oh, another two years, she says.
Fritzy: A baby yet.
Frank: She's a baby.
Helen: [UI] not a baby.
Frank: Freddie?
Fritzy: Wha? She's gettin' fat, but.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: She's gettin' heavy.
Frank: Yeah, huh?
Fritzy: I saw her, she looked a little bigger.
Frank: Yeah, she put a little weight on.
Fritzy: She's eatin' good, eh?
Frank: She ain't goin' to the gym no more, she...
Fritzy: No? What happened to the Pineapple (a Manhattan health club)?
Helen: I didn't put on any weight since I stopped the gym.
Frank: She says she didn't put no weight on.
Fritzy: No?
Helen: I put on weight when I quit smoking the first time.
Frank: She was fatter before, she's trimmin' down a little.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Yeah, that's, uh, she looks good, but, uh, the weight becomes her, she's better off with the weight. The other way she looks like she was dyin'.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Too thin, with her, she looks better.
Frank: Where's the breadwinner, she come home yet?
Fritzy: The breadwinner?
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Who's that?
Frank: The breadwinner, Carol.
Fritzy: Yeah. She's here. She made, it costs us, we, we figured it out, after all expenses, everything is done, by travel.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Lunch, everything, she makes fifteen dollars for the week.
Frank: Fifteen?
Fritzy: Yeah. In other words.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: She clears, after everything is over with, fifteen dollars.
Frank: [Italian] listen to this.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: That's a tonic for her.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: That's the best thing, she gets out...
Fritzy: I know. It's a tonic for her...
Frank: She goes...
Fritzy: She clears 15. I got the cleaning woman two extra days over here. It costs me a hundred dollars more.
Frank: Mmm.
Fritzy: For two extra days, that she clears 15, so I'm minus 85.
Frank: Your money.
Fritzy: If I take the 15 off her, I'll be minus 85.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: That's without anything else.
Frank: And now she has to have the cleaning woman an extra two...
Fritzy: Two days.
Frank: Two days.
Helen: Yeah, we'll she's working...
Frank: That's another [UI] hundred dollars.
Fritzy: I'd rather give it to her. She's goin' to work, ain't she better off stayin' home and cleanin' the house for the other two days?
Frank: No good. She's...
Fritzy: I just figure.
Frank: She's gotta get out.
Fritzy: She's gotta get out.
Frank: It's a tonic for her.
Fritzy: I just figured it out.
Frank: Listen to me.
Fritzy: What?
Frank: Eh, she, you be payin' doctor bills...
Fritzy: Yeah, she's, yeah, a different person.
Frank: She is a different person.
Fritzy: She treats me...
Frank: You know the...
Fritzy: She talks to me now.
Frank: Sure, she talks to you different now. Now she comes home...
Fritzy: Yeah, she talks to me. Before, she never talked to me.
Frank: Youse are not on...
Fritzy: I was an animal. I was a brute. I was this, I was that. Now, [UI] nicest guy I've ever known.
Frank: [Aside to Helen] Fritzy's the nicest guy she ever met. She's beginning to find the world outside, how it is now, huh?
Fritzy: Wait.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Wait. Well, nah, she goes, she goes right to the office.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: She goes, she sees the hustle, the bustle, alright?
Frank: Tell her, tell her, "Hey, listen, ya gotta [UI] me, I gotta go check in that office."
Fritzy: She was kept in a gilded cage for 25 years.
Frank: "I have to see if there's any good-lookin' guys over there."
Fritzy: Oh, I have to.
Helen: I'm sure there is.
Fritzy: I have to.
Frank: Ya gotta tell her ya gotta look.
Fritzy: They all got blue, blue suits and brown shoes over there. Forget about it.
Frank: Listen to me.
Fritzy: What?
Frank: Tell her ya, "I might, I might do a little spyin' there that I'm not too well now, I could get around."
Fritzy: That's right. Now I got time, more time to, to loiter.
Frank: That's what I tell Helen.
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: When she [UI].
Fritzy: What do they think, they got free passage?
Frank: I told her, she might have a lover, this woman.
Helen: Oh, come on.
Frank: She got here today at three o'clock.
Fritzy: Yeah. [Aside to his wife, Carol] He's accusin' Helen of having a lover.
Frank: [UI] blames it on what's his name. I says I'm gonna [UI] a Fearless Fosdick on ya.
Helen: Oh, God.
Fritzy: Ah. With the black coat.
Frank: That's all. Just be careful, I says.
Fritzy: Be careful. They're behind every pole.
Frank: That's right.
Fritzy: They all look alike, too, 'cause they all wear the same thing.
Frank: You wanna make Carol talk to Helen?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Alright.
Fritzy: Alright.
Frank: When will I see you, then?
Fritzy: I probably see ya, I don't, well, I may stop down there tomorrow afternoon to just see how he is, ya know. I wasn't gonna stop down 'til later.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Uh, ya know. I wanna just...
Frank: Oh, Helen said you changed your medicine.
Fritzy: I, yeah.
Frank: You did?
Fritzy: Yeah, sure. I had to. That, that was killin' me.
Helen: So how does he feel, better?
Frank: You feelin' better now?
Fritzy: Like brand new.
Frank: How much you weigh now?
Fritzy: I'm about 197.
Frank: You lose, that's it. You comin' down nice and easy.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Don't lose it fast...
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: You be...
Fritzy: Hey, Frankie. I was 220, Frank.
Frank: You be, you'll be wrinkled up then.
Fritzy: No. I got, my wife, my wife just told me about my face, "You don't have a wrinkle."
Frank: You'll get the chicken neck.
Fritzy: I got a young, nah, I got a young face.
Helen: Don't tell him that. Stupid.
Fritzy: Listen.
Helen: You love to bother people [UI].
Frank: [Aside to Helen] Shut up, you.
Fritzy: I got, I got skin that stays young. The Giov, the Giovanellis, one thing he left behind was beautiful skin.
Frank: That's from the berries and all that.
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: That's the...
Fritzy: That, see what you said? That's exactly, that's true.
Frank: The berries'll rejuvenate you.
Fritzy: I got beautiful skin for my age, 53 years old. Forget about it, I look like a young little boy, 22.
Frank: [Aside to Helen] He looks like 22 now.
Fritzy: If I dye my hair, forget about it.
Frank: He's gonna dye his hair red, he says, Helen.
Fritzy: No, no. Red? I don't wanna be a redhead.
Frank: He wants to be a carrot top.
Fritzy: A carrot top?
Frank: And put on a dress.
Fritzy: I wanna, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll have the figure soon.
Frank: His mother caught him with the dress, Helen.
Helen: Oh, yeah?
Frank: The dress and the hat.
Fritzy: You remember that?
Helen: With the red wig, right?
Fritzy: What wig? There was no wig.
Frank: Alright, put Carol on, pal.
Fritzy: I had a paintbrush, too. Alright.
Frank: I'll see ya tomorrow.
Fritzy: Okay.



