Lillian, the next time your perfectionist tendencies drive you to distraction, just remember this quotation from Henry James: "Excellence does not require perfection.
" LILLIAN [ON PHONE]: That's very helpful.
Thank you.
Or is it "demand"? Hmm, require, demand.
Excellence does not require perfection.
Excellence does not demand perfection.
- Aren't they the same thing? - Of course not, Roz, shush.
Excellence, demand.
Require, demand.
Require.
- Oh! Or is it "mandate"? LILLIAN: I really have to go now.
Oh, well, doesn't really matter anyway, does it? Ha, ha, meantime, Seattle, this is Dr.
Frasier Crane wishing you good day Oh, it's It's "require.
" It is "require.
" [FRASIER LAUGHS] - And good mental health.
- Frasier, - Yeah? Would you please give this to Freddie for me? It's for his spelling bee tomorrow.
Roz, it's not a spelling bee, it's the national championship.
- Oh.
Ew, when is Lilith coming in? - Well, actually, she's not coming in.
She'll be watching the competition from home.
Her victory dance at state finals earned her a long overdue suspension.
[CHUCKLES] So, what is this anyway? It's a flattened penny.
I found it at the railroad tracks once when I was going through a really bad time, but as soon as I picked it up, started getting lucky.
Oh, so that's where it all started.
Hmm.
No.
Why are you turning a nice gesture into something dirty? I'm sorry, Roz.
I know it didn't bring you that kind of luck.
- Thank you.
- That would be one tired penny.
FRASIER: Eddie Crane from Seattle, your word is "woof.
" [BARKS] MARTIN: W-O-O-F.
[BARKS] FRASIER: Very good.
Frederick Crane from Massachusetts, your word is "onomatopoeia.
" Wrong.
Where are your knees? I wanna see spelling knees.
Oh, yeah, right.
Last thing you wanna do is pass out on stage because of locked knees.
I know.
Allison Sharf, the Frisco Fainter.
She went down like a sack of hammers.
All right, now, go to the hallway mirror and look at your form.
Aren't you two going a little overboard with this? The drills, the stance, the spelling diet.
Dad, Freddie really wants to win this competition.
- I'm doing my best to help him.
- Well, you shouldn't overtrain him.
He needs to have some fun.
I told him he could bring his clarinet.
All right, I'll talk to him.
Thanks, Dad.
I think I got my stance down now.
FRASIER: Good boy.
Frederick, have a seat for a minute.
Something I wanna tell you.
Listen, I don't want you to get consumed by this spelling-bee thing, all right? It's not important if you're a good speller or the best speller.
The important thing is that you have fun.
- Okay? - Okay, Dad.
- Know what'd be really fun? - What's that? - Kicking butt in the spelling bee.
FRASIER: Ha, ha.
- Oh, Niles, Daph.
- Hello, all.
Listen, I'm afraid I've got some bad news.
I could only get two tickets for the spelling-bee competition.
Oh, that's a shame.
But we'll be there in spirit, ha, ha.
It's probably just as well, considering how emotional I get watching children compete.
Keep thinking how much it means to them.
Like the little girl who studies over candlelight while her father's down at the pub drinking away the money for the light bill, ha, ha.
Or the little girl on the school bus who pretends not to see her father waving at her from the pub.
Then there's the little girl who thinks that by doing well, she can grow up, purchase the local pub and turn it into a circus so her father can keep his promise.
We had a little wine at lunch.
Don't worry about the tickets.
Uh, while I would have gone to support Freddie, I have to admit, I wasn't looking forward - to being back in that environment.
- Oh.
Don't get sidetracked by all the glitz and glamour of the bee.
Spelling well is its own reward.
What was that about? Well, your Uncle Niles has a painful history with spelling bees.
- Really? Was he any good? - Ah, one of the best to ever compete.
Better than you, Dad? Son, as good as I was, my spelling couldn't compare with Niles'.
He was right up there with the likes of William Kerek from Akron and that Peterson girl from Omaha.
Except your uncle was even younger.
Some people thought he wasn't ready, that it was a mistake to bring him up to the show right out of elementary school, but he made it all the way to the last word.
What happened? He didn't even try to spell it.
He just stood there for a moment and turned and walked off-stage.
He was immediately disqualified and he never competed again.
FREDERICK: Never? Sure, he'd spell now and again, but only to help you out, and you had to really need it, because he could spot a setup a mile away.
Wow, sounds to me like he choked.
Choked? Or was he the victim of an elaborate conspiracy? Really? Oh, I thought I heard him coming down the hall.
He choked.
Logorrhea.
Um, can I have a definition? [WHISPERS] Uh-oh.
Always a bad sign.
Excessive use of words.
L-O-G-O-R-H-E-A.
Logorrhea.
[BUZZER BUZZES] I'm sorry.
That's incorrect.
So long, homeschool.
GADSTON: And that completes the tenth round.
We'll begin round 11 of the National Spelling Championship after a five-minute intermission.
热门英文电视剧
老友记 Friends摩登家庭 Modern Family绝望主妇 Desperate Housewives破产姐妹 2 Broke Girls权利的游戏 Game of Thrones黑镜 Black Mirror爱,死亡和机器人 Love, Death & Robots杀死伊芙 Killing Eve第二十二条军规 Catch-22神盾局特工 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.豆瓣高分英文剧
瑞克和莫蒂 Rick and Morty老友记 Friends火线 The Wire怪诞小镇 Gravity Falls探险活宝 Adventure Time with Finn and Jake无耻之徒(美版) Shameless飞出个未来 Futurama欢乐一家亲 Frasier 成长的烦恼 Growing Pains兄弟连 Band of Brothers飞哥与小佛 Phineas and Ferb风骚律师 Better Call Saul少年正义联盟 Young Justice亿万 Billions咱们裸熊 We Bare Bears副总统 Veep鬼屋欢乐送 Ghosts伦敦生活 Fleabag绅士杰克 Gentleman公关 Flack梅尔罗斯 Patrick MelroseCopyright © 2021 TaiCiShe.com 版权所有。 联系我们