Scene: Pearl and the Man of the House are filling a plastic black cauldron with candy to pass out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.
Pearl: I’m just going to taste this one to make sure it’s good enough for the children.
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Scene: Family has returned home from shopping trip and a treat at Dairy Queen. Lady and Pearl are sitting on couch. Daisy is hyped up on sugar.
Daisy: I wish I had one of those swings with a bar like this in here and I could go like this. . .[Runs across living room holding on to imaginary swing.] and like this. . .[runs across in other direction] and then flip like this. . .
Lady: You mean a trapeze?
Daisy (offhand): Yeah.
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Scene: Lady and Daisy are buying donuts for the family. They are pulling out of the parking lot, headed back to the grandparents house.
Daisy: I wish a dozen meant a hundred donuts.
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Scene: It is the morning after Halloween. Lady wakes up to hear Daisy and Pearl arguing.
Daisy: You need to eat cereal if you’re hungry, Pearl.
Pearl (whines): My tummy is growling for candy!!
Lady: Come here, Pearl. (Pearl comes.) We don’t eat candy for breakfast, Dear.
Pearl: But I’m not eating breakfast, I’m eating candy.