The Reluctant Astronaut
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:09:01
You better brace yourself.
What? What is it?

:09:04
You remember when your father sent
that application into the government?

:09:08
You mean the one for me
to be an astronaut?

:09:11
We don't have to worry
about that.

:09:13
We have to worry about it now,
Roy, because they have accepted you.

:09:18
What?
It says so right there.

:09:20
It says that they have
accepted you as a WB-1074.

:09:24
Your father took one look at
that and then he ran outdoors...

:09:27
and he's telling everybody
in town about it.

:09:31
An astronaut?
:09:34
Me? An astronaut? I can't even get
up on the chair to get the marmalade.

:09:39
- Oh, my poor boy.
- Why is Pa always tryin' to run my life?

:09:43
Well, after all, he was a corporal in World
War I and you know how bossy they were.

:09:48
But, Ma, that war's
been over for ages.

:09:50
Not to your father. He loves that
war as much today as he did then.

:09:54
An astronaut?
:09:56
Me? An astronaut?
:09:59
Oh, I should've studied up more on fear
of heights and things when you were young.

:10:03
I'm so tired of Pa thinkin' he's still
in the army and orderin' me around.

:10:07
Burt Lancaster was terribly
afraid of the water...

:10:11
and today,
he is a movie star.

:10:13
Look, Ma,
I'm 35 years old!

:10:15
Okay, so I do live at home. I still
don't have to do everything he tells me!

:10:19
Burt was the most unforgettable
character that month.

:10:22
Well, I'll tell you something right
now, Ma! I've had it! H-A-D, had it!

:10:27
And the minute he comes in that door, I'm
gonna tell him, "No soap! I'm not goin'!"

:10:31
Hi, Mother. Roy!
:10:34
Roy! Roy! Roy.
:10:38
Roy, ya made it, boy!
Ya made it!

:10:41
My boy, an astronaut.
:10:43
Hey, the whole town knows it, Roy.
Your name is on every tongue in town.

:10:48
They're all sayin' it:
"Buck Fleming's boy, astronaut!"

:10:51
Royal has something
to tell you, Arbuckle.

:10:54
Oh, yeah, that's right,
Pa, I do. Well, shoot.

:10:56
Well, maybe you better sit down. Ah.

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