[He gets inside.]
DR. ABBOTT: [holding up the scarf] What do you call this?
DR. TROTT: Hmm, a scarf?
DR. ABBOTT: Not that! My assistant, Louise. She was a completely normal person before you got to her with your rabid, invasive, self-indulgent paws on her. And stop filling peoples heads with this garbage. Have you no scruples? You wreak people's lives and you charge them for it.
[Brenda rushes in.]
DR. ABBOTT: You're like a televangelist.
BRENDA: [who is trying to get in] I am having a breakthrough!
DR. ABBOTT: All right.
DR. TROTT: Excuse me, Brenda.
[She pushes Dr. Abbott outside.]
DR. ABBOTT: Excuse me, I am not done talking yet!
DR. TROTT: I am done listening though. Good day, Harold.
[She closes the door on him.]
DR. ABBOTT: Oh, no it is not! IT IS NOT A GOOD DAY YOU HEAR ME!?!
[He bangs on the door.]
DR. ABBOTT: DOCTOR FEELGOOD! I WILL HAVE YOU EVICTED! I WILL HAVE YOU TOWED YOU...
[He looks at the group of people waiting in line.]
DR. ABBOTT: You're all crazy!
[Cut to Dr. Brown's practice. He and Edna are there. Delia walks in.]
DR. BROWN: Hi, sweetheart.
DELIA: [depressed] Hey.
DR. BROWN: That didn't sound very enthusiastic. Friend's still not talking to ya, huh? Kid's got a lot of willpower for a third grader.
DELIA: He wasn't in school today.
DR. BROWN: Oh, he's probably just out sick.
DELIA: I asked Miss Violet, she said he wasn't coming back.
DR. BROWN: [to Edna] Do you believe this? Those parents yank their kid out of school for playing dress up? I mean that's, that's medieval! Alright Delia, here's what we're gonna do, we are going over there right now.
EDNA: Word in the Q-T, doc.
[She tries to get him to stop but he starts getting his things ready to leave.]
DR. BROWN: [not listening] And I will see that they listen to reason.
EDNA: Boss...
DR. BROWN: [still not listening] These people clearly know nothing about child rearing. I mean if *I* can tell that they're doing it wrong...
[Edna whistles to get his attention.]
EDNA: IN YOUR OFFICE, SARGE!
[He follows her direction. They enter his office.]
DR. BROWN: Look, I don't know what the...
[Edna slams the door shut.]
EDNA: [interrupting] As Dr. Sourpuss's nurse, I was privy to some information which I normally wouldn't disclose but, under the circumstances... It's about little Stuart, Magilla. He wasn't born a "he".
DR. BROWN: What?
EDNA: Not a "she" neither exactly. Ambiguous genitalia. What some in the profession call, pseudo-hermaphrodite.
DR. BROWN: This is the gorilla kid? The one who put a bug up his own nose?
EDNA: The parents see right off they're in the deep serious in this one and they send him to a specialist in Denver. This "genius" follows the prevailing wisdom and suggests that since baby Magilla's got a fairly well formed "you know what", and generally looks masculine, the parents should rear him as a boy, no questions asked. And... Delia comes along and they see their boy playing with a girl, playing *like* a girl. |
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