‘Get Your Business Done’
Season 3, Episode 20 - Aired April 11, 2012
After the Hecks attend Dave's church, Frankie is inspired by the pastor's sermon about getting your business done while you're alive. While Frankie struggles to identify her "business", Mike tells his father how much he appreciated him being there after his mom died, Brick decides to buy a new bed, Axl tries to spend more time with his brother, and Sue starts a baby-sitting business.
Quote from Axl
Brick: Axl, are you awake?
Axl: No. Go to sleep.
Brick: I just have a question. Did pastor Watkins say, "Get your business done," or "Get your bed-ness done"?
Axl: Dang it, Brick. I was just getting settled into a big boy dream. Do you know what that means?
Brick: It's just... I've been asking Mom and Dad for a bigger bed since I was 8, but they still haven't gotten me one.
Axl: You know Mom and Dad. They never do anything for us.
Brick: That's why I'm thinking maybe my business should be getting myself a new bed. If I get money from mom, will you drive me to the store?
Axl: No.
Brick: Pretty please?
Axl: Pretty no.
Quote from Axl
Brick: Maybe your business is spending more time with your little brother. Think about it. You'll be going off to college in one to three years.
Axl: Huh. Maybe you're right. Maybe I should spend more time with the less fortunate, like how Jesus chilled with the lepers.
Brick: I'm not a leper.
Axl: Look, you want a new bed, or not, leper?
Brick: Yes.
Quote from Frankie
Mike: What's all this?
Frankie: I found my business, Mike. My business is beading. I mean, how many times have I said I wanted to bead things?
Mike: I don't know. Zero? A thousand?
Frankie: But I never did a thing about it. I just don't want to get to the end of my life and look back and think, "Wow, I had a shot at doing the one thing I really love, and I didn't take it."
Mike: Beading?
Frankie: I could even take these to craft shows. This could be huge. I just gotta get on Oprah's radar.
Mike: You're gonna give this to Oprah?
Frankie: Well, obviously, I'd make one special for her. Hey, maybe you could sell these to the guys at the quarry for their wives.
Mike: Good night.
Frankie: Getting my business done. [sings] Getting my business done [knocks her beads off the table] Crap.
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: [v.o.] Come on. What's my business, damn it? What, what, what, what, what? Everyone else is shoving their business in my face. Rude. If I could just fall asleep, maybe it'd come to me in a dream. What's that pounding? [gasps] I could make first aid kits for soldiers overseas. [gasps] I left my purse in the car. Should I go get it? I should go get it. But that woman down the street got mugged. Hope she's okay. Did I floss? Ugh, I need a beer. Seriously, what is that pounding? Is that my pulse? It's like a hammer. Am I supposed to feel my heartbeat in my tongue? That's gotta be wrong. What's happening to me? Okay. Calm down. Calm down. Calm down.
Frankie: I'm going to get band-aids for my soldier first aid kits!
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: Sticky gauzes... Unsticky gauzes... Oh, God. What am I doing? The army has first aid kits. Okay, what else? What else can I do? [gasps] First aid kits for animals at the pound. Excuse me. Where's your pet section? I need dog thermometers. Do they even make those? Or should I just use baby thermometers? And what about something for cats? Do you have something for homeless cats so that they can do this?
Clerk: Um, are you feeling okay, ma'am?
Frankie: Kind of no. I can hear my heartbeat like a thump, thump, thump. Just- Just take my pulse.
Clerk: Um... I'm actually not allowed to touch the customers anymore. But we got a blood pressure chair.
Quote from Frankie
Clerk: I called the 800 number on the chair... But they're closed till morning.
Frankie: Well, just unplug it, then! [to customers] Oh, you looking at me?! Yeah, go ahead. Take a good, long look, 'cause this is what happens if you wake up to life too late! And then you try to get your business done and you can't! And nobody wants a gymnastics teacher without any experience. They don't! I tried! I tried everything!
Reverend Hayver: Frankie?
Frankie: Reverend Hayver.
Reverend Hayver: What's wrong?
Frankie: I'm stuck.
Reverend Hayver: You know, this reminds me of a time when I was 9 years old and I got my knee caught in the banister at my great Aunt Margo's house. [Frankie's pulse slows down] It was quite uncomfortable, but I realized it taught me the divine virtue of patience. If I recall correctly, the first hour was the most trying. As I languished there on the staircase, counting by the endless...
Frankie: [v.o.] That's when I realized why I'd been going to Reverend Hayver all these years. It was the most relaxing hour of my week. 'Cause the truth is, as a mom with a full-time job and three kids, I do nothing but take care of my and everybody else's business. So maybe giving myself a break every Sunday from 9 to 10 with no business at all is getting my business done.
Quote from Mike
Dave: About time. Game started a half-hour ago. I was on your porch so long, I was forced to eat three of my seven layers.
Mike: Sorry, Dave. Church was turning into a hostage situation. The man would not stop talking.
Dave: Really? You know, my guy gets me out in 45 minutes.
Axl: Feels like 45 years, with Reverend Hayver.
Sue: Ugh.
Brick: Interminable.
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: Look, don't get me wrong. I want to love church. I walk in there every week with my heart wide open, ready for inspiration, but with Reverend Hayver... It just feels like a chore. Look around. I hate chores.
Dave: You know, you guys should come to my church. My pastor doesn't just get you out fast. He's really inspiring.
Mike: Oh, yeah?
Frankie: Wow. I don't know. I mean, wouldn't that be cheating on Reverend Hayver?
Mike: Home in time for tip-off? "Hayver" who?
Quote from Frankie
Mike: Wow. Front row. Very exposed.
Frankie: On the plus side, there's no place to bang my head.
Quote from Axl
Pastor Watkins: He said, "Pastor Watkins," said, "I did not get my business done."
Woman #2: Shame is what!
Frankie: Aw, that's too bad.
Pastor Watkins: But I say let us not pity.
Man: [o.s.] Do not pity!
Pastor Watkins: Let us not despair.
Woman: [o.s.] Do not despair!
Pastor Watkins: Rather, let us look unto brother Darnell for inspiration.
Woman: [o.s.] Inspiration! Yes! Agreed.
Axl: [raises fist] Word!