Drop Dead Fred - Promises of Friendship and Loss
Young Elizabeth: [writing a letter to Fred with a green crayon (because green is his favorite color]
Dear Drop Dead Fred, you were my only friend, but she took you away from me. I know I'll see you again. someday.
Fred:
If you come back, I promise, we'll run away together." See that? "Pro-mise." I found that when I was hiding in the stupid garden shed.
Lizzie: [Fred takes the letter and folds it up delicately, putting it in his pocket; she starts to cry while remembering]
That's right, that's where I hid it. But you never answered it. You just disappeared... And when you did, all the... the... life... and, um... the spirit... and... the...
Fred: [hesitantly]
Fred?
Lizzie: [dabs her eyes with a tissue]
Yeah! Fred! It all just went out of me! Oh, I should have never let my mother know how much she could hurt me... Once she knew how, she knew that she could do it all the time... And she did. So I never showed her my real feelings again.
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Drop Dead Fred - Drop Dead Fred - Dialogue 7
Young Elizabeth: [sobbing, jumping off her chair and running to her father]
Dad! Daddy, I have some bad news.
Nigel:
Lizzie, what's with all this fuss about?
Young Elizabeth: [sobbing; Nigel gasps]
Something's wrong with Drop Dead Fred. He is my friend, but Mom took him away from me.
Nigel: [hugging her by holding her on his lap, trying to comfort her; Lizzie nods her head even in sobs, hugging her father back]
Don't worry, sweetheart, give me a chance. I'm sure he'll be okay.
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Drop Dead Fred - A Sweet Exchange Between Friends
Young Elizabeth: [carrying a bowl of sugar]
Sugar?
Drop Dead Fred: [Lizzie pours sugar on the mud pie]
Yeah.
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Drop Dead Fred - Cooking with Drop Dead Fred
Nigel: [confused for a minute, then pleased to hear about Drop Dead Fred]
Honey, why do you call him Drop Dead Fred?
Young Elizabeth: [sweetly; this makes Nigel very happy to know about Drop Dead Fred and the cooking as Lizzie continues]
Because that's his name, daddy, and Drop Dead Fred is going to teach me how to cook today. I'm going to need flour and sugar and honey and vodka and a pair of your pants. We're making pants pie. Ouch!
Polly: [confused]
Vodka and pants pie, huh? God knows what else?
Nigel:
But she's only a kid, Polly.
Young Elizabeth: [then she gets tickled by Nigel]
Daddy, how about we throw Mommy out the window? It won't hurt her. She will land right in the gladiolas.
Nigel: [trying not to laugh]
You shouldn't say things like that about your mother, or she might cut your head off.
Polly: [upset]
Very funny, Elizabeth! Sometimes I think I don't love you as much as I used to.
Young Elizabeth:
But, Mom, Drop Dead Fred does.
Polly: [angrily]
No more Drop Dead Fred! Period!
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Drop Dead Fred - The Importance of Being Good in Fairytales
Young Elizabeth:
Did they live happily ever after?
Mother:
Of course, Elizabeth.
Young Elizabeth:
How do you know?
Mother:
Because, she was a good little girl. If she had been naughty, the prince would have run away.
Young Elizabeth:
What a pile of shit.
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