Recap
A young boy, Georgie, is at home and his mother is off to the hospital to check on his brother Buddy, who is in the hospital with a broken leg. His mother tells him to call her if Gramma wakes up but Georgie assures her he’ll be fine and he’s not scared of her any more. However, once she’s gone he worries about being there. He picks up the phone number and listens in on the party line for a few minutes as a neighbor woman, Miss Dunn, gossips. Georgie then goes to the kitchen table and starts working on his homework...
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Episode Quotes
Uncle Doug: Medea was someone's mother. Messalina, Lucretia Borgia, Typhoid Mary. Mothers every one of them.
Georgie: "Ne-cro-non-icon." "The in-co-na-bu-la of the Mad Arab Ab-dul Al-hazred." What's this stuff mean? "The return of the Great Old One, Hastur and Yogsothoth, frightful sleeper in the deep." "Ka-thul-hu"... "Kat-too-loo." What a dumb name for something. I can't read this stuff. It must be in some super-secret ancient language.
Georgie: Last chance, Gramma! Stop fooling around! Wake up or Mom will chew me out for letting you die.