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A Marriage Proposal / A Tight-Knit Family (Reprise)

The hosts sat down with a sigh, a happy smile on both their faces.

[JASON, spoken]
This is how you make a marriage proposal

"Oh, God..." Mendel groaned, Trina laughed.

[MENDEL]
I love you, dear
I think you're swell
You're never near me close enough to tell
If I'm delightful or not

I crave your wrist

Cordelia laughed at On Screen Mendel's actions.

I praise your thigh
There's not a guy
There's not a piece of paper
There's not a man in pants

Marvin chuckled when he realised Mendel was referring to him.

Who could love you the same as I!

Oftentimes, lovers are crazy people
Sometimes they kill each other

"Oh yeah, cause that's definitely what you want to hear in a proposal." Charlotte remarked sarcastically.

Just like a biblical brother
Did to his biblical brother
Back in biblical times

[TRINA, spoken]
Biblical times?

[MARVIN, spoken]
Biblical times.

Marvin gives a sarcastic wink and thumbs up.

[MENDEL, spoken]
Biblical times

[sung]
Oh, those biblical times!

I love your eyes
I love your face
I want you by my side to take my place
If I get sick or detained

Don't touch your hair, you're perfect

Trina smiled.

Don't start to cry
There's not a guy
There's not a horse or zebra
There's not a giant man
Who could love you the same as I!

Forget that giant man
He won't love you the same as I!
I'm not a giant man

[TRINA, spoken]
Good

Mendel turns his head to look up at Trina smiling, who looks down and smiles back.

[MENDEL]
But I'll love you until
Love you until
I die!

MARVIN
Well, the situation's this;

"Oh God, not this dude again." Issie said rolling her eyes, to which Jade burst into laughter at.

I don't want to cause a stink
I divorced my wife
She dried her eyes
Then she ran off with my shrink

"Please shut up."

But I want a tight-knit family

"Well I want never gets!" Jade shouted, earning them a slap to the back of the head.

"Shush!"

I want a wife who knows what love is
Maybe she does, I'm too damn peeved
Self-absorbed
Self-deceived

"At least you're aware."

Who knows?

MENDEL
I should worry what he says
Like his words could hurt me worse
Marvin acts bereft
My acts of theft
Are incredibly perverse

MARVIN
You said it

MENDEL
It's embarrassing
But I've got a nice, tight family
Son with a brain and nice, bright mother
Yes, I feel guilt. Yes, I'm annoyed
So was Jung, so was Freud!

But I, I know you'll come through it

MARVIN
I...I can't believe she loves you

MENDEL
If so, you'll end looking rich

MARVIN
Why, I'm sure she cannot love you!
But nothing's impossible!

MENDEL
Look who's got power

MARVIN
King of the Losers!

MENDEL
At eighty an hour!

"Get that money honey!" Jade and Issie yelled. Mendel chuckled.

He can bitch
I can stall

The two men clasp hands in an arm wrestle kind of way.

MARVIN
I want

MENDEL
I've got

MARVIN
I want

BOTH
It all!

They push the prop that they were leaning on over.

I'm sure we're gonna come through it!
No doubt, the bastard prepares!
We're needy and wanting
We're greedy as swine!

MENDEL
I just got a family

MARVIN
The family was mine!

BOTH
But he dares
Dares to brawl?

MENDEL
I got it all!
I got it all!
I got it all!
MARVIN
I want it all!
I want it all!
I want it all!

The song ends with Mendel and Marvin facing each other with spotlights on them.

The group clapped. "God, I'm so in love with the lighting at the end of that!" Jade said, Issie nodded in agreement.