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idea how to complete her charity drive, until
Bootsie reveals she does not have her high school diploma. Bootsie offers her help to Carlotta and Marshall, who repel her every effort. Finally, Stanley, Wild Bill and Bootsie (who has been preparing to take her exam by reading the entire Encyclopædia Britannica — except the "z"s) come up with the perfect plan to help — make giant billboards of Bootsie wearing her mortar board and holding a diploma under the heading: "A Beck goes Back!" . Carlotta, Marshall, and Kathleen are horrified, and, armed with paint and brushes, go around town blocking out the Beck name. Caught in the act, the snobs are arrested for defacing public property. When Carlotta returns home after spending a night in jail, she receives a phone call from Sissy Chastaine. Sissy tells Carlotta that the equivalency test drive was a huge success. Carlotta is thrilled, believing she has won the nomination, until Sissy tells her that due to her now criminal record, (her night of vandalism) she is disqualified.
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Bootsie will become pregnant before the adoption can be completed, the trio decide to keep the Westchesters apart — Kathleen and Carlotta have slumber parties with Bootsie while Marshall keeps Wild Bill awake, telling him of his problems. Eventually, it's revealed that Bootsie is unable to get pregnant, though she and Wild Bill have tried. Upon hearing this, and receiving a phone call that their application for adoption was denied, a truly furious Carlotta banishes Marshall out of their bedroom into a tent in the hallway.
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Westchesters to be themselves. She and Marshall pick out the tackiest clothes in the Westchester closet, and invite wino Alvin Essary to speak on behalf of the Westchesters. But Stanley intervenes, making the rest of the Becks look like fools when Essary and the Westchesters arrive dressed and acting like royalty. The result is the Westchesters are accepted in the Country Club, while Marshall and Carlotta, due to a scheme to pocket money using phony foster children, are placed on probation, which leads Carlotta to moan "They're IN, and we're OUT!".
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live "in peace and harmony" with Wild Bill and his "lovely and whimsical" wife, Bootsie, in Toad Hall, the family mansion. Independently wealthy son
Stanley and his mother, Big Guy's first wife, Mother B, greets the Westchesters with open arms. However, snobby older son Marshall, his wife, Carlotta, and Big Guy's widow, Kathleen are overwrought with embarrassment and the three scheme to get the Westchesters out of the picture.
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out who his friends really are — his "friends" being whichever family members come up with the ransom. Needless to say that
Marshall, Carlotta and Kathleen aren't his friends... meanwhile Wild Bill and Bootsie work feverishly and valiantly to come up with the cash, but it's Mother B. who saves the day (with cash she picked from the money tree that Big Guy left her).
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her job on Mud Island as "an interpreter of the language of salty sea captains", is forced to wear her work clothes (a hoop skirt) to the party. Further complications ensue when Wild Bill burns dinner forcing
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Kathleen finds herself engaged to a rich old timer and the wedding's just days away. Marshall and Carlotta are excited by this news because, by getting remarried, Kathleen forfeits her claim on Big Guy's money. Kathleen sees this as her last opportunity to seduce Stanley who rings a fire
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as Stanley Beck, Big Guy and Mother B's son and younger brother of Marshall. He is independently wealthy (due to some wise investments) and not in need of any inheritance. He is the most down-to-earth of the family and welcomed the Westchesters immediately. An avid Dr. Pepper drinker, Stanley is kind
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as Wild Bill Westchester, a used RV salesman and Big Guy's illegitimate son. He and Bootsie were almost scared out of the house by Marshall, Carlotta and Kathleen, by means of a phony seance, but was convinced by Stanley and Mother B, who truly cared about them, that they would always have a home at
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as Big Guy Beck, a very wealthy land baron and the patriarch of Toad Hall. His will stipulated that his family accept his illegitimate son, Wild Bill Westchester and his wife Bootsie into the family. He was married to Kathleen when he died and is the father of Marshall and Stanley by his first wife
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The latest installment of Big Guy's video will includes a promise of a $ 10,000 bonus for the family member who finds work and gets the best report. Marshall and Wild Bill get jobs at an RV dealership; Carlotta becomes a tour guide; Bootsie starts a fingernail and underwear franchise; and Kathleen
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At the reading of cryonically frozen family patriarch Big Guy Beck's video-will, the Becks learn that Big Guy had an illegitimate son — used RV dealer Wild Bill Westchester. To make matters even more embarrassing for the Becks, they learn that in order to receive their inheritance, they'll have to
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as Winona "Mother B" Beck, Big Guy's first wife and the senile mother of Marshall and Stanley. She belied her age by constantly escaping her nursing home, eventually, escaping for good, and moving into Toad Hall. She, like her favored younger son, Stanley, whom she calls "Skippy", accepted the
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character as "Suzanne in the Beginning;" and Carter's Julia, with her self-righteous, long-winded monologues had more than a bit in common with Carlotta) and numerous one-liners were recycled along with a "hog hat" prop which was prominently featured in episodes of both series.
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home, and equally appalled that his younger brother and mother would welcome them with open arms. He is usually put in his place by his mother, who tended to know more about his dishonesty and often delighted in ratting him out.
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that cut my hunger but made my heart race", she revealed in her autobiography. It had the side effect of paranoia and making her lapse into unconsciousness.
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