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  • 7/6/2025
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place. | dG1fSmNuU0V0VnIzWFU
Transcript
00:00I'm going to do a terrific show today because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone
00:13it, people like me. Hello, I'm Stuart Smalley. Ever since I was a kid, I knew there was something
00:24wrong with my family. My father grew up in the Great Depression, his mother's, so he wasn't
00:32very supportive. And my mother was much better at cooking than nurturing. What was your name
00:41again? Waste of space. Which is probably why I became kind of a guru of the self-help movement.
00:48Darn you, Mom! Darn you, Mom! I suppose I'm such a success because my childhood was such
00:55a challenge. I remember you when you were this high and this wide. As for my family? We
01:03all want to go home and save our families, but we can't. Well, they haven't changed much.
01:09Shut up, man! Shut up! Okay, Jody, look, I would never ordinarily say this, but, um, is there
01:17any way you can get to a pound cake? Stewart saves his family. You'll laugh because it's
01:26not your family. It's everyone crazy! You'll cry because it is. Well, that's the Smalley family.
01:34Uh, we're, you know, dysfunctional. But who? Who isn't?

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