I'm the boss in this house.And when I say I'm going to the convention, I'm going...A third vase hits the same target, crowning the argument once and for all.Mrs.Hardy rushes into the room and snatches the bowl of ornamental fruit away from Stan's vicinity.Know-it-all Stan counsels Ollie: "If you're not careful, she's going to get the upper hand of you.Now mark my words." Stan's wife Betty (Dorothy Christy), who has arrived home from duck-hunting with a rifle in her hand, walks into the room behind them, framed between the two husbands.WHERE is it? Now you've got an orange ranch on your mind.Well, nothing will come of it.You're not going to drag me and the children across this country, away from friends and relatives.If any money comes into this family, I'M going to handle it and put it to some practical purpose.And THAT'S that...There in the kitchen, his daughter Mildred also gripes and berates him for taking her away from the people she likes, as he strains and "yesses" his wife to assure her that he is listening from afar:Mildred: You're just trying to ruin the lives and future of everybody in this family.He remarked: "It wasn't always like this.I had a real life once.A job." He worked as a clerk at an S-Mart store (with the slogan, "Shop smart.Shop S-Mart").He and his girlfriend Linda (now played by Bridget Fonda) had driven to the remote small cabin in the mountains.Complications arose when it was revealed that unbeknownst to Hawkins, Giacomo was also a skilled assassin, hired by the scheming Sir Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone) o kill Roderick and acquire the throne for himself.