Professor Phillips' Broken Glasses (Adultish Timmy's Stepdad)

0:02 [music] >> In the living room, Timmy's stepfather, Professor Phillips, was holding baby Victoria and was going to read a fairy tale story, The Little Mermaid, to Timmy and Jeffrey. >> Okay, boys, it's fairy tale story time. I am going to read The Little Mermaid. >> Everyone was happy except Timmy. He insisted that he was too grown up for fairy tales and wanted to watch The Sopranos instead. >> Fairy tales, The Little Mermaid? More like The Little Dummy. Fairy tales is

0:48 kids' stuff. Fairy tales are for babies and toddlers. How about we watch The Sopranos instead? >> Timmy, can you at least be part of a family togetherness? You need to cut the unhealthy obsession of The Sopranos and other grown-up things. >> Okay, fine, Dad. I am sitting down and cooperating with you. >> That's better, Timmy. Now, let's get the fairy tale story time going. >> As everyone sat down, Professor Phillips opened up a fairy tale story book while his baby daughter, Victoria, was sitting on his lap. While Professor Phillips began reading a chapter of The Little Mermaid, Victoria playfully grabbed away a pair of glasses from him as if she thought they were toys. >> Victoria, no. Those are not toys. Those are Daddy's glasses.

1:33 >> As he tried to retrieve his glasses, Victoria accidentally dropped the glasses. When the glasses fell to the floor, their lens shattered. When Professor Phillips heard his glasses broke, he became surprised and upset about it. He reached down and picked up his broken glasses and said, >> Oh, no. My glasses are broken. >> Timmy and Jeffrey were shocked to see Professor Phillips who had his glasses that were broken. Timmy wanted to help. >> Don't worry, Dad. I will get Mom for help that your glasses are broken. >> Thank you, Timmy. I appreciate that. That was very grown-up of you to do that. >> While Timmy rushed to find his mom for help, Victoria began crying as Professor Phillips was a little upset about his glasses that were broken and was unable to read a fairy [crying] tale book

2:19 without them. He wasn't upset at his daughter at all, just because she accidentally dropped his glasses and broke them. He calmly told her, >> Victoria, it's all right. Daddy is not mad at you. You didn't mean to. >> Even without glasses, despite having a blurred fuzzy vision, Professor Phillips could smile at Victoria and bond with her. Victoria stopped crying and smiled back at him. She could still recognize him as her father, even without glasses. Even without glasses, he could still hear her giggling and held her like a baby, just like a father and daughter bonding. When Timmy and his mom returned to the living room, Timmy's mom, Julie, offered Professor Phillips a new spare of glasses with a strap on. He put on

3:04 his new pair of glasses with a strap on. >> Now I can see things better and clearer. Now I don't have to worry about losing or breaking my glasses since I am now wearing them with a strap on. Thank you, Julie. >> With a new pair of glasses with a strap that he was wearing, Professor Phillips once again opened a fairy tale story book and began reading it with his daughter sitting on his lap. Everyone in the family was happy as they listened to him reading out loud. >> [music]