- Hello, Pop.
- Gee, I wish we'd known you were coming. We'd have had the place kind of cleaned up.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:23:30.852 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I guess I'd better call the Kenworthys and tell them we won't be over this evening.
- Yes.
- My son and my daughter. I don't recognize you. What's happened?
- Just a few years of normal growth. Don't you approve?
- I don't know yet. I've gotta have more time to get to know you.
- You see, Al... My husband. Yes. He's home. Yes. Yes.
- Freddy.
- Well, say. Oh. Pat. Pat, it's Freddy. He's home again.
- Gee, I wish we'd known you were coming. We'd have had the place kind of cleaned up.
- Well, haven't you got anything to say to your own son?
- Look at him, Pat. Look at your hero son. And look at all those beautiful ribbons on his chest.
- Go on, Freddy, tell your father how you got those ribbons and what they mean.
- Marie?
- Oh, Marie isn't here, Freddy.
- Well, she's not living with us anymore, Freddy. She took an apartment downtown.
[...]