“Wad Mas. Smith" INT. MARRIAGE GUIDANCE OFFICE - DAY A COUPLE, 408, ait apart, on separate chairs, looking at us. WOMAN We got married in ‘81. It wae my dream to meet a tail guy and have a big wedding. Since then - MAN It's gone downhill on a rail. CUT To: ANOTHER COUPLE, 508 WOMAN When we met I loved everything about him, I’d say 90% of the things I used to love now make me want to puke. cur TO: COUPLE, 508 MAN She's let herself go. WOMAN He used to be so cute, one day he walks in looks like a toad. Don't you think he looks like a toad? He does. WOMAN (CONT'D) Imagine wakin' up next to that for 32 yeare. cur To: COUPLE, 608 MAN Marriage is about Trust. Period. You can have attraction, shared interests, if you don’t have trust it’s like you got an anchor, an eighty foot sail, and no boat. (CONTINUED )conrinugp: WOMAN You sink like a stone. CUT To: JOHN AND JANE SMITH, COUPLE, 30S. TENSE SMILES. JOEN Firet up I wanna say we don’t really need to be here. JANE | It's a funny story. JOHN We were at a charity event, a charity auction slash barbecue... JANE +;0ur friends the Carlson's, They live across the street. SOnN Anyway the grand loz was... BOTH +++a mystery lot. JOHN I'd sunk a few, wasn't driving so T start bidding... JANE John gets a tiny bit competitive. He bites his tongue. JOHN | Anyway the upshot is we end up blowing four hundred bucks on the mystery lot. BOTH Four Sessions with Dr. Wexler! JANE The Carleons have a great sense of humor. ‘They both laugh. They sit there. (CONTINUED )Stumped. ‘wo TIGET DR. WEXLER (0.S.) But you didn’t have to come. JOHN Right. JANE Absolutely. But we have a theory... JORN We do? JANE The 0il-Check. JOHN Right. The Oil Check. See we've been married five years... JANE Sixes. Joan Five, six years, and this is like a check up for us. Pop the hood, nose around, change the cil, maybe replace a seal or two... SMILES, BLACKOUT. TITLE. FADE UP. DR. WEXLER (0.8.) on a scale of one tc ten how happy are you as 4 couple? SANE Eight. JOHN Wait. So like ten being perfectly happy and one being... totally, utterly miserable? DR. WEXLER (0.8.) Just respond instinctively. JOHN OK. Ready? (contawusp)