- The twins want to be fairies in the school play.
- Ray goes to school to pick up the twins after their play rehearsal at the auditorium.
The twins are playing fairies in the school play. Ray brings them back home in their fairy costumes after rehearsal, where Frank sees them. Frank tells Ray that playing fairies will make them gay. He wants Ray to switch them into sports pronto. Ray says that these are the parts assigned to the twins and decides to stick with it.
Robert remembers how Frank never encouraged him when he joined the school chorus. Frank is adamant that singing, dancing or any kind of feminine activity is how it starts. Frank says that it is his hard work that Ray and Robert turned out to be normal. Marie says that being gay is fine as long as the twins or anybody else is happy. Marie says that turning out like Frank is the worst thing that could happen. Ray makes fun of Frank and insinuates that he might be gay as he swims naked with his lodge buddies. Frank also uses Marie's perfume when he doesn't shower. The whole family laughs Frank out of the house.
Ray is initially fine with the twins playing the parts, believing that the school assigned the roles, but objects when he realizes Debra specifically signed them up as fairies. Debra says that she thought it would be fun to see the twins dance on stage in sparkly outfits. Debra says the twins are having fun with their roles. Ray says the twins are 5 years old and they would have fun with an empty roll of toilet paper. Ray says Debra is impinging on their free will. Debra accuses Ray of being just like Frank. Ray doesn't like making all the decisions for Michael (Sullivan Sweeten) and Geoffrey (Sawyer Sweeten), as they are his boys too. Marie says that Ray is worse than Frank because at least Frank is upfront with his feelings. Meanwhile, Ray pretends to be a liberal, but he is embarrassed that his boys are playing fairies. Marie agrees that Ray has some of his father's conservatism in him.
Ray tries to change their part to boulders. The boulders don't have any lines or anything else to do in the play. They just sit there, and no-one can even see them. But then Ray discovers that the twins actually want to be fairies, he gets their parts back and trains them. Their teacher Sarah told Ray that the twins were having trouble following the choreography and she was glad when Ray told her that they wanted to be boulders. So, for them to become fairies, they would need to practice a lot harder. Ray to has to commit to training them and the teacher will decide if she wants to pick them.
Ray has to teach them steps which pretty much look gay. Skipping on their Tippy toes and gently floating around with arms flapping. Frank is horrified. At the play, the twins enter the stage and throw everything around and make a mess of things. Turns out this is what Frank had taught them. To behave like boys.
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