Cosby Show -- Rudy's Vegetables

Rudy: No

Mom: I'm gonna get this.* Mrs. Davis will be here at any moment. Cliff, don't let Rudy get up from that table till she's cleaned her plate.

Rudy: I'm not eating them

Dad: All right. Then just sit here.

Rudy: For how long?

Dad: For how long? Until you eat them. All I can say is, I remember a little girl, and she wouldn't eat her vegetables and her parents said, "Well, you're just gonna sit there until you eat them." And, uh, she saw her friends growing up, people were going to college... She was still sitting there. In the same clothes she had on when she was five years old. (Laughs.) Now are you gonna eat 'em?

Rudy: No

Dad: All right, then just sit there, all right? And don't try to hide 'em because if you try to hide 'em, I'm coming back and I'm going to...

Dad and Rudy: Check...my...teeth.

Dad: Right

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*I can't tell if she's saying, "I'm gonna get this," or "I'd better get this." Yes, even native English speakers have a hard time understanding sometimes!

Vocabulary used often in spoken English

Gonna -- Used a lot in spoken English. Short for going to.
Don't -- contraction for do not
Till -- Until. Used a lot in spoken English. If you use it in writing, be sure to spell with two LLs. Till, not til.
she's -- she has. (She's can also be a contraction for "she is.")
I'm -- contraction for I am
wouldn't -- contraction for would not
Well** -- used a lot at the beginning of sentences. A "filler word" with no real meaning
Uh** – Also a "filler word." No real meaning. It usually fills time while people are thinking. Um is the same. Very common in spoken English.
'em -- short for them. Very common in spoken English.
all right? -- same as "okay?" Similar meaning to "do you understand?"

**Filler words:
Words like Um, well, uh, so, y’know
When they are used as fillers, they don’t have any real meaning. They are just used to fill pauses.

“Well, I think I am going.”
“Um, maybe not.”
“So, what do you think?”