Desperate Housewives - Season 1 - Episode 1 - Lynette warning her children

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Lynette Scavo often has a hard time with her The Scavo children
children . In this extract, Lynette is going to Paul Young's house, just after Mary Alice has shot herself. There will be plenty of people at the mourning reception and she wants her kids to behave.


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Lynette : You are going to today. I am going to be in front of the entire . And, just so you know how I am... (reaches inside her top and pulls a folded piece of paper from her pocket)
Preston : What’s that?
Lynette : ’s cell-phone .
Preston : How did you that?
Lynette : I know , who someone, who knows an elf. And if of you acts up, so help me, I will Santa and I will him you want for . You're willing to that?
Preston : Uh-uh! (all shake their heads vehemently)
Lynette : Okay
(She tucks the paper back in her pocket, and straightens.)