#uncle!benny

"Yippee ki-yay..."

"Mudder fuck--" Lucy finishes the phrase but Will quickly cuts her off.

"No, no, no! That's a bad word! We don't say that. Where'd you hear that?" he asks her again.

“The Christhmuth movie!” She answers.

"And where did you see this movie? Mommy and daddy would never let you watch that."

"Uncle Benny wasth watching it yeth-terday."

"Lucy! It’s your turn to be Hans Booger!" Gary says.

"No more saying that, okay?" Will tells her. "You can say yippee ki-yay, but not the other words. Those are bad words."

"Okay, daddy!" Lucy agrees as she tries to wiggle free from his hold.

"You too, Gary. You can't say those bad words," Will also tells his nephew who nods in return.

As soon as Will puts Lucy back down, they go sprinting off chasing each other again.

"No running!" Will shouts.

***

When Benny swings by to pick up Gary, Will has a word with him.

"Hey man, listen. The kids were supposed to be napping so I put on Die Hard. It's a Miller Christmas tradition," he shrugs.  "I didn't know Lucy woke up in the middle of the movie until she started copying me when I shouted out that catchphrase,” he explains.

"It's a Miller tradition that we started when we were old enough to watch it.”

“Pft, you were like 10 or something and I was like 8. We were nowhere near old enough--" Benny counters, but stops talking after seeing his brother's deadpan face. "Okay, I'm sorry. I'll make sure she doesn't see it again until she's old enough."

"Thank you," Will says.

As if on cue, Gary and Lucy come running back around again.

"Hey Lucy Moose, come here for a second," Benny crouches down to her level.

"Uncle Benny!" Lucy throws herself at him and hugs him tightly.

“Remember the Christmas movie we saw yesterday?”

Lucy nods.

“We can’t say the hero's catchphrase. They’re bad words,” he explains.

“I know. Daddy told me,” she says.

“Good. Instead, say yippee ki-yay motherlover.”

“Yippee ki-yay mudder lover!” She repeats.

“Yeah, see. Love is nice, right?” Benny cranes his neck up to look at his brother for approval. “Who doesn’t love their mother?”

“Benny, no, it was more than just…” Will sighs and shakes his head, defeated.