Frank, Kermit and others in “Unfinished Business”

Frank

I have investigated every possible retirement scenario, and they all lead to homelessness, hunger, despair, and decrepitude.

Kermit

How's that any different than how you live right now, Frank?

Frank

It's as if we think the elderly are irrelevant, disposable. My own children have said they won't care for me in old age. What does tell you about the decline of Western civilization?

Tommy

That you didn't raise any fools.

Frank

I believe that Alzheimer's is an evolutionary advantage that we've developed so we won't have to be aware of the depth of misery we face in our dotage. And yet... here I am... as loose as the day I was born.

Tommy

Retirement is for rich people. My old man was at GM for 40 years. Six months short of retirement, the pension fund went tits up. Forty years and dick to show for it. But he got lucky.

Frank

How's that?

Tommy

Well, he died on the line. Keeled over into the stamping machine. Got pressed into a rear fender for a Buick Skylark. Never even stopped the line.

Frank

How's that lucky?

Tommy

Well, he didn't have to worry about retiring.