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"Happy Returns" is an episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. It was the first episode of series 4, and was first broadcast on 21 February, 1985. In the episode, when Del discovers that Rodney's latest girlfriend is the daughter of an old flame, he suspects she might be his daughter.
The latest object of Rodney's lust is a pretty newsagent worker named Debbie, who is also keen on him, though acts slightly more coy about it. Meanwhile, Del Boy saves a young boy from getting hit by speeding traffic. That night, Del comes across the boy again, who tells him that he's running away from home because he got into trouble with his mother for letting the air out of the tyres on the Trotters' van. Del tells him that they'll go and tell the boy's mother that he had asked the youngster to deflate the tyres on the Reliant Regal van, to entice the boy back home.
Del is pleasantly surprised to see that the boy's mother is June Snell, one of Del's old girlfriends from the 1960s. When Rodney unexpectedly arrives to see Debbie (from the newsagent), Del realises that June is Debbie's mother too. In order to leave the courting couple alone, he and June go to the Nag's Head to reminisce about old times, although June is reluctant to reveal why she left Del so suddenly when they were a couple. However, when the barmaid unwittingly reveals that Debbie's 19th birthday is imminent, Del deduces that June left him because she was pregnant with his child - Debbie. Quickly, he returns to June's flat to stop Rodney committing what he mistakenly describes as 'an act of incense'. An uninformed Rodney isn't happy with his brother's interfering and demands to know why it's Del's concern who he dates. Del tells him everything. Distraught, Rodney pleads with Del to ask June if it's 'definitely definite' he is Debbie's father as June hasn't actually told Del yet.
Elizabeth Vargas (born September 6, 1962) is an American television journalist who is anchor of ABC's television newsmagazine 20/20 and ABC News Specials. She was previously an anchor of World News Tonight.
Vargas was born on September 6, 1962 in Paterson, New Jersey to a Puerto Rican colonel in the U.S. Army, Rafael (Ralf) Vargas, and an Irish-American mother, Anne Vargas. She spent her youth moving from base to base in Germany, Belgium and Japan.
Vargas graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, where she made her debut broadcast as a reporter/anchor for KOMU-TV.
WBBM-TV, an affiliate of CBS in Chicago, Illinois. Phyllis McGrady, a senior vice president at ABC, said of her: "Elizabeth is one of the most flexible talents I've ever worked with. She could do interviews, and do hour-long specials that make you think, and then she'll do a great interview with P. Diddy. She is versatile."
After four years at Chicago's WBBM, Vargas jumped to NBC News in 1993, as a correspondent for Dateline NBC and a sub anchor for Today. In June 1996, she joined Good Morning America as the newsreader and Joan Lunden's likely "heir apparent". In June 1997, ABC elevated Vargas to primetime magazine show correspondent. She was also named anchor of WNT Saturday, and presented with the opportunity to develop specials for primetime. In November 2003, Vargas became anchor of WNT Sunday. But that didn't last for long: she was named co-anchor of 20/20 in May 2004.
When I accepted this job
I was resigned to my fate
When I got there early
She?d arrive late
You can say she?s gone forever
Or just sit tight and wait
She said I was unprincipled
That I was not the first
Like the phoenix coming back
From the ashes, uh huh
I know what?s good
But I know what trash is
In the head lights
In the highlights of her hair
Hit the head lines
But she?s not there
Many happy returns, many happy returns
These are the lessons I could have learned
Return, many happy returns
And these are the letters I should have burned
Okay, I?m sad, not blue
Okay, remember
All that matters to me now
Is the message I sent her
Like the world, spinning ?round
On it?s axis, uh huh
I know democracy
But I know what?s fascist
When she?s gone, all I've got to learn
Is the law of diminishing return
When she?s here one thing I?ve found
Things get better second time around
Return, many happy returns
These are the lessons that I could have learned
Return, many happy returns
And these are the letters I should have burned
Okay I?m sad, not blue
Okay, remember
All that matters to me now
Is the message I sent her
Now she?s gone, she?s gone away
Now she?s gone forget her
Coming back another day
If you?d only let her
And now she?s gone, she?s gone away
But now she?s gone forget her
I'm coming back no other day
So why resurrect her?
Many happy returns, many happy returns
These are the lessons I should have learned
Many happy returns, many happy returns