Well-schooled in the comedy classics

LG: “Mama, we are supposed to use compound words to fill in the blanks in this Spring poem.”

PS: “Uh, okay. You can show it to me when you’re done.”

LG: “Spring… time. Blue… birds. Butter… flies. May… flowers. Sun… Mama, is ‘sunbe’ a word?”

PS: “Sunbeam?”

LG: “No, not sunbeam. SunBE.”

PS: “Er, sunbe? No. That’s not a word.”

LG: “Oh, wait! It’s sun-flowers and may-be. Is 'maybe' a compound word?”

PS: “Yeah, I guess it is.”

LG: “Okay, I finished. Here, look.”

PS: [Reading it over] “Looks great, buddy. Except this here. You’re missing a letter. ‘Sprintime,’ see? The 'g' is missing.”

LG: “Oh, sprint-time, ha! ‘Yes, sprint-time days are filled with fun.’”

PS: [Laughing] “Sprint-time days are filled with fun. We sprint because we have to run. We sprint because we’re being chased. But soon this word will be erased.”

LG: [Laughing] “Mama, that’s great! We sprint because we’re being chased, and now this word is erased!”

BB: “Sprinting is running! You know what this is?"

PS: "What?"

BB: "A running gag.”