Kramer vs. Kramer Scene 3 Summary

  • Garbage trucks are doing their thing in the street below the Kramers' apartment. Loudly.
  • Billy wakes up and finds Ted in his and Joanna's room, asleep on top of the sheets, surrounded by papers and photo proofs from work.
  • Billy wants to know where his mom is. She always takes him to school. Ted says they had a little fight, so she wanted to be by herself for a little bit, but she'll be back soon, and he'll take Billy to school, but first—breakfast. Billy wants French toast.
  • After casually informing Billy that all the best chefs are men (Stephanie Izard, Alice Waters, and Ina Garten beg to differ, y'all), Ted makes Billy some of the worst French toast known to man. He gets shells in the egg mixture, and has to break the bread into pieces because he's decided to beat the eggs and milk in a coffee mug that says "Ted" on it for some reason.
  • He has to ask Billy where Mommy keeps the pan, so we're going to guess that he's dunking shell-covered bread in his "Ted" coffee mug because homeboy doesn't know where the bowls are, either.
  • The entire time that Ted makes breakfast he keeps telling Billy that they're having fun, right? Right? Ted looks about as at home in the kitchen as we're guessing Jason Statham does.
  • Ted seems frazzled as he tries to make French toast, make himself coffee, plan what he needs to get done before he takes Billy to school, and get Billy some orange juice.
  • He neglects the World's Grossest French Toast, and it starts to burn. When Billy brings it to his attention, Ted grabs the pan directly and burns his hand. "Damn her!" he yells. Pretty sure he's not talking about the toast.
  • Ted tries to calm down, talking to himself and telling himself everything's going to be okay while Billy looks at him with a face that reads "OMG I hope Mom comes back real soon."