All language subtitles for G.T.S02E08.The.Encyclopedia.Hustle.540p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-squalor_track3_[eng]

* Good times
Any time you meet a payment *

* Good times
Any time you need a friend *

* Good times any time
You're out from under *

* Not gettin' hassled
Not gettin' hustled *

* Keepin' your head
Above water *

* Makin' a wave when you can *

* Temporary lay offs
Good times *

* Easy credit ripoffs
Good times *

* Scratchin' and survivin'
Good times *

* Hangin' in a chow line
Good times *

* Ain't we lucky we got 'em *

* Good times **

Hey, Thelma,
you just ate my model.

Sorry, J.J.

That's the only apple
we had left in the house.

Paint a banana.

Mama, I'm an artist,
I gotta paint what I feels--

and today I feel apples.

Well, if you feel apple how come
you always acting bananas?

Can't you paint half an apple?
You got half a brain...

Oh, get out of there.

Children.

Ma, my whole
artistic mood is ruined.

What I'm gonna do for the rest
of the day? I'm desperate!

Do your homework.

I ain't that desperate.

The phone
is still dead, Mom.

I know, Thelma,
your daddy's out

trying to raise money
to pay the bill now.

Willona's taking
messages for us,

didn't you give
her number to your friends?

Yeah, but none
of my boyfriends called yet.

Huh, that figures,

your boyfriends are so
dumb they probably

can't remember
more than one number.

Look who's talking! How about
the chicks you go out with?

I don't have to worry
about my chicks,

because they don't have
to remember no number.

They can knock
on my door.

If they can
find the door.

The door is
right there.

All right, children,
I want you to stop it.

You kids only have your social
life to worry about.

I've got to worry
about a part-time job

that's being messed up.

[KNOCKING]

By the time that
department store reaches me

the part-time job
will be no time.

Good afternoon.

Yes?

My name is Henry Anderson,
and I have a free gift for you.

Well, even if it's free
we can't afford it.

Ma'am I'm sure
you'll find it interesting,

it's a calendar with important
dates of black history.

Black history?

Take it, Mama. It's free.

Yeah, but I got
a feeling

what he got
in his briefcase ain't.

I am selling something,
ma'am,

but I'd still like the boy
to have this free calendar.

He sounds like
a true soul brother.

Here you are, son.

Thank you.

If you like that,
I'm sure you'll find it

really interesting
what I'm selling.

It's an entire encyclopedia
of black history.

Black encyclopedia?

Fantastic, we sure could
use one around here.

Now wait a minute, Michael,

I'm only up to E
in the white encyclopedia.

Let's take
one color at a time.

Oh, you have
another son?

Yes.

If you'd just let me come in,
I'd like to talk to you.

I am not interested.

May I sit down?

In somebody else's apartment.

Now, will you leave?

Mama,
he's B-L-I-N-D.

But, Michael,
he can still H-E-A-R.

J.J.!

Here's your briefcase and...
Thank you.

...I'm sorry we were so rude.
Please sit down.

Oh, it's nothing
to get upset about,

just treat me
like anybody else.

I may be an unsighted person,

but I still have
my other senses to compensate.

For instance,
I'd say the young man

is 12 years old,
about five feet

and extremely intelligent.

Thank you, how'd you know that?

I know a lot of things.

Sometimes I can see things
sighted people can't.

How do I look?

Well, from the direction
of your voice

I'd say you're quite tall,

and from the confidence
with which you ask the question,

very handsome.

This man can see things
sighted people can't see.

There's also a young lady
in the room.

Yeah, that's right. I'm Thelma,
but how did you know I was here?

By your perfume.

Yeah, she's wearing
Lily of the Ghetto.

I can tell by your voice
that you're very pretty.

Mr. Anderson, you just blew
your winning streak.

Mr. Anderson, what does
Mama look like?

Well, from the moment
I heard her at the door

I knew that she was kind, warm,
youthful and very charming.

Mr. Anderson, can I get you
a cup of coffee?

Please, don't put yourself
to any trouble.

Oh, it's just my way
of thanking you

for not mentioning
my weight.

I'm sure that you have
a very lovely figure.

You just won yourself
a donut too.

Mr. Anderson, can you tell
me more about these books?

This set of encyclopedias
is for you, Michael.

This is only
volume one,

the whole set
contains 10 volumes.

It covers everything from
Crispus Attucks to Malcolm X.

Oh, wow,
look at this!

Here you are, Mr. Anderson,

this is your coffee,

and the donut is right
in front of you.

Thank you, Mrs...?
Evans.

Mama, come here, look at this.

It says here that
when George Washington

crossed the Delaware he had
two black men with him.

Hey, that's a switch,

the two black dudes are sitting
and George is standing.

I never knew this!
This is terrific.

Take it easy, Michael,
don't get too carried away.

Hey, Ma, listen to this.

It says a black scout
named James Armistead

saved General Lafayette and his
men from capture by the British.

Hmm, I can just
imagine him now

standing there
in a 1776 Cadillac.

Lafayette, we's here.

Mom, this book is great.

Mr. Anderson,
you got anything

in that book
about black artists?

I knew you'd ask that question.

You're an artist yourself,
aren't you?

Of course.

I can smell the paint.

I'm sure you're
a fine artist too.

Hey, this dude is too much.

First he knows I'm handsome,
now he knows I'm talented.

Boy, this guy's got
the Six Million Dollar Man

beat by five million dollars.

We're very proud of our section
on black artists.

Charles White, Ernie Barnes,
Henry O. Tanner.

Oh, maybe next year I'll be
written up in one of your books.

Only if there's
a section on black fools.

It'd be under T for Thelma.

Mr. Anderson,
does the encyclopedia

have anything about the theatre?

Oh yes, a very extensive
section, Thelma.

It covers James Baldwin,
Lorraine Hansberry,

has biographies
of Marion Anderson,

Leontyne Price,
Paul Roberson...

Wow, Mama, doesn't that
sound out of sight?

I got a feeling the cost
is out of sight too.

Oh, Mrs. Evans, it's not
as expensive as you'd think.

We have a special
easy payment plan.

Could you afford, say,
$20 down and $5 a week?

The $20 down is impossible

and the $5 a week
is tougher than that.

You're such a wonderful family,

how about $5 down
and $2 a week?

Two dollars a week?

Oh, Ma, can't we
stretch our budget?

Child, we ain't got no budget.

All we got is a cookie jar
with some pennies and prayers--

and by the end of the week
it's down to prayers.

You're missing a wonderful
opportunity, Mrs. Evans.

Now it only costs $109,

next week it'll be up to $250.

Yeah, Mama,
we better act fast.

Hey, Mama, we could do it,

I won't buy so much
perfume and hair spray.

And I'll make
the supreme sacrifice,

I'll give up
my weekly Big Mac.

Oh, please, Mama,
if you buy us these books

I'll never ask
for anything again as long

as I live in my whole life.

Come on, Mama,
we can do it, I'll save.

Please, Mama, come on.

Wait a minute, children,
that's a lot of money.

Ma, I'll save too.

[INDISTINGUISHABLE]

James, I'm glad you're here.

Oh?

We got company.

Yeah, well if
it's a bill collector

you better tell him to get
to the end of the line.

He's selling something.

Selling something?

Baby, you must be kidding.
I been out scuffling trying

to raise money to pay
the bills we got now,

didn't come up with but $5,
and you're in here

listening to some slick pitch
from a jive dude.

Plus you're serving him
the last donut

I was saving for myself
when I got home.

James, let me explain.

Well, look here, man, I don't
know what you're selling,

but we ain't buying nothing.

So you might as well pack up
your bag and get on out of here.

Daddy, he's selling
encyclopedias,

it's the whole history
of black people.

Yeah? Well, the history
of these black people

is that we can't afford to buy
no encyclopedias

about the history
of them black people.

Now split, man.

Hey daddy, you shouldn't
talk to him that way.

I don't need you telling me
how to talk to no fancy peddler.

Oh, Ma.

Michael, may I have the book,
please?

Well, will you listen
to Mr. Saddity?

"Michael, may I have the book,
please?" What is that?

Mr. Anderson, can
we still keep the calendar?

Sure, it's yours,
enjoy it, son.

Thank you.

Under the circumstances

maybe I'd better
come back another time.

Yeah, try July 1985.

James.

Well, what kind
of clumsy ox

you all done
brought in here?

Knocking over furniture,
stumbling and bumbling around?

How you expect somebody
to buy something you selling

you can't even...
Daddy!

He's blind.

I'm sorry, I didn't know.

Why didn't somebody
say something?

What you all just standing
around for?

Thelma, get the man
another cup of coffee.

No, no please,
don't bother.

Sit down, please Mr. Anderson,
I'm sorry.

What you selling?

An encyclopedia
of Black history, Mr. Evans.

It's $109, James.

But it's only $5 down
and $2 a week, Daddy.

It tells the whole story
of black people.

Yeah, from slavery to Shaft.

From "Lift that bale,
tote that barge,"

to "Get your hands
off me, honky."

Mr. Evans, your children
can have

the whole cultural history
of our race

right at their fingertips.

Yeah, well we always did
want the kids

to get a good education.

What you think,
baby?

I don't know, James,
it's up to you.

Well, $2 a week ain't going
to make or break us.

All right, Mr. Anderson,
you got yourself a deal.

[CHEERING]

If you'll just sign this
contract on the bottom line.

All right.

I'll deliver
the entire set

to you personally
this evening.

And, Mr. Anderson,
here's the five for the down.

You'll have to excuse the
condition of the wrinkled money,

had to do a lot
of squeezing to get it.

Thank you, and here's
your copy of the contract.

It's awfully nice meeting you
and your family, Mr. Evans.

Same here.

Let me show you to the door,
Mr. Anderson.

Thank you.

Nice talking
to all of you.

Bye.

Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.

I'll be back
this evening.

All right,
we'll see you.

I mean,
we'll be here.

Oh James, that was a nice thing
to do, helping out a blind man.

Oh, baby, that ain't
had nothing to do with it.

I just thought it
would be a good idea

to have some decent history
books around here for the kids.

You know this paper here could
be the road to culture.

Thank you, Daddy.

Yeah, it sure will be nice
to have them books.

Yeah, uh-uh.

Hey baby, I see something
I don't like here.

What is it,
James, what?

It says there is an extra $1
a week carrying charge,

$3 credit
investigation charge,

and if we miss
two payments in a row

there's
a $20 penalty charge.

Then they got
a final balloon payment

that's going
to blow us away.

We just make sure we don't miss
any payments.

Yeah, like
we didn't miss

any payments to the telephone
company, huh?

Oh lord, now look,
I know this is bad news.

What?

The print on it's
so fine you need

a magnifying glass
to read it.

Look here, "The seller has a
lien on the purchaser's chattel"

Now I know we're the purchaser,
but who the hell is chattel?

They must have spelled it wrong.

They probably think we're rich
Texans and they meant cattle.

Chattel means everything we own:
Furniture, stove, refrigerator,

TV, clothes, everything!

Ma, they can
take everything!

James, what have
we signed?

I got a feeling we gonna be
an unfurnished naked family.

How could a brother rip us off?

It's easy, Michael.

Don't forget now,

Benedict Arnold was
somebody's brother too.

Well, baby, that
was some fine meal.

Well, thank the lord
we had enough to eat.

Yeah, but you know
if we go for that encyclopedia

hokey-doke, this table going
to be down to poke and grits.

What's poke and grits,
Daddy?

Son, that's when you
ain't got nothing to eat,

you poke out your lips
and grit your teeth.

It's all my fault.

No.

It's not your fault, baby,
we're all to blame.

We were just trying
to help out a blind man.

Yeah, if he's blind.

What you mean
by that, James?

Oh, now think
about it, baby.

This cat comes
in here fumbling and stumbling,

bumps into a few things,
tells us he's blind

and we fall for the jive.

And me signing that contract,

I fell for it worse
than anybody,

gave him
the last $5 I had.

Now wait a minute, y'all.

I got a great idea how we
can get out of this thing.

Listen to this,
we lock the door,

pack our bags,
and before he gets here

we go down
to the Ambassador East Hotel,

get a suite and lay there until
this thing blows over!

J.J., where we going
to get the money

to stay
at the Ambassador East?

I took the ball
to the one-yard line,

let somebody else carry
it over for the touchdown.

It's Willona's
answering service

with the latest batch
of messages

for the Evans family.

Not that I'm
complaining, James,

but what is happening
with the telephone?

Nothing, I ain't
paid the bill.

Oh...

Any calls for me, Willona?

There sure was, honey,

Eddie called,
he wants to take you

to the basketball
game Saturday night.

Oh, really?

Uh-huh, and Jimmy called,

he wants to take you to the
basketball game Saturday night.

Uh-oh.

And Larry called,
he wants to take you

to the basketball game
Saturday night.

What, all three
of them?

Mm-hmm.
Oh no, what I'm going to do now?

Are you hip to eeny,
meeny, miny, moe?

Well, now that we dispensed
with the small fry,

let's get
onto the biggie.

Yeah.
Anyway.

J.J.?

Yes, Ma?

I'll give you
a "Yes, Ma."

Lay it on me, Willona,

how many females
been calling panting

for their Saturday evening
reservations

with Kid Dy-no-mite?

You had one call,
Fred Thompson.

Oh, Fred Thompson?

Now, Fred Thompson is worth
millions of Thelma calls.

My main man, Fred.
My down home partner, Fred!

What my main
running mate want?

He wants you to ask Thelma

to go to the basketball game
with him Saturday night.

Looks like Kid Dy-no-mite
is a wet firecracker.

And Flo, you had one call
from Thora Fuller.

You know your friend
that's had 11 kids

and about to have another
one any day?

Well, what was
the message?

Help!
Oh, Willona!

And James, you had a call
from the carwash.

Oh good, they want me
to come in

tomorrow for the weekend
business, huh?

No, they're expecting
a heavy rainstorm,

they're not even going
to open the place up.

Boy that's great, just great!

Take on debt and lose, you pay.

Tell you,
if it wasn't for bad luck,

we wouldn't have
no luck at all. Damn.

See, White folks is right,
we are happy carefree people.

Wa-ow!

* Camptown ladies sing this song
Doo-da, doo-da *

* Camptown ladies
Five miles long **

Hey Willona,
could you wind down?

I could wino!

I'll see you all later.

Okay. That girl's crazy.

You know something, baby,
that about rips it, though.

With no weekend money
coming from the carwash,

ain't no way in the world we can
afford them encyclopedias now.

When that dude gets here
with that phony hustle tonight,

we just gonna have
to sock it to him.

But, James,
we could be wrong,

how do we know
he isn't really blind?

Florida, I bet you that dude
could see a roach

tap dancing a mile away.

[KNOCKING]

Wait, let me get it,
baby.

Junior, get on the floor
and lay down by the door.

Now, I'm going to show you
just how blind this cat is.

Oh, James.

I said lay down on the floor
by the door, man.

Oh, come on, Dad, I ain't
laying down on no floor.

I beg your pardon?

I was just laying
down on the floor.

Come in.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Uh-huh, uh-huh, see?

I told you,
you satisfied now?

Man, I done seen some cons
in my time,

but you take
the cake trying to run

that phony
blind job on us.

If you're talking about
that person laying there

on the floor,
I heard him breathing.

Oh, now come on.
I wasn't breathing, Dad, honest.

I heard him
breathing clearly.

Do you think
I'd pretend I lost

one of God's
most precious gifts?

You think I'd commit
a blasphemy

like that just
to sell an encyclopedia?

Damn right.

We can't be sure.

Maybe this will convince you,

it's a Photostat copy
of my Army medical records.

This happened in Korea.

Korea?

Yeah, the Yalu River,
91st Recon.

91st Recon?

Hey, man, you the cats
that replaced us.

Oh, yeah?
Yeah.

Hey look, I hate to ask you
to get me out of another hole,

man, but we can't deal
with that contract,

you all got too many
clauses in it.

You got clauses in there to turn
us every which way but loose.

And the company's going to take
away everything we've got

if we can't keep up
them payments.

Hey, that's terrible, I didn't
know nothing about them clauses.

Look, I'd like to tear your
contract up, but I can't.

I already turned in a signed
copy of it to my boss.

Well, what are
we going to do?

We're not blaming you,
but we're in a lot of trouble.

Don't worry, Mrs. Evans,

I'm not going
to let that company

take advantage
of you good people.

I'm going to call up
my boss right now

and get him to straighten
this thing out.

Where's the phone,
please?

Well, it's right
over here.

Oh, but you can't do that...

No problem,
I dial by feel.

No, no...

I'll settle this
with my boss right now.

No, Mr. Anderson,
you don't understand,

my wife is trying
to explain...

Anderson here,
Mr. Fields, please.

Mr. Fields, Anderson.

Say I'm over here at the...

Say, I'm over here
at the Evans' place

and they tell me there
are some irregularities

in their
encyclopedia contract.

No, I want you to tear
that contract up

and call
the whole thing off.

But you can't do that, Fields,
you're cheating these people.

No, you listen to me,

if you don't tear up
that contract, I--

He hung up on me.

That makes me mad enough,
I ought to just quit.

Man, you quit when you
picked up that phone.

You know something,
man,

you ain't nothing but
a no-good phony hustler.

What are you
talking about?

Mr. Anderson,
can you read Braille?

Of course.

Good, what do this say?

You ought to be ashamed
of yourself,

making fake
phone calls.

I don't understand
what you're talking about.

No, well maybe
you'll understand this.

Hello, operator,
give me the police.

Police, I want the Bunko squad.

Hello, Bunko squad?

We've got a blind man here
who is full of bunk.

Sure, I'll hold on
for a minute.

You've got sixty seconds,
and then I'm turning you in.

And give me
my $5, man.

Look here.

Hello, police,
it was a false alarm, sorry.

Mr. Anderson, goodbye.

Hey, just tell me
one thing.

What's that?

How'd you know
my phone call was fake?

The phone
is disconnected.

Ah, then your call
was fake too?

That's right.

So you out-conned me?

Have mercy.

Wow, how could you do
that to a blind brother?

Mr. Anderson,
you may be blind,

but you ain't
no brother of ours.

You lie, you cheat, you steal.

You're a disgrace
to blind people.

In fact, you're a disgrace
to all people.

You through,
Mrs. Evans?

Yeah.

Then let me tell
you something:

Blind people are just
like everybody else,

you take the good
with the bad.

So long, brothers.

You know something,
James?

I got a feeling he was blind
long before he lost his sight.

Kids, I'm sorry about the books.
I know how bad you wanted them.

That's all right, Dad,
no problem.

And Ma, you were brilliant
on that phone call.

You are the best actress
I ever saw.

Thelma's right. What was she
on the phone everybody?

She was dy-no-mite!

Hey, you ready for this, baby?

Here's a letter from the phone
company asking us

if we'd like to switch to one
of them push button

princess phones
with a choice of colors.

Now listen now,
including robin's egg blue,

sunflower yellow
or boudoir beige.

Well, it was nice
of them to ask,

but I think we better stick
to basic black

and hope we can find
basic green to pay for it.

[***]

[***]

* Mm-mm-mm *

* Just lookin'
Out of the window *

* Watching the asphalt grow *

* Thinkin' how
It all looks hand-me-down *

* Good times
Good times *

* Keepin' your head
Above water *

* Makin' a wave
When you can *

* Temporary layoffs
Good times *

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