Original subtitles

C.J.: morning, auntie.

Ella: good morning.

How'd you sleep?

C.J.: as good as a homeless

Brother can.

Ella: you are not homeless.

That's what family's for.

Curtis: yeah, to point you to

The nearest motel.

Ella: that's not funny.

Curtis: I'm not joking.

The boy got insurance anyway.

C.J.: unc, how would you feel

If your house burned down?

Curtis: hmm.

I guess I'd be hot.

[ laughs ]

Get it, ella? Hot?

Whoo, I'm on fire!

Too hot for the hot tub! Unh!

C.J.: I got too much on my

Mind.

I am not gonna let you get to me

Today.

Ella: oh, good morning.

Hey, baby.

Y'all hungry?

Curtis: of course they

Hungry.

That's what kids do -- eat,

Sleep, and get in the way.

Jazmine: daddy, since our

House burned down, does this

Mean all my toys are gone

Forever?

I want miss missy.

C.J.: baby, I'm sorry about

Your doll, but we were only able

To save a few things and some

Clothes out of the house.

Look, I'll promise you that

I'm gonna get you some new toys

Real soon, okay?

All right, give me one.

Thank you.

Ella: that's cute.

How did this happen?

Malik: well, when you get

Fuel and oxygen, you get

Combustion.

Curtis: you ever play with

Matches in this house, I'm gonna

Come bust you.

Do you get it, ella --

Combustion, come bust you?

They coming out me today, boy!

[ laughs ]

[ sighs ]

I'm smoking!

No pun intended.

Jazmine: you are so immature.

Calvin: booyah!

All in your face.

All in your face.

I bet you they didn't teach you

That in prep school.

Keenan: uh, excuse me, excuse

Me, excuse me.

"Booyah" is not even in the

Dictionary, but guess what is.

* c-h-e-c-k

* m-a-t-e, oh, yay

Checkmate.

To the left, to the right, to

The left, to the right.

Check mike.

Hello? Hello?

[ laughs ]

C.J., you want to play?

C.J.: no, no, no.

I don't feel like playing.

Bart: you know, I understand

Why you're depressed, man.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, c.J., c.J., c.J.!

I feel your pain, man.

I mean, jeez, look at you.

You're a fireman, and your house

Burned down...

In a fire.

Crispy, smoky, crunchy.

C.J.: breath-minty.

Bart: onions for lunch.

Calvin: hey, look on the

Bright side -- you get to eat my

Mom's cooking every day.

Bart: pretty soon, you'll be

Looking like the chief.

[ imitating curtis ] Where's my

Greasy monster burger?

Give me that chili cheese fries.

Curtis: excuse me!

Do you all know the tires are

Low on the fire truck?

Bart: no, no, I don't know

That one, but maybe we can make

One up.

Both: * oh, the tires are low

On the fire truck *

* the tires are low on the fire

Truck *

Curtis: stop!

Get movin'.

Both: * the tires are low on

The fire truck *

* the tires are low on the fire

Truck *

Curtis: go on!

Calvin: [ laughs ]

Curtis: you didn't hear me,

Calvin?

Calvin: no, I never listen to

You, pops.

Curtis: guess what.

You can go wash the fire truck.

Calvin: * I'm off to wash the

Fire truck *

* I'm off to wash the fire

Truck *

C.J.: you let the air out of

The tires again today, didn't

You?

Curtis: just a little bit.

[ laughs ]

* and threw some dirt on the

Fire truck *

[ cellphone rings ]

C.J.: hello?

Yeah, this is he.

Whoa, what do you mean my

Electric bill is past due?

Well, you can't disconnect it,

Because my house is -- what?

Uh-huh.

I understand.

You can do whatever you want,

'cause you got the power.

Right, but, see, you don't...

I got the joke.

Well, cut it off, then!

Curtis: c.J., is everything

All right?

C.J.: man, that was the

Electric company.

They said my bill is three

Months past due.

Curtis: c.J., if you were

Short on money, you should have

Told me, man.

C.J.: I ain't short on money.

I give janine money every month

To pay those bills.

But that's real nice of you,

Offering me money like that.

I ain't think you had that in

You.

Curtis: no, hold on, don't

Touch me.

I wasn't offering you money.

I'm offering you extra shifts.

And shouldn't you be working

With the guys?

C.J.: oh, you want me...

* oh, the tires are low on the

Fire truck *

Curtis: * oh, I'm working

With a bunch of idiots *

Jazmine: give it to me!

Malik: no!

Jazmine: give it!

Malik: why should I?

Oh, that's right -- 'cause all

Your toys got burned up.

Jazmine: yeah, and that's

When your game pal got burned

Up.

No, it didn't.

It's in my backpack.

Jazmine: no, it's not.

I started playing with it and

Never put it back.

Burned up.

Malik: [ growls ]

Calvin: hey, hey, hey, hey,

Hey, hey, hey!

Hey, what's going on here?

Jazmine: cousin calvin, he's

Teasing me about my toys, and

I'm just a girl.

Malik: well, she let my video

Game get burned up.

Jazmine: that's right.

Extra crispy.

Aah!

Ella: wait a minute.

Now, malik, what is going on out

Here?

Malik: jazmine let my video

Game burn.

Jazmine: burn, baby, burn!

Ella: malik, sit down.

You know you're not supposed to

Be fighting your sister.

Oh, good.

Janine, listen, can you please

Go get these babies some toys?

Janine: I got to go take care

Of something, so just...

Ella: wait, wait, wait, now.

The kids need something to

Occupy themselves with.

Janine: you take care of it.

I got to go.

You kids stop all that arguing!

I heard you on the way in.

Stop it, or I promise you --

And jaz, fix your face.

Why you looking at me like that,

Huh?!

What?

You want some, too?

All of y'all need to leave me

Alone.

Ella stressing me out a little

Bit too much.

I got to get out of here.

Calvin: what was that?

Anyway, mom, give me the money.

I'll be happy to keep them

Occupied.

Y'all know how to wash a fire

Truck?

* we're off to wash the fire

Truck *

* we're off to wash the fire

Truck *

Jazmine: you're pathetic.

[ chuckles ]

C.J.: hey, baby, what you

Doing up so early?

Janine: I need to go for a

Jog.

I'll be -- I-I-I --

I been up.

I couldn't sleep, so I been

Watching tv.

C.J.: yeah, you got out of

Bed at 3:00 in the morning.

Janine: I just needed to go

For a walk.

C.J.: look, baby, I know

Things seem really rough right

Now, but I promise you, in no

Time, we gonna be sipping

Champagne in our new house.

Janine: champagne?

Don't nobody want no champagne,

C.J.

C.J.: I-I-I feel you.

I feel you, 'cause, uh...

What I'm saying is that we got a

Family.

We got a family, and we need to

Appreciate that, because

Everybody ain't got that.

Curtis: come here!

Get in here!

Ella: good morning.

Curtis: hey, lovebirds.

Any closer to finding your own

Nest?

[ telephone rings ]

C.J.: unc, you know we just

Got here.

Curtis: and yet you've

Already overstayed your welcome.

Ella: hello?

Oh, may I tell her who's

Calling?

Curtis: she can't get no

Phone calls here.

Ella: oh, one moment, please.

One moment, please.

Janine, it's for you.

Some guy named blue.

Janine: blue.

H-hello?

Hey, yeah, hey.

What's up?

Okay, yeah.

All right, I'll be there.

Okay.

Baby, I got to go.

C.J.: who was that?

Janine: a friend.

C.J.: okay.

Janine, baby, baby.

Remember, family, baby.

Family.

Janine: family.

Curtis: so, who's blue?

C.J.: I don't know.

Curtis: but your wife just

Went to go meet him.

C.J.: and?

Curtis: c.J., you mean to

Tell me a colored man calls here

For your wife and she runs off

To meet him and this doesn't

Bother you?

C.J.: no.

Should it?

Curtis: it's my fault.

It's my fault.

When you was little, you were

Staying over here, and I was

Carrying you, and I had to get

My beer off the refrigerator,

And I couldn't do it with one

Hand, and blip!

And you fell.

And you was top-heavy, like you

Are now, and you hit the floor

Headfirst.

When you first got up, you were

Like this, but then an hour

Later you straightened up, and I

Thought you was okay.

I was wrong.

I guess you're not.

Calvin: hey, who changed the

Locks?

Curtis: go to class, calvin!

Calvin: but it's important!

Ella: jazi, open the door for

Him, please.

[ knock on door ]

Jazmine: who is it?

Ella: jazmine!

Jazmine: cousin cal--

I didn't even know that was you.

Ella: here, this your key.

Curtis: what the hell?

Is that how you been getting in

Here?

Ella, you mean to tell me you

Been giving him a key every time

I change the locks?

Ella: yes, this is our son.

Curtis: no, that's your son.

I'm still waiting on the dna

Test.

Calvin: anyway, c.J., I ran

Into pookie at the barbershop.

Malik: I thought pookie was

Bald.

Jazmine: no, that's his

Brother, peanut -- you know, as

In peanut-head.

C.J.: no, I think malik is

Right.

Pookie's the one who's bald.

Curtis: if pookie was bald,

Why would he go to the barber?

C.J.: 'cause he got to keep

His head bald.

Calvin: hey, hey, hey.

Bald or not, it was pookie, not

Peanut.

Jazmine: calm down,

Cousin calvin.

So, what did pookie say?

All: go to your room.

Curtis: uh, she doesn't have

A room here.

Ella: go to somebody's room.

Malik: you had to say one

More thing, didn't you?

Jazmine: my bad.

Malik: that jazmine.

So, what did pookie say?

All: go to your room.

Curtis: he don't have a room

Here either.

Ella: okay, calvin, come on.

What were you gonna say that was

So important?

Calvin: pookie said somebody

Burned down your house.

C.J.: what?

Calvin: lit that baby up.

Curtis: that's ridiculous.

I'm the fire chief.

If it was arson, I'd be the

First to know.

Hello?

Thank you.

Yep, it was arson.

Ella: did you say arson?

Now, look, I can't believe this.

C.J.: wow.

Somebody set my house on fire.

Wow.

This don't make no sense.

Ella: wait, what about

Janine?

Does she have any enemies?

Curtis: whoomp, there it is!

You all right?

C.J.: yeah, why?

Curtis: 'cause you lifting

That thing like you got some

Pent-up aggression.

Boy, you are strong.

When's the last time you and

Janine... [ imitates fanfare ]

C.J.: I don't know, maybe a

Week.

Why you all up in my business?

Curtis: 'cause you all up in

My house.

C.J.: why you always got to

Be putting me down, huh?

Why you can't build a brother up

Sometimes?

You affecting my self-esteem.

Curtis: c.J., I always tell

You I'm proud of you.

C.J.: when?

Curtis: last month when you

Saved that kid.

Bart: that was me, chief.

Curtis: how'd you get up that

Tree?

Bart: I chopped it down.

Then he fell on me.

Curtis: three months ago when

You helped that old lady.

Keenan: no, no, no, madea?

That was me.

Curtis: you didn't have to

Help her.

I know when.

I remember when I told you.

I was proud of you when you was

2 years old.

For father's day, you gave me

That little tie with the flame

On it with the lights.

Lit the whole room.

Those flames warmed my heart.

Calvin: no, that was me,

Pops.

Curtis: I guess you right.

I ain't got nothing.

Woman: engine company five,

A chubby boy dropped his candy

Bar down the sewer on clairmont

And lavista.

Please respond.

Curtis: what y'all doing?

What are you doing?

What are you doing?!

Keenan: going, chief.

Curtis: c.J., come here.

I want to talk to you.

Have you met this blue guy yet?

C.J.: no, curtis.

I'm not worried about that.

Curtis: c.J., anybody with

A name like that got to be up to

No good.

C.J.: they probably just

Handling some business.

Curtis: what business?

Janine ain't got a job.

C.J.: well, I'm sure it's

Nothing.

Curtis: what about the fact

She been holding out on you?

C.J.: she ain't holding out

On me, unc.

And if you keep talking about

My wife, you gonna force me to

Get gangsta on you.

Curtis: you ain't no gangsta!

You went to private school!

Janine: [ laughs ]

Hey, jazi, did you get a look?

Look, look, look.

You can tell your friends what

Mama can do.

[ grunts ]

Snap!

Hey, look, malik, I got one for

You, too.

I ain't leave you out.

Your mama got you.

We gonna [grunts]

Know what I'm talking about?

You know about that.

Hey, baby.

Baby?

Baby, put that down for a

Second.

Let me talk to you.

Um, baby, I-I need to go

Shopping.

I need to go shopping.

You got a few bucks?

C.J.: janine, I just gave you

Some money.

Janine: baby, I know.

I just need a little bit more.

You know, just $20.

I just need $20.

* give me $20, give me $20

Jazmine: uh, what music

Are you hearing in your head?

Janine: baby, I can still

Hear the wedding bells from when

Me and your father got married.

Jazmine: do you want to

Have tea with me?

Janine: yeah.

Yeah, baby, sure.

I'll have tea with you.

Mama likes tea.

Thank you.

Can I have some sugar in mine?

Jazmine: well, I think you

Had enough sugar for today.

Janine: okay, you ready?

And drinking.

Jazmine: mom, where's your

Wedding ring?

C.J.: [ gasps ]

Janine: oh.

C.J.: [ sighs ]

Malik.

Malik: I know, I know.

Jazmine, jazmine, jazmine.

One day you're gonna learn to be

Quiet so we can actually listen.

Janine: we done with the tea?

C.J.: janine...

Come here, sit down.

What are you doing?

What's wrong with you?

There's no hair in your face,

Janine.

And where is your wedding ring?

Janine: huh?

C.J.: you heard me.

Janine: baby, I was gonna

Tell you.

I lost it.

C.J.: you lost it?

Janine: yeah.

I was gonna tell you, but, baby,

You been on edge.

You been all stressed out.

You just need something to

Smooth that thing on out.

C.J.: are you cheating on me?

Janine: me? Me, cheat on --

Baby, I would never cheat on

You, baby.

You the king -- you.

That's you.

I love you, okay?

I would never -- mnh-mnh.

Not me. I wouldn't cheat.

C.J.: then who the hell is

Blue?

Janine: blue's a friend.

He's a good friend, that's all,

Baby.

Come on, now, just calm down.

C.J.: then how come I never

Met him?

Janine: because you be

Working all the time, but if you

Want, I can arrange a

Meet-and-greet.

Come on, dance with me.

C.J.: janine, focus!

Janine: I'm focused.

C.J.: don't try to make me

Feel guilty about working,

Either.

Janine: what you think I been

Doing, hmm?

Who you think been holding

Everything together, huh?

The house, the kids, the bills.

C.J.: stop!

Half the bills aren't even

Getting paid.

Janine: well, my bad.

You know, I prioritized.

A few bills got skipped, but

It's only because I didn't marry

A baller.

If you had a little bit of money

Like that $20 I was asking you

For earlier --

You got $20?

C.J.: well, excuse me for not

Being a baller.

Janine: it's all right.

Look at you.

You paying bills?

Bill money?

I can get this back to you.

I got to go to the store.

This all you got?

Here.

Need me, you hit me on my hip.

C.J.: what the hell is wrong

With her?

Hey, c.J.

Come on.

I figured it out.

Ella: what?

Curtis: janine's cheating on

C.J.

Ella: curtis, how do you know

That?

Curtis: look at the

Evidence, ella.

This guy blue calling here all

The time?

Ella: curtis, that don't mean

Nothing.

I have men calling here for me

All the time.

Curtis: what did you say?

Ella: that don't mean

Nothing.

Come on, I'll prove it

To you.

Hey, c.J.

C.J.: what's up, unc?

Curtis: hey.

Hey, what happened to janine's

Wedding ring?

C.J.: she said she lost it.

Curtis: wow.

Come on.

There it is.

Ella: that don't mean

Nothing.

Maybe she did lose it.

Curtis: wake up.

Wake up, my sweet little lump of

Chocolate.

She ain't lose that doggone

Ring.

She took it off so she could go

Creep with crayon blue.

Ella: you don't know that.

Curtis: I'm telling.

Ella: no, you're not.

Curtis: yes, I am.

I'm gonna tell him.

I'm --

I won't say nothing.

Ella: hmm? Promise.

Curtis: my mouth's -- cross

My heart.

Janine's creeping with the

Crayon man!

C.J.: don't say that.

People are gonna hear you and

Think it's true.

That's how people start hearsay.

Curtis: didn't you hear me

Say your wife is cheating on

You?

C.J.: hello?

Yeah.

Are you sure?

Did you check my records?

Okay, thanks. Bye.

Man!

Ella: what's wrong now?

C.J.: the insurance company

Says that our premium hasn't

Been paid in months, so our

Policy's cancelled, and arson or

Not, we not gonna be getting any

Money.

[ sighs ]

Ella: okay, I'm sorry, c.J.,

But listen -- when one door

Closes, god always opens

Another.

Curtis: no, he don't.

Calvin: come on, pop.

Curtis: good night, calvin.

Calvin: you changed the locks

Again?

Curtis: we're at full

Capacity.

Curtis: come on, I need a

Late-night study snack.

Curtis: okay, I'm gonna let

You in this one time.

Grab the handle.

[ electricity crackles ]

Calvin: pop!

Curtis: I got him!

Calvin: pop!

Curtis: what?

Calvin: I need a snack.

Curtis: okay, open the door,

Boy.

[ electricity crackles ]

[ laughs ]

Calvin: pop, I'm going home.

Curtis: come on.

Come on, don't go.

Don't go.