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- CURTIS: I treat my wife like a queen. Baby!

- What? - Dinner ready?

- Queen of cooking and cleaning. - [laughing]

- Do you want to be older?

- She get to come home to all this.

- Curtis! - I'm not opening the door!

- They seem to be having so much more fun than me.

- Who cares about fun? - I care about fun!

- Where is Aunt Ella? - She left me.

Talking about, she's tired of me taking her for granted.

Open this for me. Women's work. - [groaning]

- Baby, I love you. I'm gonna appreciate.

- ELLA: Something is going on with you, baby.

- I'm sure as hell not paying that one.

Not paying that one.

- Uncle Curtis!

- You're right about there's no coupons--

Sssh. - Hey.

- Hey, Pops. - Why are y'all here so early?

- You told us to come.

- Yeah, but you're too early.

- You know I've gotta get the kids off.

- Oh, what--them kids can't drive their self by now?

What is that? Malik is-- is--is--is 12, and Jasmine's 15.

- Malik is 20, and Jasmine's 17.

- What?

- And you forgot we've got twins.

- Oh, hell, it's been so long they should be grown too.

- Been so long since what?

- Never mind. Okay.

- Pops, what's going on?

- You still married to Miranda?

- We're separated, but you know that.

- You still married to Janine?

- Yes.

- Good luck with that.

- [audience laughing]

- Unc, you been hitting the sauce?

- No.

- Then why are you acting so strange?

- It just--it seem like I haven't seen you since forever.

- You wanna tell us what's going on?

- Okay.

You know how I always forget your mama's, uh, um...

- Anniversary?

- No, no, what's the other one? The boo with the baby?

- Birthday? - CURTIS: Birthday!

You know how I always forget her birthday?

- C.J.: Yes. - Like all the time.

- Right.

- I don't know why she stays with him.

Hey, you remember that time when we was going,

we was all going to the family-- - CURTIS: Uh, hello?

I'm in the room.

- Okay, okay, I'm sorry.

What is it?

- I'm throwing your mama a surprise birthday party

and I don't want her to know.

- Pops, you know Moms finds out about everything.

- I know that.

That's why we gonna throw it at C.J.'s house.

- Oh, you just gonna throw it out there like that,

you're not gonna ask?

- Ask you, after all we've done for you?

- Alright, I will talk to Janine.

- Talk to Janine about what?

- Unc, it's her house too.

- Really, C.J., really?

- What?

- CURTIS: Look, okay come on man, this is--

You know how women are!

This is a man's world.

- Oh please, I would love to hear you tell Aunt Ella that.

- Oh, please.

- ELLA: [singing] - Oh, Ella.

Go on, get! Get. - What?

- CURTIS: She gonna hear you. She gonna hear you.

- [indistinct chatter] - ELLA: [singing]

- ♪

♪♪

- Ella!

Ella!

Where the hell am I going? Ella!

- What is wrong with you?

What is it?

- Ella! Ella!

- Curtis.

- Which way you going, which way you going?

- Baby, you were just in the bedroom with me.

- Was I? - ELLA: Yeah.

So why are you screaming my name?

- 'Cause I love you.

'Cause I missed you. - Curtis, huh-uh.

Stop, stop, stop. - I missed you, baby.

- Now what is wrong? What is going on?

- Nothing. - Oh, yes it is.

- No. - Yes.

- No. You going to the help center today?

You going to the help center today?

- Yes, Curtis. I'm going to the help center.

- That's good. That's good, baby. I thought so.

What time?

- Why are you--what-- why are you rushing me?

- No, I'm not. No, I'm not. - Yes, you are.

You're rushing me out this house.

- No I'm not, Ella.

I just asked.

- Curtis, okay, what is it? What is wrong?

- Nothing. I just love you.

- Oh, you're so up to something.

You're so up to something. - I love you, baby.

- Okay, Curtis. - What do you mean?

- Baby, leave me alone. I need to get my purse. Okay?

- CURTIS: Yeah, go on now. - Let me get my purse.

- CURTIS: Wait, wait, hold on, I got your purse!

- ELLA: You my husband, you got my purse?

- CURTIS: Here you go, baby. - Okay. Thank you, baby.

No, no, no, no, no. - [mumbling]

- Say what?

- I put a little lotion on it for you.

- [chuckles]

It actually looks like grease, Curtis.

What you been eating?

- Tater chips. - [laughing]

Okay. Curtis, move. - Okay, come on.

- Alright, so I'm going to-- Baby, what are you finna do?

Do not push me out this house. - I'm not pushing.

- You look like you getting ready to push.

- I ain't trying to push you. - Okay well then,

get your hands off me. - I'm pulling.

- Okay. Why are you pushing me out this door?

- Baby, because my woman is coming over, okay?

And my wife can't be here.

That's rude.

And you know she don't like it.

- You know what?

You let me find out--

- Baby, you know I'm playing. - No, no.

You let me find out that anybody has been

in this house--

- [chuckling] You so crazy.

Baby, you're so dramatic.

Come on, go on to the help center.

Go on to the help center, girl. - Okay baby, alright.

- You--huh-uh, excuse me. - Yes?

- Where you going?

- Curtis, I--I'm gonna punch you.

I am going to punch you so hard. - What, baby?

- I wanna take some coffee with me, baby.

Coffee. - CURTIS: Well, you know what?

Baby, I forgot.

Do you know I forgot to make coffee?

- Curtis, there is coffee in this cup.

- And it's nasty.

- You go get some good coffee at the coffee shop.

They got good coffee.

- Wait a minute now, Curtis, wait a minute.

Wait a minute, really?

Now the last time I went to a coffee shop, you had a fit.

Yes, you did. - No, I didn't.

- Screaming about coupon.

- I didn't have no fit, baby.

- Baby, yes, you did. "Five dollars for some coffee?

"What this coffee got in it?

"What this coffee do, cure cancer?"

- That don't even sound like me.

'Cause I would have said, "Five damn dollars."

- Okay, Curtis.

Move, move, move, move, move, move.

- Okay, come on.

- I'm gonna go and I'm gonna get me some coffee

from the coffee shop.

- From the coffee shop.

- You are up to something, and I know it.

- Ella, you been working out?

- Curtis, no, no, no. - You been doing squats?

- Not yet, not yet, not yet, don't do that.

Don't do that. - Okay.

- I got a question. - [indistinct mumbling]

- Curtis, let me ask you something.

- You got a question. - What?

- You can't ask the question at the door?

You couldn't call me, text me?

- ELLA: Curtis.

- The e-mail thing.

- What were you dreaming about last night?

- What? - Yes.

- What do you mean?

- Curtis, you were tossing and you were turning.

You turned this way, you turned that way.

- Oh, I was dreaming about Beverly.

- ELLA: No.

Baby, stop, stop, stop, stop. - I mean, she's so active.

- You were talking about Florida,

you were talking about Joanne,

and something about a laundromat.

- Okay, okay, baby. It was nothing.

That's a bad--just crazy dream I had.

Do you know I dreamed we moved to Florida?

And we had a laundromat.

And then you stole some money and the FBI came.

It was just a mess! - ELLA: Yup.

That was a messy dream, Curtis.

- Yes, baby. Now go, go, go.

- Baby, you know what?

I am gonna go, stop pushing on me.

- Like this. - Curtis!

Curtis!

How does that feel like?

- What if I push you like this? - Curtis!

- [laughing]

Love you, baby. - You up to something.

- No, I ain't. - Yes, you are.

- I ain't.

Look at, sitting up so high.

You been doing squats?

- [chuckles]

- [laughing] Don't you tease nobody!

I love you! [laughs]

Damn.

Y'all gonna stay in the closet?

- I ain't think she was ever gonna leave.

- You and me both.

What the hell is wrong with you, Calvin?

- Man, I didn't realize how many memories

that closet brought back.

Hey, I can't tell you how many women

I used to sneak in that closet--

- CURTIS: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, bruh,

let it go, let it go.

'Cause you ain't never ever, ever, ever

sneaking nobody else in this closet.

You ain't never living here ever again.

- Pops, I have a good job.

- I must have been gone a really long time.

- Will you stop it?

- Okay, okay.

- Unc, what do you want us to do?

- You gonna plan the party at your house, right.

- Yes, after I talk to Janine.

- You killing me with that, C.J.

Consulting the woman.

You don't consult your wife!

What kind of man are you?

You a man or you're married?

- On the bright side, Janine does love my mom.

- I know, I know, but I still got to talk to her about it.

- Okay, okay.

This is about Ella.

- What do you want us to do?

- Okay. You're gonna throw the party.

You gonna go plan the party. - And?

- And then I want you to just-- just make it happen. Okay?

That's it, just make it happen.

- Wait a minute, what about the money?

- What about it?

Y'all gonna pay for it.

- Wait, what?

- After all we did for you!

- BOTH: [groaning]

- Took in you and your family, in our house,

no charge!

And you, Calvin-- - Pops, will you just stop?

- 22 years of school I paid, Calvin!

Nine months I carried you!

No charge.

- And you still got the baby weight, I see.

- I'm about to punch you. - Okay, okay.

If Janine says yes, we'll do it at the house.

- You ain't gonna let that go, are you?

You just ain't gonna let it go.

- Hey.

- Speaking of little woman.

- Hey.

- Hey, Janine, C.J. needs to talk to you.

- What?

- Yeah, he's throwing a party

at, apparently, your house for your Aunt Ella.

And that's it, that's how it's gonna be, that's it!

- JANINE: Wait, wait, wait, wait--

- You heard me?

- What?

- Don't pay him no mind.

- Okay, um, I need to talk to you.

- Okay.

- Can we talk in the kitchen? - Yeah.

- You can tell him at the kitchen at your house.

And tell her about the party!

- C.J.: Curtis. - Tell her!

- What is it?

- Okay, um,

I found this and these in Jazzy's pocket.

- Well, what is it?

- These are weed mints and that is a vape pen.

- She's vaping?

- We gotta talk to her.

- CURTIS: Put your foot down, boy!

- ♪

- Y'all talked it over? - Uncle Curtis.

- You're gonna plan the party, right?

- Yes.

- Good.

That's good. Y'all gonna plan the party.

- Yeah, I'll be there in a minute.

- So y'all gonna throw the party?

Y'all gonna throw the party. Huh?

You did that thing, didn't you?

Huh, I knew you had it in you.

You did that thing!

That's what you do with a woman.

You told that little woman, didn't you?

Huh? - Excuse me?

- Excuse you, what? - He did what?

- Who's that? - Who's the little woman?

- Who said that?

- C.J.?

- I'm on my way. - Okay.

Bye, Janine.

You let her talk to you like that?

- Like what?

Uncle Curtis, stop.

- Okay, so y'all planning the party.

- Pops, we got this.

- Okay, and look, make sure there's lots of flowers.

Flowers, flowers, she like flowers.

- I hear you. - CURTIS: All over the house.

- What else she like, Unc? - She like bibles.

She like bibles.

Psalm, Job,

Christopher, Peter's,

Mary...

J. Blige.

Yeah, all of 'em, all the bibles.

All the bibles, all the gender books.

And they're living, they gotta be living.

They gotta be living with King James.

- So, wait, you want us to have a bunch of bibles?

- A bunch of 'em.

- Okay, we got it.

- Alright.

- So, you want bibles, Pops. You gonna be near a bible?

- No, they make me itch.

So maybe you better just get a few of 'em.

- Okay. - Thank you.

I'm humbled.

- Hey, C.J., everything alright?

- Yeah.

- What is it?

- Janine found a vape pen and weed mints

in Jasmine's pocket.

- CURTIS: What? What's a "vapenweemin"?

- A weed mint and an e-cigarette, Pops.

- Oh, okay. Okay, well, that ain't so bad, is it?

- Pops, do you know what an e-cigarette is?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I know.

- What is it?

- It's an e-mail.

- It's a vape pen.

[inhaling]

- What, are you talking about that thing

the kids be smoking?

- Yeah, that be making 'em sick.

- Oh, oh, no, no.

She can't do that.

- Yes, and I gotta go talk to her.

- Right, of course you do...

as you're planning the party.

- Uncle Curtis, are you serious?

- This is serious, man.

- Yes, it is very serious. - Yes!

That party's very important to your auntie.

- You know what? Uncle Curtis, I can't do this with you.

I gotta go take care of my daughter.

- Do that.

You go take care of her and don't forget

to pick up the cake and don't forget to get the--uh,

uh, uh, the flowers, lot of flowers.

And this gonna be a beautiful anniversary.

- Birthday. - Birthday.

- Yes.

And don't forget the Lebron James bible.

- Pops, we got it.

- CURTIS: Oh, and she loves--

- What?

- Choirs.

- Chill out, we got it.

- CURTIS: Okay.

Thank you, thank you.

Love you, mean it.

Love you, mean it.

And it gotta be a big choir.

She like--[stammering-- SATB. SATB.

- Where we gonna put a choir?

- That's for you to figure out, you planning it!

- ♪

- Hey. - Hey.

- Is she back yet? - No.

- You gonna call her?

- I don't want her to know I found it.

- This is not good.

- I can't help but feel guilty.

- What? Why?

- You know, with my history.

- Baby girl, this ain't got nothing to do with you.

- You sure? - Yeah.

Look, that was a long time ago,

and you've been clean for years. - Yeah.

But, baby, this isn't, this isn't a cigarette?

This--this is marijuana.

- What you mean?

- They smoke marijuana in these things.

- No, no, she wouldn't do that.

- Are you sure?

- Yeah, we taught her better than that.

- You're right. You're right.

Well, we'll just wait for her to get home

and we'll talk about it. Right?

- Right. - Yeah.

- Yeah. So that, you know,

you're not stressing out about it.

- Right. - Yeah.

- Okay, can we--uh, to get our minds off of it,

can we talk about Aunt Ella's party?

- Good idea. - Right.

- Yeah.

- So...

- Okay.

- Uncle Curtis...

- This was his idea?

- Yeah.

- But he always forgets Aunt Ella's birthday.

Every, every-- - I know.

But he remembered this time.

- Okay. So what does he want us to do?

- He wants us to plan it.

- Well, that's actually probably for the best

'cause he would just take her out for fast food.

- [knocking]

- Come in!

- Mim, mim, mim, mim.

Hootie hoo, hootie hoo.

- Hey. - Hi. [chuckling]

- What are you doing here?

- I wanna talk to you.

- Oh, okay.

- You know my birthday's coming up.

- Uh-huh, yeah.

- And Curtis never remembers.

Always forgets.

- Does he?

- Stop it. You know he forgets.

So...

- So, how can we help you?

- I have decided to throw myself a surprise party.

[laughing]

I'm gonna surprise myself!

- You are? - What?

So, how is that a surprise?

- Don't worry about it.

Listen, I am gonna do this, and I want you to help me.

- Alright. - Yeah.

- Yeah, good. - Okay, sure.

- Yes. Not you.

I was talking about Janine.

I'm sorry, baby.

What? I'm sorry, baby.

You just don't have good taste.

- Aunt Ella, come on.

- Okay, so I want flowers. - Yeah.

- Lots and lots of flowers.

- Lots of flowers.

And I kind of want a bible theme. You know?

- Never seen that before.

- You don't have to dress up like the characters

in the bible but I just want different bibles

on every table.

And flowers coming out of them.

- [laughing]

Right, okay.

- So I want bibles on the tables--

- Every one of them with the flowers or--

- What--uh, what--what is that?

Whose is that?

- Oh, Ms. Ella-- - Janine, you--

Baby, you really should not be smoking that.

- I'm not!

- Okay, well, then who is it for?

- Ms. Ella, it-- - No, no, no, no, no, C.J.

C.J., I know you are not smoking this!

- It's not mine.

- Well, whose is it?

- Ms. Ella...

- No, this is dangerous.

You know how many kids at that help center

are addicted to these things?

It's not healthy.

- It's not ours.

- Okay, y'all need to throw this out.

- It's not ours.

- It's not yours to throw out? Whose is it?

- It's Jasmine's! It's Jasmine's.

- What? Little Jasmine?

- JANINE: Yeah.

She's not so little anymore.

- It has been a long time. [chuckling]

- So we're--we're gonna talk to her about it

when she gets home.

- You better talk to her now.

There are children dying from this thing.

- I know.

- ♪

- Oh Lord.

I mean, they have all kinds.

And this is--see, that's not nicotine.

This is marijuana.

- How do you know that?

- Let's just say I know.

I work with all those kids at the help center, I know.

- ♪

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