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All right, here's more bread. Anything else? No, Carl, you still can cook,

Carl, we're fine. Sit down.

Okay, I'll help you.

Hey, Carl, could you get me some more mac and cheese?

Uh -uh, pump the brakes on that. You ain't finna be telling my daughter what

do. Get me some more mac and cheese. She ain't none of your maids. Just a

friend. Bread is my gift. It's okay.

Well, I guess you can get it yourself.

Don't be like that.

Carl, while you're in there, give me the hot sauce. Just like this.

Mr. Brown, why can't you get the hot sauce yourself?

Because Cora's going to get it. Cora, I need the hot sauce. I need the hot

sauce.

You know what? I don't understand why Cora and I have to do all the work

here.

Now, don't you go start messing with the laws of nature, party.

It is a woman's duty to take care of her man.

Is that why you still live with your mama?

I don't live with my mama. She lives with me.

In her house?

Well, it's only temporary.

Okay, here you are. Until I find the right girl.

Nothing.

You better keep looking, because the only girl around here is Brianna, and

can't date until she's Carver's age, which is about... Mr. Branch!

I was going to say 20 and 10, though. He's talking about it.

Oh, okay. Don't worry about it. Your father is just playing dumb.

Ain't nobody playing.

Yes, give me some more of these rolls, Cora.

Mm, I'll take one. Yeah, it's only two left. I'll take them, too, both of them.

I don't want to alarm anybody, but am I the only one that sees a little lady at

this table?

Where?

That's Miss Daisy.

Daisy! There you are.

Oh, hello. We were so scared. Hi. You're a chicken.

I'm done.

Now, wait a minute. Let me get this straight.

You share a cave with a little Bigfoot here, and you were scared.

I smell the soul food, and you know I like me some grits.

You didn't know that Daisy was here?

No, I was doing my hair, then all of a sudden she just disappeared.

That's shocking.

That Daisy should sneak off undetected?

No, that you can get a cone through that rolled up nest on your head.

Is that your breath?

Cora, this gobbler is the best.

That's because of my secret ingredient.

Oh, so what's your secret ingredient?

Nutmeg?

Brown sugar?

No, extra peaches.

You know, I don't think anything can make it better except a little ice cream

the side.

Oh, it's coming in the freezer.

Oh, good.

Ain't you going to get it?

Oh, sure, sure.

And maybe some coffee?

Well, I'll have to make you some instant coffee.

Well, I didn't think it was going to make itself, Cora.

But hurry up. I don't want to miss the previews. Oh, well.

Um, phone.

What? Wait.

Wait a minute. Hello?

Oh, it's your mother.

No, I'm eating.

Oh, he says he's eating.

Oh, she said she figured that.

It's an emergency, she said.

Okay, fine.

Hey, Mama.

Yes, light starts.

And don't forget to put the crease in my jeans.

Okay.

When I get there.

Okay.

You know good and well that ironing is woman's work.

What? Well, what else is woman's work?

Uh, everything that's not man's work.

Are we ready yet?

Looks like it is.

You want to bring it to me?

Your legs broke?

No.

Do you want them to be?

I told you to stop playing, Cora.

You must be reading that I Want to Be Alone magazine.

You're going to mess around and make us late.

No, you're going to make us late.

I'm not even in the mood to go to a movie now, Reggie.

What?

But you're supposed to drive.

I'm not going.

This is the thanks I get for trying to show you a nice time?

This is a nice time?

What? What?

I see that I'm not appreciated around here.

Then I'm out of here. Bye.

Have I been reading a loan magazine? You don't want to be a loan actor like

that. Would you please give me a ride home?

I need to drive.

Call your mama to pick you up. Who's calling mama?

Bye.

Mama!

I bet Billy Dee would have got his own coffee.

Hey, Cora.

Oh, hey, Sasha.

Where's your boo, Reg?

He's at home with his mama.

What happened?

I thought the two of you were going out to the movies.

Reggie and I had an argument.

What kind of man expects a woman to wait on him hand and foot?

The kind that's breathing.

Oh, Will doesn't do that. Well, not anymore.

Honey, that's because I broke him.

Reggie's already broke.

Laura, honey, you have been single for way too long.

Okay, listen to me.

Men mean well, but they're really like lumps of clay.

You mowed Will?

Of course I did.

But the trick is that you have to make him think that it's their idea.

Well, maybe you're right, Sasha. Of course I'm right, Cora.

Oh, well, thanks.

Hey, Cora. You like the way Will dresses?

Yes. Will dresses nice.

Girl, that's because I taught that man how to dress.

Listen, poor Mr. Brown. He had to fend for himself.

And we both know how that turned out.

Laura, look, baby, my point is that you got to work with your man.

Work with my man? Work with your man.

Well, I think it's easier just to kick him out of a moving vehicle.

Well, I slowed down a little.

Look, I'm too much like Madea.

I don't have the patience for all of this. And how long has Madea been

I get your point.

Come see, come see, baby. Let me school you.

Let me school you, baby. Okay, listen.

The next time Reggie asks you to do something, don't lift a finger.

Why not?

A good woman takes care of her man.

Well, honey, Will is very well taken care of, okay?

But the point is that you're just too nice.

I am not too nice. Could you go out and get the mail?

Oh, sure.

See, that's what I'm talking about.

Why? For I could have gotten the mail myself. I was closer to the door.

I was just trying to be nice.

Treat Reggie like he's garbage?

You do that, and you will be on your way to a well -balanced relationship that

you control.

I get it. I get it.

I'm coming.

But knocking on the door like that.

Oh, hey, Colonel, you can come in, but you got to tie your horse up outside.

Why don't you go find your neck, you little weasel?

You bet you want a good old fat apple. So, Brown, what's up?

Oh, I called you over here because I got a call from Daisy's cousin, Lorraine.

She'll be here any minute now.

What cousin?

Daisy doesn't have any relatives?

What idiot told you that?

Daisy?

I'm ready for my close.

I rest my case.

Oh, I told you, I don't like when people just come. Everybody keeps...

We don't want no American.

I'm Daisy's cousin, Lorraine.

I finally got here.

Oh, come on in. We were just about to have her put down.

Oh, don't listen to him.

I'm Edna.

And this is the Colonel.

How do you do?

And you must be Brown.

Yes. Oh, I've heard a lot about you.

Oh, and you must be... I heard nothing about you. She ain't said nothing.

Daisy and I grew up together.

Well, yes, good.

You were together, yes. Grew up together, good, all that good stuff. I'm

Thank you.

Um, tell me.

Hmm? Where is my cousin, you colorful little man?

I know you just didn't call me color.

When you're talking about my clothes, I'm about to get upset.

Here she is.

Lorraine? Daisy!

Oh, look at... Oh, Daisy, I love that frock.

Why is she dressed like a peacock? I don't know. Oh,

I haven't seen you since March 29th, 1959.

She made that date up, right?

No, no, that was the day she left for Hollywood.

Lorraine, sit down right here. Be comfortable.

Now, why are you dressed like a peacock? I was working as a cigarette girl.

And Lorraine convinced me that life was too short and I should go to Hollywood

and become...

I'm going to stop.

So what went wrong with that idea?

My cousin had everything it took to make it to the top. Look, talent,

determination. So what was missing?

A car.

But she didn't let that stop her.

Daisy took a bus the whole way.

She's really something back in our hometown.

They even named a street after me. Oh, really? What's it called?

The Roulette.

Ah, that's right down the street of washed up in Hasbin Avenue.

So,

um, where do you live now?

Oh, in Palm Beach, Florida.

That's the Lord's waiting room.

Palm Beach. That's where all the stars go to retire.

And die.

Somebody put this genie back in his bottle.

I'm trying to make the white lady disappear.

Palm Beach sounds like a wonderful place.

That's why I thought it would be a great place for you to live.

Oh, well, I like living here with my friends in California.

Daisy, this is Atlanta.

Idiot.

See, you don't even have to take her nowhere. You just tell her you're

there. Daisy, we're in China.

Now, after all this time, you and I will finally be able to be roommates.

I know, isn't it, Grand?

Oh, we'll have so much to talk about.

Do you know what happened to George LaPelle?

Who's George LaPelle?

Oh, he was my high school sweetheart.

And the reason I never married, I could never find a man as wonderful as he.

Oh. Well, honey, of course I know what happened to George. Well?

I married him.

You tramp.

Uh -oh, there's going to be a fight. There's going to be liniment and gray

everywhere. Back up, and I don't want you to bite nobody.

Come on, fight. Push him.

Okay, here, I'll tell you what. I know what to give him.

And action. You tricked me.

You tricked me into moving to Hollywood so you could get your claws into my

sweetheart. I'll tell you what. Knock this off her shoulder. It wasn't like

at all.

I never want to see you again.

Somebody should be getting whooped right now.

I'm going to stay here with my friends in Manhattan.

We're in Australia, Daisy.

And you.

Stop staring at me like I'm some cheap floozy.

Then we better look at Edna, then.

Look, I brought you some tart lemonade, just like you always used to like it.

You know, I didn't come here to upset you, honey.

Oh, why would I be upset?

You just took away everything I ever wanted.

Um, aren't you being just a little dramatic?

I'm a diva, darling. That's what we do.

Honey, I didn't steal George from you. We didn't even get together until after

you'd gone away.

Ever since we were children, you always had to top me.

If I got a dollhouse, you had to have a treehouse. If I got horseshoes, you got

a horse.

And when I got teacups, you got teacups.

Well, I am older than you.

Everything except these girls, they're barely legal.

The point is...

You tricked me into going to Hollywood so you could steal my man.

It wasn't that way at all. I wanted you to chase your dream.

Oh, I'll bet you two had an incredible life together.

Oh, I'll bet you'd be wrong.

George was a cashier in a department store for a year until he started his

illustrious career as a couch potato.

What? Oh, yeah.

He died on the recliner in our living room.

It was a day and a half before I even noticed.

I can't believe it.

Well, believe it. Those jet black curls of his became kind of a charcoal gray

comb over.

What a shame. They were so beautiful. Yeah, it really was.

You were the lucky one.

You became Daisy LaRue, star of stage and screen.

I became...

The widow of a couch potato.

Oh, you poor thing.

So, can you forgive me?

Oh, what for?

Oh.

No,

really, I mean, what for?

Um, Daisy, you want to come live with me in Palm Beach?

Oh, I don't want to put you out.

Put me out?

George may not have amounted to much when he was alive, but he left me a

-dollar life insurance policy.

You want to come help me spend it?

Could I have my own room?

You could have your own floor.

I'm in!

Oh, Daisy.

Oh, my God.

Hey.

You're late.

Well, since you refused to pick me up, I had to get a ride from my mom.

You picked up the bus.

I did.

I can't help it that y 'all live at the end of her route.

I thought we was having dinner.

We are.

I don't smell no grub.

It's because you're taking me to my favorite Italian restaurant.

I am so thirsty.

Oh, would you like something to drink?

Yeah. Oh, it's some lemonade in the kitchen.

Give me some when you go to school.

Carl, what's wrong with you today?

Oh, nothing.

I don't think I like your attitude.

I don't have an attitude.

I'm acting like you.

You are not being cool.

Neither are you.

I'm not your maid, your cook, nor your servant, Reggie.

Oh, I understand, Cora.

I treat you as good as my mama.

Well, maybe you need to treat your mother better, then.

That's funny. She said the same thing.

All the way across town.

Reggie, a relationship is by give and take.

Oh, that's what every woman I ever dated always said.

I guess this is when you're going to break up with me.

It doesn't have to be over, Reggie. We can fix this.

You want to fix it for me?

We can work on this together, Reggie, if you think it's worth it. I don't think

you're worth it.

I know you're worth it.

How many luggage did that woman have?

Daisy, come on, the cab is here.

What the?

Oh, I

didn't say you had to stop.

You look great. You look stunned.

That too.

Is it raining or something?

Miss Daisy, we're going to miss you so much. Oh, Sasha, I'm going to miss your

beautiful smile and your kind words.

Oh, you're so sweet. Thank you, Miss Daisy. Thank you.

Keep in touch, Miss Daisy. Oh, I'll never forget your beautiful spirit.

You ain't going to remember none of this.

You've been like a sister to me.

But you look like an uncle to me.

And you've been like a sister. to me. Oh.

You take care of yourself. You too.

And Colonel, oh, I'll miss your commanding presence and how, how very

strong you are.

Colonel!

I'm gonna miss you, Daisy.

Pull yourself together crying like a little old girl.

You gonna miss me too?

Oh. I think I'm going to miss you most of all, Scarecrow.

You are truly one of a kind.

Oh. You too, you too.

I'll miss the way you mocked me and called me names, but I know you didn't

a word of it. Most of it, I did.

Oh. You want to go to Africa? Go on back to Africa. That's where you're going to

go. Africa.

Sweetheart, come on. We don't want to miss the flight. I'm hosting a singles

mixture tonight at the country club. Oh, how exciting.

Yes, it is.

And there's a man there that I think you ought to meet. He thinks he's Clark

Gable, and I don't know if he's taken or not.

Thank you, my dear.

I don't give a damn.

Well, bye -bye.

Goodbye, everyone.

Oh, I am going to really miss you people.

Come on, everybody.

Group hug, group hug.

Hey, everybody, guess what I got?

Ugly -eyed.

No, a coupon for some dog biscuits.

No,

it's a postcard, Cora.

Oh, from Miss Davis?

No, no, from Lorraine.

Read it. What's it say?

Okay, it says, um, hey, hey. It's been great.

It was great meeting you all. We had a wonderful time. Daisy and I made it to

Florida safely.

Daisy's having a great time seeing and meeting new friends.

Everything is perfect except one thing.

We haven't seen her in three days.