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[upbeat music]

You're welcome, baby.

-[Curtis] Thank you. -[CJ] Hey, Aunt Ella.

-What's up, Unc? -Hey, CJ.

Hey, baby. Would you care for some breakfast?

-Don't mind if I do. -[Ella] I knew it.

Why you looking like that?

Like what?

Like you afraid to tell us something.

Probably because there's something

I'm afraid to tell you.

Aw heck, what is it, CJ?

-Well, have you seen these? -What are they?

They're the flyers

that have been placed all over the neighborhood.

OK, what about them?

Read it.

Uh...Curtis?

"Bad neighbors have gone wild in our community.

"Food truck on the block is out of ordinance

"and leaking black oil.

"Church services being run out of living rooms.

"How trifling.

"And no one is doing anything to stop them.

"And why? They are personal friends of the woman

"we elected to protect us.

"Throw Glo out. Glo is low, low, low.

"Elect Elizabeth Wellington

"for President of the Homeowners Association.

She won't stand for bad neighbors."

Curtis! Bad neighbors?

Hear this, baby? They are talking about us.

-Well, we friends. -That's what you get?

Bad neighbors, Curtis.

[birds chirping]

[airplane flying overhead]

[siren wailing, horn honking]

[sirens wailing]

[helicopter blades whirring]

Ella, please.

You know it's your little Bible study that popped all this off.

Curtis, don't do that.

It sounds like it's your food truck.

Baby, that food truck ain't hurting nobody.

And a few women meeting in my living room

to read the Bible is hardly a church service.

Yeah, but y'all be yelling and having fits.

Curtis, that's called catching the Holy Ghost, OK?

You should hope to be so lucky.

Now that would be the day.

Who is this Wellington lady?

That's the woman that moved in

a couple years ago around the corner.

That lady?

Oh, man, she don't talk to nobody.

[Curtis] No, she don't.

How'd she get enough clout to run for HOA president?

-That part. -What I can't get over

is her complaining about the food truck.

-Didn't she stand out there? -Yes, yes.

Their behind was there every day.

That's what I thought.

[Gloria groans]

Excuse you?

Sorry, sorry. OK, I let myself in.

-I'm just, I'm so mad right now. -Well, I'm mad too.

Folks bustin' up in my house like it's they house.

-You seen these flyers? -[Ella] Uh, yes.

Yes, we did. And it says we're friends.

The devil is a liar. Ain't that what you said, babe?

Curtis, you may want to be nice to me today.

And why would I want to do that?

Because she's coming for all of us.

She got a point, though.

Y'all need to join forces against this Wellington lady.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. United we stand, divided we fall.

"Church services being run out of..."

I cannot believe she got my Bible study

on this little flyer!

Oh, she is a piece of work. You hear me?

Look here, look. Ain't nobody stunting that woman, OK?

She going to war with the Paynes, she gonna lose.

So what we gonna do, Unc?

Well, first we need to get some new flyers right away.

New flyers to say what?

That Ella and I are not bad neighbors.

-Quite the contrary. -Yes.

I mean, we have cemented our reputation in this neighborhood.

We just gotta remind the people who the Paynes are, that's all.

-I like that, Unc. -Look, I agree with you, Curtis,

but there are a lot of new neighbors.

Many of the older residents have retired and moved, and I mean,

-some have passed on. -Yeah.

OK, look, y'all need to stop worrying, OK?

Stop worrying. Watch what I tell you.

All this is gonna backfire on Ms. Wellington.

[upbeat music]

Hey, little man. How was your breakfast?

It was awesome.

Oh, looks like someone's breakfast was a hit.

-No flattery. It was cereal. -My favorite!

All right, go to your room. Pack your bag.

OK.

-Hey, babe. -Hey, handsome.

So, you in a good mood?

-Yeah. Shouldn't I be? -Of course.

But I want you to try to stay in a good mood.

And why wouldn't I stay in a good mood?

No reason.

Why this line of questioning, babe?

Miranda's here to pick up Christian.

Oh.

So, you're taking him down, right?

OK, I know that's the normal routine,

but I was hoping that she could come up and get him.

Miranda? Hell no.

-Laura. -No, Calvin.

Look, Miranda is Christian's mom.

At some point, you're gonna have to bury the hatchet,

and plus, she wants to come up and talk to you.

It's clear that you have no idea how I feel about this woman.

Yeah, Laura, I get that, but respectfully,

it's not about you, it's about Christian.

See, that's where you're wrong.

Because it is about me. I live here now, Calvin.

And now, I might not be able to control the fact

that she can walk in and out of your Momma's house,

but I can control who comes over here.

And that chick ain't coming up in here, Calvin.

"Uh-uh. That chick ain't coming up in here, Calvin!"

-Christian, call me Dad. -I was just playing.

-What y'all talking about? -Grown folks business.

Man, you always say that. I'll be happy when I'm grown.

-Are you ready? -Yeah, I'm ready.

Come on, let's go.

Have a good day, Christian.

[music]

-Looks good, Mom. -Thank you.

-Yeah. -Hey, what's all this?

-I'm helping Mom meal prep. -Mm-hmm.

You trying to get down on this, big bro?

Nah, I'm good on that.

I like my meal prep with some fried chicken in it.

Now, wait a minute.

You said you were going to join us on this healthy eating thing.

Oh, come on. Everybody knows

healthy eating is not good eating.

No, no, no. I think you have it turned around.

You think that fried foods are healthy.

Mm-hmm. And all that fried food is going to catch up with you.

Mom and I are preparing healthy meals for the entire week.

-For the whole week? -Yeah.

Oh, no. Y'all know I don't do leftovers like that.

Come on, Malik. It makes life so much easier.

Don't you get tired of having to leave the office every day

in search of food?

No, not really. I mean, I enjoy those breaks from the office.

-Well, suit yourself then. -Enjoy yourself, sir.

[doorbell rings]

Yoo-hoo, yoo-hoo, yoo-hoo. Can you go get that?

-Yes, at your service. -Thank you.

This was such a great idea, Jazmine.

Hey.

I am so happy that you guys are home.

Hey, girl. You look really cute.

Thank you.

-Uh-uh. What is it? -You look all riled up.

-Guess. -[Jazmine] Laura.

How did you know? Ding, ding, ding, ding.

You know, I kind of like Laura.

I'm going to go ahead

and get ready for my meeting. Sorry about that.

[Jazmine] Why don't you do that?

What did she do now?

All right, I'm trying to breathe right now.

I see you. I see you. Yeah. Take your time.

OK. So, I talked to Calvin.

I said, "Calvin, I need to talk to Laura,"

because things have gotten so bad

that when I go to pick Christian up,

he has to bring him downstairs to the car.

-Step into my office? Please. -Please.

Wait a minute. She don't want you in the apartment?

Huh. Apparently not.

Does she not recognize that Christian is your son?

Yeah. She's about to be his stepmom.

Um, I think that

that would matter to someone with a sane mind.

Well, there you have it.

You said someone with a sane mind.

She ain't got none.

OK. So, I decided to be the bigger person, right?

-Yeah. -So, I called Calvin.

I said, "Hey Calvin,

I need to come up and I need to talk to Laura."

Right.

Janine, I was going to apologize.

Record scratch. You were going to what?

-Apologize! -OK. OK.

I was going to make things right.

We have got to talk about parenting this kid.

-[Janine] Yeah. -This is my son.

Listen. She's going to marry Calvin.

-Yeah. -And she's going to be spending

a tremendous amount of time with my child.

-Right. -We need to be on the same page.

OK. So, wait. When you got there, what did she say?

[laughs]

-I got there and I waited. -[Janine] OK.

-And I waited. -OK.

-And I waited. -Not OK.

It's probably because she didn't want you to come up.

Exactly. So, Calvin finally

brings Christian down to the car.

And what did Calvin say?

You know, it is not what Calvin said.

-It's what Christian said. -Christian?

Christian. So, Christian has this bad habit

of liking to parrot what he hears adults say.

Mm-hmm.

[Miranda] So, this time, he chose to mimic Laura.

-Oh, no he didn't, Miranda. -Oh, yes he did. OK, listen.

Christian, he doesn't know what he's saying.

-Right. -Right?

[Janine] Yeah.

But I knew he was talking about Laura.

What'd he say, Miranda?

He said, "Don't have that chick in my house, Calvin."

-Ooh! No he did not! -Oh no,shedid not.

Absolutely.

And we know who that was. We know that was Laura

-Nobody else would say that. -Yep. Yep. Ooh!

Oh, he's got his hands full with that one.

Yeah, he sure know how to pick them.

Excuse you? What do you mean by that?

Oh, he picked you too, didn't he? No shade.

[Janine] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Well, listen, he knew what he was doing when he picked me.

That part.

I don't know what happened after me, though.

I am so sorry. I mean, this is all starting right now?

Like, this has been just now happening?

-Just now. This is crazy. -That's... Wow.

Man, let me know if you need to beat somebody up, because--

Jazmine, Jazmine, Jazmine-- [doorbell rings]

Oh, no. Y'all keep trashing Calvin's fiancée,

I'll get the door.

Oh, hello.

Hello. Is the man or woman of the house here?

-Yeah, the man right here. -That is incorrect.

Hello, I am Janine. How can I help you?

Hi, Janine. I don't think we've met. I'm your neighbor.

I have some fresh baked cookies for you.

Oh, she got cookies? Well, you all right with me, sister.

Come on in here.

That was very kind of you, Ms...

I'm Elizabeth Wellington. I'm running for HOA president.

[casual music]

Ms. Wellington, that's... that's... wow.

Why do I feel like I've heard your name somewhere before?

That's neither here nor there. Please, have a seat.

Oh, wonderful. I've been trying to make my rounds

and connect with as many of my neighbors as I could.

OK. Well, this is my son, Malik.

Hey, how you doing? Thank you for the cookies.

And I'm her favorite child, Jazmine.

I'm her favorite ex-sister-in-law, Miranda.

It's wonderful to meet all of you.

So, Ms. Wellington,

if you're running for HOA president, what happened to Glo?

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Is she stepping down?

She'll be stepping down, after she loses to me.

-Oh? -Oh?

-Oh. -Oh.

Wait a minute. So you... you're running against Glo?

I am.

She's been terrible for this neighborhood.

You know what?

On that note, I have a meeting that I need to get to.

I will catch up with you good people later.

All right, then. Hey, stay strong, sis.

Oh, I'm staying strong. Great to meet you.

Call you later.

Ms. Wellington, right? Um, I feel it important

to disclose to you that Glo has become

a very, very good friend of the family.

-Oh, she has? -Oh, yes.

Hmm. I'm sorry.

Um, aren't you troubled by her many infractions?

Infractions?

We are not aware of any infractions.

Oh, you know, so many people

I've spoken to this week are unaware.

-Let me bring you up to speed. -Oh, please do.

Mm-hmm. Let me sit down. I'd like to hear this, too.

-Let me get one of these-- -Don't touch them.

[ballgame on TV]

Hey, babe.

You, uh, you've been quiet.

Can I, uh, make you something to eat?

No, thanks.

OK, so you're mad at me.

I don't want to talk about it, Laura.

So you're just going to give me the silent treatment?

Like, what does that solve, Calvin?

I don't want to argue.

OK. I don't want to argue, either. OK?

So let's not argue. Let's just talk.

Our talks always end in arguments.

That's because you never want to see or understand

my side of things, Calvin.

[TV shuts off]

Laura, all you ever see is your side of things.

What about Christian's side?

He's a child. He has nothing to do with whatever beef

you have with Miranda.

Fair enough.

Look, I don't have any animosity towards your son.

I love him so much, Calvin. You know that.

I just, I don't mess with his mother.

And how is that supposed to work?

We're about to be married. You're about to be a stepmom.

You're going to have to communicate with Miranda.

See, that's where I disagree with you, Calvin.

Youare his father.

Youhave to communicate with her. I don't!

I'm not even asking you to be her best friend.

I just don't want this drama in my house.

We all need to be able to be civil.

That's who we are.

Calvin, I will be civil.

Always.

As long as her stank ass ain't up in here.

Now I'm done talking about this.

[upbeat music]

OK, so see, what you gotta do is, you gotta make sure

that you mention all of Unc's accomplishments as fire chief.

-That's right. That's good. -Yes.

And then you gotta put in all of Aunt Ella's work

down at the church's help center.

-Mm. -That's good. That's good.

And put down all the successful kids we've raised.

Listen, including the current fire chief.

And one of them was a foster kid.

-Ooh, Deshawn! -That's right, Deshawn.

-Deshawn! -Put it down there.

And tell them about all the families we supported

when their homes were lost in fires.

-That's right. -I didn't even know all this.

I'm almost honored to know you, Curtis.

No, I still wish I never met you, Glo.

Your mama.

See, that ain't even proper usage of the mama joke.

She's trying too hard. I knew you was a square coming up.

You two, can you please, can we get back to the campaign?

Uh, your husband starts it, Ella.

Well, just type.

Now, once you remind all the neighbors of who we are,

and you introduce us to the neighbors we don't already know,

Ms. Wellington is gonna look like the bad neighbor.

[Curtis] That's right. That's right.

Well, I hope so. I hope so.

I mean, I hear she's been casing the neighborhood,

bribing folks with so-called fresh-baked cookies

that she really bought from Cost-Pro.

She is walking around the neighborhood

-with Cost-Pro cookies? -Yes.

[scoffs]

Now baby, them are some good cookies.

-They're not homemade. -But they good.

They're still good.

-Focus, huh? -OK, so what are you gonna do?

Well, I suppose I will go door-to-door, too.

-Hmm. -[Curtis] There it is.

-What? -[Curtis] Right.

You gonna bribe people with cookies, too?

Well, I mean, I don't wanna do the same thing she's doing.

-Good. -I'll do you one better.

I'm all ears.

OK. So what we're gonna do, we're gonna run an event here,

right out front of the so-called bad neighbor's house.

-[Ella] Uh-huh. -OK, OK.

Unc, what you're gonna do is, we're gonna get that

great barbecue going, get them samples going.

-OK. -Ooh.

And that way, we're gonna introduce us to all the people

-that we don't already know. -I like it. I love it. Curtis?

Well, I mean, give me some new customers.

Well, I love it. Ha, ha!

My presidential reelection campaign is officially underway.

Yes!

I love it, too, and my work is officially done here. Thank you.

-[Ella] Yes. -[Glo] Thankyou.

OK, come on. We gotta combat this.

"Glo is low, low, low."

You keep that. Keep that on there.

No, no. Don't keep that.

That's truth. Truth is what sells.

Can we get rid of these? It is not truth, Curtis.

[Ella] Come on, come on.

[Glo] You know I can't stand you sometimes.

[sighs]

-Hey, Daddy. -Hey, baby.

[Malik] What's going on?

-Um, CJ, this is-- -Elizabeth Wellington.

-Your husband? -Indeed.

Hi, have we met? You look awfully familiar.

Yeah. I'm one of the neighbors that you talked about

in your posters that you put all over the neighborhood.

Wait, let me see.

Wait, the councilman was asking me did I get a flyer.

Wait, these are your flyers, Ms. Wellington?

Guilty as charged.

This is talking about Auntie Ella's Bible study

and Uncle Curtis' food truck.

-These are your family members? -Uh-huh.

Yeah, yeah, these are our family that you're bashing.

Oh, I see.

So did she bring those Cost-Pro cookies over here?

Cost-Pro? Wait a minute, you said that these was fresh baked.

And I did not lie.

I didn't sayIbaked the cookies.

Cost-Pro bakes them fresh daily.

-Girl. -Politicians.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask

you to leave, Mrs. Wellington.

You know what? Gladly.

I've been kicked out of better places than this.

[Malik] Wait a minute.

If it is a war you want, you got the right one.

-Bye, chick. -Scram.

Did she just slam my door?

[Jazmine] She just slammed the door, Momma.

[laid-back music]

Calvin?

So you're not coming to bed?

[casual music]

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