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Okay, so Ted, I can count on you and your musicians to be here Saturday at 5.

On time.

Thank you. All right.

Got it. All together.

Wow, wow, what?

Hey, Dad, let's ask you a question, huh? Have you and Mom figured out what

you're going to do for the anniversary? We certainly have. We certainly have.

We are going to spend the time with each other going back to the old days.

You see, a long, long time ago, Mrs. Huxtable and I, on our honeymoon, went

clean but shabby little restaurant called the Callaloo Pot.

You mean you'd taken her back to a shabby little restaurant?

The Callaloo Pot.

closed a long, long time ago.

I'm going to bring the Callaloo Pot here along with

a live calypso band.

How are you going to do that?

Well, I called the restaurant association and I found the name of the

He said he'd be more than happy to come to the house and cook. The band is

coming over.

And you have it. I got it. Look, since you're going to provide the food and the

music, let's say we provide the atmosphere.

You can do that. And I'll tell you exactly how.

By clearing out.

Dad, listen, you don't understand.

I'm serious. We can redecorate the dining room to make it look like the

plot. Right, right. I got the beat. I grew up with West Indians my whole life.

Please, Dad. Come on, please.

No, no, no. Because you all, the first thing you will do is you all will start

project and leave something hanging in the middle. That's the way you do

No,

you said that to me. I've been suckered into this many, many times. This will be

our gift to you and Mom.

Yes, I've seen and heard these gifts.

We deliver to you a quality Callaloo pot. We will do it complete and on time

using very little money.

Come on.

Okay. You know what?

Look.

Upstairs, I have a picture of your mother and me

in that restaurant.

I'll let you have the picture.

You try to duplicate.

We'll make this perfect anniversary dinner. You got it. All right. This is

just for me. This is for your mother. You got it. You got it.

My

anniversary

bride.

Happy anniversary.

I'm very sorry, sir, but I'm already married to a very well -established

of law books.

Go on out and make sure you keep going and don't come back here until after

work. Don't dare try to circle the block and come back here and see what I'm

preparing for you. You are the best. You are the sweetest and the cutest, too.

Thank you so much. Now give me a hint.

I've been hiding this, but I have...

I'm covering these walls with blow -ups of you when you were a baby.

And then, for entertainment, I'm going to tell them your age.

Now, that's enough now.

That's enough. Yes. No, that's enough now.

That's quite all right. Thank you very much. You asked to find out.

It's going to be a wonderful day. I know everything I need to know.

Dad?

Look at this.

I paid nothing for this.

Look at this. What do you think?

I spent a week collecting decorations for tonight.

I call it my, uh, tropics and a drum.

Dad, don't you get it?

Your son rolls to the challenge. The task.

to find in New York City authentic Caribbean objects?

All right, let me show you what I'm talking about.

Yes, look at this.

Look at this.

There you go, see?

On loan from Seaside Pizzeria.

Later on, my quest...

led me over to the boathouse at Central Park where the kid negotiated dinner.

Guess what?

I got it for free.

Let me show you what else I got.

I went over to the flower district and I picked over some leftovers.

Now, don't worry about the brown parts. I'm going to cut those off.

Hey, Dad.

Dad.

Mr.

Atkins, how are you, sir?

Dr. Hoxtable. Yes, yes, yes.

Good to see you after 27 years.

Yes. Too bad I didn't know you then.

Well,

the kitchen. Well, good customers is like spices. They're many and varied.

But without them, you're out of business.

Yes, indeed.

Well, here it is. Here it is.

What do you think?

What a beautiful place to create.

Yes. Ah, the sauces, the aromas, the succulent juices that will flow from

Yes, indeed.

No. No, we don't have them. Desirable, but not crucial. All right. Okay. Now,

let us talk about the menu. Yes. Then I shall go shop.

Yes. First, I want you to fix for me and my

wife conch fritters.

Ah, yes.

Conch fritters.

Conch. Yes. The most delectable.

Yes. but no longer fashionable of shellfish.

But if you both, I could puree the conch with a colorful array of spring

vegetables and blacken them in Cajun spices.

I don't think so.

I'm talking about conch fritters that you would take and roll the

conch in the filler.

and then dip them into the grease and fritterize them.

Please. Now, what did you have in mind for the second course?

Callaloo soup.

Callaloo. Callaloo.

Callaloo. Callaloo. We need some dasheen bush, okra, coconut water, a pesto

sauce. Pesto sauce. And a dollop of fresh, Raspberry Tofu Mousse.

Don't write that down.

I think you and I are having a communications problem.

I want the food that you cooked at the

Kuala Lumpur 27 years ago. You mean 27 years ago when you had...

I don't do that no more.

You don't do that no more?

No!

go home again?

I'm already home.

Well, I'm on my way to my home.

You can threaten me so, but you can't threaten me.

Contract is broken. I hope you don't expect me to give you any money.

Well, Dr. Huxtable, I feel the breeze of compromise

blowing us together.

Oh. Good afternoon, Dr. Huxtable. You're the musician.

Yes, we are. Nice to meet you.

You fellas are early.

Yes, we are.

Yes. We had many subways to take, and we want to make sure we have plenty of

time. Yeah, but you're two hours early. Well, that's plenty of time.

You want us to wait outside? No, no, no, no. You don't have to do that. Make

yourselves comfortable.

Olivia, this is Ted in Trinidadians. Say hello. Hello.

I'll be with you in a minute. Take your coats off.

How are we doing, Mr. Atkins? Oh, I'm doing extremely well, considering the

creative constraints.

Of course, knowing you'll pay me in cash provides additional motivation.

I just hope that we're singing the same Caribbean tune.

We are. Yes. We are in perfect harmony, Doctor. Are we, Mr. Atkins? Are we?

Tofu? Yes, tofu.

I use it as garnish, Chef. Off -white goes with everything.

But you won't. You'll never taste it.

We had an agreement, Mr. Atkins.

And we still do, sir.

In fact, I take it as a personal challenge to make old food awesome.

Look, I want you to cook the food that tastes like the food my wife and I had

at the Callaloo Pot 27 years ago.

Well, if you can remember the year, why can't you remember the recipe?

Tofu -less.

Tofu -less.

I always wanted to say that.

You said it. You said it good, Dad.

That sounds great.

Happy anniversary.

It's from Sandra and me. Thank you. Thank you, son.

Really appreciate it. Dad, you don't look good. Your eyes are red and puffy.

got a glowing gland.

Okay.

Look, more importantly, do me a favor, man. What? I got a chef in the

kitchen who I...

He cooked for us 27 years ago. You know Caribbean food. I grew up on it.

Keep an eye on this man.

He wants to put tofu in my food.

I don't know what else, you know, but he keeps talking about things blossoming.

You want me to watch it? Yeah. Don't worry about it. I got it. Keep an eye on

it. Okay. It sounds great, guys.

Why don't you save that for the evening?

Well,

I'm not paying you by the hour.

Callaloo. That smells fantastic. What did you say was in there?

I didn't.

But I will.

Dachshund bush, okra, coconut water, mirabelle.

Sounds great.

Mr. Atkinson, was that tofu you put in there?

Yes.

Tofu. Tofu.

Tofu and callaloo. That's interesting, because I've never had that myself, but,

you know, it could be good.

It could be quite good, actually.

Smells

great.

What is that, a kiwi?

Yes. The kiwi. You're going to put a kiwi in the Callaloo? Yes.

The whole thing, sir, with the fur?

It's the best part.

Who knows? I mean, that could work. I mean, kiwi in Callaloo? You know, I've

never had it, but then again, it's, you know, limited experience.

You could be right.

Garbage. Elvin, you don't have to pick.

They'll be ample to sample when I'm done.

Ah, the Kalaloupat. Just as I remember it. So full of atmosphere,

so empty of customers.

How's everything going?

Dr. Huxtable.

My...

Smells like it.

Looks like it.

Callaloo.

Callaloo.

Callaloo.

Callaloo. Callaloo.

Callaloo.

The

fellas

do me a favor.

Mrs. Huxtable's coming in about 15 to 20 minutes. I want you to take everything

over. To the callaloo pot now. Can you do that?

Yes. Okay.

Wait

for

me.

What I will do is I will then signal you and then you will start to play. Can

you do that?

One more time.

Hello?

Gentlemen, I'm Mrs. Huxtable.

Oh.

The signal.

What? It's not our fault. He never gave us the signal.

I'm not our fault.

This is the last. This is the last.

I'm sorry.

Oh.

And the children, the children worked so hard to fix up the dining room for you.

It looks, it looks just like the color, the color of the pot.

I'm sorry, Annie.

Happy anniversary.

Yes, to you too.

My skin hurts.

I would say something louder, but my head would fall apart.