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Come on, Gabe. You promised.

Do it later.

Do it now.

Slave driver.

Do you have a tape on my Uncle George?

No.

I don't want to hear about him. Take the garbage out.

Well, the joke has to do with garbage.

All your jokes have to do with garbage.

My Uncle George had a way to get rid of his garbage during the last garbage

strike. You want to know what it was?

I'll tell you anyway.

He gift -wrapped it and left it in the back of his car.

Your dreams were your ticket out.

Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about.

Well, the names have all changed since you hung around.

But those dreams have remained and they've turned around.

Who'd have thought they'd lead ya?

Who'd have thought they'd lead ya? Back here where we need ya.

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

Welcome back. Welcome back.

Freddy, what are you doing sleeping out here?

Can't you wait till we get into class?

No, he ain't sleeping. I know what he's doing. I used to do that.

I would pretend I was asleep in front of the TV set so my mother would pick me

up and put me to bed.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, we all used to do that when we was kids.

Kids did it last night.

Freddy. Freddy, come on. Will you wake up?

Hey, you know, Freddy, it's a really good idea to take care of your body.

Hey, you guys remember when I had that hangnail?

Oh, yeah, Vinny gave us a terrible scare.

Yeah, I remember I had to bite it and file it and soak it. I tried everything.

And then I finally had to go to that manicurist.

What did she do?

She did everything.

Oh, man, we had such a good time.

I buffed her, she buffed me.

No, man, I'm all right, man. I'm all right, you know.

You know, I'm just like this because, you know, I got some pills from the

doctor, you know. Remember when I injured my knee playing basketball?

It's from a knee injury, you know, and the pills make me kind of groggy, but

going to snap out of it in a minute, so, you know, watch.

Yeah, but gee, Freddie, you hurt your knee in that basketball game. What last

week it was?

Hi, guys.

Isn't it great? Isn't it great living in New York at this time of year? I mean,

the snow, it's so exciting. I mean, where else? What other city can you just

wake up every morning and go out there and face an adventure?

You guys are so lucky growing up in New York, living in the Big Apple.

I hate him on Mondays.

I can't help it. I just love the snow.

Great. Why don't you come on over to my apartment, shovel it out of my bedroom,

huh?

Hey, Mr. Carter, I've always been curious.

How do you keep your mustache warm and wetter like this?

I usually send it to Miami for the winter.

Come on, come on, we're going to be late. Let's go. Mush your huskies. Let's

to school.

Come on, Freddie, come on in. Yeah, I'm

right behind you, man. I just got my legs a little stiff. Go ahead. I'm going

catch up. Go ahead.

How the life are you going, man?

Stupid.

What are you guys doing here, man?

It's a bathroom.

You want another hint?

Excuse me, Freddy.

I don't mean to pry.

but do you always take your shoe off when you go to the bathroom?

My shoes is off, man, because I have something in it, all right? Oh, yeah?

Well, I heard you're getting pebbles in your shoe, but never a manila envelope.

Let me see what you got. Hey, man, come on, man. Why don't you mind your own

business, man?

These is pills, vitamin pills that the doctor prescribed me because I've been

feeling groggy.

You got more questions?

Freddy, why don't you do what I do? Just carry a yogi beer vitamin bottle with

you.

They're so cute.

I wish y 'all guys stopped tailing me all over the place.

Well, who's tailing you? We're here on official business.

Yeah, that's right. There's nobody tailing you.

What are we doing here?

Now, last week we had a test.

I have the results of that test.

But... I think it's better if I don't give it to you. I

think it's better if I have another test tomorrow.

I'm going to ask you some questions that may or may not be on the test.

Okay, who can tell me when the Treaty of Versailles was signed?

I know, Mr. Captain. Ask me, ask me. I know, I know. Go ahead, ask me, ask me.

I know this one.

Well, when was it signed?

A long time ago.

A real long time ago.

The year that Freddie was so close to giving us was 1919.

Right, right, right, right.

Yeah,

check you out, man. Right on. Freddie, can I see you a second? I gotta go, man.

I ain't got no time. You be cool, right?

Catch you all up.

All right, sit down.

Sit down.

Come on.

All right, what's wrong with Freddy?

He hired his name, Mr. Carter.

I know that, Arnold. That was last week. Now, what else is wrong with him?

Well, he ain't such a good dresser.

I think he's way too nice to girls. I wish I do not like.

Look, I see what's going on. One minute he's nodding out in the schoolyard. The

next minute we come into class and he's climbing up the walls.

What do you call that?

Come on, Mr. Carter. You know Freddy's always been very excitable.

He's just got a lot of extra adrenaline.

Yeah, and he keeps it in his shoe.

Come on!

All right, now we're getting somewhere.

He keeps what in his shoe?

Vitamins.

Vitamins?

Come on, Arnold. I grew up in this neighborhood, too.

All right, all right.

So now you know.

So here it is, Mr. Carter.

Straight from the horse's hip.

He was worried about Freddy, too, so we followed him into the men's room.

Just as about he was ready to eat a pill.

That's circumstantial evidence, Juan. Come on, Arnold Horseshack. You saw it

with your own eyes. Freddy says they're vitamins, and I believe him.

That's because you're stupid.

I bet you don't even know how to bleed right.

Freddie says they're vitamins.

Freddie's never lied to me.

Why don't you two guys have a little faith in your friends?

Well, excuse me.

I think you're right. I think Arnold's faith is blinding him a little bit.

Guys, I'm going to have a very serious thought. with Freddy.

You have any idea where I can find him?

Well, you could try the men's room.

You can't miss him.

He's the one with his shoe off.

Hi,

Freddy. Hey, what's happening, Miss Cathy?

How's it going with you, man?

Okay, you know, I meant to ask you, how's your leg doing?

It's all right, man. It's going to be all right in a couple days, yeah.

Oh, that's good.

Hey, did I tell you when I was on the basketball team, I hurt my leg, too?

Yeah, that's awful, man. What happened? What happened?

Bench collapsed.

Did they give you any medication for that?

Yeah, the doctor, he gave me some pills, man, some pain pills, yeah.

Oh, yeah? They doing it good?

Yeah, it did the trick.

All right, that's good.

You know that serious stuff, those pain pills?

Some people start taking them and they can't stop.

Is that a fact?

Yeah. And they get so down from those downs that they got to take something to

get them back up.

You trying to tell me something, Mr. County?

No, Freddy, I was hoping you were going to tell me something.

Crack me up, you know that, man?

Now, all people your age crack me up. You know, we all crack me up, man.

y 'all think if a dude take one pill that he's out stealing a TV set or

something, right?

Maybe he's in school pretending he's taking vitamins.

Wow, boy.

I never thought they'd squeal on me.

Fred, they didn't squeal on you. We're all very concerned about you. Yeah,

don't be concerned about me right now, all right? All you can do is just get

of here right now.

While you're expecting somebody, maybe a guy's going to sell you that one pill

you were talking about?

Freddie, when's the last time you looked at yourself in the mirror? You're a

mess.

Why don't you just check yourself out, Mr. Cartier?

You man sticking your nose in business, that ain't your concern. Check that out.

Forget my nose. Come here, Freddie. Look at your eyes. Look at yourself.

When's the last time you got any sleep?

Probably in my class.

Look, I know what I'm doing, all right? And that's my business.

I take the pills because they make me feel better, all right?

Freddie, how long is that going to last? Look, I don't know how long that's

going to last, but that's my business, all right?

I don't be yelling at you for drinking too much coffee, do I?

Yeah, but I don't stand in a men's room waiting for someone to sell me coffee

beans.

I love you, Scott. Just get off my back. Just leave me alone, all right? Just

leave me alone.

Hey, I'll catch you later. Wait a minute, man. Freddie, come on. Freddie,

I did you a favor.

Don't do me no favors, man. Just don't do me no favors.

Just get off my face and get out of my life. And I'm serious, you understand

I can't believe that, Freddy.

He's really acting crazy.

I mean, he even embarrassed me, and that ain't easy.

I know, but that scene this morning, I mean, why would Freddy want to pick a

fight with a traffic light?

Well, he said, nobody tells Freddy Washington went to walk.

Where does Freddy get those vitamins?

I mean, could you get him at a regular drugstore?

His pharmacist doesn't work out of a store.

He works out of his raincoat.

What's the matter?

Cafeteria closed?

Hey, Mr. Conner, look, we don't know what to do.

Yeah, Freddy is really getting worse now.

I know. I tried to talk to him yesterday. I got nowhere.

Yeah, Mr.

Cobb, we don't do something fast.

Mr. Woodman is sure to find out soon. Come on, come on. Woodman's never going

figure that out.

I mean, the man's completely unaware of these kind of things.

All right, Carter.

What's happening with Washington?

Is he on some kind of pills?

What makes you say that?

This morning in the cafeteria, he planted his feet in a tray of peas and

shouted, ho, ho, ho, I'm the Jolly Black Giant.

And he came up to me and said, what's happening in the valley, little sprout?

I don't know what he's on, but whatever it

is, he better get off it.

I mean, pills are trouble, Cotter.

They're as bad as dope.

Which reminds me, I've got to say Principal Lazarus.

Mr. Carter, what are we going to do?

Guys, Freddy's got a serious problem.

He needs help, but he needs professional help.

Well, look, Mr. Carter, let's just keep this in the family, you know? Why don't

you let us work on it ourselves?

Look, if you want to do Freddy a favor,

Let somebody handle it who really knows what they're doing.

Hey, Kata's right, huh?

Let's go.

Yeah. See you later.

Kata's wrong.

Nobody knows Freddy like we know him, so we just got to do something. We just

got to act fast. That's all there is to it.

Hey, I'm sorry. I just don't understand any of this at all.

I mean, all of this fuss over a few lousy vitamins.

Maybe Freddy's are taking too many.

Well, I just want to check something. Did I call you stupid yesterday?

Yeah, you did.

Good, because I hate to repeat myself.

Come on, let's go. We got to act fast. Come on, Vincent. He's never going to

notice. Well, what are we going to do?

Okay, Angie went to get Freddy.

Now, all you and I got to do, Vinnie, we just got to act like we took some of

them pills.

All right, but let's get this over with real quickly, all right? All right, all

right. Because this pill -popping business is bad for my boy -next -store

If you was the boy next door, I'd move.

And remember, gentlemen, occupancy in that washroom is limited to 64 people.

You the poster boy for wacko?

Come on now, mellow out.

Look, I ain't acting like him. Well, you got to act like something because

Freddy's going to be here any moment. Now, what are you going to do? What are

you going to do?

All right, I'm going to be one of them druggy people, real dumb like, all

Give me drugs, give me drugs.

hey, I'm going to act like I took an upper and I took a downer and I'm just

going to be going sideways, you know what I mean? Just like this, back and

forth, you know?

All right, all right, all right. Hey, whoo, all right, man. What's happening,

man? Andy T, you're overlooking for me, man. So, like, tell me what's happening

because I got basketball practice, baby.

Forget basketball practice, Freddie.

Why don't you stay here?

Get high with the boys.

Give me drugs.

just as much right to get stupid as you do.

the chair.

Oh, my dear friend, Mr.

Basketball. I hope you didn't run out of air.

He was a real groovy cat until he lost his hair.

Oh, wow. No wonder he died.

He don't got

Y 'all expect me to believe that y 'all took pills?

Come on.

I'm a doper.

Come on, look at my eyes. Look at the pupils. Ain't they related?

They look perfectly normal.

Sparkling dullness.

Y 'all can just knock this off. Knock it off, all right? I'm not buying this

snowdrop. I know y 'all ain't taking none of them pills.

Give me drugs.

Give me drugs.

Give them to me. Give them up.

All right, all right, all right.

Let's knock it off.

I mean, you can't fool a real doper, can you, Freddy?

Hey, look, man, y 'all guys know nothing about it, all right?

Yeah, well, I know this. One of these days, you're going to have to get off

pills and go cold duck.

turkey.

Whatever it is, it's for the birds.

Ladies and gentlemen, may I call your attention to the center.

Dude, I want to see it.

Hey, Anna, I told you to knock it off. Come on, the jig is up already. Freddy

knows we didn't take none of them pills.

Maybe you didn't, maybe you didn't, but... Oh, look at me, look at me. Anna,

look at me, look at me.

What'd you take, Mary?

Vitamin.

The same kind of ones that you take, Freddy.

I even got them from the same guy.

Those were the vitamins.

Didn't you know that?

How's he supposed to know that when you told him they were?

Look, Arnold, let's see if you could walk. We'll take you over to the nurse.

Yeah, let me help you, Arnold. No, don't help him. Get your hands off him.

You've done enough help already. Come on.

Hey, I don't want to go to the nurse. I want to play circus.

That's all right, Arnold.

We'll take you to the nurse. We'll get you a nice big balloon.

Freddy. Hey, Mr. Cartier.

What's happening?

I just came from the nurse's office.

In case you're worried, Arnold's going to be all right. It was just a bruise.

Well, uh, they told you what happened, huh?

Yeah, they told me everything that happened.

He trusted me, you know that, Mr. Katya? I mean, he believed in me, and I let

him down.

You're letting yourself down, too, Freddy.

I guess I'm pretty stupid, huh?

You're not stupid if you realize you gotta get off those things.

Yeah, but those guys, man, they ain't gonna talk to me no more, man.

Freddy, they're gonna talk to you. They're your friends.

You got a real problem here. What do you think?

I take it.

Mr. Katya, I think you could take these pills and flush them down the toilet,

all right?

I got a better idea. Why don't you do it?

Yeah, all right.

Right on.

Stay cool, all right?

Catch you later.

See you tomorrow.

My Uncle Luther was not only a dietician, he was also an inventor.

What did he invent?

Oh, I'm glad you asked me.

He crossed a potato and a sponge.

What did he get?

Well, whatever it is.

It doesn't taste too good, but it sure soaks up a lot of gravy.

Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about.

Well, the names have all changed since you hung around.

But those dreams have remained and they've turned around.

Who'd have thought they'd lead ya? Who'd have thought they'd lead ya? Back here

where we need ya. Back here.

We tease him a lot because we got him on the spot.

Welcome back.

Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back.