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Roach Stompers. Now, the jump is called a herky, not a jerky.

Exciting news, girls!

We're going to the Maryland Regional Chairlating Championship!

I know

I'm hard on you girls, but I want you to know it's

all out of love.

That's so sweet.

Freshies give the best tugs.

All that baby fat, you're just so soft and squishy.

Sometimes in the past, you can feel all by yourself.

But I have a partner, but I can't tell no one else.

Gonna isolate yourself when there's nobody.

it's been a bad influence on you. Remember he made you get that S curl?

That's why you gotta wear a hat all the time.

But I just hope he's over that bad habit of inappropriate touching.

Yeah. What's in the way? How long has it been?

Oh, forever, man. What's up, dog?

Oh, ah.

See, you, uh, haven't changed a bit.

You know, it's nice to see you two are still tight. Oh, yeah. We're tighter

handcuffs on a rapper's wrist.

You still singing any chance you get? Oh, I just pressed another album.

I've got a bunch in my trunk.

Ooh.

Do you guys remember the group we had back in high school?

Remember? Man, I put it together.

Midnight Gold.

We were so cool with our names shaved and our heads.

You know, they're hosting an open mic contest here.

How about a reunion?

Get the whole group together.

Me? Do an amateurish open mic contest? You know, all the old groups we competed

against in high school are going to be here.

The Red Light.

No. Orange Thunder.

What? The Butterscotch Boys. Butterscotch Boys.

Those chumps.

I say we do this.

Midnight Gold is about to go a side of gold.

You're going to have to pick a new team captain. But you need me to lead the

team to victory.

No, you need an ambulance to lead you to surgery.

Now pick someone or I will.

Oh, really?

I pick... I pick Brianna.

Wait, hold up for a minute there. I thought she said Brianna.

She did.

Wow, Brianna.

Tiffany, are you sure?

leadership abilities, and the girls love her.

She's just an adorable little moppet.

Then I guess it's you, Brianna.

The first freshman to make captain.

Since me.

Tiffy, I am your best friend. According to the cheer code, I should be captain.

I'm sorry, Angie, but this has nothing to do with cheerleading. This is just

plain old play, Hayden.

Now, Brianna flirted with my boyfriend, and she hustled her way onto this team,

remember? Now, by making her captain, she'll mess up, and then I'll be rid of

Miss Brie Brie once and for all.

Rihanna, you're team captain. I am so jealous.

Girl, I can't believe it either. But trust me, I'm going to be way nicer than

that skinny, stuck -up Tootie wannabe.

goes getting back together.

It's midnight, though, and Brianna's not here.

Yo, Flex, listen, I have a couple of ideas to help us win this contest. Oh,

already on it, dog.

Check this out, y 'all. Let's do one of our old songs.

Line up, line up. All right, all right. What are we singing?

Our original cover to the classic Tender Love. All right. What about something

more current? You know, the crowd tends to like songs they can sing along to.

Hmm.

Nah.

Come on, you can't hang out.

Here I lay all alone Tossing, turning,

longing for some of your tender love

Brianna, it's almost four o 'clock and half the squad is

not here.

What are you going to do about it?

Nothing.

Like Bobby Knight.

Loud, pushy, and punishable by law.

I'm more like Phil Jackson.

Soft -spoken, smooth, and very well -dressed.

No, that's Tito Jackson.

Why don't you sing lead until he gets you? I don't know, fellas.

I'm kind of shy.

from singing lead.

Hello!

Hey, guys, I'm sorry I'm late. Something came up at the station, but thanks for

covering for me. But I see you guys are all warmed up, so let's really rehearse.

Come on. Uh, Flex, what do you think about Dwayne on lead vocals?

Nah.

Well, I think I speak for everyone here when I say we'd rather have Dwayne than

lead.

Nah.

He doesn't speak for me. I'm very happy here in the background. Just... Come on,

D. You're a great front man.

You're a natural.

Hey, hey, Howard Hewitt. I'm the leader of this group.

Come on now. Flex is right. Let him sing lead. But you're better than him.

Oh, ooh. No, no, no.

Just different.

See, I'm Michael. He's Jermaine. Sometimes I'm Janet, but never Latoya.

First of all, I'm the one who created this group, and I'm Michael.

You know, the real reason we broke up in high school is because we all thought

Dwayne should sing lead.

Mm -hmm.

I say we take a vote.

Who wants Dwayne to be our front man?

Oh, that's three to two, Flex.

Well, that's just three, because Dwayne and I quit.

Right, D? Come on.

Uh, yeah, Dwayne.

Are you sure you want to do that?

Uh, no.

What do you mean you say no?

You're supposed to be my boy. You're supposed to always have my back. But

instead of Dwayne being back there... Oh, what's that?

A big, fat knife.

Man, you're supposed to be my boy and have my back.

But my back getting kind of cold because no one's ever back there.

You know, you guys work this out.

Give us a call when you're ready to practice.

Yeah.

Man, I can't believe you play me like this.

Have you forgotten the neighborhood code?

Flex is always right.

Man,

you were standing right there when they asked me to sing lead. I was just as

surprised as you were.

Yeah, but you had the opportunity to say no, but instead you said, he's

Jermaine, I'm Michael, I'm sometime Janet, but never Latoya.

Man, what?

What, you just want me to fade into the background like I've been doing all my

life?

Fading for my father.

Fading for my uncle.

Girl child ain't safe in a house of men.

Every time your feelings get hurt, you go quoting some movie line.

Man, I've been two steps behind you all my life.

That's because you always needed me in front of you, defending you.

How many times did I keep you from getting your butt kicked?

Man, I never asked you to.

It just made sense.

I mean, you had that mutant growth spurt at 13, and I've seen it at a more

sensible height.

The point is that you're just mad because I'm good at singing lead, and

stepping down.

Well, you know what?

you can step by yourself because we're no longer friends and you're fine as

Brianna's godfather.

Until you do right by me, everything you even think about is going to crumble.

Well, since we're quoting movie lines, Fredo, you're dead to me.

Take that. Shut up. What? Does it hurt? Does it hurt? You want some of this,

Dwayne? How about this?

Want some? Hi, Dwayne.

Get up, shorty. Dad,

can I talk to you?

They made me captain of the cheerleaders, and they're not respecting

want to know about respect, huh?

Respect ain't earned. You got to go out there, and you got to take it.

Learn from the greats. I tell them to hunt.

Genghis Khan.

Tanya Harding.

You know what? Forget about all my problems, okay?

Because yours are obviously much bigger. All right?

Come have a seat. Tell BriBri all about it.

Excuse me.

That might have been Dwayne on the phone. He left five messages.

I told you never to speak that name in this house.

I'm surprised you would let something as minor as...

Leave for some old tired group come between you and he whose name shall not

spoken.

You're being petty.

I am not.

You know what, Father?

Once in the fourth grade, my friend Dolly was a seat wetter.

And once she sat in my seat and then didn't tell anybody.

And then I sat in the same seat.

Everybody thought it was me.

And they all started calling me Brianna, Piana.

The point is, Dwayne wouldn't pee on your seat. You know.

I see someone wasn't in the sixth grade with Dwayne. You know.

Gee, looks like you're the captain of a big old nothing.

your boyfriend likes me. Like I said before, I can't turn all this off, okay?

Now watch me work.

Uh, excuse me. You all are 20 minutes late. That's five demerits, and I drop

give me 10.

Oh, I know the freshie isn't telling me to do something.

I need to be more like you.

Yes, yes, like a professional.

No, no, like a witch.

I checked around.

I called two priests, a nun, and a street preacher. Only God can fire me as

Brianna's godfather.

You didn't apologize.

Just hurry up.

Look, man, I've been trying to talk to you for days.

You don't take my calls. You don't return my emails.

You're worse than half the women I try to go out with.

You better stop showing up at my job, too. And what is with that shirt?

Look,

man, since you're already here, why don't you just say what you got to say,

Look, we've been friends for years.

And in all that time, it's always been Flex and Dwayne, never Dwayne and Flex.

It's cold here in your shadow.

I just want my chance to shine.

And what movie is that from?

It's a loose interpretation from Beaches, but that's not the point.

The point is this.

I've been your friend for as long as I can remember.

And I sure hope our friendship isn't based on you always being in the

and me always drifting somewhere in the background.

That's from Yento.

Thank you.

Flex isn't coming.

Just come out there and sing your heart out, man.

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Midnight Gold!

Man, what you doing, dog? You got it, man. Sing lead. I got your back.

You got the key.

Oh, baby.

Take me where you want to be.

Just look and you'll see.

Love the house.

You got the key.

It's what I used to do.

They deserve to win.

Yeah.

I like that background singing. She's kind of cute.

I like to leave things kind of tight with her.

I love her smile.

I really do.

Love you too, Netta.