All language subtitles for Girlfriends s06e12 The Music in Me

And the oil lasted for eight days, which
was a miracle. And so, to celebrate, we

have the Festival of Lights.

I thought that was called Hanukkah.
Hanukkah is Hebrew for Festival of

Are you sure about that? No.

But I am so excited because it's
Morgan's first holiday. And how symbolic

that Hanukkah and Christmas fall on...

the same day this year.

And how moving that Tony and Todd

have called a truth so that Morgan can
celebrate both

Hanukkah and Christmas.

Where?

In my great room.

Where all great holidays are spent.

Okay, Joan, before you get all excited,
know that I would sacrifice a goat and

drink its blood if it made me look good
for the judge in my custody battle.

I knew your trifling butt was pulling a
big ol' Hanukkah scam on Todd.

A mother's gotta do what a mother's
gotta do to keep her child.

So can a scammer get a mazel tov? Ooh,
way ahead of you.

Mazel tov!

Everyone, it's sundown. Todd, darling,
could you light the candles? And I'll

the Hanukkah gelt from my purse.

Excuse me, Miss Bing. You can't go
cutting off a woman before she receives

king.

I'm sorry, Verretta, but now it's time
for my granddaughter's first Hanukkah.

And besides, we've been celebrating
Christmas since last night.

Oh, honey, we've been celebrating
Christmas since the star rose over

Oh, wait!

So, for your Hanukkah enjoyment, we've
got dreidels, we've got latkes, and

even got a bottle of Manischewitz. A
bottle of what? I don't know, sweetie.

ate half that thing. If you would drink,
I'm out of watsit.

So, what happens now?

Well, I've heard tale of more presents.
That's why I brought a big old empty day

one Hanukkah bag.

Tony, you stand here with Morgan so she
can watch her daddy light the pretty

candles.

Does anybody know what he's saying?

He's trying to get our baby.

For all we know, he could be chanting
some voodoo curse to send us all back to

Africa.

Have some respect, please.

He is blessing the Hanukkah candles.

Blessing candles?

Oh, no.

We don't worship false idols in our
church.

Obviously, they don't teach manners at
your church.

Oh, no, she didn't.

Mama, please.

Veretta, you know, Hanukkah is a very
ancient celebration, and Jesus himself

probably lit the Hanukkah candle.

Well, if he did, that was before Jesus
found Jesus.

Jesus loves me.

This I know for the Bible. And you know,
that's the whole Bible, not just that

first part.

That's enough.

You know what? I have sat here. I've
listened to your carols. I've watched

eat your ham.

I've worried myself into an ulcer that
that fire trap you call a Christmas tree

is going to burst into flames.

Well, if you're so worried about a fire,
why are you up and through here

lighting candles?

I'm lighting candles because my
granddaughter is half Jewish.

Well, if you don't type that on her
forehead, ain't nobody going to know

Because in America, That's a black baby
with good hair. Praise Jesus.

Oh, come away.

Excuse me.

Look,

Tony and I have put aside our issues to
make this day special for Morgan.

We're celebrating Christmas and
Hanukkah.

Anyone who doesn't like it can leave.

It's my house.

My empty bag.

And I, for one, am enjoying the
festivities.

Those little tops are fun.

And, you know, Darnell and I are cool. I
mean, we're used to tension around the

holidays. You know, Darnell's crazy
family.

Well, my family got to be crazy.

You don't really want me to bring up Big
Mama and the turkey leg, do you?

The Wilkes family's cool.

Mom?

I stomach your wedding.

Your brother is a cloth dresser. I am
sitting here on a hemorrhoid donut.

When have I ever complained?

What are y 'all eyeballing me for?

You're going to be here on our terms, or
you're not going to be here at all?

Well, I'm sitting here, so apparently
I'm all right.

Okay.

Joan. Thank you.

Look, I said it. From Joan.

Tony and Todd had absolutely no business
getting together.

I mean, it's right there in the Bible,
baby. Corinthians 6 .14. You've got to

equal to yoke.

To be with Tony, you've got to be more
than yoke. You've got to be drunk.

You best not be, boy. I'm serious.

You know that boy's lying. I know, but
you want to walk across the cold

courtyard and take him away from him?

Not when I got my own.

Hello.

Look, all I'm saying is marriage is hard
enough without having to deal with all

that race and religion drama.

We're lucky.

We're both black and Baptist.

Well, actually, Maya, during our time
apart,

A brother became Episcopalian.

Episcopal what?

You turned your back on the Baptist
church?

Maya, I love the Lord, but not for five
and a half hours every Sunday.

And that's not even counting two hours
getting out the parking lot.

Darnell, all I know is the Baptist
church. All Jabari is going to know is

Baptist church.

Well, actually, Jabari's been knowing
the Episcopal church.

You said be ye, not unequally yoked, or
live forever in damnation. That's what

you said.

Maya, I'm still Christian. No, you're
Christian -like.

Todd, all I'm saying is... Mom, you've
said enough.

Well, I haven't said this.

You can't be Jewish and Christian. It's
not possible.

We're figuring it out. There's no time
to figure it out. Morgan is here now.

Why did you have to marry Tony in the
first place? The Jewish girls were

throwing themselves at you. You're a
doctor.

No one was throwing themselves at me.
Well, you wouldn't have noticed if they

were. And you know why?

Because you're a short, insecure boy
just like your father who chased after

unattainable, exotic beauty just like
your father. Well, you got her. And

did it get you? And your point? My point
is, her Meshuggah mother is right about

one thing.

Our little Morgan will always be
perceived as African American.

I have to accept that.

But shouldn't part of her heritage come
from us? We're Jewish, Todd.

Our people have been Jewish for 5 ,000
years.

And if you don't raise her Jewish, God
forbid, then you're just completing

Hitler's work.

Want me to open a vein?

I'm a little over the top, sweetheart. I
mean, I admit it. It's just that little

pitfall of, oh, beautiful.

She's probably the only grandchild I'm
ever going to have.

You know your brother's on hormones.

He has breathless now.

Give me this one little thing. Raise
mortgage Jewish. Just let me go to my

grave. With the guilt now.

Guilt?

There's no guilt.

Who got you out of debt?

Who helped you buy that show place in
Tarzana? I sent you a thank you card.

you did.

Right, you're the good one. You're the
considerate one. And that's why I know

you are going to do the right thing and
make your mother happy.

For your sake, you know, I did stick it
out in a miserable marriage.

Do you know what your father did this
time? If he treats you so bad, why don't

you just divorce him?

Divorce a wonderful man like your
father? Aunt Monica, shame on you.

Yeah, she nuzzled up on these big old
breasts and fell sound asleep, just like

her granddaddy.

You know what?

I'm going to bed, too.

Well, before you crawl into bed...

You might want to get down on your knees
and beg forgiveness for bringing

Hanukkah all up and through your baby's
first Christmas.

Mama, you know what I'm trying to do.

Tony, I know y 'all think Mama's all
jokey jokes, but I am serious about

Christian woman.

Now, Jesus got me sober and finally in a
good relationship with you. And Jesus

got you through, too.

Because if I recall, you were down and
out in Beverly Hills adjacent.

Well, Jesus is going to have to
understand.

Exposing Morgan to both religions will
make me look better in court.

Oh, you think you're being all
legalistic and strategic.

But all you're doing is mixing that
child up.

Well, that may be.

But at least she'll be mixed up living
with me.

Tony, I want Morgan to live with you in
this life, too.

But I got to think about our next life.

I don't want my pretty little grandbaby
waving to me from the wrong side of the

pearly gates.

Mama, with all due respect, what makes
you think you're going to be on the

side of the pearly gates?

Oh, because I tie 11%. Practically paid
for the

pearly gates.

I know I'm going to have me a key card.

Gated community, my ass.

Hey, Tony.

Morgan is still sleeping. Do you want to
come in and wait?

Is your mother around?

No, she's down at the mall returning the
sweater you gave her.

Good luck.

From the hospital lost and found.

Excuse me. Sorry.

Hey, look.

I need to talk to you about something,
and I guess now's as good a time as any.

What?

I want to raise Morgan Jewish.

And I want you to stop hogging that pot
of gold at the end of the rainbow. Your

turn.

Tony, everyone can see you in her. I
want there to be something of me in her.

She's got your hair. See, now you're
getting greedy.

I admit my religion has never been very
important to me, but it's more than just

religion. It's my heritage. And now that
I have a child, I want to pass that

heritage on.

I want her to be raised Jewish.

Is this your mother talking?

She brought it up, but it got me
thinking.

This is important to me.

We should have talked about this before,
but we didn't, so here we are.

Well, I'm not just going to kick my
religion to the curb, Todd.

My faith is important to me, too. Come
on, Tony, half the time you're praising

Jesus, you're talking about Jesus the
maintenance man.

Todd, this is not negotiable.

I don't want to bring down the wrath of
God or, worse, my mother.

Even if I agree to drop my petition for
full custody?

Hey! Hey!

Okay, what's all this?

Well, Joan's shoving Kwanzaa down our
throats.

So open up.

What? So Joan, when did you start acting
black?

If you can act like somebody's mama,
then I can act black.

Touché.

Where's Morgan?

Where's your child?

Touché.

No, for real, Tony, where's Itty Bitty?
I thought you were going to bring her.

Oh, Todd has her. He probably took her
to felt -a -fishing or something.

What?

Oh, yeah.

Right, you guys don't know.

We're converting Morgan so she can be
raised Jewish.

Now, what now?

If we're going to dip her in the mix,
we'll make her Jewish real quick.

You going to do what to the who now and
when?

Todd offered to drop his custody
petition in exchange for Morgan being

Jewish. So I've agreed to take her down
to some religious hot tub and dunk her

in converter. And I don't want to hear
boo about it.

Oh, you're about to hear some boo, boo.

No, Maya, we are going to respect Tony's
decision.

Because I'm sure that she's thought a
lot about it and prayed on it and sat

it, and she's decided that this is the
best thing for her daughter. And what's

best for my daughter is being with me.

I love that little girl.

I mean, you guys, Morgan is my life, and
I would do anything if it meant more

time with her.

Then it's done. Oh, no, it ain't. No, uh
-uh.

I don't want to be flagged and pulled to
the side on Judgment Day because I

didn't stand up for Jesus on this day.

Morgan is not going to get to heaven
because the Bible says you've got to

in with the Father before you can get to
the Son.

Now, I may be paraphrasing, but, you
know, you get my point.

You know, I believe all Jesus was trying
to say was to follow his way if you

want to get to paradise.

Clothe the naked, feed the hungry.

Says the woman who wants to be clothed
and fed.

That's right. So if you want to get in,
you best step up.

You know what, Tony?

You do whatever you want.

But honestly, I don't understand how you
can raise your daughter in a religion

that denied the word when it was all
fresh and new.

Shoot, honey, they heard it straight
from his mouth. Wasn't no he said, she

said, girl.

You're right, Maya.

I need to do what I want, and this is
what I want. So then you know what? Do

you, because guess what? I'm done. I'm
done.

I'm done.

No, I ain't.

Morgan is black.

Black people are Christian.

End of story.

Actually, Maya, the majority of black
people in the world are Muslim.

Well, you know what? I don't really know
nothing about all that.

I don't know nothing about that either,
but I know there's a lot of them.

Look, you know what, Tony? I'm talking
about black people in America.

Let me be specific for you. I'm talking
about black people in L .A., Atlanta,

and Houston.

Okay? They don't have all those big old
mega churches for nothing.

Morgan is part of a proud legacy of
black folk.

Okay, girl? And she needs to know that
the church is our rock, our strength.

It got us through slavery. It got us
through Jim Crow. Girl, I am praying

get us through George Bush.

Amen.

Look,

Tony, for what it's worth, I think you
guys had it right to begin with.

Expose Morgan to both religions because
ultimately it's her choice to make

anyway.

And you know what? Maybe she'll decide
that there is no choice to make.

Don't all these paths lead to God
anyway?

Why we got

to be in the back?

Because we're not Jewish.

Oh, I see. This is our Rosa Parks
moment.

We got to sit in the back seat of the
mid -bush.

Now, Todd, blow in Morgan's face and
dunk her quickly.

Just blow and dunk?

Blow and dunk.

Stop. Wait a minute.

Hold up.

All of this is wonderful and beautiful,
and I'm not really sure what you were

saying, but I know it's all good, and I
want Morgan to know all of it.

But I can't consent to this.

Not now.

Todd, blow and dunk. Blow and dunk.

Tony, what are you doing? We agreed to
this.

Todd, I'm sorry that I let it get this
far, but this was a knee -jerk decision.

All my life, I've made knee -jerk
decisions. I mean, come on, Todd. Our

was knee -jerk.

But raising Morgan is too important.

I can't have her race in this faith and
deny the other part of her religious

heritage, which has been so good to me.

Tony, I'm not doing this lightly.

And neither am I.

Well, you know what this means?

The custody battle is back on.

Oh, bring it on.

Come on, Maya.

Look, we got to decide.

Which church are we going to go to? The
church where God dwelleth, Darnell.

Mount Moriah Bethany Baptist.

God dwelleth at St.

Matthew's Episcopal, too.

Okay, you know what?

Jabari, it's all on you.

Which church are we going to go to? Now,
keep in mind, you can spend all day at

your mama's church, or you can hit it
and quit it at mine.

But over there, Jabari.

You can't get Sister Willetta's peach
delight at the potluck.

Why y 'all fartin'? Can't we just do
what we usually do?

Lord, thank you so much, and bless this
day.

Amen.

So, Ross goes chicken and waffles? Yeah,
let's get there real quick before it

gets all kind of a church vote.