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- Yeah. - Hey, sis.

Hey, bebop, what you got there?

A laptop computer. My teacher loaned it to me.

Yeah, Sheila's been getting all A's.

So, Mrs. Rawlings is encouragin' her to use her talent.

Oh, man, that's great, you know

if only one of my teachers had taken that kinda interest

in me, you know, enough to loan me somethin' like a computer

man, I would've, I would've...

I'd have sold it and got a car and got the hell out of here.

Get going!

Hey, baby, I'm home.

Hey, hey, sweetheart. Muah!

Hey, what's for dinner, baby?

Oh, Roc, forget about dinner.

Sheila's teacher loaned her a computer.

She says she has an aptitude for it.

Yeah, that's good. Hm, I smell meatloaf.

Roc, this is important.

I know, let's celebrate with a meatloaf.

Mm-hm.

♪ Oh baby ♪

♪ There's a man ♪

♪ With no future ♪

♪ So it seems can't live out his dreams ♪

♪ Now he's trapped into thinkin' ♪

♪ He won't succeed ♪

♪ And he can't believe ♪

♪ Live your life today ♪

♪ Oh yeah ♪ Not for tomorrow ♪

♪ Not for tomorrow ♪ Ah ♪

♪ Oh oh oh oh oh ♪

♪ Live your life today ♪

Excuse me, say that again. Say...

How.. Wait a minute. How could that happen, Eddie?

Yeah, th-that was supposed to be a su.. Alright.

Alright, alright. You'll get your money back, okay?

I'mma win it back on the next race, alright?

I gotta... Okay, I gotta go, Eddie.

Eddie, I gotta... Ed...

Eddie, I got back the next day. I'm startin' to lose you.

Can you hear me? E...

- Bad day at the track, huh? - Pop, my horse did so bad...

They shot the jockey, too.

I'm serious.

I did it!

Man, these probability problems are really fun!

Probability, huh?

Huh, that's kinda like odds, isn't it?

- Kinda. - You know somethin, bebop?

Education means absolutely nothin'

unless you apply it to the real world.

Now let me give you a probability problem here, okay?

Alright, let's say there's a horse in the third race

named.. Oh.. Thunderball.

- Right? Now Thunderball was-- - Now, son.

You shouldn't be gettin' this little girl

involved in your gamblin'.

Oh, pop, is that what you think I was doing?

Oh, I'm-I'm Sheila's guardian, pop.

I take that very seriously.

She's got a gift with Math and I'm just, you know

I'm-I'm helpin' her apply it to the real world

by using it in a, you know, a hypothetical situation.

Mm, fine, Joey, I'll take you at your word.

But if I find out that she's helpin' you pick horses...

...I'm gonna build a wood shed out back and drag you to it.

You'll be howlin' louder than James Brown at the Apollo.

Joey, what does "Hypothetical" mean?

Uh... well, it comes from the Greek "Hypo"

which means "A lot of" and "Thetical"

which means "Money."

So let's make some. Alright...

- Hey, Joey! - Yeah?

- Here, sign this. - What is it?

Remember I told you there was some openings

at the sanitation department?

This is a job application!

Oh, thank you, Roc.

Where'd I put my lighter?

Hey, Joey, let me put this in terms

that you'll understand, see.

A job...

...is like a horse that always pays off.

I mean, you go to the window every Friday

and collect your winnings.

It's called a paycheck.

I mean think of it, as you know, off-track working.

Roc, if I'm gonna take a 9:00 to 5:00 job

I think I want somethin' a little more stimulatin'

than trash collecting, you know

somethin' like... Oh, ditch digging.

Yeah, well, look... Wait a minute...

Let me tell you.. I ain't finished talking to ya.

Wait a minute, see now, bein'-bein'-bein' a garbage man

requires, like, responsibility

intelligence and judgment.

Ha! I guess if you tell yourself somethin'

enough times, you start to believe it, huh?

Hey, look who is nice enough to carry

the trash basket in for me?

How are you doing, George?

See, see, sanitation, Joey

is a lot more challenging than you think.

I mean, a lot of bright guys

would jump at the chance to do a job like this.

I mean...

- Can I get the job? - Oh, no, George--

Oh, I know.. I know garbage, man

I know how to be a garbage man.

How ya doin', Miss Jackson? Alright, yeah.

Hurling one then. Are you waking him?

If it ain't out here, it ain't gonna get picked up.

Alright, go.

Just think, Roc, all that talent

right there under your nose.

Roc, come on, I really need a job, you know, 'cause like

grandma's disability just got cut off, you know

and the saving's is real low, so we...

Really need a job, really need a job.

Oh, Roc, come on, you can't turn George down.

He and grandma seem to really need the money

and he's willin' to do the work.

I knew one day I'd have to blow my brains out.

Oh, thank you, Roc baby.

Now where's that job application--

- It's-it's in the living room. - Okay. Okay.

Come on, George, I'm gonna help you fill it out.

Hey, I hope my salary history doesn't scare 'em away.

Yeah, well, what's so funny?

I like the caliber of your new recruits, Roc.

I mean, as far as garbage men go, George has gotta be...

- Top gun! - Yeah, well.

Even if he does get the job, I bet

he won't even last a week.

Did you say bet?

You-you, uh, you wanna make this interesting?

Hey, Joey, I can make it as interesting as you can handle.

Oh, I can handle a lot.

You can, huh?

You wanna bet me?

You don't wanna bet me. You do? You wanna bet me?

I'll tell you what...

Okay, I'll tell you what? I bet you one dollar!

Cash money!

A whole dollar, huh?

Alright, but if you win, this is gonna put you

in a higher tax bracket.

Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Oh, yeah?

I'll tell you what...

No, no, you pay me. If I.. You pay me...

Roc, how you like me now?

Roc, I need you to train Stevens here--

Oh, no, I'm really... No, we gotta talk about this.

I ain't nowhere gettin' near this boy.

We'll talk after your route. You're late enough already.

Oh.

Man, I can't believe this!

Roc, you know what, I wanted... I wanted to ask you a...

- Can I drive the truck? - No, you cannot, George.

My truck is a 1983 Mack chassis with a leach cab over.

It's the Rolls Royce of garbage trucks

so while you're in there, don't touch anything, you got it?

What if my jaws start ridin' up on me, so...

Yeah, well, that's...

Yeah, this is bomb. I heard you got a radio and a mic.

♪ Good lovin' body rockin' knockin' boots ♪

♪ All night long ♪

George, George, George, it isn't that kinda radio.

Oh, alright, sorry.

You know before I left, uh...

I was wantin' to know if you had checked the oil in the engine

because the training class always says that the crew chief

should check the oil in the engine.

- Yeah, I checked it. - So, uh...

- It's fine! - Okay. It was fine.

Okay, so what about the water

and the, uh, the pressure gauges

and also the chassis and-and as a matter of fact

the ale because the distribution--

George, George, George, let me tell you something

from my training class. Shut up.

Okay, well, I got that word in my training class.

You change that from "Shut up" to "Shut up, stupid."

Shut up, George! I said... George, I said. "Shut up!"

Shut up, George!

It says right here that you can't take

any discarded items home for your personal use.

- It's against the rules. - George!

That is one of those rules

you're supposed to break!

I mean, like cuttin' the tag off the mattress.

Oh, you do that? Well, I'm callin' the cops.

Do the cops know?

Hey, I'm glad I caught you two.

I got some calls from customers on your route today.

Oh, yeah? What's the problem?

No problem. I got three calls.

They were all compliments.

One lady said George carried her cans out to the curb

and then put 'em back in her yard.

She said the bald, grouchy guy never did anything like that.

Oh, you know what, I was gonna rake the leaves, too

but Roc had broke the rake.

You know you could learn a thing or two

from this kid, Roc.

I'm gonna put you guys together permanently.

Keep up the good work, Stevens.

Alright.

You gonna leave a brother hangin'?

Alright. This is great, Roc!

This is great, we get to hang out. You know eight hours a day.

Every day. Go back home to the same place, you know what?

We should carpool. Then later on, we take a vacation...

You know, like go to Africa, get butt naked

let our hair get nappy, you know.

Hang out with Tarzan, like...

If I was to drop dead right now

I'd-I'd be the happiest man alive.

Oh, daddy, it is so nice of you to help me make dinner tonight.

Oh, well, Eleanor, you carryin' a baby.

- You shouldn't be workin' hard. - Yeah.

Yeah, you should be pampered.

You should have every whim catered to.

I mean, you're bringin' this family the greatest gift of all.

The gift of life.

Daddy, no matter what you say

I'm not namin' the baby after you.

So, the horse's name is Harry's Love, alright?

He's won his last two races, he goes off at five to one.

It's a seven furlong race and...

And... Billy has six apples.

What does X equal?

- Five. - Why, yes, it does.

Oh, Joey, you just make algebra come alive for me.

Okay, just take it down a notch, will ya?

- Hey, baby. - Eleanor!

When you opened up your heart and asked me to get

Crazy George a job, what the hell were you thinkin'?

Why? Isn't he workin' out?

He's managed to delude everybody.

From our knucklehead supervisor

down to the knuckleheads on my route

that he's a great garbage man.

Well, I guess it's true what they say.

Cream rises to the top.

Yeah, okay, Joey, you grinnin' now

but you haven't won that dollar yet.

The bet is George wouldn't last a week

and a week's not over.

Okay, Roc, we'll, we'll see.

Now when I go on my spendin' spree

with my whole dollar...

...whatever shall I buy?

Let's see, I could get a large slurpy.

Or I could get half a haircut at the barber college.

Oh, Roc. It's only a dollar.

We both workin', we'll bounce back.

That's not what's buggin' me, you know.

I take pride in bein' a garbage man.

I mean, you know, if-if a guy like Crazy George can do my job

you know, you know, well, well, what does that say about me?

A whole lot of things I've been nice enough

to keep to myself all these years.

That-that's what I'm talkin' about.

See, I see it now, you wanna bunk down the-the bus station.

Don't you? Come here, pop. Let me tell you something.

Station 51. Station 51.

So, when you gonna let me drive, Roc?

Oh, when we get back to the garage

and I turn the engine off.

Oh, come on, Roc, you could at least, like

let me honk the horn or somethin'.

You know, my Uncle Rosco used to let me honk too.

I just used...

Hey, hey...

George, listen, I think I've taught you all I can, George.

It's time for you to be trained by someone else.

Someone with a high threshold for pain, George.

Well, you know, Roc, I've been meaning to ask you

what does this switch do, 'cause usually I just use

the black one, I was wonderin'--

Don't...

What'd I do?

What'd I do?

You just dumped 19 tons of trash on the street!

Well, if you had let me drive

none of this stuff wouldn't have been happenin'.

It was a accident--

Will you listen to me, please!

It doesn't matter if it was an accident.

You're still on probation, you could lose your job for this!

Does this mean I can't join the credit union?

Yes! See.

I keep tryin' to tell you

this job isn't as easy as you think.

You're way over your head here

and Joey was a fool to bet that you could handle it.

Yeah, he was a fool to bet... Who'd he bet?

Well, he-he-he-he bet me.

Wait a minute, so, you bet against me?

Oh, yes, I did.

So, Roc, you mean to tell me while I've been busting my butt

tryin' to good on this job, you've been

rootin' for me to mess up?

Hey, come on, George, you know

it was just a little bet, you know, come on...

Oh, oh, don't-don't-don't take it personally.

No, Roc, this job was important to me.

Not necessarily for the money, but I wanted a job

like you have a job, you know, like how you get respect.

The reason I got the job is 'cause I look up to you.

I want to be just like you, man.

I mean, it was so bad, man, I...

I even wanted to shave my hair bald, man

and gain some weight, man.

Hey, well, look, George, George

don't... don't take it personally.

You know I mean, come on don't- don't take it so hard, man.

What the hell happened with you two out there--

It was my fault, man. My fault.

I don't wanna hear any excuses.

This was a major screw up and you're out of here!

Whoa, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute, Randy. Listen.

I've gotta take responsibility for this, see.

I didn't train the kid right and...

He wasn't gettin' the kind of help, you know he need from--

Well, he should have!

You guys don't know what kind of heat I've been taking upstairs.

When traffic backed up for miles

phone calls, people comin' out of the wood work.

Roc, you've been here for eight years!

I want a full report on my desk before you go home tonight

or else...

And Stevens, one more time and you're done.

Thanks for takin' the heat for me, Roc man.

- I love you, man-- - No, don't touch me, George.

Hey, hey, hey, pop, I got a good feelin' about this.

I think my horse is gonna come in, so...

So what do you think I should do with all this money

I'm about to make?

Should I get, uh, big screen TV?

Oh, oh, check this out.

How about a, how about a-a-a

a boomin' stereo system?

Joey, for once in your life

I think you should do somethin' completely crazy.

You know, do somethin' wild, somethin' you never did before.

- 'Like what?' - Pay me back.

How about I just get you, uh, a pair of these slippers

that glow in the dark?

Ah, Joey, you spend your money on useless things.

You never pay back your debts.

You lie, you cheat, you run around with women.

You know, you should run for office.

Where-where does he get these things, huh?

- Hi, who are you? - Hello.

Uh, I'm Miss Rawlings.

I'm Sheila's Math teacher.

Oh, I'm, uh, I'm one of her guardians.

Please. Please come in.

Unfortunately, I have some disturbing news

to share with you.

When Sheila returned the computer I loaned her

I found things like names of horses and weights of jockeys.

I think Sheila used my computer for gambling.

Our Sheila?

I am shocked.

I-m-I'm-I'm shocked and I am furious.

Uh, see, um...

My father has a bit of a gambling problem

and, um, and, uh, I'll-I'll...

I'll talk to him, okay?

Oh, you should.

You know, kids are very impressionable at Sheila's--

Yes, they.. Yes, they-they certainly are.

Now, thank you. Thank you for coming.

- Sure. - Okay.

Sheila!

- Yeah, Joey? - I need to talk to you, please.

Look, uh, Sheila...

...I haven't been giving the kind of guidance

that you need, alright.

So I'm gonna tell you somethin'.

I want you to take this to heart, okay?

- Yes, Joey. - Alright, now.

About that computer and the gambling.

From now on...

...you erase the names of horses

and all that stuff before you give it back.

Alright? Alright, give me some.

- 'Hey, babe.' - Hey, sweetheart!

How you doin', baby?

Oh, hey, baby. How you doin', baby?

Hey, Joey, you're here. Good. Well...

George made it through the week.

- You won the bet. - I knew it. What'd I say?

What'd I say, any hambone off

the street could be a garbage man.

Yeah, I guess you were right about that, Joey.

Hey, hey, hey, Roc, I got another dollar

says he'd make supervisor. What do you say?

- Are you feelin' lucky? - Oh, well, look, Joey...

You won the bet, alright, so let's just forget about it.

Now, wait.. Hold-hold-hold it, Roc. I beat you.

But you don't, you don't act like you get beat.

Come on, Roc, your dollar.

Dollar used to be yours.

You should be smackin' your head and doin'

your little angry dance right now.

Somethin' else is goin' on, you're not tellin' us about he--

Well, if you really wanna know...

Today... George dumped our whole load on the street.

But, Roc, you just said he was doin' well.

Yeah, but I took the heat for him, you know, I mean...

But, look, you gotta keep this quiet

'cause if this gets back to my boss

George could lose his job.

- Oh, Roc. - Mm?

Baby, all the years I've been married to you

you know you still manage to surprise me.

Well, I don't--

That was a real, wonderful, sweet thing you did for George.

Yeah, well...

Oh! Uh, uh, excuse me. Uh, please?

Excuse me, so what you sayin' basically is George

made it through the week because you covered for him, right?

Then technically I didn't win the best.

Oh, no, you really didn't win the bet, Joey

but you can keep the dollar.

Oh, you good, Roc, you real good.

What?

Uh-huh, you, how am I gonna take that dollar

when I know that you threw the bet?

I mean, I can't laugh at you

I can't, I can't make fun of you.

Come on, you upset the whole

happy winner sore loser tradition.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Don't apologize, Roc, you just make it worse.

Oh, Joey, come on. Joey, come on. Take the dollar.

Oh, you would just love that, wouldn't you?

Uh, no, you keep your damn dollar.

I want no part of it.

On the other hand, I could use it to get a lottery ticket.

- Eleanor? - Uh-uh?

I really think that Andrew would make

a wonderful name for the baby.

Listen to this.

"Andrew, meaning man. Manly. Strong."

Daddy, I know

you would be greatly honored

if the baby were to carry your first name

and I know that you would be so proud

when you introduced him to all your friends.

Oh, I've taken that into consideration.

And I've decided to tell you... Give it up.

Hey, family! Life is good when you in the winner circle!

I'm a winner, baby! My horse won.

My horse won! Yay!

- We did it, we did it-- - We!

What do you mean, "We", young lady?

I used my computer to help Joey pick his horses.

Oh, help me, Father.

- What? - Joey, I trusted you.

How could you lie to me like that?

A fine example you're setting.

Pete Rose would make a better role model.

Bettin' on horses? Teachin' little children to gamble?

Joey, what is wrong with you?

Hold on, you think Joey was just using me?

No way!

He was trying to win enough money

to get me a computer.

Thanks, Joey.

You're not just a guardian

you're a guardian angel.

Well, you-you know my philosophy.

Ed-education first.

Mrs. Emerson, could you drive me to the computer store?

Alright, sweetie, sure. Let's go.

And don't you do this again, Joey.

Four hundred, five hundred... I could get a printer, too.

I love you, Joey.

She took you, didn't she?

I do not believe that girl is just 11.