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'Hey, Shiela. Hey, Shiela.'

Come on, watch the fight with us.

No thanks. I hate boxing.

Man, if I wanted to see people pound on each other

for no reason, I'd just hang out in my school cafeteria.

Girl...

You just leave little Stevie bottle it, alright?

Why are there four people fighting in the ring

at the same time?

That's not four people. That's a double image.

See, Roc has provided our family

with the latest MTV technology.

Yup, the coat hanger-antenna.

Shhh, don't tell the Japanese.

Hey, Joey if you got a problem with my TV

I hear they've got great reception down at the shelter.

Anyways, don't worry about it 'cause as soon as

Lopez wins this fight, I have enough money.

Hey, I'll buy us some big screen TV.

Oh, Joey, you and your promises

about what you gonna do with your winnings.

The only person be buying a big screen TV, be his bookie.

Y'all don't know what you're talkin' about.

Hey, hey, there, look at my man, look at my man.

- Lopez has got the reach. - Right.

He's got the legs. He's got the moves.

'Oh, my God, Lopez is down! He has a..'

Hey, now-now-now, that's an interesting move

you know, he's twitching.

♪ Baby ♪

♪ There's a man with no future ♪

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

♪ Now he's trapped into thinking he won't succeed ♪

♪ And he can't believe ♪

♪ Live your life today ♪ Oh yeah ♪

♪ Not for tomorrow ♪ Not for tomorrow ♪

♪ Oh ♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Live your life today ♪

What're you cookin' tonight, babe?

- You're favorite. - Mmmm.

Oh lord, it's George.

Don't open the door, don't...

Don't open the door, don't open, oh, no.

Hey, look at y'all. How're y'all doin'?

We're not home, George.

Okay, I'll come back when you guys get in.

Okay, alright.

Nice try, Roc. Come on in, George.

How're you, bro?

Ah, grandma told me to give this to you.

What?

"As I am out of town for the week

"could you please, watch over George?

"I know if he spends time with you, his favorite family

"he'll be safe and secure

surrounded by people who love him."

Ha-ha. So, what'd you say?

I say grandma got her damn curlers on too tight!

Roc, come on now. George is our friend.

What kind of friends will we be

if we turned our backs on him

and slammed the door in his face?

Well thanks, Eleanor. Now he knows what we going to do.

Roc, come on now.

George's grandma is asking for our help.

Alright, alright, he, George can stay. Under one condition.

I don't have anything to do with him.

Alright, you babysit him. You hang out with him.

You answer his questions like...

Why do aliens only abduct white people?

That's 'cause they can't run fast enough to get away.

See, he all yours. I don't wanna get into this.

Okay, okay, Roc. That's fine with me.

George, why don't you give me a hand at making dinner?

Alright, hey alright.

Now you can...

You can start by handing me that chicken

on the table over there.

Okay, what you gonna do with the chicken?

Cook it and eat it.

It's too cute to cook it. I just couldn't...

They use the ugly ones to make soup.

Now, hand me that chicken.

No, I can't do that.

- George, give me the chicken. - Ah.

Look at that now.

Ho.

Hey, how you doing?

- Ahh. - Hey, pop.

Joey, what happened to you?

I lost $2000 on that Lopez fight.

William Long covered it now, he wants his money so...

Ah, Joey no. You and your gambling.

Hey, pop, pop, please, come on now.

This is ain't the time. I, I gotta figure out

how to his money. He gonna do a whole lot worse than this.

Right now, I gotta stall them

until I can figure something out.

- You got my money yet, Joey? - Uh...

Little Jimmy's got it, man. He's about to bring it.

- But he ain't here yet. - You expect us to wait around?

Hold on, dog. Come here.

Now, you and me, we go way back, right?

Yeah.

That's why I gave you so much latitude.

But, Joey, you got to give me some money.

Or I'mma hurt you real bad. Right now.

I told you, William. Little Jimmy gonna be here in a minute.

- Come on, let's have a drink. - No. Let's have a walk.

Oh, William. Now, I'm not gonna let you hurt my boy again.

You better sit your ass down, old man.

Hey hey, come on, come on now, that's my father. Hey, hey--

Wherever he goes, I'm going with him.

Alright, alright. Hey, hey.

You don't wanna do this, right now, okay?

Let's not do this here.

William, come to my house at 8 o'clock.

I'll give you your money, alright? Straight up.

Yeah, I'm coming to your house.

But if you don't have my money then Joey...

...you and me, we gonna take a long, long walk.

Remember Joey, you can't hide from us anymore.

Get straight, Joey.

Hey, hey, hey, Roc. What time you got?

- Five of eight. - Damn.

What's wrong? What's wrong with your eye?

What is going on?

Oh Joey lost $2000 on the fight last week.

- $2000, dammit! - $2000? Joey!

Have you lost your mind?

I hope you don't expect us to bail you out this time

because we are not a bank.

Well, he' got to come up with it from somewhere.

'Cause at 8 o'clock

we're getting a visit from William Long.

Joey, we done been down this road before.

Hey, hey, okay, alright, now, y'all gettin'

all worked up over nothin' alright? I can handle this.

I'll handle this my way. I've been in worse jams than this.

I can get out of it again.

Ah, hey, hello, who is this?

Who, hey Eddie, Eddie, yeah. Yeah, listen, listen.

Uh, you got, you got anything, like a, uh

bet a game or something, somewhere I can

put some money on tonight?

Monster truck racing in Iowa.

Okay, who looks good, Grave Digger? Okay, give me th--

Joey, now you can't gamble your way out of this.

You know, maybe it's time you took a look at your problem.

My problem is I need $2000.

No, your problem is you're addicted to gambling.

Joey, I'm sorry, this is it. We're sick of this.

Now, the first thing you're gonna have to do is

realize that you have a problem.

And the second thing you gonna have to do

is get yourself some treatment for it.

Treatment? What, what're you talkin' about?

I can get you the referral of some very good therapist

who specialize in this kind of a problem.

Yeah, therapy. That's a great idea.

Therapy! What is that, that's for 50 year old

gassy liberty mothers going to them

damn Star Trek conventions.

Here's something, Joey. Look at yourself.

You're making bets, on monster trucks.

Now you need some professional help.

No, okay. No, forget it. No

It's 8 o'clock, Joey.

Man, they're punctual.

This is why they call this organized crime.

Now, Joey, you can open that door

and get your kneecaps busted.

Or you can agree to go to therapy

and I'll talk to Long and maybe, I'll pay him off for you.

Joey, I don't see what choice you have.

Now, Joey.. What is it gonna be?

I mean one way or another you gonna see a doctor.

Either...

Either he can ask you about your feelings

or you can ask him, if the feelings will return

to your legs.

Now, am I openin' this door or not?

Alright, alright. I'll go to therapy.

But he's gotta squeeze me in between

The Daily Double and The TriFeCta.

Ah. George!

Uh! Could you give me a hand here?

Hey, hey no problem.

- I'm cleanin' out the basement. - Alright.

Where'd you get this white lady?

- I got it from the hospital. - Oh.

It's called the Resusci Anne doll.

See, I used to teach CPR

and this is what the students practice on.

Oh, great. Could you teach me CPR?

'Cause I have a lot of breath

and I think that I should share with the people

that are less fortunate than I am.

Well, sure. If you really want me to.

Now, see the key to CPR is mouth to mouth resuscitation.

First thing you do is, tilt the head back

pull the chin out, pinch the nose...

- And breathe. - Breathe.

- Into his mouth, now you try. - Alright, okay, alright.

- Head back, chin up. - Hmm-hmm.

- Pinch the nose. - Right.

- Breathe into it. - Uh-huh.

Bre.. He's not... She's not breathing.

Come on, duty nurse, help me, I need 50cc of...

Ah, what, scrub me.

Bounce, Kilm you save her.

Damn it, Kilm, I'm a doctor, not a worker worker.

- Come back to me. - No!

You never gave up on anything in your life!

Girl, don't you leave me.

♪ Swing low sweet thing ♪

Goodbye, George.

Is this a perm?

Why do I get the feeling, grandma's somewhere

in a hot tub laughing her head off at me?

- Hey, what's up family? - Hey.

Hey, Joey, so how did your first session of therapy go?

Well, uh, shrink thought it was productive.

Yeah, he said, uh, he thinks he knows the key

solving my problem.

Oh yeah? That's great. What is it?

- You. - Me?

Him?

- Him? - Him.

Doctor says that you are the central figure in my life

so he wants you to come along with me

to the next therapy session

so he can work with the both of us together.

I knew one day, I have to blow my brains out.

So, why does the therapist need to see both you and Roc?

Well, he says we have a... dysfunctional relationship.

Yeah, he used a whole bunch of psychological terms

to describe Roc, terms like, enabler and co-dependent.

Yo, I've got some psychological terms for you.

How about moocher and dead beat, huh?

Roc, I think what the doctor is saying

is that he needs to deal with your relationship

with Joey, to get to Joey's gambling problem.

No, no, Eleanor. Uh-uh. No-no. You're not gonna put this on me.

I don't have any problems. He's the one with the problem.

This is a great game.

200 years of Emersons and everybody's been fine.

And then you two come along...

...the first two nuts on the family tree.

Roc, I think if you want Joey to get better

you're gonna have to get involved in this.

- Hmm-hmm. - Ahh, alright, Eleanor.

Well, thank you, enabler. Now, I gotta do some work.

Doctor told me I gotta keep a journal of my feelings.

Let's see. I'm tired. I'm hot and I'm sleepy.

I'm finished.

Hey, I'm back.

Uh, does the chair have to have all four legs on it?

Yes.

Okay, don't come in for a while.

That's it, that's it. I've had it, Roc, please.

Please, kick that boy to the curb.

No, no, Eleanor, I don't have anything to do with it.

I told you, this is your project.

You wanted to be the good neighbor and take him in

and hang out with him. And uh, you, you figure it out.

- Roc, if you do this for me. - Um-hmm.

I'll do somethin' for you. I'll...

And then I'm gonna...

Eleanor, that-that-that sounds like a whole lot of fun.

But you still gonna have to kick George out yourself.

Roc, you turnin' down an offer like that?

Well, see baby, the way I figure it.

By the time you get finished dealing with George

you'll be so tensed

you'll beg me to relax you.

Oh, Roc, you still don't know women very well, do you?

We don't never have to beg for it.

I never dated a white girl before.

- George, we have to talk. - Okay.

Even when you like somebody a whole lot

even when you care about them

and you feel close to them

it's good sometimes to spend some time apart.

Oh, I knew it. You and Roc are getting a divorce, huh?

No. No, no. George that's not it.

You see...

I can't take anymore of you.

And I can't take anymore of this.

Is it because she's white?

George...

...we're not getting a divorce.

I am kicking you out of my house.

You got to go home now.

Oh, that's fine. Have it the way you want, okay?

But I get custody of Anne.

You call my lawyer.

- Joey, good to see you. - You too, you too.

Hi, Roc. I'm Dr. Brown.

- Hi, how're you doing? - Make yourselves comfortable.

So, Roc, how're you doin'?

What you mean by that?

Relax, Roc. We haven't started yet.

Although, it looks like we shouldn't waste any time.

See, it's like I told you, doc.

Schizophrenic paranoid with a latent psychotic tendencies

which frankly, are not that latent.

Be honest, doc, Doctor Brown, I'm a bit confused,

as to what I'm doin' here.

My brother's the one with the problem.

Well, you know how it is in a family, Roc.

Everybody gets into everybody else's business.

Look, uh, this is not going to be too painful

we're just going to, you know, talk.

Well...

What're we gonna talk about?

Anything you want.

Hey, you see the Red Skins game the other tonight?

Actually, I thought, we'll talk about your feelings.

Oh, yeah. I was, I was happy they won that one.

They lost five in a row, boy.

Don't knock yourself out, doc. It's about deep as it gets.

Maybe we should bring you up to date

on what Joey and I talked about the other day.

We got to Joey's feelings about gambling.

Ah, Joey, why don't you, uh

repeat what you told me?

Start with that story about the first time

you went to the track,

Oh, okay, alright.

Alright, uh, some friends took me, right?

I had two dollars in my wallet.

That's the minimum bet.

Now, I let it ride on this horse.

Named Wildfire.

By the time, the horse came in, doc

I felt like, I felt like, I was on a high.

I mean, I felt like, I had run the entire race

along with that horse, man.

I mean, my senses were so sharp, doc, I could tell you what

everybody in that park was wearing.

Boom! Wildfire came in, 30 to one, man.

Oh! That was, it was like se... It was better than sex.

Wildfire didn't expect a call the next morning, you know.

How did it make you feel?

Made me feel like... like I was somebody.

And how does it feel when you lose?

I feel like, I can't wait till tomorrow

'cause I got another chance to win again.

Um, do I have to listen to this?

I mean, can you sedate me or somethin'?

Well, Joey, y-you know you could also lose tomorrow?

Hey, hey, doc, look. I-I don't believe in much, okay?

But I do believe this. One day, I'm gonna hit it big.

And I don't care how much money

I gotta lose, to get to that point.

Well, why should you care?

It's not your money, it's mine.

Come on, Roc. Come off of that now.

I told you once, and I'll tell you again, when my ship

comes in, I will pay you back every penny that I owe you.

Every penny? I mean, do you know how much that is?

I've lost count years ago.

Roc, I know exactly how much it is.

I got a book upstairs, where I keep

a record of how much I owe you. I owe you--

Ah-ah-ah, I don't wanna hear how much it is.

'Cause if I hear it, I'll wind up in court.

Pleading temporary insanity.

See, some things never change, do they, Roc?

I promise you, I'mma pay you back

and you can't respect that. You just can't show me any respect.

Come on off it, Joey. This isn't about respect.

You don't believe me, you don't expect me to believe you

to keep a promise, when you've never kept one in your life?

Unlike you, huh, Roc? You just keep all your promises.

You're just so damn perfect. Well, I'm sick and tired--

- I tell you, you're so-- - Roc, Joey. Joey!

You've got an awful lot of anger towards him.

You're damn right, I do. I mean, he's he's

he's self-righteous, he's arrogant.

He's always judging people by the standards of his own

pitiful life.

I don't think that's the source of your anger, Joey.

You don't, do you?

In fact, I don't think you really believe

Roc's life is pitiful.

I think you resent the fact that he's gotten his life together.

He's a hard working family man and that works for him.

What you're doing isn't working for you.

I think you're jealous of what he's accomplished, so

you've made your presence in his life, as difficult as you can.

Hey, I don't, I don't think that you...

Alright, maybe some of what...

Damn, can we talk about his problems?

Yeah, I'll tell you what my biggest problem is.

You know, you're always going to the tracks

losin' my money!

So you don't like it when he loses your money.

Of course, not!

Eight years of college, that's the only

kind of question you can come up with?

Well, if you don't like Joey losing your money

then cut him off.

- Say what? - Cut him off.

Don't give him any more money.

You heard the way he was talking.

Getting high off the feeling.

He sounds like a drug addict, and you're supporting his habit.

Hey, hey, Doc, come on. I'm-I'm a--

The best thing you can do for Joey and yourself

is to stop giving him money.

You've got to make him hit rock bottom.

Yeah, well, you know, I-I can't do that.

I can't turn my back on him, you know.

I mean, after all, you know, he is my brother.

Well, that's very nice.

But if you wanna help him, you've got to cut him off.

Why should I have to cut you off, huh?

Why can't you just stop gambling on your own?

I mean, no excuses, huh. Just, just stop.

Roc, I don't wanna stop, now will you quit

tryin' to run my life?

Well, then your life affects mine.

I've got a baby coming. I've got Shiela in the house.

I can't afford your habit anymore.

Alright, alright, alright, Roc. Listen, look, look, look.

I got a line on the horse next week, this is a sure thing.

Now, when this horse comes in, I'll give you some money--

Joey, you haven't heard a word that's been said here

have you? I mean, maybe Dr. Brown is right.

Maybe I should cut you off. Maybe I should throw you out.

That way you can stop drivin' us all crazy.

- You the one that's crazy? - Joey, you know something?

I'm thinking very seriously about what's been said here.

Your livin' in my house is on borrowed time.

Well, you, you do what you gotta do, alright?

Now, I'm keeping my promise to you.

Okay, come hill or high water

I'm gonna pay you back every penny that I owe you.

I-I told you, I don't wanna know about it.

The whole--

I don't wanna know how much it is.

The whole $20,000, Roc.

Excuse me.

'Ahhhhhh!'

Now, where were we?

Okay, now I've been doing a lot of thinking, alright?

Now, there's no way I'm going to quit gambling, alright?

But I don't wanna be a financial burden on everybody.

So, Roc, it is like you said at the shrink's office.

If I'm drivin' everybody crazy, I've got no right to do that.

So, I decided that the best thing for me to do

is to move out.

When I get settled in

I'll give you all my new address.

Bye.

I got five dollars say, he'll be back in two hours.

I got ten, say it'd be one hour.

You guys are dreaming. 15 says he never leave the house.

That's a bet, lady.

I can't leave on empty stomach.

Joey, I'm not helping you unpack.

Hey, hey, Shiela, come down here and help me unpack.

Ah, it feels good to come home.