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OK, yes.

Curtis.

-Curtis. -Hey, boo baby.

What are you doing still here?

Baby, I'm cleaning my LPs.

Curtis, you're supposed to be downtown.

What do you want me to do, Ella?

Curtis, you need a suit for Resurrection Sunday.

Easter?

Yeah, that. I calls it Resurrection.

Baby, you know I stopped doing Easter decades ago.

Curtis, whether you go with us to church or not,

everybody in this family

is participating in the family portrait.

You still on that, Ella?

Curtis! Yes, I'm still on that, and I'm staying on that, Curtis.

Well look, all you gotta do, get one of the kids,

we can all get together and do one of them self-pic things.

Oh, a selfie. Curtis, it's called a selfie, baby.

Baby, you got to get out of the dark ages.

Nobody do no family portraits anymore. That's so 70s.

All those plastic poses.

Please, you just go get one of them kids,

and we take some pictures on the phone.

Let the kids do it, put it in the air, with the thumb thing.

Uh-huh, Curtis, we are not taking selfies.

Honey, we are taking a family portrait.

OK, well, can't I wear my salmon shirt?

Curtis, you playing with me, right?

Now, stop it, baby. Get up, go get this suit now.

-OK, baby, I'm going to do it. -OK.

But I'm going to let you know right now,

I'm not going to be happy about it.

OK, so you don't have to be happy.

So what you not going to be happy about, Unc?

Y'all want me to go get a suit for this self-portrait thing,

-this family portrait thing. -Oh, we need suits for that?

Don't you do this. I already told you.

Everybody will be in their resurrection Sunday best

before we go to church. Remember?

Right.

Well, hon, we're going to take the portrait,

and then everybody's going to head to church.

OK, see, about that.

About that? CJ, you're making me tired. Don't start.

No, see, I think that Janine has a brunch

that she's supposed to do on Sunday,

and Jazmine is supposed to go with her friend, Jackson.

He's been doing some kind of performance at his church,

and Malik is taking the kids down to the amusement park.

OK. CJ, I ain't studying none of that.

Do you hear me? Do you hear me? I don't care about any of that.

I cleared this with everybody's schedule months ago.

OK? Everybody agreed.

-True that. -True that.

But is it possible that we could possibly reschedule?

No, honey, I cannot reschedule.

I've already paid the photographer. No.

-Hey, everybody. -Hey, Calvin.

-[Ella] Mm-hmm. -[Calvin kisses Ella]

Mwah to you. Calvin, you and the boys got your suits for Sunday?

-Suits? -Suits.

-Easter family portrait. -Ooh, that's this week?

That's this Sunday morning.

Mom, I just, I told the boys

we'll go to the amusement park with Malik.

Yeah, see, the twins was real excited about that, too.

Yeah, my bad, Mom. Can we just do it another week?

-Yeah, me too. I apologize. -Oh.

Oh, no, no, I apologize. Mm-hmm.

I apologize that all of you won't be doing any of that.

None of it.

Listen.

None of it.

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Yeah, look like this right here is gonna really be happening.

Oh, this is going to happen. Believe that.

Well, I guess y'all better come with me downtown.

-Downtown? -Yeah, get your Easter suit.

So we really gotta wear suits?

Uh, let me tell you three something right now.

Everyone in this family

will be in this house this Sunday morning at 9 a.m.

for our family portrait.

Everybody is going to be dressed.

You guys are gonna have on your very fine suits.

And the women, we're gonna all have on our dresses

and pretty little dainty gloves. OK?

You guys are gonna have on colorful hankies

in your lapel pocket matching your ties, with fresh haircuts.

We are going to take our time,

and we're gonna take our portrait.

After that, we're all gonna go to church.

Sunday morning service.

And after that, I think now that

we're gonna all go to Sunday brunch as a family.

CJ, you're gonna pick out that doggone restaurant.

And listen, everybody is going to be happy about it.

Ha ha ha ha!

-Uh, excuse me, baby? -Glory, hallelujah!

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Look at mine.

-Wow, that actually looks cool. -You see mine, Mom?

I see, I see. You gonna put some stickers on it too?

-Oh yeah. -[Janine] Yeah, yeah.

Ooh, I wanna put stickers on mine too.

You should. Lisa, where is your baby daddy?

Where else? He's trying to get out of doing his exercise.

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I'm telling you, Mama. Malik ain't gonna do this.

Oh no, he's going to. He's gonna participate.

This is part of parenting. Malik!

Ooh, he gonna be so frustrated.

Malik and his little attitude has never bothered me.

-Or me. -Or me.

Yo, what's going on? What is it?

Pull up a chair.

Yes, we talked about this. We're doing Easter eggs.

And making Easter baskets.

OK, don't y'all people know

we're right in the middle of March Madness?

Don't you know you about to be in the middle of Mommy Madness

if you don't participate?

Come on, Momma. You know that don't work on me no more.

I'm a grown man.

I'm gonna go sit down.

Guess the look still works.

Can you pass me an egg?

I'll show you how to decorate it, Malik.

Ah, thank you, Jayden.

You know what? You can hold your beautiful daughter,

while you're at it.

Come here, little baby. Come here. Come here.

Here, just sit down.

All right, Hayden, Jayden, put the eggs in the baskets.

We're gonna take them outside. Oh, yeah.

These look good. Y'all killed that!

-Oh, the fun begins. -[Jazmine] All right, come on.

Hey, kids. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

-See? Isn't this fun? -Yeah, I'm having a blast.

One of the best part of parenting. Mm-hmm.

All right, I'm gonna go ahead and take the baby.

She's teething.

[Janine] Oh, she lost her shoe. Right behind you.

[Lisa] Right behind me.

-[Janine] There you go, baby. -[Lisa] Got it.

-I like this, Malik. Wow. -Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I'm glad you two are having so much pleasure in this.

So, about Sunday.

About Sunday. What about Sunday?

Aunt Ella says we all agreed

to participate in the Sunday portrait.

CJ, we talked about this.

You said you were gonna get her to reschedule.

-I tried. -But Sunday,

we're all supposed to be going to the amusement park.

Yeah, I don't think we can get out of it.

Come on, Dad. We can't cancel on the kids. We already told them.

And Calvin already told Christian and Junior.

Yeah, but Aunt Ella already paid the photographer,

and she's insisting that everyone attend.

Well, maybe we can still reschedule it.

I'll try to talk to her.

Uh, I would not do that if I were you.

[knock on door] Coming.

[knock on door] I'm coming!

[knock on door] [Curtis grumbles]

What's going on, man?

-Man, what is all this? -Bruh, you don't know?

Man, this is my new portable bar on wheels.

Looks like a cooler.

To the amateur eye, maybe.

Well, I mean, what is it?

Man, you gotta see this thing. So look, I got inside here,

I got my bottles over here, and I got my mixers over here.

I got lemons, I got my limes, I got my ice.

All my utensils right here. Man, this thing is amazing.

Yo, go on Floyd, you got a full bar in there.

Bruh, I am tailgate ready. You understand?

-Hmm. Oh Floyd, about that. -Man, I am so excited.

You know, now homecoming is always, like,

on the next level, right?

But, hey, it's gonna be a kick-ass event.

But this year, look.

You got the Kramers, who are ranked number four,

going against the number two Challengers.

Man, the game is going to rival the doggone party!

I know. I know, Floyd. But, hey, Floyd.

Oh, what? Yo, you thought I forgot the bourbon glasses?

Nah, brother. They're right here in this compartment in the back.

[Curtis] Floyd.

[clangs glasses together] Ding!

Floyd, Ella's making me stay in town to take a picture.

-Take a picture? -Yes.

Well, what's that got to do with tailgating?

-Sunday is Ella's picture day. -Picture day?

Yes. I even got to go and buy a new suit.

So, since when did you start getting dressed up for Easter?

That's what I said.

But Ella's got her heart set on this, so.

Nah, bruh. Mm-mm. You can't miss this game, bruh.

You can't miss the tailgating and everything.

What you need to do is just to put your foot down.

You understand? I mean, you need to stomp it down

and you need to tell Ella--

Tell Ella what?

When he put his foot down, what he going to tell Ella?

-Put his foot down? -Yeah, put his foot down.

-Tell Ella what? -Then cha-cha one time,

I think that's what I was going to tell him next.

OK.

Baby, I was just telling Floyd

that I'm going to have to miss our homecoming tailgate party.

[Ella] That's right.

Because I got to take a picture.

That's right, Curtis. Good job. Sorry, Floyd.

Yeah, see, about that, Auntie. Uh...

-Yes, CJ? -Well, see...

I personally will pay you for the photographer.

Because somehow, me, Janine, and the kids,

we overbooked ourselves.

Me too, Mom. I'll chip in to pay you back.

And me too, baby. I'll chip in. Floyd will chip in

What? Uh, I'll chip in a little.

I don't ask y'all for nothing.

I don't ask this family for nothing. I do not.

I do everything for everybody. Especially you three.

I cook, cook, cook, cook, cook.

I sew this, I hem that. I run here, I run there.

I babysit.

I pick this kid up, I pick that kid up.

I show up at all the award ceremonies,

and the birthday bashes.

I take care of both of y'all's kids when they sick.

While both of you are running around doing whatever.

I do everything everybody asks of me

in this family, all day, every day.

And I ask one thing.

Just one thing of you.

A picture.

That I asked about months ago.

And nobody can show up for what I asked for?

Fine.

Forget the picture. Forget you.

Forget you.

And forget you.

Yeah. Forget the picture. Shame on all of y'all.

My dumb self expect to take a picture with the family.

I'm so dumb. [laughs]

Ella, you so stubborn!

So that means you can go, huh?

-That didn't go as planned, CJ. -No, it did not.

So what do we do?

I guess we all gotta go buy some suits.

Wait, we not gonna come up with a plan B?

-The picture's still happening? -Yeah. This is gonna be hard.

Man, the boys are gonna be so disappointed.

Well, disappointment is a part of life.

Yeah, easy for you to say.

No, it's not easy for me to say. You forget I raised you two?

Now you two men need to go to your homes

and tell all the people living under your roofs

that we made a commitment to something.

Ella's right.

Now she shows up for all of us, all the time.

Everybody in this family, she shows up.

And come Sunday, this entire family is gonna show up for her.

And that's the end of that.

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-Oh, it's that baby, baby. -[Malik] Oh, good, Mom.

Hey.

Hey, uh, can you watch Malisa for me?

I cannot.

Is no one concerned with the fact

that I don't have any time to myself?

I'm trying to figure out who you're talking to.

Uh Mom, it's just us in here. I'm talking to you, Mom.

You wanna fix that?

Look, all I'm saying... OK, little baby...

All I'm saying, OK, is that you don't look really busy.

-I am busy. -Are you?

I am. I have plans.

-You have plans? -I do.

Jazzy is doing the Easter egg hunt, I am going to sit

and read this article I have been dying to read.

So I have plans, yes,

and my plans are just as important as anyone else's.

OK, well, I mean, I have some plans, too.

Um, my plans were to put in my March Madness picks, but...

-Ooh, That sounds fun. -See, doesn't it?

And it is fun. But see, I can't do that

and watch Malisa at the same time.

That sounds like your plans have changed.

Come on, Mom. What did I do to you?

It's like you're trying to get back at me or something.

No, I am not, Son.

Then why can't you just help me, OK?

OK, see, because I raised you and I raised Jazmine.

I am still raising your brother and sister, all right?

They are my kids, so they are my responsibility.

Malisa is your kid, which means she is, say it loud...

She's my responsibility. OK, I get that. I get that.

But, I mean, you are her grandmother.

Oh, look at you. You're making her cry.

I'm not making her cry. She know I love being grandma.

Well, when are we going to get to this grandmother-ing?

When are you going to get into the notion

that you are now a parent,

so it is no longer about you? Everything is about her.

You need to do the Easter egg hunts,

make the Halloween costumes, go to the PTA meetings.

You need to do the school projects.

You need to sit and wait and wait and wait

at the dance recitals and the band rehearsals

and the swimming lessons. That's all you, Big Daddy. OK?

I don't want to talk about this anymore.

-OK, OK. -Good talk.

-Hey, babe. You busy? -No, not at all. What's up?

What the hell?

What are you over here cussing for?

Well, me and Malisa, we're just over here inThe Twilight Zone.

OK, OK. So, I just want to say

that all Easter activities are canceled.

I know, I know. Aunt Ella called, she said that

we have to participate in the family portrait.

Wait, wait a minute. Family portrait?

I have to cancel my plans for a family portrait?

Yes.

Man, come on now. I'm not about to do that.

You don't have a choice, all right?

-Come on, Dad, but-- -No buts. All right?

Aunt Ella shows up for everyone in this family,

and now we are all going to show up for her.

-Oh! I can't stand this family. -Ooh, all that mumble rapping.

-Hey, babe. -Hey, Ma.

Hey, babe. We need to talk to you, babe.

Mm-hmm. Well, breakfast is on the stove.

Ella. Babe, we need to talk to you.

Curtis, I don't feel like talking, so no, OK?

Well, I know you don't feel like talking, Ella,

but I really need to tell you I'm sorry, baby.

Yeah, Mom, and I need to say that I'm sorry as well.

-Calvin. -Please.

OK. I accept your apologies.

But I must admit, I have never been so disappointed.

And I've seldom been so hurt.

I just wanted to say that.

-We're sorry we hurt you. -It's OK.

And believe me, everybody in this family

-is gonna make it up to you. -Yeah, and me and the boys,

we will be here bright and early Sunday morning.

I'm taking the boys to get their suits today.

OK, what about the Funny Fun Land place thingy place?

Well, we're not going. And Miranda's out of town.

-She said you knew that, though. -Yes, I did.

She told me months ago that she would not be here.

I was going to put her in this portrait.

She told me she wasn't going to be here,

but the rest of you said that you would be here.

-And we will be, baby. -[CJ] Hey everybody.

-Hey, Auntie. -CJ.

-Can I have a hug? -No, please.

-You don't have a choice. -Stop.

I'm sorry. I am sorry, and we gonna all be here

bright and early Sunday morning.

Y'all get on my nerves.

Ella, you know there ain't nothing in the world

that this family wouldn't do for you.

Yeah, you'd do anything for me,

except be here to take my picture,

something I asked for months ago.

[Curtis] You're right, baby.

And that's why we're going to spend Easter with you, all day.

Yeah, and I probably could use going to church.

I ain't been to church in a while.

[Ella scoffs]

I've been wanting the boys to started going to church, so.

Yeah, they need to go. They need to do that.

Curtis?

Well, I'm going to be there for the picture. And the brunch.

-Pops. -Curtis?

OK. OK. Doggone it. That preacher talk so long.

He talk forever on regular Sunday.

How long he going to be talking for Easter Sunday?

He might, Curtis. He just might.

Then see, I can't. I can't.

Curtis, it is the least you can do.

Fine.

Jesus died on the cross so that whosoever believeth in him

may not perish but have everlasting life.

You need to go, baby.

You just need to get right with God.

[Calvin scoffs] Pop get right with God?

We definitely gonna be there all day.

-All week. -All right, you guys.

Now that I think about it, probably all month.

OK, is everybody done?

-[Jazmine] Auntie! Auntie! -Jazmine?

-Auntie, we need you. -What is it?

It's Malik. He's having some sort of allergic reaction

to an energy drink he was drinking.

Come on, boy! Auntie, look at his face.

CJ?

Get your baby, CJ.

I told that boy God don't like ugly.

Dad, this is not the time. This is not the time.

Oh, look at how he talk.

This is not funny. Auntie Ella, please. Help me. Please.

-[Jazmine] Help me, Auntie. -You gonna take the picture?

Not like this-- -You gonna be happy about it?

Yeah, I will. If you help me, I will. I'll be happy. Please.

-Let me think about it. -Don't, don't.

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[Ella] Come on, kids.

Now come on, come on--

[Ella] Wait, Malisa, Malisa, Malisa, Malisa.

OK, there we go.

Can I get everybody to look right here?

Say, "Payne family."

[Everybody] Payne family!

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