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-Okay, well, I tell you what. -[Floyd] What?
Here's to finally, consistently, breaking even
with the food truck.
Hm. Next time, profits.
Sir, I'll drink to that.
Mm-hmm.
Now, Floyd,
are you sure that these numbers are normal?
Oh, yeah, look, at the barbershop,
it took me six years to break even.
That sounds like a terrible business model.
Well, actually, it was my fault
'cause I ran this campaign of free Friday haircuts
that ran a little too long.
Ain't nobody show up for the rest of the days.
I remember that
'cause I made sure I was there early.
[Floyd laughs]
Exactly. The bottom line is, bruh,
I know how to run a business.
And how not to.
Okay, what about Leslie Baker?
Okay, she's still contributing the folding tables, right?
Um, yes. Yes.
-Ooh, ooh, but not just that. -[Ella] Leslie.
The word is she's also bringing her new boo.
Oh, how nice.
She finally met someone. Oh, Leslie.
Tall, strong drink of water she got too.
Well, maybe he can bring that strength over here
and help get things set-up.
You know, I wouldn't mind having my own boo thing
to parade around.
Come to my church.
I keep telling you. Check out the eligible men.
There's only two of them.
And like Deacon Glass?
Yes.
Hm-hmm.
The man has more nose hairs than teeth.
Those are false teeth?
-Girl, you know that. -No, don't you tell me.
-You know that. -Don't you tell me.
You gonna tell me you didn't know that?
-You gossip too much. -[Gloria] You know what? Fine.
God, help me help her.
While you pray, I'm gonna go get us some more tea.
Those are false?
-Ella. -He got a gap!
The whole thing is a gap! Come on!
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[fire hydrant spraying]
[birds chirping]
[airplane overhead]
[car horn]
[fireworks]
[train passes]
[ambulance sirens]
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Hey, Floyd.
Man, did you catch that Falcon's game?
Look like we gonna have another year of...
Floyd. Floyd!
Oh, my bad, Curtis.
Yeah, man, um, I saw it, yeah.
The Hawks scored about three touchdowns in the last quarter.
That's the wrong bird, Floyd.
What the hell's wrong with you, man?
Ain't nothing wrong
'cause everything seems to be suddenly all right.
Okay, how many of those things have you had?
I'm just drunk on love, man.
Well, who's the lucky lady?
Well, I don't wanna say right now,
but I still wanna approach her the right way, you know?
Well, man, come on, tell me a little bit about her then.
[Floyd laughs awkwardly]
Well, you know, she's a rare beauty
with, like, a face like the sun, you know?
-Okay, okay. -[Floyd] Yeah.
So she's a high yellow gal.
I was speaking metaphorically, Curtis.
Metaphorically? Sounds like you in trouble.
Okay, well, why haven't you approached her, man?
Man, I want to,
but every time I get around her, I get tongue-tied, you know?
And that's just not like me, okay,
since you know I'm the ladies' man.
Yeah, whatever.
Tell you what.
Take it from a man who has been happily married for decades...
[Floyd] Mm, decades.
Okay, honesty is the best policy.
Just tell her how you feel, man.
To her face?
Where the hell else you gonna tell it?
I've been waiting five days
to see the finale of Trial By Fire.
Oh, Daddy, it's so good.
I couldn't believe when they walked in there...
Whoa, wait.
I don't wanna hear anything about it.
I wasn't gonna say nothing.
Good.
Except you need to have some tissues ready.
Jazmine.
Listen, listen, that's not giving anything away, okay?
There's no way to prepare you for what's coming.
Maybe you should go to your room.
Okay?
Do you think you need to go to your room?
Go to my room? Are you serious?
We sat down to watch it together.
Well, you saw it already, so beat it.
Man, this don't make no sense.
I don't wanna hear no, "Oh, you always away at school.
We never get no quality time.
You never spend no time with me,"
'cause I be trying, Daddy.
Okay. Here we go.
[out-of-time rhythmic knocking on door]
Really?
-Hey! -Big cheese.
Smokey the Bear, what's up?
OG firefighter, what's up?
-Hey, what you two doing here? -What's good, man?
Actually, so me and Pea,
yo, we wanna come holla at you right fast
about a little something.
Okay, come on in.
Can I get y'all something to drink?
Yeah, let me get a little brown,
some ice cubes, a little lemon squeeze on the side.
We only here for business, but, listen,
I apologize, Chief Payne,
for the actions of my brother.
Um, we here to get business handled,
so we'll take some of that
Atlanta's finest Chattahoochee tap water.
-Coming right up. -[Peanut] All right.
They left us a sandwich.
You know they got money when they leave sandwiches
on the table just in case anybody home.
Got no grapes...[mumbles]
You got some mayonnaise?
Hey, that's my sandwich!
Oh, my bad, my bad, bruh.
I thought you left that here for us.
I thought it was, you know, like the table sandwich
for your guests.
I mean, C.J., what happened to you?
You used to be all hospitable-like.
Now you mad over a sandwich?
Can y'all just tell me why y'all over here, man?
All right, so, actually...
Hey, it's like it's fate or something.
Oh, man, this is crazy. Turn it up.
What's that?
Yo, we were just watching Trial By Fire.
Which is a bomb show, by the way.
-It's our show. -Yo, tell me this, though.
At the end, when the fire department...
Hey! Hey, I haven't watched any of this, man.
Oh, my bad.
Look, you ain't even got to worry about it.
We not no snitches,
so we not gonna spoil the show, all right?
Nah, but for real, on the real,
Chief Payne, seeing those firefighters die,
saving that bus full of kids...
Wait a minute. Did you hear what I just said to you?
I have not watched this yet.
Wait a minute. They all die?
-They all die, blackened. -Crispy.
Look, my mom been getting on us about getting a job,
moving out the basement,
and so I was just thinking,
hey, why not save people?
Come again?
Look, me and Peanut came over here
because, you know, we wanted to give you the opportunity
of a lifetime,
because we wanna be firefighters,
but we gonna let you be our mentor.
You two wanna be firefighters?
-That's right. -Hell, yeah, man.
[C.J. laughs]
You excited to hear that?
-Hey. -Hey. What's happening, bruh?
You forgot something?
No, no, actually, I came over here to thank you.
Guess who just asked out the woman of his dreams.
Okay, well, that's what I'm talking about, man.
Uh, so what did the lovely lady say?
She says she would love to.
As a matter of fact, I took your advice
and I just, I was just being myself.
Wow. And that worked?
Stop, I'm just kidding, Floyd. Come on, man.
Yeah, whatever, man.
-I'm really happy for you, man. -Appreciate that, brother.
So what are you guys gonna do?
What's happening, what you gonna do?
I don't know yet, man, 'cause I just got the digits.
-Um, Floyd. -Mm?
I think, if you have a rotary phone at home,
you're not allowed to call them digits.
Ha, ha, ha, very funny. [Curtis laughing]
They keep coming, they keep coming.
I know, right? But, you know,
the crazy part about it
is I'm still nervous.
I wanna make a great impression on her, man, you know?
Eh, I'm sure you will.
No, seriously, I still get tongue-tied when I talk to her.
Well, look, you know, you still haven't told me
who this siren is, man.
Well, you kinda know her.
-I know her? -Mm-hmm.
Wait, okay, hold on.
-Well, let me guess. -[Floyd] Okay. All right.
-Let me guess. -[Floyd] Okay, go on, go on.
You know I'm good. I got a gift.
It's a gift.
I think they call that the nothing.
Yeah, I heard Ella say that.
Rita.
Works down at the corner store.
With the moustache?
No, sir. No, sir.
Oh, this is fun.
Okay, okay, come on with that.
-I know who it is. -Who, who, who?
It's that new customer that's been coming to the food truck
and she order a pound of pulled pork every day.
You talking about Porky Peggy?
-That's her name? -That's a absolute hell, no.
Boy, I'll bust you in your esophagus...
What?
Floyd, tell me you not talking about...
The glorious Glo.
Yes, sir. Yeah, Curtis.
I think she's the one.
[whimpers]
What's wrong?
[gagging]
[music]
-Come on. Nuh-uh! -[Curtis gagging]
Still feeling sick? You all right, Curtis?
Hi, Floyd.
Oh, I mean, what should I say, Casanova?
I just talked to Glo.
Okay, so you know about this?
I think it's wonderful. Yes.
Well, I think it's the worst idea ever.
Curtis.
Hm-hmm, no, Ella, no, no. I got this.
I got this. I understand.
Let me tell you something, brother.
You ain't got nothing to worry about.
-I don't? Thank God. -[Floyd] Hm-hmm.
You will never lose me as a friend.
Get your hands off me.
'Cause you are my best friend.
-Don't tell nobody. -And I will always make time
for you.
That is not what I'm talking about.
But you know what? I'm thinking about this.
What if all four of us went on a double date?
-I think it's wonderful. -[Floyd] Yeah.
I can make dinner.
Boy, you just jumped right on in there, didn't you?
-Yes, I did. -[Floyd] Yeah.
I'm gonna go and tell Glo.
[Ella laughing]
What does it mean to you to be a firefighter?
Ooh, I know this one.
Please, call on me.
Pookie.
[clearing throat] It means to be a hero.
Yeah, yeah, like you get to be saving people and stuff.
You get to ride around the firetruck
with a little Dalmatian.
You get to feed it little biscuits and stuff.
Well, kinda.
Well, also, you know, you gotta make sure
that you got a super, sexy, attractive team.
They gotta be, man.
You remember the calendar episode of Trial By Fire?
Do I? My favorite episode, bruh.
And, look, if I'm gonna be Mr. November,
man, we got to start working out.
Okay, stop, stop, this is not a TV show, all right?
We gotta talk about this.
Sometimes it is exciting.
But for the most part, we just sit around,
waiting for an emergency.
Yeah, but that's the time,
that's when all the little love triangles happen.
That's what I'm talkin' about, right?
Yeah, they be happening all over the station.
Like the episode with Shondra and Drew
on the firetruck with Mike.
Yeah, I'm glad Shondra went with Mike, man.
No, wait, wait, Mike was dumb and he was incompetent.
And Drew knew his way around the firehouse.
What show he watching?
Drew knew how to be extra boring.
That's what Drew is.
No, he... You know what?
This is neither here nor there, okay?
The one thing that's true about the show
is that you do need to be in top physical condition.
Right, that's for the calendar episode, right?
Feel this one, for the calendar, look.
No, come on, bruh. Come on, sit down.
-But I'm strong now. -Come on, I got you.
-All right. Okay. -I can...
It's not that.
It's for all the gear you have to carry,
75 pounds or more, whatever is needed.
Seventy-five pounds? That ain't...
Tell him, Pea, 75 pounds, I can carry that
and I can carry a beautiful BBW honey on my shoulders,
just up the steps.
Right, Pea? Tell him...
No, I did see you drop some big girls.
Two of my guys had to carry a 300-pound man
out of an apartment fire just last week.
I would've left his big ass.
Right fast on the ground.
You see, that's why all of this is ridiculous
because you can't leave his big ass.
Okay, don't leave big ass.
As a matter of fact, don't leave... No ass left behind.
You know, that's my slogan. That's my motto.
Ain't no ass left behind.
Yeah, ain't no ass with that one.
-Do I have to, Ella? -Curtis.
Don't start, okay, baby? Yes. You have to.
These are our friends, baby, so we have to be supportive.
Okay, so what are you saying?
I should let that cheetah sink her claws into Floyd?
Cheetah? Baby, she's our age.
Really?
That hard living is really showing on her mug.
That's so not nice,
and why are you acting like Floyd
is some prize bull?
Well, if Floyd is a bull,
then what does that make her?
-Curtis. Curtis. -Go on, say it.
-Go get the door.
-Answer the question. -Curtis!
No.
[winces in pain]
[Ella laughs] Burn him!
You look nice, Curtis.
You picked it out.
There--but um...
Come in.
Thanks for having us over, brother.
Curtis.
-Come in. -Curtis.
Glo.
Yo, that was so good.
-Hold up, hold up, hold up. -That was the episode...
Y'all really telling me that it wasn't Megan's fault
when all them hair products in her hair caught fire?
No, come on, man, she a sister.
She can't be running around with no flyaways,
running through burning buildings.
She gotta make sure her hair laid.
-I don't know about all that. -Ain't that right, C.J.?
C.J., C.J., do me a favor.
Tell Jazmine here there's a protocol
when a woman has that silky, yacky, straight, 4C hair,
with the edges flying out, somebody gonna catch on fire.
Remember the Michael Jackson commercial?
Hee-hee, remember he was runnin' around, he was-- C.J.?
So y'all are talking to me now?
Your so-called mentor, now you're talking to me?
You're now debating over whether Sabrina or Nate
was the one to let the Dalmations
out of the station?
-No, no. -No way.
Clearly, that's Sabrina's fault.
-We all know that. -We haven't settled this?
-It's Nate! -No!
It was Nate's fault! He left the door open!
[Peanut] Listen!
[Jazmine] He left the door open!
Sabrina had his medication and his leash!
It don't even matter. Dad, please tell him!
What are you talking about, stop smoking crack, Ja--
C.J., C.J., where you going?
Can you just tell her whose fault it was?
Clearly, you two have no serious intentions
to be firefighters.
-What, no. -Hey, don't say that.
You can't say that.
Come on, C.J., C.J., you can't... Listen.
You can't... Look, look.
You see we already got matching firetruck tattoos.
No, y'all don't, no, y'all don't, what?
No way! Oh, they're bomb! What?
That what I'm talking about.
I'm about to get me one.
And then you drive it...
That's what I'm talking about.
Jazmine.
But, you know, for real,
you know, it's time for us to grow up, man.
We trying to be getting some of the things,
you know, grown people be having,
things that we trying to take care of.
-Start with an R. -Responsibility.
Yes. Some of those.
And, you know, when we watch the show,
we just feel something, seeing them guys work.
-It's emotional. -Yeah.
Yeah, you know, something just occurred to me.
That Trial By Fire is shot here in Atlanta.
And you two will be better served playing firefighters
than actually being firefighters.
Yeah, yeah.
That actually sounds fun and responsible.
-Right. -Yeah, that's nice.
And we ain't getting burned up with fake fires.
And on top of that, Shondra can get with me.
Boy, stop.
Relax, you know Shondra's my baby momma already.
No cap. That's all it is.
No, you got too many baby mommas.
You don't even take care of your kids you got now.
[music]
That's so good.
Yeah, it is. I love the way you chew.
Excuse me.
Haven't you heard you shouldn't feed the animals?
Curtis. Pie, pie.
I'm sorry, what'd you say, Curtis.
I believe he called me an animal
when, clearly, the only animal in here is him.
Jackass.
-Why you... -Ah, hey, hey, hey.
Please, you two.
Yeah, really, you two, and, look,
you should be ashamed.
Now Ella has prepared this beautiful dinner
-and, frankly... -It's delicious.
I can't wait till the main course.
Floyd, the eggplant parmesan is the main course.
-Um, what? -[Ella] Yes.
Well, where's the meat?
I'm a vegetarian, Floyd.
Yeah, just like the herbivores of dinosaurs old.
I got your herbivores. You know, I'm so sick of you.
Wait, no, no, no. Wait, boo bear.
So, wait, so you mean to tell me
that, in order to date you,
I gotta give up eating meat again?
Yeah, yeah, oh, and Floyd loves his meat.
Loves his ribs.
Okay, I think it's time for dessert.
And his chicken, and his lambs.
And don't forget the turkey butts.
Uh, turkey butts, you know what?
That's disgusting. You are disgusting.
But that's the only way you can really flavor
the greens, dove.
Look, I'm sorry, Floyd,
but I can't stand the smell of meat.
I just can't.
Mmm, that looks delicious.
But, baby, um,
so I guess this gonna take some time with this
getting to know each other and all, huh?
Well, I mean, let's see.
-Like, do you go to church? -Egh.
That's that.
I think you two really need to break up.
'Cause, Glo, Floyd is a sinner.
Through and through. Ain't that right, baby?
Curtis.
Thanks, friends.
No. Break up, no.
I think we're just getting started.
Mm, help us, Lord.
-Hey. -[Floyd] Mm?
You know I'm telling Glo about this, right?
You better not say a word.
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