- I need to find myself a new young man.
- Honey, I have not seen what a young man looks like
since Curtis had an energy drink by accident.
- How long have you been in jail with that man?
- Oh, you know what?
In a few weeks, it'll be 40 glorious years.
- There always been fun times.
But whenever I hear that little sweet voice
just make me fall in love with him all over again.
Here this for you. - CURTIS: Ella! Hey!
- You talking about that voice? - Mm-hmm.
- Ella! Ella!
- Curtis.
- Baby you can't--
Good lord!
You can't be creeping upon people
with a face like that Glo, it's not humane.
- You know what? - Get outta the way.
Get out the way.
- Curtis, what has you in a fuss?
- I got a hundred things to do today, okay?
First, I need you to find
that big screwdriver, and then I need you to fix
the rip in the pants that I told you about.
You're not writing it down. You want to write it down?
- Curtis.
- Baby, that healthy food.
It's not working. It ain't gonna work, okay?
- Okay.
- So do something better than that.
- Anything else, my King?
- No, that's it for me.
- Then, what will you be doing while I'm doing all of that?
- Oh, baby I got to fix my train.
- Fix your tra--Curtis!
He's lost his mind.
Do you know how many things I do around this house?
This house would fall apart without me.
- Tell him, girl.
Reminded me of my old husband.
He lost me the same way, God rest his soul.
Just, just never appreciating nothing.
Walking around, just barking orders.
- Barking. - Barking.
- Keep it up, Curtis.
One day you gonna come home,
and I'm not gonna be here.
Gone.
- Gone.
- Gone Curtis
- Okay, you go and find my big screwdriver?
- They never appreciate what they have until it's gone, Ella.
- Ella knows I love her.
- Well, it wouldn't hurt for you to show it once in a while.
Curtis, you take advantage of her.
- No, I don't. - Yes, you do.
- What do you think I should do?
- Well, uh, do you have any anniversaries coming up?
- I think so.
Yeah, got the 40th.
- Well, there you go. But look, now Curtis.
Now, listen, you need to make this one special for her.
She deserves that.
- Special how?
- Hey, Mrs. Ella.
- Hi.
Oooh, mwah, mwah.
- How are you? - I'm good.
- Good. - What's the occasion?
- No occasion.
Laura just won't leave the house
unless she has a gown and designer shoes.
- Well, I think she looks great.
- Thank you Mrs. Ella. - You are welcome.
- Listen, don't mind Calvin.
The men in this family, mwah-muh,
can't seem to appreciate a good woman.
- Why would you do that?
- What?
- Embarrass me like that in front your mother.
Talking about, I don't know how to dress normal.
- I didn't say that.
I said you like to dress up. Why are you acting up?
It was a joke. - You know what?
Not doing this with you today. Not today.
- [unison]: I need your help.
- You found it?
Watch the door frame. Don't scratch it.
Don't scratch it.
It's precious. - What is in here?
A dead body or your private snack collection?
- Shut your face.
Look at this.
This is all the things I've kept
all these things over the last 40 years of our marriage.
Everything that Ella liked.
Well, most things she liked.
Souvenirs.
- I didn't know you cared so much.
- Well, of course I care about Ella.
It's you two I don't really care...
Okay, I got to find something in here.
Something
to let Ella know I appreciate her, that I love her.
You know what I mean?
Um...
What the-- Oh this is it, this is it.
I can't believe I still got it.
This is it.
Oh, there it is. Look at that. - Oh, wow.
- Ain't that beautiful?
This is the ring that Ella wanted before I proposed to her.
But I couldn't afford it back then.
- Can you afford it now?
- Yeah, of course I can.
- I got to find something like it.
Just something like it 'cause I'ma repropose to her.
- Okay.
- I need your help getting a ring.
We got to get a ring. Something like this.
- We got you, Pop.
- Whatever you need.
- Okay, so here's what we gonna do.
I want to get a preacher.
Okay?
So I need y'all to kidnap TD Jakes.
- I ain't kidnapping nobody.
- Wimp. CJ?
- "CJ' what?
No, ain't kidnapping, nobody.
- Y'all the worst.
- Glad I got a plan B.
We need to find
a hot air balloon and one them gospel choirs.
Okay, you know everybody at the Church, right?
- A hot air balloon?
Are you crazy?
Pops, you remember what you told me when I proposed?
- [unison]: Which time?
- Okay, I guess I stepped into that one.
You told me. "Keep it simple, stupid."
- He's right.
You're going back to the proposal.
Go back even further.
Take it back to the first date. - That's a good idea.
Okay, I took her to her favorite Italian restaurant,
and I took all the money out of my savings
and I bought a new suit.
- There you go. Recreate that first date.
Italian restaurant, new suit.
Take it back to where everything first started.
- But I can't. I mean,
that restaurant isn't even in business anymore.
- It's alright.
It doesn't matter.
Look, see this? - Yeah, that's it.
- Some lights and some tablecloths.
We can make it look just like this place.
- Okay, but a new suit.
I need a new suit.
I don't have a new suit. - Oh, no worries.
I'll grab that for you.
Hey, do they still sell those
old Steve Harvey suits he used to wear?
- Forget that, you jerk.
Look, I'll order a suit online, okay?
What?
- Sure you want to do that?
- Yeah.
- You know how to use the Internet?
- Yes, I just use the Internet the other day.
- Ring, flowers,
uncle Curtis is gonna get his own new suit online, got it.
- Find a website, order a suit.
Got it.
- Say one more thing about the Internet.
- Okay, how we looking, fellas?
We got everything we need?
- I think so. Look's good.
- [door knocking]
- Who the hell is that?
- No idea.
- LAURA: Calvin.
- What woman is that?
- It's my fiancé.
- Is it Lilly?
- It's Laura. Laura.
Hey. - Hey.
- What is this?
- The old man is about to repropose to Aunt Ella tonight.
- Aww.
That is so sweet Mr. Curtis,
is there anything I can do to help?
- Yeah, make sure your man don't mess anything up.
- I will do that.
- Are you kidding me?
She almost ruined her own proposal.
- Don't do this.
- I don't know about that, Babe.
- Oh, yeah, but I do. Yeah, I do. I remember.
You were a hour late to the dinner, and then--
and then you had the flat tire.
Now I had to get down in the mud and fix the flat tire.
When I was down there, I did a lot of hard thinking.
Like, is this the life I got to look forward to with this.
- Oh, oh. Don't we got to do the thing,
you know, about the other thing. You know...
- No, I want to watch this.
- Are you done embarrassing me?
- What are you talking about? What did I do.
- "Almost ruin her own proposal?"
Are you kidding me, Calvin?
- It was a joke. Relax.
- Don't tell me to relax, Calvin.
I'm really getting sick and tired
of all your little stupid jokes.
- You know what? Damn it's like I can't even poke
fun at you or us without you getting upset.
It's like I can't be my damn self.
- Well, if that's how you are, then maybe you shouldn't be.
- So I can't be myself.
- Hey.
Wow.
- Isn't this nice? - Yes.
- This looks even better
than the restaurant I took her to on our first date.
- She is going to love it.
- What's the plan?
- This is the plan. What more do you need than that?
What more do you need than this?
- Well, you look like the Hamburgler in pajamas.
- Okay, what are you doing here anyway?
You supposed to be with Ella, keeping her busy.
- She is on the way.
She'll be here in ten minutes.
But I came to hear the plan
to make sure you didn't screw this up.
- Here you all go again with this plan nonsense.
The decor has been decored.
- No, no.
The plan on how you plan to pop the question.
I mean, are you just going to play like it's just a dinner?
- Right, right, or are you going to wait until the moment
she walks through that door to see what happens?
- And what are you going to start your speech off with?
- Okay, okay, when did we discuss a speech?
Okay, where was the speech during the research phase?
- Everybody knows that the speech
is the pillar of the plan.
- What the hell?
- The speech is the plan.
With no speech, you can't even start to plan the plan.
You wanted to plan.
Okay, look, you know what?
Here's how you Glo this thing up, right, right?
So, so.
You walk in.
And then you--
is that how you're going to wear your hair?
- Have you heard from Calvin?
He's not answering any of my calls.
- Nothing yet, but I'm sure he's fine.
He just needs some time.
- Where the hell is Calvin? I'ma to kill him.
- Don't worry unc. He'll be here.
- I've been trying to reach him, too, Mr. Payne.
- Woo, if Ella get here before he does,
he might as well never come back because he's dead.
- How's that speech coming along, Shakespeare?
- Why don't you shut the Glo up?
- Ohh.
- How's that for a speech?
- Do you guys smell smoke?
- Yeah, the smoke coming out of my ears because I'm pissed off.
Pissed off CJ.
- And you know what?
It's all your fault.
It is your fault, and it's your fault, too, Glo.
Hell, I should have just took Ella to church
and called it a day.
She loves church.
- Uh, Curtis.
- And that son of mine, Calvin.
If Ella gets here before he does.
- Uh unc.
- You know what?
I'm sick of you making excuses for him, CJ.
That's it, I don't even wanna hear it.
He's dead. I'm going to kill him. You heard me.
- Mr. Payne?
- Hey, I don't even care if you love him, Lolita.
I don't give a damn, you heard it--
- Curtis! Curtis, the lasagna is burning!
- Why, y'all in here.
Hell.
- All right. Sorry I'm late,
but there's a bit of a problem.
- What, did you lose the ring?
- No, it's the tux.
- Is it the wrong size?
- No, it's not the size.
- Well, what is it? You have us on pins and needles.
Ella is going to be here any second.
- That's not the right color.
- Or the right size.
How did that happen? - I don't know.
I told you, he can't use the Internet.
I just picked it up.
- Is that my suit?
- What you ordered.
- Oh, you finally did it.
You finally did it, didn't you?
All of you.
Y'all been trying to test my marriage
ever since I been married.
Well, you finally did it.
Ella's gonna divorce me.
No food, no speech, no party, no nothing.
My God, can anything else go wrong, God?
You have got to be kidding me.
- I'll reset the circuit breaker. Nobody move.
- Ella.
- What in the world is this...
Curtis?
- This looks like the place when we had our first...
Baby, what are you wearing?
- Please don't ask.
It's a long story, baby.
Baby, that smile reminds me
of what I knew on the very first date we had.
- What's that?
- That I had to marry you the second I could.
- There is never a dull moment with you, huh Curtis.
- And there never will be.
You heard me.
- I'm still gonna kill you.
- Curtis. Curtis.
Curtis.
Curtis, how did you ever remember?
Oh, Curtis.
Yes.
Oh, look at it. Oh, my God...
Curtis you remembered.
- Ella, you are the love of my life,
and I promise to show it to you through every laugh, smile,
and celebration for the next 40 years of our life.
- Oh, baby.
- You are the mother of my child.
Unfortunately, that child is Calvin.
But we did the best we could.
Baby, I love you. - I love you.
- Even when you make friends with people like Glo.
- Curtis.
- Even though you won't let me slide my--
- Curtis.
Don't do this.
- Be my love forever.
Be my wife once more,
please. - Yes.
- For without you, there is no me.
- I love you.
I love you so much more than anything, and yes.
Yes, I will.
- Somebody help me up.
- Come on, baby.
- Ooh, I forget how strong you are.
- Wow. You know,
I still can't believe how beautiful everything turned out,
even after how horribly wrong everything went.
- It's my mom and dad.
They don't let anything distract them from one another.
- Well, that's what I want.
I want that kind of love, that kind of connection.
What's their secret?
- You really want to know?
- I do.
- They laugh.
My mom laughs with my dad.
Even if he isn't funny.
They joke together.
Even if the world around them is wrong and nothing's going right.
They could still look at each other and smile.
When they argue,
by the end of the day they're smiling again.
They're laughing again.
We never have fun together.
It's like everything is so serious with you
to the point where it makes me nervous to even speak my mind.
- Calvin, I don't want you to feel that way, at all.
Listen,
I know that I can be more sensitive than most
but I promise you that I am here
until the wheels fall off, baby.
I love you.
Even when you're being a moron.
- You got to learn to take my jokes
because I'm funny.
- You are.
- That's all I'm asking, baby.
- I got you.
- Well, then we good then.
- You mean to tell me
that boy thought you were going to be wearing an orange suit?
- Ella, he's about to have me look like a tangerine.
Woulda ruined everything.
- Oh no.
Nothing could have ruined tonight.
This was perfectly us, just how we've always been.
- Oh, baby, I was so nervous.
That is pretty. - Thank you.
- I kept thinking like the first time.
Just thinking. What if she say no.
- I guess you'll never get the answer to that question.
- I guess not.
I love you, Ella Payne.
- I love you even more, Curtis Payne.
Baby? - Mm?
- I want you to clean this up before tomorrow morning, okay?
- Yes. - And put my couch back.
- Okay I got it.
- And clean that stove.
- Okay you're doing a lot right now.
- And come to bed.
- That's what I'm talking about.
Mm.
Finally.
Baby, you're going let me-- - Curtis!
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