[cheerful music]
* *
- Savannah, do you know
what this is?
- It's a pen.
- It's not just any type
of pen, Savannah.
It's a space pen.
- What?
- This pen has no gravity,
Savannah.
That's how it works in space.
- Huh?
- I don't expect you
to understand it.
It's hard for me
to have conversations
with normal people
because, like, intellectually--
- 'Cause your IQ is that good?
- You got it, sister.
- Don't feed into it.
- I mean, I feel like
I could be an astronaut.
- Oh, dear God.
You would die in the first,
like, 0.5 seconds.
- Well, you know,
Jeff Bezos and those people,
they invite, like,
a select few people
that are very important
to our community, to--
- That would not be you.
- Savannah.
- Are you planning on going?
- I might.
- Well, take me with you.
- [laughs]
- Does that mean you think
I could go to space, Nanny?
- Not a chance.
[laughter]
[bright classical music]
* *
[cheerful music]
* *
- Stop moving it so much.
We just need chairs,
so you can glide
the way you wanna glide
and I can glide
the way I wanna glide.
- Marriages don't work
on living
in your own separate glider.
You gotta learn to rock
when I roll.
- [laughs]
- Hey, bud.
- Hey, buddy.
- Hey.
- How are you?
- Good.
- What ya smiling about?
- I got another letter
from a school.
- I love that.
- Hmm, okay.
- The idea of playing
college baseball is amazing,
so I'm willing to do
whatever I can.
- Okay. So we gotta make sure
that your grades stay up,
you're doing some community
service, some volunteering.
- Yes. But you'll be fine.
You're smart. You're athletic.
That's why you're
my favorite son.
- I've heard that before.
Except you say it to Savannah.
- That's not true.
That's not true.
- You know, he has a point.
Because you do throw that
favorite line around a lot.
- Listen, all of my kids
are my favorite
and I love to tell them that,
you know?
And especially when they do
something that makes me proud.
Like right now with Grayson
and all the college stuff.
I mean, it's motivational.
- You shouldn't play favorites.
It causes issues.
- Julie, honey,
we're a family of issues.
This one ain't gonna break us.
Gray, I swear,
you really are my favorite.
- Oh, my gosh.
- So let's focus on you.
We're going to the top,
me and you.
[quirky music]
[cheerful music]
* *
Hey.
- Hey.
- I brought you some stuff.
- Oh, well thank you, honey.
You always bring me--
- Come on, we're
going shopping.
- I mean, not like
your kinda shopping.
We're going to,
like, real stores.
[sniffs]
What is that smell?
- I know,
it smells awful in here.
- Well, my knee has been
giving me a little trouble.
So I had to get up
and make me a "pollus."
See that?
- Tell me what a "pollus" is.
- It's made out of spinach...
- Spinach.
- And turnip greens
and vinegar.
Put you some onions,
stuff like that,
and you chop it up.
- Mama,
you've messed this voodoo BS
my whole life
and it doesn't work, honey.
You've got to go to the doctor.
- I did.
He said I had a Baker's cyst.
- What did he say we have to do
about the Baker's cyst?
- He said we might
have to have a surgery.
Might have to drain it.
But you know, I just let that
go in one ear
and out the other one.
- This is just
classic Mama behavior.
Rather than do what the doctor
tells her to do,
she'll go in her kitchen
and make up some concoction
from whatever she can find
in her cabinet.
- Hey.
- Is that oatmeal?
- Yes, an old country cure.
There's a lot of good benefits
from apple cider vinegar.
- Like what?
- Tell them what they are,
Mama.
- If you get sore,
soak in the bathtub
with about a half a bottle.
I've done some research
and all you have to eat
is raw local honey
and it will take care
of your pollen allergy.
- This is a battle
that I refuse to back down
from.
- Considering how hardheaded
the two of you are,
that's a battle
that I don't want any part of.
- Mama, you've got to do
what the doctor says.
You've got to take
these things seriously
and especially at your age.
- You know, Todd, you act like
I'm already in the grave.
[laughter]
- I'm saying that I'm trying
to keep you
from crawling to the grave.
- [laughs]
[cheerful music]
* *
[bag crinkling]
- Really? Why are you making
so much noise?
That's not necessary.
What are you doing?
- I'm helping myself.
- Really?
Chase, you don't just come in
and clear out their drawers.
- I'm frugal.
- Uh, yeah.
- Would you look who it is?
- Oh, look at you.
- I know.
- You look so good.
- Dad bought it
for my college interview.
- Oh.
- Dad's favorite kid's thinking
about going to college.
[plucky, tense music]
- Savannah?
Are you gonna let that slide?
- Yeah, I just let it slide
'cause I know the truth.
- What truth?
- Savannah's the favorite.
- I wouldn't say
I'm the favorite.
I would just say
I'm the smartest
when it comes
to dealing with Dad.
- In the human translation,
Savannah's good at kissing ass.
- Okay.
- Listen, there's ways
to work Dad to your advantage.
I learned it fairly young
and as long as you're
stroking his ego, you're set.
- Of course you
brought flowers.
- Hey darling, how are you?
- Good.
- Good to see you.
- I brought these for you.
- I mean, why are you
even getting flowers?
- She gives me a gift.
I give her a gift.
She gives me another one.
I give her another one.
- Sorry I'm late.
- You may be late,
but at least you look good.
- Thank you, I try.
- And your bag looks amazing.
- I know.
- That was a gift
from her father.
- It was.
He is the best gift giver. Oh.
You, on the other hand,
have just pushed his buttons.
- Yeah, Savannah,
but I don't agree
with half the stuff
that he says.
So that's my problem.
- Well, you know what?
Sometimes it pays to pretend.
This whole "favorite child"
thing is a game.
You just need to know
how to play the game.
- I'm still sitting on
the bench of that game.
- Because you've just been,
like, a problem, you know?
- What?
- You've just been a problem.
- Savannah, you've been
a problem too.
- Savannah,
you've been a problem.
They just don't know about it.
- Exactly.
- If you want Todd
to be putty in your hands,
then listen to me.
- Just take a minute
and just think
about you're signing up for.
'Cause once you go down
that road,
you're gonna be around
Dad all the time.
You're gonna have to kiss
his ass all the time.
- And the flip side to that--
free meals,
free shopping, free gas.
- He pays for your gas?
- Hundred percent.
Well, you know what, Grayson?
I think it's pretty clear.
You can work the angles,
like me,
and basically have
everything paid for.
Or you could be like him
and be shopping
out of Mom and Dad's kitchen.
- They got some good stuff.
- So which would you rather?
- I think
I'm gonna go with you.
- Come on. I got you.
- And both of you suck.
- I'll tell you what sucks--
paying for your own gas.
[bright classical music]
* *
- Mama, go ahead
and put your gown on.
- I don't need it yet.
- Mama, you have to have
the gown on for him
to be able
to check your damn knee.
- I'll pull my pants leg up.
- Why does everything have to
be so confrontational with you?
- I know, but why would
I put that thing on?
- Because you're going to have
to lay on your stomach for him
to drain that off of your leg.
- I'm not gonna do it,
it's gone.
- Mama, it's not gone.
- It's gone.
- You're making that up.
My mother is clearly in denial.
But the issue that my mother
has with her knee
is not going away with cow
[bleep] smeared all over it.
- Hey.
- Hello, Ms. Faye.
- Hello, how are you?
- Hello, there.
- I'm good.
- Good to see you.
- Nice to see you.
- Brandon Downs.
- Good to see you.
- Hello there.
How's the knee
been treating you?
- Good.
- Well, you see,
you have a significant amount
of arthritis in your knee.
- That's what y'all say,
but I don't feel it.
- You don't feel it?
- No.
- So that arthritis
in your knee
has progressed over many years.
And that's gonna continue
to give you a problem.
Now, the Baker's cyst may
swell up and decompress
a little bit over time,
but you're gonna continue
to have some soreness.
So we can put a little needle
in that cyst
to drain that fluid out
so you feel better.
- This shot that the doctor's
going to give you in your knee
is the remedy to fix it.
- Mm-hmm.
- We put you down
on your stomach.
We come in through
the back of your knee
to drain that cyst.
And I think you'll have
a lot of improvement.
This would go in
about an inch or two.
[light, tense music]
- Well--[laughs]
Now, I might need you
in a few days,
but I don't need you today.
- Not today?
- Not today.
- I mean, I ain't gonna lie
to you,
it's gonna make me
break out in sweat.
You're gonna have to get up
and let me lay down.
[laughter]
[cheerful music]
* *
- Can you believe Dad
bought me these?
- We got some great stuff
today.
- Look at my hat, Savannah.
- I mean,
I got some new sunglasses.
They're these
mirror sunglasses.
Oh, my gosh.
- You could play poker
with those.
- Uh, no.
- I've been eyeing these shoes
for a while.
- I got some too.
- It looks like
an old man shoe.
- You look like
an old man shoe, Chase.
- Why are you so angry?
- You look very bitter.
- No, you know what?
I have principles.
I'll go out and eventually
get that stuff on my own.
But you know what,
one thing I will not do
is feed into the disgusting,
vile manipulation
that you two have fed into.
- This manipulation got me
box tickets
to the Titans
game this weekend.
- Oh.
- Are you [bleep] me?
- Hello, my beautiful children.
- Hey.
- What is all this?
- Grayson and I
are making the most
of our favorite kid status.
- Because she's teaching him
how to suck up
and manipulate a situation.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Mama, Savannah's got Dad
wrapped around her finger
and Grayson's not far behind.
And meanwhile, me,
I get nothing
because I'm not a suck up
and it's not fair.
- Listen, son, I get why
you feel that way.
But I promise you,
he doesn't love any of you
more than the others.
- Funny way of showing it.
- Listen,
I'm sure if your dad went
and bought this for y'all,
it's because A,
you needed it and because
he's just proud of you.
- Well, one thing,
they do not need it.
Secondly, Dad
does have favorites.
- That is not true.
- He likes some of us
more than others.
- That's a fact.
- Oh, my gosh.
[bright classical music]
* *
- Come on.
- I can tell you right now,
Nanny's not gonna want to be
in a wheelchair.
She's not gonna like that.
- Nobody wants to be in one,
but hell, I had to be in one.
- You were in one by choice.
- No I wasn't,
I broke my damn leg.
- We have arrived.
- Oh, my goodness.
- My leg hurts so bad
that I literally just want--
if I could reach down here
right now
and gnaw it off myself,
I would.
- Does this hurt?
Tell me if this hurts.
- Ahh!
- Don't touch me.
Hey, Mama.
- Hey.
- Your chariot has arrived.
Are you ready for the recital?
- What the hell you doing
with that thing?
- The doctor said you have to
stay off of your feet.
- Todd, that doctor not once
mentioned a wheelchair.
Not one time.
- Oh, so now you gonna listen
to the doctor?
Mama, please get in the chair.
- Please my ass, Todd.
I'm not getting
in that wheelchair.
- Nanny, well,
would it make you
feel better if I pushed you?
- I'm not sick enough
to get in no darn--
- I know that Nanny.
- Oh, gosh.
- But sometimes you gotta
get him off your back.
- Chase, I'm tired
of everything having to be
on your dad's terms
and treating me like a baby.
- Nanny, I know
that he's a bit extra,
but he's just trying
to keep you safe.
- But I'm an independent
77-year-young woman
and I can take care of myself.
- Mama, if you're not getting
in the chair,
you cannot go to this recital.
- Well, then, I'm not going.
[light, tense music]
I bought these flowers
for Chloe,
so I want you to take them
and tell her that I wanted to
come but I wasn't allowed.
- Come get in the chair.
- No, I'm not going.
Just go on, have a good time.
You take that piece of [bleep]
and you get out of my house
with it for the time being.
[cheerful music]
- Julie.
- What?
- Honey, hurry up.
I'm dying of thirst.
- Oh, my word.
- Thank you, darling.
- What are you doing?
- I'm getting all these toys
and stuff together
for Grayson's volunteer stuff.
- Shouldn't Grayson
be doing this?
I mean, this is his
community service.
- Listen, he's got
this big test coming up
and I told him
that I would help him
get all this stuff organized
so that we could get started.
- No, Grayson
doesn't have a test.
- Yes, he did.
That's why I'm doing it.
- Todd, I just dropped
Grayson off at the movies.
- He told me
that he had a test.
- Okay, well it looks
like you've been played.
- Julie, now, come on.
- Yeah, come on.
Savannah is now teaching
Grayson how to take advantage
of this so-called
"favorite child" status.
- This whole "favorite child"
thing is a game.
You just need to know
how to play the game.
- And they're manipulating you.
- I just don't believe
that my two favorites
would ever do that to me.
- Did you just hear
what you just said?
You need to make this right,
'cause this situation that you
caused is getting out of hand.
- Oh, I'll make it right.
Because Grayson cannot expect
to play a player
and then get away with it.
- I hate to say it,
but he just did.
- You want me to say,
"I love them all equal."
- Exactly.
- Okay, all right.
I can do that because I do.
On certain days.
[cheerful music]
* *
- Oh.
- Chase.
I've been calling you.
You didn't hear me?
Don't.
As usual, your aim's off.
- What do you want?
- Have you talked
to your Nanny?
- I talk to her every day.
- Well, why has she got
her ass on her shoulders?
- Well, you brought
a wheelchair into her house
said,
"Get in the chair, old lady.
You can barely walk as it is."
How would that make you feel?
- But I just meant it's too
much for her to be on her knee
walking across that parking lot
at that recital.
- But you're constantly
reminding her of how old she is
and how old she's getting.
She doesn't like that.
- I can't believe
that I'm gonna say this,
but maybe Chase is right.
Maybe I handled the situation
with my mother wrong.
'Cause let's face it, even
perfection can make a mistake.
- Or two.
- Okay, so then what would
you suggest that I do?
- Take her on an adventure.
Something fun.
Something young.
She'd really enjoy that.
- Just remember,
as I get to her age,
what I'm having to deal with
with her now,
you're going to have to
deal with with me then.
- No.
- Yeah.
- I'm putting you in a home.
- [laughs]
[cheerful music]
* *
- Chase, you know what I love
about fall?
- Nanny, if you say something
about a pumpkin spice latte,
I will get up and leave.
- No, I'm not gonna
talk about that.
I'm just talking about, like,
when you sit down here
on this rock...
- Mm-hmm.
- They're cold.
- They are cold.
- But you know what?
This cold off this rock
on my butt
is better than Preparation H.
- What?
What does that even mean?
- You don't know
about hemorrhoids?
- I don't think I've gotten
to that point yet.
- Well, you will probably.
- [laughs]
Look, Nanny,
there's Dad right there.
- Oh, Lord have mercy.
- Hey, hey, hey.
- Oh, look, at him
riding on a horse.
- Hello
- Hey.
- Come on.
- Hey, hey.
- Look at you moving.
- Your carriage has arrived.
- What have you done, Todd?
- I just wanna take you
on a ride today.
- Yeah, uh-huh.
- And I wanted to apologize
to you, Mama.
Because--no, listen.
I want you to remain
independent
for as long as you can.
And I understand now
that the wheelchair--
that that may have come across
as being insensitive,
but that was not my intentions.
I was only trying to help.
- And Todd, really, I didn't
mean to be ugly about it.
But I don't want to be reminded
that I'm getting old.
And if I need a wheelchair,
I will let you know.
- Okay. Until then,
I'ma let you do your thing.
- I want you to know
that I have decided
to get my knee drained.
- Well, I'm happy to hear that.
So I hope this means that
you're gonna start listening
to the doctors more.
- It does.
And I also realized that
if I didn't get my knee fixed,
I would never be able
to marry again.
- Do y--disregard that.
[mule snorts]
- I'm pretty positive
that that's a donkey.
- No, Chase, that's mule.
- It's a mule.
- It's a big donkey.
- It's a mule
and her name is Jane.
- Walk on, Jane.
- Go, Jane, go.
- Good old, Jane.
Mama, you know I gotta mule
drawn carriage than a horse.
You know why?
- Why?
- Because you're stubborn
as a mule.
- Oh, well, I've been told
a lot that I'm stubborn.
But you still--
[mule brays]
- Here, Jane.
- She talking.
- Jane's up her talking [bleep]
right now.
- That is a donkey.
[bright classical music]
- Gray, hurry it up.
You've got school.
* *
- That tastes horrible.
- It's because you just
brushed your teeth.
- I think that's bad
orange juice.
- No, Gray. Everybody knows
you eat your food
and then brush at the end.
- Good morning,
my favorite child.
You gorgeous thing.
- Are the toys in the back
of the car?
- No, son.
I've already donated them.
I took them
to the thrift store.
- What do you mean?
I gotta take it to school.
I can't show up empty handed.
- Okay.
Then you should've taken
responsibility for the things
that you're supposed
to be doing.
Not pawn it off
on someone else.
- What am I gonna do?
- Grayson, you're not
getting credit
for something
that you didn't do.
Now, go to the car
and we'll talk about later.
- Did you see
how I handled that?
- Oh, yes,
I saw how it's been handled.
Todd, when I told you
to make it right,
this is not what I meant.
Listen, I agree with you 100%.
Grayson should not be pawning
off his work on someone else.
But you've gotten yourself
into a mess
with this
whole "favorite kids" game.
- Julie, you act like that
you're new to this.
- Well, Savannah and Grayson,
they feel like
they have mastered
this whole thing
that you're doing.
And Chase is sitting there
with a chip on his shoulder.
- Julie, honey, you know that
I would never want to hurt
our kids.
I would never want them
to think that I love
one of their siblings
more than I love them.
- Todd, I know your hearts
in the right place,
but Chase really does feel like
he's getting a raw deal.
He feels like that because
he doesn't suck up to you
like the others do,
that you don't
love him as much.
- That was never my intention
because I worship Chase.
I can't even put into words
how much I love that kid.
- Okay, and I think he needs
to hear that from you.
Listen, Todd,
let's just once and for all
take the word "favorite"
out of it.
- It's one of my
favorite words.
[cheerful music]
- What am I in trouble for now?
- Why would you be in trouble?
- The only time I get asked
to go anywhere is whenever
I've done something wrong.
Is this mine?
- That is yours.
- Is there cyanide in it?
- Cyanide?
- Yeah.
So what's the catch?
- There is no catch.
- Yeah, there's a catch.
- There's no catch.
I wanted to finally put this
whole "favorite" thing to rest
because I don't have
favorite children.
- That's kinda hard to believe
whenever I see Savannah
and Grayson
doing whatever they want,
getting whatever they want
and I'm sitting over here
getting treated like
the black sheep of the family.
- Son, you're not
the black sheep of the family.
Now let's face it,
you've had your ups and downs.
I ain't never had to go pull
Savannah out a strip club.
[plucky music]
- Listen, Savannah
strokes your ego,
and I just don't do that.
So I guess I'm not loved
the same way.
- That's not true.
Yes, Savannah does give me
certain things that you don't.
And you give me things
that she doesn't.
But she is not
my favorite child.
Listen, son,
I love you beyond words.
And I am sorry if the way
that I've treated Savannah
in the past
has caused you to feel like
I love her more
because that's just
not the case.
I think you're a beautiful,
smart,
interesting...
- Funny.
- Funny...
- Charismatic.
- Young man that
is so full of life,
and I am blessed
to call you my son.
- Well, I appreciate
your apology.
It feels good to finally have
this conversation with my dad
and it's been
a long time coming.
- And let me say,
I am proud of you.
You know, it's easy
to be a "yes" person,
but you actually
speak your mind.
You and your dad
have way more in common
than either one of you care
to admit.
You know, he's not kissing
anybody's ass either.
- That's true, but I do get
my heart from you, Mama.
- Yes, you do.
- So with that being said,
are you gonna start
paying for my gas?
- If you keep your mouth shut.
- Dad, I'm a vault.
- Please,
a vault that stays open.
On that note, I love you.
- That's it?
- Not more than your siblings,
but I love you all the same.
So we good?
Follow me over
to that gas station.
I'll fill your car up.
- Yeah, we're good.
We're good.
I wouldn't mind
a gift card too.
- I'm not giving you
a gift card.
One tank.