My name is Anthony Norman.
I'm 25 years old, I'm from Nashville, Tennessee.
An exciting time for us because we're about to go on our big retreat,
- Yep. - ...that's what you're helping out with.
- Anthony, I got to make this deal. - I need to talk to you right now.
Father to father, I need to talk to you.
Let's go!
Anthony, come up here. I'm going to talk to you myself.
Have a seat, my friend.
Have a seat, make yourself comfortable.
Here we go, here we go.
Okay, here we go. Cameras ready.
Cue dugout, cue dugout.
All right, listen, I just want to say, what Anthony just did...
For him to bust into that room and to stop that deal...
I mean, that took guts.
The truth is, we have actually hoped
that you would bust through that room and stop that deal
since the very first minute you showed up at Rockin' Grandma's.
Really?
I told you that this was my last company retreat.
Yeah.
What I didn't tell you was that it was also my first company retreat.
Because I'm not actually the CEO of Rockin' Grandma's.
You see, Rockin' Grandma's is not a real company.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
That is not my son over there.
You're lying. You're lying. How? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on.
- Anthony... - Y'all about to mess my brain up.
Anthony, we are all actors...
...and this is a TV show.
- And the only thing that's real is you. - Nah, hold on, hold on.
Give him a minute. Give him a minute.
- Take your time, baby. Take your time. - Oh, man!
You know what's crazy, I've been saying that this whole time.
This whole time!
- We know! - We know!
Every time, I'm like, "This day, what's going to be next?
I feel like I'm living in a TV show!"
Oh, my goodness. Y'all are incredible actors.
All of y'all. Y'all are phenomenal actors.
Marjorie, too? She's an actor?
Yeah.
Yes. Absolutely.
Even though Rockin' Grandma's wasn't a real company,
you were definitely its best employee.
Yeah, I see.
You showed that you had a deep affection
for the family of Rockin' Grandma's.
No matter what we threw at you, you kept your cool.
You calmly took on the role of Captain Fun
when your boss left the retreat on the very first day.
Everything's good. You're going to have a great time.
- You're Captain Fun. - You're Captain Fun.
You got this, you got this. I don't got this.
And Dougie.
My God, you helped him every single day.
He's not gonna believe me, dog.
- I got your back! - No one believes me!
That's okay. I believe you.
You sound like you don't believe in yourself.
- I do, but he doesn't. - Okay, I will back you.
- So, this really isn't your dad? - That's really not my dad.
- Really, really? - That's really not my dad.
Really, really. That's not my dad,
but what is real is the friendship that we made.
You are my brother for life. So, thank you for being there for Dougie
and really, being there for me through this whole thing.
- I love you, bro. - Absolutely. I love you, too, man.
- Anthony... - Hold on, pause, pause.
Do you really like snacks? Like, is that real?
Are you really going to make a PJ's Snack Talk or what that all BS?
Well, now I feel like I have to.
Hey, Anthony. I'm Stephanie, I'm not Helen.
And...
You was my favorite. You was my favorite.
I have to tell you what you did for me.
As an older person, you get pushed to the side a lot.
You get in the last seat, you get chosen last for the games.
And you didn't ever see me that way.
You saw me as a person and not some older lady
and that means the world to me.
And the amount of love that you gave everybody here,
made my heart so huge and happy.
And I'm just grateful for you. You are a fine, fine man,
and don't you ever forget that, okay?
- Yes, ma'am. - Okay.
I love you.
You're my auntie for life.
Remember I told you, you remind me of my auntie.
For life.
There's more.
For all the hard work you've done for us,
we would like to give you something.
A final paycheck...
in the amount of $150,000.
Yes, yes, yes!
Yeah!
Yeah, man.
Okay, congratulations, you are--
Ah, yeah, yeah.
- Go ahead and talk. - We love you, man.
And at this point,
we have special guest that would like to join us here.
And if it's okay with you, we would like to introduce you...
to the team!
Woo! Woo!
Yeah!
Damn, where did all these people come from?
Where were y'all hiding at?
The amount of people that went into making this possible
for me to have this experience,
it seemed like people were coming out of everywhere and everything.
I'm grateful for all of y'all.
I have questions, like,
how did I go from an assistant
to being in a TV show?
And we've got answers!
- Can I get one more hug from my family? - Yeah!
We are scouting Oak Canyon which will be our home for this season.
In the first season of Jury Duty, we had to worry about essentially three rooms.
And now, we have a site that is ten times that size.
It will be the basis of the retreat.
Thinking about doing a yurt with a roof piece.
I have some renders here.
We need to build a huge amount in addition to the existing structures
to allow us to cover the story lines we have planned,
as well as accommodate the entire cast and hero
that are staying on site throughout the shoot.
It's a massive undertaking.
We're building a fake world they'll all be living in.
- Hi, my name is Ryan Perez. - Hi, my name is Erica Hernandez.
- I'm Marc-Sully Saint-Fleur. - My name is Rachel Kaley.
- Hi, my name is Warren Burke. - Stephanie Hodge.
- Hi, I'm Jim Woods. - Hey, I'm Rob Lathan.
Hey, my name's Alex Bonifer.
So, I did tell, y'all are going by your normal names.
I'm not relearning names.
Can I tell you, we barely know each other's real names.
Yeah, we don't know everybody's names.
- Really? - I don't know his name.
Y'all seem so close! Like, there was no prep work at all?
Oh, there was months of rehearsal.
Hi, everyone. Welcome to the next iteration of Jury Duty.
202, act one, waiting for Doug to arrive and start the morning meeting.
Uh, hey, guys. Um...
I'm gonna make an executive call
and think we should probably wait for my dad before we get started.
No, I thought otherwise. People talk about how they slept.
I'm Helen Schaffer. I've been here since 1999, which is 26 years.
- I was the first employee Doug called. - It's true.
And I was surprised that people did not like the honey butter chips from Korea.
I thought it'd be a hit, but you know, we learn.
And at five o'clock, I'm out!
I'm picking up the twins from soccer, karate.
On Fridays, we go to church.
- Amen. - Uh-huh. Hallelujah.
Before doing this show, I sort of had the misconception that like,
if you show up and sort of mutter some improv within earshot of a normal person,
that there's a show.
Quite to the contrary, this show, it involves very precise work.
We knew that our cameras were here, here and here,
you're coming in and talking to hero, right?
Part of your job before you get into the scene is,
you keep talking to him, right?
You're talking like this because now hero is going to talk to me this way, right?
And now, we can see the hero, right?
Your blocking has to be very precise in certain cases.
I think it's just a twisty.
Kevin, slide to your left, slide to your left.
Aw, man.
It was actually more like doing a stage musical, at certain points,
than doing an improv show.
Just for sheer precision.
Dad, don't do it!
Go, stop him. Slap the pen out of his hand.
Hey, what's going on?
- If you can face us... - Okay.
- That'd be a funny place to panic. - Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then we see you like this, right?
You're looking at us going, "What? No, no, no!"
Like, trying to move and you kinda can't move.
- Okay. - Okay, Jackie!
Oh, God! What is my Black ass doing here?
Yes!
Pull the top, pull the top.
Don't break it? What?
You're gonna have astro burn on your face, mate.
I almost just [bleep] destroyed Max.
One, two.
To prepare for the battle that happens in the Dougcathlon,
Wendy, who plays Elizabeth, and I met with Charlie,
who's the stunt coordinator on this.
The hardest part of rehearsing for that was doing it
while balancing on the inflatable course.
- Yeah. - Wow. Whoa.
I don't know how you prepare for that.
It is really hard to stand up there.
This is designed to take you.
So, I mean, if you want to reach with the elbow a little bit, it's natural.
Two, and...
The biggest part of that sell, honestly, was then,
Wendy ran over to the side and got bloodied up for that reveal.
Let me see it! Let me see it!
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. There's blood.
It's bleeding! I'm bleeding!
I know there's blood. Can you hang on?
So that he didn't know that this is all just TV magic.
We're just trying to create the perfect family of Grandma's hot sauces.
We have not tried this one yet.
No, we tried the green and you did not like the green.
It's smoke forward.
- Smoke forward! - Is it too smokey?
- So smokey! - It's as smokey as smoke.
I thought maybe it tasted like a tire.
It is day one.
Enjoy it. Have a great day.
Today, we buy all the fun and games
that we're gonna get into for the next two weeks.
We're all so excited to be working with everyone in this room.
So, thank you very much. We've come this far.
Let's have a fucking great day!
Okay, here we go again. Let's do it.
Brian, hero's landed. Hero's landed.
2R, let me see you widen and include a piece of PJ in your frame there.
I think the conference room lights auto turned off. That's fine.
I'd say we have probably 45, 50 cameras.
We've got tents everywhere. Everything has to be blacked out.
Another false wall to shorten this hallway.
Like...
- All of this for little ol' me. - Yeah.
Ah, what's the proper name for this room?
- Control. - The control room.
And every day, there would be about 30 people hiding in this room silently
and we would sneak out every morning and every evening.
You know what's crazy? I was like, "We never go back here. What is this?"
All right, keep on coming. Let's go.
- Anthony, these carts... - Yeah.
Yeah, there's cameras in those, too.
- Hidden cameras everywhere. - Everywhere.
There were hides everywhere.
Like, the garbage cans looks like just regular old garbage cans
and there's cameras behind them.
You're walking, there's a camera tracking you on a wire.
Yeah, it was really cool.
Hey, partner.
- Oh, what's up, boss? - I've been watching you.
Oh, my goodness.
You looked right at my lens today for like five seconds.
Then you looked straight at his lens.
And we were like, "Oh, no."
I had no clue.
I'm trying to replay everything in my mind all at once of...
How did I miss this? How did I...
How did I not see any of this going on?
Every morning when you would leave, all these people would come in...
- Spill in? - ...and then we would go back out.
I was kinda curious because sometimes we would literally just
go get breakfast in the morning and come back,
and I'm like, "What the fuck are we doing?" Like...
We send hero off on a run.
Then, a hundred people swarm into this little area.
Like cockroaches coming out of the...
And then we have this quick meeting, 'cause he's coming, he's coming.
We gotta get out, we gotta get out.
Hold the talk. Let's go. We gotta get out of here.
All right, guys. Super, super short
because he's got a tiny run 'cause it's late.
We gotta get out of here but holy [bleep], great job today!
A hundred people swarm out, and then it's just the 14 of us.
- You looked at my card! - I did.
Yes, cameras are down But, like, we're still in character.
Come on, dude.
- Boom! - Uno.
Good to see you, baby.
Welcome back. Right in the middle where you belong, man.
That was a little strange to me.
I was like, "How is the assistant right in the middle?"
- Oh, I heard. - Like, I'm front and center.
First day, you were like, "Dang, they got me front and center."
- I was like, "Mm-hmm." - Right.
Did you hear about how we almost ruined our own ending today?
- Hello. - Hey, wow are you?
- Well, and yourself? - Good.
- Appreciate it. - Of course.
When the notary arrived, we needed him to lock his keys
and his stamps in the car to delay the signing.
But when he pulled up...
And I'll just be showing you to where they're located at.
Why is his window down?
What the [bleep]?
You could just go over and...
Reach in? Yeah.
Reach in and open it. And we were like, "Oh, no."
Marjorie, we have an emergency.
I need her cart. Does she have the cart?
I need you to hustle over towards the front of the welcome center.
Hustle over towards the front of welcome center.
Okay. So, what should I do?
He can't play the locked bit now,
because the window's open on his car and he doesn't realize it.
- So, you gotta come, help him-- - ASAP, ASAP, run.
You gotta hustle down there, Marjorie. Sorry.
Be like, "Oh, good, you're here!"
Oh, good, you're here.
You know, I... Hang on one second. I just--
- No, no, no. - Just intercept him.
Get him now, get him now. He's about to go back.
- No, no, no. Shake his hand. - Shake his hand.
Hey, I'm Marjorie.
Hey, Marjorie. Arnold. How are you?
- Nice to meet you, sorry. - Nice to meet you.
- You made it. - Yeah, I made it.
- Okay, good. - Hang on one sec.
No, no, no, no. Get him, get him.
- No, no. It's okay. - Okay.
You're good. So, you just go back to the business center.
- Okay. - I'll show him.
- Yeah, sorry. - Okay.
Stay with them, stay with them, stay with them.
Okay, slowly walk behind him.
You know, we appreciate you coming out
and helping us get through this...
I guess, deal.
Okay, make sure they don't come back.
John's gonna run out, roll up the window. We're gonna lock the car.
Once he realizes the stamps are still in the car.
Doug, he doesn't know the car's locked yet.
So, he's gonna have to go back and check for his stamps in the car.
- Thank you. - Oh, my God, I...
I left my stamps in the car.
- The car is locked, right? - Yes.
We need to give MVP to Marjorie. [bleep] She ran today.
Marjorie, you saved our butt.
Yeah, no problem. I look forward to explaining to me
what the hell just happened.
Can we hold on a second and listen to where they're going?
Those are fire trucks.
There was something that smelled like smoke earlier.
As of four minutes ago, three helicopters are working on it.
It's five acres.
Yeah. There, I see a helicopter right there.
That day with the plane,
we were like, "We can't hold for sound. We can't hold for sound."
Three planes, three helicopters.
- That was wild. - That was insane.
Make your plans in case anything happens.
If it escalates, we need to move very quickly.
So, everyone have this state of readiness and preparedness.
- Did you guys call them to look for me? - Seriously.
Did Marjorie?
I don't know. Did Marjorie call, like...
Helicopter rescue? - Rescue?
- I don't think so. - Oh, when you were missing? Maybe.
- Oh, I hope she didn't call. - I don't think...
Oh, something we should let you know is that like,
we had a lot of speakers and educational classes.
Only about, like, three or four of those were real people.
Most of those were just actors pretending to try to give advice
and get jokes out of it.
Any other questions? Yeah.
Yeah, can you speak about the corrosive influence of money in politics?
Helen's eyes are loses.
- Whoa! - Dang!
Okay, just making sure.
We were supposed to not laugh during seminar but I failed every time.
I'm gonna put "be a whore" on my bucket list.
- Oh, my God. - Oh, do not do that. Do not do that.
I couldn't help but laugh because it was ridiculous.
What are you doing?
Why did you turn my computer off?
This is like, the fifth time today.
I had a huge problem with the seminars because I couldn't stop laughing.
But if I was an HR representative and you handed me this,
I would've thought that said "Cheerios." So, that's...
You can learn a lot by handwriting.
Thank God my penis remained in my suit.
But the testicles was what I was worried about.
The Scott Norris workshop, talking about his balls.
I mean, it was all shocking.
Like, we didn't know what was gonna happen in the seminars, a lot of the times.
My testicles are black.
- Jesus. - They're hard, they're ice cold.
Now, the dead tissue that were my testicles, I take myself...
I mean, Ian Roberts was so funny. It was just like,
he really just pushed the buttons over and over without breaking.
Pushed snow next to my testicles.
And at this point, I'm like, "God, kill me!"
One of my favorite memories was when Rob and I were making out at Sagebrush.
And I have that earwig in
and just giving notes to Rob, inside of his mouth.
Going like, "They're still coming? They're watching?"
"Oh, keep going?" Like, it was so funny.
'Cause you could like, feel each other smiling.
- Can you see when they come up? - Uh-uh.
- Okay, Amy. Not yet but get ready. - Okay.
Oh, my goodness.
Yo, I mean, after Other Anthony was hittin' them moves...
PJ's back. He's coming, guys. He's coming.
He's coming.
Bro! Bro!
Wait, wait, wait.
Keep going. Keep going.
He see's you. Keep going.
Keep going.
He's watching.
To go from saying no to Kevin down to making out with Other Anthony,
I'm just like, Amy...
No herpes, no hickie, no relationship.
And this might be the most unbelievable thing to you, but I have two kids.
Congratulations, man.
Yeah. Hell yeah.
My position here is Assistant Sourcing and Procurement Manager.
So, I'm in charge of, like, ordering all the ingredients for the hot sauce--
- Hey. - Oh, hey. Um...
The way he acted, like...
I believed every moment of who he was and just his personality,
I was just like, "He's an interesting character."
Well, he's your mailman, Mom. I don't think he's spying.
He's allowed to open that. That's your mailbox.
I don't want this to come across the wrong way, but are you a mama's boy?
Yeah.
No shade! Hey, no shade! I called home to my mom
just as much as I called to talk to my son, so I feel you.
- This is strength right here. - Right, right.
And what did you think of this season's bad guys
when Triukas showed up?
They were like, robots, honestly, to me.
They were just part of this big company, that they all looked alike.
I don't really have a dog in the fight.
I just wish what's best for the employees.
I will say that I hope we don't see a big business take over
and turn it into something that it's not.
My heart's been with you even though I've...
I've needed you to hate me, but I've loved you, watching how--
I'm not gonna lie, you did an amazing job.
I still have a little bit... Not really but when I see y'all, I'm like...
These guys, get 'em out of here!
They did a great job acting as well.
It was acting because we're not robots.
We actually have souls and it felt so shitty to be mean
to these people because you guys were so warm.
I'm shitty. I'm actually mean.
I will say this. If Triukas thinks they can just come in
and do whatever they feel like they wanna do,
they're in for a rude awakening.
Also, you might like to know that
as they became known, Boy Red and Girl Red...
- Yeah. - ...were also writers on the show.
These two, yeah.
We got reports back. You were saying stuff like, "Man, you can't write this stuff!"
Ah, a little bit!
I guess you can. I stand corrected!
Dougie ran away
and you were like, "He's gotta be up that mountain!"
- Gotta be. - And we're like, "Who sent him this?"
I mean, a part of me feels like he might have went that way.
Just to go get lost in nature and be by himself.
- Where? Oh, yeah. - Like, up in the mountain.
The only place I could think, like he would cross over the river
and go be up by himself in nature.
Like, up in the mountain.
- That makes sense. - That makes sense.
- Yeah. Should we try to go up there? - Yeah, we gotta find him.
We're like, "That's not part of script yet!"
"We still got three more lines! Hold on!" Like, okay, we gotta go!
This whole show is predicated in a way on a normal human being
being smart enough and being curious enough to make all the connections
and being able to put the plot together and everything, and caring enough.
Think about coming back. Maybe for like, at least the last couple days.
Just so that way you get to have this experience with us
and then we get to have this experience with you, man.
I've been tell you I think you should come back,
but you know, if you're not ready to come back, then I get that.
It was meant to kind of be like,
"Oh, maybe I'll sort of come back" or whatever.
And that invitation came almost right away.
It was like, "Come back, come back!"
Are you the amazing father that I looked up to?
Yes, I have a daughter.
Okay, good.
I'm Doug Jr., CEO of Rockin' Grandma's.
- You're not Doug Jr. - I did it again!
Senile, old person checking out. Okay, here we go.
I'm Doug Womack, you know that.
You're the best. Don't worry about it.
- I love you. - It's okay, it's okay.
My son, Dougie Womack Jr.!
- Oh, I love you! I love you! - I love you. I love you, buddy.
- I love you. - You're the best.
- Love you. - Take care.
I love you.
That was really good.
I think that's really what sold them being...
You know, even if this was a show, everybody was acting,
like, I still would've believed they were related
or that was pops because they were kissing each other.
Last one.
- Love you, buddy! - Love you!
This is a big dude. If he wants to kiss, you're kissing!
Is there anything you want to ask these guys
about stuff that happened?
Was your face really breaking out?
- No. - Really?
I'm sorry!
In my head, I was like, "She's a little wild!"
Like, she knows it's gonna mess her up but she kept going anyways.
When I have the allergic reaction to the crab legs
was one of my favorites. Just because it's like,
Anthony goes down the hill,
we had 20 minutes to kind of get me into this makeup.
- All right, game time. Makeup. - What's going on, bud?
Your day is about to get better. What do you think about turf and surf?
- Does that feel good for you guys? - Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, they're saying yes.
Get her back out. Let's go, let's go, let's go!
- Okay, let's get her out. She's out. - Claire, get back out.
And then I had to pretend to be having this big allergic reaction.
Your face!
- What, what?! - Oh, my God. It's like, broken out.
You need to. Go get Benadryl.
I don't know if people make that noise but my grandma did that all the time.
She always had itchy ears and she'd walk around the house being like...
And I was like, "That's disgusting."
Yuck.
Uhh, Amy, I see you going. What are you thinking about?
I just... I can't imagine what he did.
It's just so cool. And you accepted all of us.
Yeah, I don't know. It just...
It makes me laugh that you would give Dougie a chance.
Absolutely, man.
Early on in the process, I said something to Jimmy.
I said, "This will be the best gig we ever have."
And it's because of you, Anthony.
You changed my life, for real, and you changed all of ours, so...
We love you, Captain Fun.
I love you guys.
I can't believe I cried so much.
I would like to say one more thing.
Like, I'm really still shocked
and surprised is my word because I'm still surprised.
Like, in this moment, even though I know the jig is up,
or however you say it,
y'all did a phenomenal job, and thank you.
Well, thank you. It would be really weird if you weren't shocked.
I still love each and every one of you guys,
even though y'all were lying to me.
It's okay.
If there's one thing I can take away from the Rockin' Grandma experience was,
it's not the job, it's the people that you work with
and the environment you go to every day is what makes you feel whole,
and makes you feel like you're doing the right thing.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You had me working this hard and you had a pump the whole time?
My bad.
- Hey, man. Come here. - Okay.
You're good, man. Take a breath. Breathe.
No. No, yeah, I appreciate it.
- As long as you're being yourself... - Yeah?
...that's all that matters.
That's true. Yeah.
Yeah!
You're doing good work, man!
Keep rolling with the punches, boss. You got it!
It really just starts with the way that they made me feel.
They made me feel very welcome and at home.
I want to whisper something in your ear
that I meant to tell you when we were in the yurt.
But I just couldn't speak.
If I had a son, I would want him to be you.
And that's the truth.
I know if you had a son, he would be better than me.
No.
I don't think there's very many people better than you.
So, I definitely was taking away the fact
that whenever I go back to look for my purpose in life,
to make sure that whatever it is I'm doing,
is I'm doing it around the right people.
Hey, one, two, three!
Stay tuned for a special follow-up series
taking us behind the scenes of Company Retreat.
Currently boarding my airplane. On my way back to LA.
Oh, brother.
- Dude, Anthony. - Oh, you know who I am?
Let's go. Bring it on in.
It's nice to meet you.
- I have a lot of questions for you. - Oh, I know you do, man. I'm sure you do.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had cameras set up in here already.
- Right? - That's wild.
No, I'm here.
I thought I was only doing one season of this show. I'm not a series regular.
Boss man!
The fresh cut. Man, you look good, brother. It's good to see you!
I mean, I've got a million questions.
I don't feel like I should be rewarded.
I don't think that y'all should call me a hero or anything like that
because I just feel like I did what I was supposed to do.