City Guys (1997–2001): Season 1, Episode 2 - For the Love of Mother - full transcript
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and streetwise ♪
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and streetwise ♪
♪ City Guys pose those looks in street clothes ♪
♪ It's all good coming from city people ♪
♪ They're all the same, open up your eyes ♪
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and streetwise. ♪
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and street wise ♪
♪ Check the school from class to the playground ♪
♪ You'll make it there if you just stay 'round ♪
♪ The right crowd. Come on, sign it loud ♪
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and streetwise ♪
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and street wise ♪
♪ City wide
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ City wide
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ City wide
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ City wide
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ City Guys, City Guys, Citi Guys, City Guys ♪
(upbeat music)
- And so, to make this long story short...
- Too late for that.
- A zero trash policy not only means a cleaner school,
but a happier you and me.
- You know what would make me happy right now, Dawn?
- A zero Dawn policy.
I'll be leaving now. (audience laughing)
- Hello Mrs. Anderson
- Please excuse me Ms. Noble.
I am sorry I'm so late.
I was dedicating a senior citizen center
and they just took forever walking me to my car.
- Well, that's quite all right Mrs. Anderson,
I can't tell you how much I wanted to meet Chris' mom.
- Oh, and I wanted to meet the Karen Noble
that Chris is always talking about.
- Oh, really?
It's so nice to know your students
are saying good things about you.
- But I didn't say it was good.
- You're not helping, mom.
- Please have a seat.
Now, according to this, Chris is passing all of his classes
with a C average.
- Yes.
- That's wonderful news.
- Wonderful?
You're happy with a C average?
- Ah, ecstatic.
Up until now he's had all Ds.
- Perhaps he is making progress.
- Absolutely.
You Chris, you deserve a reward.
Hey, how would you like to go
to the Eric Clapton concert this weekend?
- Eric Clapton? All right.
- As a matter of fact, we'll go together together.
- Together, like you and me?
Okay. That's good.
- Concert tickets for Cs,
that's very interesting.
- Ms. Noble you deserve a reward too.
But what I mean is that educators like you,
are underappreciated.
- I say the same thing every time I look
at my paycheck. (audience laughing)
- Well, I would like to show my appreciation.
- Oh no. That's quite all right.
- No, I insist.
- Oh, you don't have to.
- I won't take no for an answer.
- Oh yes. That's becoming very obvious.
- How about if I become a volunteer here at Manhattan High?
- No, no bad idea, mom.
- Why?
- Because, because you're already so busy.
I mean, what about all those charities
you waste your time on?
I mean, get involved with. (audience laughing)
- I would just hate to steal you away.
- Oh, think nothing about it.
Ms. Noble.
Why don't we go find something worthy
for me to do around here. Come on.
- Oh, gee. That's going to be great fun.
- Noble and my mom under one roof.
Lucky me.
(audience laughing) (dramatic music)
- Check it out, Jamal.
The keyboard of your dream.
- Yeah, I hope so.
The last one you tried to sell me was missing half the keys.
- I was giving it to you for half the price.
Just try it out.
- All right, man.
Al, it ain't working.
Why am I not surprised?
- This is a very delicate piece of machinery.
Let me turn it on.
You got the power. (audience laughing)
- And this is the rooftop.
The students like to hang around up here
and pretend they're doing their homework.
- Well, I love how they've decorated it.
Oh my goodness.
That's the biggest cockroach I've ever seen.
- That's not a cockroach.
That's a prune, with legs. (audience laughing)
(cheerful music)
- Bravo Jamal.
(audience applauding) (audience cheering)
- That was marvelous.
- Oh yes, absolutely marvelous. Thank you, Jamal.
And thank you mom for visiting the school.
See you at home.
- Ms. Noble, your music department has a budding star.
- Well, I wish we could take the credit for that
but budget cuts killed our music years ago.
- Ah, well, how did you learn to play so well?
- Well, my mom taught me.
She was our music director at our church.
- Talent like this deserves a real chance,
with real instruments.
- Real instruments?
I'll have you know that this fell off
the back of a very classy delivery truck.
- Ms. Noble,
I would like to have a fundraiser
and get Manhattan High a music department.
- Mrs. Anderson, you would do that for this school?
- Of course.
And Jamal, you are going to be our star attraction.
- Star? Oh yeah.
I like the sound of that.
And could you make sure
there's a whole lot of young adoring female fans
in the audience?
- Mrs. Anderson. That is fat.
- Yes, it is.
Why don't we go to your office and start planning right now?
- Well, I'm busy right now.
- Oh, well, I'm not gonna let you get away that easily.
Come on.
Listen, did you say I was fat? (audience laughing)
- That's just an expression.
- Oh.
- Ey yo, Chris, your mom's is all over Noble
like graffiti on the subway.
- Why are you laughing?
You're next Mr. star attraction.
- Uh-uh. No way. Not Jamal.
Nobody's running me unless I want to be run.
- Oh, Jamal, I almost forgot.
Keep your afternoons free.
We're gonna practice every day.
Bye (audience laughing)
- Dawn, can you pass me a napkin?
- Al, that's your third napkin.
Do you really need to waste all that paper?
- Yeah. What's paper ever done for me?
- The boy has a point Dawn, counterpoint?
- Yes.
See it's that exact attitude that leads
to destruction of trees on the face of the planet.
No trees, no oxygen, no oxygen, no us.
Your abuse of napkins will lead to the end of mankind.
- Dawn, calm down and tell the voices,
"No." (audience laughing)
- There he is.
Let me shake the hand of the man
whose got my mother off my back.
Hey, you know, I'm bringing you something back
from the Eric Clapton concert.
How does a fluorescent headband sound?
- Sound like something you'd wear.
- You're going to the Eric Clapton concert with who?
Do you have any extra tickets?
- Well, actually see I'm already...
- He's going with his mama. (audience laughing)
- His mommy's gonna be his date.
Isn't that sweet, y'all?
- Great news about the fundraiser kids.
Karen, why don't you tell them?
- Well... - Well, Ms Noble
and I have worked out all the details
and you are all invited.
- Oh, yeah.
- Now I promised Mrs. Anderson she'd have a little help
from you guys.
- Oh Karen. You and I can do this ourselves.
- Oh golly burps.
As much fun as that sounds, I'm gonna have to bag off.
Now, I'm sure we'll find someone here
who volunteer to help you.
- Oh, Ms. Noble, Ms. Noble.
- Oh, Dawn. (audience laughing)
- You know, I didn't even think of you.
You two are going to make a great team.
Bye bye.
- Mrs. Anderson, this is gonna be great.
How does this strike you,
to conserve paper, we'll email invitations.
- Oh, wonderful. I'll get the stamps.
And I'll see the rest of you at the fund raiser
on Saturday night.
- Sure.
- Saturday night?
That's the night of the Eric Clapton concert.
- Oh honey.
Well, we'll go another time.
- But it's the last night of his tour.
- Chris, would you rather go to a concert
or help your school?
- Gee, mom, that's a tough one.
- All right, we'll talk about it later.
I've gotta go see the florist.
- Oh, Mrs. Anderson, I should definitely go with you.
See, I have this great idea; Edible flowers.
The centerpiece could be a salad.
Toss that one around. (audience laughing)
- Don't you have homework to do or something?
- No. I'm weeks ahead. I am all yours.
Now let's go. (audience laughing)
(cheerful music) (vacuum whirling)
- Mom. I have a great idea.
How about if you have the fundraiser
and also sacrifice and go to the concert without you?
- Chris, don't you wanna help raise money for your school?
Come on, where's your sense of loyalty?
- Loyalty? I am a teenager, not a dog.
- Mrs. Anderson, I'm having a slight prom
in the kitchen with the cater.
He seems to wanna serve all Japanese food.
- Well Kiyoshi is Japanese.
- That's no excuse. He should be more flexible.
We're gonna have to fire him.
- We? Dawn, the man is doing me a favor.
He cooks for royalty.
- Well that's obvious, he is a royal pain.
I mean, Sushi this, Sushi that.
- Dawn, I need you two to get along.
Now go back and approach Kiyoshi,
with kindness, not anger.
- Mrs. Anderson, you are so wise.
When I get old, I wanna be just like you.
- Mr. Jamal Grant is in the house.
(audience screaming)
- Nice try, Jenkins,
but it's house. (audience laughing)
- Forgive me, I'm not fluent in hippity hop.
- Good, Jamal, you're here.
We can get started.
I'll go get the music so we could practice.
- Jamal, I can't believe you're really here.
- Believe it.
Your mom invited me over to practice on the piano.
Not that I need to practice or anything.
- Mom's really got to you hyped, Huh?
- What? Boy, this ain't no hype.
I'm the man.
You see in my time there might be many,
but when I'm gone, there won't be any.
- Well, let's get going.
We only have a few days to get you ready
and I would hate to have to postpone the fundraiser.
- Postpone the fundraiser?
Oh no, we couldn't let that happen.
- Okay, Jamal.
I thought that we could get started
with some classical music.
- Classical music?
Well, I thought I'd play a little something like this.
(upbeat music)
- Aw, you know, that's really wonderful.
But I really think that we should get started on this.
Okay? - Okay.
(dramatic music)
- Hi, you've reached the Anderson's.
We're not here right now...
- My man, what are you doing?
- Making a new telephone message.
Keep playing, I need a little background music.
- Christopher, you're interrupting us dear.
Couldn't you do that later?
- Sure. I'm sorry.
- Hey man, what's the matter with you?
- Now look, you got dirt everywhere.
- I'm sorry. Let me clean this up.
- Oh, gosh. (audience laughing)
- Christopher just stop at this minute.
- Hold on mom,
I'm just cleaning this (speaker drowned out by laughter).
- All right, that is enough.
No more interruptions.
Just go upstairs.
- Okay. Fine.
- Finally. A Little peace and quiet.
Oh, where were we Jamal?
(speaking in foreign language)
- Whatever he...
(speaking in foreign language)
- Whatever he is saying, it is not true.
This man obviously has some angry issues,
he needs to work out.
(Kiyoshi speaking in foreign language)
- I'm not listening, I'm not listening,
La-la-la... (speaker drowned out by laughter)
- I don't know what I'm gonna do Al.
I have absolutely nothing fancy enough
to wear to the fundraiser.
- Don't sweat at Cassidy.
I crashed a lot of these shi-shi parties,
just wear comfortable clothes
and a good pair of jogging shoes
so you could outrun security. (audience laughing)
Ey-yo money.
What's up with the formal gear?
- Oh, Ms. Anderson rented it for me.
And might I say, Jamal gonn' look the bomb in it.
- Wait, did you say my mother rented that for you?
Man, you are falling right into her trap.
- What trap?
Oh, you mean a trap where she gives me things
and makes me star of the show.
Okay. Ooh, I better watch out.
- She is buying you man.
- No, I believe she's buying for me.
- Oh wow. What a sellout.
Don't you have any pride?
- Yeah. And it's gonna look great.
Cause see this very expensive tuxedo,
is gonna set it off just right.
See you at the fundraiser kid.
(dramatic music)
- Ah, good evening, sir.
Welcome to the fundraiser.
May I take your coat?
- Step off, man. Get your own coat.
- Shrimp?
- Yes, he is.
Bit of a crab too. (audience laughing)
- Cassidy,
I want you to meet the caterer, Kiyoshi.
The one I've been having all those problems with.
- Hi. It's nice to meet you.
- I forgot to tell you.
He doesn't speak a word of English, watch;
everything you make stinks.
(speaks foreign language) (audience laughing)
- See. I'm gonna go mingle.
Have fun you two.
- These 'ordeves, mm...
Yum yum. Mm. (audience laughing)
- Lady, I speak English.
But don't tell your friend,
she's driving me wacko. (audience laughing)
- Mr. Jamal Grant has returned
and is in the, how do you say?
His house.
- Bravo Jenkins. You got it. (audience laughing)
- Excuse me,
are you Queen Latifa? (audience laughing)
- No. I'm not.
- Aw, but your face, it looks so familiar.
Of course you will be Whoopi Goldberg.
- No. No. Wrong hair style.
- No, wait. I've got it.
You played Weezy on the Jefferson's.
- Actually, I'm Maya Angelou.
And I have to go and write a poem about you.
Excuse me. (audience laughing)
- Well, and after college, I plan on volunteering
at the Greenpiece for about two years.
You know, we must save those whales.
- Young lady. I, I simply asked where the bathroom was.
- Oh, there's my star.
Oh Jamal. You look so handsome.
Are you ready?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- All right.
Attention ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to introduce our guest of honor,
Mr. Jamal Grant. (crowd applauding)
Would you like to hear some music?
- [Woman] Yes.
- Your audience awaits.
- My first selection of the evening is,
the "First Movement of Bach's Prelude in C Major."
(piano music) (guitar music)
- Christopher!
What on earth are you doing up there?
- Just practicing my guitar.
Oh, don't worry. You're not bothering me.
(upbeat rock music)
- All right. I want you to stop that this minute.
Now you're ruining my party.
- Oh, right, right. Your party.
Yeah. Wouldn't wanna ruin that.
That's all that really matters, huh, mom?
Thank you very much everybody.
Good night. Drive safely.
(somber music)
(upbeat music)
- Chris?
- Ms. Noble.
- Who did you think it was?
And if you say Weezy from "The Jefferson's",
you're in big trouble. (audience laughing)
- I'm already in big trouble
if my mom sent you to track me down.
- Nobody sent me.
Ooh.
Now, look Chris...
- No heart-to-heart talks Ms. Noble.
I am not in the mood.
- Well you better get in the mood
because you're gonna have one.
And if you make me chase you down park avenue
in these new shoes that are killing my feet,
you'll really be in some big trouble.
So you bring your narrow butt back on over here
and sit down and do it. (audience laughing)
- Now look, Chris.
I know you didn't like your mother making
such a big fuss over Jamal
but she didn't mean to at your feelings.
- No...
Why didn't she take me to that concert then?
- Oh, is that what this is really all about?
- She doesn't care.
- Oh yes, she does.
She just shows it in different ways than you want.
Maybe her having this fundraiser for the school
is her way of doing something nice for you.
- Yeah, well that's stupid.
- Huh? And the way you acted upstairs wasn't stupid?
- No, you don't understand.
- Oh, I do understand.
She hurt your feelings.
- No, I was mad.
She broke her promise.
- Well, I don't need to hear that.
She does. (guitar chimes)
Yeah.
(audience laughing) (serene music)
(audience cheering) (crowd applauding)
- That was great, Jamal.
Or as my mom would say, "Bravo."
- You mean that Chris?
- Yeah. And I'm sorry I messed things up for you before.
And I'm sorry everybody for what I did earlier,
don't let that affect how much money you give.
And I'm sorry, mom.
I got angry when you broke your promise.
I really wanted to go to that concert.
- Well, I'm sorry too, Chris.
I didn't realize how much that concert meant to you.
- I guess what I'm saying is, sometimes it feels
like your causes are more important to you
than I am.
- Oh honey. That's not the truth.
Oh, nothing in the world is more important
to me than you are.
And I promise that I will do my best not to let anything get
in the way of our relationship.
Okay?
I'm sorry.
- Hey, uh, Chris, you wanna play a song together?
- After I treated you like such a jerk?
- Hey, you've been a drink before
but you've never apologized before.
- You know, this feels really good.
How about a group hug?
- No, thanks. We gotta play a song.
- Okay. That's fat. (audience laughing)
- Shit, I'm tired of playing this long haired stuff.
Let's rock the house.
2, 3, 4. Hit it.
(upbeat music) (crowd clapping)
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and streetwise ♪
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and streetwise ♪
♪ City Guys pose those looks in street clothes ♪
♪ It's all good coming from city people ♪
♪ They're all the same, open up your eyes ♪
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and streetwise. ♪
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and street wise ♪
♪ Check the school from class to the playground ♪
♪ You'll make it there if you just stay 'round ♪
♪ The right crowd. Come on, sign it loud ♪
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and streetwise ♪
♪ C-I-T-Y
♪ You can see why these guys
♪ The neat guys, smart and street wise ♪
♪ City wide
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ City wide
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ City wide
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ City wide
♪ Roll with the City Guys
♪ City Guys, City Guys, Citi Guys, City Guys ♪
(upbeat music)
- And so, to make this long story short...
- Too late for that.
- A zero trash policy not only means a cleaner school,
but a happier you and me.
- You know what would make me happy right now, Dawn?
- A zero Dawn policy.
I'll be leaving now. (audience laughing)
- Hello Mrs. Anderson
- Please excuse me Ms. Noble.
I am sorry I'm so late.
I was dedicating a senior citizen center
and they just took forever walking me to my car.
- Well, that's quite all right Mrs. Anderson,
I can't tell you how much I wanted to meet Chris' mom.
- Oh, and I wanted to meet the Karen Noble
that Chris is always talking about.
- Oh, really?
It's so nice to know your students
are saying good things about you.
- But I didn't say it was good.
- You're not helping, mom.
- Please have a seat.
Now, according to this, Chris is passing all of his classes
with a C average.
- Yes.
- That's wonderful news.
- Wonderful?
You're happy with a C average?
- Ah, ecstatic.
Up until now he's had all Ds.
- Perhaps he is making progress.
- Absolutely.
You Chris, you deserve a reward.
Hey, how would you like to go
to the Eric Clapton concert this weekend?
- Eric Clapton? All right.
- As a matter of fact, we'll go together together.
- Together, like you and me?
Okay. That's good.
- Concert tickets for Cs,
that's very interesting.
- Ms. Noble you deserve a reward too.
But what I mean is that educators like you,
are underappreciated.
- I say the same thing every time I look
at my paycheck. (audience laughing)
- Well, I would like to show my appreciation.
- Oh no. That's quite all right.
- No, I insist.
- Oh, you don't have to.
- I won't take no for an answer.
- Oh yes. That's becoming very obvious.
- How about if I become a volunteer here at Manhattan High?
- No, no bad idea, mom.
- Why?
- Because, because you're already so busy.
I mean, what about all those charities
you waste your time on?
I mean, get involved with. (audience laughing)
- I would just hate to steal you away.
- Oh, think nothing about it.
Ms. Noble.
Why don't we go find something worthy
for me to do around here. Come on.
- Oh, gee. That's going to be great fun.
- Noble and my mom under one roof.
Lucky me.
(audience laughing) (dramatic music)
- Check it out, Jamal.
The keyboard of your dream.
- Yeah, I hope so.
The last one you tried to sell me was missing half the keys.
- I was giving it to you for half the price.
Just try it out.
- All right, man.
Al, it ain't working.
Why am I not surprised?
- This is a very delicate piece of machinery.
Let me turn it on.
You got the power. (audience laughing)
- And this is the rooftop.
The students like to hang around up here
and pretend they're doing their homework.
- Well, I love how they've decorated it.
Oh my goodness.
That's the biggest cockroach I've ever seen.
- That's not a cockroach.
That's a prune, with legs. (audience laughing)
(cheerful music)
- Bravo Jamal.
(audience applauding) (audience cheering)
- That was marvelous.
- Oh yes, absolutely marvelous. Thank you, Jamal.
And thank you mom for visiting the school.
See you at home.
- Ms. Noble, your music department has a budding star.
- Well, I wish we could take the credit for that
but budget cuts killed our music years ago.
- Ah, well, how did you learn to play so well?
- Well, my mom taught me.
She was our music director at our church.
- Talent like this deserves a real chance,
with real instruments.
- Real instruments?
I'll have you know that this fell off
the back of a very classy delivery truck.
- Ms. Noble,
I would like to have a fundraiser
and get Manhattan High a music department.
- Mrs. Anderson, you would do that for this school?
- Of course.
And Jamal, you are going to be our star attraction.
- Star? Oh yeah.
I like the sound of that.
And could you make sure
there's a whole lot of young adoring female fans
in the audience?
- Mrs. Anderson. That is fat.
- Yes, it is.
Why don't we go to your office and start planning right now?
- Well, I'm busy right now.
- Oh, well, I'm not gonna let you get away that easily.
Come on.
Listen, did you say I was fat? (audience laughing)
- That's just an expression.
- Oh.
- Ey yo, Chris, your mom's is all over Noble
like graffiti on the subway.
- Why are you laughing?
You're next Mr. star attraction.
- Uh-uh. No way. Not Jamal.
Nobody's running me unless I want to be run.
- Oh, Jamal, I almost forgot.
Keep your afternoons free.
We're gonna practice every day.
Bye (audience laughing)
- Dawn, can you pass me a napkin?
- Al, that's your third napkin.
Do you really need to waste all that paper?
- Yeah. What's paper ever done for me?
- The boy has a point Dawn, counterpoint?
- Yes.
See it's that exact attitude that leads
to destruction of trees on the face of the planet.
No trees, no oxygen, no oxygen, no us.
Your abuse of napkins will lead to the end of mankind.
- Dawn, calm down and tell the voices,
"No." (audience laughing)
- There he is.
Let me shake the hand of the man
whose got my mother off my back.
Hey, you know, I'm bringing you something back
from the Eric Clapton concert.
How does a fluorescent headband sound?
- Sound like something you'd wear.
- You're going to the Eric Clapton concert with who?
Do you have any extra tickets?
- Well, actually see I'm already...
- He's going with his mama. (audience laughing)
- His mommy's gonna be his date.
Isn't that sweet, y'all?
- Great news about the fundraiser kids.
Karen, why don't you tell them?
- Well... - Well, Ms Noble
and I have worked out all the details
and you are all invited.
- Oh, yeah.
- Now I promised Mrs. Anderson she'd have a little help
from you guys.
- Oh Karen. You and I can do this ourselves.
- Oh golly burps.
As much fun as that sounds, I'm gonna have to bag off.
Now, I'm sure we'll find someone here
who volunteer to help you.
- Oh, Ms. Noble, Ms. Noble.
- Oh, Dawn. (audience laughing)
- You know, I didn't even think of you.
You two are going to make a great team.
Bye bye.
- Mrs. Anderson, this is gonna be great.
How does this strike you,
to conserve paper, we'll email invitations.
- Oh, wonderful. I'll get the stamps.
And I'll see the rest of you at the fund raiser
on Saturday night.
- Sure.
- Saturday night?
That's the night of the Eric Clapton concert.
- Oh honey.
Well, we'll go another time.
- But it's the last night of his tour.
- Chris, would you rather go to a concert
or help your school?
- Gee, mom, that's a tough one.
- All right, we'll talk about it later.
I've gotta go see the florist.
- Oh, Mrs. Anderson, I should definitely go with you.
See, I have this great idea; Edible flowers.
The centerpiece could be a salad.
Toss that one around. (audience laughing)
- Don't you have homework to do or something?
- No. I'm weeks ahead. I am all yours.
Now let's go. (audience laughing)
(cheerful music) (vacuum whirling)
- Mom. I have a great idea.
How about if you have the fundraiser
and also sacrifice and go to the concert without you?
- Chris, don't you wanna help raise money for your school?
Come on, where's your sense of loyalty?
- Loyalty? I am a teenager, not a dog.
- Mrs. Anderson, I'm having a slight prom
in the kitchen with the cater.
He seems to wanna serve all Japanese food.
- Well Kiyoshi is Japanese.
- That's no excuse. He should be more flexible.
We're gonna have to fire him.
- We? Dawn, the man is doing me a favor.
He cooks for royalty.
- Well that's obvious, he is a royal pain.
I mean, Sushi this, Sushi that.
- Dawn, I need you two to get along.
Now go back and approach Kiyoshi,
with kindness, not anger.
- Mrs. Anderson, you are so wise.
When I get old, I wanna be just like you.
- Mr. Jamal Grant is in the house.
(audience screaming)
- Nice try, Jenkins,
but it's house. (audience laughing)
- Forgive me, I'm not fluent in hippity hop.
- Good, Jamal, you're here.
We can get started.
I'll go get the music so we could practice.
- Jamal, I can't believe you're really here.
- Believe it.
Your mom invited me over to practice on the piano.
Not that I need to practice or anything.
- Mom's really got to you hyped, Huh?
- What? Boy, this ain't no hype.
I'm the man.
You see in my time there might be many,
but when I'm gone, there won't be any.
- Well, let's get going.
We only have a few days to get you ready
and I would hate to have to postpone the fundraiser.
- Postpone the fundraiser?
Oh no, we couldn't let that happen.
- Okay, Jamal.
I thought that we could get started
with some classical music.
- Classical music?
Well, I thought I'd play a little something like this.
(upbeat music)
- Aw, you know, that's really wonderful.
But I really think that we should get started on this.
Okay? - Okay.
(dramatic music)
- Hi, you've reached the Anderson's.
We're not here right now...
- My man, what are you doing?
- Making a new telephone message.
Keep playing, I need a little background music.
- Christopher, you're interrupting us dear.
Couldn't you do that later?
- Sure. I'm sorry.
- Hey man, what's the matter with you?
- Now look, you got dirt everywhere.
- I'm sorry. Let me clean this up.
- Oh, gosh. (audience laughing)
- Christopher just stop at this minute.
- Hold on mom,
I'm just cleaning this (speaker drowned out by laughter).
- All right, that is enough.
No more interruptions.
Just go upstairs.
- Okay. Fine.
- Finally. A Little peace and quiet.
Oh, where were we Jamal?
(speaking in foreign language)
- Whatever he...
(speaking in foreign language)
- Whatever he is saying, it is not true.
This man obviously has some angry issues,
he needs to work out.
(Kiyoshi speaking in foreign language)
- I'm not listening, I'm not listening,
La-la-la... (speaker drowned out by laughter)
- I don't know what I'm gonna do Al.
I have absolutely nothing fancy enough
to wear to the fundraiser.
- Don't sweat at Cassidy.
I crashed a lot of these shi-shi parties,
just wear comfortable clothes
and a good pair of jogging shoes
so you could outrun security. (audience laughing)
Ey-yo money.
What's up with the formal gear?
- Oh, Ms. Anderson rented it for me.
And might I say, Jamal gonn' look the bomb in it.
- Wait, did you say my mother rented that for you?
Man, you are falling right into her trap.
- What trap?
Oh, you mean a trap where she gives me things
and makes me star of the show.
Okay. Ooh, I better watch out.
- She is buying you man.
- No, I believe she's buying for me.
- Oh wow. What a sellout.
Don't you have any pride?
- Yeah. And it's gonna look great.
Cause see this very expensive tuxedo,
is gonna set it off just right.
See you at the fundraiser kid.
(dramatic music)
- Ah, good evening, sir.
Welcome to the fundraiser.
May I take your coat?
- Step off, man. Get your own coat.
- Shrimp?
- Yes, he is.
Bit of a crab too. (audience laughing)
- Cassidy,
I want you to meet the caterer, Kiyoshi.
The one I've been having all those problems with.
- Hi. It's nice to meet you.
- I forgot to tell you.
He doesn't speak a word of English, watch;
everything you make stinks.
(speaks foreign language) (audience laughing)
- See. I'm gonna go mingle.
Have fun you two.
- These 'ordeves, mm...
Yum yum. Mm. (audience laughing)
- Lady, I speak English.
But don't tell your friend,
she's driving me wacko. (audience laughing)
- Mr. Jamal Grant has returned
and is in the, how do you say?
His house.
- Bravo Jenkins. You got it. (audience laughing)
- Excuse me,
are you Queen Latifa? (audience laughing)
- No. I'm not.
- Aw, but your face, it looks so familiar.
Of course you will be Whoopi Goldberg.
- No. No. Wrong hair style.
- No, wait. I've got it.
You played Weezy on the Jefferson's.
- Actually, I'm Maya Angelou.
And I have to go and write a poem about you.
Excuse me. (audience laughing)
- Well, and after college, I plan on volunteering
at the Greenpiece for about two years.
You know, we must save those whales.
- Young lady. I, I simply asked where the bathroom was.
- Oh, there's my star.
Oh Jamal. You look so handsome.
Are you ready?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- All right.
Attention ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to introduce our guest of honor,
Mr. Jamal Grant. (crowd applauding)
Would you like to hear some music?
- [Woman] Yes.
- Your audience awaits.
- My first selection of the evening is,
the "First Movement of Bach's Prelude in C Major."
(piano music) (guitar music)
- Christopher!
What on earth are you doing up there?
- Just practicing my guitar.
Oh, don't worry. You're not bothering me.
(upbeat rock music)
- All right. I want you to stop that this minute.
Now you're ruining my party.
- Oh, right, right. Your party.
Yeah. Wouldn't wanna ruin that.
That's all that really matters, huh, mom?
Thank you very much everybody.
Good night. Drive safely.
(somber music)
(upbeat music)
- Chris?
- Ms. Noble.
- Who did you think it was?
And if you say Weezy from "The Jefferson's",
you're in big trouble. (audience laughing)
- I'm already in big trouble
if my mom sent you to track me down.
- Nobody sent me.
Ooh.
Now, look Chris...
- No heart-to-heart talks Ms. Noble.
I am not in the mood.
- Well you better get in the mood
because you're gonna have one.
And if you make me chase you down park avenue
in these new shoes that are killing my feet,
you'll really be in some big trouble.
So you bring your narrow butt back on over here
and sit down and do it. (audience laughing)
- Now look, Chris.
I know you didn't like your mother making
such a big fuss over Jamal
but she didn't mean to at your feelings.
- No...
Why didn't she take me to that concert then?
- Oh, is that what this is really all about?
- She doesn't care.
- Oh yes, she does.
She just shows it in different ways than you want.
Maybe her having this fundraiser for the school
is her way of doing something nice for you.
- Yeah, well that's stupid.
- Huh? And the way you acted upstairs wasn't stupid?
- No, you don't understand.
- Oh, I do understand.
She hurt your feelings.
- No, I was mad.
She broke her promise.
- Well, I don't need to hear that.
She does. (guitar chimes)
Yeah.
(audience laughing) (serene music)
(audience cheering) (crowd applauding)
- That was great, Jamal.
Or as my mom would say, "Bravo."
- You mean that Chris?
- Yeah. And I'm sorry I messed things up for you before.
And I'm sorry everybody for what I did earlier,
don't let that affect how much money you give.
And I'm sorry, mom.
I got angry when you broke your promise.
I really wanted to go to that concert.
- Well, I'm sorry too, Chris.
I didn't realize how much that concert meant to you.
- I guess what I'm saying is, sometimes it feels
like your causes are more important to you
than I am.
- Oh honey. That's not the truth.
Oh, nothing in the world is more important
to me than you are.
And I promise that I will do my best not to let anything get
in the way of our relationship.
Okay?
I'm sorry.
- Hey, uh, Chris, you wanna play a song together?
- After I treated you like such a jerk?
- Hey, you've been a drink before
but you've never apologized before.
- You know, this feels really good.
How about a group hug?
- No, thanks. We gotta play a song.
- Okay. That's fat. (audience laughing)
- Shit, I'm tired of playing this long haired stuff.
Let's rock the house.
2, 3, 4. Hit it.
(upbeat music) (crowd clapping)