Duck Dynasty (2012–2017): Season 10, Episode 12 - Here Comes the Son - full transcript
After leaving school to pursue music, Jase feels that Reed needs some structure in his life, so he hires him to take his place at Duck Commander.
They call blood
pressure the silent killer.
Have you ever heard
of the silent killer?
Have you heard
of silent but violent?
- Willie.
- Hey, you guys.
- Hey.
- Hey. Korie, how are you?
- Willie, how's it going?
- Good to see you.
Oh, man, I feel great,
I feel like a stallion.
Well, good.
Lately, Korie has been concerned
about my blood pressure.
So she brought me to the
doctor to get it checked out.
Willie doesn't exactly like
going to the doctor, so I mean,
I wouldn't say I
forced him but...
She physically forced me.
I strongly suggested
that he see the doctor.
What concerns me, is your
blood pressure is a little high today.
Now, the good news is
it is definitely correctable.
But you you gotta
start diet and exercise.
Do those together or...?
I decided I better just go along,
because Willie doesn't tell me exactly
what the doctor says, so.
Sometimes things get lost in
translation, if you know what I mean.
What's a typical diet for
you? What's for breakfast?
Maybe sausage, eggs...
- So no oatmeal, whole grain cereal?
- No, no. I've been off oatmeal a while.
- Um...
- Tell me lunch. Fish?
Yeah. Like fried
fish. Fish sticks.
I cook pizza a lot.
Pork chops, I love those.
You got to start eating low fat.
More exercise, any
cardio is what I'm after.
Here are some brochures,
little pamphlets to go over.
Growing up, you have to eat
everything your parents tell you to.
Okay, look, "Remove
skin and fat from chicken."
- That's a good tip. That's an easy...
- What?
You can still eat the
chicken. Just take off this skin.
I'd rather just eat the
skin and take off the meat.
Oh, my goodness.
Then when you get older, your wife
and your doctor tell you what to eat.
At what age do I get to
eat what I want? Like 90?
Says, one percent or skim milk.
Or you can do unflavored soy milk.
Oh, we need to get reduced fat cheeses.
- What?
- Hmm.
That's not cheese.
But according to the doctor, if I
don't change my diet, I may not see 90.
I can't win.
All right, cool.
We'll try to eat less... food
that actually tastes good.
- Willie! This starts now.
- Okay. I'll do grilled chicken.
- Okay.
- Great.
What would I dip that in? Ranch?
- Light ranch.
- That's not ranch.
Call!
Raise it.
I'm gonna be real nice
to ya'll. I'm just gonna call.
Call!
- You scared?
- Nah, I ain't scared.
- Have you looked at your cards?
- No. I don't care.
Shocker.
- All in.
- He said all in.
- All of it.
- You people play crazy.
- All right, come on.
- Let's see if I'm gonna hit...
- Come on!
- Diamond draw.
Queens! Give me that pot!
Reed, you're trying
to bluff your dad.
Reed left school to
pursue his music career,
and he's living at home with
us when he's not on the road.
One of the positives about that,
is he finally gets to join
me at the poker table.
All right, Dad, let
me borrow 20 dollars.
Reed?
Jase, he's a young
struggling artist right now.
Okay, well, you loan him
the next 20 dollars. Yeah.
Don't get me wrong. I'm
all for supporting the arts.
But it does present
us with challenges.
I'm just sayin', look your
mama's been saying,
"What is Reed doing besides
laying around the house?"
Look, I'm just really focusing
on my music right now.
That's a full time job.
You need a part time
job in between gigs.
I have no doubt in my mind that
Reed is gonna make it as a musician...
Do ya'll care if he
re-buys in the tournament?
Your money's good with me!
And when he does,
I'll be in the front row,
with my hand out... saying,
"Remember that night
we were playing poker?"
- Ya'll ready?
- I will make it 600 to go.
What in the world
are you idiots doing?
- I'm all in.
- You just borrowed that money!
- Ya'll ready?
- Yeah.
- Boom!
- Oh, shoot.
Set of tens or a set of eights?
Congrats. You just
won your money back.
Dad, let me borrow 20 dollars.
You need to be doing odd jobs so
you can make your little poker money.
- You know what I mean?
- I'll pay you back.
Put the same thing on the books
for me. Make it an even 40, boys.
No! All right. I'm not an ATM.
Willie!
Whoo! It's smelling
good in here.
Lasagna night.
- I am starving to death.
- Good. I fixed you a plate already.
- Look here.
- Oh, man, that looks good.
- Look at this, huh. How about your mom.
- Fixed you a plate.
- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
- Oh, no.
- Look. It looks really good.
- This, um, ain't lasagna.
- Have you ever had tofu?
I know Korie is trying to help me
by getting to eat whatever this is,
but when everyone else is eating
lasagna and garlic bread in front of you,
that's not dieting,
that's called torture.
- No, it's good. I grilled it.
- Did you grill it with butter?
Well, of course not,
you can't have butter.
- Okay.
- Willie, look, I'm just trying to
follow the doctor's orders.
I'm basically being
lasagna-boarded by my family.
It's good. It's just...
What?
Willie.
Although, when you think about
it, lasagna boarding would mean
being tied to a board with someone
dumping lasagna on your face.
Which, right about
now, sounds like heaven.
Willie, look, I'm looking
out for your best interests.
And look. Look what I did.
What's this supposed to be?
I just locked the snack cabinet
up, that way you're not tempted,
- you can't get in it.
- Korie, I can still get into that.
- You don't know the code.
- I've got crowbars.
Wait, I got another surprise.
And don't try to get
the code out of them.
- This tofu's not that bad.
- Good.
- Better than I thought.
- Okay, look, I got you something.
- A helmet.
- Yeah. So you can start biking to work.
- That is going to be a sight to see.
- That's gonna be fun.
Oh, gosh.
Look how good you look in it.
Awesome. We're in it
together, as a family.
- Thank you for helping me.
- You're welcome.
All right.
- I'm trying to help you!
- Thank you!
- You're welcome.
- Mom, how fast did you eat that bread?
What? Did he steal my bread?!
Willie! Willie
Robertson! Willie!
No, Willie, aquí.
Okay, serious question.
If you had to eat a
cartoon, who would it be?
If I had to choose, give
me Foghorn Leghorn.
- That's a big chicken.
- Is that the one that stutters?
- I say, boy, I say.
- Yeah...
Crap. Fix that door.
Easy big swoll.
What in the world
is that you've got on?
- Doin' some Pilates?
- I rode a bike.
- A what?!
- I rode a bike to work.
Do what?
- I'm tired.
- A bike?
What'd you do a
stupid thing like that for?
- Did your truck break down?
- Doctor's orders. To get healthier.
- Do what?
- What sucks, is everybody honks at you.
It's probably because you
was taking up the whole road.
No, they kept saying,
"Get out of the way."
That's what I was talking about.
- Reed. What are you doing here?
- Where's Jase?
- I'm filling in for him.
- For real?
Yeah, I'm trying to
earn extra money.
So he's not working
here anymore.
Well, he is. We're
splitting his salary.
- What's the split?
- Sixty, forty.
- Oh, I'd ask eighty, forty.
- Eighty, forty?
- That doesn't add up, Si.
- What are you talking about?
It adds up to me. I get
eighty, he gets forty.
Hang on, you can't send
somebody else in to work for you.
Why not?
What, is somebody
going to take your place?
You can look the world over and
won't find nobody that can take my place.
With the exception of Willie's
horrendous outfit he had on, all right,
today's been great. Why,
you ask? Hey, I'll let you know.
Reed replaced that idiot Jase.
Hey, I would rather have
his son working here, okay,
and we don't have
to listen to Jase.
- He's not nearly as annoying.
- That is true, it is nice.
Reed is like a breath of fresh air
compared to Jase's dreary demeanor.
If you look up "emo
redneck" in the dictionary,
there would be Jase's
face. I'm telling you.
I will say, I've seen you make
more duck calls than Jase.
- Yeah. I vote, Reed is in.
- I'm with it.
We're not... Ya'll don't get to
vote on who gets to work here.
Plus, when Jase is here,
Willie always gets mad at me.
But hey, with Reed
here, you know,
Willie is mad at Jase
for not being here,
and, look, everything's
turned upside.
How far is Jase
away? Is he bikeable?
Hey, Vance Armstrong,
pipe down, okay.
We took a vote, OK.
The vote is, Reed's in.
You don't get to vote on who
the employees are gonna be, Si.
What are you talking
about? This is America, son.
All right, forget that. Look, Reed
is making good duck calls anyway,
You guys should
be working like Reed.
- But he doesn't know any better yet.
- That's right.
Look, it's his
first day at work.
Reed, do not listen to a word they
say, we'll get this straightened out.
But in the meantime,
keep making duck calls.
Ya'll need to be
more like him, OK.
Oh, come on, I ain't
gettin' that many tattoos.
- Oh, after burner. After burner!
- After burner.
- Hey, be more like Reed.
- Do what?
We'll teach him
everything we know.
Hey, Reed, pump the brakes a
little bit. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
How's this?
There you go!
- You're going to fit right in.
- Yep.
- Let's go home.
- Let's get outta here.
I mean, here's the deal.
Reed did do a lot
better job than Jase did.
He just can't change
the rules of the job.
Reed, you ready? You ready?
- What the heck?
- What the heck?
You can't send your son
up here to take your place.
- He took my shift.
- That's not the way this works, Jase.
- Did you do a good job?
- I did build a lot of duck calls.
He actually did a real good
job. So, that's not the point.
- That is the point.
- We got him a new name.
- It's called "Better Jase."
- That's your nickname?
- Yeah.
- That doesn't make any sense.
What I've noticed about the
guys in the duck call room,
is that whenever I'm not there, the
quality of nicknames goes way down.
- Less annoying.
- He built more than you did.
- He's easier on the eyes.
- And he increased our productivity.
And most of all, he keeps his
mouth shut while he's working.
And he smells better.
I don't know the real
reason for that, it's just a fact.
- He looks better.
- He's got cool tattoos.
He's much more fashionable.
He's better than you
are, so he's Better Jase.
I mean, the best you
can up with is Better Jase?
I got a nickname for you all...
Jealous Jase.
But our name ain't Jase.
Calling them Jase, it...
it doesn't make sense.
It's the same concept.
So when they call Reed, "Better
Jase," they're actually saying
that I did a fantastic
job as a dad.
Now that's a
nickname I can live with.
Reed, he don't distract
us like Jase, okay?
We can actually
get some work done.
He's the most distracting
person on the planet.
Hey, this company would
fold if I didn't do what I do.
No, Si.
All right, look, Reed,
if you want a job,
I can give you a job right now.
Cause you've earned it today.
That be awesome.
I appreciate it.
All right, I need a ride home,
cause I don't have a vehicle.
He rode his bicycle.
Wait till you see his clothes.
I thought the Goodyear Blimp
floated in dressed in spandex.
Reed, you drive the bike home.
It'll be a good exercise for you.
- I'll give you a ride home.
- Good idea.
Better you than me.
Hey, five bucks says he does
it in half the time Willie did.
Mom, those ribs were so good.
- They're awesome.
- Thanks, buddy.
Glad you enjoyed your ribs.
Does anybody want
some super dry potato?
- No.
- You don't like your sweet potato?
You know what, a sweet potato
really needs butter and cinnamon.
That's the great
combination of a sweet potato.
You're doing good on
your diet. I'm proud of you.
How about like caramel dip?
- It's so good.
- No.
Hey, look, I tell you what,
I'll clean up everything.
Why don't you go take a bath,
and let me clean up the kitchen.
- Sounds good.
- Burn more energy.
All right. I'm going
for a bath, kids.
- All right.
- Hey, can we have some ice cream?
Your ribs were your ice cream.
Does anybody know
the combination to this?
- Did mom tell ya'll?
- I know it.
We know it, but we're
not gonna tell you.
- I know it.
- If I said the number four...
- Cold.
- Five?
- Cold.
- One.
- Cold.
- All right, they can't all be cold.
- Something's gotta...
- We can't tell you.
I'm just... I thought it be fun,
like a fun game we could do.
- Cold.
- Like a mystery.
- Like... what is the code?
- Cold.
Cold.
Oh, well, I'll
come back to that.
All right, I'm gonna clean up.
Ya'll didn't even eat all these ribs.
Hey! Hey, what are you
doing? You can't eat...
No...
You think I'm gonna
throw these in the garbage?
Diet or no diet, no
self-respecting Robertson man
can let good ribs go to waste
when others are going hungry.
You can't eat...
Will, there are people
starving all over this planet.
Uh, you are not starving.
After an hour of
watching my family
eat delicious ribs, I
hit my breaking point.
Oh, man.
But let’s be honest here,
eating a tiny bit of rib meat,
isn't going to kill me.
Give it to the dog.
Hey, that dog can
share with his owner.
There's a reason I'm the
owner, and he's the dog.
This is not what it looks like.
On the other hand, Korie catching
me in the act, that just might.
Bella sent me a picture.
Bella, you're grounded.
- Here's the deal.
- Willie!
I'm not throwing perfectly
good ribs in the garbage.
Willie, you gotta
take care of yourself.
We want you to live
like a hundred years old.
If I'm a hundred years
old and I can't eat ribs,
I don't know that I
want to be a hundred.
- All right, I'm gonna go take a bath.
- All right, no more ribs.
- Ya'll help daddy clean up.
- Mom, can we have some ice cream?
Yes.
- Mom said I couldn't eat the ribs.
- No...
She didn't say I
couldn't lick them.
- Put that down!
- I'm lickin' it!
- No licking either!
- How about I just smell 'em?
- Hey, guys.
- Hey, Mom.
- What's daddy doing?
- He's in the man cave.
- Yeah, you've gotta see this.
- What?
- Yea, it's... It's something.
- Oh!
- Hey.
- What are you doing?
- Working out.
- When did you get this?
- I just go it.
- Awesome.
Now I can watch TV, and ride a
bike, and still be in my man cave.
You are set.
Getting caught rib-handed by
Korie, actually kind of made me realize
that I probably should be
taking this diet and exercise plan
a little more seriously.
Good job, babe. How long
has he been doing this?
Two to three...
- What?
- Thirty minutes.
Good job, babe. That's awesome.
Or I could end up in the
hospital for a different reason.
It's called
wife-induced injuries.
- Are you proud of you Daddy?
- Kinda, yeah.
It's awesome, but I'm not sure
you need a helmet
when you're riding inside.
It makes it feel more
natural, like I'm outside.
The truth is, riding a bike is a
lot more fun when you've got TV,
air conditioning, and nobody
yelling "wide load" at you.
- Okay, it's on backwards, babe.
- Always wear a helmet.
In the house? You got a rug
here, I think you'll be all right.
The next time I go to the doctor,
he won't even recognize me.
That's because I'm
getting a new doctor,
but, still, I'm
gonna be healthier.
I'm glad to know you're starting to
follow the diet plan, you're exercising.
All right, guess what. I
have a surprise for dinner.
What?
Chili.
- Oh, yes!
- Yeah.
- Vegetarian chili.
- Ooh.
- With tofurkey.
- Huh? Oh, God.
- What the heck is tofurkey?
- Yeah, what is that?
It tastes like
turkey, but it's tofu.
- I don't like real turkey.
- You have not had my tofurkey chili.
Tofurkey?
There's a reason haven't
had your tofurkey chili.
There's gonna be lots of
beans in it. You like beans.
All right, I'm gonna go make
dinner, you keep peddling.
I'm on a downhill.
- No, there's no down hills.
- No, I just went up a hill.
- There's no down hills.
- I've laid the whole map out.
- Keep peddling. Ya'll come help me.
- It's a big hill.
All right.
- It's tofurkey.
- It tastes like turkey.
I'm gonna order a pizza.
Okay, so I'm dying to know,
how was work yesterday?
We had fun. It was easy.
Ew. It's guts are coming out.
- They're calling him the "Better Jase."
- Better Jase.
Wait, there is no better Jase.
- They said that I look better.
- Wait.
- Don't talk as much.
- Hmm.
- And I smell better.
- Oh... Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know
where they got that from.
You got remember, these guys are,
uh, they're kind of lost without a leader.
So they try to come up
with clever nicknames,
and uh, that one's pretty weak.
Better Jase, I thought
it was pretty good.
That don't even rhyme.
You know, I've always thought I
would like to be a fly on the wall
- in that duck call room.
- Jep breaks wind every five minutes.
Really? Can you, like,
warn us before you do that?
Warning.
They're saying, you smell
better than me, which is true,
but did you get a whiff of Jep?
No, but I got a whiff of Willie
when he came in off that bike.
Yeah.
Willie offered me
a job today, too.
- What?
- A real job.
- Doing what?
- Same thing that they do.
You don't seem
real excited about it.
I just wanna be
able to pay you back.
Reed, duck calls is what I do.
Is that something you think
you can do the rest of your life?
- Probably not.
- I didn't think so.
Especially not
with Si in the room.
Oh, yeah.
I love to build duck calls.
I've been doing it since
I was about this tall.
So, Reed...
- You're fired.
- What? Why?
Is it because they
call me Better Jase?
Nope. I don't want you to be Better
Jase, I want you to be the best Reed.
I just wanted you to
learn the value of a dollar,
not defer your
dreams over 40 bucks.
I want my kids to
follow in my footsteps.
But... my footsteps are,
I'm doing what I love to do.
You're an artist, you're a singer.
That's what you need to do.
If you can make a living doing what
you love to do, oh, you're set for life.
So you want me to get
a job, so you hire me.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Then you fire me.
Mmm-hmm.
Sometimes you
have to work at things
that you don't
particularly enjoy
in order to pursue the
things that you really love.
- True.
- And that's good work ethic.
And that's what we're
trying to teach you.
Okay, well I thought this gonna
be a perfect thing for him to do
in between gigs, for
him to make money.
- So now what?
- Well, I'm glad you asked.
- 'Cause I have another idea.
- Great.
Oh, no, you're gonna love this.
Oh, gosh. Really?
Well, not that.
All right, where we going?
- Right here.
- Right here?
- This is it. This is the stage.
- There's no one here.
All right, we're here to
see Better Jase, let's go.
Are ya'll still on that?
Reed, what's up
with the barefoot look?
- It's part of my image, you know.
- Part of your image.
When I go fishing,
I take my shoes off.
It's how God intended it.
- So this is it?
- I guess. That's what he said.
You're not getting
it. This is busking.
You know how
started out doing this?
BB King. Rod Stewart.
You know what
they got in common?
- They both wear shiny clothes?
- They both have huge hair.
They're both not Asian.
No, I just told you.
They started out
playing on the street.
And just like building duck
calls, you gotta call ducks.
You're gonna call people
with this guitar and your talent.
All right, there's plenty
of potential viewers.
We'll go see if can't round
some people up, huh?
- Open that thing up and start playing.
- Okay. Start playing, and they'll come.
All right.
Ya'll wanna come listen?
Free concert, right here.
There's a guy right there.
Thank you, Godwin.
Hey, they're fixin'
to play right here.
Look, hey, here
come some right here.
Look at that. I told you. All you
gotta do is start and they will come.
As long as I'm playing music, I'm happy,
but it does make you feel a little bit
better when people started
coming in to listen, you know.
I think some of that had
to do with the no shoes.
I think you were doing
that just to be cool, but...
I think people thought, "Man,
this guy needs a pair of shoes."
It's all part of the plan.
♪ So tonight Oh tonight
♪ I ain't lovin' you
It's also nice to have parents
like you guys that are going to
let me pursue my dreams,
and do what I love to do.
Well, we're proud of you.
You're doing what you love,
you showed some courage.
I think the future is bright.
Yeah.
Thank you, Mia.
Thank you, thank you.
Father, we're so
thankful for this family.
Thank you for blessing
us like you have.
Father, thank you for our
health and our children.
And, Father, we just
pray that we continue
to be bright lights
for you in this world.
- To Jesus we pray, amen.
- Amen.
Let's get on that bird.
As we journey through life,
we fall into routines
that give us comfort.
But every once in a while, it takes
someone you love to make you
look at things differently.
A new perspective
in life can be the
difference between losing
a few necessary pounds,
or realizing a job
just isn't the right fit.
But in the end, when we
break out of our comfort zone,
we usually learn something
good about ourselves.
Unless you're eating tofu.
Nothing good comes from tofu.
Not one thing.
Mom! Do not tempt
me with that cornbread.
I was just messing with you.
pressure the silent killer.
Have you ever heard
of the silent killer?
Have you heard
of silent but violent?
- Willie.
- Hey, you guys.
- Hey.
- Hey. Korie, how are you?
- Willie, how's it going?
- Good to see you.
Oh, man, I feel great,
I feel like a stallion.
Well, good.
Lately, Korie has been concerned
about my blood pressure.
So she brought me to the
doctor to get it checked out.
Willie doesn't exactly like
going to the doctor, so I mean,
I wouldn't say I
forced him but...
She physically forced me.
I strongly suggested
that he see the doctor.
What concerns me, is your
blood pressure is a little high today.
Now, the good news is
it is definitely correctable.
But you you gotta
start diet and exercise.
Do those together or...?
I decided I better just go along,
because Willie doesn't tell me exactly
what the doctor says, so.
Sometimes things get lost in
translation, if you know what I mean.
What's a typical diet for
you? What's for breakfast?
Maybe sausage, eggs...
- So no oatmeal, whole grain cereal?
- No, no. I've been off oatmeal a while.
- Um...
- Tell me lunch. Fish?
Yeah. Like fried
fish. Fish sticks.
I cook pizza a lot.
Pork chops, I love those.
You got to start eating low fat.
More exercise, any
cardio is what I'm after.
Here are some brochures,
little pamphlets to go over.
Growing up, you have to eat
everything your parents tell you to.
Okay, look, "Remove
skin and fat from chicken."
- That's a good tip. That's an easy...
- What?
You can still eat the
chicken. Just take off this skin.
I'd rather just eat the
skin and take off the meat.
Oh, my goodness.
Then when you get older, your wife
and your doctor tell you what to eat.
At what age do I get to
eat what I want? Like 90?
Says, one percent or skim milk.
Or you can do unflavored soy milk.
Oh, we need to get reduced fat cheeses.
- What?
- Hmm.
That's not cheese.
But according to the doctor, if I
don't change my diet, I may not see 90.
I can't win.
All right, cool.
We'll try to eat less... food
that actually tastes good.
- Willie! This starts now.
- Okay. I'll do grilled chicken.
- Okay.
- Great.
What would I dip that in? Ranch?
- Light ranch.
- That's not ranch.
Call!
Raise it.
I'm gonna be real nice
to ya'll. I'm just gonna call.
Call!
- You scared?
- Nah, I ain't scared.
- Have you looked at your cards?
- No. I don't care.
Shocker.
- All in.
- He said all in.
- All of it.
- You people play crazy.
- All right, come on.
- Let's see if I'm gonna hit...
- Come on!
- Diamond draw.
Queens! Give me that pot!
Reed, you're trying
to bluff your dad.
Reed left school to
pursue his music career,
and he's living at home with
us when he's not on the road.
One of the positives about that,
is he finally gets to join
me at the poker table.
All right, Dad, let
me borrow 20 dollars.
Reed?
Jase, he's a young
struggling artist right now.
Okay, well, you loan him
the next 20 dollars. Yeah.
Don't get me wrong. I'm
all for supporting the arts.
But it does present
us with challenges.
I'm just sayin', look your
mama's been saying,
"What is Reed doing besides
laying around the house?"
Look, I'm just really focusing
on my music right now.
That's a full time job.
You need a part time
job in between gigs.
I have no doubt in my mind that
Reed is gonna make it as a musician...
Do ya'll care if he
re-buys in the tournament?
Your money's good with me!
And when he does,
I'll be in the front row,
with my hand out... saying,
"Remember that night
we were playing poker?"
- Ya'll ready?
- I will make it 600 to go.
What in the world
are you idiots doing?
- I'm all in.
- You just borrowed that money!
- Ya'll ready?
- Yeah.
- Boom!
- Oh, shoot.
Set of tens or a set of eights?
Congrats. You just
won your money back.
Dad, let me borrow 20 dollars.
You need to be doing odd jobs so
you can make your little poker money.
- You know what I mean?
- I'll pay you back.
Put the same thing on the books
for me. Make it an even 40, boys.
No! All right. I'm not an ATM.
Willie!
Whoo! It's smelling
good in here.
Lasagna night.
- I am starving to death.
- Good. I fixed you a plate already.
- Look here.
- Oh, man, that looks good.
- Look at this, huh. How about your mom.
- Fixed you a plate.
- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
- Oh, no.
- Look. It looks really good.
- This, um, ain't lasagna.
- Have you ever had tofu?
I know Korie is trying to help me
by getting to eat whatever this is,
but when everyone else is eating
lasagna and garlic bread in front of you,
that's not dieting,
that's called torture.
- No, it's good. I grilled it.
- Did you grill it with butter?
Well, of course not,
you can't have butter.
- Okay.
- Willie, look, I'm just trying to
follow the doctor's orders.
I'm basically being
lasagna-boarded by my family.
It's good. It's just...
What?
Willie.
Although, when you think about
it, lasagna boarding would mean
being tied to a board with someone
dumping lasagna on your face.
Which, right about
now, sounds like heaven.
Willie, look, I'm looking
out for your best interests.
And look. Look what I did.
What's this supposed to be?
I just locked the snack cabinet
up, that way you're not tempted,
- you can't get in it.
- Korie, I can still get into that.
- You don't know the code.
- I've got crowbars.
Wait, I got another surprise.
And don't try to get
the code out of them.
- This tofu's not that bad.
- Good.
- Better than I thought.
- Okay, look, I got you something.
- A helmet.
- Yeah. So you can start biking to work.
- That is going to be a sight to see.
- That's gonna be fun.
Oh, gosh.
Look how good you look in it.
Awesome. We're in it
together, as a family.
- Thank you for helping me.
- You're welcome.
All right.
- I'm trying to help you!
- Thank you!
- You're welcome.
- Mom, how fast did you eat that bread?
What? Did he steal my bread?!
Willie! Willie
Robertson! Willie!
No, Willie, aquí.
Okay, serious question.
If you had to eat a
cartoon, who would it be?
If I had to choose, give
me Foghorn Leghorn.
- That's a big chicken.
- Is that the one that stutters?
- I say, boy, I say.
- Yeah...
Crap. Fix that door.
Easy big swoll.
What in the world
is that you've got on?
- Doin' some Pilates?
- I rode a bike.
- A what?!
- I rode a bike to work.
Do what?
- I'm tired.
- A bike?
What'd you do a
stupid thing like that for?
- Did your truck break down?
- Doctor's orders. To get healthier.
- Do what?
- What sucks, is everybody honks at you.
It's probably because you
was taking up the whole road.
No, they kept saying,
"Get out of the way."
That's what I was talking about.
- Reed. What are you doing here?
- Where's Jase?
- I'm filling in for him.
- For real?
Yeah, I'm trying to
earn extra money.
So he's not working
here anymore.
Well, he is. We're
splitting his salary.
- What's the split?
- Sixty, forty.
- Oh, I'd ask eighty, forty.
- Eighty, forty?
- That doesn't add up, Si.
- What are you talking about?
It adds up to me. I get
eighty, he gets forty.
Hang on, you can't send
somebody else in to work for you.
Why not?
What, is somebody
going to take your place?
You can look the world over and
won't find nobody that can take my place.
With the exception of Willie's
horrendous outfit he had on, all right,
today's been great. Why,
you ask? Hey, I'll let you know.
Reed replaced that idiot Jase.
Hey, I would rather have
his son working here, okay,
and we don't have
to listen to Jase.
- He's not nearly as annoying.
- That is true, it is nice.
Reed is like a breath of fresh air
compared to Jase's dreary demeanor.
If you look up "emo
redneck" in the dictionary,
there would be Jase's
face. I'm telling you.
I will say, I've seen you make
more duck calls than Jase.
- Yeah. I vote, Reed is in.
- I'm with it.
We're not... Ya'll don't get to
vote on who gets to work here.
Plus, when Jase is here,
Willie always gets mad at me.
But hey, with Reed
here, you know,
Willie is mad at Jase
for not being here,
and, look, everything's
turned upside.
How far is Jase
away? Is he bikeable?
Hey, Vance Armstrong,
pipe down, okay.
We took a vote, OK.
The vote is, Reed's in.
You don't get to vote on who
the employees are gonna be, Si.
What are you talking
about? This is America, son.
All right, forget that. Look, Reed
is making good duck calls anyway,
You guys should
be working like Reed.
- But he doesn't know any better yet.
- That's right.
Look, it's his
first day at work.
Reed, do not listen to a word they
say, we'll get this straightened out.
But in the meantime,
keep making duck calls.
Ya'll need to be
more like him, OK.
Oh, come on, I ain't
gettin' that many tattoos.
- Oh, after burner. After burner!
- After burner.
- Hey, be more like Reed.
- Do what?
We'll teach him
everything we know.
Hey, Reed, pump the brakes a
little bit. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
How's this?
There you go!
- You're going to fit right in.
- Yep.
- Let's go home.
- Let's get outta here.
I mean, here's the deal.
Reed did do a lot
better job than Jase did.
He just can't change
the rules of the job.
Reed, you ready? You ready?
- What the heck?
- What the heck?
You can't send your son
up here to take your place.
- He took my shift.
- That's not the way this works, Jase.
- Did you do a good job?
- I did build a lot of duck calls.
He actually did a real good
job. So, that's not the point.
- That is the point.
- We got him a new name.
- It's called "Better Jase."
- That's your nickname?
- Yeah.
- That doesn't make any sense.
What I've noticed about the
guys in the duck call room,
is that whenever I'm not there, the
quality of nicknames goes way down.
- Less annoying.
- He built more than you did.
- He's easier on the eyes.
- And he increased our productivity.
And most of all, he keeps his
mouth shut while he's working.
And he smells better.
I don't know the real
reason for that, it's just a fact.
- He looks better.
- He's got cool tattoos.
He's much more fashionable.
He's better than you
are, so he's Better Jase.
I mean, the best you
can up with is Better Jase?
I got a nickname for you all...
Jealous Jase.
But our name ain't Jase.
Calling them Jase, it...
it doesn't make sense.
It's the same concept.
So when they call Reed, "Better
Jase," they're actually saying
that I did a fantastic
job as a dad.
Now that's a
nickname I can live with.
Reed, he don't distract
us like Jase, okay?
We can actually
get some work done.
He's the most distracting
person on the planet.
Hey, this company would
fold if I didn't do what I do.
No, Si.
All right, look, Reed,
if you want a job,
I can give you a job right now.
Cause you've earned it today.
That be awesome.
I appreciate it.
All right, I need a ride home,
cause I don't have a vehicle.
He rode his bicycle.
Wait till you see his clothes.
I thought the Goodyear Blimp
floated in dressed in spandex.
Reed, you drive the bike home.
It'll be a good exercise for you.
- I'll give you a ride home.
- Good idea.
Better you than me.
Hey, five bucks says he does
it in half the time Willie did.
Mom, those ribs were so good.
- They're awesome.
- Thanks, buddy.
Glad you enjoyed your ribs.
Does anybody want
some super dry potato?
- No.
- You don't like your sweet potato?
You know what, a sweet potato
really needs butter and cinnamon.
That's the great
combination of a sweet potato.
You're doing good on
your diet. I'm proud of you.
How about like caramel dip?
- It's so good.
- No.
Hey, look, I tell you what,
I'll clean up everything.
Why don't you go take a bath,
and let me clean up the kitchen.
- Sounds good.
- Burn more energy.
All right. I'm going
for a bath, kids.
- All right.
- Hey, can we have some ice cream?
Your ribs were your ice cream.
Does anybody know
the combination to this?
- Did mom tell ya'll?
- I know it.
We know it, but we're
not gonna tell you.
- I know it.
- If I said the number four...
- Cold.
- Five?
- Cold.
- One.
- Cold.
- All right, they can't all be cold.
- Something's gotta...
- We can't tell you.
I'm just... I thought it be fun,
like a fun game we could do.
- Cold.
- Like a mystery.
- Like... what is the code?
- Cold.
Cold.
Oh, well, I'll
come back to that.
All right, I'm gonna clean up.
Ya'll didn't even eat all these ribs.
Hey! Hey, what are you
doing? You can't eat...
No...
You think I'm gonna
throw these in the garbage?
Diet or no diet, no
self-respecting Robertson man
can let good ribs go to waste
when others are going hungry.
You can't eat...
Will, there are people
starving all over this planet.
Uh, you are not starving.
After an hour of
watching my family
eat delicious ribs, I
hit my breaking point.
Oh, man.
But let’s be honest here,
eating a tiny bit of rib meat,
isn't going to kill me.
Give it to the dog.
Hey, that dog can
share with his owner.
There's a reason I'm the
owner, and he's the dog.
This is not what it looks like.
On the other hand, Korie catching
me in the act, that just might.
Bella sent me a picture.
Bella, you're grounded.
- Here's the deal.
- Willie!
I'm not throwing perfectly
good ribs in the garbage.
Willie, you gotta
take care of yourself.
We want you to live
like a hundred years old.
If I'm a hundred years
old and I can't eat ribs,
I don't know that I
want to be a hundred.
- All right, I'm gonna go take a bath.
- All right, no more ribs.
- Ya'll help daddy clean up.
- Mom, can we have some ice cream?
Yes.
- Mom said I couldn't eat the ribs.
- No...
She didn't say I
couldn't lick them.
- Put that down!
- I'm lickin' it!
- No licking either!
- How about I just smell 'em?
- Hey, guys.
- Hey, Mom.
- What's daddy doing?
- He's in the man cave.
- Yeah, you've gotta see this.
- What?
- Yea, it's... It's something.
- Oh!
- Hey.
- What are you doing?
- Working out.
- When did you get this?
- I just go it.
- Awesome.
Now I can watch TV, and ride a
bike, and still be in my man cave.
You are set.
Getting caught rib-handed by
Korie, actually kind of made me realize
that I probably should be
taking this diet and exercise plan
a little more seriously.
Good job, babe. How long
has he been doing this?
Two to three...
- What?
- Thirty minutes.
Good job, babe. That's awesome.
Or I could end up in the
hospital for a different reason.
It's called
wife-induced injuries.
- Are you proud of you Daddy?
- Kinda, yeah.
It's awesome, but I'm not sure
you need a helmet
when you're riding inside.
It makes it feel more
natural, like I'm outside.
The truth is, riding a bike is a
lot more fun when you've got TV,
air conditioning, and nobody
yelling "wide load" at you.
- Okay, it's on backwards, babe.
- Always wear a helmet.
In the house? You got a rug
here, I think you'll be all right.
The next time I go to the doctor,
he won't even recognize me.
That's because I'm
getting a new doctor,
but, still, I'm
gonna be healthier.
I'm glad to know you're starting to
follow the diet plan, you're exercising.
All right, guess what. I
have a surprise for dinner.
What?
Chili.
- Oh, yes!
- Yeah.
- Vegetarian chili.
- Ooh.
- With tofurkey.
- Huh? Oh, God.
- What the heck is tofurkey?
- Yeah, what is that?
It tastes like
turkey, but it's tofu.
- I don't like real turkey.
- You have not had my tofurkey chili.
Tofurkey?
There's a reason haven't
had your tofurkey chili.
There's gonna be lots of
beans in it. You like beans.
All right, I'm gonna go make
dinner, you keep peddling.
I'm on a downhill.
- No, there's no down hills.
- No, I just went up a hill.
- There's no down hills.
- I've laid the whole map out.
- Keep peddling. Ya'll come help me.
- It's a big hill.
All right.
- It's tofurkey.
- It tastes like turkey.
I'm gonna order a pizza.
Okay, so I'm dying to know,
how was work yesterday?
We had fun. It was easy.
Ew. It's guts are coming out.
- They're calling him the "Better Jase."
- Better Jase.
Wait, there is no better Jase.
- They said that I look better.
- Wait.
- Don't talk as much.
- Hmm.
- And I smell better.
- Oh... Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know
where they got that from.
You got remember, these guys are,
uh, they're kind of lost without a leader.
So they try to come up
with clever nicknames,
and uh, that one's pretty weak.
Better Jase, I thought
it was pretty good.
That don't even rhyme.
You know, I've always thought I
would like to be a fly on the wall
- in that duck call room.
- Jep breaks wind every five minutes.
Really? Can you, like,
warn us before you do that?
Warning.
They're saying, you smell
better than me, which is true,
but did you get a whiff of Jep?
No, but I got a whiff of Willie
when he came in off that bike.
Yeah.
Willie offered me
a job today, too.
- What?
- A real job.
- Doing what?
- Same thing that they do.
You don't seem
real excited about it.
I just wanna be
able to pay you back.
Reed, duck calls is what I do.
Is that something you think
you can do the rest of your life?
- Probably not.
- I didn't think so.
Especially not
with Si in the room.
Oh, yeah.
I love to build duck calls.
I've been doing it since
I was about this tall.
So, Reed...
- You're fired.
- What? Why?
Is it because they
call me Better Jase?
Nope. I don't want you to be Better
Jase, I want you to be the best Reed.
I just wanted you to
learn the value of a dollar,
not defer your
dreams over 40 bucks.
I want my kids to
follow in my footsteps.
But... my footsteps are,
I'm doing what I love to do.
You're an artist, you're a singer.
That's what you need to do.
If you can make a living doing what
you love to do, oh, you're set for life.
So you want me to get
a job, so you hire me.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Then you fire me.
Mmm-hmm.
Sometimes you
have to work at things
that you don't
particularly enjoy
in order to pursue the
things that you really love.
- True.
- And that's good work ethic.
And that's what we're
trying to teach you.
Okay, well I thought this gonna
be a perfect thing for him to do
in between gigs, for
him to make money.
- So now what?
- Well, I'm glad you asked.
- 'Cause I have another idea.
- Great.
Oh, no, you're gonna love this.
Oh, gosh. Really?
Well, not that.
All right, where we going?
- Right here.
- Right here?
- This is it. This is the stage.
- There's no one here.
All right, we're here to
see Better Jase, let's go.
Are ya'll still on that?
Reed, what's up
with the barefoot look?
- It's part of my image, you know.
- Part of your image.
When I go fishing,
I take my shoes off.
It's how God intended it.
- So this is it?
- I guess. That's what he said.
You're not getting
it. This is busking.
You know how
started out doing this?
BB King. Rod Stewart.
You know what
they got in common?
- They both wear shiny clothes?
- They both have huge hair.
They're both not Asian.
No, I just told you.
They started out
playing on the street.
And just like building duck
calls, you gotta call ducks.
You're gonna call people
with this guitar and your talent.
All right, there's plenty
of potential viewers.
We'll go see if can't round
some people up, huh?
- Open that thing up and start playing.
- Okay. Start playing, and they'll come.
All right.
Ya'll wanna come listen?
Free concert, right here.
There's a guy right there.
Thank you, Godwin.
Hey, they're fixin'
to play right here.
Look, hey, here
come some right here.
Look at that. I told you. All you
gotta do is start and they will come.
As long as I'm playing music, I'm happy,
but it does make you feel a little bit
better when people started
coming in to listen, you know.
I think some of that had
to do with the no shoes.
I think you were doing
that just to be cool, but...
I think people thought, "Man,
this guy needs a pair of shoes."
It's all part of the plan.
♪ So tonight Oh tonight
♪ I ain't lovin' you
It's also nice to have parents
like you guys that are going to
let me pursue my dreams,
and do what I love to do.
Well, we're proud of you.
You're doing what you love,
you showed some courage.
I think the future is bright.
Yeah.
Thank you, Mia.
Thank you, thank you.
Father, we're so
thankful for this family.
Thank you for blessing
us like you have.
Father, thank you for our
health and our children.
And, Father, we just
pray that we continue
to be bright lights
for you in this world.
- To Jesus we pray, amen.
- Amen.
Let's get on that bird.
As we journey through life,
we fall into routines
that give us comfort.
But every once in a while, it takes
someone you love to make you
look at things differently.
A new perspective
in life can be the
difference between losing
a few necessary pounds,
or realizing a job
just isn't the right fit.
But in the end, when we
break out of our comfort zone,
we usually learn something
good about ourselves.
Unless you're eating tofu.
Nothing good comes from tofu.
Not one thing.
Mom! Do not tempt
me with that cornbread.
I was just messing with you.