The Cosby Show (1984–1992): Season 8, Episode 19 - Cliff and Theo Come Clean - full transcript
Olivia's school project is to write about an adult when they were a child, and she writes about Cliff. Theo turns down a corporate job in California so he can finish graduate school in New York. One of Theo's students finds $600.
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Who's out there? Aah!
Hold it!
Hey, Dad. What are
you doing out here?
Oh, I'm just taking
some topsoil.
You're... taking our dirt?
Dad, it's not for me.
See, we're having a
plant sale at the center.
Consider it a donation. Mom did.
I don't understand why you
have to come here for everything.
Between here and the center,
I know that there's
gotta be 120 empty lots.
You could have dug... Why here?
Dad, I can't go around
stealing public property.
Come on. What's a bag of dirt?
Okay. Go ahead, man.
Take it... Take it all.
And dig a hole deep enough
that you can just
throw me right on in.
Take it, and be my guest.
Tell the people at the center,
"Donated by your father."
Well, Dad, okay. Dig this.
I think I have some news that
might bring you a little bit of comfort.
What?
Well, you remember
the Tartan Company.
Well, they've been
pressuring me to give them
an answer about the job offer.
Yeah. Yeah. Big move.
San Francisco.
Well, I'm turning the job down.
I'm going to go to grad
school like I planned,
and I'm gonna continue
volunteering at the community center.
You're not going?
No.
Clair!
He's not going!
But... But... I mean...
You're staying?
Yes, I'm staying.
Well, of course. You know, I
would have been just as happy
if you were going
to go. Of course.
But you're staying. Yes.
And you're staying in the city,
not in this house?
Yeah. Yeah. No, not now.
Oh, well, then, in
that case, then, uh...
this is on me.
Good morning.
[both] Good morning.
Are you ready?
Ready for what?
Dr. Huxtable, don't
you remember?
We're making a picture
book about you for school.
Oh, that's right. The life
story of a parent or a guardian.
Not the whole life story.
Just what were
you like at age 6?
Yeah, what did you look like?
What did I look like?
I was handsome.
Well, not really handsome.
Sort of, uh... dashing.
Dashing? What does that mean?
Dashing is
handsome, only faster.
Yeah. Yeah.
What are you
drawing? What is that?
Is that... Pardon me.
Is this supposed to be me?
This is the best you
can do is draw... I...
Now, you're gonna have
to do better than this, man.
Dr. Huxtable, Marlon is
the best drawer in my class.
Well, you got some
sad drawers in there.
Now what else can you draw?
I can draw a bike, a
seesaw, and a balloon.
Well, now you're cooking,
because those three things
happen to be the most important
things in my life when I was that age.
That's great! Tell
us about your bike!
Well, I named the bike Bob.
Bob the bike.
Did you ride fast?
Ha! Fast?
Man, let me tell you fast.
I rode so fast that people
in the neighborhood
would say "There
goes Bob and Cliff."
Even if they didn't see me.
Whenever a wind came up, they'd
say, "That must be Bob and Cliff."
I rode so fast, the police said,
"Cliff, we're going to have to
create a special lane for you."
And henceforth came
what is known in America today
as the bike lane.
Where's Bob now?
He's in the Smithsonian.
Bob the bike
is hanging on a right
angle held by two wires
next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
It looks like a rocket.
Thank you very
much, Dr. Huxtable.
Well, you know, there are
other things that I have done.
For instance,
when I was a child, I invented,
what is called today, recess.
Now, in the beginning,
it was called Heathcliff.
I invented that.
Now, you start
to write about it.
Think about those things.
You're not talking to an
ordinary human being.
Hey, hello, honey. How are you?
Heathcliff.
All right. You heard
her. Take a break.
Mrs. Huxtable,
if you were doing a book about
somebody when he was little,
and you don't believe what
he says, what do you do?
Uh, you go to another source.
What's a source?
A source is someone who
knows that person very well.
That would be you!
No, that would be someone
who knew that person
when that person was a child...
I mean, a little boy.
I bet Grandpa Huxtable
would know him.
Let's call and ask him.
And then we'll
take a Heathcliff.
Oh.
I'll dial.
Okay, here you go, Miss
Trumble, and thank you for coming.
Stanley, you know it
takes a very special man
to be so gentle with flowers.
What?
Are you and Rudy still together?
Yes, Letitia, like I
told you last week,
the week before, and
the week before last,
Rudy is still my girlfriend.
Just asking.
Oh! Snap! This is unbelievable!
What's that? Money, man!
There must be at least $500!
Let me see, let me see.
Hey. Yo, that's $600.
Whoa.
Whoa. You're gonna
give it back to him?
Well, yeah. Rahim was
the one who found it.
What he does with
it is his decision.
Well, I'm outta here.
[all talking]
Rahim, I'm sure you would
like to discuss with us, maybe,
what you're gonna do with it.
What's to discuss?
Except that fate has
found Rahim at last!
Well, Rahim, the money
obviously belongs to someone.
Yeah, those look
like initials on that clip.
Y. E. Z.
No, no, see,
those aren't initials.
It's a message from the heavens.
See, I looked up
and silently prayed,
"Is this money really for me?"
And the answer
came thundering down,
"Yes, Rahim, yes."
You're not really
gonna keep the money.
No. See, I'm not gonna keep it.
I'm gonna give it to my father.
It'll make up for some of the
money he lost when he got laid off.
[all talking]
Hold it! Hold it!
I see that we have a
difference of opinions here.
Just a few. But we
have one fact, right?
$600.
Now maybe Rahim
wouldn't mind a little input
from his friends about
what to do with his money.
Okay, I'll hear
just a few opinions.
I think he should keep
it. Thanks for the input.
Stanley, you say
he should keep it.
Yeah.
Let's get this down, all right?
Louise, help me
with the blackboard.
Come on, man!
Not the blackboard!
Yeah, the blackboard!
It's about time you knuckleheads
learn something today.
Okay.
Now, Stanley, you
say he should keep it.
Why do you think Rahim
should keep the money?
Well, I say it's part
of the lost money pool.
What?
That's right. The
lost money pool.
See, when we lose money,
we're making
deposits into the pool.
And when we find money,
we're making a withdraw.
See, Rahim here was swimming
in the deep end of the pool
when the money floated
right into his little hands.
Right, my partner?
Stanley, that's pathetic.
You weren't like this three
months ago before you met Rudy.
[all] Ooh!
Wait a minute. How did
my family get into this?
Well, it may just
be a coincidence,
but Stanley is not the
man I thought he was.
Who asked you to think about me?
Letitia, you think we
should find the owner, right?
Yeah. I agree.
That money could belong to
some poor old lady with 13 cats.
Okay, a cat woman.
Or it could belong
to a drug dealer.
Ah, right. Drug dealer.
Wait a minute.
We don't want the drug
dealer to have it, do we?
What? You're saying that we
don't return the money to the owner
if the owner's a drug dealer?
[all talking]
Or it could be some
poor family's rent money.
Ah. Poor family...
Wait a minute.
What poor person do you know
who carries around a money clip?
My Uncle Franklin carries
a money clip, and he's poor.
Does he carry money in it?
No.
Then it's just a clip.
So you guys are saying that if it's
a rich person, we keep the money,
but if it's a poor
person, we give it back?
[all talking]
Guys, look, it doesn't
matter whose it is.
You know it's not yours, Rahim.
I found it!
Yo, yo, yo, yo! Look,
Letitia's right, man.
We should look for the
owner, no matter who it is.
Really, Eugene?
That's very refreshing.
Well, it is the honorable
thing to do, isn't it?
[all talking]
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Why is it that I'm the only one
telling the truth around here?
You know that if
Theo wasn't here,
you'd all say keep the money.
[all talking]
Excuse me. It think I might
have left something here.
Well, can I help you?
I'm Theo Huxtable.
Yeah. My name is Yasmin Zander.
[groans] [laughs]
Wait a minute. What's
your middle name?
Edward.
[groans]
Yo, Rahim.
[sighs]
Well, here are everything
you ever wanted to know
about young Heathcliff
is right in this box.
All right!
Well, what do you
have, Grandpa Huxtable?
Well, let's see.
Well, here's a
picture of Heathcliff
when he was 8 years
old on Halloween.
He was standing on the front
stoop of our house in Philadelphia.
What's he dressed as?
A cheesesteak hoagie.
A hoagie?
What kind of costume is that?
Well, you have to turn
the picture on its side,
then you get the full effect.
[both] Oh!
Let's see. What else
have we got in here?
Oh. Mm-hmm.
Heathcliff's first
grade report card.
What's that writing on the back?
Oh, that's the
teacher's comments.
"Heathcliff has an
active imagination,
"but has a tendency
to disrupt the class.
"And due to the length
of his presentations,
he has been banned
from Show and Tell."
Ohh, he got in trouble.
Well, now that was only
one side of Heathcliff.
Here's another side.
Here's Heathcliff taking
his first bath in the big tub.
Oh! Dr. Huxtable's naked!
And look at his belly button.
He has an outie!
And look! He's got
that same smile.
Well, Heathcliff always had a
capacity for entertaining himself.
When we put him to bed at
night, he never cried. Mm-mmm.
He would just sit up
in that crib for hours
going "Yabba yabba
yabba yabba yabba yabba."
[both] We saw you
naked! We saw you naked!
What'cha got there, Dad?
Well, these children are
doing a little book about you,
and they wanted to
check some of their facts.
What's this?
Uh, why don't you
read it to them, Dad?
"The Adventures
of Bob and Cliff."
That is correct. Bob and Cliff.
And, uh, if you'll notice
the photograph there...
Oh! Excuse me! Is that
a photograph of me?
And I'm standing
beside Bob the bike.
I can still feel the
wind in my face.
Wait a minute.
You said this bike is
hanging in the Smithsonian.
I... I did not.
I said that I gave the bike
to my friend Tom Smith...
and that the bike is in
the Smith home, man.
But you said it was
hanging there like a rocket.
I said that they put
the bike near a rocker.
But you did say it was hanging
next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
[groans]
I said that the Smith family
moved to St. Louis...
and that is the spirit.
See, you children
don't listen to me.
Yo, Rahim. What's up?
I'll tell you what's up.
10 bucks. That's my reward.
10 bucks!
Well, hey, 10
bucks is... not much.
But listen, it's... it's more
than what you came in with.
Theo, you know things have not
been so great for my family lately.
That money could
have helped us out a lot.
Rahim, the money
wasn't yours to begin with.
But it should have been.
Do you know how
Mr. Zander got that money?
He won it betting on horses.
What Justice.
You're right. There is none.
No. What Justice is
the name of the horse.
Can you believe it? That
was free money to Zander.
And it could have
been free money to me.
It's not right.
Would you feel better if the
money went to homeless people?
Yeah. But the people who
need it most never get it.
Other people get
it, like politicians,
movie stars, ball
players, preachers.
They're all taking
down big bucks.
Yeah, you're right.
But they're not all good people.
Some do drugs. Some steal it.
Some even lie all the time
just to keep their money.
But what does that
have to do with Rahim?
This Rahim? This Rahim
should have kept his mouth shut
and walked out of
here with that money.
But no.
This Rahim is the
last honest fool.
Come on now.
This Rahim is the only
one calling himself a fool.
Say you did take the money.
You took the money home.
What would your
father have done?
First, he would have asked
me where I got the money.
And then he would
have made me return it.
Maybe that's because
he's a fool, too.
Well I guess I
must be a fool, too,
'cause I would have returned it.
So that makes
three of us, right?
And then there's
Deirdre, Letitia, Eugene.
That brings the fool
count up to, what, six?
See, but you
stand there all riled
because you're the only fool
amongst us who had to prove it.
And also, you got
$10 to show for it.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
You just be careful 'cause
Letitia might start liking you.
Oh, man!
Well, hello there.
Hello.
Hello there, my
tiny little scribes.
[both] Yabba yabba
yabba yabba yabba.
What was that all about?
Maybe they're
taking a Heathcliff.
Two innocent 6-year-olds
come to you for a
bit of personal history
for a little project in school.
And what happens?
A 76-year-old man has to drive
40 miles to un-spin your yarns.
Now... Now just hear me out.
Has there been a day in life
when you did not embroider
the truth beyond recognition?
Well, look... didn't
I tell you in 1967...
Yabba yabba yabba
yabba yabba yabba.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Don't leave. Don't
leave. Don't leave, okay?
All right. Now, if you
want me the true story,
then I'll be more than happy
to tell you the true story, okay?
No more kidding around.
What do you think, Marlon?
I don't know.
We've been down this
road so many times before.
If you don't think I'm telling the
truth, then ask Grandpa Huxtable.
Let me say to you what I said
to Cliff's first grade teacher.
Just give him one more chance.
Thank you, Dad,
for then and now.
Okay, tell us your story.
It was 1943.
I was 6 years old,
and we had entered World War II.
I... I actually...
joined in the fight.
You were a soldier
when you were 6?
Actually... I was not a soldier.
However, they asked the
civilians to do certain things.
What did you do?
I was put in charge
of collecting tin foil.
The cigarette packs had
tin foil on top of the paper,
and my job was to take that
and peel off that tin foil.
And I was good at it.
Candy bars were like
that, Cracker Jacks.
And that was my job.
And I'd ball it up
and make a little ball
and then make a
bigger ball and just...
And I'd walk around the city...
And I was always like this,
always looking for tin
foil anywhere I went.
It go so that people in
Philadelphia would say,
"There's Heathcliff, the magnet.
The American patriot."
They did call him
"Heathcliff the magnet."
And he was a patriot. Exactly!
And I collected and
balled up so much,
I had a ball of
tin foil this high.
No, Heathcliff,
it was this high.
Absolutely!
I remember 'cause you
could hardly see over it
when the local paper
took that picture of you.
They you go.
You had your
picture in the paper?
Yes, he did. Anna sent it
to me when I was overseas.
Now, that's a great story!
Yes. So make sure you
write all the facts down,
get everything straight.
Oh! I have a silver crayon.
I'm drawing the tin-foil ball.
Uh, look, son, let
me help you here.
You got to make
it bigger than that.
That ball was big.
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Who's out there? Aah!
Hold it!
Hey, Dad. What are
you doing out here?
Oh, I'm just taking
some topsoil.
You're... taking our dirt?
Dad, it's not for me.
See, we're having a
plant sale at the center.
Consider it a donation. Mom did.
I don't understand why you
have to come here for everything.
Between here and the center,
I know that there's
gotta be 120 empty lots.
You could have dug... Why here?
Dad, I can't go around
stealing public property.
Come on. What's a bag of dirt?
Okay. Go ahead, man.
Take it... Take it all.
And dig a hole deep enough
that you can just
throw me right on in.
Take it, and be my guest.
Tell the people at the center,
"Donated by your father."
Well, Dad, okay. Dig this.
I think I have some news that
might bring you a little bit of comfort.
What?
Well, you remember
the Tartan Company.
Well, they've been
pressuring me to give them
an answer about the job offer.
Yeah. Yeah. Big move.
San Francisco.
Well, I'm turning the job down.
I'm going to go to grad
school like I planned,
and I'm gonna continue
volunteering at the community center.
You're not going?
No.
Clair!
He's not going!
But... But... I mean...
You're staying?
Yes, I'm staying.
Well, of course. You know, I
would have been just as happy
if you were going
to go. Of course.
But you're staying. Yes.
And you're staying in the city,
not in this house?
Yeah. Yeah. No, not now.
Oh, well, then, in
that case, then, uh...
this is on me.
Good morning.
[both] Good morning.
Are you ready?
Ready for what?
Dr. Huxtable, don't
you remember?
We're making a picture
book about you for school.
Oh, that's right. The life
story of a parent or a guardian.
Not the whole life story.
Just what were
you like at age 6?
Yeah, what did you look like?
What did I look like?
I was handsome.
Well, not really handsome.
Sort of, uh... dashing.
Dashing? What does that mean?
Dashing is
handsome, only faster.
Yeah. Yeah.
What are you
drawing? What is that?
Is that... Pardon me.
Is this supposed to be me?
This is the best you
can do is draw... I...
Now, you're gonna have
to do better than this, man.
Dr. Huxtable, Marlon is
the best drawer in my class.
Well, you got some
sad drawers in there.
Now what else can you draw?
I can draw a bike, a
seesaw, and a balloon.
Well, now you're cooking,
because those three things
happen to be the most important
things in my life when I was that age.
That's great! Tell
us about your bike!
Well, I named the bike Bob.
Bob the bike.
Did you ride fast?
Ha! Fast?
Man, let me tell you fast.
I rode so fast that people
in the neighborhood
would say "There
goes Bob and Cliff."
Even if they didn't see me.
Whenever a wind came up, they'd
say, "That must be Bob and Cliff."
I rode so fast, the police said,
"Cliff, we're going to have to
create a special lane for you."
And henceforth came
what is known in America today
as the bike lane.
Where's Bob now?
He's in the Smithsonian.
Bob the bike
is hanging on a right
angle held by two wires
next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
It looks like a rocket.
Thank you very
much, Dr. Huxtable.
Well, you know, there are
other things that I have done.
For instance,
when I was a child, I invented,
what is called today, recess.
Now, in the beginning,
it was called Heathcliff.
I invented that.
Now, you start
to write about it.
Think about those things.
You're not talking to an
ordinary human being.
Hey, hello, honey. How are you?
Heathcliff.
All right. You heard
her. Take a break.
Mrs. Huxtable,
if you were doing a book about
somebody when he was little,
and you don't believe what
he says, what do you do?
Uh, you go to another source.
What's a source?
A source is someone who
knows that person very well.
That would be you!
No, that would be someone
who knew that person
when that person was a child...
I mean, a little boy.
I bet Grandpa Huxtable
would know him.
Let's call and ask him.
And then we'll
take a Heathcliff.
Oh.
I'll dial.
Okay, here you go, Miss
Trumble, and thank you for coming.
Stanley, you know it
takes a very special man
to be so gentle with flowers.
What?
Are you and Rudy still together?
Yes, Letitia, like I
told you last week,
the week before, and
the week before last,
Rudy is still my girlfriend.
Just asking.
Oh! Snap! This is unbelievable!
What's that? Money, man!
There must be at least $500!
Let me see, let me see.
Hey. Yo, that's $600.
Whoa.
Whoa. You're gonna
give it back to him?
Well, yeah. Rahim was
the one who found it.
What he does with
it is his decision.
Well, I'm outta here.
[all talking]
Rahim, I'm sure you would
like to discuss with us, maybe,
what you're gonna do with it.
What's to discuss?
Except that fate has
found Rahim at last!
Well, Rahim, the money
obviously belongs to someone.
Yeah, those look
like initials on that clip.
Y. E. Z.
No, no, see,
those aren't initials.
It's a message from the heavens.
See, I looked up
and silently prayed,
"Is this money really for me?"
And the answer
came thundering down,
"Yes, Rahim, yes."
You're not really
gonna keep the money.
No. See, I'm not gonna keep it.
I'm gonna give it to my father.
It'll make up for some of the
money he lost when he got laid off.
[all talking]
Hold it! Hold it!
I see that we have a
difference of opinions here.
Just a few. But we
have one fact, right?
$600.
Now maybe Rahim
wouldn't mind a little input
from his friends about
what to do with his money.
Okay, I'll hear
just a few opinions.
I think he should keep
it. Thanks for the input.
Stanley, you say
he should keep it.
Yeah.
Let's get this down, all right?
Louise, help me
with the blackboard.
Come on, man!
Not the blackboard!
Yeah, the blackboard!
It's about time you knuckleheads
learn something today.
Okay.
Now, Stanley, you
say he should keep it.
Why do you think Rahim
should keep the money?
Well, I say it's part
of the lost money pool.
What?
That's right. The
lost money pool.
See, when we lose money,
we're making
deposits into the pool.
And when we find money,
we're making a withdraw.
See, Rahim here was swimming
in the deep end of the pool
when the money floated
right into his little hands.
Right, my partner?
Stanley, that's pathetic.
You weren't like this three
months ago before you met Rudy.
[all] Ooh!
Wait a minute. How did
my family get into this?
Well, it may just
be a coincidence,
but Stanley is not the
man I thought he was.
Who asked you to think about me?
Letitia, you think we
should find the owner, right?
Yeah. I agree.
That money could belong to
some poor old lady with 13 cats.
Okay, a cat woman.
Or it could belong
to a drug dealer.
Ah, right. Drug dealer.
Wait a minute.
We don't want the drug
dealer to have it, do we?
What? You're saying that we
don't return the money to the owner
if the owner's a drug dealer?
[all talking]
Or it could be some
poor family's rent money.
Ah. Poor family...
Wait a minute.
What poor person do you know
who carries around a money clip?
My Uncle Franklin carries
a money clip, and he's poor.
Does he carry money in it?
No.
Then it's just a clip.
So you guys are saying that if it's
a rich person, we keep the money,
but if it's a poor
person, we give it back?
[all talking]
Guys, look, it doesn't
matter whose it is.
You know it's not yours, Rahim.
I found it!
Yo, yo, yo, yo! Look,
Letitia's right, man.
We should look for the
owner, no matter who it is.
Really, Eugene?
That's very refreshing.
Well, it is the honorable
thing to do, isn't it?
[all talking]
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Why is it that I'm the only one
telling the truth around here?
You know that if
Theo wasn't here,
you'd all say keep the money.
[all talking]
Excuse me. It think I might
have left something here.
Well, can I help you?
I'm Theo Huxtable.
Yeah. My name is Yasmin Zander.
[groans] [laughs]
Wait a minute. What's
your middle name?
Edward.
[groans]
Yo, Rahim.
[sighs]
Well, here are everything
you ever wanted to know
about young Heathcliff
is right in this box.
All right!
Well, what do you
have, Grandpa Huxtable?
Well, let's see.
Well, here's a
picture of Heathcliff
when he was 8 years
old on Halloween.
He was standing on the front
stoop of our house in Philadelphia.
What's he dressed as?
A cheesesteak hoagie.
A hoagie?
What kind of costume is that?
Well, you have to turn
the picture on its side,
then you get the full effect.
[both] Oh!
Let's see. What else
have we got in here?
Oh. Mm-hmm.
Heathcliff's first
grade report card.
What's that writing on the back?
Oh, that's the
teacher's comments.
"Heathcliff has an
active imagination,
"but has a tendency
to disrupt the class.
"And due to the length
of his presentations,
he has been banned
from Show and Tell."
Ohh, he got in trouble.
Well, now that was only
one side of Heathcliff.
Here's another side.
Here's Heathcliff taking
his first bath in the big tub.
Oh! Dr. Huxtable's naked!
And look at his belly button.
He has an outie!
And look! He's got
that same smile.
Well, Heathcliff always had a
capacity for entertaining himself.
When we put him to bed at
night, he never cried. Mm-mmm.
He would just sit up
in that crib for hours
going "Yabba yabba
yabba yabba yabba yabba."
[both] We saw you
naked! We saw you naked!
What'cha got there, Dad?
Well, these children are
doing a little book about you,
and they wanted to
check some of their facts.
What's this?
Uh, why don't you
read it to them, Dad?
"The Adventures
of Bob and Cliff."
That is correct. Bob and Cliff.
And, uh, if you'll notice
the photograph there...
Oh! Excuse me! Is that
a photograph of me?
And I'm standing
beside Bob the bike.
I can still feel the
wind in my face.
Wait a minute.
You said this bike is
hanging in the Smithsonian.
I... I did not.
I said that I gave the bike
to my friend Tom Smith...
and that the bike is in
the Smith home, man.
But you said it was
hanging there like a rocket.
I said that they put
the bike near a rocker.
But you did say it was hanging
next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
[groans]
I said that the Smith family
moved to St. Louis...
and that is the spirit.
See, you children
don't listen to me.
Yo, Rahim. What's up?
I'll tell you what's up.
10 bucks. That's my reward.
10 bucks!
Well, hey, 10
bucks is... not much.
But listen, it's... it's more
than what you came in with.
Theo, you know things have not
been so great for my family lately.
That money could
have helped us out a lot.
Rahim, the money
wasn't yours to begin with.
But it should have been.
Do you know how
Mr. Zander got that money?
He won it betting on horses.
What Justice.
You're right. There is none.
No. What Justice is
the name of the horse.
Can you believe it? That
was free money to Zander.
And it could have
been free money to me.
It's not right.
Would you feel better if the
money went to homeless people?
Yeah. But the people who
need it most never get it.
Other people get
it, like politicians,
movie stars, ball
players, preachers.
They're all taking
down big bucks.
Yeah, you're right.
But they're not all good people.
Some do drugs. Some steal it.
Some even lie all the time
just to keep their money.
But what does that
have to do with Rahim?
This Rahim? This Rahim
should have kept his mouth shut
and walked out of
here with that money.
But no.
This Rahim is the
last honest fool.
Come on now.
This Rahim is the only
one calling himself a fool.
Say you did take the money.
You took the money home.
What would your
father have done?
First, he would have asked
me where I got the money.
And then he would
have made me return it.
Maybe that's because
he's a fool, too.
Well I guess I
must be a fool, too,
'cause I would have returned it.
So that makes
three of us, right?
And then there's
Deirdre, Letitia, Eugene.
That brings the fool
count up to, what, six?
See, but you
stand there all riled
because you're the only fool
amongst us who had to prove it.
And also, you got
$10 to show for it.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
You just be careful 'cause
Letitia might start liking you.
Oh, man!
Well, hello there.
Hello.
Hello there, my
tiny little scribes.
[both] Yabba yabba
yabba yabba yabba.
What was that all about?
Maybe they're
taking a Heathcliff.
Two innocent 6-year-olds
come to you for a
bit of personal history
for a little project in school.
And what happens?
A 76-year-old man has to drive
40 miles to un-spin your yarns.
Now... Now just hear me out.
Has there been a day in life
when you did not embroider
the truth beyond recognition?
Well, look... didn't
I tell you in 1967...
Yabba yabba yabba
yabba yabba yabba.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Don't leave. Don't
leave. Don't leave, okay?
All right. Now, if you
want me the true story,
then I'll be more than happy
to tell you the true story, okay?
No more kidding around.
What do you think, Marlon?
I don't know.
We've been down this
road so many times before.
If you don't think I'm telling the
truth, then ask Grandpa Huxtable.
Let me say to you what I said
to Cliff's first grade teacher.
Just give him one more chance.
Thank you, Dad,
for then and now.
Okay, tell us your story.
It was 1943.
I was 6 years old,
and we had entered World War II.
I... I actually...
joined in the fight.
You were a soldier
when you were 6?
Actually... I was not a soldier.
However, they asked the
civilians to do certain things.
What did you do?
I was put in charge
of collecting tin foil.
The cigarette packs had
tin foil on top of the paper,
and my job was to take that
and peel off that tin foil.
And I was good at it.
Candy bars were like
that, Cracker Jacks.
And that was my job.
And I'd ball it up
and make a little ball
and then make a
bigger ball and just...
And I'd walk around the city...
And I was always like this,
always looking for tin
foil anywhere I went.
It go so that people in
Philadelphia would say,
"There's Heathcliff, the magnet.
The American patriot."
They did call him
"Heathcliff the magnet."
And he was a patriot. Exactly!
And I collected and
balled up so much,
I had a ball of
tin foil this high.
No, Heathcliff,
it was this high.
Absolutely!
I remember 'cause you
could hardly see over it
when the local paper
took that picture of you.
They you go.
You had your
picture in the paper?
Yes, he did. Anna sent it
to me when I was overseas.
Now, that's a great story!
Yes. So make sure you
write all the facts down,
get everything straight.
Oh! I have a silver crayon.
I'm drawing the tin-foil ball.
Uh, look, son, let
me help you here.
You got to make
it bigger than that.
That ball was big.
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