- [chuckling]
Charlie, uh, what's going on with this get-up?
- YASMINE: Uh, is Dylan having his concert fantasy again
and making you park his fantasy Ferrari?
- No, it's for my social studies class.
We have to do a report on a famous person in history
and dress like them and give you their life story.
- And you chose a parking attendant?
- Uh-huh, he's a really cool parking attendant.
- But what did he do-- - Quit taking my stuff!
- Why? It fits me better!
- Because it's mine's, that's why!
- Consider it payment for always trying
to see your way into my conversations with Bethany.
You butt in, I borrow your stuff.
Sounds like we're even. - Give me my jersey back!
- MYLES: All right, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
slow it down, okay?
Now what's going on between you two?
You guys have been fighting like cats and dogs this whole week.
- I wish she was a cat so then she couldn't wear
my clothes or my shoes that she keeps borrowing!
- And he's always trying to bother me and Bethany
whenever we hang out! - Enough.
Your father's right.
You two have been at it all week.
Not to mention you both have slacked on your chores.
- It's his turn to do the dishes!
- No, it's her turn to take out the trash!
- It's not my turn to take out the trash!
- DYLAN: It's all your fault! Come on now!
- Okay, okay, stop, stop, hey, hey!
[raspy whistling]
I know, I gotta learn how to whistle.
Now look, this is not how we handle things
in this family, all right?
- Yeah, get her, Unc.
- MYLES: Oh, she's getting it.
- Oh, you're getting it too, Dylan.
- Wait, what?
- You're both grounded for the weekend.
- From now until Monday, if it ain't happening here,
you ain't doing it. - BOTH: But I've got plans!
- Would you like to make it two weekends?
- No.
- [knocking on door] - That's what I thought.
- You guys are not going to believe this.
- Hey, Bethany, come on in.
- My dad just did tax work for Queen Star.
- BOTH: Queen Star?
- Yup, and he got tickets for the whole class
to go to her concert this weekend,
with backstage passes!
- This is the best day of our lives so far!
The best day of our lives so far!
- So far.
- DYLAN: The best day, I said, the best day,
'cause today, we're gonna meet Queen Star!
- All right, ha ha! - Star!
- Did you guys say Queen Star? - Yeah!
- And passes? - Yeah!
- MYLES: Oh, wow!
- But not for Dylan and Rebecca because they're grounded!
- Dylan and Rebecca are grounded!
Dylan and Rebecca are grounded! The best day ever!
- DYLAN: ♪ There once was a kid from the city of Chi ♪
♪ Ma knew I was important, not a regular guy ♪
♪ Everybody follow me
♪ I'ma take you on a trip
♪ Buckle up, let's go
♪ I'ma get you all hip
♪ I'm a star
♪ Came up from a block in Chi-Town ♪
♪ Living large
♪ I'm tryna balance school and these bars, came far ♪
♪ Ain't no better feeling
♪ I tell 'em you gon' love Young Dylan ♪
♪ Young Dylan
♪ Young Dylan
♪ I tell 'em you gon' love Young Dylan ♪
- ♪
- Can't believe we're grounded.
I could've given Queen Star my demo.
- Your demo? I'm Queen Star's biggest fan!
She's not only my favorite rapper,
but she's like the coolest role model ever.
It would've been my dream to meet her.
- DYLAN: You know what? This is all your fault.
If you hadn't been borrowing my clothes,
we wouldn't be grounded. - My fault?
If you would just quit bugging me and Bethany,
I wouldn't borrow your stuff! - No, this is your fault.
I was just trying to get my jersey back!
- This is not my fault!
- No, no, it's all your fault.
- All I want to do is hang out with Bethany!
- And all I want to do is get my clothes!
You keep wearing my jersey! Wait!
We need to stop fighting.
This is why we're grounded and can't go to the concert
in the first place.
We need to do something that will get us un-grounded.
- Like what?
- I've got it!
Why don't we do the chores that we didn't do, plus more?
And when they see all we've done, they'll be so happy,
they'll let us go to the concert.
- And we can do our chores together to show them
we're not fighting anymore. - Perfect!
Truce?
- Truce.
- YASMINE: Get me a pair of those.
- MYLES: No, not at all.
Tell me how you really feel about it, huh?
- Oh? - MYLES: What?
- Oh, hey.
We're having so much fun doing our chores,
we didn't even notice you guys. - Really?
- DYLAN: Isn't that right, best cousin ever,
that's wearing my best jersey ever,
and she's looking exquisite in my jersey?
- Yeah, Dylan and I are having way too much fun cleaning.
- Really? - Uh-huh.
And did you see what we did upstairs, too?
- Oh, you mean the deep clean our room suddenly got?
Yeah, we saw it. - And?
- YASMINE: And what?
- DYLAN: And since we did more than our chores,
and we're being nice to each other,
can we go to the concert?
- Nope. - Oh!
I'ma get my demo ready for--
Wait.
Did you guys say no? - Yes.
- Yes, you said no, or yes, we can't go?
- Yes, we said no, you can't go.
Wait, did I get that right?
- Yeah, yeah, you got that right, baby.
Uh, you guys are still grounded. - But why?
- Because you're being punished for the things you did,
and undoing them
isn't suddenly gonna make your punishment go away.
- But, dad, Queen Star's my favorite rapper of all time,
and she's my role model. She teaches me to be confident
and to never give up on my dreams,
things that are important to me.
- Then she should've taught you to do your chores
and respect your cousin.
Then you wouldn't be in this mess.
- But this is my chance to give my demo
to a real-life rap superstar!
- Look, if we let you go, then you wouldn't get that,
and then we will have failed as parents.
- Hey, I'm okay with y'all failing.
We'll just expect you to do better next time.
- Right, we'll let you make up on your parenting skills later.
- [chuckling] Nice try, you two.
Sorry, you're still grounded.
- [Dylan growling]
It's done now. You can give me my jersey back.
- [scoffing] You wish!
- Baby, you feel bad? 'Cause I feel bad.
- I know, I feel bad, too, but you're right.
They need to learn that there are consequences
for their actions, and if we keep letting them
get away without punishment, they won't learn.
- Right.
Charlie!
Just who we wanted to see. - Am I in trouble?
If it's about me ordering all that filet mignon,
it was on sale from Japan,
and your credit card was just laying there.
I have an amazing recipe for Beef Wellington
to try and, well, you know.
- No, it's not about that,
but remind me later to call the credit card people.
- Your father and I wanted to talk to you about your report.
We think as cool as a parking attendant is,
maybe you should focus on
some bigger, more recognizable figures.
- MYLES: Yeah, like George Washington Carver.
He gave us peanut butter.
I mean, come on, how awesome is that?
Can you imagine a world with just jelly sandwiches?
Ooh.
- YASMINE: Or Dizzy Gillespie.
He was this amazing jazz musician
with the craziest looking trumpet
that would make his cheeks flare out like a chipmunk.
- How about we put our heads together
and come up with, you know, a historical figure
that is just a little more interesting than
your parking attendant guy?
- [sighing] Okay, that's cool.
- Awesome.
- Yeah, awesome.
Wow, he really had his heart set on
this parking attendant guy. - Oh, you know Charlie.
He always has that way of looking at things
from a different angle.
- Can't believe they did us like that.
- Can't believe we're gonna miss this concert.
- Maybe we don't have to. - I'm listening.
- I think we could sneak out of here
to get to the concert without them finding out.
We just gotta be slick about it. - You think so?
- You're talking to a kid from the Chi.
You wanna see Queen Star, right? - You know I do.
- Then it's on.
We're sneaking out.
- ♪
- YASMINE: I mean, look. What about him?
- Awful. - You wanted to see us?
- Oh, mm. - Oh.
- Did you guys change your minds?
Are you gonna let us go to the concert?
- No, we're not gonna let you go to the concert!
- [growling] You guys are cruel.
- Then why'd you call us down here?
- Uh, because we're gonna be so busy helping Charlie
with his project, and we have a feeling that
you two might feel like sneaking out.
- Well, we would never.
- Yeah, we intend to take our punishment like adults.
- Mm-hmm!
- [Yasmine chuckling] Be that as it may,
we still think someone should keep an eye on you.
- So I called in Alcatraz.
- Alcatraz?
- Yeah, what's Alcatraz? - I'm Alcatraz.
- BOTH: Grandma?
- They call me Alcatraz 'cause no kid has ever escaped
or snuck out of the house on my watch.
And I don't intend for you two to be the first.
- [Dylan yelping]
- Dylan!
- ♪
- DYLAN: Grandma nickname is Alcatraz?
What's Alcatraz? - REBECCA: Got it.
It was a prison on an island in the middle of the ocean
outside San Francisco.
We're doomed. We can't sneak out now.
Grandma's gonna catch us.
- [Dylan sighing]
- That's right. I will catch you.
So let me just save you some time and effort and say,
don't even try.
- You heard us? - I hear all and see all.
You don't get the name Alcatraz without being able to sniff out
an escape plan.
So you two just sit here and ride out your punishment,
'cause if you run, you're done.
And if you try to flee, you'll only see me.
And if you sneak around, I will hunt you down!
Ooh, that's good.
Just call me MC Alcatraz, oh, yeah!
Grandma's got skills!
- Look at the cool people he has to choose from.
Daniel Hale Williams, the first man and Black man
to successfully do heart surgery.
- Facts, facts.
Or Bob
Nesta
Marley.
Pioneer of reggae music.
Yeah, mon. - Rastafari!
- MYLES: Hey! - Oh!
- Ooh, chaka, chaka, a-chaka, ooh, chaka, chaka.
- See, it's just like a pile of dirty laundry.
All we gotta do is move real slow,
and when we get downstairs,
we wait 'til the coast to be clear,
and we sneak out.
- Cool. - A'ight.
- DYLAN: Enjoy the ride! - REBECCA: Wait, what?
[Rebecca screaming]
- DYLAN: Ow, ow, ow!
- You can come out now.
- DYLAN: [grunting] Get out of there!
Going, keep going! Oh!
- If this is the best you got, I'm gonna get bored.
- MYLES: I said, hey, mon! - YASMINE: Hey, mon!
- MYLES: Hey, Lord have mercy! - YASMINE: Ooh!
- Booyaka, booyaka! Hey, mon!
Hey, mon, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey.
- [Charles clearing throat]
- Oh.
- What?
Now, see, that's what I'm talking about.
Look at him.
See, now, now you look like the world's first Black
heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson.
- You look so cute? - Heh, cute. What, cute?
Jack Johnson was the man. He was [grunting].
- Okay, strike the pose. - Yeah.
Give it to me, give it to me. - YASMINE: Yeah, Jack Johnson!
- Whoop, whoop, look at that!
Look, okay, okay, okay, so now you've tried on this.
You've tried on the Fredrick Douglass costume,
the Daniel Hale Williams costume.
Fredrick Douglass,
let's not forget, Bob Marley, mon.
- So, which one of these, uh, figures do you think
is the most interesting to do a report on for you?
- I-- - [Myles stammering]
You know what, you know what, fine, I get it.
Gave you a lot to think about. I get it.
So I tell you what, why don't you go upstairs, right,
and think about it, you know, and then, uh,
your mom and I will help you with your report, cool?
Cool, mon?
- Okay, that's cool, mon.
- Yeah. - Look at you!
- [both squealing]
- YASMINE: So cute!
- DYLAN: She caught us trying to dress as a giant adult,
trying to camouflage ourselves as that wallpaper,
and as a giant pile of dirty laundry!
- [Rebecca yelping]
- We've tried it all.
Grandma's caught us every time.
- [phone ringing]
- Oh, this is Bethany on voice chat.
Hey, Bethany.
Is the concert as cool as we think?
- BETHANY: Even cooler! You have to get down here!
Queen Star's gonna let us hang out with her
in her dressing room later.
- For reals? - BETHANY: Yeah!
Oh, she's calling me to hang out with her on stage!
I'll see you later, right?
- Oh, yeah, maybe.
- [Dylan sighing]
- What are we gonna do? We have to get to that concert.
- I know.
I have to give Queen Star my demo.
- Grandma's always one step ahead of us.
- That's the question,
How do you fool someone who always knows
what you're gonna do?
I got it! Just follow my lead.
Grandma, Grandma!
- VIOLA: If you're gonna try to sneak out of the window
with a rope blanket, don't do it.
It's dangerous, and I'll catch you.
- Oh man, you caught us again, Grandma.
We didn't stand a chance. You're too smart for us.
You know what? We give up. - Uh, we, we do?
- You do? - Yeah, come on, Becca.
Let's just sit here and take our punishment.
- VIOLA: Well, I thought you had more fight in you than that,
but I get it.
Alcatraz is what?
- BOTH: Always on top. - On top!
Lord, they got it.
- All right.
Oh, hey, Mom. I mean, Alcatraz.
How's it going?
- Well, this house is more secure than the White House.
My streak is still unbroken.
Does my heart good to break those kids' spirit of escaping.
So, um, how's it going with Charlie?
- Ooh, Charlie is making his decision on
which historical figure to write his report on.
- Mm-hmm, oh yeah, the adults in this house
are crushing it.
Matter of fact, I think we should
throw ourselves a parade, starting with some snacks.
Let's get it. Hey, Mama, you want some?
- No, I'm good.
- YASMINE: Ooh. - [footsteps pattering]
- MYLES: Oh, yeah. - Something's not right.
- [crickets chirping]
- Oh no, they didn't.
You are not breaking my streak!
You won't get a block from here, trust me!
Alcatraz is always one step ahead!
- The coast is clear!
See?
I told you being one step ahead isn't always good.
Whoa, look at Grandma running across
the street over there!
I didn't know she could run.
- ♪
- Let's go meet Queen Star
so me and her can become best friends.
- Mm-hmm!
Okay, once the coast is clear, we can head to the concert.
- VIOLA: Ooh, these kids gonna be the death of me!
- Oh, no! Alcatraz is coming!
We have to go, come on!
- Dylan, my foot's stuck! - DYLAN: Do something!
- I'm trying! - VIOLA: Ooh, Lord.
- There's no point in both of us getting caught.
Beside, after Queen Star listens to my demo,
she'll bring me on tour,
and you get to see her all the time.
I promise. - What?
Dylan!
Dylan, come back! Dylan!
You came back. - Yeah, I couldn't leave you.
We broke out together, we get caught together.
Cousins for life. - VIOLA: Oh, Lord.
- DYLAN: Go, go on!
- VIOLA: [sighing]
Oh, Lord!
We need to talk.
All these years, I've kept my streak alive.
But now these two escape.
But what really upsets me is out of all the kids I've kept,
I never thought these two
would actually go through with it.
Oh, I guess I need to go tell Myles and Yasmine
Alcatraz has failed.
Oh.
Oh.
No.
I can't do it.
Not yet.
Let me just walk it off, and I'll come back
when I can look them in the eye and tell them that I've failed.
[Viola sighing]
- Ooh, going back to school with Charlie is hard work.
- I know.
Hey, Charlie, my boy!
All right, so, you know what, all right, me and your mom,
we're, like, super-excited to hear your choice.
- Yeah, who'd you pick? - MYLES: Huh?
- I guess I'll go with whoever you want.
- Hey, hey, hey, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa.
So, you didn't like any of the people we suggested?
- They're all very cool, but I wanna do my report
on Matthew Henson. - Who?
- He was the first man to reach the North Pole.
He was Commander Perry's assistant,
and he reached the North Pole first.
- He did?
- Yup, but Perry took all the credit,
and Matthew had to come back to nothing and take a job
as a parking attendant to make a living.
- So you're saying the first man to reach the North Pole
is a Black man?
- Yup, he learned the language of the Native people
and they helped him and Commander Perry
reach the North Pole,
but Matthew got there first and got Perry to follow after him.
- Ah, okay, buddy, you know what,
you have to do your report on Matthew Henson.
Yeah, yeah, don't listen to us. I'm a dummy.
- Yes, that's right.
- Really? I can? - Absolutely!
[Yasmine giggling]
- MYLES: Hey, Ma, hey, Ma, Ma, whoa!
You okay? - Not really.
- Kids didn't sneak out, did they?
- Well-- - Hey, Grandma!
You haven't checked on us in a while.
- Are you getting bored?
It's no fun without you trying to stop us.
- Yeah, this is the most fun we've ever had being grounded.
- Should we rethink how we ground them,
because they shouldn't be having this much fun.
- Right?
- VIOLA; You two, get your butts back upstairs
in your room.
And don't even think about trying anything new,
'cause Alcatraz is always watching.
- ♪
- See, I like that style.
- Okay, well, I'm an architect, so I can design that for you.
- Oh? - Yeah.
- YASMINE: Oh? Look who's--
- Hey, oh, hey!
Hey, Charlie, so, how'd the report go?
- Great!
I got an A on my report, and my teacher was so impressed,
he said he was going to try to get our library
renamed after Matthew Henson! - Yes!
- YASMINE: Wow! Great job, Charlie!
We are so proud of you.
- Yes, good job. - CHARLIE: Thanks.
- See what happens when you listen to me?
- Good job. Okay, let me get the door.
Oh!
Hey, you two. What do you got there?
- REBECCA: Bethany gave us posters signed by Queen Star.
- Whoa!
- And she gave Queen Star a link to my demo online!
- MYLES: All right, all right,
so the weekend wasn't a total loss.
Let's hope you two learned your lesson
about actions and consequences.
- Oh, we did, but you think Grandma did?
- Oh, hey!
I didn't know Queen Star was this good!
Can't believe you didn't let these kids
go to this concert! You know what?
- What's up? - You grounded.
Get your butt upstairs, 'cause Alcatraz is what?
- ALL: Always on top!
- ♪