04x08 - Old School Loving

[bunniefuu]

Tommy, cole, I hope you were taking notes,

’Cause I was lighting you up like baby jordan.

Baby, I was here. Aah! Get off me!

Man, please.

I’m just tired today.

That’s all.

Tired from what, tommy?

Your job?

Hey, man, can I get some juice out the fridge?

What you want some juice for, cole?

There’s plenty of water in the faucet, man.

Man, why don’t you quit playing?

Ah, damn!

All you got in here is a light bulb

And a box of baking soda.

You know, martin,

You should save yourself some money

And unplug it!

No, no, that’s my fault.

I forgot.

You know, me and gina ate all the food.

You know, being newlyweds,

You exert a lot of energy,

If you know what I mean.

Yeah, yeah, got to eat.

Got to grahhh!

You know I don’t want to get

In your personal business

Or nothing like that, martin, but, see,

I think you ain’t got no food

’Cause gina working all that overtime.

I see some hungry days ahead.

Whazzup?

Whazzup!

♪ Martin

♪ I’m the man ♪

♪ Martin

♪ I’m the man ♪

Dammit!

Hey.

Hey, baby.

What you up to?

Aw, baby, i’m trying to break the ice

Between me and this tv dinner, gina.

Look at this.

But it don’t seem to be working.

But I know you brought me something

Home, baby, in there.

What’s in the bag, huh?

Some steak-ums?

What you got? What you got?

No, baby.

These are my papers from work.

Oh, no. Come on, gina.

You didn’t bring me nothing home to eat?

Oh, baby,

I did say that I would go

To the grocery store.

I’m really sorry.

Baby, i’ve just been working so hard on this overtime.

But you can have the rest of this tuna sandwich.

I don’t want no damn tuna, gina!

Baby, I want a home-cooked meal,

The way you used to make me

Before you started working all this overtime.

Baby, come on.

I can’t take care of this place

And help bring home the bacon.

What bacon?

Only damn bacon we got is bakin’ soda, baby!

No bacon!

Oh, martin, i’m sorry, baby.

O.k. All right.

As soon as this ad campaign is finished,

I promise I will cook for you.

I’ll even learn how to make your mama biscuits.

My mama biscuits?

Yes.

Yeah?

Mm-hmm, but right now, I got to finish my work, baby.

Well, hey, hey.

It’s all good. I tell you.

Well, at least we got the weekend.

I’m thankful for that, baby.

You know what I mean?

Whoo, i’m thankful.

The weekend?

Yeah. Yeah.

Check this out.

Got us two tickets to see mary j. Blige

On saturday night.

Mary j. Blige on saturday night?

Is there an echo in here, baby?

I say mary j. Blige on saturday night.

I wish I could be there, martin.

I really do,

But mr. Oaks has me working.

Aw, hell no, gina.

Saturday is martin’s day, baby.

Look, all this overtime has got to stop,

’Cause I'll be damned if i’m going to eat

Another chicken pop.

Hey, martin. What’s up, man?

You here for dinner again?

It’s a shame a man's wife won’t him no cook.

As if you’ve missed a meal.

Looking like a big-a*s sack of groceries, man.

Hey, what’s happening, martin?

Uh, no. I ain’t hungry.

I don’t want none.

What you talking about, martin?

No, I said I ain’t hungry.

Gina just fixed me this major steak dinner.

So, boom.

I’m cool.

I was just trying to walk it off.

Cool.

Yeah.

- Hey, tommy, man,

Why don’t you pass a brother

One of them tater skins?

Sure, bro.

There we go.

Pass that on down here.

Ahh.

Yeah.

There you go.

Damn, them potato skins, huh?

Uh-huh.

Y’all get extra cheese on that?

Sure did.

Cole, you want some of these buffalo wings?

Man, you know I do.

Them wings is the bombs, yo.

Yo, tommy, I didn’t even know buffaloes had wings.

Ah! You so silly.

What are those-- hot or mild?

Oh, no. No. These hot!

They gonna make you sweat, dawg.

Ha ha ha.

Martin...

You sure you don’t want one of these, man?

Oh, no, man. I’m cool; I'm cool.

You straight?

I ain’t cool.

Tommy, pass me that blue cheese down here, man.

Dip these bad boys in there.

Excuse us, martin.

Y’all just going to dip it

Right in the blue cheese, huh?

You got to get your blue cheese on, dawg.

All right, now.

Sorry the curly fries are late.

Oh, damn.

So you got tater skins,

Chicken, and curly fries.

Yep. Yep.

Whoo! What a blessing. What a blessing.

God is good.

All the time.

I can’t take it anymore!

Martin, slow down! What are you doing?

I thought you ate already.

All right, dammit. Well, sue me.

Gina ain’t cooked in two weeks, man.

Aw.

Damn.

Two weeks?

What’s up with that?

Her boss got her working these crazy hours, man,

All this overtime.

You know what I mean?

That’s cool.

Extra hours means extra money for y’all.

No, no, tommy.

It’s not like that. Okay?

Gina is an executive.

She don’t get paid for overtime, man.

Wow.

Yeah.

sh**t.

Had it been my woman,

She’d have been getting paid

For some overtime,

Or she’d be at home with me,

’Cause cole don’t play that.

I’d be like, "yo! Yo!

Get your butt home with me!"

Cole!

What woman?

Forget him, okay?

Look, martin,

I realize that this is between you and your wife.

I think gina’s boss is taking advantage of her.

That’s what I was thinking this morning, tommy.

But--but gina’s says it’s only temporary,

So I let it slide.

I hear that, right?

But what happens when the next campaign comes around?

And the next one and the next one.

No. No. You have got to handle that right now.

That’s right. Check it.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, who the hell is somebody

To be telling my wife when she can get off

And when she can’t get off?

Word up, man. There you go.

Who he think he is anyway-- her boss?

Ha!

So what you going to do, martin?

I’ma go--i'ma go handle my business.

Um...

Martin, wait, wait.

Man, what you doing with all the food, man?

With all the wings?

Uh, y’all order yourselves some more buffalo wings.

These are going home with me.

I’m hungrier than a maugh, man.

You sherman oaks, man?

Who wants to know?

Oh, I know who you are.

Where’s my cheesecake and coffee?

Nah. It ain’t like that, man.

I’m martin payne, gina payne’s husband.

We need to talk.

Make it quick.

I’m already gonna be here

Till : in the morning.

My time is valuable.

All right, well, I came to talk

About all these long hours

You’re working my wife, man.

You don’t like to be here all damn night, now, do you?

Oh, I don’t like it.

I love it!

It’s my job.

You love it? It’s your job?

Well, what about your wife?

Don’t she want to spend time with a brother?

I’ve had five wives. They all left me.

Next.

What about your little ones,

Your babies, your kids?

Oh, they ran away from home.

They couldn’t cut it.

Now, what do you want

To talk about?

Hey, look, look,

I’m going to get right to the point.

You going to have to chill on all that overtime.

Oh, chill.

Now I understand.

And you want gina to be home more, right?

Well, I think I can arrange that.

Well, all right.

That’s what i’m talking about.

I’m glad we see eye to eye,

Even though I got two, and you got four.

That’s just a little jokie-joke, man.

Boy, you--[mumbling]

Yeah. Yeah.

That’s right, big tom.

I told her boss straight like this, man.

"Yo! Chill with all that overtime, man!"

And I ain’t playing, yeah.

My baby just walked in. Got to go.

All right, man.

So what’s happening, baby?

You home early.

You want to thank ol’ marty-mar?

What’s up, baby?

All right, martin.

Thank you for getting me fired.

What?

You got me fired, man!

It wasn’t supposed to, baby--

No! No! No!

I can’t believe my boss

Just fired me like this.

What did you say to him?

All I said, baby,

Was you were working too many hours

And you needed some more time off.

Well, I guess I got it.

You know what, gina, he tripping.

I’ma go down there, baby.

You gonna get your job back,

’Cause I ain't playing that.

No! You have done enough. Thank you very much.

And besides, if he could fire me

Over something petty like that,

I don’t want to work for him anyway.

Gina, baby, that’s what I was thinking

When I went down there earlier.

You know what?

After all the hard work,

The long hours I put in for that company,

He doesn’t even appreciate me!

Gina, as smart as you are, baby,

You can get another job anytime, anywhere.

That’s right!

I’m the best damn executive they’ve got.

sh**t, I could get another job this afternoon.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down.

I didn’t say you got to get one this afternoon, baby.

You could, you know, stay home

And cook a few meals for a brother.

Martin, I did not go to college for four years

To just stay home.

Gina, ain’t nothing wrong with that, baby.

Did weezie jefferson have a job?

No.

Neither did florida evans,

And they both was barely keeping their head above water.

They was damn near drowning, gina.

They was all up in there.

With their eye. Water right on the eye.

Looking right over the water.

Martin, martin, martin.

That is tv. This is real life.

We got bills.

Gina, we got each other.

I got a job. That’s all that matters, baby.

All right, all right, martin.

I’ll try this housewife thing for a little while.

Oh, baby...

But that’s just until I find a new job.

But i’m telling you, martin,

I’m not going to like this.

Girl, I ain’t never going back to work!

I have had the best day shopping.

What did you do all day?

All the work you left behind.

Since you’ve been gone,

Mr. Oaks has got me working crazy hours.

Oh, please you can handle it.

No, gina I don’t think I can.

Pam, you just get yourself a husband like my martin,

And you won’t have to work, either.

Did martin put a spell on you?

Leprechauns can do that, you know.

Whatever, look.

Look what I got today.

I got martin some underwear.

I got some towels for the kitchen.

I got snacks for my soap opera.

I can’t wait to see all my young’ns.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

No fair! You get to watchall my young’ns?

Yeah, girl!

Do you know that tyrone left jowaketema?

Who the hell is jowaketema?

Donnie’s little sister!

The one who got kicked off ofsoul train

For wearing too many clothes!

Gina, wait.

What?

I never thought i’d see you shopping all day, watching soap operas.

What happened to you being a career woman?

It’s not like I'm giving up my career.

I’m just taking a little break,

Having a good time.

And besides...

Weezie jefferson never had to work.

Gina, that was tv. This is real life.

Y’all got bills.

We got each other, and martin has a job,

And that’s all that matters.

Oh, no. You’re worse off than I thought.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Look, I got to go.

My favorite talk show is on.

Guess what the topic is--

"Jealous friends who have to work." See ya!

You paged me . What’s up, baby?

I was bored. I wanted to say hello.

You paged me to say hello, gina?

I thought it was an emergency.

It was an emergency, baby. I missed you.

And that’s not all.

Look, I rearranged all your cds in colors. Isn’t it pretty?

Oh, no, baby!

They was in alphabetical order, gina.

How am I supposed to find the spinners?

I was listening to that today!

♪ Hey, y’all, prepare yourself ♪

♪ For the rubberband man

Gina, i’m glad you know the song, baby,

But you messed up my cds.

You ain’t had nothing better to do?

Yes, I have something better to do.

Come on. I’ll show you.

Gina-- come on, martin!

No, gina. I ain’t sleeping in no pink and green room.

Excuse me, those are my sorority colors.

Gina, have you been losing your mind

Ever since you stopped working?

You going crazy.

What--

It’s a muscle man brother man.

What the hell you doing up in here, brother man?

I was about to ask y’all the same question.

Ain’t y'all supposed to be at work?

Look, brother man,

You can’t just come rolling up in here.

Me and gina, we’re married now.

I been respecting y’all's marriage.

That’s why I only come around when y’all ain't at home.

Y’all got cable, and...

I gots to get my b.e.t. On.

Well, right now, brother man,

You gots to go because me and my wife,

We’re having a discussion.

All right. I’ll leave.

Yeah.

Oh, snap.

There go my favorite b.e.t. Commersh.

Oh, you like that one, too, brother man?

I just ordered that album today.

♪ I’m coming up ♪

♪ On the rough side of the mountain... ♪

Who in the hell left the gate open?

I love this commercial.

Brother man, I don’t know who left the gate open,

But you got to get your big country a*s up out of here.

Let’s roll, brother man!

Hey, mar...

Could you tape all my young’ns for a brother?

Jowaketema ’bout to drop that ba’.

We’ll see what we can do, brother man.

Gina, now you been home all day.

Look at your hair.

You ain’t ran past no curling iron or nothing?

For what? I got my man already.

So, martin, what did you do today?

Well, you know, same ole, same ole.

You always say that.

Tell me what you did exactly.

Gina, do you got to be all up in here?

All up through, baby?

Well, martin, i’m just so happy we’re spending so much time together.

Now, tell me what you did. Come on.

Gina, baby... Uh, o.k., We had a meeting--

No! No, no, no! Start from the beginning.

You got out the car...

Gina, what is wrong with you?

Why you all up in my business?

Baby, I thought this is what you wanted.

I’m just giving you the attention that you need.

Damn that, gina. I don’t need that much attention.

I thought you wanted me to be like weezie and florida evans.

At least florida kept her afro tight.

Look...

I got to run.

Oh, we going for a run? Where we going?

No, baby. We ain’t running nowhere.

I want to go.

I’ll be back, baby.

I want to go, martin!

[Telephone rings]

Telephone! Telephone!

Hello? Hello?

Oh, hello, mr. Oaks. How are you?

Yeah. Oh, you want me to come back to work?

Well, there’s some things that I need.

Firstly, i’m gonna need an assistant...

Yeah, and no more weekends and no more overtime.

O.k. That might work. All right.

I’m going to have to talk to my husband about this.

O.k. Yeah, got to talk to him first.

All right. Bye.

Yes!

I got the job! I got the job! I got the job!

You sure all this is for me?

Yes.

Look here, sherman, we need to get a rap.

Yo, martine, whazzup?

Look what we have here.

It’s a little trick-or-treater.

What are you going as, a small businessman?

Ah hah hah!

Look, the humans-- we need to talk,

So why don’t you go back to your cave and nurse your young.

Mr. Oaks, let me know once small mccartney leaves.

Whatever, just step, all right, girl?

I’m talking to him.

Must you harass me on my job?

Martin payne, my brother, my raw dog.

Yeah, well, whatever, man.

I just came down here to talk to you.

Oh, I got something to tell you.

Man, please let gina come back to work.

I mean, I thought I could get along without her,

But I can’t.

Whoa. Wait a minute. Hold.

You want me to beg gina to come back to work?

I guess you could say that.

Oh, man, that’s going to be kind of tough, man.

Well, what do you think it would take?

sh**t, I don’t-- don’t really know.

Maybe, perhaps, a-- a bigger office.

Done.

Done?

Daaaaamn!

Oh, man, well, since it’s like that,

Well, hold on.

How about a personal assistant?

Done. Next.

Weekends off and no overtime.

Consider it done. Anything else?

Well, sh**t, since it’s, like, that easy,

Why don’t you hook a brother up with a rolex watch?

Martin, are you trying to take advantage of me?

Man, please... Hell, yeah!

Oh, baby, guess what?

No. You guess what. You’re going back to work tomorrow.

Got your job back.

You got my job back for me?

That’s right, baby. That’s right.

You got a bigger office,

You don’t work on weekends and no overtime.

How about an assistant, martin?

Baby, I got all that. Your man got you all that.

And you did all this by yourself?

Most definitely. I’m marty-mar.

Baby, I got the gift of gab.

Nobody does it better.

Oh, well, you know,

I really am kind of ready to go back to work, martin.

Besides, jowaketema had her baby.

It wasn’t even tyrone's.

Well, I guess it’s all good then, huh?

Yeah, it’s all good.

Yeah.

You are the man, martin.

Yeah?

Yes. Hey, I better go in the back,

Get my work clothes ready, ’cause I want to look good

In the new office my husband got for me.

Head on back there

Where you know what your husband got for you.

Hey, I said nobody does it better, girl.

Ha ha!

Hee hee, ha ha.

Hello.

Let me speak to sherm.

Yeah, look here, sherm.

Yeah, my wife, she still ain’t happy, man.

Yeah. She thinks her husband would look good in a lexus.

O.k. Well, maybe not a lexus.

How about a hyundai?

Sherm, don’t give up.

What about a skateboard?

What about a skateboard?

Aw, gina, you ain’t bring me nothing to eat?

Let’s try that-- the octaves, the octave.

Ayyy, eeeee!

Aw, gina, you ain’t bring me nothing to eat?

Baby, you ain’t bring me nothing to eat?

Hey, i’m trying different emotions,

How to say that line.

Aw, come on now, baby.

You didn’t bring me nothing to eat?

Oh, baby, I know--