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CHRIS ROCK:
The toughest thing
about going to a new school
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was making friends.
At my old school,
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there were tons of kids
just like me.
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But at Corleone,
I didn't fit in anywhere.
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Not with the jocks...
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not with the smart kids...
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not with the troublemakers...
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and definitely not with
the theater crowd.
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Look at him dance.
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He went on to become
the first Laker Boy.
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The only group I fit in with
were the nerds.
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Yeah!
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Hey! Give it back.
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What'd he say that for?
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Maybe theater isn't so bad.
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* Aw, make it funky now
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Man, I'm telling you,
Bernard King, when he gets hot,
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he can score 60, 70 points
easy, I'm telling you.
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Hey, man, check this out.
What's that?
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It's a breakdown on
who's got a better front court,
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the Knicks or the Lakers.
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Since me and Greg
couldn't play sports,
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we talked about them
all the time.
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Front court?
What's the difference
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who's in the front court
if Magic Johnson is in the back?
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Good morning, gentlemen.
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What was that?
We got a social studies quiz.
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All she said was "good morning."
Trust me on this, man.
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She only speaks to students
when she's giving a pop quiz.
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I gotta warn the others
so we can study.
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Magic Johnson has the ball.
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Three seconds on the clock.
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Two...
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And the crowd goes wild.
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[IMITATES CHEERING]
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Hey, kid.
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Kid, wait up.
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What's your name?
Are you a student here?
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Chris.
I just transferred here.
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I'm Coach Brady.
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Welcome to Corleone
Junior High.
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What I mean is, welcome
to the basketball team.
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The basketball team?
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I didn't try out
for basketball.
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After a shot like that,
you don't have to.
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All I did was throw away
a piece of trash.
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If a white kid had done that,
he wouldn't have even noticed.
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But 'cause I was black,
here's what the coach saw.
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ANNOUNCER:
...gets the ball to Dr. J.
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He goes inside... Unbelievable!
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I know you probably play
up at the courts in Harlem.
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Uh, no, I'm from Bed-Stuy.
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They're different?
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Look, we were five
and 20 last season,
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but with you...
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I'm asking you,
give my program a shot.
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Give your program a shot?
I can't play.
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Heh-heh, yeah, right.
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Look, kid, I'm not blind.
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CHRIS ROCK:
I tried to play
basketball once.
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But I sucked.
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Ball! Ball! Ball!
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[GRUNTS]
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I sucked
at every sport I tried.
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Baseball...
football.
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Like a fool,
I even tried bowling.
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[GROANS]
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Look, son, I need you
on this team.
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What's your name again?
My name's Chris.
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Swish. That's you.
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Swish.
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You can suit up on game day.
We're up against Delio.
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Be at the gym at 3:30.
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See you at the game, Swish.
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When my mother wasn't working,
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sometimes we would rent out
a room upstairs
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to make ends meet.
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Are all these children yours?
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Um, six of them are.
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But I don't know where
these other kids came from.
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Do y'all take food stamps?
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[GLASS BREAKING]
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Hey, hey!
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We've been here 15 minutes,
you already acting up.
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Every time we go out,
you looking at her.
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Go comb your hair.
Comb my hair?
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Go wait in the car.
Go wait in the car.
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We ain't got no car.
We took the bus.
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Y'all take food stamps?
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So you work at the church?
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[LOUDLY]
Yes!
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* Yes, I do
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* And I just need a place, ha
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* To lay my weary head, ha
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* Not trying to pay more
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* Than $300 a month, ha
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* And all I need to know, ha
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* Do you take
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[IN FALSETTO]
* Food stamps?
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[PEOPLE CHATTERING, SHOUTING]
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Hey, you know if
that apartment's still for rent?
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Oh, yeah, it's my place.
I'm Julius.
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Tate.
Hey, nice to meet you.
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It's clean, and it's nice.
How much you asking?
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Four fifty.
Four fifty?
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I can pay four months advance.
Four months?!
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All right, six, but that's it.
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With six months
in advance rent,
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he could have shot
my father in the ass
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and still got the room.
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Have you ate yet?
There you go.
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Come on up here, huh?
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Watch out.
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All right, so we're getting
together today during lunch
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and we're all gonna
study for the...
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You're Chris, right?
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Yeah.
Ha-ha! I'm Ernie D.
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This is the team.
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[OVERLAPPING GREETINGS]
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Hey, uh,
let's go grab some food.
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BOY:
Come on, man.
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Come on.
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All right, all right...
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[OVERLAPPING CONVERSATIONS]
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Bird's got the range,
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but Magic scored 42 points
as a center.
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Man, Bird shoots the
lights out every night.
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I'm telling you, the Knicks
might make it this year.
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A boy can dream.
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Hey, you must be Chris.
I'm Jennifer.
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At that moment, I discovered
one of life's great secrets.
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Black guy plus basketball
equals white girl.
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Now, here's
what would have happened
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if I wasn't
on the basketball team.
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Oh, stop it!
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That sucks. Oh, my ribs.
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Hey, Chris, you want
to study for the quiz?
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Man, does it look
like I want to study?
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Look at me, man. I'm killing.
I'm two feet from a girl!
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Yeah, like I was saying,
Bernard King,
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he was incredible last night.
Hey, Chris.
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That was the first time
Caruso ever said my name.
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Good luck with the game
tomorrow.
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Good luck finding an ax
to go with that shirt.
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[JOCKS LAUGHING]
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Being on the basketball team
was gonna be all right.
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As long as I didn't have
to play.
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Even though my father
was the man of the house,
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he wasn't supposed to make
decisions without my mother.
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You rented it to who?
His name is Tate.
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Now, is that his first name
or his last name?
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Did you get any references?
Yeah.
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Hamilton, Grant and Lincoln.
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Come on.
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[KNOCKS]
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TATE: Yeah.
Hello?
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Hello?
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Rochelle...
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this is Mr. Tate.
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So my husband tells me
you're from Chicago.
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That look means "Hey, shut up!
I know what I'm doing."
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No, no, I'm from Philly.
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Philly?
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I love Philly.
It's all right.
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Okay, well, it's, um...
nice to meet you.
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Uh, if you need anything,
you let us know.
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Thank you,
thank you very much.
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That man is not from Philly.
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People from Philly
don't shut up about Philly.
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All they want to talk about
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is cheesesteaks and Bill Cosby
and Patti LaBelle.
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Who you know from Philly
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don't want to talk
about Patti LaBelle?
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"Patti LaBelle this,
Patti LaBelle that."
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That man could be
a serial killer
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on the run from the law.
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Yeah, you're right.
Julius!
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Everything I need to know
about him
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for the next six months
is right here.
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Well, I got a bad feeling
about this.
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[SCOFFS]
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Feel on! Ooh!
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Now hold up, hold up.
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Books under the desk,
eyes straight forward.
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We're having a pop quiz.
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Yes, I knew it.
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[SARCASTIC]
Good luck, Swish!
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MS. MARTELLA:
No talking.
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[FURNITURE CLATTERING]
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[DISTANT FOOTSTEPS]
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[OBJECT SLIDING ACROSS FLOOR]
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Julius, go up there and see
what that man is doing.
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Why don't you leave
that man alone?
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I'm trying to lay down
for a few minutes
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before I go back to work.
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If I'm not getting any sleep,
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you're not getting any sleep.
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Now, that was mean.
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Taking sleep from my father
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was like taking ignorance
from a rapper.
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[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
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TATE:
Yeah?
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It's Julius.
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[LATCHES CLICKING]
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Hey, Mr. Julius,
how you doing?
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Hey, um...
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my-my wife said she heard sounds
and it's keeping her up.
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Sounds?
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I didn't hear anything.
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Look... I, um...
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You know what? If...
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If you hear something,
just let me know.
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Will do, Mr. Julius.
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[LATCHES CLICKING]
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So, what's he doing?
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Nothing. Go to sleep.
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Did you put latches
on the door upstairs?
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No, why?
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Oh, nothing.
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[FIGHTING NOISES ON TV]
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Listen, I need a favor.
Huh?
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I got on the basketball team.
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I need to learn
how to play by tomorrow.
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The basketball team?
Man, are you crazy?
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You don't know how to play.
Didn't I say that?
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I just need to know enough
to look like I know something.
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You know how to faint?
You mean, fake somebody out?
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No, like, fall down
and bang your head on the ground
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so you won't have to play.
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[GROANS SOFTLY]
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Okay, thank you so much
for calling, Ms. Martella.
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I really appreciate it.
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Alrighty, then. Bye-bye.
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Chris!
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How come you didn't tell me
you failed a quiz?
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You failed a quiz?
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Oh, no, no, it gets
better than that.
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Since he failed, he can't play
in a basketball game tomorrow.
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Thank the Lord!
You're on the basketball team?
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You can't play basketball.
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Heh, I tried to tell him that.
Great!
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It always killed my father
that I was no good at sports.
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But he would never
tell me that.
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My man!
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It always killed me
that you were no good at sports.
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I'm sorry I flunked
off the team, Dad.
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You're not off the team yet.
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What?
Lucky for you,
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your coach got you
a make-up quiz.
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Damn!
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JULIUS:
That's what I'm talking about.
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00:11:44,838 --> 00:11:47,107
So after dinner,
go upstairs and study.
257
00:11:47,140 --> 00:11:48,942
Because if you don't
pass that quiz,
258
00:11:48,975 --> 00:11:50,810
I'm gonna score
40 on your behind.
259
00:11:50,844 --> 00:11:54,848
* Everybody hates Chris
260
00:12:02,355 --> 00:12:04,891
[***]
261
00:12:06,359 --> 00:12:07,494
CHRIS:
Hey.
262
00:12:07,527 --> 00:12:09,329
Oh, hi, Swish.
263
00:12:09,362 --> 00:12:11,264
Good luck with the game.
264
00:12:17,203 --> 00:12:21,808
Hey, hey, hey. I wasn't trying
to blow you off the other day.
265
00:12:21,841 --> 00:12:23,410
Then why did you?
It was just...
266
00:12:23,443 --> 00:12:24,544
It's just I'm not cool?
267
00:12:24,577 --> 00:12:26,346
I liked hanging out with Greg,
268
00:12:26,379 --> 00:12:28,515
but a life without daily
ass-whuppings
269
00:12:28,548 --> 00:12:30,583
does have its appeal.
270
00:12:30,617 --> 00:12:32,385
No, it's not like that.
271
00:12:32,419 --> 00:12:33,820
It's just...
272
00:12:33,853 --> 00:12:37,157
it's kind of good
to get a break.
273
00:12:37,190 --> 00:12:39,292
All right.
I mean, I can't blame you.
274
00:12:39,325 --> 00:12:41,895
If I were you, I'd probably
do the same thing.
275
00:12:41,928 --> 00:12:44,431
Hey, I think I aced the quiz.
I know I failed.
276
00:12:44,464 --> 00:12:47,200
Wait, but doesn't that mean
you can't play ball?
277
00:12:47,233 --> 00:12:48,902
I wish.
278
00:12:48,935 --> 00:12:51,271
Coach Brady found out
and he got me a make-up.
279
00:12:51,304 --> 00:12:53,940
My mom made me study
all night.
280
00:12:53,973 --> 00:12:56,242
And if I don't pass,
she will kill me.
281
00:12:56,276 --> 00:12:58,878
But if you do play,
everybody's going to hate you.
282
00:12:58,912 --> 00:13:00,380
Not everybody.
283
00:13:00,413 --> 00:13:02,515
Just everybody on the team,
284
00:13:02,549 --> 00:13:04,984
everybody who likes the team
285
00:13:05,018 --> 00:13:07,220
and everybody else.
286
00:13:15,295 --> 00:13:16,563
All done.
287
00:13:18,331 --> 00:13:21,368
I decided to fail
the test on purpose.
288
00:13:21,401 --> 00:13:23,436
Whatever my mother
might do to me,
289
00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:25,271
at least it wasn't 400 of her.
290
00:13:25,305 --> 00:13:27,007
You passed.
What?!
291
00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,309
Hold on, let me see this.
292
00:13:29,342 --> 00:13:31,311
Every answer
on this paper is wrong.
293
00:13:31,344 --> 00:13:33,213
You are on
the basketball team, right?
294
00:13:33,246 --> 00:13:35,081
What does that
have to do with anything?
295
00:13:35,115 --> 00:13:38,151
Good luck at the game, Swish.
Another life secret:
296
00:13:38,184 --> 00:13:42,555
black man plus basketball
equals a C-plus.
297
00:13:42,589 --> 00:13:45,291
[***]
298
00:13:49,462 --> 00:13:50,430
I passed.
299
00:13:50,463 --> 00:13:52,165
[ALL CHEERING]
300
00:13:52,198 --> 00:13:54,267
Way to go, baby! Way to go!
301
00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:56,369
PLAYERS [CHANTING]:
Swish! Swish! Swish...
302
00:13:56,403 --> 00:13:58,538
I bet this is how
Milli Vanilli must have felt
303
00:13:58,571 --> 00:14:01,941
when they were walking up
to accept their Grammy.
304
00:14:05,211 --> 00:14:08,048
TATE: Miss...
Oh!
305
00:14:08,081 --> 00:14:09,349
I don't mean to bother you,
306
00:14:09,382 --> 00:14:11,251
but can I borrow
some Scotch tape
307
00:14:11,284 --> 00:14:15,455
and some 10-pound test
fishing line?
308
00:14:15,488 --> 00:14:16,656
Fishing line?
309
00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:18,324
Ten-pound test.
310
00:14:19,492 --> 00:14:22,629
We don't have any
fishing line, Mr. Tate.
311
00:14:22,662 --> 00:14:24,130
Maybe your husband does.
312
00:14:24,164 --> 00:14:26,700
Well, maybe I'll ask him
when he gets home.
313
00:14:26,733 --> 00:14:28,335
Thank you, ma'am.
314
00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:29,969
I'll come back down.
315
00:14:30,003 --> 00:14:32,105
[***]
316
00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,477
That man is not from Philly.
317
00:14:37,510 --> 00:14:40,413
[***]
318
00:14:40,447 --> 00:14:42,048
Swish.
319
00:14:42,082 --> 00:14:44,217
I want to run you through
a couple plays.
320
00:14:44,250 --> 00:14:46,486
Basically, here's you
with the ball,
321
00:14:46,519 --> 00:14:49,222
and here's the guys
getting out of your way.
322
00:14:49,255 --> 00:14:50,357
You got it?
323
00:14:50,390 --> 00:14:51,424
Yeah, I got it.
324
00:14:51,458 --> 00:14:53,993
Great. I'll see you out there.
325
00:14:58,431 --> 00:15:00,433
[CROWD CHEERING]
326
00:15:12,312 --> 00:15:15,982
CROWD [CHANTING]:
Swish! Swish! Swish!
327
00:15:16,016 --> 00:15:18,218
Swish! Swish! Swish!
328
00:15:24,290 --> 00:15:28,461
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
329
00:15:31,231 --> 00:15:34,334
You hear all those people?
They believe in me.
330
00:15:34,367 --> 00:15:36,536
And if they believed in me,
331
00:15:36,569 --> 00:15:40,740
then I was going to believe
in myself.
332
00:15:40,774 --> 00:15:43,109
[BLOWS WHISTLE]
333
00:15:49,616 --> 00:15:52,085
[CROWD GROANING]
334
00:16:02,796 --> 00:16:04,531
Come on, Swish!
335
00:16:13,506 --> 00:16:15,408
[BUZZER SOUNDS]
336
00:16:18,078 --> 00:16:21,748
I thought you said
you were from Harlem.
337
00:16:21,781 --> 00:16:23,550
Sorry about the game, man.
338
00:16:23,583 --> 00:16:25,552
You should have fainted
like I told you.
339
00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:28,321
Who's that white girl
who kept screaming at you?
340
00:16:28,355 --> 00:16:29,556
Nobody.
341
00:16:29,589 --> 00:16:31,491
I'm sorry, baby.
342
00:16:31,524 --> 00:16:34,627
At that time I didn't know what
I was gonna be when I grew up.
343
00:16:34,661 --> 00:16:37,397
But I knew I wasn't gonna be
a basketball player.
344
00:16:37,430 --> 00:16:40,266
Well, it's okay. At least
I passed my social studies quiz.
345
00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:43,169
[MECHANICAL WHIRRING]
346
00:16:43,203 --> 00:16:45,372
[THUMPING, POUNDING]
347
00:16:47,574 --> 00:16:49,242
What's that?
348
00:16:52,779 --> 00:16:54,414
Nothing.
349
00:16:54,447 --> 00:16:58,351
Anybody want some Kool-Aid?
You need some Kool-Aid.
350
00:17:00,487 --> 00:17:02,355
Julius, I thought
something was wrong
351
00:17:02,389 --> 00:17:05,158
the minute I laid eyes on
that man, and now I know it.
352
00:17:05,191 --> 00:17:08,094
I want him out of my house.
353
00:17:10,630 --> 00:17:12,298
[KNOCKING]
354
00:17:12,332 --> 00:17:15,101
TATE: Yes?
It's me-- Julius.
355
00:17:15,135 --> 00:17:16,736
Yes, Mr. Julius.
356
00:17:16,770 --> 00:17:18,638
We need to come in.
357
00:17:18,672 --> 00:17:21,408
Now?
Yes, now.
358
00:17:21,441 --> 00:17:22,709
Who's that?
359
00:17:22,742 --> 00:17:25,812
Rochelle, your landlord.
360
00:17:25,845 --> 00:17:28,481
Yes, Miss Rochelle.
361
00:17:28,515 --> 00:17:31,618
[LATCHES CLICKING]
362
00:17:31,651 --> 00:17:34,220
[BOTH MOUTHING WORDS]
363
00:17:35,255 --> 00:17:36,556
JULIUS:
I'm sorry.
364
00:17:36,589 --> 00:17:38,591
What is going...?
365
00:17:44,764 --> 00:17:48,768
Look, I don't know who you are
or what you're doing,
366
00:17:48,802 --> 00:17:51,204
but you got to go.
367
00:17:51,237 --> 00:17:53,473
You're kicking me out?
368
00:17:53,506 --> 00:17:55,709
I'm sorry. It's...
it's not gonna work out.
369
00:17:55,742 --> 00:17:57,544
I gave you six months' rent.
370
00:17:57,577 --> 00:17:59,179
I know.
371
00:18:01,281 --> 00:18:02,849
You've been here three days.
372
00:18:02,882 --> 00:18:05,785
You don't know how much
that's killing him right now.
373
00:18:05,819 --> 00:18:07,887
I'm crying just looking at him.
374
00:18:07,921 --> 00:18:11,424
That's 450...
divided by 30...
375
00:18:11,458 --> 00:18:13,360
Julius, you counted
it 10 times.
376
00:18:13,393 --> 00:18:16,830
Look, you gotta get
your spooky ass out of here.
377
00:18:16,863 --> 00:18:18,398
ROCHELLE:
Come on, Julius.
378
00:18:18,431 --> 00:18:20,166
I'm sorry...
Julius!
379
00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,336
I'll be back for my change.
380
00:18:23,370 --> 00:18:26,172
You know what, Philly, my ass.
Four hundred dollars!
381
00:18:26,206 --> 00:18:27,874
[***]
382
00:18:27,907 --> 00:18:30,477
Shh.
383
00:18:30,510 --> 00:18:34,347
We're going up the stairs.
Let's go. On my signal. Go!
384
00:18:34,381 --> 00:18:36,783
ROCHELLE:
I was telling you
this was gonna happen.
385
00:18:36,816 --> 00:18:38,451
Turns out my mother was right.
386
00:18:38,485 --> 00:18:40,453
Mr. Tate wasn't from Philly.
387
00:18:40,487 --> 00:18:43,490
He was wanted in so many states
for so many crimes
388
00:18:43,523 --> 00:18:47,627
that when they caught him,
they had to let 30 guys go.
389
00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:50,497
[CRASHING, THUMPING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
390
00:18:52,532 --> 00:18:54,467
What's that?
Nothing.
391
00:18:54,501 --> 00:18:56,436
That's just Mr. Tate leaving.
392
00:18:56,469 --> 00:18:58,605
[CLATTERING CONTINUES]
393
00:18:58,638 --> 00:19:00,440
Hm.
394
00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:03,443
[LOUD THUMPING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
395
00:19:04,778 --> 00:19:06,946
[SIRENS APPROACHING]
396
00:19:06,980 --> 00:19:10,350
Wait a minute.
Where's my Kool-Aid?
397
00:19:10,383 --> 00:19:12,619
[***]
398
00:19:18,925 --> 00:19:20,760
Nice game, Raj.
399
00:19:20,794 --> 00:19:23,363
The one chance you have
to make yourself useful
400
00:19:23,396 --> 00:19:25,498
and you blew it.
401
00:19:25,532 --> 00:19:28,201
I'd punch you
if you didn't stink so bad.
402
00:19:30,437 --> 00:19:33,406
[STUDENTS CHATTERING]
403
00:19:34,741 --> 00:19:36,409
Hey, you bum!
404
00:19:36,443 --> 00:19:38,244
* Yeah, yeah
405
00:19:38,278 --> 00:19:42,015
* Ooh, ooh, ooh
406
00:19:42,048 --> 00:19:45,452
* Ooh, ooh, ooh
407
00:19:45,485 --> 00:19:47,320
* Ooh, ooh
408
00:19:47,354 --> 00:19:50,857
* Ooh, yeah, yeah
409
00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:51,991
Go for the yellow.
410
00:19:52,025 --> 00:19:54,260
Yellow, come on!
Yellow...
411
00:19:54,294 --> 00:19:57,564
Hey, how come you didn't
come to the game?
412
00:19:57,597 --> 00:19:59,332
I felt bad not being there,
413
00:19:59,366 --> 00:20:01,001
but I would have felt worse
414
00:20:01,034 --> 00:20:02,602
seeing you miss those shots,
415
00:20:02,635 --> 00:20:05,705
trip over the ball
and pass to the other team.
416
00:20:05,739 --> 00:20:07,374
You sure you weren't there?
417
00:20:07,407 --> 00:20:09,442
The good thing about
hanging out with nerds
418
00:20:09,476 --> 00:20:12,479
was they were happy
to hang out with anybody.
419
00:20:16,783 --> 00:20:18,518
B-plus. Cool.
420
00:20:20,487 --> 00:20:22,422
Wait a second.
I thought I had a C-plus.
421
00:20:22,455 --> 00:20:24,691
I thought you were on the team.
422
00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:27,994
* Everybody hates Chris
423
00:20:31,698 --> 00:20:35,301
[***]
424
00:20:35,335 --> 00:20:38,538
* Aw, make it funky now