- Once Upon a Time. - [Lydia laughs]
[Ron] Has a nice fairy-tale quality, doesn't it?
[chuckles] That was the actual theme
of the Glendale Flats High senior prom
which Escapade never got to attend.
Oh, did nobody ask her, or--
- Bobby Dando did. - [Ron] Oh.
But, um, we booked an adult diaper ad, yeah.
- Oh. - It was a hard decision,
but she needed drama on her reel.
- And she became a star, so you made the right choice. - Yeah, yeah.
Or I might have ruined her life.
She has been focused on work for too long,
so I need for this to be the magical prom experience
- that she missed. - Mm.
I want her to dance. I want her to have fun.
I invited Bobby Dando.
- Ah, maybe she'll fall in love. - [laughs]
- Okay, Lydia, don't you worry about a thing, - Okay.
'cause I have it all planned out, okay?
We have the fancy court ceremony
- over here. - [Lydia] Yes.
We got King Bobby and Queen Escapade, right?
And then the champagne tower and--oh, Sackson,
come on, not that kind of fairy tale.
Cinderella, happily ever after.
[Lydia] But don't forget, Ron,
this is a PR event for her movie Proms Away,
so everything must go perfect so that she doesn't fire me.
- And that's a real thing. - [Ron] Oh, Lydia.
[Lydia] Yeah?
This is gonna be a fairy-tale ending.
Fairy tale.
Oh, this takes me back.
I met my ex-husband Ed at my senior prom.
Oh, talk about a fairy-tale ending.
- [Lydia] Yeah. - [Ron] Let me guess.
Captain of the football team.
Coach of the football team.
Oh, yeah.
[upbeat jazzy music plays]
♪ ♪
[Roman] But I realized I could use the time loop
to link the secret of the worm-kind
to the birth of the council.
And I still have some details to work out, but...
I think I cracked it, after ten years.
I even have a title: Wells of Time.
I guess I owe you one for shaming me
into taking shrooms.
[Lucy] Yeah, it works.
It's how I got the idea for this appetizer,
which I didn't think I'd ever get to try,
but tonight Ron insisted I pull out all the stops.
I wanted to try my ambient cod fog, but--
Hey-oh! Who's psyched for prom night?
No one.
Prom is performative social hierarchy bullshit.
Yeah, no kidding.
"Buy a ticket to your own debasement."
It's a total scam.
Wait a minute, you went to prom?
With who... or what?
Milda Peele, who laughed so hard
at the jocks and socs making fun of me
that her headgear sproinged off.
- [Kyle snickers] - [Roman] Fuck romance
and the entire prom-industrial complex.
Okay, okay, okay.
All right, Constance will not be Zooming in today,
so we can skip the spiritual cleansing nonsense
and get straight to business, all right?
Real business. This is Sloan Meitz.
She's EVP of physical marketing at Bisno Studios.
She is an events legend.
Events legend.
- She's an events legend! - Okay.
Okay? If you're in Sloan Meitz's Rolodex,
you will work constantly.
So our plan tonight:
dazzle Sloan with our professionalism,
exchange business cards,
and get into that goddamn Rolodex.
All right, let's do it!
Okay, Ron, just so you know,
you've almost eaten the whole batch.
Okay, I'm sorry. You know, I'm nervous eating,
so just, you know, get a new tray.
I mean, that was it.
What do you mean, that was it?
That--you had one tray for the whole party?
That was all the red urchin I could get
with what you budgeted.
This is sea urchin?
You said pull out all the stops.
Just do the shrimps!
Make the shrimps fancy.
Hey- hey Henry, know who this is?
Sloan Meitz, PR legend,
and yes, I will bartend my heart out.
That's right, and this is
for all the marbles, everybody, okay?
So let's go! Let's get it, okay?
I want tight, professional service.
Hey, sorry I'm late.
Ah, Constance.
You said you were taking your borzoi
to the dog spa in Ojai.
[Constance] And miss the big night?
No, I'm here to support my partner. [chuckles]
All right, everybody, eyes over here.
We're going to do a favorite mantra.
- Om-- - [Ron] No, no.
We-we already did the team meeting,
- so, you know. - Oh, okay.
Um, how about we do this? How about you just monitor...
[Constance] Yes.
...uh, this area?
Yes. The room where it happens.
Ha-ha! You can count on me, Ron.
- [Constance chuckles] - All right.
Peak performance, people!
I like your wig.
Oh, it's just, uh, gel and stuff.
Evie and I both missed our prom back in the day...
[video game blipping]
...and, uh, well, she suggested we do
this, like, '90s flashback prom thing.
Hence, you know... [chuckles]
Yeah, must be getting serious if you're in
the "humiliate yourself" stage.
Nah, you look good, man.
Shades of Van Der Beek.
What?
[singer] ♪ I'm like, hold up Like, wow ♪
♪ Got ninety-nine problems But a beat ain't one ♪
♪ ♪
Hey, once upon a time,
there was a magical prom
brought to you by Proms Away,
in theaters everywhere.
Evie, got your message, uh, about dinner running late.
Uh, just... I'm here, and I'll see you later.
Bye.
[Lydia] Oh, Escapade. Do you think she's having fun?
So is that the kid who asked her to prom in high school?
Yeah, Bobby Dando.
Oh, isn't he so handsome?
This is gonna be the most romantic night.
Oh, for God's sake.
I've been in Hollywood how long
and I don't have even the most rudimentary gaynar?
Gaynar?
Oh, it's, like, gay sonar to know who's gay.
Oh, um, "Who Spiked The" Punch? please.
- You got it. - Fun party, Mom.
Great viral marketing potential.
- Like the prom you never had. - [Escapade] Mm-hmm.
Might even be... magical?
- Oh, maybe. - Oh, maybe.
Well, she seems into it. It's working.
Hmm, yeah. Maybe.
That's the thing with a kid actor.
You never know what's real.
I mean, is she having fun? Like, real fun?
I--ooh, Sackson, Sackson.
You do computer dances
like the Goobot and the Schmaz.
Go make her dance.
You mean, like, just go over and--
Yeah! I just want her never not having fun, okay?
[Lydia groans] Ooh!
So, uh, you want me in on this one?
Oh, actually, Kyle, it's her prom,
so I think she should be having a cool, fun time
- with the kids. - Sure.
Yeah, no, I just know she always used to think
I was pretty cool and fun, but--
[Lydia] Well, that was a long time ago, honey.
- No, I-I get it. - You're older now.
- It's okay. - I--
Sloan's here.
- Sloan is here, okay? - [Lydia] Oh, God, okay.
So I want you to just introduce me.
You know, just something like, "This is Ron."
Real casual. Uh, you know, "Great guy.
- Total professional"-- - [Lydia] Oh, Sloan, hi.
Always great to see you.
Interesting party.
Brand messaging plus realness.
Escapade missed her prom, so...
I wish I missed mine.
[Lydia] Was it not romantic?
Did you see the movie Carrie?
No. Is it romantic?
[Ron clearing throat excessively]
[Lydia] Oh, speaking of, did you meet--
Hi, Ron Donald. Party Down Catering.
Uh, may I have my bartender, Henry,
prepare you a drink to start out your evening?
Okay, very good.
Gin martini, dirty, one olive.
[Ron] Uh, you know what?
I have my card right here, so let me--
[Sloan] Ron Donald.
Any relation to a Ronald Donald
who was cited by the Event Guild
for an off-book quinceañera during the lockdown?
Um, uh, who-wh-wh-wh--uh, who?
[Henry] Okay, here is a gin martini,
dirty, one olive.
[Sloan] Thank you.
[upbeat music playing, people cheering and yelling]
♪ ♪
Very solid, Henry.
And nice haircut.
Wow!
She's never this friendly.
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-kay. Sloan Meitz. [chuckles]
Our ticket to the big time.
Hey, are you okay? You're kind of sweating.
Hmm? Yeah, it's a big night. A lot of pressure, you know.
But you know what they say about pressure, Henry.
It smushes you?
Pressure makes diamonds, Henry.
And by the end of tonight,
this guy is going to be a diamond, so...
♪ ♪
Chicken finger inventory?
Notes for a thing I'm working on.
I'm actually a writer.
Oh, wow.
What kind of stuff do you write?
- Sci-fi. - I love sci-fi.
- Hardsci-fi. - How hard?
This makes Dune look like Star Wars.
[scoffs] Yeah, Dune basically is Star Wars.
Yeah, um, but...
this-this is way harder.
And when the Novice Guardian finds the time loop,
he learns the secret of the council founding--
That they--that they stole the energy well
from the worm-kind.
Yeah, and trapped them in the past.
[Steph] I don't know if you've heard this before,
but, like, this should totally be,
like, a quality streaming series.
- Totally. - Right?
- Yeah. - Like, it would be expen--
Roman. Roman. RDD, ABC.
Always Be Circulating.
- My boss-- - Is a bummer.
- Yeah. - [Steph] Sucks.
Okay, well, I don't know, if you're, like, interested.
Maybe you wanna, like, talk more later?
[laughter]
[person] Awesome prom, Ms. D.
[Lydia] Oh!
[phone ringing]
Hey, Lydia. What's up?
- What are you doing? - It's Ted Fine. Don't look!
What? Get! Get!
Come on, come here.
No, don't look. Hide!
Who's that?
Arguably the top manager in town.
[gasps]
He's trying to steal Escapade.
[gasps]
I need you to get rid of him.
Like, murder?
No, just get him out of here somehow.
[hyperventilating]
- Go! - Okay.
- [Lydia] What the-- - [Lucy] I don't understand.
You were the one who said, "Fuck romance
and the entire prom-industrial complex."
Yeah, well, I mean, I don't do romance.
But it's weird. I think I felt...
what might have been a romantic feeling.
Usually, that is just lust.
No, she's all right,
but my lust criteria are very high.
This was different.
Like, we really talked. We had a real connection.
You know, eyes locked.
- She had a sick burn on Dune. - [Constance] Yeah.
I don't know, she was really into my idea,
and I just, like, felt something.
- Mm. - I just don't know what to do.
Well, Roman, if there's one thing
I take away from all of my relationships--
marriages, affairs, flings, one-night stands,
blindfold parties, coin flip fucks...
- Jesus. - ...it's this.
Follow your heart. [chuckles]
[singer] ♪ You love me Till you wear me out ♪
♪ Then you love me more ♪
♪ I'm blue to the middle Just like you ♪
♪ Freezing to the core ♪
♪ The days, they fly ♪
♪ Like trains go by... ♪
What the fuck?
[singer] ♪ Home to you ♪
♪ And I think about... ♪
Anti-Manvideo game release was... okay.
Not special in any way.
The WeathererDVD release event was solid.
Not good but solid.
Are you enjoying the prom, though?
As brand marketing, it's fine,
but prom as a concept is not for me.
Well, I'm sorry you had a bad time at yours.
Who said I had a rough time?
Well, earlier, you compared it to the movie Carrie.
Oh, yes.
We poured pig's blood on an annoying girl
and got in trouble.
Huh.
Gin martini, olive, dirty.
[Sloan] Mm.
- Consistent. - Thank you.
[phone chimes]
[Henry] Longest dinner in history...
Getting stood up?
Again.
What do you mean, again?
Night of my high school prom,
my date's ex did the fucking Say Anythingmove
where you stand under a window
and blast a song out of a boom box.
- Wait, that worked? - Yeah.
I tried that with a girl once.
She didn't even come to the window.
Just her dad,
and he threw a cup of urine on me.
Well, you know what they say.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice...
...fuck prom.
[upbeat dance music playing]
♪ ♪
[groaning] Come on, Ron.
Pull your shit together. Pull your shit together, Ron.
Hey, Lydia, hey. Oh, it's going great in there.
Yeah, yeah. Is, uh--oh, is Sloan impressed?
I don't know. I've never seen her have an emotion.
- [Ron] Mm. - [Lydia] Is Escapade happy?
Oh, she's having the time of her life.
And you, Ron? You look red and wet.
No, I'm great. Yeah. Top of my game, so...
Great. Cool as a cucumber.
- [Ted] No need to apologize. - [Sackson] I am so sorry.
- That guy, he bumped my elbow. - No, no, it's-it's fine.
- I lost tray control. - I understand.
- I don't-- - Accidents sometimes happen.
Ah, Lydia, I was involved in a little wine accident
and didn't bring a backup shirt,
so I will be saying good night.
Um, perhaps another time.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Great to see you, Ted.
Wow!
I can't believe I took a game off Ted Fine,
arguably the savviest manager in town.
He doesn't know you did it on purpose, right?
You pretended?
Yes.
Okay, we are looking good. We are looking good.
- [Roman] Ron? - [Ron] Yeah?
You look like a lobster being boiled
while having a heart attack.
You do look weird. Ron, are you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine. What? [chuckles]
I mean, you know, a little pressure, you know?
But you know what they say. Pressure makes diamonds, so...
Very rarely. Usually it just crushes things.
Ugh!
I tried to power through, but, um,
my stomach is in knots.
And I'm sweating, and I have a fucking rash.
[Constance] Just relax.
This is just like in high school
on the football team when I really wanted to be
a wide receiver so bad,
and then I finally got my lucky break
when they suspended the starting offense
for rolling a nerd down a hill in a trash can, you know?
And then on game day, I got so nervous.
You know, I just was sweating, and I broke out into hives.
And you played the best game ever, right?
First play, I threw up in my helmet,
and I ran into a cheerleader pyramid.
I don't know football. Is that bad?
[Ron] Yes. Hey, oh.
Lucy, did you get any more sea urchin?
Because I wanted Sloan to try some.
Actually, Ron, I just found out my urchin guy
sold me hot urchin,
which might be why you're feeling poorly.
Stolen urchin?
Stolen and left in a hot car.
- [Constance gasps] - Did it smell or taste off?
- I can't smell or taste. - He had COVID four times.
Wait, are you telling me that I got food poisoning
from eating bad sea urchin?
Sorry, Ron.
I asked my urchin guy to please not do that again.
Oh, thank God!
Thank God! I have food poisoning!
- [Ron laughs] - [Constance] Yay!
I thought I couldn't handle the pressure,
but this is a relief.
Food poisoning.
- [Ron laughs] - [Constance] Oh.
Food poisoning!
Okay, do you have any l-- that lady face stuff?
What, foundation?
Yeah, 'cause I just wanna put a little bit of that on,
and then I'm just gonna power through.
Constance, can you do a quick app inventory
wh-while I do this, okay?
And thank you. I will return it.
[singer] ♪ This is the vogue zone... ♪
No, no, you can keep it.
♪ This is the vogue zone This is the vogue zone... ♪
E-Escapade.
Uh, sorry, I was helping your mom.
Oh, don't worry, Kyle's a great dancer.
Oh.
Yeah, and not in a dad way at all.
- No. - [Sackson] Mm.
Yeah, well, I wonder if he can do the schmeeze, though.
[both] What?
- Schmeeze? Have you ever... - No.
[Sackson] Oh, wh--
[Escapade] Oh!
Okay.
Hey. Hey, I was looking for you.
Um, I wanted to continue our conversation from earlier.
Um, okay, so I was thinking about the end.
I had a bit of an idea, if it's okay.
Um, the worm-kind--
Sure you wanna talk right now?
Don't you have someone to make out with?
- What? - I thought we had a thing.
Like, we were flirting, but--
What are you-- what are you talking about?
You were making out with some guy.
My boyfriend?
[singer] ♪ Listen It's called a dance ♪
♪ Shablam, Chanel ♪
♪ Hit that duck walk Drop it low ♪
♪ In the light And watch me glow ♪
♪ Put that weave Against the floor ♪
♪ Hit that dip Get a pop for me ♪
♪ Mug is dusted Face is beat ♪
♪ Crack that fan And keep the beat ♪
♪ Drop it, spin it Then repeat ♪
♪ Dance, the vogue zone ♪
♪ This is the vogue zone Vogue zone ♪
♪ Turn up the vogue song Vogue song ♪
♪ Up all night We vogue long, vogue long ♪
♪ So come get your vogue on Vogue on ♪
♪ This is the vogue zone This is the vogue zone ♪
♪ This is the vogue zone Work ♪
♪ This is the vogue zone This is the vogue zone ♪
♪ This is the vogue zone Work ♪
♪ Walk to the walk, the walk W-walk-walk... ♪
- [Kyle] Hup! - [people cheer]
Shit, sorry, I gotta deal with this.
Sure. No, yeah, as-as long as you're having fun.
Yeah, totally. So fun.
Yeah, like, equally, or, like, was there one person
you felt like was more fun?
What, like, who's cooler?
Which one of you is-is the cooler dude?
Well, when you say it like that, it kinda sounds goofy.
- [chuckles] - Does it?
[Sackson] Yeah, but if there's one person
you were having more fun with, like...
Okay, look.
I'm here 'cause of my mom.
Okay?
You know, she did this whole party for me.
I know it means a lot to her, so I need her to think
that I am having the greatest time.
Sure, but in terms of fun with us?
Yes, Kyle, I was having fun with you--
as part of a performance.
I've been acting...
all night. [laughs]
God, my sense memory is exhausted
from psychological gesturing.
I have personalized everybody in this room.
But you just broke character, so maybe--
Right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
Right, right, but, Kyle, I'm getting right back in.
And whatever this is, God, it is not part
of my super-objective for tonight, you know?
So I gotta make this call, okay?
[Kyle] Well, maybe you could include us
in your given circumstances.
[wincing and groaning]
[Ron] It's no joke, getting older.
[toilet flushes]
You know, back in the day,
I wouldn't even sweat it over a little bellyache,
but now...
you know...
- time, man. - Yeah.
It's a large decorated room, and they play music.
I mean, what's the big deal?
Prom doesn't live up to the hype.
Uh, sorry for the long message.
I will see you later.
- How are you guys doing? - [Ron] Yeah, great.
Turns out, it wasn't stress.
It was just food poisoning.
So I'm fine.
[Kyle] Yeah, I'm good. I'm good.
Yeah, I just, um, had to stretch a little bit.
[Henry] Okay, great.
It is great, you know?
It's been a long road,
but I powered through, and...
here I am.
Ah. Right? On the brink of success.
So I'm just gonna exchange business cards with Sloan,
and I will feel so good.
All right, you know, they, uh, say
the hardest part of climbing Mount Everest
is the last 50 feet.
Oh, fuck.
[groans]
Jesus, Ron.
[Roman] Okay, so good news.
[gasps] Did you get kissed at the prom?
No, it's not like that at all.
So she's a development exec.
Sci-fi is hot right now. She likes my idea.
Oh!
So those romantic feelings you had?
Well, I guess I've never actually experienced
someone into my stuff.
Turns out, it's, like, a really great feeling
that I mistook for, you know, love or something.
But you said you had this intense connection
with the eyes.
- She'd had a lot of cocaine. - Oh.
But the big news: she bought my idea.
- Roman! - [Roman] Wells of Time.
Coming soon to Smydgyn. Huh?
Smydgyn? What-what is Smydgyn?
It's the future of streaming.
It's quality content optimized for today's media.
Phones, tablets, screens in the car for your dashboard.
- Right. - Um, vacuum screens,
fridge screen--
- [Lucy] Oh, shit. - [Constance gasps]
- [Henry] Okay. - [Lucy] Oh, Ron!
[Henry] All right, Ron,
we're just gonna find a seat over here, all right?
Don't get his slime on anything.
- Here we go, here we go. - [Constance] Here, here, here.
[Ron] No, I just need a little rest.
- [groans] - Okay, just rest.
Yep, and then I'm just gonna power through.
And we're gonna, um...
[flatulence]
...set up the prom court ceremony.
Where's my clipboard?
- Here. Here, Ron. - [Henry] Right there.
- [Constance] Here you go. - [Ron] Oh, okay. Okay, good.
- Constance? - [Constance] Yes.
You-you took care of the inventory?
I did not get to that yet.
Oh, God! I can't--
What happened to "you can count on me"?
Well, what happened to "I'll be fine"?
I am fine! God!
- [flatulence] - [Ron] Oh, no.
- [Constance] Oh, Ron. Oh! - [Henry] Jesus, Ron.
[Ron] Okay, no, I got it, I got it, I got it.
- I got it, I got it, I got it. - Okay, okay.
- [Ron] I'm a grown goddamn man! - Don't kill him!
[groaning]
Constance.
Oh, honey, I'm here.
[groans] I don't think I'm gonna power through it.
Oh, okay.
So we need to impress Sloan,
and we need to...
- exchange business cards. - Yes.
And we need to finish this party.
- [Constance] Mm-hmm. - Okay?
- Okay. - [Ron] All right.
Everything you need to know is in here,
and you just need to tell everybody what to do.
Ron, I can't do that.
Order people around, I can't do it.
There's too much pressure. There's too much tension.
It's tension-y.
In fact, I'm actually allergic to it.
I-I experience sweat and hives--
You mean--you mean like what I'm going through?
No, not that bad, no.
Okay, see, Constance?
[Constance] Yes.
We're supposed to be partners, right?
Oh, Jesus Christ, I'm gonna--
Henry, gonna need a pot.
Henry, Henry, Henry.
- [Henry] A pot. - [Ron] I need a pot.
Somebody get me a pot. Somebody get me a pot.
- Somebody get me a pot. - [Lucy] Not that pot.
- Okay. - [Ron gagging]
[retches]
Nope.
[retches]
- [groans] - [flatulence]
- Oh, wrong end! - [pot clatters]
Okay, everybody out!
Everybody out. Let's go!
- Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. - [flatulence]
- [Evie] Sorry I'm late. - [Ron] Oh, Mama!
- Evie. - Oh, my God, your hair.
- Uh-- - [Evie] I didn't even--
- [flatulence] - [Henry] Let's just go.
What is that? What is that?
What is fucking wrong with me?
- Jesus Christ. - [Ron screaming]
Let's go.
[DJ] It's almost time for our prom court ceremony
to crown our prom king and queen!
Brought to you by Proms Away.
Side by side, you guys, side by side.
Arm's length.
Arm's length, like a human arm, you guys,
not a baby arm.
Hello, I'm, uh, Constance Carmell,
and I'm, uh--I'm Ron's partner.
Mm. Sloan.
- Sloan Meitz. - [Constance] Yes.
[upbeat music playing]
♪ ♪
[breathing heavily]
[Lydia] Oh, here you are, honey.
Having fun?
Hey, did you see Ted Fine earlier?
I invited him, but I guess he left suddenly--
Okay, so you admit it.
Admit what?
That you invited Ted Fine to the party I planned
to give you the magical prom you never had
so that you could talk behind my back about firing me.
After everything I did,
after sacrificing my whole entire life
to make your dream a reality--
Wait, Mom, you think I invited Ted
so I could fire you
and sign with him?
Classic Ted.
Three-dimensional chess. Oh, that guy's a total pro.
Was it--was it not for that?
Mom, I invited Ted tonight for you.
It's a setup.
A setup?
For me?
Yeah.
[DJ] Okay, just about time for us to crown
our king and queen of the prom.
Brought to you byProms Away,
in theaters everywhere.
I worry, Mom.
You work too much.
Gotta go do some marketing, okay?
[chuckles]
[DJ] Just beautiful.
Your prom king and queen, everyone.
[Constance] Hey, you guys,
once you start pouring that thing, you can't fuck up.
There's no going back in time, okay?
It's a oner. Yeah.
[Panic! at the Disco's "Impossible Year" playing]
♪ ♪
[singer] ♪ There's no sunshine ♪
♪ This impossible year... ♪
[Lydia] Aw.
Isn't it all so beautiful?
If you like that sort of thing.
My prom was magical.
Oh, I danced. I fell in love.
Let me guess, captain of the football team?
[Lydia] Mm, well, something like that.
[laughs] What about you?
Huh, was it magical?
It was a nightmare, actually.
[whispering] Kyle! Straight tray.
Tray straight. What the fuck?
Did no one ask you?
Steve Deaver, popular kid from the rich side of town.
- Handsome. - That sounds magical.
But Andy Gorick, not so handsome.
Sensitive, nice type with a quirky sense of humor.
He was there as well.
I ended up having to choose.
Choosing between two boys?
One popular, one nice?
I mean, I like that.
It was so fucking tense!
How does anyone choose that?
It's like--
it's like the ultimate conundrum.
Sackson, napkin down. Napkin down.
[Lydia] So, um, well, what did you decide?
- [Constance] Mm, I couldn't. - [Lydia] Hmm.
I threw up in the bushes, and I ran home crying.
Six miles.
It was the worst day of my life.
Oh. At least this one's been magical, right?
Mm, so long as I get
her fucking business card.
Sloan Meitz.
I'm sorry that dinner went so late
and you and your hair were stuck here all alone.
Seeing it now, I get it.
It must have been a very difficult time for you.
Well, I do look like a fucking idiot.
You do. You do.
Thanks.
It's just, dinner got very business-y.
Mm.
There was good news, and there was bad news.
The bad news, the part that I wanted to get you,
- Colonel Striker... - Right, the Mark Strong type.
...they went with Mark Strong.
Sorry.
Story of my entire life.
But what's the good news?
I got promoted.
Oh.
Great. Good for you.
And for you.
I was telling them at dinner
that I think the hero stuff is dead end
and that I think I wanted a change,
and he said, "Well, how about Star Saga?"
Like, oversee the whole franchise.
- What? - [Evie laughs]
Starts in Tunisia in three months.
Oh.
So good for me-- I don't get the job
and my girlfriend moves to Tunisia.
Good for you, you can be Colonel Barlorian.
Colonel Barlorian?
He's a space guy.
He-he-he pops up over the entire franchise.
And they want a Mark Strong type,
and now I get final say.
But isn't that kinda like, I don't know,
- nepotism or something? - Exactly.
It's a stroke of good luck for you, finally.
- [Henry scoffs] - [Evie] If--
if you still want it.
[singer] ♪ And a coast That's unclear ♪
♪ All the guests At the party... ♪
[Henry] Oh, shit.
- [Evie] What? - Um, sorry.
- Ms. Carmell? - Yes?
I wasn't aware you condoned your staff
leaving their stations to fraternize.
- Excuse me. - [Sloan] Mm-hmm.
- Henry? - [Henry] Yeah.
Why aren't you at your station?
Is this job a joke for you?
This is no joke.
This is catering.
- Absolutely. - [Constance] Also no joke,
you're fired.
You're fired, Henry!
And if you ever bartend again,
it'll be to serve up boiled shit in hell for Satan.
Go!
Okay, and I am sorry to have let down
such a quality catering company.
What is happening?
You too, Poindexter. Get the fuck outta here!
Did you get a new boss?
Nah, she doesn't even work here.
Come on, I'll walk you out.
[singer] ♪ Put your hands On your hips ♪
♪ And you move like this ♪
♪ La, la, la, la, la... ♪
[Lydia] Oh, my little prom queen.
[Escapade] Mm!
I'm so proud of you.
- It was a good party, Mom. - [Lydia] Mm.
I did have fun. I'm not acting.
Oh, I'm just glad you're not all screwed up, sweetie.
That child actor thing is a myth.
I figured it was.
[camera shutter clicks]
[chuckling] Oh, yeah.
What I'm worried about now is the whole mom-manager thing.
- Wait, that's a thing? - Yeah.
You end up getting your work and your family life
all scrambled up.
Just a whole big mess.
Huh.
I just wanna be your mom, so...
I'm firing you as a client, honey.
Wait, Mom, what?
[singer] ♪ Dance, ow ♪
[retching]
[groaning]
[Ron] Constance, this is the men's room.
Ugh.
I'm sorry, Ron. I didn't check.
[sighs] It's done.
[Constance sighs]
I gave her our card.
And look.
You exchanged cards?
We exchanged cards.
Oh, man, yes!
[both] I knew I could do it!
I did it!
[sobs]
[belches] Ugh.
[upbeat jazz music plays]
♪ ♪
Am I thinking about it?
Well, I don't know. Were you serious?
Then yeah, I'm-I'm-I'm thinking about it.
Yeah, seriously.
[upbeat music playing]
[Lucy] I guess they had unfinished business.
It's some kind of dance-off to determine who's the coolest.
[Henry] Huh.
[Lucy] Kyle just slid down the banister.
Anyway, Evie, how about I come over?
We can discuss it further.
[Sackson] Hey, Kyle, top this!
[laughs]
[screaming]
[crowd gasps]
Yes! Hey!
Baby! Still the coolest!
♪ ♪
[person clears throat] Tree.