[Ella] Previously on Run the World...
For your first assignment, you won a trip to cover
Soulja Boy's Legends party tonight.
Anderson? What are you doing here?
I missed you, Ella.
[light funk music playing]
No.
[Sondi] Well, I'm fucking
my thesis advisor and kind of sort of
raising his kid in an undefined relationship,
which makes our communication
about me fake step parenting his daughter
easy and effortless.
You're getting married.
You missed the window for entry.
Well, apparently, I missed the window for everything
because I spent my 20s fucking my college sweetheart
instead of fucking that guy.
[Ella] That's Chris Cabrera. He's the community peen.
Weddings are so overrated.
Inspiring prenuptial insights from our only married friend.
[singer] ♪ Make you wanna coca Your boom party ♪
♪ Every y'all move back When my mind don't play ♪
♪ Every y'all push back Like a real artist ♪
[moaning]
[Jason] Ah, shit, I'm about to bust.
Not...yet.
Why not yet?
Wait for it. [giggles]
Oh, fuck!
Jesus, Renee!
Oh, my bad.
I was just trying to hit a reverse cowgirl.
Ow! What was wrong with regular cowgirl?
[sighs]
[ethereal percussive music plays]
[singer vocalizing]
[Ella] Did you have a private call
with Al Roker this morning?
[Sondi] Huh?
You're looking real Hollywood in these Harlem streets.
Oh, Matthew and I had a late night last night,
so it's a sunglasses and Advil kind of morning.
Aw, look at you two having fun.
[phone buzzes]
-[Sondi] It's Renee. -[Ella scoffs]
Niggers!
[both laughing]
Honestly, I can't.
-Ooh! -Oh, oh!
♪
[singer] ♪ We running, we running ♪
♪ We run the world We run the world ♪
♪ We run the world ♪
♪ We running, we running ♪
♪ We run the world ♪
♪ We run the world We run the ♪
[Ola] Yeah, the ER's pretty slow for a Saturday,
so I should be able to get outta here
when my shift actually ends.
Hey, your Aunt Feyi is the one
who's hosting us tonight, right?
She's your mom's third youngest sister, correct?
Yes, correct. Impressive.
Well, I've been studying the seating chart.
[Ola] Babe, I appreciate you making the effort,
but that's not necessary.
[Whitney] No, your family is important to you,
so your family is important to me.
You are important to me.
Aw, so you really like me, huh?
I'm serious, Ola.
I love you very much.
I love you too.
Now, my aunts came a long way to meet and judge you,
-so please be on time. -[laughs]
I'll be there with bells on.
Well, after dinner, uh,
I wanna ring those bells.
-[laughs] -Ooh.
Take it off, take it off.
-Take it off. -[knock at door]
-[Radha] Whitney? -Take it--
I got that research
on the Beyond Burger IPO you wanted.
Ah, I gotta go. I'll see you in a few.
[Ola] Bye, babe.
-Oh, was that my mans, the Big O? -It was.
I've never been to the wedding for a Nigerian prince before.
Oh, you're not invited.
-And he's not a prince. -[Chad] You sure?
It's such a princely sounding name.
[in deep voice] Olabisi Adeyemo.
[Whitney] Just don't.
[Chad] Hey, where's the honeymoon?
Wait, don't tell me.
The doctor and the banker go to...
Bora Bora.
-The Maldives. -Boom!
That is straight baller status.
You are, like, never coming back to work, are you?
-Of course I am. -[Chad] Yeah, right.
The Big O is gonna hit you with the old honeymoon pumps
in a bumps and have you barefoot and pregnant
by the time you cross back over the Atlantic.
I am not getting pregnant, and I am absolutely
-coming back to work. -Okay.
I mean, that's what all the boss chicks say,
and then three months later, they bounce.
Stop being such a sexist moron.
These days, women go back to work much faster.
Just pump and freeze and leave the baby with a nanny.
[George] Great, you're all still here.
Uh, Brett Peters from Eco Cheese just called.
He's in town, and he wants us-- meaning you--
to take him to dinner tonight at one of those vegan places
where they substitute cauliflower for steak.
Uh, George, I have a wedding appointment tonight
-that I cannot-- -Oh, I'll do it. Brett loves me.
[George] No, he loves Whitney, so he gets Whitney.
You get to go and learn.
I'm sorry about the wedding stuff.
You got this?
I got it.
[upbeat pop music playing]
[singer] ♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Thatha! ♪
-♪ You got issues ♪ -♪ Yeah ♪
♪ You got issues You got issues ♪
-♪ Thatha! ♪ -♪ Ngo vivi ♪
[laughter]
G'day, ladies. What can I get you?
We'll take three mimosas.
Three gin martinis, straight up.
Must be a hard morning.
[laughs] Actually, getting divorced
is surprisingly easy.
-Cheers! -Okay.
What did Jason do this time?
Leave black socks on the floor?
No. I kicked him in the head.
-Huh. -Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I'm trying to picture that in my mind,
but the logistics of it are escaping me.
Well, I was fucking him on top,
and I tried to turn around without dismounting,
and I kicked him in the face.
She was born without a filter.
-Was he hurt? -He bruises if you pinch him.
He has yellow undertones.
You could've broken my nose.
I said I'm sorry.
Stop acting like a pussy. God.
Well, that's not very Black feminist of you, is it?
[scoffs]
Right. [chuckles]
The feminist part of me is supposed to be okay
with supporting you financially while you chase a pipe dream,
but calling you a pussy?
[scoffs] That's off-limits.
I thought you believed in the band.
I do believe in the band.
I don't believe in you
quitting your job to manage them.
When we blow up...
I'm not gonna let you take a selfie with us.
Mm-mm.
Where you going?
Renee, I'm-I'm trying here.
We said we were gonna try.
I just tried.
This...
...was me trying.
We don't have to do cowgirl.
[door slams]
We got lazy doggy.
Regular doggy.
There's all different kinds of doggy we could do.
That is a fascinating way to end a marriage.
When did you move to the States?
Who, me?
Well, I've been here for five years already.
I love your accent.
What's your name?
Colin.
No. Sorry, Colin.
We're here for me today. No flirting.
-Why you hating? -How am I hating?
You don't fuck white dudes, so this flirtation
would ultimately go nowhere and only annoy him and me.
You've never fucked a white guy?
[Ella] No. You know this.
-Have you? -Yeah.
Do you remember Crew Kid from Emory?
Oh, yeah. Sophomore year.
How was the sex?
It was the same, but fleshier.
-What? -[Sondi] I don't know.
There's something about white guys.
Their skin is just... it's fleshier.
Well, no one's sucking fleshy white dicks today,
so can we please get back to
mourning the end of my marriage?
-Yeah? Let's do that. -[phone ringing]
Uh-uh, tell that broad
there's no conference dial in a playtime.
What's her problem?
She's getting divorced.
-Again. -Mm-mm.
Nope.
[phone ringing]
Where the fuck are you?
Stuck at work.
-It's Saturday! -[Whitney] I know.
We're prepping for this IPO,
and Ola and I have a tasting--
I'm not trying to be mean,
but I don't give a fuck about your wedding today.
Wow, there. Way harsh, Tai.
I'm sorry, but today is
"Renee's getting a divorce" day.
I'll care about your wedding tomorrow.
So wait, it's really ov--
-Well, okay, then. -Okay.
So this motherfucker said
that slavery is the reason our marriage failed.
Oh, my God.
Not slavery.
[Jason] So you kick me in the face
and just go take a shit?
[toilet flushes]
You're doing it wrong. The paper hangs over the top.
Jason, who the fuck cares?
And once again, you left me four freakin' squares.
I care. I care!
Why do you always gotta be
on your independent woman bullshit?
Why can't you ever just do what I ask?
There's so not enough money in this relationship
for gender roles.
It's always about money with you.
Nope. Nope. Not letting you flip this.
Don't try to make me the villain.
I married a private equity manager,
not Ja Rule's former intern, for a reason.
You've never supported the things I've wanted.
You can't be serious.
Our entire marriage, that is all I've ever done.
Sure, as long as it benefitted you.
[laughing]
-You should've kicked him again. -Mm.
So where does slavery come into all of this?
Okay, what's up with these glasses?
[laughs]
Um, well...
[whispering] I have pink eye.
Amari brought it home from school?
No, no.
Matthew... pooted in my face.
[both laughing]
What?
Well, I have been trying
to spice things up in the bedroom
since that whole Amari ballet debacle,
so I was doing this...
perineum stimulation thing with my tongue.
Okay, and?
And I encouraged him to sit on my face
so I could get a better angle,
and when he got up there, he... pooted.
[both laughing]
You don't have pink eye, you have stink eye.
[both laughing]
Come on, girl. Laugh.
The shit's funny. The shit's funny.
What's a perineum?
Uh, it's an imaginary strip of real estate
between your balls and your asshole
that only existed in the pages of Cosmo
in the early aughts.
You're talking about the t'aint.
[both] The what?
T'aint the balls, t'aint the pussy,
t'aint the ass.
[both laughing]
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Very funny, joke is on me.
I'm going to the bathroom.
I'm gonna go make room for more liquor.
-All right. -Take your nasty ass...
[laughing] to the bathroom.
Get your mouth off of me.
-[screams] -[both laugh]
Oh, Mr. Perineum,
can you get me another one of these?
[both laughing]
[smooth funky music playing]
[Brett] I love that dress.
-Oh. -[Brett] Cushnie?
You have fabulous taste.
Well, thank you. [laughs]
So Brett, we wanted to discuss pricing for the Eco IPO
'cause based on the Beyond Meat numbers,
we think we can go higher.
Yes, from our analysis, we can go up to $10 more a share
and still expect a 100% increase when we open.
I'll do whatever this gorgeous gal tells me.
We're cheese people, not greed people.
Listen, Brett, you gotta be mindful
of leaving money on the table.
I mean, it would be malpractice if we let you sell this--
Take a breath, sweetness.
I trust Miss Whitney with my life.
She'll make the right call.
So how's the wedding planning going?
Do you have a picture of your fiancé?
I've never seen the lucky bastard.
[laughs] Yes.
[phone buzzing]
Oh, my God. He looks like a Benetton model.
[chuckles]
You two are perfect.
Oh, well, I'm not perfect,
but he still loves me,
-flaws and all. -[phone buzzes]
[Brett] Um, how do I get an invite to this wedding?
[tense music plays]
[Ella] He's the community peen.
He's literally fucked everybody we know.
[Brett] So Miss Whitney, invitation?
[laughs]
Well, um, let's get this IPO to market and we'll see.
-[chuckles] -[phone buzzes]
Excuse me. One second.
[Ola] Hey, Whitney.
Are you seriously standing me up again?
I'm sorry, I'm still working.
Oh, what the hell? Whitney, my aunts are pissed.
Ola, it's not like I'm just hanging with the homies.
I'm with a client.
I know you were nervous about meeting them,
but this is getting embarrassing.
Are you coming?
Yes.
Okay, well, just call me when you're on your way.
I gotta go cover for us.
["The Almighty Snap" by Sugg Savage playing]
[singer vocalizing]
♪
[Brett] My love, where to next?
I wanna do Nueva York à la Whitney Greene.
Oh, Whitney can get us in anywhere.
♪
[singer] ♪ Ashes to ashes... ♪
I guess I can do one drink.
[singer] ♪ He fell too far from this tree of life... ♪
So is he talking Kunta slave?
12 Years a Slave? What degree of slave?
Girl, he took it way back.
All the slaves were there.
Okay, do-do you not understand the plight of the Black man?
Slavery?
[gasps]
Mm!
[Jason] What are you looking for?
Oh, I'm-I'm just looking for where the fuck
slavery just came from.
You act like I cheated on you.
Oh... [laughs]
...you cheated on both of us.
You cheated yourself out of a career,
you cheated me out of financial stability,
and you cheated us out of the future
we've been planning for the last five years.
And, you know, I'm just not understanding.
If you wanted to manage a band...
why are we paying off your MBA?
Oh, you really think these degrees
mean something, don't you?
Yes, Jason.
A Stanford and a Wharton MBA
do not a broke couple make.
Barack to my Michelle.
Do you really think you're bringing it like Michelle?
-Nigga, what?! -Renee, listen.
If you think I'm choosing to not make
as much money as I want to make,
you don't know me at all.
I made an investment in something
I believe in for us.
For you.
We--
you made an investment?
Jason?
I invested some of our mutual fund.
Uh, well, how much of our mutual fund?
All of it.
Some of that was my money.
It's your money now?
'Cause it was our money yesterday.
Yes, it was "our" money when "we" were investing it.
You-you're joking, right?
Jason.
Please tell me you're fucking joking.
Can't you see I'm trying to own something here?
I'm trying to create a legacy.
Wow. [laughs]
Well, you a big dog now, huh?
So he's on some Kanye shit.
No, he doesn't have Kanye talent to be on some Kanye shit.
That is one of the challenges of Black love.
We're all bringing our own trauma
-into the equation. -Uh, yeah.
I am fully traumatized.
That motherfucker sold my Apple stock.
You know, Jason just might be my last Black man.
It might be time for me to take a cue
from Eve, Tina, and Serena.
Y'know, get me an Alexis O-hani-han.
I don't think that's how you say his name.
Listen, marrying the non-Black billionaire
always sounds intriguing,
but my dad is a dark-skinned Black man
who has worshipped my mom for the last 40 years.
I can't not want that.
If you are waiting for your daddy,
you're gonna be waiting a long time.
Okay, shut up! I'm talking!
Apparently, he's been floating the entire band,
paying for studio time, equipment, social media promo,
all of it.
Wow. Just wow.
[singer] ♪ When I got nothing better ♪
["Don't Hit My Line" by Aluna playing]
♪ To do, I think of you ♪
♪ And I don't waste my time ♪
♪ Wishing you would be mine... ♪
If I were a woman, I'd want those legs.
She's just so free.
-Oh! -Yes!
-Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi! -Whoo!
Mm!
Ah. Okay.
Drunk time, truth time.
I came into town to get away from Jack and the twins.
Don't get me wrong, they're the light of my life,
the center of my universe,
but jeez, money Christmas. [laughs]
I just needed a minute to do me.
And by that I mean getting wasted
-and twirling around in circles. -Whoo!
[laughs]
Oh, look at me, talking too much.
Enjoy your right now.
I loved planning my wedding.
[pounding dance music playing]
[Whitney] Aww.
Actually, Brett, tonight,
I was supposed to be with my fiancé.
Hey, where's Radha?
[singer] ♪ Ooh, start the echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Speak to the silence ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Hands with the new dawn ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Home, are we heading? ♪
♪ Echo, echo-- ♪
[pounding dance music playing]
♪
It's beautiful.
You're the husband, right?
Yeah.
Radha?
Whitney!
I was looking for you.
In the mirror?
Do you see stars?
Not like stars but, like...
[whispering] stars.
Did you take something?
No! I don't do drugs.
Although a really nice girl gave me an Altoid
that tasted like a pocket. [chuckles]
Okay.
Radha, that was molly.
I'm on drugs?
[gasps]
I'm on drugs.
Okay, so let's get you home now.
You're so pretty.
I wanna be like you when I grow up.
Like, I know I'm a grown up, but not like a real grown up.
I don't even have a Chanel bag yet.
Okay. Let's go.
[singer] ♪ What do you wanna do ♪
♪ When you're speed dial hollering ♪
♪ 079 4:00 a.m. rude boy ting ♪
♪ I can keep you up, put you down if I want to... ♪
[Whitney] Brett!
I'm sorry. Excuse me.
Brett! Brett.
Hey, I'm so sorry,
but I gotta go get this baby to bed.
I love it! Little Miss Priss is fucked up!
Viva la freedom!
Don't worry, Whit. I got Brett.
♪
Okay, all right, this way.
[Radha] This way...
Hold on. Don't-don't touch people.
Don't touch-- just don't touch strangers.
Oh, sorry. [laughs]
Bitch shoulda got a prenup.
Let's not get carried away, girlfriend.
Pretty sure you don't make enough money for a prenup.
Bitch, shut up before I stab you with a butter knife.
[laughs]
I'm just being honest.
["I Can't Go For That [No Can Do]" playing]
[laughs] Oh!
That's it.
♪ I can't go for that, whoa-oh ♪
♪ No can do, ah-ah! ♪
♪ Can't go for that ♪
[Ella] And there she goes.
[Renee] ♪ I can't go for that ♪
♪ Shit, I can't go for that ♪
[shrieking]
No...
-my marriage is over. -[Ella] Okay.
-Oh, my God. -[sobbing] Oh, shit!
-Okay, come here. Come on. -No!
Breathe, baby, breathe.
Oh, I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
I haven't been able to breathe in my marriage for months.
And every time I try to swim to the surface for air,
here he comes with another wave of bullshit.
You do not need to feel guilty about wanting more.
You know what?
I promise you I'm not just being petty,
and it's not just about the money
or the condo we bought that we couldn't really afford.
I work really hard for this life,
and this is just not what I signed up for.
You know, like, I know I'm a lot.
-No. -Mm-mm.
I am, but this is just...
unacceptable.
You ladies need anything?
No. No.
Read the room, man.
She's done for now.
Uh, do you think you could take her home,
because I...
Oh, I see.
You need to go get yourself Colin-ized?
-[sobbing] -[Ella] We'll see.
I'm nearing my drink-to-dick limit ratio,
and I really don't wanna call Anderson.
I could use the dick-straction.
[sighs] Fine.
But only because I'd rather you fuck anybody
other than Anderson.
-I love you the most. -Mm-hmm.
-Oh, no, no. -Come here.
Up here, babe. Come, come, come.
♪ You don't love me, and I know now ♪
-I do. -Yeah.
-It's all right. -It's gonna be okay.
Come on.
♪ No no no ♪
♪ You don't love me ♪
♪ And I know now ♪
[Colin] You're not leaving with your friends?
Should I?
Why don't you wait till I get off my shift,
and I'll take you dancing.
["I Like Trouble" by Gaidaa playing]
[gentle acoustic music playing]
♪
[singer] ♪ I like trouble ♪
♪ 'Cause some things Ain't the way they seem ♪
♪
♪ I like upfront ♪
♪
♪ But quiet like I do not understand ♪
♪ Fly like I'm one ♪
♪ Vibe, I'm one ♪
♪ Feelin' the sun Under our skin ♪
[both moaning]
Oh, you feel amazing.
Ew. Is that hair gel?
You all right?
-Yeah. -Yeah?
-Fine. -Yeah.
Can you get behind me?
Oh, yes.
-Mm. -Yes.
Take this cock.
[Ella] Did he just say "cock"?
[Colin] Yeah, that's it.
Take this cock.
[Ella] Dick! It's "dick."
Say "dick."
[Ella] Oh, okay.
Wha-what?
I gotta go.
Uh, I-I just, um...
Thank you.
Who says "cock"?
["African Bushfire" by Speedometer playing]
[lively funk music playing]
♪
You did not leave mid-stroke.
I had to.
"Cock" is such a dirty word.
Really?
They say it in porn all the time.
Black men say "dick."
You must be watching white people porn.
Well, doesn't everybody?
-I do. -Me too.
Really? Why?
Because. Slavery.
-[both laugh] -Exactly.
And when I watch porn with Black women,
I have all these questions about pay disparity
in the industry and whether or not these women
are socioeconomically empowered
to choose the sex scenes that they're having on screen.
Ugh, that part.
And Black porn always looks so low-budget.
[all laugh]
They're always filming in, like,
MC Hammer's abandoned mansion from the '90s
with mirror closet doors and carpet on the stairs.
Personally, I just can't stand the sight
of niggas fucking with socks on.
Oh, my God.
Oh, so porn.
It's so porn. Ugh.
Oh.
It was just something about seeing him
-behind me in the mirror. -Mm.
The imagery was just so incredibly slave-y.
I swear I could hear Harriet Tubman
calling out to me.
What'd she say?
She said bissssshhhhh...
[all laughing]
No, no, no, it was more of a,
"Ella. Ella.
You gots to git now.
Git up and go find your freedom."
You guys, I'm not sure I should be getting married.
[chuckles]
[upbeat jazz music playing]
♪
[woman] Whoo-hoo![giggles]