- You must be out your rabbit ass mind,
sugar does not belong on grits.
- [audience laughing]
- Salt, pepper, butter, period! - [audience laughing]
- No, yo' old tongue just can't appreciate the sugary sweetness
with the mix of the savory grits.
- Man, they should have never
given you ninjas the Food channel.
- [audience laughing]
- Can y'all stop arguing,
like, we ain't even having grits [giggling].
- He started it! - Your mama and daddy started it
when they gave you those raggedy ass taste buds.
- You two will find anything to debate about,
anything, anything!
- BOTH: Oh, garbage truck!
- LEAH: Come on, baby, let's go, go, go, go, come on!
- He ain't gon' make it.
- I'm sick of this trash!
They didn't even pick it up last week!
- Wait! - Jeremy, run!
- I'm coming! - [laughing]
- Run, run, run!
- JEREMY: Come on, man, you see me.
- [audience laughing]
- Told you he wouldn't make it.
- I hope he make it, grandpa, that's not funny,
that stuff stank. - That's hilarious [laughing]
- [audience laughing]
- VINNY: [laughing] I told you he wouldn't make it.
- What happened?
- Man, that bastard sped up when he saw me coming.
- [audience laughing]
- Got me out here chasing him down the street
with some garbage bags. - LEAH: In your--
- Robe flapping in the wind.
Got me out here looking ridiculous.
- VINNY: [laughing] - Like you.
- [laughing]
- What kind of neighborhood they think this is?
Somebody left the door open. - [audience laughing]
- Uh, good morning.
- No, he looks ridiculous, you just look stupid [laughing].
- Anyway, how y'all doing?
- Having trouble with the trash collection.
- Oh, they keep forgetting to take Vinny?
- [audience laughing]
- [laughing] They dropped you off.
- [audience laughing]
- No, see, they keep coming at random times, if at all.
And when they do,
they try to speed through the neighborhood
before anybody can get their trash out.
- Oh, now, that's ridiculous.
- JEREMY: And you know what, it's not even just the trash,
you got lamps out here, potholes.
- Wait, you know what,
you oughta go down to the city council meeting tonight,
and complain.
That's what I would do.
- You know what, that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Oh, and Mr. Brown, maybe you can settle this for us.
- What is it?
- What goes in grits, sugar or salt?
- Oh, let me see, sugar or salt? - VINNY: Mm-hm.
- Neither, I use paprika. - [audience laughing]
- Oh, man!
- Yeah, and you cut a little onions up in there,
and sprinkle some little paprika, woo!
- ♪
- ♪ No matter what you do I love you ♪
♪ No matter where you go I'm behind you for sure ♪
♪ Always remember love will never walk ♪
♪ We'll make it if we stay together ♪
- ♪
- Gin [laughing]!
- Read 'em and weep, royal flush.
- I thought we were playing gin.
- I thought we were playing poker.
- I thought we were playing spades,
what's wrong with y'all? - [audience laughing]
- Bingo! Bam on y'all, B-A-N-G-O, bango!
- [audience laughing]
- Oh, man, damn it, y'all,
we can't even have a game together, man.
- MR. BROWN: Okay, did--did I win or not?
- No.
- [yawning] I'm retiring for the night.
- [audience laughing]
- I think I am, too, I got reading to do.
- [audience laughing]
- Yes, me, too, but mine's on the toilet.
- [audience laughing]
- Woo! Who won?
- Well, it all depend on what game you were playing.
- [audience laughing]
- Well, we playing it.
- Hey, Jeremy, how did the council meeting go?
- Terrible. - Why?
- I went down there with a list;
all the things we need done in the community,
and one of the councilmen just sat there
staring at me the whole time. - CORA: Really?
- I bet ya that was Councilman Sams.
Yeah, he ain't changed the battery in his hearing aid
since his wife came back to him. - [audience laughing]
- He ain't listening to her. - [laughing]
- Well, there was another one
that just sat there slumped over sleep the whole time.
- Oh, that's Councilwoman Staples.
You know, she tell everybody it's Narcolepsy,
but she's really playing that Candy video game.
- Wow! - CORA: Mm-hm.
- And these are the people
that we got running our community?
- ALL: Yep! - You know, it was alot better
when, uh, Councilman Kirkland was there.
He at least got new buses, school buses for the kids.
- So, what happened to him? - Well, he had to retire,
turns out he was buying stolen buses
'cuz he used the extra money to get an ab implant.
- [audience laughing]
- Yeah, it's jacked up. He weighed 300 pounds.
- Mr. Brown. - Surgery took 14 hours.
- [audience laughing]
- Cora, his six pack looked like a trash bag
with a whole bunch of boulder rocks in it.
It just look lumpy, it was just lumpy there.
- [audience laughing]
- You know, he just went away,
and it's been years,
and they still haven't filled his seat.
But it's an upcoming election,
and it's still no one running for it.
- Well, 300 pounds,
I'm surprised there's a seat left to be filled.
- [audience laughing]
- Cora, come on,
we need to get down to the Bingo hall
while my hands still hot. - Okay, Mr. Brown, I just--
- B-35! - I just made my coffee.
- MR. BROWN: Come on, Cora.
- I gotta get my purse, 'cuse me, baby.
- MR. BROWN: I-62, come on!
- Y'all have a good day now, we'll see y'all later.
- VINNY: Bye, y'all. - MR. BROWN: B-35!
- Will you just wait a minute? - [audience laughing]
- [moaning]
- Okay, old people making out, ew.
- [audience laughing]
- Girl, how you think you got here?
- Why would you say that?
- [audience laughing]
- Okay, anyways, can one of you guys sign this,
I'm running for student council, and I need your permission.
- Oh, yeah, baby,
that's--that's really-that's really great, you know that?
- Yeah, there are a lot of cute boys there.
- [audience laughing] - I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
- Girl, you gon' give your daddy a heart attack,
don't do him like that. - [audience laughing]
- You about to be homeschooled. - [audience laughing]
- Look, I just figured it was time
to start doing some extracurricular activities.
You know, colleges look for that type of stuff
for admission and scholarships. - LEAH: Mm-hm, they sure do.
- Yeah, well I can appreciate your initiative,
especially since we blew your college fund
on trying to invest in this place.
- [audience laughing] - Really?
- [laughing] Nah, I'm just playing,
you ain't got no college fund. - VINNY: [laughing]
- Baby girl, I know you gon' win this thing.
- I hope so. - Yes.
- I'm running against Brianna Spicer,
and she's pretty popular. - Er!
- But I have a lot of good ideas
on how to improve things around the school.
- Go on! Okay.
- There you go. - Thanks, dad.
- Look at that, like mother like daughter.
- [audience laughing]
- You know, I was the secretary of my student council
[laughing]. - Secretary?
- Don't laugh, boy. I'm proud of my baby girl, yeah.
- You know, I'm actually-- I'm actually inspired by her.
- Hm.
- I think I'm gon' run for that city council empty seat.
- Oh! - You know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
make some changes around here. - Come on!
- Uh-huh, unclog the system. - Yeah!
- [laughing] That's good.
You can start by unclogging the toilet.
- [audience laughing]
- ♪
- Oh, your application has been submitted,
and you're officially on the ballot.
- Um, I wanna thank you again
for agreeing to be my campaign manager.
Because the election is a week away,
and there's no way I could have done this without you.
- You're so welcome!
You know what, this gives me a chance to use my, uh, skills
from the hospitality committee at the church.
- The hospitality committee?
- Yes, convincing church folks on what to get Pastor
for Pastor Anniversary,
woo, that's a campaign in itself.
- [audience laughing]
- Yes indeed, but-- - Got it.
- CORA: But, you know what, it's like, um,
no matter whatever the suggestion,
you just say, "I'm looking into it,"
and keep on walking. - Oh okay, got it.
- That's how you do it. - I'm gonna get out,
and figure out what the people need,
that's what I'm gon' do.
And I'm--I'm gon' start building my platform from there.
- I think you should start right here with the elderly.
The elderly vote is important.
- That's easy, old people love me.
- [audience laughing]
- Hey dumbass, we need more nachos.
- [audience laughing]
- [laughing] I can hear the love.
- Hey, pop, I was thinking, um,
what can we do around here to make things a little better?
- Did I stutter? We need more nachos.
- [audience laughing]
- No, I mean, like, in the big scheme of things.
I'm running for city council,
and I wanna know what I can do to get your vote.
- Okay, um, first of all, we need more nachos
'cuz I-- - [audience laughing]
- I do have the munchies,
and could you legalize marijuana?
- You know I don't have the power to do that.
- Then why would I give you my vote
if you can't give me what I want?
Damn! - [audience laughing]
- Alright, just make a list, okay?
I'll see what I can do. Legalize weed.
- Oh, Ms. Anastasia, hey.
Um, so, I'm running for city council,
and I been canvassing the place
trying to figure out what the people need.
- This community could use some more art.
- JEREMY: Okay.
So you mean like a youth symphony,
or a gallery for local artist?
- I was thinking the Anastasia Deveraux Film Festival.
- [laughing] Okay, I don't know if--
I don't know if a screening of, uh,
Brown Sugar's Big ass Get Back. - [audience laughing]
- [laughing]
- Okay, I'll look into it. - [audience laughing]
- ♪
- Something needs to be done
about these kids walking around here blasting music
on these boom boxes.
- And somebody has to bring back, "Sanford and Son."
And I don't mean all those ridiculous reboots
they're doing, I want the original cast.
- And I want you to build a wall to keep all cats out.
- Okay.
- MR. BROWN: And we gon' make them pay for it.
- Alright. - Make 'em pay for it.
- Alright, Mr. Brown. - Okay?
- I gotcha.
- Yeah, 'cuz they--they don't-- they don't do right.
- Mm-hm. - They judge ya.
- [audience laughing] - Make 'em pay for it.
- [audience laughing]
- [chuckling] How's the stumping going, baby?
- This stumping is sucking. - Oh goodness.
- You got Anastasia
that want me to do a movie tribute night.
You got Reginald who thinks that it's 1989,
and all the kids around here are Radio Raheem.
- [laughing] - [audience laughing]
- You got Efe, who wants me to resurrect Red Foxx.
- What? - Yeah, and Mr. Brown,
get this, he wants me to kill all cats.
- [audience laughing]
- You know what, I knew he was a serial killer.
- [laughing] You know,
he gave us that $40,000 and everything,
but I always knew
it was a little something strange about him.
- [audience laughing]
- VINNY: Alright, dumbass, I got my list, here we go.
- [audience laughing] - Alright, number one,
first of all, I want you to legalize marijuana,
like our previous conversation we had over there.
- [audience laughing] - Alright, number two,
I want you to make Al Green a national treasure
by making his birthday a national holiday.
Number three-- - Look, look, man, look, Vinny.
Look, I don't have time for this, okay?
I got serious issues to handle.
- Hey, man, Al Green is a national treasure.
He don't like grits, but he a cool dude.
- [audience laughing]
- [laughing]
- Hey, I did not know how many pit bull owners there were.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah, I'm sorry for jumping up on your back like that,
but my fight or flight instincts kicked in.
- You mean your flight or scream instincts kicked in [laughing].
- Hey, don't tell nobody that. - [laughing] I won't tell nobody,
I won't, I promise.
[laughing] That's funny, though.
- [dinging]
- Oh my, oh my.
Oh Lord, um...
- What, what's wrong?
- They just said another candidate just entered the race.
- Who? - I don't know.
- [clearing throat]
- What is it?
- VINNY: Alright, I would like to officially announce
my candidacy for city council. That's right,
time to make the elderly great again around here.
That's right. - Yeah!
- VINNY: Uh-huh. - [applauding]
- VINNY: Yeah. - MR. BROWN: Make us great.
- That's right, I'm gon' listen to my constituents.
Yes, yes, pay attention to what they want,
you know what I mean?
Yeah, free diapers for everybody.
- MR. BROWN: Oh, yes! - VINNY: Yeah.
- Free teeth! - I can't believe this!
- MR. BROWN: Yes, no more pissy beds.
- I really hate him.
- Yes, make us great! - Make us great again.
Everybody get a bed pan with they name on it.
Woo-hoo!
- ♪
- What are you doing?
- I'm making a difference, that's what I'm doing.
Would you like a hat? - I'm undecided.
- Hat?
- I don't know who I'm voting for.
- Would you like a hat? - You getting rid of them cats?
- You know I will [laughing]. - I'm in then.
- Meow, meow! - Okay, you are making a mockery
of the political system, okay? MEGA hats?
- Yes, yes, make the elderly great again.
- [applauding] - Yes, yes!
- VINNY: We're--we're gonna do it.
- You got to be kidding me.
Come on, and you--you supporting this?
Come on, Mr. Reginald,
you are an educated and intelligent man,
please don't fall for these empty promises.
- He said he was gonna restore law and order,
and get rid of them hooligans who are playing that loud music
into their boom boxes through their headphones.
- Get rid of 'em, I'ma do that.
- That just sounds ridiculous, okay?
And Mr. Brown? - Huh?
- [audience laughing]
- You know what, nothing--
I know--I can see you supporting him, never mind.
- Uh, I'd like to announce, not only am I supporting him,
but I am now his campaign manager.
I'm campaigning. - [chuckling]
- CORA: What? - He's campaigning, baby.
- JEREMY: That's a loss.
- Mr. Brown, you don't know anything
about managing anything. - Oh!
- I have you to know, Cora,
I managed a table at the church bake sale.
- VINNY: Mm-hm.
- CORA: Yeah, and you managed to eat up half of the inventory.
- [audience laughing]
- What, I was taste testing for quality control!
- [audience laughing]
- Vinny is a despicable, self serving--
- Bigoted, xenophobic-- - Slimy womanizer.
- JEREMY: Mm-hm.
- [laughing] Haters gotta hate, don't they? In your face.
- MR. BROWN: I'd have y'all know,
y'all are not about to attack my candidate.
- Mr. Brown, and you're suppose to be a Christian,
and you gon' go with this man?
- Okay, Cora, first of all, why you judging?
- VINNY: Yes. - CORA: Second of all,
I ain't judging.
- MR. BROWN: Oh, and you, Anaquasha--
- [gasping] - Her name is Anastasia!
- Whatever it is.
- Brown, that was so rude of you.
- Well, Cora, I'm rude then. Make us great.
- You--you guys are getting out of pocket now, okay?
- Oh, what's wrong there Bran Flake,
a little too sensitive and brittle to take a joke?
- [laughing]
- Ain't nothing funny about this.
I'm running to make a real difference.
- That's right, that's right. - [applauding and cheering]
- Unlike you, I'm trying to get the people what they want.
- No, you running on empty promises,
and I'm giving the people what they need and what's realistic.
- Yeah. - That's right, Preacher.
- [applauding]
- You're working on that, "Sanford and Son," thing, right?
- Yeah, yeah, man, I'm-- - We're looking into it, man--
- We're trying, man. - I gotcha, I gotcha.
- I think he's afraid of a little competition.
Afraid that Vinny might kick his hind parts at the poll.
- JEREMY: Uh, I'm not afraid of anything.
- [coughing] But pit bulls.
- Hey, hey, what happened to our little circle of trust?
- Oh [mumbling]!
- VINNY: Okay, okay, if that's the case,
I'd like to challenge you to a debate, Mano et Mano!
- Uh-uh, don't challenge him to no Mano et Mano.
- VINNY: Don't do that? Okay.
- No, y'all challenge man to man.
- Man to man, man to man.
- It's the same thing, idiot!
- CORA: Yeah. - Mano et Mano means man to man.
- VINNY: Yeah. - UNISON: We knew that.
- JEREMY: Yeah, yeah, and guess what,
challenge accepted. - CORA: Yeah!
- [cheering and applauding]
- Fine. - Yeah, yes, that's it.
- Fine! - Fine!
- Well, fine then! - Well, fine then!
- Well, we're fine then. - Hold, hold, hold on now!
Save a little something for the debate.
- MR. BROWN: [chanting] Lock him up, lock him up!
- BOTH: [chanting] Lock him up, lock him up!
- ♪
- Hey, baby.
What's wrong?
[sighs] Is that a picture of you,
edited on the body of a bird?
- Yep, read the caption.
- A vote for Sandra is a vote for a bird.
Don't vote for a bird, vote for Brianna.
I don't get it, birds are cute. She tryna say you cute?
- No, mom, she's not. She's calling me dumb and ditzy.
- Well, why would she do that? - Because she's evil,
and she's fighting dirty with memes.
- LEAH: [sighs]
- You know, I should go make one about her.
What's a dirty word that rhymes with Brianna?
- No, no, no, no,
we are not stooping to her level.
- [scoffs] But, mom, everyone's seen this.
We're suppose to deliver our campaign speeches
in front of the entire school tomorrow.
- That's perfect,
they get to see exactly who you are, the real you.
- All they'll be seeing is that meme. I mean,
I might has well be up there clucking, chirping, and mooing,
or whatever.
- If they can't see that you are a smart,
compassionate young lady
with great ideas, then that's on them.
Plus, what did Michelle Obama say,
"When they go low, you go high." - I guess.
- See, we ain't gon' be doing no guessing game either.
Let me hear you say it. - When they go low, I go high.
- Mm, when they go what, you go what?
- When they go low, I go high.
- LEAH: When they go what, you go what?
- When they go low, I go high! - That's right, baby.
You feel a little better? - Yeah.
- LEAH: Mm, okay, good.
You do know that birds don't moo, right?
- Of course, mom, I was just naming stuff.
- LEAH: Okay, I just had to make sure
I didn't fail as a parent.
And you know your animal sounds [laughing].
- ♪
- Thank you for joining us this evening.
We are going to have a civil debate.
It's gonna be respectful,
and we are not going to talk over each other.
- You look beautiful, baby. - Thank you, baby.
- JEREMY: Isn't she cute? - Objection in the court.
- Thank you. - LEAH: Okay.
Eh, let's refocus, right, alright?
The first question for the evening is
why should we vote for you?
- [cross talking]
- Well, you an old man.
- Hello, gentlemen! - Y'all don't even have hats.
- Flag! - You don't have a hat.
- LEAH: I need a mute button. - Why he ain't got no hats?
- Okay, listen, the floor is for you, Vincent.
- You damn right it's mine. - What?
- Okay, Christian, I'm a Christian.
You know, well, you know, I just want everybody to know
that a vote for me means you will not get evicted.
- MR. BROWN: Whoa!
[applauding]
- JEREMY: Now, I would like to say
that my opponent is a bully and a criminal.
- He is, he is.
- He cares so little about the law,
that he was growing weed in the backyard.
- Yes, he was, I'm a witness! - VINNY: Allegedly.
- Allegedly. - Allegedly.
- [audience laughing] - Uh.
- Okay, listen, there's good and bad people on both sides,
there really is. - On this side, we're good.
- JEREMY: Alright. - [audience laughing]
- Now, I would like to remind everybody
that when I got here at Pleasant Days,
my opponent, he had this place looking like a mess.
- He sure did. - Woo!
- You right. - It was in shambles.
- Yes, it was! - Yeah, and guess what I did,
I came through, and I cleaned it up.
- Yeah, we did, oh, yes, we did! - [applauding]
- Just like I'm gonna clean up the community.
- [cheering and applauding]
- Yes, you gon' clean it up! - Yeah.
- That's my husband, you better tell the people.
- CORA: Yeah! - I'd like a sidebar.
- CORA: Ain't no sidebar. - Order in the court!
- VINNY: Order in the court!
- We said we were gonna be civil and respectful, right?
- Alright, alright, enough of this, okay?
This is just one, big attention grab.
- CORA: That's right.
- Your own family member tryna run against you,
this is ridiculous.
- Well, you know, maybe if you act like I matter,
I wouldn't have to do this
to get some attention around here, man.
- Okay, alright, so I'm gonna call this debate.
Um, because clearly you two need to talk.
- I don't wanna talk to him.
- I need everybody to clear the room.
- Well, what we-we--we just tryna get--
- I need everybody to clear the room!
- CORA: Well, we -- - Thank you very much.
- MR. BROWN: You got hood quick. - Yeah.
- MR. BROWN: You can't even run for office
if you been to prisoner. - That's right.
- [audience laughing]
- So, that's what this is about?
You don't think you matter?
I always listen to you, when you're being serious.
- I know sometime you think I'm a crazy old man,
and I don't have value, but, you know...
- I do believe you have value,
and I actually think you are a smart man, you know.
You got a little bit of wisdom underneath all that gruffness.
- [audience laughing]
- Your mama has gruffness. Okay, that one, that--that--
- See? - That just came out.
- See, that--that's what I mean.
- Force of habit, force of habit.
- You just can't be serious, man.
- Alright, okay. - I can admit,
maybe I put alot of time into trying to figure out
what the community needed,
instead of just seeing what you needed.
Taking care of what I had right here at home.
- Okay. - And I'm--I'm sorry for that.
- Okay, I--I--I accept your apology,
but, uh, you bet not try to hug me.
- [audience laughing]
- Man, please. - [laughing]
- ♪
- I told you not to hug me [laughing].
- I love you, man. - I love you, too.
- You're home from school late.
- I had to stay for my first student council meeting!
- Ah! Oh my god, you won!
- Alright, alright, it's just student council.
- Whatever! - Nah, I'm just kidding.
Yeah, give my hug [growls]. Good work.
- Yes. - Mom, your advice worked.
When they go low, you go high.
I got up in front of the whole school,
and I said, [clears throat],
"My opponent posted a picture of me looking like a bird,
aren't you tired of internet shaming and cyber bullying?
Is this who we want to serve on our student council?
Vote for Sandra, we take the high road."
- Yes!
Oh my goodness, I'm so proud of you.
Yes, baby [laughing].
- You got that line from Michelle.
- Y'all stop being nasty on the couch, turn on the TV,
they about to give the results. - Okay, okay, okay.
- May the best man win. - Yeah, may the best man win.
- FEMALE NEWS ANCHOR: It was a tight race
between local businessman
and family members, Vinny Washington,
and his grandson, Jeremy Washington.
But in a surprising twist,
a last minute write-in was added to the ballet,
and Councilman Kirkland has re-emerged,
and reclaimed his seat.
- [scoffs] - I be damn!
I knew I should've spent money on those ab implants
instead of them stupid ass hats.
- [audience laughing]
- [laughing]
- ♪