* MTV. *
-* Oh-eh-oh * -* Are you ready for it?
-* Oh-eh-oh * -* Are you ready? *
* Watch me now, oh-oh... *
FRANK: Before you were here he said,
"Now my daughter looks like this,
"so you got to shoot her this way.
Shoot her that way."
SYLVESTER: No, I would never tell them that.
You take the camera. Stand on a stool.
By the way, do we have the ladder
for my daughter's close-up?
-You're so mean. -(Sylvester chuckles)
Shooting our entire lives,
it's probably the hardest thing to explain to people.
Having our entire lives
for the world to see, and not only see,
but have their own judgments
is very scary.
Can't catch a break in this house.
Why do you think I want one right now? (chuckles)
SYLVESTER: It's great when you're shooting
'cause it's just you, your family,
and half the civilized world.
For those that seek solace in their own home...
(sighs) I just want to see how peaceful and quiet.
Come on. Right here. Look at the privacy.
One, two... don't hide, sound.
Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
You got guys popping out
of your bathtub and sharing your toothbrush.
They become kind of, like,
unwanted relatives.
Dare we fumigate this place?
* Talk to me, baby *
* I'm going blind from this sweet, sweet craving *
* Whoa, oh *
* Let's lose our minds and go crazy, crazy *
* I-I-I-I-I *
* I-I-I-I-I. *
SISTINE: I'm hungry.
JENNIFER: We're gonna make homemade pasta.
What century do you think it'll be finished in?
(groans)
(yells)
I know the person that was buried in that wine.
It's like Italian embalming fluid.
(laughing)
SISTINE: This is an exact replica of my ex's heart
after we broke up.
-SCARLET: Cute. -JENNIFER: You are savage.
I'm single now.
I moved to New York with Sophia, so we're living together.
-Let's do it. -(grunts)
-Ow. -Ow!
I'm still writing my book, um, signed with an agency,
and single. (chuckles)
SISTINE: It's just a restart.
A personality restart, a friendship restart,
a relationship restart.
FRANK: I'll tell you what, you can't beat Italian food.
SOPHIA: You should go to New York
because New York has the most amazing restaurants ever.
Sophia and I decided to come back to L.A.
while Scarlet's on summer break so we can all just be
one happy family again under the same roof.
SISTINE: Here's your dinner, Uncle Frank.
FRANK: Is that for the dog or me?
-SOPHIA: It's beef tartar. -SISTINE: Smells so good.
-FRANK: No, it's not. -JENNIFER: Yeah, have a bite.
(laughs)
SOPHIA: You look like a bootleg Elvis.
I am Bootleg Elvis, baby.
Since last season, I was hospitalized with pneumonia.
I almost died.
Is this any way to treat a nice Italian boy?
But other than that,
I'm still playing music and my love life is
somewhat in the toilet.
What's the oldest you'll date?
-Thirty. -SOPHIA: Oh, my God.
-No, I'm only kidding. Come on. -SOPHIA: Are you kidding?
So, you'd literally date someone my age?
Well, I don't know if I'd date her,
-but I may-- -SOPHIA: Oh, my God.
SCARLET: Oh, God. That's even worse.
That's so much worse.
You're crazy, boy.
SISTINE: Sip and cook. Sip and cook.
There we go. Keep mixing.
I turned 21,
I'm prepping for my junior year of college,
and I met someone.
* Nobody love like us... *
SCARLET: His name is Louis.
-Oh, cute. -(chuckles)
* Nobody love like us... *
SCARLET: Louis is a very loving and sweet,
respectable person.
-Favorite cereal? -(gasps)
Oh, you know me so well.
You'd hope so after eight months, right?
I kind of thought "Love at first sight."
Right when I saw him,
I go, "He is extraordinary."
* Nobody love like us... *
You have grass in your hair.
Well, take it out. (laughs) Ew.
Ew, ew.
Dinner is served.
This makes me want to go to Italy
and eat blocks of cheese all day.
Ugh. Lot of gas.
What the hell are these plants? Can we take these out?
-Oh, my God. Oh, my God. -SOPHIA: It's wet.
I mean, it's got to go.
SISTINE: We have, like, a few pieces here.
I love being home. It's so calming.
(clinking on glass)
-I have an announcement. -(fly buzzing)
JENNIFER: Oh, my God. There's a fly in here.
-(Sophia yells) -Christ.
-SYLVESTER: Stop, man. -FRANK: It's a fly.
I'm not kidding you. I hate flies.
SCARLET: Guys, I invited him.
SYLVESTER: Maybe it's Jeff Goldblum.
All right, I lost it.
-(clinking on glass) -Okay.
That's the worst-sounding fucking glass
I've ever heard in my life.
Hey, can I make an announcement?
(farts)
-(girls exclaim) -SYLVESTER: Oh, my God.
Can you not do that?
No, I know, the pasta came out my nose.
No.
SYLVESTER: What is wrong with you?
-What? -No!
Hey, hey, hey.
Frank, put a cork in it. I need a serious moment.
-Time out. -(clinks on glass)
Okay, big important flash news message.
After long, hard consideration,
your mother and I have decided
it's time to move on and leave the state of California
permanently, and we're going to go to Florida.
We're gonna sell this house.
-SISTINE: What? -What?
Yep.
-Is this a joke? -SYLVESTER: It's not a joke at all.
-So, you're--? -SISTINE: Full-time?
-No L.A. time? -Full-time.
We already have the place. It's a done deal.
I just feel like that I was born, I was raised here.
It's my home, you know?
First Sophia and Sistine.
Now my mom and dad are leaving.
Where's the punchline? Where is it?
I've been here since '73.
-FRANK: You grew up here. -JENNIFER: I grew up here.
I was born and raised here.
But here's the thing.
You don't go to college here.
You guys live in New York.
-It's an empty nest. -It's a, it's an empty nest.
I need to change it up.
* *
JENNIFER: When you spend your life--
and I raised all three of our daughters in California--
everything's a memory to me,
memories of them not being there anymore.
So I needed a big change
and Sly went along with it.
-You can always come back and visit. -I know.
We have a lot of roots in California,
so it's not an easy
transition to Florida.
But Jennifer really had her heart set on it.
I gave in. (chuckles)
SISTINE: I think it's a great idea.
Sophia and I now living in New York.
It's an easy commute to Florida.
I love it. You love it.
Sayonara. Get rid of it.
I'm not someone that is nostalgic about houses,
but it's a little weird that my dad is
just uprooting everything to go across the country.
This is a huge change for someone
that hates change.
Cheers to moving on.
-Bigger oceans and... -You have unlimited coconuts.
-You have.... (laughs) -(chuckles) Forever.
I hate coconuts, but I like Florida.
So, if there's coconuts there, you're not gonna visit?
Coconuts took my first wife and killed her.
-Frank, what? -SOPHIA: You've never been married.
Can you take your glasses off?
SCARLET: Please, take off the glasses.
Uh-- (screams)
(all laughing)
JENNIFER: (sighs) We're nuts.
* *
SOPHIA: Dad, guess what I'm being for Halloween.
-What are you gonna do? -Jessica Simpson in
-"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." -Guess what I'm gonna be?
So I was thinking I wear a really, really scary mask,
-gross worms out of my eyes. -Right.
Then on the bottom half, I'm in full lingerie.
-I like that. -(laughs) I can't believe you just said
-that was okay. -Jessica Simpson is not
-a monster. -Sophia, you dress like her every day.
-It's Halloween. -SOPHIA: I don't want to be a monster.
Well, we're gonna be in New York anyways
to do this, so it doesn't matter.
SYLVESTER: My daughters have moved to New York,
which is kind of traumatic
because I spent many, many years in New York.
I literally had nothing.
So I lived in bus stations.
I slept in alcoves.
I had a coat, and the coat was my house.
Every day there's robbery,
physical attacking,
cars coming over curbs,
people throwing acid on you.
I mean, it sounds crazy.
You had to keep your head on a swivel,
and I've never gotten over that.
I can't sleep at night until I know they're safe.
Since you guys have moved to New York,
it's made me very uneasy. You know, I'm paranoid anyway
'cause I have a responsibility as a father
to do everything I can.
And the first thing is,
we have to learn about a little self-defense, something.
SISTINE: Honestly, my dad is the most
paranoid person on the planet.
He is crazy.
Growing up, we had to learn
how to fight off a coyote.
He always made them overprepared.
Like, what if someone comes up and gives you a piece of candy?
What are you gonna do?
God, he's so annoying when he's nervous.
SYLVESTER: I'm showing them pictures of accidents.
I used to have a cartoon slogan
about what to do if you see a gun...
"Run and tell your parents."
He made us practice pepper spray each other.
Oh, my God. That's so bad.
He put a little knife
in my backpack in fourth grade.
Probably shouldn't say that.
I carry a knife in my shoe.
SYLVESTER: Oh, God.
-You carry-- -I do.
(stammers) It's a toothpick.
SOPHIA: I have pepper spray.
You yell at me about pepper spray every single day.
But we're gonna go to self-defense class.
When you're raised by someone
whose entire identity is being the biggest badass in the world,
I knew how to run faster, hit harder
-than anybody in my grade. -Bye, now.
-JENNIFER: Where are you going? -SOPHIA: We're being kidnapped.
He's taking us to a retreat for self-defense.
I'm a little bit shocked at the fact he thinks
we need to have more training on top of it
when we've been raised with it for the last 20 years.
So... I mean,
it's a little bit of an insult
that he doesn't think we're stronger than that.
Okay.
Sophia, I want you to practice.
-If you were kidnapped... -(laughs)
...would you put your blindfold on
so it's like the real thing?
No. Wait. Why do I have to put my--?
Why doesn't Sistine put her blindfold on?
Oh, I don't know. Maybe because she's driving?
-SISTINE: Are you kidding? -(chuckles)
Make sure you're counting
all the turns back there, okay?
Yeah, all the turns. This and that.
-If you hear a bird... -(Sophia protesting)
This is ridiculous.
I've had so many scary experiences in New York so far.
I've been followed multiple times where I've actually
turned around to the guy and said,
"What do you want?"
Actually gets them. (chuckles) You kind of have to confront it.
I've had rats chase me.
That is way scarier 'cause they can't speak human.
So I'm like, "What do you want?"
Are you counting the turns?
-Mm, no. -(Sistine chuckles)
SYLVESTER: The place I'm taking you to is run by a guy named Mike
who's an ex-Navy SEAL, and he's excellent.
An ex-Navy SEAL is gonna train us?
What am I gonna have? A circus clown train you?
I've been wanting to do this since you were about 12.
You scared us since we were in diapers.
-DTA, DTA. -SOPHIA: DTA, DTA. -SYLVESTER: Yes, DTA.
Don't trust anybody.
-SOPHIA: Um, are we turning? -SISTINE: There we go, Sophia.
SOPHIA: I feel rocks.
Okay.
SOPHIA: Oh, God.
SYLVESTER: Sophia, you want to take that off?
Oh, my... no.
Sistine, look up the road.
I don't want to go.
-I'm scared. I want to go home. -Dad, I'm scared. Look at that.
I want to go home.
-They're all standing. (yells) -Let's go.
SYLVESTER: Let's get it going.
-SISTINE: Holy shit. Holy shit. -SOPHIA: I can't do this.
I can't do this. I can't do this.
I'm petrified.
I thought I was badass.
You look at guys that actually are badass.
(chuckles) I'm out.
You live in New York and you're worried about this?
Dad, this is way scarier than New York.
SYLVESTER: These are real Rambos.
Wait. They're kind of cute. (chuckles)
-SYLVESTER: Guys. -SISTINE: Do I look okay?
SYLVESTER: Come on. Come on. Guys. Guys. Guys.
Can you believe this?
I'm not playing a game.
These are the guys that have seen combat,
faced death--
This is the real deal.
Living on your own in New York,
you have to know how to defend yourself.
In the time we have,
we're gonna get a baseline of skill sets.
Hopefully you get a little bit smarter
about what you need to do when you're in New York.
-Okay. -All right?
If you guys are in a situation where you get attacked,
just remember, attack the attacker, right?
Always fight to your feet
and always make space or get away.
These nails can't fight.
I'm gonna break one.
Not to be super girly, I can claw someone.
So we'll just do jab, straight right, left hook.
One, two, good.
(grunts)
I almost broke my nail.
-(grunts) -Ah! Why did you do that?
Yeah, yeah. Keep you on your toes.
-Your hands were down. -SOPHIA: No, I wasn't.
Yeah, they were.
I don't want to get hit by that. That's for sure.
I'm your worst nightmare.
I'm gonna bridge my hips up and knee him
so his hands fall back here. Boom.
And then I trap his foot that I'm gonna roll to.
When am I ever gonna be doing this in New York?
Every first date ever.
NATHAN: All right. Ready?
-SYLVESTER: Good. -(grunting)
There you go.
There we go. Now we're talking.
Sophia, she's hitting this guy. Oh, that's my girl.
She has the killer instinct.
See you, sucker.
SYLVESTER: Then it's Sistine's turn.
First thing we do...
-(groans) -Boom. Now what?
...and she goes...
(groans weakly)
* You and I, you and I... *
(chuckles)
Okay. Sistine.
Trap my foot on this side.
Sistine. Come on.
"Can I have your phone number?"
Like, "What are you doing tonight?"
Are you kidding me?
(grunting)
-Now what? -Now I'm here.
* Hold me tight... *
How you doing?
Is that what you're gonna do with a mugger,
ask if he wants a date?
I was feeling a lot of emotions during this combat training.
(laughs) It's been a minute.
By the way, he's DMing me.
But I'm not his type, and I'll tell you why.
He follows only girls that have really big curves.
And Sophia and I are like, "Boing." (laughs)
The stick figure? Like, what do you mean?
Okay, what's the question? (laughs)
Now I'm stressed out. Oh, God.
JENNIFER: You don't want anything to go to Palm Beach?
You want everything shipped to Miami?
SCARLET: Except that giant pink couch.
I'm gonna miss this house.
-I know. -So much.
-I know. -It's so sad.
It is. Listen, I know. I love the house.
I bought this house because I thought this was
the perfect family home, and it is.
But nobody's here. We're all leaving L.A.
So it's not-- I don't feel like this is home anymore.
No, I get it. It's just you guys kind of left me out
of the whole decision.
And this is a family decision,
and I felt left out in a way.
I actually wanted to take over this house after you guys
to raise my family.
To be all honest with you, I am--
I definitely... I am sorry.
I know what you're saying, and I think--
We have lots of great photos.
You can always look back on those photos and memories
and say, "You know what? This is my goal,
-is to find a house similar to this." -Yeah.
Wherever you and your husband eventually find a home.
Scarlet's reaction makes a lot more sense to me
why she's so upset.
I do understand, and I know it's hard.
But on the other side of it all, I'm really excited
just to branch out of my work, wife, mom duties
and figure out who I am and what I like doing.
Do you know this is the last time
I'm gonna cuddle with you in this bed? Mmm...
This is the last time.
MIKE: So far you've learned how to defend yourself.
Part of living on your own in New York
is mental toughness.
-Yeah! -Yeah.
So we're gonna run you guys through a series of drills
that we think will help you when you're in New York.
Kind of toughen you up a little bit.
SISTINE: Oh, Jesus.
No, no, no, no, no.
-Oh... -There's no way.
There's no way I'm getting in that.
I'm assuming you're gonna go in there.
You don't focus on the fear,
you focus on the task, right?
Kind of dig deep into the mental toughness zone.
(laughs)
Dare I say this?
It's time for a training montage.
Grab a ruck.
-Okay. -60 pounds of weight.
-Follow me. -SYLVESTER: Good luck, girls.
-Don't forget to write. -SOPHIA: Thanks a lot, Dad.
Your turn, girls.
* Sudden darkness creeps into your soul *
PAUL: When you hear this little voice that's gonna tell you
you can't do this,
don't listen to it, 'cause this is where you grow.
Oh, my God!
Cold water puts stress on the body.
You'll be able to work through your thought process.
They think the pool is cold at 91.
* The cage that holds you captive *
* Has no doors *
Yeah.
* Burnin' with determination *
-* To even up the score * -One, two, three.
-Come on! -* Hearts on fire... *
-Sistine, do you want a pizza? -Yeah.
SISTINE: A little Mulberry pizza would be so good.
-Oh. -SOPHIA: Keep going, focus.
Almost there, almost there, almost there.
You got it! Yay, Sophia!
-SOPHIA: We good? -You guys did it.
-No way. We did it? -There we go.
Now we're talking.
-Whoo! -There we go. -Yeah.
Oh, my God! My nipples.
SOPHIA: I can do anything!
SISTINE: I feel amazing!
Oh, my God!
-* High... * -(yells)
(both grunt)
All right, you did really well, but there's one skill set
that Army Rangers, Green Berets, Navy SEALs,
we all have to pass this test.
-This is my favorite. -Oh, Jesus.
Have you guys step in the pen.
-Okay. -Oh, in here? -Yep.
Wait, are we doing some cage fighting?
Oh, they want Sophia and I to battle to the death.
SOPHIA: This is insane.
MIKE: Ready?
(clucking)
-What? -No!
No. What? No.
SISTINE: No, he's too cute. I don't want to chase him.
Chicken chasin'. It's how we always used to train
-in the old days. -Yeah.
You catch this thing, you can catch greased lightning.
-Go on, get it! -SYLVESTER: Chasing a chicken
sounds like a fun game.
MICKEY: What's the matter with you?!
SYLVESTER: You have to have speed, patience, agility.
And understand you're gonna be beaten
by something that weighs three pounds and has a beak.
SISTINE: Come here. Come here, chicken, chicken, come here.
(screams, laughs)
(Sistine shouts)
I think my fear of birds started when I was little,
and Sly used to actually lock me in my room
and turn the lights off.
I used to make a lot of crow sounds like, "Caw!"
(cawing)
That is so dark. That is so dark.
(caws) Maybe that did it.
(laughs)
Listen, I don't want to do this,
you don't want to do this.
SYLVESTER: Sophia, you're not helping at all.
-(shouts) -(Sistine screams)
I've seen Sistine scared of birds every single day.
A pigeon just walks by her, and she's like,
"Ew, ew," like, freaking out.
They're the rats of the sky.
Why are you so fast?
MIKE: You guys work as a team, it could be a lot easier.
Okay. Okay, Sistine, Sistine...
-Ah, Sistine... -No, no, no.
God, he keeps slipping.
-(screams) -Sistine, Sistine...
-What?! -Oh, no.
SISTINE: Oh, come on, that was not fair.
Wow.
Ugh.
You know, maybe I'm not as, uh,
-weak as I thought. -(knuckles crack)
Ow. (laughs)
Ow!
I really hurt my finger.
(chicken squawking)
-You guys passed the test. -Whoo!
Well done.
I was very proud that they succeeded in this.
Shocked, actually.
If I can handle that, I can handle goddamn New York City.
I'm so proud of myself
passing all of the tests. I would do it again.
Maybe.
SYLVESTER: I'm feeling a little bit better.
They're gonna be aware now, and they're no pushover.
Especially if they're attacked by a chicken.
They were so hot.
-(laughing) -SYLVESTER: Stop it.
My God.
-You are Rambolinas. -Rambolina?
SYLVESTER: Rambolinas, man.
Hello.
Come on over here, Jon.
Ugly bastard, that dog.
Bring Lassie and take a seat.
"Bring Lassie!"
So, Henry, what are you up to, man?
About five-six and a half.
There was this movie called Lords of Flatbush.
And there's this one guy playing Butchey,
and his name was Henry Winkler.
I'm gonna do something wonderful with my life.
And I owe it all to you.
And we couldn't be more opposite.
He's a Yale graduate, intellectual.
Me? I'm a graduate of Whatsa-Matter U.
All right, I brought you guys here
on this momentous occasion because
I think the house is now sold,
so this is my true farewell.
-HENRY: To California? -To California.
-Unbelievable. -You know...
Henry Winkler is very important in my life.
I never thought in a million years
I would head out west,
and he kind of, like, came to the rescue.
Almost 50 years ago.
First time we landed in L.A.,
my car broke down,
-almost in front of his apartment. -Yeah.
On Sunset Boulevard.
You said, "I need help."
So we put all of your clothes into my car,
and I drove you to the apartment you rented
-on El Camino? -Wow. Yeah.
I brought him up to my apartment,
and I said, "See these... all this scribbling here?
"This is gonna be worth a fortune someday.
I'm gonna sell these as movies."
And I take it to ABC.
And I called you, and I said, "Here's the good news.
"We have sold the script,
but they want to replace the writer."
(laughter)
SYLVESTER: It's gonna be hard to leave
Henry and Al.
You know, Dolph Lundgren. All my friends.
Especially the pizza joint. (laughs)
I don't know I'm ever coming back here again.
This is kind of bittersweet sad.
Right. I understand.
-Moving is pretty traumatic. -Right.
How do we make new friends? How does this...
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it.
I do.
It's not easy for me to leave California.
That's where I got my start, that's where I got my break.
I have a lot of memories.
Mao said that every seven years
you have to have a revolution in your life.
That's what you created.
The thing is, I-I don't want to shake things up.
-But I know my wife wants big adventure. -Right.
SYLVESTER: I need to talk to my wife.
HENRY: Good luck.
JENNIFER: What are you doing on my side of the bed, by the way?
Scoot. Scoot.
(laughs) Go on that side. This is my side.
-All right. -You're making it all hot.
How was your lunch, honey?
-Melancholy. -Yeah?
It was great, it was happy, it was depressing.
It's a lot of things.
You know, it's one of those mixed lunches.
-(chuckles) -Yeah.
Been thinking about, you know, we're making this big move.
Whether it's the right move.
Yeah?
I want to be sure if we're gonna leave California...
Yeah.
...that we're making the right move.
Because this has great ramifications.
Let's say it doesn't work out. It's like, now what?
The house that we love and we have built, gone.
And if we go to Florida, guess what.
We don't know anybody.
We talked about moving in the past,
but he always probably thought that we were just dreaming,
and it was never really gonna happen.
Now that it's really happening,
I think he's a little nervous.
But I know that I am committed
to making this move to Florida.
I have no doubt in my mind.
I think that this is gonna be
a really good start for both of us.
We can make new memories, new beginnings.
And if we don't love Florida in a few years, guess what.
California's still gonna be available.
We can still move back.
(sighs) I'm not easy to live with.
Jennifer's made an incredible amount of sacrifices
over the years.
I know deep down inside
no matter how I'm feeling,
I owe it to Jen to go through this move.
Without a doubt.
If you can leave, who am I to complain?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-Let's do it. We can to this together, honey. -Okay.
And, being empty nesters,
we can get into a lot of trouble together. Whoop!
-How'd you get so smart? -(Jennifer laughing)
I'm getting ready. I'll be right there.
-Okay, okay. -Don't go anywhere.
All right, all right, all right.
SISTINE: The Stallones are back, baby.
The Frankster's in town. Hey, baby.
(laughter)
I am really nervous about my boyfriend
-meeting my family. -What are you, like, growing this?
Oh, trying to go for the same style as you.
Who would do something like that?
-(exclaims) -Whee!
SISTINE: I go on a date with a guy every night of the week.
I'd love if your father could sign 'em.
But for me, no men, no problems.
All my friends have grandchildren.
I don't want this pressure anymore.
Big piece of disc smashing the nerve on the left.
JENNIFER: Sly has to go through surgery.
That terrifies me.
Never do your own stunts.
-JENNIFER: We need a change. -See you later!
Bye, California.
SYLVESTER: We're heading back to the fatherland.
WOMAN: The Stallone family goes back nine generations.
JENNIFER: We're getting all of his cousins together
-for this huge family reunion. -Hey!
I do have anxieties.
Meeting the relatives.
Where's my interpreter when I need him?
SOPHIA: "My dad arranged for us to meet the Pope"
is the most insane sentence in my entire life.
Ready? We box.
SISTINE: We're in the city of love.
There's no better way to see Rome
than on a Vespa with an Italian.
Look at all these beautiful children we made together.
All of us wouldn't be talking about
we want to fall in love if it wasn't for two people like you.
Got a little surprise for you guys.
We are not taking the donkey to Florida.
SYLVESTER: Now I feel like a real ass.
* Come on now, roll with the crazy *
* Dance like 1980 *
* Roll with the crazy, and dance like 1980 *
* Roll with me, baby *
* You ain't gonna save me. *
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