Parenthood s05e06 Episode Script

You wanna sell the house? All I asked him to do was to have a look at a condo, he's just completely shut me out.
You have to talk to mom.
She has a voice in this, you know? Who the hell is Ed? A parent from the sustainability committee.
Ed Brooks.
You have zero name recognition.
You gotta get up to the podium and sell yourself.
I want to be that person that people can connect with.
You think that my situation is gonna be like yours and dad's.
I'm not you, and Ryan's not dad.
Hi, I'm Adam Braverman.
My wife Kristina Braverman is running for mayor.
Can I offer you a free pen? Here you go.
Thanks.
And Hi! Are your mommy and daddy home? I wanna put this cool sign on your lawn.
Hi, my name's Zeek Braverman, and my daughter-in-law-- - not interested.
But you don't even know what I'm-- hello! Good morning, ma'am.
I am here on behalf of Kristina Braverman.
Oh, my God.
Crosby? Hey.
I thought you said you were moving to Europe.
I did move to Europe, and-- wow.
Okay.
Troubles are found if there's a beating in the rain Kristina Braverman for mayor! - Right over here! - Chris, this is upside down, honey.
Thanks.
Hi, how are you? Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween.
What are you gonna be for Halloween? Ugh.
Excuse me, ma'am, could I talk to you about a couple of the issues? I'm Kristina Braverman.
I'm running for mayor.
I would love to give you a bumper sticker for your van or your car.
Guys, take a button.
No? - Common sense! - Take it right there.
This isn't working.
People are just whizzing by me.
I feel like I'm stalking them.
Well, just stick- Liz, what are those, tomatoes in the fall? My goodness, what is your secret? Look at those things! I know you want it you're a good girl the way you grab me - He's got popsicles? - It's like a clown car.
Kristina Braverman for mayor.
- Kristina Braverman.
- Hey, guys, how are you? Take a free pen.
Free pens! Yeah, these are perfect.
Kristina.
- Hello.
How are you? - Look at this.
This is great.
- Thank you.
- Are you having a great time? I'm having a ball.
Don't you feel like everybody should go through some sort of campaigning at some point in a political career? Mmhmm.
You understand so much about the process, about yourself, and everything else.
Not as easy as it looks, that is for darn sure when you get down to it.
- But good luck.
- Good luck to you.
- I'll see you soon.
- Okay.
Good to see you.
Let's take a photo.
Good to see you.
Okay.
Thank you.
I have a bumper sticker if you want one for your van.
Yeah.
Multicolors.
I'm gonna see you on Monday for the big debate.
- I'll see you Monday.
- Get your hands up.
- I'm ready.
- You preppin', quick feet? - I'm ready, ready to go.
- Hands up.
You bring your team, I'll bring my team.
- That's right.
- Big debate.
- Monday, let's do it.
All right.
- She's ready.
Hey, Arnold.
Excuse me.
I'll see you soon, Kristina.
Arnold, look at that lettuce.
Jeez, Louise! Free pens.
- Hey.
- Hey.
What are you doing? Oh, just enjoying the scenery.
Just enjoy--oh! Yeah.
Right.
I can't get her out of the car without waking her up.
You know, if she wakes up, then no one's gonna have a good night tonight.
This is not gonna work anymore.
I think we need to think about expanding.
- Expanding? We just had her.
- Yeah.
You're not even cleared to-- what? - What are you t--not a baby.
- Oh.
A car.
Different car, you know? - Oh.
- Yeah, something-- - okay, yeah, yeah.
Something a little more family-friendly, I think.
Yeah, like maybe one of those old internationals or a wagoneer, like a '76 wagoneer or something.
No, no, no, no, no.
- What? - Something, you know Oh, what? - No, no, no, no, no.
- Yes.
No, no, no, no.
You're not--no.
We need a minivan.
We need it.
No way.
Are you kidding? - A minivan? - It's the best-yeah.
You say "minivan", I hear "vagina".
That's what I hear.
Okay, well, we're going vagina shopping tomorrow.
So sorry about that.
She's got another I'll see you inside.
Oh.
Just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
Is it really necessary for you to sign every letter? I'm sure that Bob Little doesn't sign every campaign letter.
No, he sure doesn't.
I remember 'cause I used to sign them for him.
But thank you for doing this.
I know it's kind of a pain in the butt.
Get paper cuts too.
How many more of these do I have to stuff before I get my special prize? Yeah, your special prize.
They're in.
- Hi, Heather.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Pleasant surprise.
Tell me, tell me, what? What do we got? Okay, all right, look, look, this is an early poll, okay? Numbers go up, they go down.
I know the lingo.
I used to run the campaign for Bob.
I get it.
Tell me.
- All right, well-- - Well? - We're at 16%.
- That's good.
- Yeah.
- 16% of the votes.
That's all right, that's all right.
- 7% of the votes? - Hey, don't get discouraged.
You know what, let's run the numbers like this.
Look at it, honey.
That's half of the people who know you're running - are voting for you.
- Look at that, look at that.
Guys, this is not good.
We worked so hard.
We put ourselves out there.
No, no, no, we're not done though.
Come on, Kristina.
We're just getting started.
- Look, I mean - People don't even know I exist.
Look at some of these numbers.
don't like Bob Little.
They hate him.
'Cause they don't know I exist.
- No, no, no, no.
- But look here.
- Look here.
- Small voter turnout.
- Okay.
- And that's good for you, because you can turn this around.
That is good.
I can.
And we still have the debates coming up.
- You're right, debates.
- That's gonna be our opportunity for Berkeley to see who you are, - get to know your name.
- Right.
Fall in love with your personality, come on.
- Exactly.
- Right? - Absolutely, of course.
- She's got a great personality.
Of course, I married her.
She's got an awesome personality.
That's why you love this woman.
What if they don't fall in love with me? - Honestly? - Yeah.
Then we call it.
May God bless and keep you always and may your wishes all come true may you always do for others and let others do for you may you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung and may you stay forever young may you grow up to be righteous may you grow up to be true may you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you may you always be courageous stand upright and be strong and may you stay forever young may you stay forever young coming.
Good morning! - Hi, whoa.
- Look.
Mmm, runny egg soup.
No, it's--pfft.
I gotta put it back in.
It didn't set for some reason, but it's gonna be a frittata.
The barefoot contessa says so.
- Is that bread in there? - No! Here's mimosas.
- Oh.
- Start the day off right.
This is unlike you.
What do you mean? What do I mean? I'm not sure if-- have you ever seen an oven before? Well, I hadn't turned that particular one on, but it works just like a charm.
- Uh-huh.
- And, you know, I thought I'd try something-- try something new.
Cheers.
Oh, good.
What's up? I mean, really? We never really talked about the discussion that we had the other day.
It was kind of an intense one.
You sort of said some insulting things about my fiancée, comparing him to my father, who's a deadbeat.
I wasn't insulting him.
And your father is not a deadbeat.
He has some similar issues, and I think I was pretty clear-- - oh, my God.
You're still on it, okay.
No, you're still on it.
Yeah, of course I'm still on it, because it's the biggest decision of my life, and you--you don't trust me to make the right choice.
I do trust you.
Obviously you don't, because you don't support me.
I'm not you, okay? You can make any choice you want, and I support you.
II absolutely support you.
But you don't agree.
I don't have to agree with you.
Oh, my God.
Yes, you do.
I'm there for you, and I'm gonna be there for you every step of the way.
I don't want you there for me if you don't agree with my biggest life choice that I'm ever gonna make.
It doesn't matter.
I don't have to agree.
I just have to be there for you, which is what I'm trying to do.
It does matter! You don't think that I should get married.
Well, I don't think you should get married, but it doesn't mean that I'm not going to support you in this.
- Really hurting my feelings.
- Why are you doing this? - I have to, mom.
- Why? Because I don't wanna hang out with you like this.
Honey, you don't wanna overwater those things, do you? I'm doing pretty good.
Hey, uh, you know, I've been thinking.
This condo thing you've been talking about.
I mean, what do you do? You wanna take a tour of 'em? What? The condos.
You said you wanted to be, you know, closer into the city and everything.
What do you do? I mean, what does that mean? You get a real estate person, they show you around? Is that it? Yeah, that's how it works.
I'm free tomorrow.
Seriously? Yeah.
Checked my schedule.
I mean, you've been going on about the condos for-- - oh, no, yeah.
Been talking to me about it, so I'm saying let's go look at an old condo, see what's up.
Great.
Not saying I'm gonna like it, but we'll look at it.
Yep.
We'll look at the condo.
Great.
There's two cars in the driveway.
They're clearly home.
Right.
Yeah, they just don't want to answer the door.
You can't force them to answer the door if they don't wanna.
Let's go.
It's rude though.
Someone is ringing your doorbell, you answer the door.
You never answer the door.
I do.
Except maybe when it's dinnertime because that's family, and on principle, you don't interrupt family time.
- It's Peet.
Can I? - Okay.
Hey.
Um Yeah, no, no, no.
We're just out canvassing for my sister in law.
Right.
Okay.
You want me to call bill? Yeah, no problem.
Yeah, you too.
Bye.
Uh, sorry.
Shall we? Yes, we have 30 more houses.
Let's do it.
We have 30 more houses? We said we would do a hundred.
- Did we? - Yeah.
Maybe we can count that one.
It's 29.
Okay, it's just I gotta- I gotta call bill back before the end of the day.
Okay.
Uh Well, go do what you have to do, and I'll finish.
- No, it's just--sorry.
- I can meet you at home.
I didn't realize work was gonna be this crazy.
Um, but, no, let's--let's just finish up this street and-- - okay.
- Yeah.
- So, um-- - yeah, that's-- that's bill.
Um - I'll see you at home.
- Okay.
Do you want these? Yeah, yeah.
- All right.
- Okay.
Thank you.
Hey.
Um, so I just got off the phone with Peet, and she wants four more of those olive trees.
Ooh, hybrids.
Maybe we should get a hybrid.
Oh, I want this one, mommy! This one, this one! You like this one? You're supposed to be my partner on this.
- This is cool! - What are you talking about? Can I go inside and check it out? Yeah, sure, go check it out.
- I can't-- - This is great.
You're not seriously considering this, are you? Yeah, I am.
- This is awesome.
- You like it? It's pretty cool, huh? You can watch movies.
See? You can watch movies in this.
That's about all you can do.
We're gonna take it for a test drive, and I think maybe then you'll like it.
I'm not gonna go drive this thing.
What if someone sees me? But you're gonna be the one driving it, so, I mean, I thought you would like to try it out.
Why would I be the one driving it? This is for--we're not getting rid of my car.
Yeah, we are.
I already got rid of my Ducati for the house.
But your car's way older than mine, okay? It just doesn't make sense to keep-- - you think that the two cars we're gonna own are a vw bug and a minivan? And what will I drive to work? You know I work with musicians at a recording studio, and I'm gonna show up in either a little tiny vagina or a humongous vagina? Yeah.
What are you talking about, dad? - Champagne-colored.
- Nothing.
You are a traitor.
Let's go find somebody to give us a test drive.
You need to watch the Dukes of Hazzard.
You need to watch the Dukes of Hazzard.
- Minivan! - Or smokey and the bandit, 'cause this-- you shouldn't be this excited.
Honey, I'm not-- I'm not doing this, okay? I love you, honey.
You can't even slam the door.
She, like, opens the door and is like, "hey, how you doing? Come on in.
" And I'm like, "hey, let's talk "about all that incredibly offensive stuff that you said to me about my biggest life choice.
" Then she's like, "no, that's all right.
"Let's just eat this egg dish and pretend like it didn't happen.
" And I'm like, "I'm not gonna sit here "and eat an egg dish with you "after you insulted my fiancée, who I love more than anything in the world.
" Like, it's just crazy.
Like, what is she thinking? I'm really sorry.
Baby, I'm sorry.
Don't apologize to me.
I mean, it's-- - no, I'm sorry you have to deal with, like-- - I'm sorry that it's stressing you and your mom out.
It has nothing to do with her.
This is our thing.
Right.
And I feel like she's making it all about her.
Like, she's like at first, "don't get married.
" And then she's like, "get married, but get married the way I want you to get married.
" Well, then let's just not do it.
Let's not do it then.
Not get married? No.
Yes, get married.
Hey, you scared me.
No, no.
No.
Then what? Let's just not do, like, a big wedding.
Let's just go down to the courthouse or the city hall and do it on our own.
- Like elope? - Yes.
Yeah.
Hey, I wanna be your husband so badly now.
So let's just eliminate all the complications.
You know? Hey, your mom is gonna eventually be on board, and when she is, then we'll throw a big party, and it'll be wonderful.
And she might even have grandkids by then.
Yeah.
But this is what we want, you know? We know what we want.
Let's just do it.
Yeah, let's do it.
- I love you.
- I love you too.
And this is my personal favorite room, for a living room or a dining space.
Check out the windows.
Wow.
And you're a painter, so this could be a beautiful studio space for you.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
When we're done here, I'll show you the rest of the grounds.
There's a full-time gardener.
There's dry cleaning and laundry services, of course.
And when we get downstairs, I will show you the outdoor fire pit and lounge.
We have a resident wine cellar with climate-controlled bottle storage.
And all the equipment in the gym downstairs is state-of-the-art.
Plus daily fitness classes, yoga, spinning, zumba.
And of course we're walking distance to sfmoma, the yerba buena gardens, and all the shops along mission street.
Good heavens.
Zumba.
Well, and there's spinning.
I've always wanted to do spinning or try it anyway.
So why don't we go outside and look at the fire pit? Okay.
Mr.
Smith, thank you so much for asking that question.
That is such an important question.
Um, as a mother myself, public safety is one of my utmost concerns.
And-- - and Bob Little just cut you off, 'cause you gave him a really long pause.
I have stage fright sometimes.
I'm really trying to get through this.
But we don't wanna see that you have stage fright.
If I'm in the audience, I'm checking my cell phone.
You're boring me.
Sorry.
Um, uh, where did-- - you know what, make it-- make it very specific.
If you talk about your children being safe and how public safety affects them or-- - I'm trying to do all that, but you keep interrupting me.
That's gonna happen tonight.
It's a debate, okay? So just get used to it.
- Mommy! - Hi, my girl.
Are you kidding me right now? - How's my peanut? - No, no, no, no, no.
Oh, just a little break.
- No, no, no.
- I know, I know, I know.
All right, all right, come on, come on.
- Yeah, we're sorry about that.
- Real quick diaper change.
- Sure, okay.
- We had it.
She's gonna handle the diaper change.
Thank you.
I'll need a coffee in a second anyway.
- Okay.
- Okay? Okay, I'm gonna throw a softball at you.
"My kids are in a class with 32 kids this year.
What are you gonna do to improve the school system?" This is your wedge.
This is your passion.
- Totally, I got this.
- Let me see it.
It's easy, I got it.
Improving our education system is the single biggest reason that I wanted to become your mayor of Berkeley.
We've got to empower our students and our parents with more choices and more access.
Think about this.
I wanna expand charters and magnets.
You're boring me.
You're boring me.
I'm not done with my thought.
Yeah, I don't care about your thought.
I want you to be personal.
God, you're so negative right now.
- Dig in right there.
- Ow! Right there, okay? Talk about Max.
How the education system has affected him.
He's a child with special needs and how it's not fair Okay, next.
That some children get discriminated against, blah, blah, blah, go.
Next question.
I'm not talking about my son.
I'm not talking about his asperger's.
I'm sorry.
I'll stick to the topics, but I'm not doing that.
Are you kidding me? This is the basis of our platform.
You don't wanna talk about why you're passionate about education and how your son's been affected? Education's my platform, not my son.
Okay? That's it, he's off limits.
Next question, go.
Hey.
These guys are sounding great.
The sound of five turds in perfect harmony.
What's your problem? I drove a beetle bug to work.
A seafoam green beetle bug to work.
Is your car in the shop or something? No, my car's gone forever.
It was used as a trade-in against a minivan, a miniature van that Jasmine made us get, yeah.
Are you serious? Welcome to the club.
You enjoy that news? Yeah, my brother Crosby's a minivan man.
You're in the club, bro.
What's wrong, man? They're practical.
- You like 'em? - Easy in and out with the kids.
They can haul a lot of stuff.
They got to you.
Listen to yourself.
You know you weren't always like this.
Always like what? You know, wearing corduroys and listening to norah Jones and going to bed before 11:00.
- What's wrong with corduroys? Well, I don't need to compensate.
You know, I'm not afraid of the minivan.
Well, they're sending a direct clear message to females.
Listen to me, you're a husband, you're a father too.
You're a businessman.
Okay? A minivan is not age-appropriate for anybody You just gotta be a little more responsible.
Even a 75-year-old man should not-- - you can keep swimming against the current, tiring yourself out, or you can slip on some corduroys and just relax, man.
They're very comfortable.
Or maybe I just get a tattoo across my forehead that says, "neutered.
" What do you think? No, you're a minivan man now.
Just cut to the chase.
Oh, it's one of the rock and roll kids.
When it's perfect how 'bout that action, huh? - Sounded great.
- Yeah, great.
- Right? - You wanna go again? No, it was perfect.
That was the take.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Right? - Hey, come on.
- Really? We were thinking maybe we'd do about some day drinking.
I'm not a big midday drinker.
You're gonna have to count-- You love midday drinking.
- I don't wanna get bloated.
- I'm in.
Oh, look, somebody's a man.
- All right.
- Let's do this.
- You wanna join me? - No, I'm good.
You afraid you'll soil your corduroys? Why did that guy yell at us? Some people are just rude, sweetie.
That guy was awesome.
Oh, please let this not be a crazy person.
This isn't like trick-or-treating at all.
You said it would be like trick-or-treating.
You fell for that? - Hey.
- This sucks.
You're just too spoiled.
Okay, okay.
Put on your good children faces.
Hey.
Hey! Julia, hi.
You live here.
- Yep, this is my place.
- Wow.
What are you doing? Uh, oh, we're canvassing for my sister-in law who is running for mayor.
So I'm supposed to give you this whole spiel, but I'll spare you.
Sydney, do you wanna come in? - Yeah.
- No, char, they're busy.
Please, mom.
Unless you wanna take a break.
I mean, you can come in if you want.
Oh A pit stop.
Ten minutes.
Perfect.
Okay? Okay.
So well behaved.
I bribed them with computer games.
Hey.
Hi.
How's it going? Good.
Can I come in? Yeah.
Am I gonna get in trouble for being here? You're not gonna get in trouble, no.
Always confused like I'm gonna get in trouble even though I'm a grown-up.
You're not.
You're also not a grown-up.
But.
That's rude.
What are you doing? Nothing.
I'm done.
Okay.
- What's up? - Not too much.
Just, um You know, you're my best friend.
The most important person in the world to me.
And so, um, basically, Ryan and I have decided that we wanna get married at city hall, and so we want you to be our special witness.
Why are you-- why are you doing that? What happened to the wedding? Um, we just didn't wanna do it anymore, like, a big to-do and, like, all the stuff.
It just started to get, like, really stressful, and I just don't wanna deal with it anymore, you know? So we're just gonna-- we're just gonna do it.
Okay, yeah.
That's exciting.
- Yeah.
- When is it gonna be? Um, probably, like, really soon.
Like, in the next couple of days.
Oh, my God.
Everyone can make it? Well, I mean, it wouldn't be, like, everyone.
Just family? Well, it would probably just be, like, us.
Like, you and me and Ryan, and then-- - what about mom? - What about mom? I mean, I understand-- - you can't get married without mom there, Amber.
I'm goa a tell her, like, right after.
We'll have, like, a thing or something, it's fine.
She'd be devastated.
You know she would care.
Drew, I don't care.
Well, whatever, I don't care about mom, because I've tried to plan a wedding with her, and she's been really stressful about it and unsupportive, and it feels like she doesn't even want me to get married anyway.
So I don't even really want her to be there.
Yeah.
'Cause it's not about her, you know? It's about what I want.
I know it's not.
It's definitely not.
What? What's your problem? I'm here for you.
I just--I can't do that.
No, I'm not-- I'm not saying I-- Amber, please just think about-- - the Sushi boat at elephant Sushi.
- Oh.
- Amazing.
- No, that's great.
- Yeah.
That's, like, the big, like, pirate ship filled with Sushi? Yes, yes.
Oh.
- That's good.
- It's so good.
Oh, my God, I miss expense accounts.
Oh, yeah.
I had the best purses.
So did I.
- Oh, I miss so much.
- Yeah.
I pretty much miss everything.
Yeah.
Even the stuff I hated I miss.
You know, I did this thing with my therapist one time.
You're in therapy? Oh, yeah, big time.
Had, like, a pie chart, and she said, "give me a list of all the things "that make you feel good about yourself, and then you're gonna tell me what percentages they are.
" And I said, "okay.
Um, so work.
" Mm.
And then I said, "being a father.
" She said "what about hobbies?" - Hobbies, what are those? - Exactly.
So anyway, it's, like, 75% work and 25% being a father.
- Mm-hmm.
- I was really lying.
It's more like 90%, 10%.
You lie to your therapist? Oh, yeah, all the time.
Come on, I don't want her to think I'm a jerk.
Yep.
But really the point is I know I was a really good salesman.
Yeah.
I'm just not so sure I'm a good father.
Yeah.
Well, at least you have a hobby now with the sustainability committee.
Ah! Well, yeah, of course.
And that makes you feel great about yourself.
God.
Do you have any food? I'm hungry.
Oh, Victor, that's rude.
I'm sorry.
You know, we should probably go anyway.
We should get going.
I'm starving.
Troops are hungry.
Fish sticks, 15 minutes? Let's do it.
Know what, I am so sick of kid food.
Yes.
What do you say we make something, I don't know, like we used to eat when we were normal people? Okay.
All right.
I knew it.
You wait for us all to move out, and then you build the pool.
It's not a pool.
It's a fire pit for your mother.
What does she want with a fire pit? Well, just thought it'd be a nice little addition, that's all.
Weird.
You're getting a fire pit? I didn't know you wanted a fire pit.
Neither did I.
How's Amber? How's the wedding planning going? Pfft.
Uhoh.
What happened? I told her I thought she was too young.
Oh.
Huh, how'd that go? Oh, great.
Really wonderful.
She's not speaking to me, but besides that And you're surprised? Well, yes, I'm surprised.
I'm surprised she wouldn't want my opinion.
I mean, she's 21 years old.
Why can't she wait? She doesn't wanna wait.
She's in love, and she wants to get married now.
Wait is that? What? Uhhuh? I'm sorry, what? That's--that's-- oh, mother, it's not just like me and Seth.
It's exactly like you and Seth.
- It's not.
- It's exactly the same.
No, it isn't.
How many times did we tell you, "slow down and wait"? "What's the big rush? Why do you have to do it now?" Remember? What do you think we should have said back then? I know what I wish we'd said.
- What? - Nothing.
Because you were gonna be with Seth anyway.
And because we said something, we kinda lost you there for a couple years.
And we missed you.
Those are my choices? I just stand by and watch her make a huge mistake, or I lose my relationship with her altogether? Amber's gonna do what her heart tells her to do.
You know, and maybe it'll be a mistake, and maybe it won't, but you're gonna have to get out of her way.
It's hard.
Yeah.
It is, isn't it? Okay, here we go, here we go.
This one's it.
This one's for the gold.
Badabada-bada.
I make this one, you guys have to live with the humiliation of being beaten by a guy who drives a minivan.
Drum roll, please! No, no, no.
Whoohoo-hoo! Bottoms up.
I'll join you as an act of solidarity.
No, rematch.
I want a rematch on that.
- There's no rematches.
- Do-overs, I call do-overs.
Okay, shh.
It's my wife.
Hey, hon.
Yeah, looking forward to it.
Uh-huh.
And diaper cream.
Got it.
I love you too.
Bye.
Okay, I totally forgot that I have dinner at my mother-in-law's.
I gotta go get soy ice cream right now for her and some baby diaper rash cream.
- Ehh! - I'm outta here.
I'm so soft.
And you guys gotta come too.
Crosby, you shouldn't drive.
I'm not gonna drive.
I'm gonna take a cab over to the grocery store, and then I'll take another one over to my mother-in-law's.
Why don't you just have your wife pick you up? - Light bulb, yes.
- That's a good idea.
Yes, and then she could give us a lift home, and then we would be responsible humans.
That could work.
I'm gonna call her.
Oh, and there's a sweet burger joint that we can hit on the way home.
Yeah, I do want a burger, yeah.
Honey, hey, could you-- don't be mad at me please.
Could you think you could pick me up at the luncheonette with a couple of my good buddies? Okay, so that one's done.
How many single new home building permits were approved in 2012? Max, I don't have to know that for sure.
No, you're wrong.
The answer's five.
You know, it's too gathered in the center.
Mom, it's in the packet, and you told me to quiz you on what's in the packet.
I don't have to know the exact number.
Mom, you don't know this at all.
You're not gonna be ready for the debate.
I mean, I couldn't even memorize all of these, and I have a really excellent memory.
- I know that, babe.
- This green? My memory's a lot better than yours, and I couldn't do it.
Green is perfect.
You don't really have to worry about the debate because the polls say that it's statistically impossible for you to win.
No, Max.
No, it's not.
Well, no, it's not absolutely impossible because Harry Truman won the presidential election in 1948 with only .
17% of the popular primary vote.
Use this one.
But then he dropped an atomic bomb on Japan.
I'm not gonna drop an atomic bomb on anybody.
- Oh, my God.
- Smells stale.
Heather, please.
I think the reason that you're doing so bad in the polls, right, is because you don't have a vending machine.
I promised everybody a vending machine, and so I won.
Oh, my gosh, this looks amazing.
Well, you made the sauce.
I just plated it.
Well, you have excellent plating skills.
Better than ours.
No, it's not.
Trust me.
Oh, God, that's-- oh, it's disgusting.
Isn't it, Julia? I can barely choke this down.
This is-- - you're lying.
Mm, no.
Well, maybe a little bit.
Sydney, don't forget your carrots.
At home, we only have to eat four carrots.
Four carrots? What kind of hovel are you running over there? - Listen.
- Four? How about more than four tonight? - Hello.
- Mommy! Hi.
Hi, guys.
Oh.
Hey.
Colleen, you remember Julia.
Victor and Sydney's mom.
Hi.
Yes, yes.
Hi, Julia.
How are you? I'm good, thank you.
We're just, um-- we're just leaving.
We were canvassing the neighborhood.
My sister-in-law's running for mayor.
And then the kids ran into each other, and they were hungry.
And so here we are.
But we're just leaving.
So let's go.
I didn't get to finish my dinner.
- That's okay.
- No, you don't have to leave.
They can finish their dinner.
No, no, no, that's so kind of you, but daddy's waiting for us at home.
I didn't even finish my carrots either.
That's okay.
Let's go now.
Come on, Victor.
Let's go.
And it was so great to see you, Colleen.
It was really nice to see you.
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
Have a good night.
- You guys too.
- Okay.
Good luck with the campaign.
- Thank you.
- Bye.
- No problem.
- See you soon.
You hungry? Yeah.
Who's got the double cheeseburger? - Me.
- Me! - Me, me, me.
- Oh, hey.
Hey, hey, hey, no fighting, or no one gets anything.
I am gonna watch the baby every night this week, I promise.
For two weeks.
Here you go.
Thank you.
How'd you get such a hot wife? I knocked her up.
- Yeah.
- God.
- Gotta get on that.
- All right, listen up.
We have to be home in 20 minutes.
So whoever lives the closest, that's where everyone is getting out, so - We all live together.
- All together.
Ha ha.
Of course you do.
They live together.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Oh, you have television in this car.
- Yes, we do.
- What are we watching? Well, you gotspongebob and adventure time.
Ooh, ooh,adventure time.
Yes, that's the right pick.
There you go.
This is awesome.
I want to live in this vehicle of the future.
Crosby, you have the best wife ever.
Yeah.
She's all right.
Hi, daddy.
- Oh.
- Hey! There you are.
Hi, guys.
Wow, what is this? Hey, studly, how are you? Look at you guys.
Awesome.
This is something here.
This is, uh-- this would be dinner.
I see that.
I thought, you know, back in the day, we used to eat as a family.
I thought we could maybe do that again, so - We already ate.
- Chicken parmesan.
Well Fish sticks, not your kind.
- A snack on a playdate.
- Oh.
Listen, if you guys aren't hungry, why don't you go find something to watch on TV? I am starving.
TV? On a school night? On a school night.
Let's go.
- I am-- - Wow.
You must really be hungry if you're letting them watch TV on a school night.
I'm starving myself.
I didn't have any fish sticks.
Okay, good.
Um I wanted to say I'm sorry.
I felt really bad for bailing on canvassing.
Oh.
And, uh, I'm-- I know I've been really stressed, and I just wanted to say that you've been doing such a good job with these two.
And, um, and I couldn't be able-- be able to do what I'm doing without you.
So So thank you.
You ready to eat all of this? All of it.
I'm so-- Sorry.
I'm so glad that you asked that question.
As a citizen of Berkeley for the past 25 years and a mother of three, public safety is my utmost concern.
Just learning how to navigate-- - Kristina and I worked together, and she is a wonderful mother.
Thank you.
But I think it's a little bit more complicated than that.
As the comptroller of Berkeley during my-- - you cut back on police foot patrols in almost every neighborhood.
Sorry to interrupt, Bob.
I'm so glad that you brought that up, Tony.
You know, when my daughter was little, she used to walk to school by herself.
Peace of mind-- I'm sorry, just, Kristina, I just would like to finish this one thought only because it's so important.
And, Tony, thank you for the opportunity.
Peace of mind is absolutely worth it.
And that's why as comptroller I laid the groundwork for a new system.
Residents themselves could review crime data within their own neighborhood and across the city.
Opening the doors of city hall is just the beginning of a dialogue between the mayor's office and the good people of this community so that you don't just know what decisions we're making but why we're making them.
And shouldn't the good people of Berkeley expect that out of their government? Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr.
Little.
Anyone else? Next question comes from Caroline Lee.
Hi.
Hi, Caroline.
- Hi.
- Caroline.
Um, my question is about my daughter.
Uh, we're new to town, and I've just put Emma in the public school system.
Mmhmm.
Um, Emma is special needs.
She's deaf.
And over and over, I've been promised that she would have more help, and she doesn't.
And Well, actually, you know, I have some experience-- - I'd love to just jump on this question.
As a product of the Berkeley public school system myself, I can attest that the school system here is probably the best in the state.
You know what, Bob? With all due respect, I think Caroline was talking about the school system now, not when you were there.
Sorry, so, Caroline, how old is your daughter? She's ten, and I have an eight-year-old son.
Aww.
I have a son, Max.
He's 13.
And, um, he was in the public school system.
He was, and then he went to private.
Now he's back in public.
So when I say that I understand what you're going through, believe me, my husband and I, we understand what you're going through completely.
You know, people say that the Berkeley public school system is one of the best in the state, and I tend to agree with that.
And while they work for most kids, what Caroline and I understand is what works for some kids doesn't always work for all kids, like your Emma and my Max.
And if that isn't the case, then I feel like the system is broken.
My son has asperger's syndrome, and my husband and I have fought the system time and time again to make sure he gets what he needs, that he's not overlooked.
And I can see that that's how you're feeling right now.
- Yeah.
- To say the least.
You know, my son, Max, is a fighter, and I'm telling you what, he will not give up until he gets what he wants.
And sometimes, as a parent, that can be a little challenging.
I'm sure you all can Can relate to that.
But on behalf of Max, I've become a fighter too.
And if I'm elected your mayor of Berkeley, I promise to fight for you.
I promise to fight for your specific child, to make sure that she gets what she needs.
I can promise you that.
You know, I'm just gonna, um Okay.
So sorry, I-- I'll be right back.
I'd like to give you my number.
I want you to call me.
I mean that.
I will fight for you, and I will work for you.
I promise.
I will do whatever it takes.
Can I give you a hug? I just feel like I need a hug.
Millie! Millie! Millie! Check her out, come on.
If you will, what do you think? Oh, Zeek, thanks for doing this for me.
Yeah.
Guess what.
Contain yourself.
Huh? Look at this.
Yep.
It's beautiful.
I talked to Linda, the real estate agent, and I told her we weren't interested in the condo, so Oh, jeez.
Well, I never said that.
Oh, come on, Zeek, I know you too well.
You'd be miserable there.
You'd hate it.
I'm sorry, Millie.
I tried, you know? I know you did.
My art class is going to Italy for a month.
I've known about it for a while, but I didn't say anything because I knew you'd be uncomfortable with my being away that long, you know.
But they leave on Friday.
And I've decided that I wanna go.
So I'm gonna go by myself.
Not bad.
Hey.
- Oh, hey.
- What you doing? I'm, uh-- I'm embracing the minivan.
- Really? - Yeah, I like it.
I'm starting to-- I've discovered some things.
Really? Like what? What do you like? Check this out.
Ooh! Seat reclines in the back.
- Ooh, wait a minute.
- Are you kidding me? - Uh-huh.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you like that, huh? - Uh-huh.
- See? It's not so bad, huh? It's good, right? Yeah.
And if I gotta own a minivan with anyone, I'm glad it's you.
Really? Yeah.
Oh, me too.
- You too? - Yes! Mom.
Mom.
Yes, babe? Look at this.
Huh.
Mom, you won the debate.
You're a statistical anomaly.
- I am.
- How 'bout that? - I'm a statistical anomaly.
- You always have been.
You still have a lot of work to do 'cause you're really behind in the polls though.
Well, why don't we just enjoy this, let your mom have a day off? No, you don't get a day off if you work in politics.
I mean, look, you came from behind, and you won the debate.
You could actually win this thing.
It's official, honey.
You're a contender.
I could actually win this thing.
- Yeah, you could.
- I could win.
There's an article I like a lot too in the back here.
"Cost of energy is acid test for gubernatorial candidates.
" "The outlined situation is currently under debate.
Issues were selected" - Hi.
Sorry it's so early.
- Hey.
It's okay.
What's up? Are you up? Or is he up? He's not up yet.
He's still sleeping, but We were up late last night.
But what's going on? I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I trust you.
And I believe in you.
Can we please do this together? Of course.
Yeah? Yeah.
Oh, my girl.
Oh, my girl.
I missed you so much.
You're so much smarter than I was.
You're nothing like me.
He's nothing like dad.
Okay? I know that.
Really.
Okay? I just don't wanna miss out.
I don't wanna miss out.
Okay? Thank you.