Robbie 1x5

1. And that bathroom needs to be cleaned twice a day.

2. That's gonna be on you, as the new employee.

3. - It's so gross. - Yeah.

4. We haven't had a new employee in a long time.

5. You know, I was right around your age the first time

6. your granddad brought me to the Kreamy King.

7. But you didn't work here when you were a kid.

8. Because I didn't have the same opportunities that you have.

9. Now, go mop up the floor.

10. Anything that looks gross, definitely mop that area.

11. Probably the whole floor, actually, now that I think about it.

12. Robbie, I just asked Siri

13. if it was illegal for Caleb to work here.

14. And it is illegal for Caleb to work here.

15. You know what else is illegal?

16. Us dumping our trash in the alley

17. behind the Taekwondo place, but we still do that.

18. - Don't we? Besides, - Yeah.

19. he's just working here a few hours after school.

20. He's trying to save money to buy a drone and, luckily,

21. those things are cheap as shit these days.

22. Thanks to the Chinese.

23. When I was kid, we made our drones in America and we paid top dollar.

24. Some of the stuff you say sounds borderline racist. You know that, right?

25. I don't see racism.

26. Well, that's a big part of the problem.

27. What do I do with all these bugs?

28. Young man, let me introduce you to the bug bucket.

29. Bug bucket?

30. You're really getting it all in today.

31. Those are all dead bugs?

32. Hm-mm. Some of 'em are still very much alive.

33. So don't stir that up. It's a pretty good way to get bit.

34. Ava, you've got your nose buried in that book.

35. I thought we came here to watch our son working at his first job.

36. Janie.

37. We don't know each other that well

38. so I wanna be delicate.

39. Um, you do know that Caleb's not "our" son.

40. - Right? - Oh, yeah. No, I know.

41. I just don't know what else to call him.

42. My son.

43. But he's your son, too.

44. Uh-oh.

45. - Nerd alert.

46. Ava wants everybody to know she's reading books.

47. You might want to read this, Robbie.

48. Next Stop, Sugar Town.

49. Why should I care about some train conductor?

50. She's not a train conductor. She's Sugar Stevens.

51. - Do you not know who that is? - No.

52. And at 120 pages, I never will.

53. This woman is an inspiration.

54. She was selling ice cream out of her kitchen,

55. and now there's Sugar Town Creameries all over the South.

56. Do you remember that magazine that wrote a little blurb

57. about me and my business last month?

58. - Black Peoplemagazine? - No, Janie.

59. - It's Black Boss Weekly. - Black Entrepreneur Quarterly.

60. - Black. Yeah. - Which is a bad name for a magazine.

61. But Sugar was on the cover six times.

62. Are you telling me that "Sugar"

63. from Sugar Town Creamery

64. is actually a person, and it's not just sugar?

65. Yes, Robbie. This. This is Sugar.

66. And she's opening up a new store here in Carter this weekend.

67. She's gonna be here signing books.

68. - Are you going? - Absolutely. I wanna meet her.

69. Well, can I come? Can she sign any book?

70. It is her book signing, so she'll probably just be signing...

71. her book.

72. Oh, well,

73. then don't plan around me. I'll let you know.

74. Kreamy King better watch out. Sugar is smart.

75. Her stores don't violate health codes, and her ice cream's good.

76. Better than a Thundersnow?

77. A Thundersnow is barely ice cream.

78. And yet, here we stand.

79. But I'll tell you what. I'm gonna go down there,

80. I'm gonna take a look around. See what all the hoopla's about.

81. - Ava: Hmph. - Next stop, Sugar Town.

82. Robbie! Like the book!

83. - Goddamn, Janie. You gotta pull it back.

84. He'll help you, right down there.

85. Hi, there. Welcome to Sugar Town.

86. Let me stop you right there, because I'm not actually here

87. to buy any of your ice cream.

88. Brought my own, from the Kreamy King.

89. It's a little melted,

90. but it's hot out, so that's gonna happen.

91. Mm-hmm. Mm.

92. It's definitely better when it's cold.

93. So, anyways, I just wanted to come down here

94. and see where the new Starbucks is gonna go.

95. Once the whole town soundly rejects, you know,

96. this joke of a business.

97. Oh, okay. Well, right now,

98. we're just doing our soft opening.

99. The grand opening is this weekend.

100. Would you like to try a free sample?

101. Samples? Of what? The ice cream?

102. And then how does it work? If I don't like it, I gotta pay for it?

103. No, samples are free. You can try every flavor if you want.

104. Down at the KK, we only need one flavor. White.

105. - Do you mean vanilla? - No, I don't.

106. We can't legally call it that, because there's no vanilla in it.

107. Oh. well, we have all kinds of flavors.

108. Some of our best sellers are Savannah Peppermint,

109. Front Porch Lavender, but my favorite...

110. is Marietta Mud.

111. Do you mean chocolate? Just call it that. We're all grown-ups.

112. Mother, that is good!

113. Thank God real mud doesn't taste like that. I would be fat as shit.

114. Let me do that lavender one.

115. No! No, no, no!

116. That is so good, you should be arrested.

117. Mm! Goddamn it!

118. Orgasm in my mouth right now.

119. Mother!

120. Y'all should make the spoons

121. waffle cones. How fun would that be?

122. Now I'm mixin' flavors. Look at me.

123. Umm! Why? Asshole! Shit!

124. I'm not sayin' that to you. Shit ass!

125. Mother, that is good!

126. Oh, my God. I need all of these.

127. I need all of these in my life right now.

128. How dare they come to my town

129. with ice cream that tastes that good?

130. They had this one flavor,

131. Peach Pie a la Mode. Get this.

132. You could taste the ice cream on top of the pie

133. within the ice cream.

134. If I want pie, I'll eat pie.

135. If I want ice cream,

136. I'll have the Kreamy King white, with peanut butter cup.

137. Okay, Beatrice, I used to be just like you. Okay?

138. But now, I have seen the other side,

139. and I cannot stress enough

140. how much trouble we are truly in. Okay?

141. So here's what I'm thinking.

142. Sugar Town is havin' a grand opening next weekend.

143. So I say, why don't we have our own grand opening?

144. But we're already open.

145. Oh, come on, bud. You're thinking too small.

146. You gotta think bigger than that.

147. Yeah, the KK's old as hell.

148. But my dad brought me here. I work here.

149. And my son works here.

150. That should mean something.

151. And Sugar Town is trying to take that away.

152. Robbie, your dad's on TV.

153. What the hell?

154. Hey, Coach!

155. We sure are excited to bring

156. our homemade ice cream to Carter.

157. From one champion to another,

158. that's a slam dunk!

159. We're gonna have to keep working on that one.

160. Caleb, go take out the trash.

161. I don't want you to see your granddad be a traitor.

162. We're gonna have to keep working on that one.

163. Wow, Dad.

164. Sittin' here by yourself, watching your own commercial?

165. Pretty funny, right?

166. It's actually very funny,

167. but that's not the point.

168. The point is, how could you?

169. Hey, I didn't think I had it in me, either.

170. They turn all those lights on, someone says, "Action,"

171. you just go. You find it.

172. That's not what I'm talking about.

173. I work at Kreamy King.

174. Oh, come on. I didn't even think about Kreamy King.

175. Sugar asked me personally. And have you read her book?

176. No! It's 120 pages.

177. Oh, you could learn some things from her.

178. I'm not trying to learn from her.

179. I'm trying to fight her, okay?

180. And you should think of Kreamy King. It's our thing.

181. - Oh. - The night you won your first championship,

182. you said, "Never forget this feeling."

183. Then you took me out for my first Thundersnow.

184. Robbie, when are you gonna stop telling that story?

185. That was 25 years ago.

186. Well, it meant a lot to me.

187. You taking me

188. was the whole reason I started working there.

189. Okay. Let's get in the car right now.

190. I'll take you to a law firm. You can start working there.

191. Oh, I see. First you break my heart,

192. and now you're making jokes.

193. That's real funny. It's almost as funny

194. as your hilarious commercial.

195. - I ad-libbed a lot of those lines.

196. Oh, she is so beautiful in person.

197. I can't stop staring at her.

198. - I'm gonna hug her. - No.

199. - Janie, don't even touch her. - No.

200. I let you come with me, but you are not gonna mess this up for me.

201. No, I'm just so excited to meet my first female business owner.

202. What are you talking about?

203. You know me. I own my own business.

204. Oh, yeah.

205. Oh, that's okay. I'll stay.

206. - Okay, when you get up there... - Mm-hmm.

207. Just...

208. don't say anything. Pretend you're deaf.

209. - I got in trouble once for doing that. - Oh, my God.

210. Janie, if you ruin my one chance to tell Sugar Stevens

211. how much she means to me, I will strangle you.

212. - Uh-oh. Okay. - She's the whole reason

213. I thought that I could even start my own business.

214. We're both from Atlanta. We're both single moms.

215. And we're both strong women who don't need a man.

216. You're both holding the same book.

217. It's so much.

218. - You know, just stand behind me. - Yeah. Oh.

219. - I don't want her to think that we're together. - Sure. Okay.

220. Hi.

221. Miss Stevens? My name is Ava Davis.

222. I have my own business. And you're the reason I thought I could do it.

223. - Oh, thank you. - No, shut up, shut up.

224. Excuse me?

225. Oh, my God.

226. No. I don't want you to shut up. I would never want you to shut up.

227. - Ma'am, we need to keep the line moving. - No, I just have more to say.

228. I'm so sorry. I should shut up.

229. Shut up, shut up!

230. Shut up. I'm so sorry. Oh, my God.

231. Shut up, shut up...

232. Uh-oh. She thought I was gonna embarrass her.

233. 'Cause I'm deaf.

234. - Caleb: Hey, Dad. - Robbie: Yeah?

235. Look at all this stuff I found in the basement.

236. I didn't even know we had a basement.

237. That's probably where all the bugs are comin' from.

238. Whoa! Those are some big-ass scissors.

239. Good God. I'll bet these are the scissors they used

240. in the first grand opening for Kreamy King.

241. And we are gonna use 'em in the grand re-opening.

242. I mean, I know you're just working here

243. 'cause you wanna get that drone, but...

244. it's a pretty big deal.

245. This is somethin' you're gonna remember for the rest of your life.

246. My promise to you, though,

247. is that I'm gonna remember it, too.

248. Look at this. Kreamy King used to have a mascot.

249. Shut up. That is cute as hell.

250. That's going up on the wall, for sure.

251. I made something you can put on the wall.

252. Oh, my God. What is that?

253. Well, Sugar Town has all those fancy flavors. We have one flavor.

254. I don't know if we need to advertise that.

255. And that sign comes off pretty racist.

256. - White only? - We're not allowed to say vanilla.

257. And also, I told you, Robbie, I don't see racism.

258. Well, I do. And you holding that sign

259. is exactly what it looks like.

260. Fine. I'll throw it in the karate dumpster.

261. It's the Taekwondo dumpster. They're not the same.

262. One is Korean. And the other one...

263. is not Korean.

264. I still can't believe I told the person

265. I respect the most in the entire world

266. - to shut up. - Oh, I know.

267. You were like, "Shut up, shut up, shut up!"

268. You said it so many times.

269. She probably thinks I'm a total psychopath.

270. Mm-hmm. Probably.

271. Can I tell you something?

272. I really thought we would be friends.

273. We are.

274. Oh, I meant... I meant, me and Sugar.

275. Oh. Oh, yeah. I thought that, too.

276. When I met Christian Slater, he just wanted me to stop sitting on his car.

277. I was hoping that she'd be like...

278. "You are I are both black female entrepreneurs. Let's hang out."

279. I didn't even get my book signed.

280. Why don't I sign it? No one will know.

281. Janie, I'll know.

282. Yes, but I trust you.

283. You're not gonna tell anybody.

284. These new ice cream shops come to town

285. with their shiny counters,

286. and their quality ingredients. Why?

287. They don't care about you.

288. And they don't care about your families,

289. or your traditions.

290. But you wanna know who does?

291. Beatrice and Caleb: Kreamy King.

292. All right, let's try to put some energy into it.

293. We don't shoot fancy commercials here.

294. And we don't have Coach Walton

295. and the, the Carter Cougar on our team.

296. We don't need 'em!

297. Don't take my word for it.

298. Hit it, banjo-playing Abe Lincoln!

299. Kreamy King is re-opened. Confetti canons!

300. Beatrice, shoot the canon.

301. - Come on! - This damn thing.

302. - You're ruining it! Just shoot it! - I'm trying!

303. You just shot Abe Lincoln!

304. - Come on, everything here is fine.

305. Nothing a little Kreamy King ice cream can't fix.

306. Call an ambulance.

307. Come on, you gotta suck it up, man.

308. I'm payin' you to be here.

309. Well, I'm not sure an ambulance being here

310. was the kind of advertising we were going for, but...

311. with those flashing lights, we're gettin' some good looks.

312. - You shot a man in the face, Robbie. - No.

313. Beatrice shot a man in the face.

314. And why are you even here?

315. I thought about what you said. I think you're right.

316. - What's that now? - I shouldn't have done that commercial with Sugar.

317. Oh.

318. Takes a big man to admit when he's wrong.

319. And it would really help

320. if you could say that in a commercial for Kreamy King.

321. I don't wanna be associated with this place.

322. What? Why not? Kreamy King's great.

323. I mean, it's not great. But it's good enough.

324. And you know what? Good enough used to be good enough for people.

325. All this new crap moved to town trying to replace us.

326. - It's not fair. - Robbie, that new crap is better.

327. Just 'cause you got a Thundersnow

328. with peanut butter crumbles here 25 years ago—

329. - You remember what I ordered? - That's not the point.

330. This place doesn't matter. It's the past. Move on.

331. That's easy for you to say, Dad.

332. You're a big celebrity making hilarious commercials.

333. I have to work here.

334. I need that to mean something.

335. Robbie!

336. I am the Kreamy King!

337. Oh...

338. All right. We're calling that our soft opening.

339. Robbie, I think you should see this.

340. Caleb was putting away the decorations,

341. and he found a photo of the original opening

342. of the Kreamy King.

343. Great. Anything we can steal? What the?

344. Kreamy King was founded by the KKK?

345. It was called Kreamy King Kastle?

346. I know I say I don't see racism, but I see this.

347. Is this why our only flavor is called white?

348. Dad, I don't think our mascot is ice cream.

349. - It's a hood. - Robbie: Oh, my God!

350. Do I not see racism?

351. This is bad. This is real bad.

352. I just told my dad that I am the Kreamy King.

353. I shot Abraham Lincoln in the face.

354. Okay, Caleb. You do not work here.

355. You have never worked here.

356. - You understand me? - Do I still get paid?

357. No. Absolutely not. It's dirty money.

358. So I was a slave?

359. No. I'm gonna pay you.

360. I'm gonna pay you double.

361. But right now, I'm need you to go out to my car,

362. and get the gas can out of my trunk, okay?

363. We are gonna burn this place to the ground.

364. Robbie, you know I love a good arson,

365. but we could call the health department.

366. The bug bucket alone will get this place shut down.

367. It's probably less of a felony, too.

368. - Should I go knock it over? - No.

369. I love this place more than anyone.

370. I should be the one to destroy it.

371. You two go wait outside.

372. But obviously, if one of you wants to do it,

373. I don't wanna get in the way—

374. Okay. I'll-I'll do it. It'll be me.

375. Well, if it isn't the Kreamy King, himself.

376. Hey, Dad, can we, uh, talk real quick?

377. Didn't we talk enough yesterday?

378. Well, yeah, but I just wanted to say that

379. you were right about everything.

380. So I am moving on from the Kreamy King.

381. Really tell everybody. Really spread the word. I'm out over there.

382. What happened?

383. Nothing. I just, uh, thought about what you said,

384. and you said some pretty good stuff.

385. What happened?

386. We discovered that the Kreamy King was actually...

387. founded by the Ku Klux Klan.

388. - There it is. - Yeah.

389. I wanted it to mean something to me, but...

390. I don't want it to mean that. So...

391. Called the health department, they came in, shut it down...

392. - For being racist? - No.

393. Actually, the health department didn't care about that part.

394. They were more concerned with our bucket of dead bugs.

395. - Ugh. - And our disgusting bathrooms.

396. And, uh, turns out we had some poisonous black mold

397. growing in the walls. So that was slowly killing us.

398. - Geez. - Yeah.

399. Well, good for you, son. Sounds like you made the right decision.

400. Yeah. No, it wasn't easy. But I stepped up to the plate.

401. Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring.

402. - Ring. - What's that? What are you doing?

403. Calling in a favor. You know?

404. Now that I'm not the Kreamy King anymore,

405. and that was my only source of income,

406. I thought I'd come down here and maybe have a little chat

407. with the star of the Sugar Town ice cream commercials.

408. Aha.

409. See if you couldn't give a call to the Sugar Stevens.

410. And maybe put in a good word.

411. Unless, of course, you think I'm too good for that place, too.

412. The bathrooms will need to be cleaned twice a day.

413. As a new employee, that will be your responsibility.

414. Hmm. But they're already so clean.

415. Yeah. 'Cause we clean 'em twice a day.

416. - Hey, Robbie! - Janie, what are you doing here?

417. I gotta talk to Sugar Stevens.

418. Hi, Miss Stevens. Um, ahem.

419. I don't know if you remember me. We met the other day.

420. I told you I was deaf,

421. and my friend told you to shut up, right to your face.

422. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you don't seem deaf.

423. Yeah. I was pretending 'cause my shut up friend told me to.

424. Anyway, um, she's right over there.

425. And if she just stands here and doesn't say anything,

426. do you think you could sign her book?

427. Who should I make it out to?

428. - Ava. My name's Ava. - Robbie: You know, uh,

429. Ava's actually how I first found out about you.

430. Yeah, she's a pretty big fan.

431. Y'all are both single moms, and you also run your own businesses.

432. I feel like I've seen you before.

433. Were you in Black Entrepreneur Quarterly?

434. Shut up. Don't— Shut up. Why do I keep doing that?

435. Isn't it a terrible name for a magazine?

436. - It is. - What was the name of your company again?

437. - Grace Before Beauty. - Also a terrible name.

438. - Mm-hmm. - I'm kidding.

439. We like to have fun here at Sugar Town.

440. We sure do.

441. Robbie, are you working here?

442. Yeah. I came down to check out some of the flavors.

443. And that turned into me shutting down the Kreamy King,

444. 'cause it was started by the Klan.

445. Oh. I'm not surprised.

446. Most companies in the South were started by racists.

447. - Mm-hmm. - It's like I always tell my dad,

448. you gotta let go of the past. Move on.

449. Oh, it's not just the past.

450. A lot of businesses are still racist.

451. I'm talking.

452. Yes. Also.

453. And barbeque.

454. The museum of.

455. Yeah, and don't forget Kreamy King.

456. I once heard that place was started by the Klan.

457. Janie, I just said that. You heard that from me.

458. Oh. Sorry.

459. I am deaf.

460. Now before you choose, I just want you to know

461. that you can have a free sample

462. of any of these flavors that we have.

463. Oh, that's okay. I'll just have a small Marietta Mud.

464. Are you sayin' that 'cause you feel like it's kind of not fair

465. for you to eat a bunch of free tastes before you eat your actual ice cream?

466. 'Cause I know it does sound crazy.

467. I used to work at a place, we just had one flavor.

468. But here? You could technically come in here,

469. and just fill up on samples. Not even order a damn thing.

470. You could say, "Get me 25 samples of Marietta Mud."

471. That's more than a small.

472. I'm just gonna go, um, regroup with my family.

473. Yeah, okay. Let 'em know what I said. Spread the secret.

474. - Sugar: Robbie? - And have a Sugar Town day.

475. Since I'm not able to be at this location all the time,

476. I need a manager who can run things for me.

477. Oh, yeah? Well, I— I have manager experience.

478. No, I already hired someone. I think you two know each other.

479. Like a phoenix, I rise from the ashes.

480. Oh. You hired Beatrice to be my manager.

481. That's so fun.

482. You got time to lean, you got time to clean.

483. Read a book.