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Come on, everybody, let's work to preserve the planet.

No more of this nasty Styrofoam.

Come on, let's recycle paper,

and think before you drink.

What in the hell are you doing?

I'm doing my part, Ron,

because the manufacturing of Styrofoam is destroying our ozone layer.

I hear Chernobyl is really nice this time of year,

and I'll even pay your airfare.

You're lucky I'm so committed to peace.

Oh, committed is what you ought to be.

- All right. Never mind peace. Let's go. - Oh, bring it on, baby.

- Come on! - Hey, hey, hey, hold up.

I want to capture this magic moment before I go to Philly.

Philadelphia?

Bring me back some cheese steaks with extra onions.

I'm not coming back. That's what I came to tell you about.

I got a new job as head of the Phillis Wheatley Community Center.

- Are you serious? - I'm going to leave in a week.

I can't believe it.

Walter�

without you, who will be our beacon

through the darkness of youthful indecision?

Who will share our trials and tribulations?

Walter, without you�

we are lost.

Bunny, you're not going to be at Hillman next year.

Have a nice life.

? I know my parents loved me ?

? Stand behind me, come what may ?

? Mmm ?

? I know now that I'm ready, yeah ?

? For I finally heard them say ?

? It's a different world ?

? Ooh ?

? Than where you come from ?

? Yes, it is now, yeah ?

? Here's our chance to make it, hey! ?

? And if we focus on our goal ?

? You can dish it! ?

? We can take it, hey ?

? Just remember that you've been told ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? Yeah, than where you come from ?

? Ooh ?

? Than where you come from! ?

Come in.

Dean Winston.

How the years have flown.

You have no idea why you're here, do you?

I have an inkling.

You're tired of all those egghead valedictorians.

You need somebody who can talk to the folks.

Oh!

You would like to give the commencement address?

Oh, well, if chosen, I must speak.

Good. You'll have a whole year to practice,

because you're not going to graduate this year.

Oh, no!

Oh, no!

I passed all my classes.

Barely, but I passed all of my classes.

Well, according to our records,

you have yet to fulfill your history requirement.

Oh, Dean.

I took African-American history.

Well, Mr. Johnson, European history is also required.

But, Dean Winston, my brother�

Hillman is a Black school with Black students,

and the subject we know least about is Black history.

Mr. Johnson, he study of history is not just a Black "thang."

An educated man knows many civilizations.

Come on, Dean, between me and you,

I hear that class could cure insomnia.

I teach that class, Mr. Johnson.

Dean Winston, what lovely children you have here.

I had no idea.

Yes, yes, yes.

My wife got them in the divorce.

The little ingrates, they testified against me.

Good day, Mr. Johnson.

Oh. No, Dean. Dean, there has got to be something we can do.

I'll write papers, I'll walk your dog.

I will not date your daughter.

That's comforting.

Good day, Mr. Johnson.

Next.

Uh�

You have no idea why you're here, do you?

Wait, wait, slow down.

Never mind. Just go�

Fred, I heard they're going to roast Walter.

It's not nice to cook a person.

Maybe they got his permission.

No, they're not going to roast Walter. They're giving him a roast.

What is he going to do with a big old piece of meat?

Wait. A roast is like a going-away party that your friends have for you.

See, they make fun of whoever's going away.

They call them stupid names to show how much they care about them.

Why are you leaving, Walter?

What did we do?

Oh, sweetheart, you'll didn't do anything wrong.

You see, every time somebody leaves, it doesn't mean it's somebody's fault.

My mom says it's my dad's fault, and my dad says it's my mom's fault.

It's not anybody's fault here. Okay?

It's just that everybody's growing and changing,

and I need my chance to grow.

And you are growing, Walter.

You are.

Thanks, Freddie.

But who's going to take care of us?

You'll remember Anthony Bell,

the big old, tall, non-basketball-playing brother?

He's going to be in charge of you.

So you're going to be in good hands. All right?

Seems like yesterday you'll first started coming around here, man.

I am going to miss every one of you'll.

But I'm also going to be checking up on your grades at school. All right?

Because your futures are very important to me.

You'll know that, right?

Come on, no long faces. You know that, right?

Come on. All right, my people.

Hey, hold up there. Hey! I'm an old man. Hey! Hey!

Hello.

- Not here, not here. - No, just a�

Yes, yes, yes.

Send it right over. Right over.

Kimberly Reese, you almost caused me to lose my bagel order.

Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gaines.

But the British Research Foundation

is going to call today to tell me if I got the grant.

Ooh, that's great. Don't touch that phone.

Kimberly Reese's waiting for a call from London to say she got a grand.

A grant.

All right. Grand or grant, don't spend it all in one place.

Yo, yo, yo, my man, Dean Winston.

Just the man I want to see. Brother, I need a big favor from you.

- Name it. - Ron Johnson.

- Wrong name. - Come on.

Don't look at this as a favor for Ron, this is a favor for me.

The brother calling me every hour on the hour.

Take your phone off the hook.

Look, Walter, I'd love to help you out, but a requirement is a requirement.

Now, we got to get this kid a chance to graduate on time, man.

The man had four years.

And do you want him on campus longer than that?

Okay.

He can take the final. My final.

All right, my brother, my man. You bad. You cool.

Nice seeing you.

He'll never pass.

Hello! Hello?

It's the phone next door.

Oh, maybe the research department didn't get my application.

Hello?

Kim, it's for you.

Actually, I came to see you,

the resident history expert.

I seized these from the ecologically ignorant.

Let's let bygones be bygones.

Well, first of all, Ron, these cups are brand new.

The receipt's in the bag.

And second of all, I am chafed raw by the sheer essence of your being,

and you are loathsome and duplicitous.

I'm also a chauvinist, irksome and unctuous.

What the hell do you want?

Your notebooks, your old tests, your brain.

Walter hooked me up to take the European history final.

If I don't pass, I don't graduate.

- Karma, karma! - Yes, this is she.

Oh, thank you, Mr. Mackenberry.

- I need that- - I got the grant!

You did it?

I'm going to London!

You got the grant!

Get back on your knees and beg.

Oh, yeah. So you're going to help me out?

No.

You know, you care more about seals than you do about people.

Why don't you just club me over the head?

Should I torture him some more?

Hey, Ron, I bet you don't know who the Archduke Ferdinand is.

Oh, Matthew, Matthew, Matthew, guess what?

I got the grant. I'm going to London.

Oh, oh, oh, that's great. That's great.

Guess what? Guess what?

I got the job at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

I'm going to be on stage all summer in a very demanding, non-speaking role.

You'll be brilliant.

Well, I guess we both got what we want, huh?

Yeah, I guess we did.

You know, with the money I'll be making,

I'll be able to afford at least one transatlantic call.

We'll write each other.

- Nothing like a good letter. - Yeah.

Make it dirty?

Drop it in the mud.

I'm going to miss you.

I'm going to miss you a lot more.

I guess we're going to have to see what the summer brings.

Yeah.

I hope it brings you back to me.

What are the dates of the First World War?

- 1914 to 1918. - What ended the war?

The peace Treaty of Versailles.

Queen of France during the French Revolution?

Marie Curie.

I� I mean, Antoinette. She was burned at the stake.

- That was Joan of Arc. - Noah's daughter?

Buddy, we're going to take a little break. You're having memory overload.

Oh, no, I got it. I got all the answers.

Yo, what's up, Ron.

"Yo," a colloquialism used by Black people. It means "hello."

I just came to wish you good luck and take you to the exam, brother.

Oh. Oh, yeah, right.

Thanks, Walter.

Listen, man, I just wanted to tell you

I couldn't have made it through the last four years without you.

I know.

Hold up now. I want you to stop.

- Let me check you out, man. - Wait a minute, Walter.

- Walter, what are you doing? - Uh-huh, uh-huh.

Look at this.

- Ron! What? - Not cheating!

Take off your shoes.

Walter, there's nothing�

- Oh! That's despicable! - What is this?

Drop your pants.

- Walter. - Is this really necessary?

Yes, it is, Whitley.

- Oh, man. - Wait.

How were you planning to read that, boy?

The oldest trick in the book.

Velcro.

Oh, Ron.

Man, here's your shoe.

Now you can go take the exam.

Well, you can take my shoe and my pants,

but you can't take my mind. I'm going to bust this thing out.

That's right, Ron! You can do it!

He's going to fail.

I could stand up here all night saying derogatory things about Walter,

but then again, who couldn't?

So� Wait, so� so I made a list of his good points,

but a fly ate it.

Colonel of corn.

So without further ado,

here is a woman, Jaleesa Vinson,

who knew Walter too well for her own good.

Well, you can learn a lot from a man's name.

Walter Oakes.

Strong, majestic, shady.

So shady, I decided to put him to a little test.

I called him one day,

and disguised my voice as an island woman.

Well, Walter was just all too eager to accept a date with Sheila.

Don't play games with me.

Because I know that you were perfectly willing to go sneak around

with some cheap island pineapple.

But what you didn't know was that cheap island pineapple was me.

I am Sheila.

Oh. I knew it all along.

Oh, wait a minute, you better stop right now, Pinocchio,

because your nose is halfway down the street,

and maybe you ought to just follow it.

Okay. If that's the way you want it.

That's the way I want it.

But there's one thing I'd like to say before I leave.

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time live at Hillman,

singing the great tunes like

"I knew it all along, You was totally wrong"

Walter Oakes and the little Acorns.

Hey-yo

? Jaleesa is Sheila ?

? Sheila is Jaleesa ?

? No fool me, no fool me ?

? Your accent didn't fool me ?

All right, so he busted me once.

He busted me once.

I mean, usually Walter couldn't see the truth coming

if it was driving his car.

What?

Actually, I want to tell you about the time

I did see him driving his car with this little hussy�

Jaleesa, Jaleesa. Jaleesa!

That was all in the past.

Girl need a man. She need a man.

That's what it is.

All right.

Now I'd like to bring up to the podium a man who needs no introduction,

just a personality, Dwayne Wayne.

He dissed you, honey.

I dissed you, man.

You know, the most irritating thing about Walter is

he's like Inspector Clouseau.

He never busts anybody.

You have to bring the crime to him.

Walter!

- What happened to her? - Oh, I don't know.

We just found her in the library.

Working on her paper.

The poor kid is really tired.

We'll just put her to bed and be on our way.

We going now. Toodle-doo!

Before you toodle�

Now, I know this might sound silly�

�but by any chance was Freddie drinking?

What makes you say that?

The room is spinning.

Ha! I know what you're thinking, but we did a good thing here, Walter.

We rescued this poor child.

- Oh, you did? - Yeah.

The way I see it is, if you hadn't gone down to Zircon Liquors for that fire sale,

she wouldn't be in this condition.

Oh, please. Just let me make it through tonight.

I swear I'll never touch the stuff again.

You know, I think Freddie's been drinking.

Does your mama like you?

You know, our punishment was to clean Walter's bathroom.

And you'll never did clean underneath that toilet rim, did you?

Well, we never told you that we cleaned the toilet

with your toothbrush.

I'm next! I'm next!

Certainly. Next, Freddie Brooks, our own "save the planet" pinup girl.

Come on, Freddie.

There are so many wonderful things I could say about Walter,

but there are just so many more important issues

that we should be talking about,

like, for instance, the planet is in pain and everybody's responsible-

- Wait, wait. Freddie, Freddie. - Oh, my gosh.

You can talk about Walter or sit down.

Thank you, Colonel.

Walter, I want to thank you, man,

for being so supportive,

and every time that I spoke to you�

it felt like I was communing with this twin soul.

Ladies and gentlemen,

there's a very good reason why I'm here tonight.

Dwayne forced me to attend.

On the serious tip�

I don't mind telling you�

it was Walter Oakes�

who was one of the people who taught me to get off my siddity high-horse

and walk with the people.

Whitley, your Mercedes is parked in the handicapped zone.

Thank you, Whitley.

Yeah, thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen,

finally, the guest of honor, Mr. Walter Oakes!

Walter! Walter! Walter! Walter!

You know, I'm usually always clowning,

and I just don't know what to say now

after four years of being here at Hillman with you people.

Uh�

What can I say? Freddie Brooks.

You know, go ahead and save the planet.

Kim Reese. Dr. Kim Reese.

When you become a doctor, you can operate on me any time.

My man, Dwayne Wayne.

Man, I'm going to miss you and your flip-ups.

All the times.

And, Miss Whitley Gilbert,

with all the money your family got, you can be anything you want, baby.

I'm just playing. I'm just playing.

I watched you grow in four years. You're going to be all right.

Terrence�

I wish I could be here for four years to help you find a woman.

Just playing.

- Mr. Gaines. - Mmm-hmm.

How can I repay you for all the good advice you gave me

while you was taking my money playing cards?

Colonel Taylor,

who would have thought we'd become best friends

and seen each other through hard times?

And who would have thought you'd have dated my woman when I weren't around?

That's all right, though, Miss Jaleesa Vinson,

because you know you're a special woman.

And when the time is right, you going to meet that right man.

He's going to be a good man too, babe.

I'm going to miss you'll, you know.

I guess the words of a song from a movie I loved�

"It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday."

And you'll keep the faith. All right.

- You take good care. - All right, brother.

- You take care, man. - Sure.

All right, my brother.

- Wally, got something for you. - My man.

Oh, man, I can't take your flip-ups.

They're yours, man.

- Oh, man. - I want you to have them.

I don't know what to say.

Say thank you.

Thank you.

You got to promise me something, brother, when you've got your PhD,

you're running your big corporation, you're married to Whitley,

she's fat with four or five children�

you won't be too siddity to come down to my little rec center

and talk to my kids.

I'm going to miss you, Walter.

Take care of yourself, all right?

All right, man.

All right.

Now, why you tell my woman I ain't got no personality?

She's the one that told me you didn't have a personality.

Hey, I surrender. I give.

No mas. Don't hurt me.

No, all jokes aside�

You're one of the best friends I got.

You and your big old rusty butt.

Couldn't keep a man around you.

I know you're still jealous.

Well, a little bit.

Little bit, little, bit.

You take care of yourself, okay?

All right. You too.

I'll miss you.

Psych, ah!

- I'm only kidding. - All right.

I hope you find a man.

Yeah, well, your woman's ugly. Real ugly.

Yeah. At least I got somebody.

Ron, little buddy, what's wrong?

Killer exam.

First question, I froze.

"Who were the leaders of the Agrarian Party in Bulgaria"

at the end of World War I?"

Rayko Daskalov and Aleksandur Stamboliyski.

Man, it's hard to learn

a thousand years of history in one night.

You won't catch me doing that ever again.

I don't believe it.

You're going to buckle down and study next fall?

What do I need a diploma for?

It's just a piece of paper.

I know.

I made it through four years at this place.

Man, you know that's bull.

I can't believe you're going to pass up a degree

because you're too lazy to take one class.

Walter, I'm going to be on the road with my band.

I repeat myself.

One class.

You can chase women the rest of the day.

And if that doesn't convince you,

what happens when your D-A-D-D-Y finds out?

- My dad. - Mmm-hmm.

He's going to ask for my tuition back.

Mmm-hmm. All $55,495 worth.

Oh�

I think I have a date with the registrar.

I heard that.

Hey, Walter?

You take care of yourself.

Yo, man, if you don't remember nothing else, remember this,

when you get your degree, it's a different world out there.

- I'll remember that. - All right.

I guess my job is done.

Oh, my goodness! Who turned off the light?

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