Original subtitles

Sometimes the world looks perfect

Sometimes you just get a feeling

Like you need some kinda change

Nothing's gonna stand in my way

This flame in my heart like a long lost friend

Gives every dark street a light at the end

Standing tall

On the wings of my dream

Rise and fall

On the wings of my dream

The rain and thunder

The wind and haze

I'm bound for better days

It's my life and my dream

Nothing's gonna stop me now

Balki, will you come on?

If we don't leave for work right now

all the really good donuts will be gone.

Okay, cousin, I'm ready, I'm ready.

Hello? WOMAN ON PHONE: Balki!

It's for you.

I think it's from Mypos, I hear chickens in the background.

Nay?

Uh, dazo, yaya!

Who is it, your mother? No, it's my yaya!

Your yaya? My grandmother.

Oh! WOMAN: Balki!

Uh, nay, yaya.

Okay. Okay.

Bye-bye, babe.

Cousin, the most wonderful news.

My yaya is coming to America.

Well, that's great!

Grandma Bartokomous is coming to America.

Get out of the city. She's coming too?

You just told me she was coming.

No. Um... No.

My Yaya Bartokomous is not coming to America.

This is Yaya Biki from my mother's side.

who's 106 years old?

No, this is the Yaya Biki who has a lounge act in Vegas.

What I meant was, I can't believe someone

who's 106 is gonna be making a trip like this.

Isn't it too much for her?

but not for my yaya.

This woman, every morning before the sun come up,

she takes the goats six miles uphill to graze them

then she come back down the hill

and cook breakfast for 26 men,

then after the 26 men go out to the fields

she does 45 minutes of low-impact aerobics.

So you see, for someone over 100

she's very much an 80s woman.

Balki?

What can I do you for?

Could we have a chat?

Balki...

When you brought 100 pounds of garlic

into the apartment, I said to myself,

"Okay, so Yaya Biki loves scampi."

When you told me she likes to keep fresh eels

in the bathtub,

I said to myself, "Hey, no problem.

"I take showers."

But-- It's the cow, isn't it?

Well, yes.

The cow...

Bothers me.

I want Yaya Biki to feel at home,

I really do!

But have you ever thought that she'd like to see how we live?

Experience the American way of living?

Things like, oh... Uh, I don't know, uh, jeez.

What example can I think of?

Uh... Oh!

Beef on the table instead of beef at the table?

Sorry.

Please,

can we get rid of the cow?

Well, cousin, I'm just trying to give Yaya Biki

a few of the little comforts of home.

See? Look, I made her this blanket.

I weave it myself so that she won't get cold

while she's watching Letterman.

It's beautiful. How about that chair?

That chair is just like the one she has on Mypos.

Look, I don't mind the chair.

I mind the cow.

Please... Let's take it back?

We can take it back, can't we?

Okay, we can 86 the cow.

She's just a rental.

Good, I'll go change clothes.

Ah, cousin, before you go, um...

You ought to know that there may be a penalty

for returning her unmilked.

I'll chance it.

(ALL SINGING SHE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW IN MYPOSIAN)

Ipepita irinki halla hop chop yop yop

Ipepita irinki halla hop chop yop yop

Ipepita irinki

Halla hop chop yop yop

Aynel

Och viddi voy poy

Dimina babbasticki

Very good.

I think For She's a Jolly Good Fellow

really works in Myposian.

Oh, real toe tapper.

Everybody please be at the apartment at 7:00

so that when Cousin Larry and I arrive with Yaya Biki

you can jump out and yell "surprise!"

Wait, wait, hold on, honey.

and yell at a woman who's 106?

No problem.

Of course, she has better legs.

Now, I got to run.

I got to pick up party hats and half a pound of head cheese.

And listen, don't forget to bring your dancing feet.

Yaya Biki loves to party down.

One hundred and six

and as strong as a sea turtle.

I wonder what I'll be like when I'm old.

Probably a lot like Yaya Biki.

Why, Harriette, you think so?

Sure I do, honey.

I'll get that.

Hello?

No, Mr. Bartokomous is gone for the day.

I'm his cousin.

Oh, no.

Yeah. I... I understand.

Uh... Thank you.

Goodbye.

That was the airline.

to change planes in New York and, uh...

Her heart stopped.

She's dead.

Jennifer... Oh!

Are you sure we have enough potato chips?

Balki, you already bought 15 bags

and we only have 10 people coming.

You're right, maybe we do need more.

Cousin! Cousin, look! Look, look what we did!

Does this say

"Welcome to America" or what?

Well, yes, it does.

Uh, Jennifer and Mary Anne,

don't you need to hurry upstairs

and change for the party?

Larry, we have changed for the party.

And lovely you are too.

but Lydia is wearing that exact same dress.

But if you don't mind-- Oh, no, no, I'll change.

Mary Anne, did I mention that Harriette is wearing

what you have on?

Wow, small world.

I better change.

Uh, cousin,

is 15 bags of potato chips enough?

We have 10 guests coming,

I made four gallons of sheep dip.

Balki, sit down.

Okay.

I guess I could take a break.

I have been running around

like a chicken with his head glued on all day.

Balki, the airline called.

Yaya Biki is...

Is going to be late.

How late?

A lot.

Cousin, what is it?

Yaya Biki

is not coming.

Something happened.

She bought the farm, didn't she?

Well, yes, she did.

Oh! Oh, this is wonderful!

She's always wanted that farm.

Of course, she can't come now

she's got to go out and buy sheep and goats and--

No, no, Balki, Balki. I don't know what all.

Balki, "Bought the farm" is an expression.

What does it mean?

but Yaya Biki got off

the plane in New York

and died.

Okay, so we got 10 guests coming.

Fifteen bags of potato chips enough?

Balki, did you understand what I said?

Yes, you said Yaya Biki is dead.

But that don't solve the chip problem.

Where are you going?

If we run out of munchies, this party's gonna be a dud.

Cousin...

Wasn't that the best circus you ever see?

How about that Joko The Human Fireball?

What an entertainer.

I just hope they got him to the hospital okay.

The daring young man on the flying trapeze...

What kind of a person

would climb 25 feet up in the air

then just drop off and then swing back

and forth, and back and forth,

and then just hand himself to somebody?

Cousin, cousin, I have a storm in my brain.

Why don't we invite the girls down

and rent a movie and get ourselves a pizza--

Balki, Balki, Balki,

For the past three weeks,

zoo, movie, and video arcade in Chicago.

Well, excuse me for being fun.

Okay, I know.

in our mouths.

Balki, Balki,

this is Cousin Larry.

You don't have to do this.

No, cousin, it's no bother. I love making popcorn.

No, no, not that.

I mean, you don't have to pretend

you're happy around me.

What are you talking about?

I'm happy.

I am happy. No, you're not.

I'm happy! No, you're not.

I'm happy. No, you're not.

I'm happy.

Now let it go.

Okay, fine. You're happy.

Your yaya dies and you're happy.

It makes perfect sense.

Okay, cousin, I'm not happy.

Let me explain something to you.

I've been prepared for this.

On Yaya Biki's 100th birthday

she pulled me aside, she said, "Balki,

"today, I am 100 years old.

"Chances are I'm not going to make another 100.

"So when I go,

"please just go on with your life

"as if nothing happened.

"Please, promise me this so that I can rest in peace."

I promised her that

and that's all there is to it.

Well...

You're doing happy things,

but I can see you're hurting inside

and you're trying to hide it.

I know you too well.

Cousin, I'm trying to do

what I promised Yaya Biki I would do.

Yaya Biki was very wise.

And I'm sure she wanted to make things easier for you.

But if she could see you now

she'd say she made a mistake.

When someone close to you dies

you have to mourn for them.

No.

No, no.

I had an uncle whose wife died

and he had a very hard time getting over it.

He held things in,

but the poor guy was a wreck.

He wrote a letter to his wife

telling her all the things

he wished he could say to her.

And did this make everything better?

But if you don't wanna write to her,

try talking to her.

It doesn't matter what you do.

The important thing is to get it out, to...

To say goodbye.

I don't want to say goodbye.

Well...

I'm only trying to help.

I'm gonna go upstairs and, uh, tell the girls

they don't have to come down tonight

and watch you be happy.

Well, Yaya, here we are.

Oh, what the...

Yaya...

Here I am

in America,

just where you wanted me to be.

I...

I know it was your dream to come here too.

I just wish you could've seen more of this country.

I was thinking

maybe you saw the Statue of Liberty

from the window of your airplane.

Wasn't she beautiful?

I remember

the first time I ever saw her

I was... I was sailing into New York Harbor

on the tramp steamer,

and the sun was coming up,

and there she was,

just like you said,

And it was

the most wonderful day of my life.

And you

made that day possible.

I am so blessed

to have had somebody

to fill my heart

with such

wonderful dreams

and then to help me to make them come true.

Yaya,

I've been trying to do what you told me to do.

To go on with my life as if nothing has happened.

But you don't understand

how hard it is,

because you've never lost you.

I made this for you.

I hope you like it.

Um...

Cousin Larry said that

And that...

And that, I have to feel sad

before I can feel happy again.

And I think he was right.

I miss you.

Well...

I'm gonna go upstairs now

and tell my friends that I'm sad.

I think that'll make them happy.

Bye-bye, Yaya.

I see you again someday.