All language subtitles for The Jeffersons s07e13 And the Doorknobs Shined

Well, we're moving on up. We're moving
on up. To the side. We're moving on up.

To a deep.

Neither can I, Florence.

I mean, I'm all for getting new
furniture, but that price was a bit

A bit?

Shoot, with the money y 'all spent, y
'all could have got Chrysler out of

trouble.

Well, George wanted the best furniture
money could buy, so we had to shop at

Moreau's. Oh, I can't wait till it gets
in.

Neither can George.

He's been so excited, he's just like a
little kid.

Damn.

now, but his mouth just went through
puberty.

Willis is a jerk.

I just tried to call him, wasn't no
answer.

Boy, they ought to bring back the death
penalty for that one.

See that guy?

I mean, our new living room furniture is
about to be delivered any minute, and I

can't even find Willis to make him feel
miserable.

He's gonna be so sorry he missed that.

George, why can't we just enjoy our new
furniture instead of rubbing people's

noses in it?

Because we, in this life, there are two
kinds of people. The rubbies and the

rubbers.

Now, I have spent most of my life being
a rubby.

But then, by using my head and rising to
the top, though I may appear on the

outside to be a rubby, in here is all
rubber.

Want to take a shot at it?

No,

it's too easy.

Here,

here.

Oh, I'll get it.

No, hold on. I'll get it, Mr. Jefferson.

What kind of time do you want me to get
this? Well, you don't know that.

Hello,

Mr. Jefferson.

I was just wondering if I might...

But never mind, I've taken enough
already.

No, no, Mr.

Bentley. We were just expecting some new
furniture.

Oh, good. This room could use some. Oh,
yeah, well, if you want to see our new

furniture, be here around 7 .30 tonight.

Actually, I planned on taking Trudy out
for an elegant dinner tonight. I really

want to impress her.

Hey, you want to impress her? 7 .30,
baby, right here.

I got to call Wolf.

George, I don't think it's right.

Using our new furniture just to impress
the neighbors.

Oh, come on, Winston. We're going to be
sitting on it, too.

Oh, it's too late. Furniture's here.

Is this the Jefferson residence?

It sure is. Good.

I've got the delivery from Morose. Tell
your boss.

Wait a minute. I am my boss. I am George
Jefferson.

You? Yeah, me.

Well, all right.

Listen, gentlemen, I want you to be
extra careful with Mr. Jefferson's

furniture. This isn't bargain basement
stuff.

Hi, Jimmy. I'm Louise Jefferson.

Nice meeting you, Mrs. Jefferson.

And I'm Florence Johnson.

How are you doing?

Mr. Jefferson, could I have a glass of
water? Would that be all right? Sure.

Hey, Florence, why don't you give Jimmy
some water? Sure, follow me.

Oh,

George, aren't they beautiful?

And they go so well with the new carpet.

Yeah. There's only one thing missing.

What? Tom Willis.

No way, Florence.

Even if I could afford furniture from
Morose, I ain't got nowhere to put it.

Where do you live?

Well, right now with my brother out in
Queens.

I used to live in Harlem, right near the
old Greenlight Dance Hall.

The Greenlight?

Yeah. You know where it is?

I sure do. I used to live next door to
it. No kidding.

So I guess you know they're tearing down
the block, huh?

They are?

Yeah. The city's putting up some new
buildings down there. It's just a shame

about the green lights. Oh, excuse me
for a minute.

Oh, come on, Willis, old buddy.

Look, I can't tell you what the surprise
is.

You got to come down here and see for
yourself.

Oh, man, you can watch the best of the
Flintstones anytime.

George. I just found out they're tearing
down the building I grew up in. Oh,

that's too bad.

George, I know this sounds silly, but I
never thought about my building being

torn down before.

Me neither. I remember when I was a
little girl in that house. Whenever

I got caught doing something bad, Mother
used to always send me to

my room.

Of course, my sister Maxine could get
away with murder.

But I must have spent most of my
childhood in that room.

And then, you know, whenever I got sent
to my room, I'd pretend my old

glass doorknobs were diamonds.

And that when I grow up, I'd take them
and sell them and be the richest woman

the whole wide world.

That's cute, Will.

So look, Willis. Hello.

Willis? Damn it, he humped.

I gotta go up and get him.

Oh, would you take me to see my building
before they tear it down? Yeah, sure.

You better hurry. They're tearing it
down tomorrow.

Tomorrow? Oh, George, we've got to go
see it tonight.

Tonight? We can't go tonight.

We've got new furniture.

Bentley's coming. The Willows are
coming. This is a big night for them.

Oh, Miss Jefferson, I made fresh coffee
for everybody. You want some?

No.

I'll be back to Lawrence.

Where are you going?

To my room.

To her room?

Hey! Ain't you taking the money?

Hello?

Anybody here?

I have a dog with me.

I'm glad my mother's not here to see
this room.

She would have probably made me clean it
up.

Oh, my favorite corner.

Oh, and my dress used to be right here
next to the bed.

Whenever I woke up, I'd always have my
toy dog, Ruru, to watch over me.

Gee, I wonder what ever happened to
Ruru.

Oh, yeah.

Maxine pulled his front paws off that
time she tried to dance with him.

Of course, Maxine always was hard
-headed.

I just wonder why she never seemed to
get in any trouble.

It was always me.

Always me.

started it. Now get into that room and
don't come out till tomorrow morning.

You hear me, child?

But what about supper?

You heard what I said now.

Maxine started it.

Shoot. I don't care.

I didn't want no supper anyway.

Keep your raggedy supper.

We don't care if Maxine gets supper.

Cause she don't know that we can sell
those doorknobs and be ripped as Lena

Horne, right?

And then we can run away and never see
Maxine again.

Mama would like that cause she likes
Maxine better than us, right?

Yeah, I know.

So what do we do now?

We ought to just stay in here and never
eat again.

So Mama's so sorry for us, huh?

Yeah, you're right.

Just because we're never going to eat
again, it doesn't mean we have to starve

to death.

Who is it?

Who's there?

Oh,

thank God.

Oh, there you are.

Now, how did you get in there?

Somebody still thinks this house is good
enough

to stay in.

I used to live here myself, you know.

As a matter of fact, that hole in the
wall over there used to be the heating

duct where I kept my diary.

And of all the entries I ever put in
that diary, there's

still one I remember the most.

Dear diary, guess what?

Today's the day I finally kissed Dennis
Walker.

Whoever said kissing was neat?

Sure never kissed Dennis Walker.

He leaned his head the wrong way, the
gap between his teeth kept making me

laugh, and he even kisses with his eyes
open.

I know, because I peed.

But all I know is, kissing sure isn't as
great as Maxine says it is, and I'm not

going to do it again for a long, long
time.

Signed, Louise Mills.

P .S.

But then again, why should I suffer just
because Dennis can't get it right?

Dennis Walker must have finally got it
right.

Last I heard, he had 12 kids.

I don't believe it.

Yep, that's the alarm all right. It's
still there.

Oh, no matter what we were trying to get
away with, that alarm.

was a hotline to Mama's room.

One time, my cousin Deborah was spending
the night with me, and we were sneaking

in late.

Oh, it was about one or two in the
morning.

Come on, Louise, be quiet before you
wake your mother.

I can't help it, Deborah. It's just so
funny the way you and that lanky David

Taylor looked at the dance tonight. I
mean, he's got to be eight feet tall.

He's six feet five and fine, thank you.

Six, five, maybe.

Fine, forget it.

Let's not talk about boyfriends, because
that George Jefferson ain't exactly no

Cal Calloway.

You're just jealous because George is
going to join the Navy like a man.

David could have joined the service, but
they said he had flat feet.

Yeah, they match his butt.

Louise, you got a mouth on you as bad as
Maxine.

Look, I don't talk about my sister since
she ran off and left us.

Okay.

Okay. All I'm saying is that if your
mother heard you talking like that,

smack your face.

Shoot, Mama don't scare me. I'm grown.

Now let's get to bed before she wakes
up. Okay.

Watch out for the alarm.

You was out running around with that
sorry old Jefferson boy again.

No, Mama. Child, if you lie to me, I'll
skin you.

Okay, I was okay.

Girl, you're going to do what I tell you
to do.

As long as you stay black, you're going
to obey me, Louise.

But, Mama. Now, just hush up, because I
told you what time to be in this house.

Now, I'm going to get the belt.

But, Mama, wait.

Deborah Ann, too, because if she would
sleep for real, she would have woke up

now.

You know, I don't know what was worse,
the beating itself or the speech that

came with it.

Oh, but Mama wasn't all that bad.

She loved us.

We loved her, and we all loved this
house.

Oh, it always was a hard place to leave.

Can I come in?

Um, sure, Mama. Come in. It's open.

Oh, let me see my baby.

Oh, Louise, that dress looks every bit
as good on you as it did the day I wore

it. Thanks, Mama. Oh, I'm so proud of
you.

Oh, honey,

what's the matter?

Don't you feel well?

I don't know.

Got the butterflies, don't you?

I guess.

Well, that's natural.

But don't worry, because you got a good
man, and that's the important thing.

Well, when George and me got engaged,
you kept saying, with so many fish in

sea, how come you had to catch a guppy?

Oh, shoot.

I was just teasing, child.

I knew you wouldn't listen to me anyway.

But something else is troubling you,
ain't it?

Come on, then. You can tell me.

Well, Mama, it's just that I don't feel
right leaving you all alone.

With Maxine gone, you'll be all by
yourself now.

Girl, is that all?

I just remember how upset you got when
Maxine ran away.

Listen, Maxine was different.

Maxine was always different.

I know.

Louise, I never told you this before,
but you remember all them times when it

looked like I was favoring Maxine over
you?

Yeah.

Well, you probably won't believe it, but
I was really favoring you over Maxine.

Oh, yeah.

And when you're a mother, you'll see
why, too.

You're going to be able to look at your
children and tell which one has the

goodness in her and which one doesn't.

And as sure as I'm sitting here, you're
going to treat that good child just the

way I treated you.

But shouldn't they all get treated
alike?

Yeah, they should.

But they don't.

Maxine wasn't a bad child.

She always had a little devilment in
her. So when she tried to drag you in

mess, I would just jump on you a little
harder because I knew you knew better.

You understand?

Don't get me wrong, when Maxine left, I
was upset because it hurt me.

But you ain't running nowhere, Louise.

Oh, you're making me proud.

And you know you should be proud, too.

Because you ain't hardly losing a home.

You see, I've heard that Jefferson boy
run his mouth.

It's like gaining another me.

Now go on.

Go on, fix yourself up. That preacher
see you looking like that, he gonna

that that man's been knocking you in
your head. Now go on.

What's the matter?

Nothing. I was just thinking.

You know what I used to do when I was
little?

What? I used to pretend these doorknobs
were diamonds.

And all I'd have to do was sell them and
I could buy anything I wanted to.

So embarrassing, all that kid stuff.

Uh -uh, child.

You just keep right on hoping for the
future.

That Jefferson boy's got potential.

You, you never know. He might
accidentally amount to something one

But no matter what happens, Louise,
always look ahead. You hear?

You're on your own now.

So don't look back.

Don't you ever look back.

Hey, Louise.

It's George.

Louise, it's one and one. That pizza
charge is about an hour. Oh, yeah,

honey. You're going to do just fine.

Louise, come on.

Come on.

Wheezy! Wheezy!

Wheezy!

Wheezy! You in there?

Huh?

George? Is that you, Wheezy?

Yeah, I'm in my old bedroom.

So there you are. Hi, George.

I've been worrying all about you. You
should be running around in these

buildings this time of night. You could
be hurt or something.

I'm sorry, George.

But I just had to come back.

What? Oh,

just to look around and reminisce.

This old building holds a lot of
memories for me.

Smiles and sighs, laughs and cries.

You've been cutting those poems out of
Reader's Digest again.

I knew you wouldn't understand.

It's just that when they tear down this
building tomorrow...

it'll be like I'm losing my whole
childhood.

Oh, that's not true, Weezy. Just because
they're tearing down this building,

they ain't a wrecking ball in the world
that can tear down your memories.

I guess you're right, George.

Hmm.

You know, this must have been a pretty
nice little room on this day.

Yeah. You never got to see it.

Are you kidding?

Your mother wouldn't allow me within 50
feet of this room.

Look, boy, if they wanted you there,
they wouldn't have put doors on the

Yeah, I forgot about that.

Me too.

Well, uh, look, um, I got a taxi
downstairs, but if you're ready.

Oh, uh, in just a second.

Oh, uh, would you take this cat and turn
him loose outside?

I'm afraid that they might not see him
tomorrow when they, you know... Oh,

sure, Lisa.

I'll be out in a second. I just want to
say goodbye, okay?

Oh, okay, okay.

Uh, you know, just take all the time you
need.

Look what you did. It'll make you feel
any better.

I really hate to see him tear it down,
too.

Thank you, George.