All language subtitles for Good Times s05e13 No More Mr Nice Guy

Good time, anytime you need a payment.
Good time, anytime you need a break.

Good time, anytime you're up and under.

Not getting hassled, not getting
hustled.

Keeping your head above water.

Making a way when you can.

Temporary layoffs. Good time, easy
credit ripoffs. Good time, scratch

it and...

All work and no play makes Michael Evans
stay away.

What? Oh, sure, you can get out of the
house. Just tell your mother what I tell

my sister Thelma. Say you're going to
the library.

Or tell her mother she can visit you at
the emergency ward.

Listen, Gloria, I'll talk to you later,
okay? Right, bye.

Uh, Michael, I need some help, okay? Not
right now, Thelma. I got a lot of heavy

things on my mind.

Yeah? Well, you got a lot of heavy
things on your stomach, too.

Hey.

Girl, what's wrong with you? You got a
problem?

He thinks the world owes him a living.

Thelma, you shouldn't talk about J .J.
behind his back.

Michael, I'm talking about you.

Michael, look at this mess.

Just look at it. This is all dried up
sausage from the lasagna I cooked last

night. Now I have to chip it off the
plate.

Thelma, when we ate it last night, we
had to chip it off the plate.

get to them. Right now, I'm getting
ready to go up to Cindy's house.

Michael, you were up there last night.

Yeah, I know.

You don't have to worry about that now,
because you're going to stay right here

tonight. I ain't going to stay here. I'm
going to go up to Cindy's house.

Hey, hey, Thelma, give me that. What's
in there?

None of your business. This is my
business. This big red F on top of this

makes it my business, buddy.

This is my algebra test.

Michael, I can't believe this. This is
the first time you brought home an F.

What's happening to you?

Thelma, it's not the end of the world.
It's only an F. Come on.

It is to be home from the hustle and
bustle of the advertising world and to

peace and tranquility of the evidence.

You've been staying out late every
night, going out with a different girl,

goofing off.

And what I got to say is.

starts with a C.

Well, it was a spelling test.

Well, JJ, you always got bad grades.
This is my first.

Mm, yeah.

Hey, Thelma.

Hi, y 'all.

Don't you think it'd take a little easy
on the boy?

Is JJ talking to the door?

Well, that's not unusual, honey, but if
that door answers back, watch out.

nosy now.

You kids don't have to tell me nothing.

Even though I am your mother's best
friend and practically your aunt.

Well, look, I mean, I ain't gonna stick
my nose in nobody's business. You keep

your own little secrets.

to talk to you. Are you listening? Yeah,
we're on. All right. Now, listen, what

are you doing getting an F in your
marks?

Hey, hey, hey, listen to this. It says,
Dear Michael Evans, congratulations.

On the basis of your outstanding essay,
Law in the Ghetto, you've been selected

as one of the five high school students
who will read their essays to the

Illinois Law Association at its annual
Lawyers of Tomorrow banquet on the 26th

of this month.

But don't you forget, when I come back
from the dentist, we have a little talk

to finish, okay?

Sure, Wilona. All right.

Oh, don't forget the skating lesson. Oh,
that's what I came in here for.

I'm running into a little time problem.

Penny has to beat her skating lesson.
Would one of you people take her down

me? Oh, Wilona, I'd love to, but you
caught me right when I have a dance

rehearsal. Sure.

J .J., would you take... Oh, it's just
one of those days, Wilona. I just

happened to bring home a little work
from the office.

Well,

everybody's acting around here.

How much do I bring around the collar?

Well, honey, you got to understand that
people have their own lives to live.

Although everybody in this room knows
how much this lesson means to you.

And if you don't go, it'll break your
heart.

Say no more. I'll make the sacrifice.
Come on, Penny. Oh, Grams, thank you so

much. See that? Now, you see that?
Anybody that responsible cannot be

That's right. The boy does a nice thing
like take a little girl ice skating,

gets out of doing his homework.

You hold them tight.

You break one to the left, and then you
break one to the right. You add some

green onions, chitlins, and a lump of
parquet. And that is what I call doing

omelet, JJ.

the rust street as a manhole cover.

Hey, J .J., are Michael and Penny back
yet? Not yet.

You know, J .J., I'm really getting
worried about Michael because Mom always

kept a tight rein on him, you know? And
you're just letting him run wild.

Oh, come on, Thelma. Michael's just a
grown boy.

And what do you know about being a boy?

What do you know about being a girl?

Listen, J .J., I want Michael to grow up
to be really special.

And I don't want him to drop out of
school and...

around the street, and that's exactly
what's going to happen to him if you do

not talk to him like I said.

Oh, Thelma, Mike was just a grown, all
-American, typical red -blooded boy, you

know, doing his thing.

Just calm down.

Chill out.

In jail.

Michael's friend Howard drove up in the
car and said, hop in. So we hopped. And

then the street was one way, but Harold
went the other way. And the cop said,

pull over, sonny.

So we pulled.

And then they said, the car is hot
enough to fry an egg. And then he said,

have the right to remain silent.

So we remained silent.

and you're going to feel like a real
turkey tail when you find out. When I

Hey, Howard, hey, man, why don't you be
cool?

Let me handle this, okay?

Penny, come here, please.

Sergeant, you see this innocent young
child here?

Her mother's going to be very worried
about her.

Couldn't you just let us go?

No. Well, you have no right holding us
here without charging us. What about due

process? You know us minors have our
rights, too.

Michael's the lawyer of tomorrow.

Well, welcome to the slammer of today.

Now, I can't hold you, son, and I will
hold you until your story's confirmed.

Listen, I got ahold of that father, and
the story checks out.

It was the old man's car, and Howard
borrowed it. The turkey tail.

Without permission.

Well, who's the turkey tail now, Howard?

Gobble, gobble.

Um, Howard.

What? Man, how come you didn't tell me
you borrowed the car without permission?

You didn't ask.

Didn't ask? Man, you know you're really
a lot of help. Thanks a lot. Help!

Save me! I'm innocent!

Um, Sergeant, I believe that facts do
speak for themselves.

Now, Penny and myself here had no way of
knowing that Howard borrowed that car

without permission. Therefore, we are
innocent in the eyes of the law.

Son, I was about to tell you, you are
innocent.

So you can stop trying to prove that
you're ready to pass the bar and start

picking your friends with a little more
care.

Say, officer, my name is Lenay, and I
got picked up in front of Denay's.

me with no crime because I didn't take
one thin dime.

I'm innocent.

I got nothing to hide.

Want to buy a TV?

How about a TV guy?

You get out of here.

To be honest, shadow of a doubt, you are
innocent. J .J., wait a minute. No,

Michael, I handle this. J .J.
Everything's under control.

What do you want?

Uh, listen here, your sergeantship.

Uh, you can see that we are both men of
the world.

I, in particular.

And this is not the face of a brother of
a criminal.

Matter of fact, there's not a dishonest
bone in this body.

You call that a body?

Look here, your sergeantship. This face
and this body unite in the appeal that

Michael Evans is innocent.

He is innocent.

I rest my case.

Well, Michael, I got y 'all.

I use my power of persuasiveness.

J .J., we are anything.

We didn't do anything.

You didn't? No, we just took a little
joyride.

Sure.

You just went for a little ride in a
stolen car.

You know, just last week, we had some
kids about your age did the same thing.

Only when the red lights and the siren
went on, they panicked, led us into a

high -speed chase.

It ended when they hit a utility pole.

So now a boy and a girl are dead.

All because they went for a little ride.

A joy ride.

Honey, are you all right, baby? Are you
all right? Oh, hi, Mama.

What's the problem? It's all right,
lady.

These two can go home. Take them,
please. Oh, thank God. Come on. I can

I won't talk to you later. Come on.
Mommy, can a social worker be put in

A social worker?

Well, no, honey. They do a lot of good
service for the community.

LaVon? Uh -huh? My mama says you can't
go to jail for what you're doing.

Do you realize you could have gotten
killed both of you just like that,

Sorry, Wilona.

Sorry's not going to get it, Mr. Miguel.
I, being your big older brother, have

officially grounded you for seven big
days. That's right, seven big days.

And what about my winning essay?

The lawyers are tomorrow dinner. That's
a week from tonight.

I know that, Michael.

And you won't be.

under the privilege of America, the same
quality of legal protection that the

wealthy already enjoy, we will never be
a nation of equal justice for all. Oh,

Michael, that is beautiful.

No wonder you won. I'm so proud of you.

Thanks, Tom.

Yeah, but who's going to hear besides
you?

J .J.'s never going to let me go to that
dinner tonight.

Well, you know, Michael, you did bring
this on yourself, you know.

Yeah, I know, but you know, J .J.'s been
rough on me, and he's also been very

suspicious lately.

Like last night, I'm coming out of my
bedroom with my pajamas on, toothbrush

hand, and towel over my arm. He comes up
to me and says, sneaking out, eh?

Come on now, you're kidding.

No, JJ's so busy watching me, he doesn't
even go out anymore.

You know, you're right.

He turned down dates all this week, huh?
Yeah, just so he could stay home and

watch out over me. You know, this is not
home anymore. It's become a prison.

I'm surprised there are no bars on the
window.

Don't give JJ any ideas, please.

And J .J. should let you go to that
dinner tonight.

Yeah, but Thelma, I don't think I can
talk him into it.

Hey, maybe I can, okay?

Please. Oh, hi, J .J.

Greetings, Thelma and Babyface Evans.

J .J., I want to talk to you... Later,
Thelma.

Michael, front and center.

You been talking to any of those chicks
on the phone today?

Unfortunately, no.

JJ, what are you doing?

Checking his pulse to make sure he's not
lying.

Oh, come on now. This is going too far.

Present homework.

What's the assignment?

A thousand words on the French
Revolution. French Revolution what?

French Revolution third.

What do my eyes inspire here?

Look at these midget words.

Oh, oh, oh.

I want to see some big new gungus words.

Like transgressionism,
interproversionism.

Of all the unmitigated hypocriticals.
Those words will do also.

J .J., I want Michael to go to that
dinner tonight, but... You the one who

you want me to keep a tight rein on the
boy.

Yeah, a tight rein, but not a chokehold.

dinner is to Michael.

Even the Watergate people got time off
for good behavior.

But J .J. Evans wasn't the judge.

Around here, J .J. Evans is the hanging
judge.

Cool it out.

Um, J .J., look. Right? Now, look.

You're keeping yourself a prisoner as
well. Because if you think about it, if

you let Michael go to the dinner, you
can go out tonight. You can go out with,

uh, Belinda.

Otherwise, I'll ground you for another
week.

All right, JJ. Man, I know I've been
running wild lately. And maybe I do

to be punished.

But tonight is special, JJ. I mean, you
can ground me for a week, a month, a

year. I don't care. But please let me go
tonight.

Let me read them my essay.

Let me make you proud of me.

Michael. Yeah?

Get that thing off the table. It's
blocking everything up on there.

For some reason, I get the strange
feeling he doesn't understand.

J .J., what do you expect? He made one
little mistake, and I can't believe how

cruel you've been to him.

Not you too, Thelma.

A man does what he thinks is right, and
the whole world comes down on him. I

mean, as head of the house, if I make a
decision, I got to stick with it.

Well, where do you think you're going,
young man?

To the lawyers of tomorrow dinner.

Oh, come on, Thelma. It takes a big man
to admit that he's a failure.

At least give me that much.

J .J., you did what you had to do,
right?

And Michael did what he had to do.

Only Michael did his harder.

And it's a good thing he did. Right.

Now he's grounded for the rest of the
century.

J .J., are you ever going to let up?

Michael, soon as you shape up.

J .J., I can understand you coming down
on me.

But why are you punishing yourself? You
know, you've had a chance to go out all

this week and you've turned it down.
Just so you can stay home and keep an

on me.

Michael, sit down.

You know, that's not the reason I turned
down all those dates.

Then why?

Well, you see, Michael, you've been
going out with a lot of girls, and so

I. And I want to set a good example for
you, at least this week.

Good example?

What are you talking about?

Well, you see, Michael, all these years
I've been setting a bad example for you.

Fooling around, goofing off in school,
getting bad grades.

But now that I'm like a father -like
image to you, well, I got a lot of

up to do.

See, I wouldn't want you to make the
same mistakes I did.

J .J., everybody makes mistakes.

But look at you now, man.

I'd be proud to turn into another you.

You would? Yeah, are you kidding?

J .J., you taught yourself to paint when
there was nobody to teach you. You got

yourself a job, and you're supporting
us.

Man, I've always been proud of you.

You have?

Sure, J .J.

Well, you know, what can I say?

I can say that's my big brother. All
right.

Well, thank goodness that's over with.
Oh, boy.

Now, Michael, if you hurry up, you can
make that lawyers of tomorrow dinner.

Thanks, Thelma, but no thanks. I'm not
going.

What? After all this hassle, you're not
going?

What kind of lawyer of tomorrow would I
be if I made J .J. break his own laws?

Uh, wait a minute, Michael.

Uh, laws are made to be changed.

Hold on, JJ. I don't want any special
favors. I'm staying.

No, Michael, there's no special favor.

You're going.

JJ, I'm staying.

Michael, you're going.

I'm staying.

Michael, you're going. I'm staying.
Michael, you're going. I'm staying.

going. I'm staying. You're going. I'm
staying. You're going.

All right, Michael.

This is it. I've had enough of your mess
here.

Now, if you don't go, you're going to be
in for the most cruel and inhumane

punishment you've ever been in for in
your life.

And what you going to do?

Michael, if you don't go, I'll make you
stay here and eat Thelma's dinner.

Looking out of the window Watching the
asphalt road

Thinking how it all looks when we die
Good times, good

times Keeping your head above water
Making a wave when you

can

videotape in front of a studio audience.