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[Maya] All of my hard work for the past three years vanished

when we reached across the aisle and made a compromise deal.

-A green economy was within our grasp. -[applause]

So what if it cost $9 trillion? Trust me,

when there's no more clean water to drink

or clean air to breathe, we'll be willing to pay a lot more.

But what I'm really bitter about is that no one supported me.

Not even the Congresswoman.

I mean, Penny, because that's who she will always be to me.

She'd have never run for Congress,

let alone win, if it wasn't for me.

I guess what I'm saying is,

I don't know what I'm doing anymore.

I lost my juice.

Are you talking to me?

Hey, I'm America's favorite weatherman, not their favorite shrink.

I know exactly who you are, Roker.

And if you don't help me, I'll expose you as an employee

-of the-- -No! Don't say it!

I'll be out of a job. Okay, okay. What do you want, Maya?

I've been listening to your sad stories for, what, four hours?

There's only so much even I can take.

What do you want?

Hmm.

Remember when you made us older and sent us off to college?

You want to be older? Okay.

But I'm warning you, it's not gonna be pretty.

No, you Hogwart!

I want you to use your powers to send me back to a happier time.

Let's be honest, Maya. Have you ever really been happy?

[scoffs]

-[door opens] -Extra! Extra!

This just in! Al Roker secretly works

-for the-- -Okay! Okay.

When you say happier times, what are we talking?

Yesterday? A week ago? Before you bought that outfit?

I need you to send me back to when I was 19.

A sophomore in college. That's when I was my happiest.

When my voice was sure, steady and clear,

my baby hair was laid perfectly.

Before we were all doomed!

You know, time travel isn't really my thing.

I can send you back a couple of years, but 21?

Figure it out, Roker!

I never thought I'd say this, but I actually prefer Penny Proud.

All right, let me just check the manual.

Time travel, time travel...

Timeshare?

Roker, please! Will you just get on with it?

[chuckles]

Come with the rain, come with the shine!

Fixation in mind to morph Maya's time!

[Al Roker cackling]

Are you serious, Roker?

[screams]

[thunder crackling]

[? soft music playing faintly]

[thunder crackling]

-[screaming] -[thuds]

[gasps]

[panting]

-[Maya] Um, who exactly are you? -Huh?

And why are you in my room?

Curse you, Roker!

? The... Proud... Family... What? ?

? You and me will always be tight ?

? Family every day and every night ?

? Even when you start acting like a fool ?

? You know that I'm lovin' every single thing you do ?

? I know I can always be myself ?

? When I'm with you more than anybody else ?

? Every single day that I'm headed off to school ?

? You know there's no one I love as much as you ?

-? The family ? -? The family ?

? Proud family ?

? They'll make you scream! ?

? They'll make you wanna sing! ?

? It's a family thing a family ?

? A proud, proud family Proud family ?

? They'll push your buttons! ?

? They'll make you wanna hug 'em ?

? A family, family Proud, proud family ?

? Proud, proud family ?

[Oscar screams]

[Maya] Okay, seriously, who are you?

I'm Maya.

[chuckles] Not possible. I'm Maya.

Yeah, but I'm 19-year-old Maya.

Aka the happy Maya. Aka the free Maya.

Aka the Maya who was a proud owner of a used electrical vehicle

and doesn't live here anymore.

And by the way, why am I still here?

This is why I'm single.

Got it. Don't worry, sis. You in the right place.

-I'll get some help for you. -I wouldn't do that if I were you.

I-- I have to warn you, my dad is a policeman.

-Yeah, I know. -[gasps]

You call him Bear-Bear, he calls you My-My.

[gasps]

How did you know that?

Trust me, I know everything about you, Maya.

Your fear of becoming a Black buppie,

your confusion about being raised by a white father,

your guilt about eating a beetroot vegan sandwich

topped with a side of bacon.

Which is extra crispy and I need a piece.

-[door opens] -[KG] Yo, peanut head,

I need your phone charger.

Go get Dad right now.

-Why? -Just do what I said.

This girl broke into my room.

What?

She was just here.

She... She looked like me, but heavier drip.

Yeah, right.

Well, couldn't have been you.

You ain't got no swag.

Get out, KG!

[school bell ringing]

So there I am, in my bed, just chilling,

listening to my fave, Nina Simone,

-when-- -I'm sorry, Nina Si-who?

Whenever you hear the name "Nina Simone,"

just pretend you know who it is.

Anyway, I look up and I see this girl and she's just staring at me.

And get this, she looks just like me!

Girl, you were not listening to Nina.

You must've been playing some Funkadelic.

-Yeah, girl. -[laughs]

Only our grandparents can get on the Mothership.

[both laughing]

Wait, someone's mother has a ship?

[sighs] Here we go again!

Maya, what's with you and seeing things?

Well, I've always had a deep connection with the spirits.

[splutters] What if that's what she was?

Okay, enough with the ghost stories.

What is everyone wearing to the Great Gatsby winter formal?

[indistinct chatter]

I can't believe I trusted Roker.

Yo, yo! Hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Just like he get the weather wrong.

That's why they put him out there with the umbrella and the weird raincoat.

Roker? He looks exactly the same.

I guess Black and evil really don't crack. It's a crazy match.

[TV announcer] And don't miss Al Roker on WCOOD.

Roker!

You better hope I miss you.

Don't take this the wrong way, Vanessa.

Actually, I don't care how you take it,

but I notice you use double negatives a lot in your reporting.

And I noticed you use Double Stuf Oreo cookies a lot when you're eating.

I don't do that anymore, Vanessa.

The only thing I eat stuffed is a tofurkey.

-Oh! Jeez! You got any Oreos? -[plate clattering]

-[Maya] Roker! -Hmm?

You're going to pay for this!

Excuse me, do I know you?

No, you don't but you about to!

-I'm done with you! -[groans]

-[objects clattering] -Ouch!

Do you know who you're shoving around?

I know exactly who I'm shoving around.

America's favorite weatherman.

Now go get your little magic book,

your little magic wand and bibiddi bop, send me back.

I'd like nothing more than to send you away...

but I don't know what you're talking about.

Don't play dumb, Roker.

You were supposed to send me back to my happy college days,

not to coexist with my pathetic middle school days.

Oh, I get it. You're from the future!

Don't act like you don't know, Roker!

But I don't.

If future me sent you here to the past,

then present me wouldn't know anything about it.

Bottom line, you've got the wrong Roker.

I got the right Roker, but you playing with the wrong Maya.

Now, either you sent me to my happiest time, which was college,

or I'm gonna let everybody know exactly who you work for.

Oh, so that's how you did it.

You blackmailed me.

Very impressive, I mean... [chuckles] Devious.

Have you considered a career in--

Get me back to the future, Roker. I'm serious.

Who do you think I am? Doc Brown?

-[grunts] -Okay, okay.

Just offering a career opportunity.

-How far in the future are we talking? -Five years.

Five years?

Okay, but if you turn into a frog, don't say I didn't warn you.

Sign this, absolving me of all responsibility

regarding this situation.

[thunder crackling]

Did you just read the whole thing?

The trick to speed reading is not to read every word.

So do you want to do this or what?

Go for it.

Come with the rain, come with the shine!

Fixation in mind, send Maya to her happiest time!

[cackling]

[screams]

[screaming]

[school bell ringing]

[students murmuring]

Are you serious, Roker?

Uh, where's Brother Kwame?

Brother Kwame is...

-[crowd cheering] -[whimpering]

[lion growling]

-[screams] -He is out sick today.

And I... I'm your substitute teacher, Ms...

M.

Now everybody take your seats and, uh, let's get started.

Hey, Penny!

Now, uh, what we working on?

-Uh, we were going to watch a movie. -No, we were not, Penny.

[chuckles] We're supposed to be discussing The Great Gatsby.

[students booing]

Okay, okay, okay. Everybody calm down.

-Great Gatsby it is. -[students exclaim in disappointment]

Now, can anyone summarize the main themes

F. Scott Fitzgerald was trying to tackle in The Great Gatsby?

Put your hand down, Urkel.

Look, I'll just pick somebody.

How about you, Dijonay?

Huh? How did you know my name?

[Maya] Uh...

-Seating chart. [chuckles] -[Penny] Uh,

the main theme of The Great Gatsby

is about the disintegration of the American dream.

No, it's not.

It's about some rich white dude

trying to get with some girl named Daisy.

[students laughing]

Actually, it's about race relations in early 20th century America.

[chuckles] And get this, Gatsby wasn't white.

He was Black.

[students gasping]

[laughing]

[boy] He's what?

Laugh all you want, but F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing

about a Black man passing for white.

Sister Souljah here makes a valid point.

There are many literary critics who support this theory.

First Beethoven, now Gatsby? What's next?

[laughter]

-[school bell rings] -[students chattering]

[boy] Are we hanging out after 8:00?

You're Maya, right?

Look, just because your classmates don't have

the same priorities as you right now,

doesn't mean they won't one day.

[sighs] I doubt it.

They are no different than the kids

at all the other schools I've been to.

They just don't get it.

So what if they don't?

Just know you're fighting a just battle,

like when you tried to save Shuggie, the giant panda.

How did you know that?

-[knock on door] -Excuse me, but where's Brother Kwame?

[screaming]

Uh, that'll be all, Maya.

You know what? He's out sick.

-I'm the new substitute, Ms. M. -Oh!

I don't remember requesting a substitute.

Anyway, he was gonna be my co-chaperone

at the winter formal tomorrow.

So I guess now you'll have to do.

-Huh? -Be here at 7:00.

And, uh, wear something a little less... ethnic.

Thank you, dear.

Oh, I forgot.

You've got cafeteria duty too. Toodle-loo!

[grumbles]

[school bell rings]

Hey, hey, hey! Don't throw that away!

If you don't want to eat it, give it to someone less fortunate.

I didn't mean me. Do I look less fortunate than you?

I'm a lot more fortunate than you are, trust me.

Because I got years in wisdom.

Okay, okay, children.

Who's taking who to the Gatsby dance?

I'm taking Sebastian, of course.

[chuckles] You know I'm going with Kareem.

Oh, y'all don't even have to ask.

I'm going with my Dare-Bear.

We've got matching outfits and everything.

Ooh, baby, our drip is coordinated!

I'm going with Myron.

By default. Again.

[Myron groans]

And what about you, Maya?

I'm not interested in going to a Great Gatsby dance

where no one appreciates the cultural significance of The Great Gatsby.

Please.

You're not interested because you don't have a date, Angela Rye.

[all laughing]

[older Maya] Man, forget them. Keep your head up, Maya.

Just know that one day you're gonna be number six

on D.C.'s "25 Most Eligible Singles" list.

You should've made top five.

[groans]

Maya.

-Maya! -[door closes]

You know, I do not remember being this dramatic. Or hard-headed.

I definitely don't remember these waffle fries being this good.

The perfect combination of salt, old grease and crunch.

You might want to avoid the tristate area tomorrow.

I have it on good authority

there's going to be one hail of a storm! [chortles]

You better get like Lucy and start explaining.

Hey, what are you doing? I'm on the air! Who are you?

You know who I am.

I'm 35-year-old Maya.

Oh, okay.

You didn't age well. I warned you.

Are you serious, Roker?

It's not my fault I don't work for you-know-who.

So, yes, my caramel is cracking a little bit.

-Now, come on! -[groans]

[Al Roker] I don't get it. Why are you still here?

You tell me.

You were supposed to send me to my college years, my happiest,

but instead, I'm a 35-year-old substitute teacher.

Just return me to my own time.

-I can't watch myself suffer. -[gasps]

This wasn't a good era for me.

I was so unsure, so insecure.

I don't want to relive this. You gotta help me, Roker!

Okay, I'm gonna need a couple of days to figure it out.

Just stop choking me!

A couple days? Where am I supposed to stay?

[Suga Mama] I only have three rules.

-[Puff growling] -Pay your rent in advance,

no loud music,

and stay away from my son, Bobby.

I've seen your kind before.

Okay, darling, here's your room.

Enjoy yourself.

-[growling] -[screaming]

[cell phone buzzing, sinister ringtone playing]

Hello, and a sunny day to you! America's favorite weatherman speaking.

Stop saying that. It's not true.

Name another one. I dare you.

Oh! How's your Wizbnb?

It's terrible. You know I'm staying in Suga Mama's house.

All the candy is old, the carpet's from 1973,

and I've got a roommate.

-[bear grunting] -[laughing]

You didn't mention my name, did you?

No, but I will if you don't get me out of here and quick.

Relax! I'll do it.

Lucky for you, I'm brilliant.

I broke the time travel code.

Just meet me in my classroom.

Hey! Hey, guys, have you figured out time travel yet?

Yeah, boss. What do you think?

A DeLorean? I think you're idiots.

It was your idea, boss.

Oh, then it's brilliant.

[? cheerful music playing]

[Maya on megaphone] The context of Gatsby is clear!

Gatsby is passing.

It's time to read the words behind the words

and stop the gentrification of literature!

Black literary lives matter!

[vehicle approaching]

[chuckles] A DeLorean? Cool!

Step back, step back, make room for the boss.

It worked!

Where did you go, boss?

Twenty-one years into the future.

Khloe Kardashian is the 51st president.

[cheering]

[inaudible]

All right, Maya, get your things. Ready to go?

Why are you dressed like Don King if he were in The Matrix?

You know what? I don't want to know.

Just do me a favor, come back tomorrow, okay?

Tomorrow? But-- But I thought you wanted to leave!

I did. And I do. But I have to talk to Maya first.

I gotta let her know that things are gonna get better.

But you're here, so that's not really true.

Tomorrow, Roker!

What now, boss?

Ms. M., are you ready?

[gasps] Oh, my!

Al Roker, America's favorite weatherman!

And mine too! [giggles]

Who? Who, me? No, not me. Sorry. You've got the wrong Al.

-Get it all the time. Bye! -[gasps]

Uh-oh.

The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo were written by a Black man.

And if we unite as a student body,

we can end this travesty of misinformation.

[person clapping]

Inspiring!

I'm with you no matter what, Maya. [chuckles]

[? mellow R&B music playing]

That is my jam! [laughing]

Sorry, gotta go.

-Maya! -[Randall] Maya!

What's wrong, baby?

Principal Hightower called and said you were causing a commotion.

I was just trying to make people think, Daddy,

but nobody will listen.

Yo, Maya, you coming inside or not?

The party is popping right now.

Maya isn't feeling well, KG.

We're-- We're just gonna go home.

Go home? What's wrong with Maya? What's up?

She'll be fine.

You have a good time, okay?

Nah, nah, I'm coming too, Pops. That ain't right.

Come on, baby, let's get you home.

My-My, you forgot to stuff your pierogi.

You know what?

I don't want to do this.

[doorbell ringing]

-[door opens] -[Barry] My-My,

your teacher, Ms. M., is here to see you.

Hi, Maya.

Uh, could we have the room, please?

Oh... Oh, sure.

Uh, come on. Why don't we give them some space?

Look, self... I mean, Maya,

I just wanted to talk to you about tonight.

I know you're passionate about the things you believe in, okay?

[chuckles] Trust me, I know.

And you want others to believe with you,

but that's not always gonna be the case.

I want you to know that's all right.

It doesn't mean you're wrong or that people don't like you.

It's just that they may not be ready to receive what you're saying.

That's the downside to being ahead of the curve.

You're waiting for people to catch up.

You can't take it personally.

That's something we have to-- You have to understand.

Look, I know what I'm saying probably doesn't make any sense to you at all,

but one day it will.

Here, take this.

This is amethyst. It's very powerful.

It gets rid of any negative thoughts you might have.

Whenever you feel unsure, like you can't do something,

just touch it.

It'll make you feel brave.

Thanks, Ms. M.

[Randall] We're making pierogies, Ms. M.

Do you care for any?

Uh, yeah! You know it's my favorite, Daddy.

I mean, uh, yes, sure.

And I'll never call you that again. Sorry, sir.

[Dijonay] Ooh, what's this? They look good.

I made pierogies for everybody.

Ooh, I love pierogies. Thank you, Maya!

[munching]

Ooh, this is good!

Is this gluten-free?

Who cares? As long as it's free!

I'm surprised.

I thought you were too woke to cook, Maya.

A fun fact, 40% of all food in the United States

is actually thrown away before its expiration.

And we could prevent starvation by eating leftovers.

Uh, what are you trying to say, boo?

You're eating pierogies made from discarded food

from some of Emilyville's finest restaurants. [chuckles]

I don't care. Can I take these home for my--

[Michael] Yeah, she's right, they're good.

Can I have the recipe, please?

-[Dijonay] You have more? -[Zoey] What do you call them?

Wow, look at her.

She's already moved on to the next cause.

She just let yesterday roll off her back.

I guess I was stronger than I remembered.

Okay, Roker, I'm ready. Let's get out of here.

Where'd you get that?

Were you eating while I was talking? I thought we were having a moment.

Come on, she's giving 'em away!

All right, let's get you back to college,

when you were happy and hopeful.

Although, I can't quite imagine that.

You know what?

I'm good.

I'm ready to go home.

I think I finally got what I needed.

[all laughing]

Okay.

Uh, are you sure this is gonna work this time?

If you send me to preschool, we're gonna fight.

Duh, no!

But what choice do you have, Maya?

[cackling]

? Time ?

-? You're speeding up ? -? Speeding up ?

? There is no need to rush at all ?

? If you're in need of love ?

-? Why not go back to us? ? -? Oh ?

-? Back to us ? -? Oh, oh ?

-? Go back to us ? -? Oh ?

-? Back to us ? -? Oh ?

? Back to the future ?

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