All language subtitles for Good Times s02e22 The Enlistment

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 up for water.

Making a way when you can.

Temporary layoffs. Good time.

Okay.

Stand still, Michael.

There, thank you. Oh.

Hey, Thoma, ain't breakfast ready yet?

Relax, popsicle stick.

Can't you see it's being made?

Boy, things sure get done a lot faster
when mom...

Boy, sending you in for Mars like
sending in Tiny Tim for Stevie Wonder.

J .J., why don't you stop picking on
Thelma?

Thanks, Michael.

You're welcome. But I agree with J .J.

I'm so hungry I can eat a horse.

And whatever she cooks is going to taste
like one anyway.

Will you stop picking on me?

Uh, Thelma, the coffee's boiling over.

We enjoy watching you in your misery.

If you enjoy misery, stand in front of a
mirror.

You got some nerve, you old
Frankenstein. All right, that's enough.

knock it off. You see your sister's
having a hard time.

My shirt ready yet, baby girl? Yeah,
daddy, I just finished it.

Ma went to a funeral in Cleveland. We
got the stiff right here.

Why'd you like a stiff lip with no
starch in it?

Thelma. Michael, leave me alone. I'm
having enough trouble.

Daddy, can you tell Thelma that the
oatmeal... No, Michael, you heard your

sister. Leave her alone, son.

All right. I just wanted to tell her
that the oatmeal is burning.

Oh, no!

Thelma, are you sure you didn't do the
special effects for Towering Inferno?

Junie, how'd you like me to press your
face?

girl. I mean, everything considered,
you're doing a great job.

Your mother would be real proud of you.

Now, come on, y 'all. Let's sit down and
eat this delicious breakfast I made for

us.

Yeah, go ahead on, Michael.

Listen, your mother wants to say hello
to all of you, but make it quick now

because it's long distance.

Hi, Mama. I'm fine.

Hi, Mom. I'm fine, too.

Hello,

Mother dear.

This is your eldest son here.

Let me give you a long list of all the
disasters going on.

Junior's just jiving, baby.

Everything here is fine. Just relax and
enjoy the funeral.

Oh, she's the one that died.

Yeah, in that case, have a nice time
with your folks, baby.

Yeah, Floyd, I know it's a sad occasion,
but your aunt did live a nice long

life.

Huh?

Oh, baby, my job at Brady's going fine.
Couldn't be better. And I'm doing great

at my movie usher -in job.

Huh? Look, Floyd, everything here is
under control. Ain't no sense you

back. Yeah, but I wish you'd get here by
dinner time.

baby, just doing your fat mouthing as
usual.

Yeah, well, we all miss you.

We love you.

Especially me.

All right. Bye, baby. Bye.

Your membership in this family is
hanging by a very slender thread.

I'm about to put your birth certificate
in escrow.

Boy, this looks delicious.

Not too bad.

Oh, baby girl.

Not at all.

Can't hardly wait to eat it, can you,
Junior?

Looks delicious.

Uh -uh. Well, I've been setting your fat
mouth with you kids so much like I made

myself late for work.

What about the breakfast?

Well, good as it looks. Now, Mama, I
have to skip it. I got to get dressed.

But you don't need it all up here. Help
you grow up big and strong.

Oh, yeah.

I don't want to forget that.

It'll be all right once I hammer down
these sleeves.

to be picky, but there's one thing that
I hate, and that's an unfluffed pillow.

Well, a pillow between your ears ain't
fluffed too tough, either.

You got some nerve talking about pillow
ain't fluffed. Look, J .J., I'm tired of

you criticizing me. You're doing a
terrible job.

All right, all right. Please stop it. If
there's ever a time I wasn't in the

mood for halfling, it's right now.

Oh, Dad, you're home.

No, I ain't home, fool. I'm sunning on
the beach at Acapulco.

early, Junior. So what?

Something wrong, Daddy?

No, ain't nothing wrong.

Except you heard the latest unemployment
figure's 8 .3.

Well, you can add me to the statistics.

I just got laid off. Not you, Daddy.
You're a system foreman. Yeah, and the

foreman's gonna be standing in front of
me at the unemployment office.

Seems like things slowed down at the
plant, so Brady put a bunch of us on

they call temporary layoff.

Well, Daddy, that's not so bad. It's
just temporary.

Baby girl, if there's one thing I've
come to find out in life that's

it's a temporary layoff.

The president said that the economy's
going to turn around.

Yeah, I'd like to turn it around, bend
it over, and give it a swift kick.

Hey, one of y 'all answer that, please.
If it's your mother, I don't know how

I'm going to tell her about this.

I'll handle this.

Hello.

Evans House of Happiness.

Mr. Carter?

Yeah, sure, I'll come in early today.

No, no problem at all.

Okay, bye.

Well, Dad, you look like a black cloud.

So I'm here to bring you the silver
lining.

That was my boss from the movie theater.
He wants me to come in early today.

So what?

So I'll be taking up the financial slack
in the family.

Junior, what are you talking about?

Well, Dad, like I told you, I've been
doing great at my movie ushering job.

And the reason he wants me to come in
early today has got to be to give me a

promotion. Wants to make me the head
ush.

What makes you so sure?

Because whenever there's a delicate
situation, he always calls on me to

it. Like last week, we had this little
problem up in the balcony.

You know, this couple was getting too
cozy, hugging and stuff like that. But I

handled it diplomatically.

Well, what'd you do?

I threw both those guys out.

candy concession. That means a raise in
all the Milky Ways I can eat.

With those teeth, you can cost them a
fortune.

Now, wait a minute.

There's probably something even more
bigger than that.

Mr. Carter's probably going to retire.

Probably wants to make me the manager.

Imagine me, Brother J .J., manager of
the Lakeshore

Theater.

I've been your cashier for 18 years, Mr.
Carter. I didn't think the Lakeshore

Theater would ever close.

Neither did I, Edna, neither did I. But
why?

Why? Because the last ten pictures we
showed had more people in the cast than

had in the audience.

My mother told me not to go into show
business.

Hey, Edna, don't cry.

take over as boss, I'll be a great boss.

Well, Mr. Carter, all set for our big
conference?

Should I cut off the phones?

It's already been taken care of.

Good thinking, Mr. Carter, good
thinking.

Mr. Carter, you know, I appreciate this
confidence you have in me, and rest

assured, whatever it is you want me to
do, I'm willing to go all...

You certainly will.

I like you, J .J. And I like you, too.

Now, listen, J .J.

Starting today, there'll be a new sign
on the marquee.

Closed permanently.

Oh, new disaster film?

Who's in it? You.

Try to cheer up, Daddy.

Yeah, and I can earn my lunch money by
picking up empty deposit bottles.

Now, listen, both of you, I appreciate
what you kids are trying to do, but

there's one thing I want you to
remember.

I'm the breadwinner in this family. If
there's going to be anybody slicing the

loaf, it's going to be me here.

Hey, gang.

Well, just as I promised y 'all, the
financial hole in this family has been

plugged. You got a raise?

No, I got fired.

Well,

I got something better. Our money
problems are over.

Junior, you ain't making no sense.

I am making sense.

Family, are y 'all ready for this?

I, James Evans, Jr., have enlisted in
the United States Army.

You did

what? I enlisted in the Army, Dad.

Junior, I ain't in the mood for none of
your jokes now.

I ain't joking, Dad. I'm all signed up
and everything.

Daddy, he's serious.

Junior, are you crazy?

Boy, what you gonna do in the Army? You
scared of your own shadow?

What little there is of it.

JJ, what outfit they gonna put you in?
The lean beret?

Go ahead, make fun, little sister, but I
have you know I'm a natural soldier,

born with a military mind.

Yeah, you got a military mind, all
right. Them Nats is marching in close

here.

You ain't nothing but a kid.

But, Dad, the Army builds men.

Yeah, but first you got to bring them
all the parts.

Dad, the Army will snap me right up,
especially when they hear about my

record. What combat record?

I'll have you know I've seen every John
Wayne war movie ever made.

Going in as a hero, huh?

No, I'm willing to work my way up. I'll
start off as G .I .J .J. P .F .C.

M .O .U.

This army stuff ain't no game, boy. This
is serious business.

You ain't ready for it yet.

But, Dad, you went into the army at my
age.

Yeah, well, see, I got an invitation to
the Korean War.

In them days, Uncle Sam wasn't taking no
for an answer.

J .J., you've never been away from home
before.

That's the good part.

I get a chance to see the world for
free.

Chicks in every country will stay up all
night just to get a touch of kid

dynamite.

They let you choose where you want to
go.

Yeah, and you know what your choice is
going to be? Death Valley or Iceland?

Well, I hear that Iceland's kind of nice
in the spring.

Yeah, if you're a snowball, which you
ain't.

But, Junior, you ain't going in the
Army, and that's all there is to it. I

you couldn't even make it through basic
training. Boy, you ain't never had it

that tough.

Couldn't be any tougher than living in
this neighborhood.

No? But when's the last time you went on
a 10 -mile hike?

The last time the elevator broke down.

with live ammunition flying over your
head. Do it every Wednesday.

Only way to get home to school after the
warlords and the Satanites get down.

Junior, how about not seeing a girl for
12 whole weeks, huh?

Oh, no!

Oh, dear.

That's truly an inhumane punishment.

But I guess the chicks will just have to
make the sacrifice.

She might as well forget that.

Wait a minute now, Dad.

I've never disobeyed you.

But the Army says I'm old enough.

I don't need your permission.

Now, wait a minute, son. Hold it.

Your mother ain't here, Junior. How are
you going to make a decision like that

without her being here?

Well, it's a good thing that she's not.
She probably would try to stop me.

Then why are you doing it, son?

Well, Dad, somebody's got to do
something. I mean, things are tough.

In the Army, I'll be making $344 a
month, plus room and board.

I could send that home, and I'd be one
less mouth for you to feed.

I just stopped by to let you all know
what I was doing, tell you all the good

news.

Well, I'm going down to take my
physical.

Junior! I'm sorry, Dad.

He's joining up because I lost my job.

Daddy, he didn't say that.

He ain't got the baby, girl. I mean, I
know the truth.

Oh, Daddy, you know we love you. Yeah,
Daddy, it's not your fault.

It happens to people all over.

You said yourself the unemployment
figure was 8 .3.

Well, I bet among black men, it's over
20%. For black men in this house, it's

100%. Oh, the economy's got me jammed in
the middle. It's causing my family to

break up, and there ain't a damn thing I
can do about it. Come on, Daddy, stop

worrying. Let me fix you something to
eat.

Please, Thelma.

answer. Probably just some more bad
news.

Hello?

Yes, just a minute.

Daddy, it's for you. It's Brady's.

Brady's. Them jive time rascals.
Probably want their paycheck back from

week.

Yeah?

What?

Oh, man, you jiving.

Well, all right!

Got my job back. I'm working again.

Yeah, it seemed like the personnel
manager made a mistake.

Lord, I want to thank you for helping me
out.

Now, don't you all tell your mother I
said that. She'd be wanting to drag me

church every Sunday.

Oh, Lord, I got to stop Junior before
he'd take that physical.

Daddy, how can you? It's too late.

No, it ain't. Not if he didn't get sworn
in yet. See, you ain't in the army

until you raise your right hand and take
that oath. I'll see you all.

Hey, wait a minute. What induction
center did he say he was going to?

Um, uh, he didn't say.

Oh, I'll find it. I got to find it.

talk this over?

a chest x -ray.

Well, I know that can't hurt.

Now face the wall, Evans.

I

can't

find your chest.

Just relax, Evans.

Who's that for?

I have to take some blood.

From who?

Well, I'd like to have it from you.

I'd like to have a second opinion.

Uh, couldn't we wait till I cut myself
shaving?

fast as you can until I tell you to
stop.

I've been to three induction centers
looking for my kid. I gotta stop him

he takes the oath.

Please, I can't have this man's heart.

That's because it stopped beating.

I got my job back. I'm working again.
You ain't got to join up.

Would you mind repeating that? I said I
got my job back, son. I'm working again.

Everything's going to be fine. You ain't
got to join the army.

Honest? Honest!

Now...

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