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[upbeat music]

- Oh, wow. That's pretty.

- What do you think of the ofrenda?

- Oh, it's the nicest one I've ever seen.

- It's the only one you've ever seen.

Did you watch "Coco" like I told you?

- Oh.

It's on my list. I can't wait.

- And yet, I saw you watching an old "Price Is Right" today.

- Yeah.

- Okay, so quick breakdown--

For Día de los Muertos,

we build ofrendas to honor those who've passed.

- Mm-hmm.

- We put out their pictures and a bunch of offerings,

then we welcome them back.

- Welcome who back?

- The dead.

- And someone thought that'd be a good idea

for a children's movie?

- Well, it's actually a beautiful ritual

that helps keep our loved ones close.

- That's nice. That's not scary at all.

- Seems like you're hung up on the whole ghost thing.

- Well, sometimes they're all mangled and yucky-looking.

- So the altar leads them to us from the spirit world.

These candles act as, like, runway lights.

And then the marigolds--

- Oh, I like these.

- Yeah, the dead love the smell of them.

- There you go.

Fun, fun, fun, fun. [chuckles]

Do you always have to put it in the living room?

I mean, isn't there someplace else it could go?

- Oh, I mean, you can build one anywhere.

I was actually thinking of doing it at the tavern

at first, but-- - But nothing!

That's a great idea.

Someplace where it's all lit up and lots of people around.

- You don't mind me doing it at work?

- [chuckles wheezily] What?

No. Uh, didn't I say it was fun?

Yeah, don't you want work to be fun?

- Well, then, okay. - Okay.

- I get to make it twice as big!

- Oh, my gosh. Great! [chuckles]

- ♪ Sometimes it feels like a big ol' fight ♪

♪ To get through the day ♪

♪ And sleep on through the night ♪

♪ But here you'll find a place ♪

♪ That'll surely lift your spirits ♪

♪ You belong at Happy's Place ♪

- Isa, you've done it again. - Stunning.

Makes me wish my family

celebrated the holiday.

But back home,

death is a somber affair.

Then again, with my father,

so is life.

- Well, my mom

loves the holiday.

When she gets here,

first thing she'll do

is rearrange the photos

from most loved to least.

- Wait. There's a petty aspect. That's fun.

- Oh, hey, Bobbie.

- Mm. - What's wrong?

- Oh, I just watched "Coco," and I loved it.

Aw.

I want to help.

Oh, I can make the pan de "merto."

It means "bread of the dead."

- She explained

to the man from Colombia.

- I'm really glad you loved the movie.

- Yeah.

- You know, but there's actually a lot

about the holiday they couldn't fit in it.

- Oh, my gosh, are they gonna make a "Cocos 2"?

- Where's my baby?

- Mami. - Aw.

- Maritza!

[all chuckle]

If we're gonna be celebrating dead family together,

we're gonna hug.

- She just watched "Coco." - Oh.

- Yeah. - Aw.

- It's really good to see you, Bobbie.

- Oh, I feel the same way.

I can't believe I'm gonna say this,

but I'm so glad I can be friends

with my daddy's mistress.

- I can't believe it either.

I can't wait to tell all my mistress friends.

- Bobbie went to therapy with me,

and now she's choosing to deal

with the uncomfortable parts of life

instead of avoiding them.

- Ooh, nice try, baby,

but you're never gonna get me to go.

[gasps] Mi'ja...

you did a beautiful job...

With this ofrenda.

Wait. Did you decide not to put Happy up?

- No, uh, actually, we just didn't talk about it.

But we should talk about it and put him up there.

Yeah, if that's something that feels right with you, Bobbie.

You know what?

I am gonna stop talking so that you can say something.

- [chuckles] Well, first of all,

thank you for those many, many, many, many words.

And, secondly, yes, this is something I need to deal with.

So...

Okay, Daddy.

Okay.

There you go. - Mm.

I'm just gonna do this.

Ah. - Looks good.

- He looks nice.

- Come on!

Open, you miserable son of a--

Emmett!

Emmett, help me.

I cannot get the fridge door to open.

- You want me to do that thing where I jiggle it just right

and then yank it open? - Yes, please.

- Yeah, well, nice try.

It's October.

- Yes.

Yes, it is October.

- It's Halloween when you love to scare people

with your stupid pranks.

You're like a towering blonde child.

- Well, that didn't hurt my feelings

because I was a towering blonde child.

- Last year it was a zombie in the walk-in.

Is that what it was? - Yeah, yeah.

- And the year before that,

it was a laughing skull in the urinal.

- That's weird.

It wasn't laughing when I put it there.

And besides, Emmett,

I am not doing any Halloween pranks this year.

Isabella set up her ofrenda,

and I don't want to upstage her.

- Yeah, I'm not buying it.

- Do you have lagers for table six?

- No. The fridge is stuck, and Emmett's a coward.

- Nobody likes being laughed at at the urinal.

♪ ♪

- He always loved tater tots.

- I'm proud of you, Bobbie.

- You know, it's not a compliment

when you say that to an older person.

It's like, I'm so proud of you.

You used that app all by yourself.

- Well, I'm genuinely proud at how well you've been handling

this whole Happy thing.

- Oh, thanks.

Well, it's bringing out all the good memories.

Makes me closer to him.

- He looks like he was having a good time there.

What was he doing? - Who knows?

Could've won a car, could've farted.

- Hey, guys. - Hey.

- You mind if I put some stuff on the ofrenda?

- Oh, let me make you some room.

There you go. - All right.

Oh.

Well, here's a little something special for you...

and you... [chuckles]

And not you.

And last but not least... [chuckles softly]

- Happy wore cologne? - Heck, yeah.

[chuckles] He didn't start wearing it till later.

He thought using it meant

that he didn't have to take as many showers.

Mm.

- At first, he thought cologne wasn't manly,

but then he changed his mind when I got him Hai Karate.

- Wow. I didn't realize you guys were so close.

I mean, I knew you guys were close.

Hello!

- Well, I don't know how close it makes 'em.

I mean, I got my mailman a bottle of cologne.

- I don't think this is the same thing, Bobbie.

- Well, I'm just saying.

- I love the smell of the cologne, mami.

- It's good, right? - It smells just like

what I thought the '90s would smell like.

- Hmm. - Everything all right?

- What? No. Uh, yeah, it's fine. It's fine.

- You probably think I just want to know

what you're hiding from Isabella.

And it is a factor...

but, mostly, I just want to help.

- Oh, it's--it's just a bottle of cologne.

Eh, it doesn't mean anything.

- Hmm. Of course. - Yeah.

- And then again...

- What?

- It could mean a lot of things.

I mean, he did wear it because of her.

He changed his entire daily routine.

- Oh, my gosh.

I don't know how he fit it in his day to put on cologne.

He probably had to skip breakfast!

- I'm just saying it does open up a lot of questions.

Did he actually love her?

Did he want to be with her

but felt he had to stay with your mother?

Or is it just cologne?

- It is just cologne. - That's what I said.

- Hey, Emmett. Gabby wants a rack of clean glasses.

- She said that?

- Yeah.

- What was the tone of her voice?

- I need clean glasses, just not as deep.

- Give me a second.

- Are we getting glasses?

Or do you want me

to baby-bird these margaritas into the customers' mouths?

- Emmett's moving slow.

He thinks you're trying to scare him.

- [scoffs] I told him I wasn't.

Why doesn't he believe me?

- Because of how often you lie and trick people.

- I am a handful.

- You know, I think Emmett is more freaked out

than if you actually did scare him.

- Huh.

That is very interesting information.

- That's the tone of voice Emmett was afraid of.

- Hey, you can set those right...

here.

- Nope.

This is just a better spot.

- Oh, Emmett, is the special tonight bouillabaisse?

- [exhales deeply] What are you doing?

- Nothing.

I need to know what this special is.

I mean, people ask.

And it's just such a big, beautiful pot

you make that bouillabaisse in.

- I've already looked in the pot.

There's nothing in the pot.

- I mean, obviously,

nothing could get into it after you've checked it.

- [clears throat] All right, there's no special tonight!

You see what you did? I'm gonna get rid of it.

I'm gonna get rid of the pot, the food, everything.

You start messing with me,

you're gonna mess with the whole everybody and everything.

And I hate Halloween.

- Stop torturing that man, Gabby.

- I wish I could.

It's bigger than all of us now.

[upbeat music]

- Oh, my God, Bobbie, there you are.

[door closes]

Insane, right?

Unreal. Like...

my God.

- Well, I'd like to know what you're so excited about.

- Are you kidding me?

My dad wore the cologne my mom got him

after they stopped seeing each other,

like, way after...

like, until he died. - Yeah.

Right. He wore it, and he died.

- It's crazy.

My whole life, I thought my dad barely thought about us,

but he had us with him every day through smell--

strongest sense memory.

- Well, that's certainly one interpretation.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Well, you're just like Steve.

You're making this into more than it really is.

- Do not call me Steve.

- I didn't mean it like that.

- Okay, what's this really about, Bobbie?

- Nothing. That's what's so irritating.

It's all about nothing.

- Could it possibly be that you feel threatened...

that if Happy loved my mom,

it means he loved your mom less?

- Okay, I do not feel that way.

And that is something Steve would say.

And I do mean it like that.

- [mockingly] And I do mean it like that.

- You know what? I've got work to do.

- Great, back into denial.

- I am not in denial.

- Good. Then you won't mind finding out the truth.

- What? What do you mean?

Get--what--where are you going? Wait. Don't run off.

- Mom, we need to talk. - Should I be worried?

'Cause you're coming in with crazy energy.

- It's nothing. The cologne means nothing.

She's just on a wild-goose chase.

- It's not nothing.

Mom, was Happy in love with you?

- [chuckles and snorts]

Hell if I know.

- Well, how do you not know?

- He wasn't the type of guy to say "I love you."

Un--unless it was just with me.

Did he say it to you? - Of course.

I mean, not with words but with actions.

- Okay, well, he did wear the cologne.

- Yes!

- So did the mailman.

- Isabella...

all I can say for sure is that I love you.

And I think that we should start saying that

more often, you know?

To avoid all this.

- You could have gotten to that a lot earlier in therapy.

- Never gonna happen.

- Gabby's coming.

- Ah, got yourself a little warning system, huh?

- Yeah. You happy?

That's how much you're in my damn head.

- I am simply going about my day,

speaking in a very nonthreatening manner.

And if that makes you nervous,

well, that's really more of a you problem.

- Fine, then it's a me problem,

but I'm gonna tell you this--

I'm trying to do the best I can at this job

and stay focused on what I'm trying to do

without having to deal with your bull--

[screaming] - Oh, my God!

Oh, God, Emmett!

No, no, no, no! - My finger!

- It's gonna be okay! All right, put pressure on it!

- [screaming] - Everything's fine back here!

Okay, we can reattach it!

We can put it back if I can find it!

I can find it! Oh, my God, where is it?

I got it, I got it, I got it!

Oh, God, that's just a carrot!

[retching]

- I got ya!

- [breathing heavily]

Wait. What?

- Yeah. Huh?

What do you think about that? Scared you, didn't I?

- Wait. Did you-- did you just prank me?

- I warned you to leave me alone.

- I cannot believe that you would do something like this.

- Doesn't feel too good, does it?

- No! - Yeah.

- It feels amazing!

- What?

- [laughs] You did a prank!

A stupid prank. [chuckles]

Mr. High and Mighty lowered himself into the ball pit

with the rest of us towering blonde children.

- No, no, no, no-- - Oh, yes.

Oh, yes. Oh, yes, you did.

Yes, you did. - No.

- Shh. You did. [chuckles]

And you know what the icing on the cake is, Emmett?

I didn't have to do a thing.

Best Halloween ever!

[laughs]

- Hey, Emmett, I need a...

- Yeah.

Yeah!

[upbeat music]

- What's she doing? - Talking to her dad.

It's not that I'm nosy.

I mean, it is a factor.

But I just want to know that she's doing okay.

- Anyway, I don't want to come off as overdramatic.

I've been accused of that once or twice.

But...

this bottle of cologne's...

I don't know.

I spent my whole life

thinking that I was just something

that you had to deal with...

like a burden or something, but...

finding out you wore this...

I don't know.

It's like I'm...

talking to someone who really wanted me...

maybe even loved me.

So...

thank you.

- All that from a bottle of cologne?

- And another thing--

do you have any idea what you're doing to my sister?

She needs closure.

So, please...

Dad, give her something.

- I want this. - Mm.

- Next year I'm gonna put up an ofrenda for my father.

- He's not dead.

- If you build it, they will come.

- Why you smiling?

- Oh, I was just remembering the look on your face

when I lopped off my finger.

[imitates screaming]

Oh, my God, it was so good.

- Okay, yeah. But you get it now, don't you?

- You just wait till next year.

I'm gonna scare the crap out of you.

- Oh, yeah? - Mm-hmm.

- Go ahead.

I wear adult diapers during spooky season.

- You two need to stop it.

You're both gonna fail.

Pranks only work when they're from somebody you don't expect.

- Okay, thanks for the tip. Remember when he fainted?

- He just--[groans] - Yeah. Yeah.

- You know what? Fine, don't listen.

Hey, can one of you empty out that trash down there?

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- Hey, Daddy.

You know, for a dead guy,

you sure have been raisin' a ruckus around here lately.

You know, I couldn't figure out

why that bottle of cologne bothered me so much.

And then it hit me.

It's because it made Isabella so happy.

She was just glowing.

I could have turned the lights off in here,

and nobody would have noticed.

I know you loved me.

Although you never said it.

But you showed it and showed it all the time,

in all your many little ways.

But that bottle of cologne,

that's the only thing Isabella has to show that you loved her.

It's not even a fancy one.

So here's what I'm gonna do.

Not only am I gonna show her that she is loved all the time

and in all your little ways...

I'm gonna tell her...

every day that she is loved.

And when she sets up an ofrenda for me,

you better bet your happy ass that there'll be

more than Hai Karate and tater tots sitting there.

Mm-hmm.

[glass clinks] You can have that one.

Oh, hey. - Hey.

- I didn't know you were still here.

- Still working. - Yeah.

- You seem different.

- Do I? - Yeah...

like you're at peace.

- Hmm. - [sniffs]

What's that smell, though? Is that--

[sniffs] Is that cologne or--

[sniffs]

Closure?

- Hmm. [chuckles]

Closure.

- It's closure. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

- It's closure. - [chuckles]

- Oh, the cathartic power of closure.

- Hmm. Mm.

How about that, Daddy?

- Your two girls together.

- Yeah.

And you'll always have a place

on the ofrenda.

- Unless a little brother shows up.

Then that photo is coming down.

[both laugh]