♪ Set in my ways, losing track of the days ♪
♪ Only me to live for ♪
♪ Had no need to give more ♪
♪ Than I wanted to ♪
♪ Spending my time just holding the line ♪
♪ Never getting caught up ♪
♪ Love was never brought up ♪
♪ It's not the thing to do ♪
♪ Ooh, it was you ♪
♪ Then came you ♪
♪ You made me leap without taking a look ♪
♪ Ooh, it was you ♪
♪ Then came you ♪
♪ You reeled me right in, line, sinker, and hook ♪
♪ I never thought forever was the best I could do ♪
♪ Then came you ♪
♪ It was you and me and you ♪
♪ Then came you ♪
♪ It was you and me and you ♪
♪ It was you and me and then came you ♪
[upbeat music]
- I was cleaning up the car,
and I'm sure some of this stuff is yours.
How about this? Does this look familiar?
- Oh, the book report I lost.
What a waste.
I really read that one.
- This was stuck on the dashboard.
- Oh, that was the tape my drum teacher, Lorenzo, gave me.
I was supposed to listen to it.
- It might be a real challenge now.
- Yeah, well, maybe he'll forget about it.
Oh, that reminds me, George, I've got some good news.
- Good news? Forget it.
Forget it, champ.
I don't care how good a deal it is,
you're not gonna get a drum set.
- It isn't that.
Remember that candy drive we had at school?
- The candy drive, the candy drive.
Is this it? Huh?
- Oh yeah.
Well, we were gonna give our janitor
a golf cart for his retirement.
- Oh, that's, that's nice.
- Well, it turns out
that he was stealing mops from the school,
and selling them out of his garage.
- Was he cleaning up? [laughs]
You get it? [laughs]
- Yeah.
So anyway, we're using the money for a party.
I've got $ to book some entertainment.
- clams?
Well, for that kind of money,
I, I might do my Elvis Presley impersonation.
- Thanks, George, but I was thinking
about a rock band.
- Come on, you could do worse.
- No offense, but first I'm gonna ask Lorenzo.
He knows musicians, good ones too.
Guys who never had a real job.
- Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Before you go, I,
I wanna ask your opinion on something.
What is this?
- Oh, easy.
That's one of Ma'am's macaroons.
- Oh, how sad.
She just made these little rascals yesterday.
[both laughing] [light music]
[drums banging]
- So what do you think? [laughs]
[drums banging]
My man.
Oh.
What do you think?
- It's only,
it's only your third lesson,
but already you have the mark of a great stick man.
- Really? Well, all right.
- You're not afraid to make noise.
- Oh, well, I've been told I'm pretty strong in that area.
- Here you go, bud.
Give me a hand.
Let's put this stuff to sleep.
- And listen,
I gotta find a super outstanding group
for my school party.
Do you know anybody?
- Are you kidding?
I know a group that is awesome,
on the verge of being unbelievably big.
- Really?
- We are talking megastars here.
Meteors. Supernovas.
- Wait, I've only got $.
- They'll do it for $.
Like I said, they're still on the verge.
- Oh, this is too good.
What's the group?
- Holy Smoke.
- Holy Smoke?
- Yeah, Holy Smoke. My group.
You listened to that tape I gave you, didn't you?
- Oh, that Holy Smoke! - [Lorenzo] Mm-hm.
- Yeah, right.
- What'd you think?
- Oh, well, I can honestly say you were hot. Very hot.
- You didn't think it was a little over-mixed, did you?
- No, no, no, it was mixed just the way I like it.
- See, we've been pooling all our scratch
to cut a demo and we're only $ short.
- A demo?
- Mm-hm.
- Oh, so what song do you plan to do?
- The one on the tape.
- Oh, that song.
Oh, excellent choice, very hot.
- So is it a deal?
- Ah, well, if you can work around once small problem.
- Which is?
- I think the school cafeteria
only has one electrical outlet.
- Hey, we make so much juice,
we don't need no electrical outlets, home boy.
- Really, home skeep? Yeah, boy.
- Yeah, boy.
[light music]
[upbeat music]
- Then it's agreed.
There will be no mandatory boy girl dances.
- All right. [children clapping]
- Next item, decorations.
Tommy, your report.
- Okay, y'all remember that big fire
at my uncle's party store last week?
- There's one guy who'll never smoke around sparkles again.
- Well, it turns out, we get all the decorations
that didn't get b*rned for free.
- Excellent.
Which brings us to entertainment.
- Webster? - Hey.
- Before we settle on something,
I'd like to point out that I've added
another coin trick to my magic act.
- Danny, sit.
- Take your time. Think about it.
- Now, I want you all to picture this.
Right here, on this very stage,
right next to the tray return,
there will be a live duh-duh-duh-duh-duh
professional duh-duh-duh-duh-duh
rock and roll band.
- All right.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- All right, Web.
So what's the group?
- Holy Smoke.
- Never heard of them.
I say we go with something proven, like magic.
[gavel banging]
- You're proven, all right.
Proven boring.
So is this band any good?
- Are you kidding?
This week, they're cutting a demo
and the lead guy wears an earring.
- All right. - All right. Cool.
[light music]
[drums banging]
- You've been practicing.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- See, I set up a bunch of paint cans in the garage.
Well, one of the lids was loose.
Oh, I almost forgot.
I have your money for the party.
- Hey, thanks, man.
Sorry to ask you for it up front,
but we have to pay our studio rental in advance.
- Okay, no problem.
Oh, George told me to be careful.
- You're gold, baby.
Unless you run into a mugger with a eating disorder.
[knocking]
It's open.
That's probably the g*ng.
Hey, you wanna stick around?
Holy Smoke's gonna have a little rehearsal.
- Can I? - [Lorenzo] Yay.
- All right.
- Hey, everybody, this is my buddy, Webster.
- [Woman] Hey. - The guy who's responsible
for booking us into the hottest cafeteria in town.
- All right, all right. - Thanks, man.
- Man, this is a huge group. A lot of backup singers.
- Oh yeah, when we let loose, everybody backs up.
Let's give him a free sample, huh?
Hey, all right.
[piano music] [group humming]
♪ Rock of Ages ♪
♪ Cleft for me ♪
♪ Let me hide myself in Thee ♪
♪ Let the water and the blood ♪
♪ From Thy wounded side which flowed ♪
♪ Be of sin the double cure ♪
- For $,
you've got yourself the best gospel choir in Chicago.
[light music]
[upbeat music]
[light music]
- Real nice.
Brandon, what are you doing?
Would you please put the poster
on the easel where it's supposed to go?
I shouldn't have to tell you that.
Oh, Webster,
did you find out if your band does any slow songs?
- Oh yeah. No problem there.
- Good, because I believe we all need balance in our lives.
- So, looks like everything's coming together here.
Do I smell smoke?
- Oh, yes, just a little surprise
that came with our decorations from the fire sale.
- At least it covers up the fish stick smell
from lunch yesterday.
- Pick up Air Wicks.
Now then, tell the band to be here by :.
The AV Club will help them with their sound check.
- Okay, but I think I have a little problem.
- Feldman, what are you doing?
- Just let me show you. - You were supposed
to get the sodas.
- Just let me show you this one trick
I'm gonna do at the party.
You'll love it. - Yeah, I'd like to see it.
I'd love to see it.
- Observe. Nothing up my sleeves.
- Nothing in his head either.
[hat pops]
- I take a perfectly ordinary bag of potato chips.
Would you care to inspect it, ma'am?
I put them into the magic hat.
I pulverize them. - Feldman.
- And voila,
not one chip is broken.
- Pick up spoons for potato chips.
- Maybe I should check my magician's manual.
- You know, this is a perfect example
of the deficiency of the committee system.
I should've done everything myself.
- You're right. I see major disaster here.
Dud City. I say we cancel.
- What?
Cancel the school's first rock and roll blowout?
I'm not gonna live with that legacy.
All I know is the next knuckle brain
who screws up around here
is gonna be spitting Chiclets.
What were you saying about the band?
- Band?
Band, band's fine.
- You're the only one I can count on, Web.
[light music]
[upbeat music]
[Webster knocking] - Lorenzo, it's me.
Anyone home? Yoo hoo!
- Hey, Webby, what's shaking?
Did I forget we had a lesson?
- No, I just came here to say hi.
Well, actually to make a confession.
- Say, you're not the one who let the air
out of my tires are you?
- No way, man. - I didn't think so.
I figure it's Lynette.
Take my advice, never give your girlfriend
an honest opinion of her singing voice.
- I know. I learned that from Ma'am.
- So what's the big confession?
You can tell Father Lorenzo.
- The truth is, I never listened to that tape you gave me.
- You didn't?
- No. See, I left it in the car
and the sun melted the little wheels
along with everything else.
- Hey.
Well,
I think I can forgive you for that.
Say three Bon Jovis and you're outta here.
- Wait, there's more.
See, I didn't know that you were a gospel group.
- You didn't?
What'd you think we were [laughs]
a, a rock band? [laughs]
- Kind of. [laughs]
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait a minute.
Are the kids expecting a rock band tonight?
[Webster laughing]
- Kinda.
For sure.
Actually, they're expecting major amps.
Frieda even bought extra fuses.
- Whoa, bad advance press.
- So I was kinda hoping that you knew a rock band
to do it for the same money.
- Hmm.
- At this point, they don't even have to be very good.
- I know a group called Fester's Feet who will do anything.
- Really? - [Lorenzo] Mm-hm.
- Thanks a lot. You've saved my life.
- Too bad we don't have any money.
- Say what?
- What we have is copies of a demo tape.
The studio had a cancellation and worked us in this morning.
- I'm spitting Chiclets.
- I'm sorry, Web.
I'll pay you back when I can.
But for right now,
[mouth pops] we're busted.
[light music]
[upbeat music]
- Man, this is hot.
And here's for the big finish.
Yes. [claps]
- Well, you better clean up your big finish
before your mom gets home.
- Forget about that.
What did you think?
- Well, as much as I like a good color wheel,
overall, I'd say it's a little busy.
- Well, we could lose the confetti.
- What's wrong with just having a band?
- I don't have a band.
- Well, what happened to Holy Smoke?
- They turned out to be a church choir.
- Holy smoke.
Even I know that's totally wrong for a party.
- I know. That's why I canceled them and did all of this.
You know, it took me two hours
just to untangle the Christmas lights.
- Well, there's one good thing.
When Frieda hears about this,
she'll forget all about my smokey decorations.
- Oh, thanks a lot.
Now I know why no one asked for your opinion.
- [Tommy] Sorry, Web. - It's okay.
I guess I'll just pick out some tapes
and a mouth guard and hope for the best.
- Well, you know, just in case, I could bring my fiddle.
I just learned "Ragtime Annie".
- Sure, why not?
What have I got to lose?
- Goodbye, Web.
- Bye.
[muffled music]
Unbelievable.
[light music]
[fiddle music]
[fiddle music continues]
- Webster, would you mind telling me where our band is?
This party's dying.
- Well, but you know what they say,
the better the group, the longer they make you wait.
- They'd better hurry.
Six kids just started doing their English homework.
- I might have a couple magic tricks
that could pick things up.
You think I can make this disappear?
- I know I can.
- That's a special order item.
What's with her?
- I think she lost one on her new contacts in the punch.
[boy choking]
- Hey, Web, we're all here. Sorry we're late.
It took me a while to round up everybody again.
- Oh, it's okay.
I'll give you an intro.
[fiddle music]
[children clapping]
- Thank you.
Now I'd like to do a salute to America's fighting men,
beginning with "The Marine Hymn"
[fiddle screeching]
- It's okay, Tommy.
I think you deserve a break.
Don't you all think he deserves a break?
[children clapping] - Yes.
- Now the group that we've all been waiting for
has just arrived.
So let's give a big hand
for the best group of its kind,
Holy Smoke.
[children clapping]
- He hired a Sunday School choir?
How dorky. - Webster.
What's happened to you?
I mean, you were the first kid in school to moonwalk.
- Come on, everybody. My house.
We can watch "Facts of Life" on my dad's big screen.
- Wait, wait, wait just a minute now.
I know exactly what you're thinking.
- I'm thinking about all the candy bars
I sold in neighborhoods with pit bulls.
Does Chiclets ring a bell?
- Trust me, g*ng, okay?
L, hit it.
[upbeat gospel music]
♪ Right now, God is moving by the spirit ♪
♪ Right now, if you listen to the wind, you'll hear it ♪
♪ Right now, if we ever needed Him before ♪
♪ We do, now, now, yes, we do ♪
♪ Right now, now's the time for our salvation ♪
♪ Right now, God is speaking to every nation ♪
♪ Right now, if we ever needed Him before ♪
♪ We do, now, now, hey ♪
♪ It makes no difference what you're going through ♪
♪ God knows exactly what to do for you ♪
♪ Why don't you call Him ♪
♪ You'll see a change ♪
♪ A sudden change ♪
♪ He knows exactly what you need ♪
♪ If you believe, you shall receive ♪
♪ Right now, we want You to send us bread from Heaven ♪
♪ Right now, we need our sins to be forgiven ♪
♪ Right now, if we ever needed Him before ♪
♪ We do, now, now, now, right now ♪
♪ Right now ♪
♪ Right now ♪
[everyone clapping]
- I'd say you're off the hook.
- Yeah, well, I brought this just in case.
[Lorenzo laughing] [upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
06x21 - The Gospel Truth
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Set in Chicago, revolves around Webster Long, a 5-year-old African American orphan whose biological parents were recently k*lled in a car accident and is taken in by his godfather, retired football star George Papadopolis.
Set in Chicago, revolves around Webster Long, a 5-year-old African American orphan whose biological parents were recently k*lled in a car accident and is taken in by his godfather, retired football star George Papadopolis.