05x04 - Purple Rain

[bunniefuu]

[Quietly] Come on. Come on.
Come on. Come on.

Please. Please. Come on.

[Sighs] Okay, okay. Okay.

- [Sighs]
- [Cellphone chimes]

Okay.

Oh. Hey, Tiffany.

I-I didn't expect you to call.

Did you... draw yourself a mustache?

No. No, no, no.

But don't let the baby face
fool you, okay?

I may be in middle school,

but... pfft... I stink
like a ninth grader, so...

Okaaay...

You're weird.

Anyway, text me your address

so I can come study tonight.

O-Oh. Um, uh, study.

Uh, okay. Um, I-I'll send it to you.

[Cellphone clicks]

It's okay, friend.

Lots of people die alone.

DRE: Raising children
is always an adventure.

Because you never know

how they're going to disappoint you.

Sometimes it's small stuff.

[Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" playing]

♪ And if de-elevator tries
to bring you down ♪

♪ Go crazy ♪

♪ Punch a higher floor ♪

Whoo!

♪ Whoo! ♪

[Fingers snapping]

Whoo! Whoo!

[Laughs]

♪ Are we gonna let de-elevator
bring us down? ♪

♪ Oh, no, let's go ♪

♪ Let's go crazy ♪

♪ Let's get nuts ♪

- ♪ Look for the purple banana ♪
- Let's do it!

- ♪ 'Til they put us in the truck ♪
- [Trilling]

- [Music stops]
- [Vocalizing off-key]

Guys, we have Spotify Premium.

We can afford the skips.

Yeah. Who was that lady singing?

[Squeals]

Your children don't know who Prince is?!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait a minute, Pops.

We not even sure if those two are mine.

And sometimes
they disappoint you so much

you wish you had left them
at the fire station.

You two... really don't know
who Prince is?

That's worse than Kanye saying
sl*very was a choice.

- This is your fault.
- What?

Why didn't you teach my babies
about Prince?

Don't put this on me.

I am the math and science parent.

I did my job.

- Okay. Jack?
- Yep?

- What's four plus four?
- Okay...

Science.

No, wait.

- Math.
- Mm-hmm.

Okay, if y'all don't want
to listen to Prince,

- who would you like to listen to?
- Oh, well, I wouldn't mind hearing...

See, that's the problem right there.

See, your children think
that their opinion matters!

Yeah, you let them choose.

If they're not making us all
listen to Kidz Bop,

then they're in their headphones

listening to that
mumbly "Gucci g*ng" nonsense.

See, back in my day,
we didn't have but one radio,

so Dre didn't have any choice

but to know some good music.

Watch this.

Dre...

Buddy Guy.

George "Buddy" Guy, born in 1936,

is a Louisiana blues musician
who was signed to Chess Records,

who's also the father
of Chicago rapper Shawnna.

Junior...

- Prince.
- Prince Rogers Nelson,

born on June 7th, 1958,
in Minneapolis, Minnesota,

was a guitar virtuoso,

and his favorite color
was probably purple.

Well, I only like purple
on a bruise, so...

Whatever.

I'm done playing with the two of you.

You have fallen in the rankings.

- What?
- Y-You rank us?

Yes, child formerly known as Three.

And for you to get that reference,

you are gonna learn about Prince

the way that Junior and Zoey did.

- Family meetin'!
- Ohhhh, my God.

[As Prince] Dearly beloved.

We are gathered here today
to teach these awful kids

- about Prince.
- Amen.

[Normal voice] Do you know why damn
near the entire black community

loved a man who wore
heels and ass-less pants?

Ooh! That booty!

It's because in his forty-year career,

he won eight Grammys,

six American Music Awards,
a Golden Globe, an Oscar,

and sold over a hundred million albums.

- A hundred million!
- ZOEY: Oh, my God.

You guys are getting the Prince lesson.

Zoey, you are the real adult here.

Can you please explain
to everyone in here

that it's no big deal
that we don't know who...

- Prince is?
- No big deal?

Actually, it's low-key a huge deal.

- Mm, mm, mm.
- Like, you know who Lil U*i is.

Uh, Lil U*i, who-sa-say?

He wouldn't exist without Prince.

Wait a minute!

You are comparing the
greatest musician of all time

to a mumble rapper?

I'm just trying to relate it

to something they think is awesome.

Like, Junior, it'd be "Star Wars."

And with you, it'd be whatever you
think you're doing with that beard.

Yeah, well, Grandma liked him
'cause he was sexy.

So he was tall, dark, and handsome?

Oh, no.

He was short, pale, and pretty.

So pretty.

I used to want to put him on my hip

and carry him straight to my bed.

[Chuckles] See, look here,

Prince was a true American success story.

- Uh-huh.
- That brother grew up so poor

he used to stand in front of McDonald's
just to smell the food.

And that scrappiness allowed him

to become the first black man
to survive a Minnesota winter.

- [All murmuring]
- Junior...

Yeah?

Maybe you don't talk anymore.

You know, as a matter of fact,

nobody talks anymore!

Put those on.

You are gonna listen
to Prince until you like him.

So we're... we're just
gonna watch them hear music?

- Yes!
- [Sighs]

I want to see my babies' faces

when they fall in love
with Prince for the first time.

But we don't know how long
that's gonna take.

Yeah, but I know I will miss it

if you continue to yap!

- Okay.
- Shh. Shh. Shh. Shh.

Shhhh.

Shh. Shh. Shh.

Shh.

It's happening.

Oh, it's happening.

- My babies are falling in love with Prince.
- I know.

Okay, I want to know what
song they're listening to.

Give me this.

♪ Gucci g*ng, Gucci g*ng, Gucci g*ng ♪

♪ Gucci g*ng, Gucci g*ng, Gucci g*ng ♪

"Gucci g*ng"?!

Sorry, I just don't care how
many Grammys he has.

But you can't do this to Prince.

Who wants to do that to Prince?!

That's your kids.

♪ Gucci g*ng, Gucci g*ng, Gucci g*ng ♪

♪ Gucci g*ng ♪

I don't know what to do, Bow.

- They don't like Prince.
- Ohhh.

You mean you can't get
the kids to like something

by yelling at them?

Try a different tactic, Dre.

Try something different.

- All right.
- Okay.

- Maybe you're right.
- Yeah.

All right...

- Here we go. All right.
- [Groans]

Okay.

Yeah.

Your music is stupid.

- Dre!
- What? It is stupid.

We want them to understand.

Or you could just try having one stereo.

- Dre.
- Hmm?

Joe Tex.

Joseph Arrington Junior was
a heavily sampled soul singer

born in Rogers, Texas, in 1933.

- See what I'm talkin' about?
- RUBY: [Chuckles]

Look, I still don't understand

how you can say "Gucci g*ng" is stupid.

So all of a sudden
you don't love hip-hop?

Of course I love hip-hop.

You kids just don't get it.

You don't understand.

Prince changed my life.

When I took your mom out
for the first time,

it was all bad.

She broke her shoe.

I spilled ketchup on her dress.

No way I had the confidence
to kiss her goodnight.

So...

goodnight?

- Goodnight.
- [Keys jingling]

Okay.

But then I thought to myself,
"What would Prince do?"

[Prince's "Kiss" plays]

♪ Unh ♪

♪ You don't have to be beautiful ♪

♪ To turn me on ♪

♪ I just need your body, baby ♪

♪ From dusk 'til dawn ♪

♪ You don't need experience ♪

♪ To turn me out ♪

♪ You just leave it all up to me ♪

♪ I'm gonna show you
what it's all about, yeah ♪

♪ You don't have to be rich
to be my girl ♪

♪ You don't have to be cool
to rule my world ♪

♪ Ain't no particular sign
I'm more compatible with ♪

♪ I just want your extra time and your ♪

♪ Kiss ♪

I kissed a girl

I had no business even going out with.

That was me.

- And that was because of Prince.
- Mm-hmm.

A-As a matter of fact,

none of you would have been here
had it not been for him.

- [Mumbles]
- Zoey, we made you to "Peach".

- Ew.
- You were "Dirty Mind".

- Mm. That feels right.
- Mm-hmm.

You two...

the whole Gold album.

- I was on one that night.
- Okay, very nice.

- I remember you couldn't handle nothin'.
- Okay. Okay.

[Clears throat] Can I just
please go do my homework?

Y-Yeah, c-can I go watch her
do my homework?

- Actually, Dre...
- Hmm?

...you wouldn't be here
if it weren't for Prince.

- Excuse me?
- Mm-hmm.

RAINBOW: Yeah, he spilled ketchup on me.

And he was shorter than I usually liked,

but there was something about him.

So I thought:

"What would Prince do?"

So...

goodnight?

Goodnight.

Oh.

[Prince's "Erotic City" plays]

♪ Ah ♪

♪ Ah ♪

♪ Ah ♪

♪ All of my purple life ♪

♪ I've been looking for a dame ♪

♪ That would want to be my wife ♪

♪ That was my intention, babe ♪

♪ If we cannot make babies,
maybe we can make some time ♪

♪ Thoughts of pretty you and me
Erotic City come alive ♪

♪

[Both laugh]

Prince empowered my sexuality.

- Yes, it did.
- And that's how I... saved the night.

Prince is way more
than just make-out music.

To be fair, Mom and Dad
didn't just make out.

I mean, they made us.

- You're gross.
- Yeah.

Okay, Prince's music had substance.

In 1987, he was talking about AIDS

when you couldn't talk about AIDS.

That's right.

He also talked about, uh, g*ng v*olence,

drug abuse, the Challenger crash.

- Really?
- Yeah.

- [Prince's "Sign o' the Times" plays]
- He was a serious artist,

and he taught me how to become
more socially conscious.

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

♪ Hurricane Annie ripped
the ceiling off a church ♪

♪ And k*lled everyone inside ♪

♪ You turn on the telly
and every other story ♪

♪ Is telling you somebody died ♪

♪ A sister k*lled her baby ♪

♪ 'Cause she couldn't
afford to feed it ♪

♪ And yet we're still sending
people to the moon ♪

- Yeah, sign of the times!
- ♪ In September... ♪

- Whoo!
- Junior, what are you doing here?!

Well, I'm helping you honor Prince.

I don't need your help.

I'm showing people
how Prince inspired me

to become socially
and politically active.

Prince inspired me to be active, too.

Sexually active.

[Exhaling] Oh, my God.

♪ Ooh ♪

[Prince's "Sexy MF" plays]

♪ We need to talk about things ♪

♪ Tell me what ya do,
tell me what ya eat ♪

♪ I might cook for you ♪

♪ See, it really don't matter ♪

♪ 'Cause it's all about me and you ♪

♪ Ain't no one else around ♪

♪ I'm even with the blindfold ♪

♪ Gagged and bound, I don't mind ♪

♪ See, this ain't about sex,
it's all about love ♪

♪ Being in charge
of this life and the next ♪

♪ Why all the cosmic talk? ♪

♪ I just want you
smarter than I'll ever be ♪

♪ When we take that walk ♪

♪ Come here baby, yeah ♪

- ♪ You sexy... ♪
- Language! Language!

Language!

Language was the least disturbing
part of what just happened.

All right, kids, here it is.

There's Prince right there.

This feels right to you?

Well, if it seems
a little weird, it should.

I mean, it's a grown man
naked in the flowers.

I didn't get it at first, myself,

but then... I found out
what kind of man he is.

When this brother felt
that his record company

wasn't doing right by him, he, uh,

wrote the word "sl*ve"
across his face...

- Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.

...changed his name to a symbol...

- RAINBOW: Mm-hmm.
- ...and took them to court.

- Did he win?
- Oh, yeah.

Pince fought master and won his masters.

All right.

And that victory...

- [Prince's "7" plays]
- gave us all a little more courage.

Back when I was working in the factory,

they'd like you to work overtime
but didn't want to pay you.

♪ I am yours now and you are mine ♪

♪ And together we'll love
through all space and time ♪

♪ So don't cry ♪

♪ Cry ♪

♪ One day all seven will die ♪

Wait, Pops. I can't believe
you quit your job.

Oh, I can.

And it made hard times
for all of us, so...

Your grandma spent
a lot of lonely nights

listening to Prince and
reading the jacket covers.

And guess what I learned.

He played every instrument
on "When Doves Cry".

Wow. Really?

Sure did. And that spoke to me.

As a single mother...
I was a one-woman band.

[Prince's "When Doves Cry" plays]

I had to be a mother, a father,

a cousin, a sister, and a friend.

♪ How can you just leave me standing? ♪

♪ Alone in a world that's so cold ♪

♪ So cold ♪

♪ Maybe I'm just too demanding ♪

♪ Maybe I'm just
like my father, too bold ♪

RUBY: People think crying doves
are a bad thing, but they're not.

They mean hope.

Hope was all we could afford back then.

And it's what helped me get
my kids out of Compton.

- [All agreeing]
- Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

Diane...

Diane, you okay? What's wrong?

I get it.

You get what?

I love Prince.

- It worked?!
- RUBY: Really?

We did it!

I got through to you the most, right?

Because I'm a beautiful,
brilliant influencer?

No.

I've been reading stuff online.

Mm-hmm.

Did you know his song "1999"
is about the Apocalypse?

- I did not.
- No.

And "Purple Rain"
is about blood in the sky?

Is it? Give me this.

Huh. I thought it was about...

What?

I don't... I-I-I don't know
what I thought it was about.

Yeah. Dude was dark.

I like that!

[Prince's "Purple Rain" plays]

♪ Purple rain, purple rain ♪

♪ Purple rain, purple rain ♪

♪ Purple rain, purple rain ♪

♪ I only wanted to see you bathing ♪

♪ In the purple rain ♪

[Guitar riff]

♪

♪

♪

[Cheers and applause]

Uh, blood in the sky is not
the healthiest way in,

but I'm glad you finally got it, baby.

You know, I will take a win
however I can get it.

Hey, what about you, little buddy?

You a Prince fan yet?

That's got to be a no for me, dog.

What? Why not?!

I'm sorry, I'm just...
I'm just not a Prince guy.

- Oh, well. What are you gonna do.
- [Indistinct talking]

One out of two ain't bad, baby.

POPS: One stereo, son.

RUBY: [Laughs]

Don't worry, big guy. It worked on me.

But I don't care about you.

♪ Only want to see you laughing ♪

♪ In the purple rain ♪

♪ Purple rain ♪

BOTH: ♪ Purple rain ♪

[Music stops]

♪ Purple rain, pu... ♪

Babe...

I know you're sad,

- Yeah.
- but if it's any consolation,

there's lots of music you like
that Jack doesn't like.

- I wouldn't say "lots".
- Oh, I would.

Okay, okay. Babe, I get it.

Mm-hmm.

But Prince...

- [Sighs]
- Man, he was different.

- I know.
- I was so sad when he died.

I know.

Me too.

You know, I just wanted to
pass that legacy on to Jack.

Mm-hmm.

[Chuckles] That was a big miss.

That's what you think your big miss was?

- Mm-hmm.
- Really?

Junior still can't ride a bike.

Okay, Bow, you don't think about

what else we didn't teach the kids?

- Like, do they have faith?
- Mm.

Do they check their food before
they leave the drive-thru?

- Do they have a healthy fear
- [Sighs]

of white men with
wrap-around sunglasses?

Of course I worry, but
this is what parenting is.

We just expose our kids
to what we like and then...

...they get to choose what they love.

That's the way it works.

I guess you're right.

I'm always right, baby.

- [Doorbell rings]
- So, Jack had disappointed me with Prince,

and I could tell he was
about to disappoint me again

on his first study date.

Help me, I'm scared I'm gonna blow it.

Calm down, you're not gonna blow it.

Just, um, make sure you're in the light.

W-Why?

Because I'm making a movie
called "Jack Blows It".

- [Whimpers]
- It's gonna be amazing.

Aw, man.

[Exhales] Okay.

Hey.

But sometimes your kids surprise you.

[Prince's "Kiss" plays]

♪ Kiss ♪

Hey.

Mom, Dad, I-I totally get Prince!

You better not be joking.

- Don't you mess with me, boy.
- No, I mean it.

- Oh!
- Okay.

- Really? Nice!
- Yeah.

Okay, well, hey, what took you so long?!

Dre! Leave him alone.

- [Chuckles]
- Give me this.

I'm very, very pleased.

You know, there's this Prince song

that I think you would like.

- Okay.
- And it didn't really hit me

until... I married your mother.

So, we all want to leave
a legacy for our children.

The only problem is

our children are the ones
who get to decide what it is.

[Plays notes]

Wait, why are you playing
Sinead O'Connor?

- Boy!
- Prince wrote this.

Oh.

- Yeah.
- Cool.

But this time...

I got lucky.

♪ Since you been gone
I can do whatever I want ♪

[Laughs] Sing it, son!

♪ I can see whomever I choose ♪

- Ooh!
- Ahh!

[Laughs]

- Pops!
- Hey, Pops.

♪ I can eat my dinner
in a fancy restaurant ♪

- Isn't this good?
- That was good.

♪ 'Cause nothing ♪

Hey, guys.

♪ Can take away these blues ♪

♪ 'Cause nothing compares ♪

♪ Nothing compares to you ♪

RUBY: That's it.

- [Laughs]
- Okay, Mom.

Hi, baby.

Aw, Devante get some of this. Come on.

- Hit it for Daddy!
- Oh, piano lessons in the future!

- [Chuckles]
- Hey, Dre.

- Hey.
- So, a, uh, management consultant

has suggested that I engage
my subordinates in, uh,

- "team-building banter".
- Mm-hmm.

So...

"How was your Saturday and/or Sunday?"

It was good, thanks.

You know, I finally introduced
the twins to Prince.

Oh! Prince who?

[Chuckles]

Prince.

- Prince of what?
- No.

Just Prince.

Yeah, I don't...

Seriously, you guys don't
know who Prince is?

- Well...
- It's cool, Dre.

I got this.

[Blows air]

The video for the smash hit
"Raspberry Beret"

begins with a spinning drum,
as Prince counts us in.

One, two...

- Just play the song, Charlie.
- No, this is better.

The song begins in A Major.

[Off-key] ♪ Aaaaah, aaaaah ♪

Wendy's on acoustic guitar.

And there are ascots everywhere.

- Guys, shall we?
- We're with you.

Then an Asian lady in a yellow
suit begins to dance like this.

Nope. Nope. That's enough of that.

Thank you.

- Lunch.
- Nope.

♪