The Comeback (2005) s03e02 Episode Script

1
[GPS] You've arrived
at your destination.
[Valerie Cherish] Yes,
we have. Still don't know
why she took me on
the freeway. [laughs]
Hello.
Valerie Cherish.
- ID, please.
- Sure.
- [Billy] To see Brandon Wallick.
- To see Brandon Wallick.
Yeah.
Thanks, yeah.
Okay, Patience.
- In five, four.
- Ready.
Going in to see Brandon Wallick,
the new head of the studio,
about a possible new multi-cam.
More than possible, Val.
I-It's a definite offer.
Did you get me
on camera, Patience?
[Patience] Yeah.
Okay, Billy,
nothing's definite yet, okay?
Because I'm still
not comfortable
with the whole AI writing thing.
Not entirely sure
it's even legal.
Okay, please do not bring up
the legality of AI.
It's so not sexy.
Don't be a lawyer, Val.
Be a star.
Okay, yeah, and you're gonna
have to address it, okay?
'Cause as much as I'd like
to star in a sitcom again,
I have to be okay with my union.
Hello, hello, hello.
Oh, no one's here.
[Brandon Wallick]
No, no, no, no. I'm here.
- Ah.
- I'm here. Hello.
- Brandon.
- Hello. Valerie Cherish.
We all know who you are,
Valerie, thank you so much.
We are all just so thrilled
to have you in here at last.
Aw. This is my manager.
Producing partner.
Billy Stanton.
Thom Browne, right?
- Yeah.
- No. Billy Stanton.
No, Val, Thom Browne
is the designer I'm wearing.
Oh, that cute skirt.
Yeah.
Well, first of all,
apologies for the Zoom.
We're just scattered
all over the world,
and we just think
this would be an easier way
for the whole team to focus
in this way, right?
Oh, sure, yeah.
So, there's a whole team?
Oh, yeah, yeah,
they're all here.
Guys, just
Just pin yourselves.
- Pin, pin, pin, pin yourselves for Valerie.
- Oh! Okay.
Don't say I didn't warn
you, Valerie. [chuckles]
Hello, everyone.
Absolutely everyone.
[chuckles] Question, is there
anyone not on this Zoom?
[laughing] That's great.
- Hi.
- That's great.
Okay, guys,
just unpin yourselves,
and come back
as you're needed, alright?
Valerie, hi. Ridley Macintosh,
head of marketing and sales.
Ridley is my my
right-hand woman person.
When Brandon left YouTube to
become the president of NuNet,
his very first call
was to marketing,
and he was passionate.
[chuckles]
How can we make
free programming?
People have bought enough apps.
Couldn't agree more,
Ridley, yeah.
You know, I was on that
wonderful show, Mrs. Hatt.
You know, Mrs. Hatt,
a few seasons ago.
You know, part-time
gardener, solved crimes.
Her husband
was an ex-police chief.
Yeah, anyway,
it was on Epix, right?
- Okay.
- Of course, people had enough apps.
- Yes.
- You know?
So, yeah, um,
Riddler, I hear you.
Okay, what's exciting is
we have come up with a way
to mitigate the cost of content
with breaks in the programming
to advertise product.
Commercials.
Exactly, Valerie.
Everything old is new again.
And and here at NuNet,
we're we're just
We're totally embracing that.
Hey, uh, I am Arbor Elliot,
head of programming and content.
And I love sitcoms.
- Well, then I love you, Arbor.
- [Arbor chuckles]
Valerie!
Egypt O'Connor,
NuNet research and development.
- H-Hello, Egypt.
- Our latest research
has shown us that
viewers want a break
from the complicated,
confusing storylines
of all these dark
streaming shows.
Yeah, it's like, wait a minute.
The doctor's a spy
-and a zombie? Like, what?!
-What?
- [laughing] That is so Arbor.
- [Egypt] And when people wanna laugh,
a moody, single-camera comedy
isn't much of a fun break.
[Brandon] We wanna make
affordable, comfortable,
wonderful television
with a trusted comedy star
named Valerie Cherish.
Who, me? [Chuckles]
You have a unique
recognizability
- across three different television platforms.
- You do.
Sitcom, having starred in
I'm It and Room and Bored.
Reality TV, two seasons
of The Comeback.
And premium prestige cable,
your Emmy-winning
Best Supporting Actress turn
as Mallory in Seeing Red.
Wow. And Mrs. Hatt.
- The Traitors?
- [chuckles]
Come on!
Yeah, well, great to be
picked for a Traitor
and terrible to be sent home
second episode.
[chuckles] So, yeah,
really disappointing.
But the meme? Oh.
Trust me, he's a Faithful.
[chuckles]
I know that for a fact.
How?
Well, I just I feel
like he's a Faithful,
- as am I, you know.
- Oh.
Don't you wish you knew
who the Traitors were?
I do.
It's so stressful.
Stressful.
[laughing]
- It was stressful.
- [Egypt] From '90s TV,
right up to the hot meme
of today.
-Valerie Cherish.
-[Brandon] And we decided
we want to make
a show around her.
- And that's what we've done.
- Around?
Not so not the wife
of the lead?
[Arbor] It is all about
this funny, complicated,
single woman of a certain age.
Funny, check.
[chuckles]
Complicated, check.
Single, uh,
don't tell my husband.
[laughing] Wow, okay.
Um, and, uh,
woman of a certain age.
So, what is what's
the age you're certain of?
- [Arbor] Sixty.
- [Ridley] Well, that's a TV 60, which is really 50.
Fifty? Well, if
[chuckles]
[singing]
If I could turn back time ♪
[laughing] That's my Cher.
Oh, anyway, yeah,
this all just is thrilling.
Okay, um, my manager and I
- Producing partner.
- Uh, yeah, and I
just have one concern.
[Brandon]
Sure, anything, anything.
Yeah.
Okay, um
just one concern,
and that is, um,
well, let it would be
great if we could talk
about the AI of it all now.
[Brandon] E-Everybody, uh,
say thank you to to Valerie.
Thank you, and we'll
regroup on this later.
- Thank you.
- [Valerie] Uh
-What, it's over? What happened?
-[scoffs]
Why did you bring up AI?
Because you didn't.
Yeah. So not sexy.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- Oh.
[coughing] -Just to
to finish what, um
- [coughing]
- You okay?
Yeah. I thought
you were in New York.
- Yeah.
- No, no. No, no.
I was just down the hall
in my office.
- Okay.
- Um
- [chuckles] Sit, sit, sit, sit.
- Oh. Yeah.
Um, uh, right.
About why I just ended the Zoom.
- Yeah, I shouldn't have mentioned the AI.
- [sighs]
It's not sexy. Yeah.
Just, I'm I'm worried
about the no writers.
Of course, we have writers.
We have to have writers.
You have writers.
There are writers!
- [sighs]
- Okay, there are writers.
- [chuckles] Yeah, there are writers.
- Alright.
We have a husband-and-wife team,
Josh and Mary Abrams.
- Ah.
- They're gonna be our head writers,
uh, alongside Allassist,
our AI program.
And, yeah, Josh and Mary
have got a deal with NuNet,
so, you'll love 'em.
And they have a deal,
so they're good.
- They're great.
- That's great. Okay, yeah.
And one's a woman,
which is really great
'cause the show's about a woman.
- Yeah, they did Fetch.
- Right. Ah.
Four women in a dog
park. So, they know women.
- And dogs.
- [all chuckle]
And, um, and the Writers
Guild is is fine with this?
We are within the Writers
Guild agreement, yeah.
So, are we in
the Valerie Cherish business?
Well, uh, let me think about it.
Uh, how quick can I say yes?
- Yes!
- [both laughing]
- Well, great. Great.
- [Billy] Right, but we have
to go over the deal points.
Valerie and I will need
to be executive producers.
- Yeah, we'll we'll we'll
- So, that's a yes?
- That's a yes.
- [Billy] Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, before I go,
we've been kinda off the record
about the whole AI thing,
you know, just to keep people,
you know,
on a need-to-know basis.
So, I'm I'm curious, uh,
how did you hear
about it, Valerie?
Oh. Oh.
Well, I, um, heard
How did I?
I don't yeah, I don't know.
I just heard. I don't
[chuckles] I don't know how.
That's alright, that's okay.
It's good, just just, uh
Okay, here's the thing.
In our business
AI, uh, well, it has
bad branding, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, and so we're looking
at these first six episodes
as a proof of concept.
And when we see
that the show works,
we're gonna go wide with the
With the whole AI information,
along with a a likely pick-up
of a few more episodes, but
-Okay.
-But till then, it's it's a secret, yeah?
Secret, yeah.
Good. Smart.
Not that I'm concerned
about any of this.
AI is is really extraordinary.
After all, it picked you.
It picked me?
It did?
Oh, well, I feel like
I'm in good hands.
- You think?
- Sure.
[laughing]
That's great, okay.
And thank you so much for coming
all the way in from your office.
- Just down the hall.
- [Billy] Yeah.
Right, it means
a lot though, yeah.
- 'Kay. Bye.
- Bye. Thank you.
- [softly] Oh, my God.
- Okay.
- Executive producers.
- Well.
Finally!
This is so exciting.
It is exciting, yeah.
You could have told me there
were writers, though, Billy.
Then I could have had
the meeting last week.
You know, that's why
I was so worried.
Now, I look difficult.
I didn't know
about the writers, okay?
Well, then how'd you know
about the secret?
I'm sleeping with
one of the execs.
- Yeah, the one on the top left.
- I don't remember who that was.
Do you think the Zoom
is still on?
Time to go. Yeah.
I'm home.
I know.
I was tracking you.
Oh. [Giggles]
- How was your meeting?
- Oh, it was great.
They've got writers.
Writers Guild is good with it.
So I'm not a traitor!
[chuckles] -Great.
I have exciting news as well.
You found your Rolex?
I knew it wasn't the movers.
- No, it was the movers, Val.
- Okay. Yeah.
I just wish we had
these cameras sooner.
Okay, what's your exciting news?
Oh, my, uh, Soho House
membership card came.
- [gasps]
- I got the app.
- Let's go across the street for dinner.
- What, tonight?
- Yeah.
- Aren't you already eating?
Yeah, but who cares?
Look,
they have an opening
at 7 or 9:30.
9:30? Come on,
are we in Spain?
-Oh, 7.
-That's right. I'm gonna take a shower
- and then change.
- I'm gonna wear my new glasses.
[loud dance music playing]
- This is a hip crowd.
- Kind of young.
[Mark]
Yeah. Young is cool.
- It's a good vibe.
- [chuckles]
And look at that view.
Well, that's the same view
we have from our place.
No, it's a little different.
We can't see Century City.
Val, it's the same view
with a membership fee.
- [both laughing]
- That's good.
- I'm gonna have one more of these crackers.
- Alright.
Because you know
I love a cracker with a view.
- [laughing]
- These are really good.
I know, you like
those flatbreads, yeah.
Used to get 'em
at Trader Joe's in Brentwood.
You don't get these anymore.
Well, where is there
a Trader Joe's here?
Everywhere.
Did we leave room for dessert?
- Oh.
- He did. I have a show.
Cool glasses.
Thank you.
[laughing softly]
Um, I want the chocolate cake
and the check, please.
Wonderful.
You were so right about
these bigger glasses, Val.
So good.
Yeah, that oversize thing
is it's happening now.
- Yeah.
- No.
- I am what's happening now.
- [chuckles]
[woman]
Hey! Greg, over here.
- Oh, motherfucker.
- What? What happened?
I just saw Greg.
- Greg?
- Yeah, from the old firm.
No, I know who Greg is.
Why is he here? He's
not cool enough to be here.
Oh, hi.
Um, we can't stay.
Well, I thought you wanted
chocolate cake.
No, I can't be here.
He can't see me.
Mark, you didn't
do anything wrong.
Do you want the cake to go?
- No.
- Yes.
Yeah.
Mark, I'm gonna say it again.
You told a joke at work
at a time when jokes
were illegal.
No one cares now.
Okay, okay.
Let's go, let's go.
- Come on, I don't wanna be here.
- Yeah, I get that.
- Get my jacket if it's okay.
- Okay, alright, okay.
[Mark] Go, he's
looking the other way.
Val!
Valerie?
Hi. Hi.
Oh, that's Sharon Case,
casting director.
She does all the sitcoms.
She's with Jane Fonda.
- Wanna meet Jane Fonda?
- No, no, I wanna go.
Well, uh, can't be rude.
I I'll be right back.
- Hey. Sharon, doll.
- [laughing]
- Hi, Val, great to see you.
- Oh, you, too.
- Do you know Jane Fonda?
- [chuckles]
- Hi.
- Hi. Valerie Cherish.
Nice to meet you, Valerie.
So, how do you two
know each other?
Did Sharon cast you
in something or
[scoffs]
Um, we're walking buddies.
You know, we walk around
the neighborhood together.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
I love walking.
It's my favorite exercise.
My, um, husband Mark and I
walked over here tonight, yeah.
Yeah, we live just
right there
- Okay.
- in, um, Sierra Towers.
- Beautiful.
- So, yeah. So
Uh, would it be okay if, um,
I got you for my social?
- Sure.
- Great. And don't worry.
I don't do anything political.
- Why not?
- Well, where do you start?
You know, is how I feel,
it's overwhelming, you know.
- It's okay?
- Sure.
Okay.
Well, look who I just ran into.
Miss Jane Fonda.
Vote.
[chuckles]
Funny. Yeah.
Ah. Thank you.
It was very nice to meet you.
Really nice to finally meet you.
[laughing] Okay.
- Alright, yeah.
- Uh, Val?
Huh?
- Oh, geez.
- Oh! Oh, God.
- [Valerie] Are you okay?
- I just slipped on my napkin.
Okay.
- I'm I'm okay. Um
- It's okay, yeah.
- It's so stupid and so me.
- [chuckles]
[sighs] I heard about
your NuNet show.
Oh, already?
It just happened today.
Yeah, well,
it's really exciting.
Yeah, well, you know,
nothing extraordinary about it.
Well, you're executive
producing, right?
Yes. Yeah, I am. Yeah.
Oh, well, I would love it
if you would consider me.
I mean, sitcoms are my favorite.
Well, and you're the best.
- Yeah.
- There you are.
- [Sharon] Keep me in mind.
- Thank you.
It'd really be great
to be working again.
Well, you are top of mind.
Yeah. [Chuckles]
And I'm sure this time,
it'll be different.
Just 'cause on, uh,
Room and Bored,
remember, I wanted Tom Selleck,
and you said "not interested."
And just so you know,
he did call me back,
and he would have done it, so.
- Ah.
- Yeah.
Well, um, I'm sorry.
My bad.
I'm sure it'll be
different this time.
- Yeah.
- Val.
Oh, okay.
That's my husband.
Oh, okay. [Chuckles]
Your knee is bleeding, doll.
Yeah.
[Mark]
I was stuck talking to Greg
because you had to go
and see Jane Fonda.
Alright, well, what did he say?
"Nice to see you."
It's pathetic.
Pathetic?
Mark, it probably was nice
to see you, alright?
- You two were friends.
- Yeah, well, if we're friends,
why didn't he have
a conversation
instead of sending that
partner email letting me go?
And I'm just s-standing there,
and then and then,
the waiter comes over
and hands me
this fucking doggy bag,
and Greg looks at me like I
I can't afford to waste food.
Oh, Mark, it's not possible
he thought that, okay?
- Not with your golden parachute.
- Yeah, well, I was humiliated.
Okay.
Well, did you mention,
uh, Finance Dudes?
No, I didn't mention
Finance Dudes.
- It hasn't sold.
- Not yet.
- [Mark sighs]
- Where are you going?
I am going into the kitchen
to eat this fucking cake.
- Okay.
- Oh, and this is LA.
Please don't ask me
to walk anywhere again.
Oh, I won't.
Well, look what I'm buying
at Trader Joe's.
It's mine and my husband's
absolute favorite.
Green olive fats flats
Italian lingue crackers.
[chuckles]
- Yeah, you can edit that out, right?
- Yeah, okay.
So, I'm just a little bit
confused though.
Is this for Trader Joe's
or is this for
the Italian lingue crackers?
It's potential collab for both.
That's the beauty, right?
- Okay, yeah, sure.
- Yeah, yeah.
I'm just gonna get
more of these.
Okay, I'm gonna go
get a Neti Pot.
Okay.
I'm gonna check out.
Not buying you another Neti Pot.
Val?
[laughing] What?
- Jane! Jane!
- Oh!
- [both laughing]
- Oh!
- So good to see you.
- Aw, Jane.
[laughing]
So, are you are you
working here now?
Oh, no, I just stole
a tropical shirt
and started scanning shit,
you know, for fun.
- Oh.
- [both chuckle]
- So funny.
- Yeah, I work here now,
and I have you
to thank for that.
- Me?
- Yeah. When I left you in New York that time
Oh, did you find everything
you were looking for today?
On your shopping list. We're
supposed to ask that up top.
Oh!
Um, I sure did.
- [chuckles]
- I felt so bad
that I still owed you money
back then.
I just said to myself,
get a fucking real job.
- You know?
- Yeah.
It wasn't just you,
it was everyone.
I owed everyone money.
Running around
making my documentaries,
begging people to care about
the things
- that I cared about, right?
- Right.
The inevitable dangers
of Big Tech
or climate change
impacting water resources
- for the Navajo Nation.
- Right.
Or the fun of me
starting a new chapter.
[chuckles] You know?
Shame nothing happened
with our doc, right?
Still got that great footage,
you know?
It just so wasn't working.
Yeah.
- And then, the fires happened.
- Right.
- And all that craziness.
- Yeah.
And just I thought
about you guys.
Aw, yeah, well,
we almost had to evacuate.
- So, yeah.
- Oh, wow, yeah.
- And your house is good?
- No, our whole canyon burned
because we didn't pay off
the right fire department.
- Uh-huh.
- So once I got the horses
to safety in Montana,
I just said,
you know what, I'm done.
I transferred
to this Trader Joe's
out of the fire zone.
I got an apartment nearby,
I walk to work.
- Getting your steps in.
- [chuckles]
And I even found
a really great girlfriend
- that lives in my building.
- Aw.
- So, it's one-stop shopping.
- Good for you.
- Right?
- And since I paid everyone back,
my life is just so simple now.
- Do you have bags?
- I do, yeah.
I I didn't bring 'em, but
So I have to buy some.
- [chuckles] Yeah.
- Oh, no, you don't.
Aw. Really?
Oh! [Chuckles]
Thank you.
- That's nice.
- So, how are you?
Uh, starring in a new show.
A multi-cam.
Oh. Oh, okay.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Uh, it's, uh, $103.61.
- Yeah.
I'm actually
really happy for you.
That's I think it's gonna
be a huge success.
- Yeah.
- I mean, that's really what people want, right?
- Uh-huh.
- Nothing challenging.
- Well.
- Nothing they don't want to know about.
- Well.
- Just, uh, comfort food.
Nothing new.
Well, this one's kinda new.
So, you're telling me
that it's not like the sitcoms
of the '70s, '80s, '90s?
Well, it's not, okay?
[softly]
It's written by AI.
Maybe the first show to do it.
But don't tell anyone,
'cause that's a secret.
Now wouldn't that
make a good doc?
- Ready, Jane?
- [Jane] Ready.
Well, I'm happy to report
the script is good.
So funny. [Chuckles]
AI is funny?
Well, first of all, Jane,
shh, it's a secret.
Right?
And yes.
So funny.
Laughed out loud twice.
[laughing]
Also, found a few typos.
So, you know what
that says to me?
Writers.
How's that?
That's the name of the show.
How's That?
Yeah, yeah, and it's my
character Beth's catchphrase.
How's that?
[laughing]
Yeah, she runs a cute,
charming old New England B&B
with the help of her
hunk nephew, Bo.
So, Beth and Bo.
B&B. Cute, huh?
[chuckles] How's that?
Such a good hook!
You know, you can say it
so many different ways, right?
Like, how's that?
How's that?
How's that!
Right?
Oh, so good.
[chuckles]
Oh, there's Billy. Yeah.
Okay, he's got
his power skirt on.
- Not judging. Looks good. Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
[Valerie] Aren't you hot?
Yeah, but it
It's a whole look.
-Uh-huh. Yeah.
-Hi, Jane. So glad you're doing this.
And I'm sure we'll figure out
who's paying you.
- [Valerie] Okay.
- Okay, come on, let's go back.
- This way.
- Yeah.
Ready for our first
production meeting?
- Executive producer?
- Yes, I am.
It's so fun to get a seat
at the big kids' table, right?
See how the donuts get made.
- Oh, Val.
- Yeah.
I got us these hats.
Thought it'd be fun
to wear them in as a bit.
Oh, no, no, no.
Not a good bit, Billy.
Executive producer?
No. Don't want
the show runners
to think I'm trying
to run the show.
Right? Not good.
Okay, fine.
So, not a bit.
But Patience, at least
can you get a photo of us?
- Here.
- Yeah, okay. Sure.
- Stand here, and I'll stand here.
- Yeah. Do a photo.
- That'll be fun, yeah.
- Quick pic.
[Patience]
Okay. Got it.
Oh, my God, what is?
[sighs]
- [Billy] This is good.
- [Valerie] Yeah.
[gasps]
Those are the show runners.
That was right there.
[Josh]
Did you see their hats?
That's not a good
first impression, Billy.
Okay.
[indistinct chatter]
- Oh, sorry.
- [Billy] Oh, look, Valerie.
Billy Stanton,
executive producer.
- I'm gonna take a picture.
- Valerie oh!
- Oh! Careful.
- Geez.
- Got caught on my purse.
- [chuckles]
- Thank you so much for this.
- Aw.
I really just am so grateful
to be working.
My psychic told me I would.
I should have believed them.
Yeah. Excuse me, doll.
- Gotta say hi to the writers.
- Oh, yeah, go, go, go, go, go.
I'm gonna send you out
the casting links on Friday.
[Valerie] Hi, Mary. Josh.
- Hi.
- Valerie Cherish. Hi.
- Here. Take the dog.
- Hi.
-So cute.
-[Josh] Take Miss Lady. Take her!
[Valerie] That dog.
Um, just to say, first episode?
- So wonderful.
- Aw.
- Laughed out loud twice, right?
- [chuckles]
Yeah, just love
the whole B&B world.
- The premise isn't ours.
- Okay.
[Mary]
What's with the cameras?
[softly] If they all
know about the AI,
why did we have to sign an NDA?
Oh, no, they they signed too.
Yeah. Everyone did.
- [Mary sighs]
- [Valerie chuckles]
We are so excited to be
working with you, Valerie.
- Aw.
- When Mary and I wrote the episode of Fetch,
where Delia, played so
beautifully by Judith Light
- Yeah.
- when she has to put her beloved Cavapoo down
- and she comes home alone
- [phone chiming]
- to the empty house.
- [Valerie] Mm-hmm.
- I was I was so blown away
- [phone chiming]
by how much
online love we got
from women of a certain age
- Uh-huh.
- who, you know, felt seen.
- Yeah.
- Maybe for the first time.
- Uh-huh.
- And I don't know,
I'm I'm just honored
to have the opportunity
to be the voice of another
vibrant and vital
[text whooshing] - woman of
a certain age, such as yourself,
for all those ladies
online to love, so.
- Yeah.
- Which two jokes?
You said you
laughed out loud twice.
Okay, spoken like a true writer.
[chuckles] - You know,
which I was so relieved, right?
That you 'cause I could tell,
'cause there were some typos.
- There should not be any typos.
- Well, let me get my script.
Did you put jokes in?
Just a couple.
They're right there.
Great. Keep teaching it.
- Coming back.
- [phone chiming]
Please.
Okay, yeah, I'll find it,
'cause I have it
I have it dog-eared.
After our last show,
please never say
"dog" anything to us.
[chuckles]
Okay. I won't.
Alright.
Um oh, yeah, this is it.
[muttering indistinctly]
"Well, if she's moving in,
the B&B will stand for
Bimbo and Breakfast."
- [phone chiming]
- That that wasn't us.
That was Al.
Oh, Al.
I-Is there a third writer?
No, we call AI Al.
Short for Allassist.
- Because ain't nobody got time for that.
- Oh.
- [both chuckle]
- Cute.
Yeah, that's so
Al for Allassist.
- Mm-hmm.
- So clever, right?
That's a great cover.
Right? There's a
third writer named Al.
Right? Works remotely.
Never comes in.
Which is believable, right?
'Cause writers are weird.
Not you guys.
[chuckles] You know.
Keeps it a secret
'cause you can just say
"Let's send it to Al
for a joke."
Right?
In front of the cast, crew.
- Such a great story.
- So, you're a writer now?
No, I'm just trying
to be helpful.
- This is too much talking.
- I agree.
Yeah. [Chuckles]
That's what's gonna be
so great, you know,
about Jimmy Burrows
directing, right?
'Cause he says just enough.
He passed on this.
Jimmy passed?
When?
- His agent texted me.
- [phone chiming]
Oh, okay, well.
Yeah, I have a personal
relationship with Jimmy.
- He did my last sitcom.
- Mm.
So, yeah. Agents say no
to everything, right?
If it were up to his agent, Jimmy
wouldn't have done Cheers.
- [chuckles]
- Right? Or Will & Grace.
- Or Frasier, or Frie
- We have to go.
- Yeah.
- We have kids.
- Okay. Yeah, we should get started.
- Should we do it?
'Cause what does that
mean, "We have kids"?
[line ringing]
[voice on intercom]
Yes?
Uh, Valerie Cherish
to see Jimmy.
- I called ahead.
- Hold on, please.
- Yeah.
- [Jane] W-What did he say on the phone?
Never spoke with him,
just left a message
with the housekeeper
that I was on the way.
[voice] Come in.
- Oh.
- He's down by the pool.
Okay, yeah. Thanks.
- Down to the pool.
- [Jane] Okay. Go, go, go.
- So, you can stay here.
- [Jane] Look around.
No, no.
No, Jane.
No, you gotta stay back.
I said Valerie Cherish
to see Jimmy, he's
Not Valerie Cherish and
her camera caravan, yeah.
Besides, she said
he was at the pool,
so, you know, what if
he swims naked, right?
Not nice, can't do it,
no consent.
So it's closing, you gotta
get on the other side of that.
- [Jane] What? No, ah!
- Go.
Remember, I have to be
at Trader Joe's by 4!
Those are my keys in case
you have to move the car, okay?
[children chattering]
[waves splashing]
You guys have
enough sunblock on?
[Valerie]
Oops! Jimmy?
- Hi, Val.
- Hi.
I think you wore the wrong
shoes for a home invasion.
And if you puncture
a sprinkler line,
I don't know you.
Okay, well, look at you.
King of the world.
King of this Bel Air rental.
Our new house
isn't finished yet.
Three years and counting.
Wow, so th this is a rental?
This house and those kids.
[laughing]
Hi. Valerie Cherish.
- Uh, sit down.
- Busy. Okay.
- Can I have a hug first, maybe?
- Oh, yeah.
[chuckles]
Aw, you.
Would you like
some lemonade or water?
Uh, no.
Don't want to be a bother.
Well, you came all this way
to see me, I'd like to give you
something besides
a polite, "No, thank you."
Oh, no.
Well, it's not that far.
And, you know,
I just needed to check
that "no" was from
your agent, you know,
and maybe you didn't
read it yet, right?
Oh, no, no, I read it.
I read it because you were
the lead, sweetheart.
- Aw.
- You were so good
in that Paulie G heroin series.
You really surprised me.
Well, thank you. Yeah.
But you know,
that was a dramedy, right?
Dramedies are easy.
This is comedy.
- And comedy needs Jimmy.
- This one doesn't.
- Well.
- Look, it's a good part for you.
Newhart meets Fawlty Towers,
but with a woman.
- Yeah.
- You'll be great.
- Thanks.
- I've done a million of these.
There's nothing new
in it for me.
[children playing]
Ah, the gate's opening.
Go, go, go. Go!
She's coming, she's coming.
Go, go, go, go, it's her!
Go, go, go!
- Ha, ha! Oh
- [Jane] Oh, boy.
Okay.
No, she's okay.
Look, guys, she doesn't
even have a grass stain.
How did you get
Jimmy to say yes?
Oh, just talked to him,
you know.
First, he said no,
but then I told him
how important
this one was to me.
[Jane]
Did you tell him it was AI?
I did, yeah.
But Jane, it's a secret.
[Jane] Why is it a secret?
Why can't people know about it?
Bad branding.
You know, everybody everywhere
is worrying about AI, right?
I, for one, am excited to let go
and see what AI is all about.
[GPS]
Turn right now.
[Jane]
It said turn. It
- [Valerie] Yeah, that's alright.
- [Jane] Missed it.
Jane, last time,
I didn't listen to it,
and I saved five minutes, okay?
I know better.
["Knock on Wood"
by Amii Stewart playing]
[GPS] Turn right.
[Jane] It really
wants you to turn right.
I know, but it's wrong.
Yeah, it's wrong.
Don't worry.
[GPS] Turn right.
[Jane]
Are you gonna turn at all?
I know where I'm gonna turn,
and it's not here,
and it's not now.
That I've got,
'cause if I do ♪
[GPS] Turn right.
I would surely,
surely lose a lot ♪
'Cause your love
is better ♪
[GPS] Turn right.
Than any love I know,
it's like thunder ♪
[GPS] Turn right now.
Turn right.
You better knock, knock ♪
[GPS] Turn left.
On wood, baby ♪
[GPS] Turn left.
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
[GPS] Turn left.
Baby, ooh ♪
[GPS] Turn right.
Better knock, knock,
knock on wood ♪
Think I better knock,
knock, knock on wood ♪
Think I better knock, knock,
knock on wood ♪
Think I better knock,
knock on wood ♪
Think I better knock,
knock ♪