State of Georgia (2011) s01e02 Episode Script

Refresh my memory.
Who told you about the great new yogurt place in the neighborhood? - You did.
- And who was like, "Oh, it's only frozen yogurt.
How good could it be?" - I did.
- And who was— Oooh, you were saying? If they serve yogurt in heaven, I bet you it tastes like that.
Mmm, and it'd be served by a chiseled angel.
Ooof, that is something.
Yeah, it's freezing back there and he's not wearing a jacket.
But it looks like he's working up a sweat, so I'm gonna go sample that.
Oh no no.
You're not doing this to me again.
- Not doing what? - Back home, every time we found a place we liked, you'd always end up liking a guy that worked there and dating him.
Really, Jo? Every time? Are you forgetting the Donut Hut? The Barbecue Hut? Waffle Hut? No, but I did forget how badly people named things back home.
Even the churches.
Don't you talk about my Jesus Hut.
So I dated a few guys.
What's the problem with that? That you always break up with them and for the worst reasons.
"I didn't like his earlobes"? "He drove funny"? "He blinks too much.
" "He doesn't blink enough.
" I'm picky.
Still don't see the problem.
The problem is they end up wrecked and then we can't go anywhere near them or their restaurants.
I have lost so much good food.
Can I just— can I keep the yogurt? Ladies, some toppings on the house.
May I recommend the fair-trade salted chocolate sauce? We source it from an organic cacao farm in Brazil.
- ( Snorts ) - Well gracias.
- Did he just wink at you? - Si.
- ( Groans ) - ( Laughs ) This is the only dessert that my fragile digestive system can handle.
Can you just please this once see the wink and let it go? Okay fine, Jo, you're my best friend.
- I won't go full-Georgia on that man.
- Really? - Mm-hmm.
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
All right, you're gonna be late for school and I have that audition to get to.
What is it again? "Woman with PMS"? You want to run lines? I don't think it's the lines.
It's about really tapping into that honest place.
You know, where— that place that— ( tearfully ) You never understand because you never ever understand me.
I think I got it.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm Jo Pye, but you can call me Jo 3.
1415.
No? Okay.
So Professor Farber asked me to be group leader on the next-generation shuttle design project.
Um, Farber should have asked me to be the leader.
- Why, Lewis? - Because of the way I naturally take over a room.
Also my mom wrote him a note.
Yeah, she wrote me one too.
Apparently I have to give you some medication after lunch.
( Laughing ) Face! So where are we on the specs with the heat shields? Seth and I developed a new technology for injecting Dimethyl Doxycycline into the tiles' inner core.
We believe this will allow the tiles to provide heat resistance up to 1300° celsius.
Terrific.
Okay, now we just need to test the tiles in a real-world environment.
So do you guys have any ideas? - Seth has a theory.
- No, I don't.
He thinks we should test the tiles by putting them next to you.
Why would you do that? 'Cause you're smokin' hot.
I've seen hotter.
Not in person.
Whoo-hoo.
Whoo.
Whoo, you taste like waffle cone too.
Oh, that would explain all the biting.
I didn't eat lunch.
- Oh - ( Keys jangle ) ( Grunts ) You gotta go.
Uh, why? Because I'm late for acting class.
But we will finish all of this tomorrow.
Okay, cool.
One for the road? - Sure.
- See ya.
You really think I wouldn't have seen him? And the countdown to me losing my yogurt begins Now.
Stop it, okay? He's cute.
Who knows what's going to happen.
Oh, I know! Pick me, right here! This thing— one for the road? - The fist bump is cute.
- Oh, it's cute now.
Wait till Friday when you're like, "yuck! I can't believe the fist-bump guy keeps calling me.
" Jo, please.
I wouldn't have snuck back into the store, given Brad my number, then invited him over if I didn't think there was a chance of something real between us.
That fist-bump thing is gonna drive me crazy.
- I knew it! - Ladies, ladies, please.
What is all of this ruckus? I'm trying to get some sleep.
You know how exhausting it is when George clooney is in town.
Different one! But also looks great in the Batman suit.
Georgia is dating the guy from our new favorite yogurt store.
Mmm, say goodbye to that yogurt.
Everything was fine until this one pointed out exactly what he's gonna do - to make me go crazy.
- Oh, say no more.
I once traveled that road with a young Wolfgang Puck.
Ooh, that accent.
Sexy at first, but after a while you're like, "how long have you been living here?" So what are we gonna do? I don't think you should be asking me.
I think you should be asking yourself.
"Who am I? What do I need to do?" - What do you mean? - Buh-buh-buh! Who am I? What do I need to do? Oh oh, okay, I get where you're going with this.
Uh, I am an actress.
- Mmm.
I am a scientist.
- And we need to? - And you need to Combine our talents.
Like I can use my scientific training to recreate the yogurt recipe.
While I use my skills as an actress to String Brad along till you crack it.
Oooh, Aunt Honey, you're a genius.
That's what Denzel says.
Yes, that one.
( Laughs ) + So we're gonna put the Space Shuttle design project aside for a few days and instead work on one of the great scientific mysteries of our time.
- Dark matter? - Quantum mechanics? Why Seth takes such long showers? - Shut up.
- You do.
Ew, no.
Yogurt.
We are gonna try to figure out how to make this.
What? That's ridiculous.
How can yogurt be more important than America's space program? Okay, if you were group leader, I would have to answer that, Lewis, but you're not, so let's get to work.
I'm not comfortable with this.
You gonna call your mom? ( Laughs ) Face! Watch it, Seth.
I will control-alt-delete you.
The stakes are high, the clock is ticking and I hope you all brought your big-boy jammies.
Seth sleeps in the nude.
Shut up! - So what do you think? - That is delicious.
You know what I call it? Georgia peach.
( Forced laugh ) Random question, Brad, how would you make this? Like exactly? - Like, walk me through it.
- ( Laughs ) - That's a good one, Jo.
- I'm not kidding.
Uh, you know I can't share the recipe.
But I can tell you the secret ingredient: Passion.
Don't you think we fist bump too much? No.
Oh.
( Clears throat ) If there was a fork in this place, I would stick it in my eye.
It's only been three days.
And he is completely in love with me.
Do you know that he forced me to make him #1 on my speed dial? - He took my spot? - Yes! You were #1, not my guy Dale at Zappos who hooks me up with the fast shipping.
( Beeps ) "Thinking of you.
" Watch this moment, Jo.
Watch this moment.
This is actually happening.
He just blew me a fist bump and now I have to catch it.
Please hurry up and find that recipe, okay? I'm trying.
What are you guys doing now? Oh, this is called rocking the fist baby.
Oh, this is new.
He's burping it.
Please help me.
Okay, I'm tasting the coconut, but I'm not tasting the island.
( Groans ) That formula cost us two lab rats and a pinkie nail.
I said, "look out, Seth.
I'm pouring the liquid nitrogen now.
" Did you say it, Leo, or did you just think it? All right, you guys, I'm sorry, but we're gonna have to keep working on this until we get it.
No we're not! I checked with Professor Farber - and he knew nothing of project yogurt.
- ( Gasps ) That's right, gasp.
The female has been wasting our time.
Fine! Professor Farber didn't know about project yogurt.
But I have not been wasting your time.
Do you know what an ice cream truck sounds like? For most kids it's the sound of happiness.
But not me.
No, I was different.
I couldn't digest milk-based food products.
Did you try soy? Soy?! Soy sucks.
When I found this yogurt it's like someone had finally given me my childhood.
So, fine.
You guys can go back to working on the shuttle and maybe you'll help a few astronauts and some pilots that have been winners their whole life, or you could change the life of one girl who was born with the wrong stuff.
All: Astronauts.
Looks like we need a new leader.
And that is what you get for trying to keep an Alpha male down.
Okay, I have an idea! The first person to figure out this yogurt recipe gets a kiss.
Tongue? - Cheek.
- Lips? - Closed.
- Deal! Damn! Thanks for letting me pick the movie.
Thanks for thinking I let you pick the movie.
Great team.
You— Y-you know what? I think that I'm done with the fist bump.
Uh, what? Oh-oh.
You want to take it to the next level.
Ah yes.
Yes, any other level would just be great.
Right okay, yeah yeah, I hear you.
Um, so fist bump - Yeah? - Mm-hmm.
and explode! Oh oh, so— oh, I'll be back.
No no no, Jo! Why would you do that? Why don't you come on in and join us right now, right here? Seriously, please.
- Hey, Jo.
- Hey.
I brought you a pint of salted caramel.
Thanks, pal! Uh-oh.
Somebody's jealous.
I was gonna save this for the weekend, but Double tap.
Right there.
Let me just take off my jewelry real quick.
- Considerate.
- Yeah yeah.
Owie.
- Feisty.
- Hey.
I like that.
I'll— I will text you later.
Okay, I'm sure you will.
Oh my Where have you been?! You were supposed to rescue me an hour ago.
I'm sorry.
I was stuck at the lab.
- Are you making any progress? - On the yogurt, no.
But I have managed to make my love life even more humiliating.
- Yay.
- Well, Jo, you are almost out of time.
Honestly, I cannot lie to Brad anymore.
He's very nice, yes, but— it is not his fault that he is bringing me to hell one fist bump at a time.
- ( Sighs ) - ( Beeps ) Oh, I got a text.
Guess who misses me already.
"You just pocket dialed me.
I heard everything you said.
" Oh my God! Do you think he knows now that we're just stringing him along until I get the recipe? Oh no, I am too good of an actress.
- He'll never figure this out.
- ( Beeps ) "Your phone is still on and I figured it out.
" - What am I gonna do? - Turn it off, turn it off.
Oh, I'm trying.
It's not working.
- ( Beeps ) - "Hold down the power button.
" Brad, I am holding down the power button! - Oh, it's terrible.
- I know, Jo.
I just took a picture of myself.
What is going on? Serio— well, at least it's cute.
Do you see that? That was the jaw structure.
I mean with Brad.
Do you think that he's gonna ever let us into the yogurt store again? - ( Beeps ) - "Yeah, that's a no way.
" + Don't mind me, Georgia.
I'm just looking for a dog collar I used to keep down here.
- You had a dog, Aunt Honey? - Oh Lord, no.
Whatever gave you that idea? So where's your gentleman caller? That kind of exploded in my face.
It turns out that me stringing him along while Jo reverse-engineers yogurt - not such a great idea.
- Who on earth came up with that mess? - You did.
- Oh, I don't think so.
That doesn't sound like something I would suggest.
You said, "ask yourself, 'who am I and what do I need to do?'" mm-hmm, it sounds like I just asked you a couple of vague questions and let you draw your own conclusions.
- But you sounded so smart.
- Of course I did.
When you're a black woman of a certain age, people just assume you're full of wisdom.
That's how I got on "Charlie Rose.
" Great.
So what am I supposed to do now? Well, Georgia, it depends.
What do you think you should do? I should probably examine my own behavior.
I mean this is clearly a pattern— Hey! You are doing it again.
Fine, I'll let you solve your own problems.
Thank you.
All right, so my problem is that when a guy likes me, I enjoy it because I really like the attention.
- Mmm.
- But then when I dump him I end up hurting Jo.
- Uh-huh.
- So maybe it's about how I break up with him? - Uh? - Maybe instead of just blowing Brad off, I should have sat down with him and had a nice adult conversation, because then we would still be welcome in his store.
See, I figured it out all by myself.
Mmm.
Dag, you're good! ( Moaning ) You did it.
You guys, you did it, you did it! - Oh my gosh.
- Yes yes! Ow, my bursitis.
Who is the genius that figured this out? No, they're not booing.
They're saying Lewwww-is! Really? Okay.
I guess I owe you a kiss.
Yes, I believe those were the terms.
Oh, what the heck? You get a hug too! - I helped.
- I lost a fingernail.
Group hug.
Okay, I'm feeling a lot of excitement here.
Hug's over.
But I was still really proud of you guys.
Wait a minute, I recognize this spoon.
Did you guys just go out and buy this? It was all Lewis's idea.
We're physics students, not yogurtmakers.
But at least now we're boyfriend-girlfriend, right? - What? - What? I think they're breaking up.
I call next.
All I'm saying is that it's not really about you.
I just— I'm just not ready for anything serious, and I'm sorry I hurt you and it was rude and immature and you don't deserve that.
Yeah, that's cool.
I get it.
And I appreciate you coming down to talk about it.
Really? Oh well, how about a little no-hard-feelings bump? I'm sorry, Georgia, I don't do that with just anyone.
Now I miss it.
Jo, you don't have to eat so fast.
Everything's fine with Brad.
I know, I'm just trying to get the taste of Lewis off my lips.
You know what? I have turned a corner, Jo.
I learned how to have a responsible and mature break-up with someone so that my best friend doesn't get hurt.
I've changed.
I've grown.
And I would like to be held in those— oooh.
( Groans ) No.
I'm gonna miss you.
No no, it's not you.
And it's not me.
It's her.
Hurry up! You're going to miss "The Bachelor"'s most dramatic rose ceremony ever.
Hmm-mm.
I'm not falling for that again.
Unless he proposes to both girls and they all run off to Utah, I've seen it all.
You know what would go great with this for dessert? Don't.
- Yogurt.
- I said don't.
Kinda like I said don't.
"Don't date the other guy at the yogurt store, Georgia.
It will only end badly.
" And what happened? He was so cute, except for that one crazy nose hair just hanging out, daring me to break up with it.
They have our photos by the cash register now.
Well, at least you found this amazing pizza.
- Where's it from? - The gayest pizza place I could find.
I love a challenge.
+ Aunt Honey? What's the meaning of life? Isn't the answer in the question? What's the secret of happiness? Why does happiness have to be a secret? - It's amazing.
- Every answer sounds so deep.
But it's all totally meaningless.
It may be, but it still gets me on "Tavis Smiley" every year.
When were you on his show? He has a show?