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Clips from The Jeffersons - Louise's Cookbook (S02E02)

"Your cookbook is going to be a big success."
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"Oh, I'm so proud of you, Louise Mills!"
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"Oh, George!"
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"Hi, Mother Jefferson, how are you feeling?"
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"Terrible."
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"I went to all the trouble to bring you my recipes,"
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"and now you're quitting on me."
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"No, she ain't, Mama."
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"I wouldn't let her quit."
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"Good. I have a recipe for Hopping John"
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"that you must put into your cookbook."
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"Hopping John? That sounds like a laxative."
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"Hopping John is black-eyed peas and rice."
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"Oh."
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"Thanks, Mother Jefferson,"
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"but I already have a recipe for that."
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"But your recipe couldn't be as good as mine."
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"My recipe rhymes."
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"Listen."
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""Take the peas and take the rice,"
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""boil them once but never twice,"
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""add some salt, the lid goes on,"
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"and in a while there's Hopping John!""
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"Now, is your recipe better than that?"
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"No, it sure isn't."
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"See? It's exactly the same."
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"The same?"
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"Where did you get that recipe, Mama?"
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"I made it up."
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"Now, listen to this one for oxtail soup."
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""Wash the oxtail 'fore you put it in,"
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""because you don't know where that oxtail's been!"
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""Douse the fat and... "Add the meat."
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"Oxtail soup sure do taste sweet!""
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"You mean you made that one up too?"
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"What are you doing, Mama? Stealing from Louise?"
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"George, Louise is the last person"
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"I'd steal a recipe from."
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"Then how come you got it if you didn't get it from her?"
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"I got them from a book."
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"A book? What book?"
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"This book."
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"Missus Kirby's Kitchen: Favorite Negro recipes."
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"Where did that come from, Mama?"
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"I bought it before I got married."
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"Uh-oh."
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"What is it, Tom?"
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"These recipes, Louise."
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"They're exactly the same as yours,"
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"quaint sayings and all."
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"I don't understand."
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"I hate to say this, Louise,"
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"but it looks like your grandmother"
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"was a plagiarist."
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"I thought your relatives were Methodist."
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"Pop, it looks like Mom's grandma didn't create the recipes."
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"She just copied them out of this book."
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"Oh, well, then in that case, I'm sorry, Louise,"
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"but we can't do your cookbook."
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"This is copyrighted material."
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"I wonder why my grandmother did that."
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"Mom, she was probably too poor to buy a book of her own."
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"Well, I'm sorry, Louise, but these things happen."
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"And about that $500 check, I'll explain it to my boss,"
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"and I think I know what he's going to say."
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"Oh, thanks, Tom,"
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"but I'm afraid we tore up the check."
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"Good, because that's what he's going to say."
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"I'm afraid I've wasted a lot of your time, Tom."
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"No. It wasn't all wasted."
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"I discovered one dish I know I'm going to stay away from."
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"Possum stew?"
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"No. Oxtail soup."
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"Well, George,"
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"it looks like Louise Mills' writing career is over."
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"Don't worry about it, Weezy."
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"Being famous ain't all that cool."
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"Look, Lionel,"
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"what's the name of that famous black writer?"
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"James Baldwin?"
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"Yeah! Look, I wouldn't trade you in"
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"for James Baldwin for anything."
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"Oh, George..."
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"Diana Ross, maybe, but not James Baldwin."
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"George, were you really"
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"going to let me write that cookbook?"
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"Sure, Weezy. Now that I know how important it is to you."
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"As a matter of fact,"
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"since you got the typewriter out,"
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"I think it's time you started your next book."
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"My next book?"
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"Yeah! The George Jefferson Story."
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"That's a great idea!"
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"And when they make it into a movie,"
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"maybe they can get Harry Belafonte"
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"to play you."
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"Nah, that wouldn't work."
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"Why not?"
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"He ain't tall enough."
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"Isn't this nice, George?"
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"Peaceful, no fighting?"
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"Yeah, you're right, Weezy."
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"From now on, whatever you want to do"
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"is all right with me, within reason."
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"Oh, thank you, George."
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"Let's invite the Willises back"
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"for dinner tomorrow night too."
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"I said within reason."
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"See, you're starting a fight again."
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"You're right. Okay, whatever you want to do,"
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"you just tell me, and I'll listen."
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"You will?"
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"Of course I will. What do you think I am?"
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"Hard to get along with? A stubborn jackass?"
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"Pigheaded? Back up."
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"I think you just passed it."
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"The Jeffersons was recorded on tape"
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"in front of a studio audience."
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