IT'S A LIVING Season 1 Episode 11 R-E-S-P-E-C-T
IT'S A LIVING Season 1 Episode 11 R-E-S-P-E-C-T
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00:00Life's not the French Riviera, believe me, Life's not a charity ball,
00:10It isn't all a great big bed of roses, It's not like showbiz,
00:18But the main thing I'm supposed to be, I'm not a big baby,
00:25We know we're doing okay, We may be less than we'll be,
00:33But for us, yet, we're young and healthy, And anyone who's young and healthy
00:42Knows that that's the way, That traffic flows,
00:51It's our living.
01:12Inspection, ladies.
01:20Oh, Nancy, you promised us we wouldn't have to go through this anymore. It's so demeaning.
01:24As demeaning as being canned?
01:28Jan, you know, your hair has come a long way, but your eyeshadow clashes with every other color on your body.
01:36Nancy, I happen to like this color.
01:38Then use it to paint your house.
01:41Oh, Vicky, are you going to be serving on horseback this evening?
01:46Well, see, this is how we learned how to get dressed in girls' gym.
01:49You see, you put the skirt on over the pants and then...
01:51Spare me. Get them off and get out front.
01:54Cassie, push-up bodice, fix straps and adjust apron.
01:58Nancy, nobody ever sees my uniform.
02:04Ready.
02:05Another audition, Dot?
02:07I only wish it was.
02:09Didn't you hear the shots?
02:10Shots?
02:11Outside the building.
02:12We're 30 stories up.
02:14See? That's why you didn't hear.
02:16Anyways, I'm rushing to work when these five armed gunmen come running out of a bank.
02:20There were reporters, guys with microphones.
02:22I said, hey, look, fellas, I'm trying to get upstairs to work.
02:25Dot, I can see why you never get an acting job.
02:28Take off the coat, fix everything.
02:33Now, Lois. Oh, Lois, what can I say?
02:37You know, girls, you could all take some pointers from Lois.
02:40Always prepared, always on time and picture-perfect in her uniform.
02:44Were I a waitress, Lois is what I would be.
02:49That's the meanest thing that anyone's ever said to me.
02:54Mom! Mom!
02:55Honey, what are you doing here?
02:56Hurry, Mom, I need some money.
02:58We talked Dad into taking us out for a class of burgers and all he has is credit cards.
03:01If I don't get downstairs right away, he's gonna change his mind.
03:03Oh, all right. How much do you need?
03:04I don't know, just hurry. I'm starving and Daddy's double heart.
03:07Okay, okay. Say hello to everybody.
03:09Hi, Kathy. Hi, Dot. Hi, Vicki. Hi, Aunt Jan.
03:12Hi.
03:13Aunt Jan, how did you get to be Aunt Jan?
03:15I took her to get her ears pierced.
03:18Here you are. You ought to be able to stuff yourselves pretty good on that.
03:20Thanks, Mom. Oh, my teacher wanted me to give you that.
03:23You're not in any trouble, are you?
03:24Mother, if I thought I was in trouble, would I hand it to you in person?
03:27Oh.
03:28Honestly, give me some credit.
03:30Bye, everybody.
03:31Bye-bye.
03:32Oh, youth.
03:33Girls, I want you to listen to this.
03:34Dear Mrs. Adams, we have set aside a special afternoon for our girls' career guidance class.
03:39Judging from Amy's delightful paper...
03:41Amy wrote an essay on working mothers.
03:44Judging from Amy's delightful paper,
03:46you seem to be successfully meeting the challenges of a working female parent.
03:50Could you please take time from your busy schedule
03:52to join some of our other working mothers and speak to our class?
03:55Oh.
03:57They want me to make a speech.
03:58That must have been some paper.
04:00Yeah.
04:01You know, sometimes you think you're doing the best you can,
04:03and then you think maybe it's not enough.
04:05Then you get something like this and you just think,
04:07maybe I'm all right after all.
04:08You know, it's all worth it.
04:10Oh, Lois, I hope I turn out to be as good a mother as you.
04:13Oh, Vicki, I'm sure you will.
04:15All it takes is a little patience and a lot of luck.
04:18Worrying and nagging.
04:20I remember my mother nagged me for 18 years to wear a sweater all the time.
04:23I promised myself if I ever had a daughter, I'd never do that to her.
04:26And I don't.
04:27I make Ellen wear a coat.
04:31Oh.
04:36Boy, I'm going to be a wreck until I make that speech.
04:38What am I going to say?
04:39What am I going to say?
04:41What are you going to wear?
04:42What am I going to wear?
04:43Why don't you wear your uniform?
04:44Nancy says you look picture perfect in that.
04:48Good night, Nancy.
04:50The girl's even late going home.
04:54I got the world on a string,
04:56sitting on a rainbow.
04:58Got the string around my finger.
05:01What a world, what a life.
05:03Who needs it?
05:06Sonny, you haven't been yourself all night.
05:09What's wrong?
05:10Nothing.
05:11Want to talk about it?
05:13You want to listen?
05:14Sure.
05:15You surprise me, Dot.
05:16You usually just try and get away from me as fast as you can.
05:19Usually you nauseate me a lot more.
05:22I'll never nauseate anyone again, Dot.
05:25I've lost it.
05:26I can't finish my dates anymore.
05:29You can't?
05:31Oh.
05:34I've had two dates in the last two days.
05:36One with a girl who makes Bo Derek look like kelp.
05:39And the other,
05:40the other's a girl who could dismantle a tractor with her lips.
05:44Nothing.
05:45Oh, come on, Sonny.
05:47It's not that bad.
05:49It's not like you lost your best friend.
05:51What?
05:55It's not that uncommon.
05:57It comes from anxieties.
05:59It'll pass.
06:00It happens to men all the time.
06:04Sonny,
06:05would you believe me if I said I wish there were more men like you?
06:08Impotent restaurant workers?
06:13I'm talking about your honesty.
06:15Most guys would try to pretend.
06:17At least when you're a washout, you admit it.
06:19Thanks, Dot.
06:21There is more to life than just sex.
06:24There better be.
06:35Amy?
06:36Oh, you're already up.
06:37Good morning.
06:38Hi.
06:40What's all this?
06:41Ah, your favorite hot cereal,
06:43fresh squeezed orange juice,
06:44raisin toast,
06:45and coffee.
06:46That's for me.
06:47But, Mom, my birthday's not till August.
06:49I know. I just wanted to do something special for you.
06:51How come?
06:53Letter from your teacher.
06:57Oh, honey, that must have been some essay you wrote.
06:59Wife, mother, working woman.
07:02So, how do you think I should open my speech?
07:06You don't have to make that speech, Mom.
07:07I can get you out of it.
07:08Don't worry. I'll think of something.
07:10You know, I thought maybe I could use some of what you said about me in your essay.
07:13What'd you say?
07:16The usual stuff.
07:19I said that you were nice.
07:21Uh-huh.
07:22And I said that you were a good cook.
07:25And I said that you were...
07:29vice president of West Valley Bank.
07:33What?
07:34Do you want the breakfast back?
07:37Why would you say that I was vice president of a bank?
07:40Well, I didn't actually mean to.
07:43You didn't mean to?
07:45Well, it just happened.
07:48We were gonna write this dumb essay on what our mothers did for a living.
07:51And I was gonna write what you really did, but...
07:54then I got to thinking...
07:56all the other kids are gonna read this.
07:59Well, so what if they do?
08:00I mean, I don't hold up liquor stores.
08:03You wouldn't understand.
08:05Try me.
08:07It's just that being a waitress is so...
08:10ordinary.
08:11Ordinary.
08:13Well, yeah.
08:14I mean, who wants to read an essay about a waitress?
08:17You're a doctor or a lawyer like everybody else.
08:20Amy, everybody isn't a doctor or a lawyer.
08:24I knew you wouldn't understand.
08:25All right, now listen to me, young lady.
08:27It's you I don't understand.
08:29Now, why is what I'm doing so terrible?
08:31Because Susan Hennessey's mother is a marine biologist.
08:34And Debbie Chang's mother is a stockbroker.
08:37And I'm supposed to tell all my friends that my mother just waits on tables.
08:40All right, you listen to me, young lady.
08:42My waiting on tables...
08:44is to pay for those designer jeans that you just have to have...
08:47and half of your brother's music lessons...
08:49and while we're at it, part of this house.
08:51Okay, okay, you don't have to get so uptight.
08:54Well, you're the one that's going to be uptight...
08:56when you have to explain to your teacher why you wrote what you did.
08:59Couldn't you just ground me and we'll forget about it?
09:02Amy, I am not forgetting about it. It's dishonest.
09:04You're going to have to set the record straight before I make my speech.
09:07You wouldn't actually show up, would you?
09:10Amy, are you ashamed of me?
09:14I'm going to be late for school.
09:16Amy, are you ashamed of me because I'm a waitress?
09:22Yes.
09:27Damn.
09:40I think I need to be alone. I'm going for a ride in my car.
09:43Sunny, we'll be opening in a while.
09:45All right, I'll go for a ride in the elevator.
09:49This table's all neat and set and picture perfect.
09:52Now I'd like to just throw it against the wall.
09:55Come on, Lois.
09:56Oh, Jen, I could have done without this.
09:58I could have spent the rest of my days perfectly happy...
10:00thinking my daughter respected me.
10:02I'm sure she respects you. It's your job she's ashamed of.
10:05I thank you for that perspective.
10:08I'll bet Amy will change her mind when she hears you give your speech.
10:11What speech?
10:12I'm not going to walk into a room full of lawyers and marine biologists...
10:15and talk about serving a Caesar salad.
10:20Better, Jen.
10:21Well, Lois, are you planning on being a customer this evening?
10:26I don't recall taking your dinner reservation.
10:28Don't mess with me, Nancy. I am in a lousy mood...
10:30and messing with me is only going to make things worse.
10:32So you have a choice. Mess more, mess less. It's up to you.
10:35Well, isn't she huffy?
10:37That's the thing about you, Nancy. You bring out the huff in all of us.
10:42I know.
10:44Poor Lois. I guess her daughter really upset her.
10:47Well, kids can get to you sometimes like no one else can...
10:50and they don't even know that they're doing it.
10:52Gee, I hope I never hurt my mother the way Amy hurt Lois.
10:55You've got to be strong to be a mother.
10:57My mother raised seven of us. I'm surprised she's still alive.
11:00Did you ever give her a bad time?
11:02Once in a while. You know, somehow I think I was her favorite.
11:05Why?
11:06I was the first one to leave home.
11:09Sometimes I wonder why anyone even wants to have kids.
11:12I mean, you feed them, pamper them, try to make them a happy, healthy person...
11:16and they end up on some psychiatrist's couch saying they're miserable...
11:19and it's all their parents' fault.
11:21At least that's what I said about mine.
11:24Listen, I'm the only one in the room who actually has a child...
11:27and I'll tell you, it's not that bad.
11:29Like, uh, the smile on her face when she's been sick and you've helped her get well...
11:33or if she comes to you with a problem and you help her solve it.
11:36If there's a greater feeling in the world, I'd like to know what it is.
11:39You've never met Eric.
11:50Hi, Sonny. How is the elevator?
11:53It plays Misty more times than I do.
11:56So how are you doing these days?
11:58I'm still a trumpet with a busted valve.
12:01Listen, I've been thinking. Why don't you and I go out on a date?
12:05You've been waiting for a moment like this to really hurt me, haven't you?
12:08I mean it. Let's go out, tonight after work, just the two of us.
12:12That's all it'll be, the two of us.
12:14Oh, come on. We'll have some drinks, maybe see a show, laugh.
12:18What for?
12:19For fun.
12:20Fun? On a date?
12:22That's what I mean, Sonny.
12:24You have to realize that there can be something else between a man and a woman besides sex.
12:30There'll be nothing beautiful.
12:32No, a conquest, just a good old-fashioned date.
12:35Sounds boring, Dot.
12:38Okay, fine. I was just trying to be a friend.
12:41Wait a minute, wait a minute.
12:44I suppose this will be the only time you ever want to go out with me, right?
12:47Right.
12:49Okay, I'll give it a try.
12:50Good.
12:51But under the circumstances, I think we should go Dutch.
12:56You know, I could have been vice president of a bank if I wanted to.
12:59I could have been 5'9 without heels, but...
13:01Hey.
13:03That's a big help.
13:05Look, Lois, if you're going to be vice president of the bank, don't you think you ought to get started?
13:08Jan, I didn't say I wanted to be. I said I could have been.
13:11Well, in that case, why don't you start enjoying being a waitress?
13:13I'm enjoying it, okay?
13:15You could have fooled me, and I'm standing right in front of you.
13:19Look, Lois, a couple of kids say that waitressing is gross, and you're questioning your whole existence.
13:24You know, you're right.
13:26I mean, what do I have to be ashamed of?
13:29Okay, I got married right out of school, then I put Bill through college,
13:32then I got pregnant with Amy and Joey,
13:34and now suddenly the whole economy's gone crazy and Bill's paycheck will hardly fill the gas tank,
13:38and here I am, and there is nothing wrong with what I'm doing.
13:41Since we're dressed alike, it's hard for me to argue.
13:44Tell you, I have half a mind to go down there and give that speech anyway.
13:47Take your whole mind. Take me. I'll hold your horse.
13:51All right. I will. I can do it.
13:55You will come with me, won't you?
13:57Sure.
14:00Hi.
14:14Sonny.
14:15Hi.
14:16Hi.
14:18Thought I'd wear my tux, you know, as long as I've got it on.
14:20Fine.
14:21You look nice, too.
14:22Oh, thanks.
14:24So is there, uh, someplace special you usually go?
14:27No.
14:28I usually just try and get them back to my place as fast as I can.
14:32Well, we'll think of something.
14:34Uh, Don, I...
14:36Before we go, I just wanted to thank you for everything you're trying to do for me.
14:39I appreciate it.
14:40Oh, it's okay.
14:41No, really, I mean it. You really seem to understand what I'm going through and you...
14:44you care.
14:45Aren't that many people in my life would be as kind as you are?
14:48Well, it's... it's easy.
14:50It's easy to be kind, Sonny, when somebody opens up to you.
14:54Well, it's not easy for me.
14:57I've never really been able to talk to a woman.
14:59I usually just settle for being the hottest, most creative lover in the Western world.
15:04But these last few days, I'm telling you, I've been scared.
15:07We're all scared.
15:09But if we could just let go of some of our fears and be ourselves...
15:13You know, you're one hell of a woman, Doc.
15:16And I'd say that even if it weren't already a song.
15:20At least you're not so bad yourself.
15:22I never realized you're warm and wise and sensitive.
15:26I don't know why we never talked like this before.
15:29Doc?
15:30Yes?
15:31Let's go back to my place.
15:33I thought we were going to go out and have some fun.
15:35I think we'll have more fun back at my place.
15:38What?
15:39I'm starting to feel better.
15:41How much better?
15:42I feel good.
15:45Sonny, you promised.
15:47That wasn't me. That was a wimp.
15:50This is me.
15:51Okay. Okay, Sonny.
15:53That's it. This date is over.
15:55And I'll never trust you again.
15:56And as far as I'm concerned, we are right back to where we started.
15:59And where is that?
16:00You make my flesh crawl.
16:03It's a beginning.
16:11Okay, everybody.
16:12We are now going to hear from Amy Adams' mother, Mrs. Lois Adams.
16:16Mrs. Adams?
16:18Thank you, Mrs. Wilson.
16:20Thank you, fellow mothers, future women.
16:23Wake me when it's over.
16:25Well, this has certainly been a very interesting day.
16:28And we've heard from some very impressive women.
16:30Lady lawyer, marine biologist, stockbroker, and now me.
16:36I am a waitress.
16:38In an extremely nice restaurant, I might add.
16:41And though my job may seem ordinary,
16:44it does have its rewards and responsibilities.
16:47So, let us take a few minutes and look at the world of waitressing.
16:53People go out to dinner to relax and enjoy themselves.
16:57Or perhaps even to discuss business.
16:59In that sense, one could say that the diner out,
17:03that for the diner out, the waitress has the power to make or break the evening.
17:08That fish film is looking better and better.
17:11A waitress's duties are many and varied.
17:14I've jotted a few of them down to read to you.
17:20But if I do, I'm afraid I'm going to bore you guys to tears.
17:23Look, you've all been to a restaurant, you all know what I do.
17:26It's not that complicated.
17:28However, it's not as easy as it looks.
17:31And I take pride in being the very best waitress that I know how to be.
17:35I make a fairly decent living, so I can help my family out.
17:39And I have a flexible schedule so that I can be home when they need me.
17:45And I also work with other women who are very nice
17:49and who are now standing in the back of this room rooting me on.
17:53So, uh...
17:57Well, now, what can I say that hasn't already been said?
18:00Chances are that some of you girls are going to end up being working mothers,
18:04whether you want to or you have to.
18:07And I'll tell you, raising kids is tough enough.
18:10When you add another job to that, you really have your hands full.
18:13I mean, there's some nights that I'm serving dinners till midnight.
18:17Then at 7 in the morning, I'm making breakfast for my family.
18:20I mean, I forget where I am.
18:23One morning, I gave my son his eggs and I said,
18:26here you are, sir, I hope you enjoy your meal.
18:29And then two nights ago, I told a man to sit up straight.
18:32Well, in spite of all the craziness,
18:35I feel that my life is very rewarding.
18:38Because when you have the support of your family and your friends,
18:43well, it just makes things a lot easier.
18:46And when that's not there,
18:48you just begin to wonder if you're not in this thing alone.
18:51And nobody likes to be alone.
18:54So whatever you ladies decide,
18:57and you're real lucky to be here,
18:59So whatever you ladies decide,
19:01and you're real lucky because you have a lot of options open to you,
19:04I just want to wish you the best of luck.
19:08That's it. It's over.
19:11Thank you, Mrs. Allen.
19:14Okay, class dismissed.
19:22Love, love, love.
19:25Thanks, Doc.
19:27Sorry.
19:28Boy, am I glad you forgot about those cards.
19:30You don't have to do this every year, do you?
19:32Uh-uh.
19:34Excuse me, guys. Can I talk to my mom for a minute?
19:36Sure.
19:37Lois, we'll meet you at the swings.
19:40I wish I'd known. I wouldn't have worn a skirt.
19:42That's okay. You can push.
19:47Hi.
19:48Hi.
19:51Oh, Mother, I'm sorry.
19:54I've been awful. I've been just terrible.
19:56Oh, no, you haven't.
19:58Well, yes, you have.
20:00That's okay. I think I can forgive you.
20:03I thought you were terrific up there.
20:06You did?
20:07Yeah.
20:08And you know, in your speech,
20:10not the part where you're so funny with reading the cards and all,
20:13but when you were talking about needing the support of your family,
20:17I haven't been doing a very good job of that.
20:20All I've been doing is thinking of myself.
20:23Honey, that goes with the territory when you're young.
20:26I'm not that young.
20:28Yes, you are.
20:31You know something?
20:33I wouldn't want to trade you for any mother in the whole wide world.
20:38And I'm sorry if I made your life miserable.
20:40Oh, that's all right.
20:41I made your grandmother's life miserable.
20:43It's a family tradition.
20:53We know we're doing okay.
20:58One who's young and healthy knows that that's the way
21:06that traffic flows.
21:09It's our living.
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