The New Adventures of McGee & Me follows Nick's new experiences entering junior high school.
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01:00Ah, fall in Eastfield. The leaves are changing colors. The smell of football is in the air.
01:15And all Nick can think about is his history test tomorrow.
01:18McGee, have you seen my eraser?
01:21It's the last play of the game. It all hinges on a field goal. Can the mighty McGee do it?
01:27Okay, McGee, hand over the spheroid.
01:34The crowd goes wild!
01:36Look, McGee, I know you're excited about visiting Lewis in Indianapolis this weekend to watch the Colts play Buffalo.
01:43But if I don't study for this test, we may as well kiss those 50-yard line seeds goodbye.
01:48Okay, okay, keep working, Einstein. But how about one last pass? You know, to keep me in practice.
01:54Okay.
01:57McGee's going long. He's deep!
02:00Martin's gonna throw the bomb!
02:04Whoa!
02:27That's some pretty good running.
02:54I knew that kid should have gone out for J.B. football.
03:07He did that. He was right outside the back door.
03:10I'll handle it, all right?
03:11Go, go, go. Go on, go on.
03:25Well, whoever it was is gone now.
03:33Okay, everyone, calm down.
03:37I pity anyone who tries to break into this house.
03:41But never fear. The men are here.
03:45He's got a note or something.
03:48What's it saying?
03:52Nothing.
03:53Nothing?
03:54Nothing.
03:55I don't know.
03:56I know.
03:58I'm gonna go get it.
04:06What do you mean, you're gonna go get it?
04:08Yes, I am.
04:09But you're not gonna throw it away!
04:11That's right, I'm gonna throw it away.
04:14What's it say?
04:16I don't know.
04:18Give me grandma's glasses.
04:33Michael and Illy from Romania?
04:36Illy.
04:38Who?
04:40Illy Tanescu, my pen pal from Romania.
04:44What?
04:51Well, I guess we should let them in.
04:54Dad! I can't meet anyone looking like this!
05:05Mr. Bartoli!
05:09I am Michael Tanescu.
05:11And this, this is my son, Illy.
05:14Hello, Don Martin.
05:16Hello, Nick.
05:18I can't believe I finally get to meet you after four years.
05:22Illy, is it really you?
05:24You're so...
05:26small.
05:28And you.
05:30You are so...
05:32big.
05:36Donda Martin.
05:38Hi.
05:40Very happy to meet you.
05:42But, um, where is Jamie and Sarah?
05:45I'm Sarah. Hi.
05:47I was just, uh, looking in on Jamie.
05:49She's got a bad case of the measles.
05:51I already had it.
05:53Oh, good. Mom's got Jamie quarantined up in her room.
05:56And Santa, she is taking care of her sister.
05:58Now, this is real American kindness.
06:03Please forgive the way the rest of us are dressed.
06:07But Nick wasn't expecting Illy till...
06:10Lent.
06:12Lent. And we are exactly on time.
06:15Well, today is the first day of our Christmas Lenten season.
06:19And this relief organization that I work for,
06:22they, well, they send Illya and me on, uh,
06:26to a big, uh, global gathering.
06:31But, of course, my goodness, we are...
06:34we are an inquisition.
06:36Oh, no, no, come, come, Illya, no.
06:39We must not intrude on these very nice people.
06:41Wait.
06:43They're not intruding, are they, Mom?
06:48Oh, no, no.
06:50Of course not.
06:52Um, please, stay.
06:55David, uh...
06:57Dad.
07:01Oh, uh, I was just practicing.
07:04Can, uh, we help you with your bags?
07:06Oh, no, no, no, there is only one.
07:10Oh, well, in that case, uh, why don't you follow me upstairs?
07:14Uh, Sarah, you can sleep with Grandma tonight.
07:17Uh, and, uh...
07:19Uh, Nick, get the cot from the basement.
07:23Illya can stay with you.
07:25And, uh, don't forget the lock-up.
07:29Wow.
07:33Yeah, right.
07:51Did you hear that?
07:53It's a code.
07:55They look like Soviet agents to me.
07:57There are no more Soviet agents.
08:00Oh, don't tell me you buy that whole
08:02collapse of the Soviet Union thing.
08:05Pure propaganda.
08:13This is Jamie.
08:15Can you bring me some ginger ale?
08:17Yeah.
08:19And the TV guide.
08:22And the graham cracker.
08:26Plain or cinnamon?
08:28One of each.
08:31I'm not so sure that making this intercom
08:33was such a great idea.
08:36I'm getting a strange feeling that
08:38burglars may have been easier to deal with
08:40than Illya and his dad.
08:42Of course, the thrill of putting together
08:44Dad's old army cot added to an already bizarre evening.
08:48It is just as I imagined from your ledgers.
08:51I'm so lucky to live in such a place.
08:55This is wonderful, Nick.
08:58This must be the model plane you wrote about.
09:01Yeah, uh, whatever happened to the model
09:03that you wrote about?
09:04You know, the ship with the Romanian name
09:06that rescued people from the Titanic?
09:08The Carpathia.
09:10I finished it, but I no longer have it.
09:14You see, I need the wood for another project.
09:20I think if all of this were mine,
09:23I should not have time for anything else but play.
09:29Uh, what was it your dad said
09:31right before we came upstairs?
09:34Ah.
09:37It is from Matei.
09:40You should know this one, Nick.
09:43Iubeste vecinul cate mult te iubesti pe tine.
09:48And how is that in English?
09:55Matthew 22, 39.
10:02You must love your neighbor as much as you love yourself.
10:08My tata knows the Bible very well.
10:12He reminds me and my sisters of his wisdom.
10:16Where is the baye?
10:18The what?
10:21Oh, uh, right down the hall, first door to the right.
10:26I can't believe we get to stay here.
10:28Oh, a week!
10:31A week?
10:33Oh.
10:38All night, Ilia went on and on
10:41about the great stuff in my room.
10:43By morning, I was exhausted from hearing
10:45that even my electric pencil sharpener
10:47was somehow amaze-ink.
10:49Hmm.
10:51Gotta make something for them.
10:54Varsa.
10:56Romanian pumpkin cabbage casserole.
10:59Hmm.
11:01Hollow out one 15-pound pumpkin,
11:04add nine heads of cabbage,
11:06boil until limp.
11:08Oh, that doorbell is driving me nuts!
11:11Not to worry.
11:13I am almost finished.
11:15Do you know, back home,
11:17one push of the finger
11:19produces a long, steady, forceful ring.
11:23And when I'm finished,
11:26yours will do the same.
11:28Michael.
11:31Michael.
11:33I know this has been on David's fix-it list for a while,
11:37and I thank you very much for repairing it and everything, but...
11:40Oh, it is my pleasure.
11:42Maybe next time, when guests come,
11:44they won't have to go to back door and scare family.
11:50Right.
11:55Mrs. Martin.
11:57Oh, yes, Ilia.
11:59Look what I made for you.
12:01Oh!
12:04What is it?
12:06It's an ark.
12:08An ark.
12:10Well, it's very special.
12:12Put it on.
12:14All right.
12:16No, no, no. You're upside down.
12:25You're welcome.
12:29Is someone at the door?
12:31Don't ask.
12:33Oh, so I see the Romanian wood fiend struck again.
12:35Look what I got.
12:37A pencil cup.
12:39Well, looks like somebody got up on the wrong side of the cot today.
12:42Oh, there is no right side of the cot.
12:44Even when I sleep over at Louis' house
12:46and stay in the other bunk,
12:48it's not this bad.
12:50You better call Louis and let him know you can't go to the game.
12:53What?
12:55Mom, this will be my first pro game.
12:58Nick, you are Ilia's host.
13:00You can't just up and leave in the middle of a visit.
13:03Louis will understand, and we all have to make sacrifices.
13:06Look, it's tough enough for me to prepare Thanksgiving dinner
13:09with your sister sick,
13:11but throw in a last-minute Romanian pumpkin cabbage casserole...
13:15Call the bell. She is fixed.
13:18Now I must fix faulty light.
13:21You know, it is very perplexing.
13:23Whenever I turn on switch instead of light,
13:26comes this terrible rumble from sink.
13:30Oh, no, no, no, Michael.
13:32Oh, no, Michael.
13:34That's the disposal.
13:38Is someone at the door?
13:40No, it's Jamie.
13:42Yes, honey?
13:44Mom, you forgot to bring me a spoon for my cereal.
13:47And every time the doorbell rings,
13:49you're static on the TV.
13:51My goodness, that is amazing device.
13:55Yeah, keeps me busy.
13:58Did we get chocolate milk yet?
14:03Honey, I'm sorry. I forgot.
14:08Oh, you know, maybe Ilia and I will go to store for you.
14:13Yes, yes.
14:15All our lives we hear of big American grocery store.
14:19You know, like on TV.
14:21You know, you love Lucy.
14:25Well, great.
14:27Why don't you pick up a pumpkin and some more cabbage when you're there?
14:31Nick can show you how to get there on his way to school.
14:34But, Mom...
14:40Old Romanian saying.
14:43A man is a swine who denies bacon to his neighbor.
14:48To his neighbor.
14:52Ili!
14:54Ili, we go to grocery store.
15:09Gracias.
15:11It doesn't look good.
15:13Para mÃ, yo.
15:19What is this?
15:25Good morning, sir. Have a very nice day.
15:38Okay, this is where we split up.
15:40I get out of school around 2.
15:42The grocery store is about a block that way.
15:44You can't miss it.
15:47Hey, hey, you're going the wrong way.
15:49You guys are going the wrong way.
15:53Well, hello.
15:55I am Michael Tanescu. Here, let me assist you.
15:59Mr. Tanescu, that's crazy Jim.
16:03He's a bum.
16:04A bum?
16:06I prefer the term gentleman of reduced means.
16:11James Tillman III at your service.
16:17Sorry, crazy. I mean, James, we were just leaving.
16:21A word to the wise, young sir.
16:23When escorting out-of-towners about,
16:25you would do wise to advise them to keep their hands to themselves.
16:29Dirt, you know.
16:30Dirt, I know.
16:32Now I work in a relief organization.
16:35But before, I work in steel factory here in Brazov.
16:39Brazov, you don't say. Is that near Akron?
16:43And here, look, here is wife.
16:46That's my mother.
16:47At voluntary aid station after this big earthquake.
16:51James, tell me, what's meaning of this word crazy?
16:56I prefer the old English conjugation.
16:58Possessing enthusiasm or great excitement
17:01to the more common definitions.
17:04Nick?
17:05Oh, great.
17:07Hey, Jordan.
17:09Uh, Jordan, this is my friend Ilya Tanescu
17:13and his dad from Romania.
17:15And this, this is my friend, James.
17:19A pleasure to make your acquaintance ship, Master Jordan.
17:23Yeah, uh, hi.
17:26Uh, hey, we're gonna be late to school.
17:29Yeah, we'd better go.
17:31Bye, Nick. I'll see you at home.
17:34America is amazing.
17:36I can't believe this, Jordan.
17:38First I find out I have to miss the Colts-Bills game.
17:41And now I'm on a first-name basis with Crazy Jim.
17:44Hey, maybe Crazy Jim can put him up while you go to the game.
17:47You never know what to expect next with Ilya and his dad.
17:51I heard Michael saluted the crossing guard
17:53at the elementary school today.
17:55If they come near the junior high,
17:57I'm hiding in my locker.
17:59My friends, I want you to meet someone.
18:02Come on.
18:04Come on.
18:06This is Julia.
18:08She has been bringing letters and packages to this house
18:11for many months, but has never met the people inside.
18:15Can you guys believe it?
18:17Hello.
18:19It's nice to meet you.
18:21I haven't met a lot of people on my route, really.
18:25She was just telling me about Thanksgiving.
18:28It's amazing.
18:30Oh, you have big plans?
18:33Not really.
18:34My roommate and I will probably cook up some bird
18:36in the microwave and watch reruns of the parade on TV.
18:39Oh, how nice.
18:41Suddenly, I am hungry.
18:44Especially with all these things you have done
18:47for your fine feast, Mrs. Martin.
18:50Well, Thanksgiving is really more than just a big meal, Ilya.
18:55It's a celebration of the time our forefathers gave thanks
18:58for all God had given them.
19:00It's a time of sharing our good fortune with others.
19:05That sounds really nice.
19:08What did I do with that grater?
19:11Well, it's been nice meeting y'all.
19:13I better get back to my route now.
19:15Nice to meet you, Julia.
19:17Ilya, will you show Julia out?
19:19Yes, I would. Come, Julia.
19:31What, honey?
19:33Mom, whatever ate my crackers?
19:37Now the dog.
19:39I don't think I'm gonna make it.
19:42Well, I'm starting to think that the Tunescus
19:44are probably aliens from another planet.
19:46McGee, of course, has another idea.
19:48He's sure they're leaders in an international spy ring.
19:51With my new spy-tracking globule,
19:54I'll be able to keep tabs on the Tunescus
19:57I'll be able to keep tabs on the Tunescus
20:00movements at all times.
20:02Lewis, I've tried everything, but I'm stuck here
20:05babysitting Boris Badknob and son.
20:14Hmm. Needs a few adjustments.
20:18Yeah, I thought so, too.
20:20I mean, Ilya and I just don't have anything in common.
20:24His idea of fun is hanging around street people,
20:27and he brought home our mail girl today.
20:30Yeah.
20:32I mean, Ilya was okay as a pen pal,
20:35but he's just too much of a dweeb-o-matic
20:38to actually be in the same country with.
20:43Yeah.
20:45I wish he'd never come here in the first place.
20:50Yeah.
20:53Yeah, you, too.
20:55Yeah, I'm sorry about the mix-up, man.
20:57All right. All right, bye.
21:03Nick, do you have Jamie's Walkman?
21:05Yeah. Ilya was using it over by the art table.
21:08It was, of course, amazing.
21:10What's the matter with Ilya anyway?
21:12You want the long list or the short list?
21:15He seems so upset.
21:17I just passed him outside your door,
21:20and he didn't say a word.
21:24Oh, no.
21:36Sarah! Have you seen Ilya?
21:39Yeah. He and his dad just left.
21:41What?
21:43I saw them as I was coming in.
21:45They had their suitcase, so I guess that means I get my room back.
21:51Yeah.
22:03Nicky, this is never going to work.
22:05But it is working.
22:07The tracking globule I stuck to Mr. Tanescu's suitcase
22:10is sending a strong signal.
22:12Trust me, we'll find them in no time.
22:14Got them. They're just around the corner. Hurry!
22:21Watch out!
22:27Sorry about that.
22:29It's okay. Occupational hazard.
22:31By the way, have you seen Ilya?
22:33You know, the little boy that...
22:35How can I forget? No, I haven't seen him,
22:37but I'll keep my eye out for him, okay?
22:39Thanks.
22:41Good luck.
22:45Ow! Ow!
22:48Ow!
22:51Right around the corner.
22:53Hurry up.
22:55Guess my tracking globule needs reglobulating.
23:11Ilya!
23:14Mr. Tanescu!
23:18Ilya!
23:38Ilya!
23:42Michael!
23:45Ilya!
23:48Ilya!
24:19To Nick, my best American friend, Ilya.
24:25Car... Carpathia.
24:28He made this out of his model ship.
24:31Man, I really blew it.
24:34Yeah. Now you know what the turkey feels like on Thanksgiving.
24:38I didn't even give him a chance, McGee.
24:41I'm sure he'll come back for it.
24:45I didn't even give him a chance, McGee.
24:48All I could think of was my own stupid self.
24:51Now I'll probably never see Ilya again.
24:54Don't be so sure.
24:56I know a guy who can find anybody.
24:59Oh, yeah? Who's that?
25:02The name's Blanc. James Blanc.
25:07With the suave elegance, cool detachment,
25:10and the wry humor only British super spies can affect,
25:13James Blanc pursues his arch-nemesis, Dmitri Villanov,
25:17through the narrow back streets of an exotic European city.
25:21Never one to lose his cool or dirty his dinner jacket,
25:25Blanc activates his all-purpose gadgetron.
25:40Oh, yeah? Who's that?
25:43The name's Blanc. James Blanc.
25:47With the suave elegance, cool detachment,
25:50and the wry humor only British super spies can affect,
25:53James Blanc pursues his arch-nemesis, Dmitri Villanov,
25:56through the narrow back streets of an exotic European city.
25:59Never one to lose his cool or dirty his dinner jacket,
26:02Blanc activates his all-purpose gadgetron.
26:05Never one to lose his cool or dirty his dinner jacket,
26:08I'm sorry, old boy.
26:10Send the bill to Her Majesty's cleaning service.
26:16Thanks for the thought, McGee,
26:18but there's one mystery I'm gonna have to solve on my own.
26:29The day of the big feast is here.
26:32So why do I feel like my stomach is full of cement?
26:36All Elia and his dad wanted to do was to love their neighbors.
26:40You know, that's funny,
26:43because these are my neighbors.
26:49Nick, come on down. We're almost ready.
26:52Not hungry, Mom.
26:55Not hungry?
26:58I fixed enough food for an army.
27:01With Elie and Michael gone, I was counting on you
27:04to make at least a whole pumpkin-cabbage casserole by yourself.
27:08I really messed up, didn't I?
27:13Oh, Nick.
27:17We all did, honey.
27:22Sometimes...
27:24Sometimes life starts moving so fast,
27:28we forget to love other people.
27:34We think only of ourselves.
27:39I'm really sorry, Mom.
27:43So am I, honey.
27:47So am I.
27:59Here we go.
28:01David.
28:03Come on, come on.
28:07What?
28:13Not waiting on me, I hope.
28:19Nick, will you give thanks?
28:23Me?
28:32Lord, I'm thankful that I had a friend like Elie.
28:39Maybe with your help,
28:42he'll be able to forgive me for what I did.
28:46Bless him.
28:48And bless this food.
28:51Amen.
28:54Do we smell stuffing and gravy?
28:57Elie!
29:01They're back!
29:04But I thought I... Where were you guys?
29:07Didn't you get the note?
29:09Oh, I was sure that I'd left it here in my pocket.
29:14Oh, my friends, please forgive me.
29:18Yesterday, Elie and I, we went to Back Alley Mission
29:24to help feed people who do not have enough food to eat.
29:28You've been doing volunteer work all this time?
29:31Oh, there are so many people to feed
29:34and so few to help feed them.
29:37We wanted to do what we could
29:40to share what we have, like Mrs. Martin said.
29:45Like I said?
29:47Yes, Mrs. Martin.
29:49Before in kitchen, when I hear you tell Julia, the mail carrier,
29:53how Thanksgiving is a time of sharing good fortune with others,
29:58I think then you are very wise.
30:03So, in suitcase we put clothes
30:06so that we could share these with people who do not have enough to wear.
30:10You gave away your clothes?
30:12Yes, but we also receive.
30:15Hey, where else could I trade for such a fashionable hat, huh?
30:21Look.
30:23Just like Indiana Jones, no?
30:27More like Indiana James.
30:31Tata, they're coming.
30:33Who is coming?
30:35I will explain.
30:37You said we invited all the people that we met,
30:41you know, friends, neighbors.
30:43You invite people?
30:45No worry.
30:47Knowing Mrs. Martin's spirit for giving,
30:49I say to pastor at mission, I say,
30:52I know where to send all these extra people.
30:59But Michael, we don't have enough food.
31:03Did I hear someone say food?
31:16Just put it on the counter.
31:49Our eyes could see
31:52We'll find what love meant to be
31:57Oh, please somebody tell me
32:00Whatever happened to love?
32:03Can somebody tell me
32:05To stop, which came to show?
32:08If we come to our senses
32:10Break down all our fences
32:13Then maybe once more
32:15We'll remember when love was war
32:22Oh, Nick, I cannot accept this.
32:25Please, I want you to have it.
32:28It's just my way of saying
32:31I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused.
32:34Nick, it's okay.
32:37If you would have came to visit me during the World Cup,
32:41I would have thought you were a dweeble-maddie, too.
32:49Look, I think your son has learned well our way of greeting.
32:54Michael, thank you for reminding us
32:57What Thanksgiving is really about.
33:00This may be our best Thanksgiving ever.
33:12Mmm.
33:22I get sick for a few days, and look what happens.
33:26My family opens a restaurant.
33:28I've got to get well, fast.
33:37Forget the spy business.
33:42I can make a fortune with my McGee-cam blimp.
33:46Going up.
33:53Nothing like a bird's-eye view of the turkey.
34:01Whoa!
34:04Mayday! Mayday!
34:08I'm going in!
34:10Ah-ha!
34:17It's like I always say.
34:19Into every bowl of gravy, a little turkey must fall.
35:10Come as a child.
35:13Come, and then you'll see
35:18That once you start to give
35:23It's then that you'll receive
35:28Please somebody tell me
35:30Whatever happened to love?
35:33Can somebody tell me
35:35Just how push came to shove?
35:38If we come to our senses
35:41Break down all our fences
35:43Then maybe once more
35:46We'll remember what love was for
35:56Love those who are unloved
36:01Love those who've lost their way
36:06Take a chance, then you will find
36:11That as love is calling today
36:16Cause we're all all in the same
36:21Only different by name
36:26If we open our eyes to see
36:31We'll find what love meant to be