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00:00:00[♪ music ♪ and sound effects ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪
00:00:21[(snoring)]
00:00:48Wake up, you little sucker!
00:00:49Huh?
00:00:50We've got so much to do!
00:00:52Here, eat your breakfast.
00:00:53Ah, you little punk!
00:01:02We must toil to make our daily bread.
00:01:06That we must.
00:01:12We should take our showers.
00:01:13No time for frills.
00:01:14Listen, we can't go to work stinking like skunks.
00:01:16We need to blend into society.
00:01:18Well, if that's all it takes...
00:01:30Now I'm legit.
00:01:36Buy my lovely finger puppets, only $3 each.
00:01:39Buy my dignity, I'm having a clearance sale.
00:01:41Buy my lovely finger puppets, only $1 each.
00:01:44Buy my...
00:01:46What do I have to sell?
00:01:48Screw it, no one's buying.
00:01:50Give me your money, I'll do a little dance.
00:01:56Hand over your currency, it's no longer current.
00:01:59Buy my bitter lost passions.
00:02:01Rent my broken dreams.
00:02:09How's our food holding up?
00:02:14Looks like we got enough to last a lifetime.
00:02:16A lifetime?
00:02:17Yeah, we'll probably get through about half of it,
00:02:19then we'll want to kill ourselves.
00:02:22Good point.
00:02:23They're not that bad when they're boiled.
00:02:26Yeah, they're great.
00:02:29How much did you say they were again?
00:02:32About ten cents a block.
00:02:34We need cash.
00:02:48Hmm.
00:02:50Wah!
00:02:57Bobby?
00:03:01April Wilson?
00:03:03How long has it been since high school?
00:03:05I lost track.
00:03:06What are you doing?
00:03:09Just a little project.
00:03:11You always were artistic.
00:03:13Is that what you are now, an artist?
00:03:15Yeah, I'm an artist.
00:03:18Well, that's so wonderful.
00:03:20So, do you live nearby?
00:03:22Yes, quite nearby.
00:03:24Well, that's great, because I'm having a party on Saturday.
00:03:27Just pop by.
00:03:29It'd be great to catch up with you.
00:03:32Thanks.
00:03:37You should come to the shin dig.
00:03:38The wing dig?
00:03:39Mm-hmm.
00:03:40Man, I'd rather eat cardboard.
00:03:41You do that already.
00:03:42Truly.
00:03:43So, I think I need an artsy getup.
00:03:45Oh.
00:03:46Okay, let's just swipe the Amex.
00:03:47Should we put it on the gold or platinum?
00:03:49I could dumpster dive it.
00:03:52Go for that hipster look.
00:03:54They look homeless half the time anyway, huh?
00:04:02Ooh, festive.
00:04:05Ooh, smelly.
00:04:06Yeah.
00:04:15That's a little unorthodox.
00:04:19How did you pick up that shoe?
00:04:21It's good.
00:04:37What on earth is that?
00:04:39Should we call the police?
00:04:41Oh, no.
00:04:42It's April's headache.
00:04:48Hi, Bobby.
00:04:49Oh, hi, April.
00:04:50Well, I'm glad you made it.
00:04:52Me too.
00:04:53Have you met my friends?
00:04:54I've met your cheese plate.
00:04:56Apparently so.
00:04:57Come on.
00:04:58Come meet my friends.
00:04:59Okay.
00:05:02Hey, everyone.
00:05:03This is my friend Bobby from high school.
00:05:05Hello.
00:05:06Hello, Bobby.
00:05:07Hi.
00:05:08He's an artist.
00:05:10Oh.
00:05:11What kind of artist are you?
00:05:13I'm like a sculptor of sorts.
00:05:15Oh.
00:05:16That should account for your colorful attire.
00:05:22I once met Lafitte Lasseur.
00:05:24He was similarly garish.
00:05:28True, true.
00:05:29Who?
00:05:30Lafitte Lasseur.
00:05:31Lafitte Lasseur?
00:05:32I mean, he's this fabulous performance artist.
00:05:35He does works downtown.
00:05:37Do you love him?
00:05:39So...
00:05:41So, what do you all do?
00:05:43We're psychiatrists.
00:05:46All of you?
00:05:48Even him?
00:05:50Yes, even me.
00:05:52I mean, I didn't mean it like some kind of...
00:05:54You know, I was just wondering.
00:05:57Okay, okay.
00:05:58Let's go get some Merlot.
00:06:00I mean, there's someone even me.
00:06:02Sorry, I can be a bit much.
00:06:04Yeah, you used to hang with a different crowd.
00:06:06Yeah, I know.
00:06:07I don't know what happened.
00:06:09There you are.
00:06:10Oh, hey, Bobby.
00:06:11This is Seymour, my colleague.
00:06:17Okay, well, he's a little bit more than my colleague.
00:06:20Hi, Seymour.
00:06:22How do you do?
00:06:23No complaints.
00:06:24Good.
00:06:25Because people rarely listen to them.
00:06:27That's why they hire shrinks.
00:06:30True dat.
00:06:32Dat?
00:06:33That.
00:06:34Oh, that.
00:06:38Excuse me.
00:06:42What an...
00:06:43Jerk.
00:06:44I know, isn't it hot?
00:06:46Yeah.
00:06:47April, you have to come see Muffy's pashmina.
00:06:50I think I need to go feed my iguana.
00:06:54Okay, well, let's catch up sometime, you know,
00:06:57when I don't have to entertain my colleagues.
00:07:00Yeah, okay.
00:07:01So, what's your number?
00:07:02I don't have one.
00:07:04No, I mean, I'm switching phone companies, so...
00:07:07But I have yours.
00:07:08Give me a call.
00:07:09Cool beans.
00:07:10See you later, Bobby.
00:07:11Bye.
00:07:19Hit me.
00:07:22Such a goon.
00:07:25You should make a naked lady.
00:07:27It would probably sell.
00:07:29And a naked man.
00:07:30You'd like that, wouldn't you?
00:07:36These dummies just can't recognize fine art when they see it.
00:07:40If all else fails, we can boil him up and eat him.
00:07:47I'm sorry, I'm sorry. My bad.
00:07:49It's okay. No one was buying them anyway.
00:07:51Well, how much were you charging?
00:07:53Five bucks.
00:07:54Five bucks? For noodlies?
00:07:56I could have made those.
00:07:59They said the same thing to Picasso.
00:08:04That's creative.
00:08:05Thanks.
00:08:06How much are they?
00:08:07Four dollars.
00:08:08All right.
00:08:20Those look weird.
00:08:21Those look weird.
00:08:22Thanks.
00:08:23What's that one?
00:08:24It's a naked lady.
00:08:25How much?
00:08:26Five hundred dollars.
00:08:28Tell you what, I'm gonna give you a hundred bucks for that one right there and not a penny more.
00:08:45You have a little smudge.
00:08:48Ow.
00:08:49It's a really big smudge.
00:08:51Life is full of smudges.
00:08:53It's like you never grew up.
00:08:55Maybe I didn't have it in me.
00:08:57What?
00:08:58Growth.
00:08:59Everyone does.
00:09:00Perhaps I didn't want to.
00:09:02That's a different story.
00:09:04Ah! You're doing it!
00:09:05What?
00:09:06Psychoanalyzing.
00:09:08So you're pretty much all grown up and settled, huh?
00:09:11Settled?
00:09:12You know, you have a fully plotted career path, a mortgage, a 401K.
00:09:16You know with absolute certainty who you'll spend the rest of your life with.
00:09:20I wouldn't be shocked if you already started saving for your unborn children's college education.
00:09:26The writing is on the wall.
00:09:28Scary.
00:09:29It's your life, not mine.
00:09:35So April looks more or less the same as she did in high school.
00:09:38You still have a hard-on for her.
00:09:40No, I don't.
00:09:41Hello, sir. My name is Pierre.
00:09:44Nice to meet you.
00:09:45A banker friend of mine apparently acquired one of your masterpieces.
00:09:48Very cheap.
00:09:49Would you like to buy one?
00:09:50Well, no, but I'd like to hang them in my gallery.
00:09:54I think I could make you a star.
00:09:56Wow.
00:09:58Oh.
00:10:00I think you've been outclassed.
00:10:09Story of my life.
00:10:16You're really an artist.
00:10:18Tea for Tuffy.
00:10:21Cool.
00:10:29Okay, so basically spell out the word war underneath stop.
00:10:34Because then it's going to say stop war.
00:10:38No more selling dainty little artwork for the man.
00:10:41We are artists of the streets!
00:10:43Viva la raza!
00:10:44Huh?
00:10:46I don't know.
00:10:48You're gonna have to panhandle somewhere else.
00:10:50Just panhandle.
00:10:51One more time.
00:10:52It's not a panhandle.
00:10:53It's a panhandle.
00:10:54Panhandle.
00:10:55Panhandle.
00:10:57Panhandle.
00:10:58Panhandle.
00:10:59Panhandle.
00:11:00Panhandle.
00:11:01Panhandle.
00:11:02Panhandle.
00:11:03Panhandle.
00:11:04Panhandle.
00:11:05Panhandle.
00:11:06Just panhandling.
00:11:07Move along, stinky.
00:11:11I just bathed.
00:11:12That was yesterday.
00:11:13Crap.
00:11:24What are you doing?
00:11:26Oh, I call it Happy Bird's Nest.
00:11:28You'd better vacate the premises.
00:11:31It's hard to take a rental cop seriously.
00:11:34Perhaps a mustache would lend him a certain gravitas.
00:11:41Uh-oh.
00:11:43Pete, this is Eagle One.
00:11:45I have a sick parking capacity.
00:11:47You should come down here and pick him up and put him in ASAP.
00:11:50You used excessive force.
00:11:52You sexually assaulted this man.
00:11:55I bet you took this job just to handcuff people.
00:11:58Pervert!
00:12:05Hey, Buttercup, give me a sandwich.
00:12:13Give the boss your bread.
00:12:15I'm Buttercup?
00:12:17You're whatever Boomer says you are.
00:12:20Okay, but you might get herpes.
00:12:24I already got it.
00:12:25And malaria.
00:12:31But boss, you can't get malaria from a sandwich.
00:12:33It's only transmitted through the African tsetse fly.
00:12:35Teach him not to threaten a boomer with such fake diseases.
00:12:39No, no sleeping sickness.
00:12:41What?
00:12:42No sleeping sickness.
00:12:43What?
00:12:48The tsetse fly does not give you malaria.
00:12:50It gives you sleeping sickness.
00:12:54He's right, boss.
00:12:55Kick his ass.
00:13:03Can I have this?
00:13:04Sure.
00:13:06Well, not all of them.
00:13:10I need them all to fight the darkness.
00:13:15Okay, boss.
00:13:23He'll protect you.
00:13:26Thanks, boss.
00:13:28Take your medication, okay?
00:13:29Sure thing.
00:13:33Thanks.
00:13:40The standard psych evaluation before we can let this indigent go?
00:13:43Indigent?
00:13:45Want me to stick around for your protection?
00:13:47That won't be necessary.
00:13:52What happened to your face?
00:13:54Oh, I got into a little scuffle.
00:13:56Hey, hey, you should see the other guy.
00:13:59He's pretty much unscathed.
00:14:02Vandalism, defacement of property, assault?
00:14:06I was just expressing myself artistically.
00:14:08That doesn't make me crazy, right?
00:14:10You're not crazy, Bobby.
00:14:12Just misunderstood.
00:14:15I've been looking all over for you.
00:14:19Hey, Tuffy.
00:14:24What the hell happened to your face?
00:14:26Oh, a couple gangbangers beat me down in a holding cell.
00:14:29Who are you talking to?
00:14:31Tuffy.
00:14:32Oh, hey, April, how you been?
00:14:36Tuffy was wondering how you've been.
00:14:39Who's Tuffy?
00:14:41Remember Tuffy from high school?
00:14:44Why do all your stuck-up friends give me the cold shoulder?
00:14:49I'm gonna have them let you out, Bobby, but you're gonna need some counseling.
00:14:53Yeah, fatty here needs Weight Watchers.
00:15:00Mitochondria.
00:15:02It's like the power plant of the cell.
00:15:05Right.
00:15:07Name the DNA bases.
00:15:10Adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine.
00:15:15When did you study this?
00:15:21Mr. Sorum's cute.
00:15:24He's old.
00:15:26Not that old.
00:15:28Hello?
00:15:30Oh, hey, Chaz.
00:15:33Yeah?
00:15:35How many goals?
00:15:39Picture her in this.
00:15:47Oh, Chaz, you're so funny.
00:15:50Oh, Chaz, you're so funny.
00:15:57Stop.
00:15:58Why are you doing this to me?
00:15:59Yeah, I'm coming right over.
00:16:00Love you, bye.
00:16:02Let's study more later, okay?
00:16:05Okay.
00:16:06Bobby is a nut job.
00:16:09If I'm a nut job, you don't exist.
00:16:13Bobby is quite normal.
00:16:16That's what I thought.
00:16:17Now go make me a sandwich.
00:16:19Don't make me clock you in front of this police station.
00:16:22I'm so hungry.
00:16:23Again?
00:16:24Yeah, this crazy thing happens every time I don't eat for a few hours.
00:16:28We need to find a way to get food three times a day without making it into this big scavenger hunt.
00:16:33See those apartments up there?
00:16:35Uh-huh.
00:16:36They contain these cool boxes called refrigerators.
00:16:40Yeah.
00:16:41And they're filled with food.
00:16:42Yeah.
00:16:43And they're filled with food.
00:16:44And every time the people get hungry, all they have to do is open the refrigerator and eat the food.
00:16:50Sign us up.
00:16:51It's not that easy.
00:16:52It never is.
00:16:54We need money.
00:16:55Of course.
00:16:56I think we should get jobs.
00:16:58But I want to be free.
00:16:59Free and hungry?
00:17:00If that's what it takes.
00:17:03You know, I was thinking.
00:17:04I kind of want to leave my mark on this world in something more permanent than noodles.
00:17:09Fine.
00:17:10Get a job.
00:17:11That'll work.
00:17:12Psh.
00:17:15Don't do it.
00:17:17You'll hate life.
00:17:18You'll hate it.
00:17:20You'll become one of them.
00:17:21I can't bum forever.
00:17:23Don't leave me.
00:17:25I'll return.
00:17:27Triumphant.
00:17:29Hopefully.
00:17:32How many words per minute?
00:17:33Huh?
00:17:34How many words can you type per minute?
00:17:37That depends.
00:17:38On what?
00:17:39On whether they're long words or short ones.
00:17:41I mean, I could type the word A like a thousand times.
00:17:45I have the perfect job for you.
00:18:02Smith report.
00:18:03Huh?
00:18:04It's done.
00:18:10Why don't these jerk-offs give us dental coverage?
00:18:14I got a toothbrush?
00:18:15Jerk-offs.
00:18:23Jobson letter.
00:18:25It's finished.
00:18:39What?
00:18:55Oh, look.
00:18:56Uncle Tom's back from working for the man.
00:18:59I quit.
00:19:00Stick it to him!
00:19:02You got paid, right?
00:19:03Help me paint these cogs.
00:19:09I'll be right back.
00:19:39I'll be right back.
00:19:40I'll be right back.
00:20:10Roaming fees.
00:20:13Remember Bobby?
00:20:15Who?
00:20:17My friend who came to the party.
00:20:20That kid?
00:20:23He's the same age as me.
00:20:25You're all just kiddies to me.
00:20:27I think he has a problem.
00:20:29He doesn't have free weekends either.
00:20:32Thank you all for coming.
00:20:34But what kind of people show up at some shady lot they read about on a cog?
00:20:38Um, weirdos.
00:20:40My kind of people.
00:20:41The curious ones.
00:20:42The restless ones.
00:20:43The ones who are searching for something.
00:20:45Who might not even know what they're looking for.
00:20:47What does this mean?
00:20:49Excellent question.
00:20:50Tell me.
00:20:51What does it do?
00:20:52It turns.
00:20:53For what purpose?
00:20:55I don't know.
00:20:56I don't know.
00:20:57I don't know.
00:20:58I don't know.
00:20:59I don't know.
00:21:00I don't know.
00:21:01Can you tell by looking at it?
00:21:02No.
00:21:03Why not?
00:21:04Because I don't know where it fits?
00:21:06Exactly.
00:21:07But you do know three things.
00:21:09It only fits in one place.
00:21:10It only does one thing.
00:21:12And if it wears out,
00:21:15it can be replaced by an identical one.
00:21:17Sound familiar?
00:21:20Ew, gross.
00:21:22Never mind.
00:21:23What do you do?
00:21:24I deliver the mail.
00:21:26What does that involve?
00:21:27Putting letters in people's boxes.
00:21:30Anything else?
00:21:31That's all.
00:21:33If you were hit by a bus,
00:21:34what would the postal service do?
00:21:36They'd be sad.
00:21:37But what would they do?
00:21:41Hire a new guy.
00:21:43Exactly.
00:21:44We're all being trained to be interchangeable parts.
00:21:47We're all being molded to fit into this bigger system.
00:21:50Some people think they have control.
00:21:52Some people think they pull the strings and turn the screws,
00:21:55but ultimately they're just larger interchangeable parts
00:21:58in larger machines.
00:22:00What do you want us to do?
00:22:02We need to raise people's awareness.
00:22:03We need to show them where they fit in the bigger picture.
00:22:05Some people might not like what they see.
00:22:08We can cause a groundswell.
00:22:10And the truth?
00:22:12The truth will set us free.
00:22:26Who's sponsoring this?
00:22:27The Corporate Military Industrial Complex.
00:22:31Do you have decaf?
00:22:32Why would we offer that?
00:22:34Why not?
00:22:35The whole point is to drug you into staying wide awake
00:22:37so you work really hard.
00:22:40I'm going to pass.
00:22:45Slave juice?
00:22:46Anyone?
00:22:51That's cute.
00:22:52Thanks.
00:22:56Do you mind if I ask?
00:22:58How much did it cost?
00:23:00$20.
00:23:02Great price.
00:23:03I don't know.
00:23:04It only cost $0.68 to make.
00:23:06How?
00:23:07They have 8-year-old Cambodians working 15-hour days
00:23:10for $5 a week,
00:23:11and their hands are so small and skillful.
00:23:14That's awful.
00:23:15Isn't it?
00:23:18Here.
00:23:20You can have it.
00:23:22Thanks.
00:23:25Can I have my wallet?
00:24:25You know what I'm thinking?
00:24:26What are you thinking?
00:24:27Some very subversive thoughts.
00:24:29Like stupid ones?
00:24:31Yeah, kind of.
00:24:32Count me in.
00:24:38So, what's new?
00:24:42Not much, Bobby.
00:24:43It's only been a few days since the last time you got picked up.
00:24:46Oops.
00:24:47What's going through your head?
00:24:49I don't know. Sugar plums?
00:24:51So, you're hearing voices?
00:24:53I do whatever my Rice Krispies tell me to do.
00:24:55You do?
00:24:56No. What are you, crazy?
00:24:58So, tell me about your friend.
00:25:00Well, I know this cool bird named April.
00:25:02I hear she likes to collect Civil War memorabilia.
00:25:05Is Tuffy in the room with us?
00:25:07Do you see him?
00:25:09Where is he?
00:25:11I don't know.
00:25:12He's probably off chasing squirrels or schoolgirls or something.
00:25:16Bobby, you're mentally ill.
00:25:20What exactly does that mean?
00:25:22It means you need help.
00:25:25Need is a very subjective word.
00:25:27I want to help you.
00:25:29Knock yourself out.
00:25:31I love you, Mrs. Duck.
00:25:36You're everything to me.
00:25:41This is your home?
00:25:43Excuse me!
00:25:44Shh!
00:25:46Well, this is actually my summer home.
00:25:49My estate is down the block behind the Piggly Wiggly.
00:25:52You can't live here.
00:25:55What are you talking about?
00:25:56This is the most luxurious alley in town.
00:25:58It even had a spread in Alley Textural Digest.
00:26:01Bobby.
00:26:02April.
00:26:03You can crash at my place until you get back on your feet.
00:26:06No thanks. I like my chateau.
00:26:09You let me stay at your house when my dad lost his,
00:26:12so I would be happy to return the favor.
00:26:15Well, if it makes you happy.
00:26:21Hey! What am I, chopped liver?
00:26:30I'm sure you'll get a new house soon.
00:26:32I hear great things about Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
00:26:36And Chaz was all wrong for you.
00:26:38I mean, you need a much nicer guy.
00:26:41And you can get a new cat at the shelter.
00:26:44Not that it'll ever completely replace Pookie.
00:26:47Mono's not that bad, as long as you drink lots of water.
00:26:52I'll shut up now.
00:27:00Hiya, Seymour.
00:27:02Good afternoon.
00:27:04The toes look great.
00:27:06They're practically glowing.
00:27:07Thanks.
00:27:09To what do I owe this pleasure?
00:27:11Bobby needs to crash on our couch.
00:27:13I see.
00:27:14You'll hardly notice me.
00:27:16My God, put some clothes on.
00:27:18Well, I barely had a chance before you left me high and dry.
00:27:21Dry?
00:27:23You're dripping all over the place.
00:27:25At least go towel off or something.
00:27:27Fine.
00:27:28Fascist!
00:27:30Sorry, it's like he was born in a barn.
00:27:32I think April would be better able to counsel you
00:27:35if you weren't living in the same home.
00:27:37You know, a therapist needs to keep her distance from her patients
00:27:40so she can see things more objectively.
00:27:42You're probably right.
00:27:47It's about time we rambled on.
00:27:52Wait for me, you fickle pickle!
00:27:54I should have just stayed in the tub.
00:27:56Bobby needs my help.
00:27:58So help, but he doesn't need to sprawl out on our sofa
00:28:01while we're working for a living.
00:28:03You're like a little girl taking in strays.
00:28:06The guy had so much potential.
00:28:08Doesn't this Florence Nightingale thing get a little old?
00:28:11You know, we could be living in a much larger home
00:28:14if you would just join me in the private sector.
00:28:17So I can get overpaid to hear self-indulgent rich people
00:28:20whine about their broken fingernails?
00:28:22Some of them have real problems.
00:28:30Hey guys, really warms my heart to see you all here.
00:28:33Let's get down to business.
00:28:35What are those?
00:28:38It's not a trick question.
00:28:40Oink, oink!
00:28:42They're cops.
00:28:44Yes, you're right, they are cops.
00:28:46But on a deeper level?
00:28:48Men?
00:28:49Yes, cops are men and women.
00:28:51But these are just cartoons.
00:28:53They still trigger a meaning in our minds.
00:28:57What do you see?
00:28:59Politicians?
00:29:01Mmm, okay.
00:29:04What are these?
00:29:06Logos?
00:29:07Yes.
00:29:10What's this?
00:29:11Money? I could use some of that.
00:29:13Why?
00:29:14People seem willing to give me stuff for it.
00:29:17You can give people little green sheets of paper
00:29:20and they give you actual goods and services?
00:29:23You know money used to be backed by precious metals?
00:29:27Now it's backed by nothing.
00:29:29It has no intrinsic value, only the value people think it has.
00:29:33Currency is a mass hallucination.
00:29:35What is the money and the logos and the politicians and the cops all have in common?
00:29:40They're just symbols.
00:29:42But they hold power over us.
00:29:44You know, when a cop pulls you over, you have to listen to him.
00:29:47Why?
00:29:48Because he has a badge.
00:29:49He's an authority symbol.
00:29:51When you go to buy a car,
00:29:53a different logo on the hood jacks up the price thousands of dollars.
00:29:57Why?
00:29:58Because it's a status symbol.
00:30:02All these logos and brand names trigger perceptions in our mind of a product's value
00:30:06when in truth we can get a better impression just by looking at it or touching it.
00:30:11These symbols are obscuring our perception of reality.
00:30:16So what do you want us to do?
00:30:18We need to stop taking the symbols at face value.
00:30:20We need to be conscious of how they play on our emotions,
00:30:23how they tell us what we want to hear even if it's just nonsense,
00:30:26how they con us into swallowing mountains of institutional lies.
00:30:30That's the only way we can break free from this mental slavery.
00:30:38That was remarkably coherent.
00:30:40Not bad for a total crackpot, eh?
00:30:42You're not a total crackpot.
00:30:44More like a chip pot.
00:30:48Want to hit the tennis courts?
00:30:51No.
00:31:01Meow.
00:31:03Bet I can swing higher than you.
00:31:06Come here often?
00:31:08Not all the time, but I like to once in a while.
00:31:12Reminds me of a time I felt cared for.
00:31:18See what it's like not being an old square, living in Squaresville,
00:31:21eating, uh, square cakes?
00:31:25Yeah, it's great.
00:31:27As long as it's real.
00:31:29You want to go around making up little friends?
00:31:32Who's making anything up?
00:31:34I don't get it, April. You want me to be alone?
00:31:38You're already alone.
00:31:40You can't know that. Maybe I see something you can't see.
00:31:43People can be pretty lousy.
00:31:45And everybody's disappointed in me at least once.
00:31:48I'm not toughy.
00:31:50I disappointed you?
00:31:52No.
00:31:53You said everybody has.
00:31:56Everybody else.
00:32:00Look who decided to sashay in.
00:32:03Are you drunk?
00:32:05You missed my alumni mixer.
00:32:07I'm really sorry I got caught up with work.
00:32:10You should mix more.
00:32:12I'm kind of all mixed up.
00:32:14Anyway, I've had enough glad-handing for a while.
00:32:18But what about me?
00:32:20How can I project power and success without my little trophy?
00:32:25How can I project power and success without my little trophy?
00:32:30By being powerful and successful?
00:32:33But I am!
00:32:35Yes, you are, darling.
00:32:41Thanks.
00:32:43Did I titillate you?
00:32:45Oh, yes.
00:32:48Let us go upstairs and do as the bunnies do.
00:32:51Hop.
00:32:52Bone.
00:32:54I'm tired.
00:32:57You're never frisky anymore.
00:33:00I suppose not.
00:33:04Where were you today?
00:33:06Bobby was showing me where he hangs out.
00:33:09Were you two ever lovers?
00:33:11No, just pals.
00:33:13I don't trust him.
00:33:15He's a mentally ill homeless guy. What are you afraid of?
00:33:25Damn, it's good to see you all.
00:33:27How y'all doing?
00:33:28I'm content like the trees in the forest.
00:33:31Okay.
00:33:32So, I've been trying to put my finger on what bothers me about people.
00:33:37They turn smelly when they don't bathe.
00:33:40When you think through human history, what has caused the greatest suffering?
00:33:44The atom bomb.
00:33:45Sure, that's a horrendous machine.
00:33:47But I'm talking about something that isn't just responsible for countless deaths,
00:33:51but also for keeping people suppressed in life.
00:33:54For keeping people ignorant.
00:33:56For making them ignore their own best interests.
00:33:59But, the greatest source of suffering can also be the greatest source of happiness.
00:34:03The most dangerous weapon can also be the greatest cure.
00:34:07What are you talking about?
00:34:08You need to lay off the peyote.
00:34:13Faith is a double-edged sword.
00:34:16It can bring us all together, or it can tear us all apart.
00:34:20You see, there's good faith and there's bad faith.
00:34:22But how do you know the difference?
00:34:24Here's the way I see it.
00:34:25If you're going to invest your faith in a person or a religion or a government,
00:34:29you can't just do it because your friends are doing it or because you were born into it.
00:34:32You have to do it because it actually makes sense.
00:34:34Institutions should have to earn your faith.
00:34:37And they should constantly strive to keep it.
00:34:39That's the only way to keep them from going bad.
00:34:41The real enemy is blind faith.
00:34:44When people turn off their brains and arbitrarily just decide,
00:34:47my religion is the only true path.
00:34:51My government is the only just regime.
00:34:53My particular skewed worldview is the objective truth.
00:34:58That's when we let ourselves get controlled.
00:35:00That's when we become pawns in other people's wars.
00:35:04That's when we get at each other's throats.
00:35:15Hi, I'm Tess Whitman from KMBS.
00:35:17I'm doing a story about you.
00:35:19Huh?
00:35:21Is your movement a cult?
00:35:23Uh, no.
00:35:25I mean, cults tell people to follow their specific beliefs.
00:35:28I'm not telling people to listen to me.
00:35:30I don't want them to listen to anyone.
00:35:32I want them to listen to themselves.
00:35:35So you want people to ignore society's rules?
00:35:38Not necessarily.
00:35:40I just don't want them to blindly follow the rules.
00:35:43I just don't want them to blindly follow them either.
00:35:45Hi, I'm the man behind the man behind the man.
00:35:49You know what I mean? So kind of pay attention to what I'm saying.
00:35:51Yeah, okay.
00:35:54It seems a movement, or as some may claim, a cult,
00:35:58is gaining influence across the Southland.
00:36:00They don't have a name, but apparently they rally behind this symbol.
00:36:06Theories about these brightly colored gears vary.
00:36:09This is me.
00:36:11And that is my boo boo.
00:36:15Wow, that's so deep.
00:36:19This is a gift from above.
00:36:21It helps us in our daily lives.
00:36:33You've got it all wrong.
00:36:35These cogs represent us.
00:36:38We're all just a bunch of interchangeable parts.
00:36:40We're all stuck in the big machine.
00:36:42I mean, if we wear out, they just replace...
00:36:52Get your own lousy mail, you guilty rich bastards!
00:36:59Bobby changed my life.
00:37:01I mean, not much has changed on the surface,
00:37:05but my mind used to have all these limitations that now I see past.
00:37:10Now I'm free.
00:37:12Listen, I didn't realize I started a movement.
00:37:16I just see things a certain way, and I wanted to voice my opinion.
00:37:19I used to believe in the higher society,
00:37:22but now I know it's just all a game.
00:37:25There's this system of rewards and punishments in place to mold us,
00:37:30and sometimes I just feel like a dog in obedience school
00:37:34jumping through hoops trying to get a pat on the head.
00:37:37You know, they tell us to get good jobs and follow the rules,
00:37:41but we get distracted, and we lose sight of what's really going on.
00:37:47How did you guys find me here?
00:38:05What's up, sunshine?
00:38:07I checked you on the news last night, and I thought to myself,
00:38:10your cause is one I can really fight for.
00:38:12I'm going to donate some of my daddy's office space for your cult.
00:38:15Are you real?
00:38:17Maybe I am crazy.
00:38:35Phone rings
00:38:38Hello?
00:38:40Uh, sure, we take donations.
00:38:47We finally made it.
00:38:57Night, Bobby.
00:39:00Night, little buddy.
00:39:05So what happened to your parents?
00:39:07They moved to Florida. I call them every month.
00:39:10Do they know you're homeless?
00:39:12I'm not homeless. The whole world is my home.
00:39:15So when did you start to feel alienated?
00:39:18When they beamed me up to the mothership.
00:39:20Don't be glib.
00:39:22It's who I am. When did you start to feel alienated?
00:39:25I don't.
00:39:27When did you start to live in denial?
00:39:29I thought I was the therapist.
00:39:31Lots of crazy thoughts.
00:39:33Fine. If it'll get you to open up, I'll share too.
00:39:38Sometimes I feel a little awkward around Seymour's friends.
00:39:44It's like this old boys club.
00:39:47Like a gaggle of Seymour's?
00:39:50Yeah, pretty much.
00:39:52What exactly do you see in him?
00:39:54I'm losing track.
00:39:58Here.
00:40:00These will stop your hallucinations.
00:40:02What hallucinations?
00:40:04If Tuffy is really there, they won't do anything.
00:40:08If he's all in your head, he'll disappear.
00:40:12Okay, but I might as well be popping jelly beans.
00:40:15I mean, he's a stubborn little sucker. I don't think he's going anywhere.
00:40:19Man, are you on crack? Let's go back to our digs.
00:40:22I can't sleep there. It's too clean.
00:40:24You're right. We belong here in the dirt.
00:40:27Man comes from the earth and then he returns to it.
00:40:32Hey, what you got there, Dr. Feelgood?
00:40:34Some happy pills?
00:40:36We gonna get retarded?
00:40:38Hand it over, Bobby. Spread the fun around.
00:40:40April gave them to me.
00:40:42When's that chickie gonna learn to share with all her babies?
00:40:45They're supposed to stop my hallucinations.
00:40:47Ha! That Fruit Loop still thinks you're loopy.
00:40:50Give me one of those pills. Maybe it'll make you disappear.
00:40:54Give me those pills, Bobby.
00:41:03Why aren't you vanishing?
00:41:07Okay, say I was just a figment.
00:41:09Do you really want to get rid of me?
00:41:11It's just that April says I can't live in the real world if I'm stuck in my own fantasy.
00:41:16So that's what this is about.
00:41:18You want to get rid of me so you can get with that vixen.
00:41:20No, it's not like that at all.
00:41:22I keep it real. Go ahead and take your drugs. I'm not going anywhere.
00:41:25I don't want to.
00:41:27You insist.
00:41:36Not such an easy pill to swallow, eh?
00:41:40Might as well let it drop. It's not coming up.
00:41:48See? I keep it real.
00:41:52Tuffy, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to doubt you.
00:41:54It's alright. You hit the sack, I'm going to hit the can.
00:42:00Alright, there's no need to get all gay-bo about this.
00:42:11What time is it?
00:42:14Tuffy?
00:42:16Tuffy, did you go to the Rocky Horror Show again?
00:42:23Tuffy?
00:42:29Tuffy? Tuffy?
00:42:33Tuffy?
00:42:43What did you make me do?
00:42:45What?
00:42:47He's gone.
00:42:49He was never really there to begin with.
00:42:51My true friend is gone.
00:42:53Bobby, you used to scare people.
00:42:57Now that you're not hallucinating, maybe you can start to make friends with real human beings.
00:43:01People are a bunch of jerks.
00:43:04I want my best friend back.
00:43:06Bobby, you've got to give this a fair try.
00:43:09Take your medication and see how it goes.
00:43:12If mental health means feeling this emptiness, I'd rather just be a total crackpot.
00:43:18I'm sorry, Bobby. Maybe this was too soon.
00:43:21You can stop taking your pills whenever you want.
00:43:24Will he come back?
00:43:26He probably will.
00:43:31I'm your true friend also.
00:43:33Yeah.
00:43:35It'll be okay.
00:43:39Yeah.
00:43:42I've got to go back to work.
00:43:44Okay.
00:43:50So I used some of the donation money to bake cookies.
00:43:53You're using our funds for sweets?
00:43:56Aren't they neat?
00:43:58Mmm, sugary.
00:44:00We should be stockpiling assault rifles.
00:44:03I know this great psychiatrist. She's a good friend of mine.
00:44:06How are we going to violate her?
00:44:08I know this great psychiatrist. She's a good friend of mine.
00:44:11How are we going to violently overthrow the system with cookies?
00:44:14The system is too strong to violently overthrow.
00:44:17And it's made of people like you and me.
00:44:19I think En Vogue put it best.
00:44:21Free your mind and the rest will follow.
00:44:23Now free their minds and the oppressive structure will collapse on its own.
00:44:27Stop touching me.
00:44:30Sorry.
00:44:35That was really weird.
00:44:38So I got a surprise for you all.
00:44:44A piece of paper?
00:44:45This is a blank slate.
00:44:47If we're to last, we're going to need a constitution.
00:44:50It's our chance to document our ideals and pass them on for generations.
00:44:54So everybody think of your highest values and at the next meeting we'll discuss them
00:44:58and draft our Declaration of Independence.
00:45:02The kids are so difficult.
00:45:05I don't think they respect me.
00:45:08My youngest flat out hates me ever since I suggested she get her nose done.
00:45:12Perhaps she feels you disapprove of her.
00:45:15Of course I disapprove of her. Have you seen that schnoz?
00:45:19She got it from her father.
00:45:21Tell her she's beautiful.
00:45:23I'm not going to lie to her.
00:45:25Maybe a little white lie is in order.
00:45:27It's like Bobby says.
00:45:29Every lie you tell obscures a person's view of reality.
00:45:33Bobby?
00:45:34You know, the guy with the cogs?
00:45:37Welcome to the Department of Homeland Security Helpline.
00:45:41If you suspect that your neighbor is a terrorist, press 1.
00:45:45If you would like to pledge your loyalty to our fearless leader, press 2.
00:45:50If you think you may be in danger from a lunatic cult, press 3.
00:45:56Welcome to the Lunatic Cult Info Line.
00:45:59Here, Tuffy Tuffy Tuffy.
00:46:01Where are you hiding?
00:46:05Come on, rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
00:46:09We've got a live one.
00:46:12Hey guys, welcome to my flop house. Let me get the refreshments.
00:46:16Why are you so alarmed?
00:46:18I don't know. You look a little shady.
00:46:21We're your friends.
00:46:23Major Rich, Mrs. Bones.
00:46:25We're with the Department of Homeland Security.
00:46:28We've had our eye on you for a while.
00:46:30Now concerned citizens are starting to tip us off about various questionable activities.
00:46:36Was I supposed to get a permit for that bake sale?
00:46:39Enough of this charade.
00:46:41Are you or are you not trying to overthrow the Postal Service of the United States of America?
00:46:47The Postal Service?
00:46:49Is this man your brainwashed puppet?
00:46:51Oh no, that guy's got a mind of his own.
00:46:54Where is he?
00:46:55I don't know.
00:46:57I'd like to observe you for a few days.
00:46:59I'm a little shy.
00:47:09Damn it, Bones. I was supposed to zap him.
00:47:12You snooze, you lose.
00:47:29I'm a little hippo,
00:47:32frolicking in the jungle,
00:47:35eating all the mangoes,
00:47:38and pooping on your toes.
00:47:45Are you the Messiah?
00:47:47Can't say that I am.
00:47:50Are you the gatekeeper?
00:47:52No.
00:47:54Uh, no thanks, I just ate.
00:47:57What is this, banana?
00:47:59Tastes like pesticide.
00:48:01It gives you special powers.
00:48:03Like the power to barf on myself?
00:48:05Oh, God.
00:48:10Can I have my limbs back?
00:48:12I promise I won't use them for evil.
00:48:17Where are we?
00:48:18I don't know.
00:48:20Where are we?
00:48:21I don't know.
00:48:23Revolution does not come without sacrifice.
00:48:27After all, you have to spill a little blood to make an omelet.
00:48:31Where's Bobby?
00:48:32I don't know.
00:48:33Hugging trees, picking flowers.
00:48:36Now, Joseph Stalin says that...
00:48:40Where the hell do you think you're going?
00:48:47Okay, okay, watch the cashmere.
00:48:51Now!
00:48:54I wish I had my thumbs to twiddle.
00:48:58Sometimes boogers taste like spittle!
00:49:02What's your name again?
00:49:04My very eager mother just served us nine pizzas.
00:49:07Huh?
00:49:09Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
00:49:15Oh, I see.
00:49:18This cat is clowning!
00:49:21Tuffy!
00:49:27Give me five!
00:49:29How'd you get here?
00:49:31I don't know, but the walls sure are nice.
00:49:35We need to get out of here.
00:49:37No way I hear the pudding is fantastic!
00:49:39I hear they do shock therapy.
00:49:41Cool will ride the lightning.
00:49:43And end up like him?
00:49:47We need to get out of here.
00:49:49Who are you talking to?
00:49:52You crazy?
00:49:55This is pretty good. What is it?
00:49:57Seared dolphin.
00:50:02More for me?
00:50:06Eat your taters, or they'll eat you later.
00:50:13Has Bobby popped by lately?
00:50:15What's with you and this kid?
00:50:16He disappeared. I'm just hoping he hasn't gotten into more trouble.
00:50:20That's what he does best.
00:50:22You were sensitive when I first met you.
00:50:24Oh, I'm sensitive now. Sensitive to your treachery.
00:50:27Don't you deal with enough paranoia at work? Do you have to bring it home with you?
00:50:31A little paranoia is healthy. It helps keep the serpents out of the garden.
00:50:36What did you do?
00:50:38He's a danger to society. He's a danger to himself.
00:50:43You know, it's like you're the center of your own universe.
00:50:46And the rest of us are just your accessories.
00:50:49Then you should be happy to be so close to the sun.
00:50:55You are not the man I fell in love with.
00:51:01Walk out that door and you will not be allowed back in my garden ever again.
00:51:09Silly girl.
00:51:11That was 500 bucks, you little tart.
00:51:21Listen, Mac. You can't lose your nerve, okay?
00:51:24Will you send me jelly beans?
00:51:25Sure. I'll send you a crate this... this big.
00:51:29What color?
00:51:30All the colors.
00:51:31No. I want yellow and mauve.
00:51:34What's mauve?
00:51:35It's like a light burgundy.
00:51:38Okay. Yellow and mauve. Ready?
00:51:44Now!
00:51:49I'm the king of the peacocks. Sometimes I can eat you raw.
00:51:52Now I'll make you feed me cookies and beans from seaweed.
00:51:55Nanny, nanny, William, goad. You cannot snatch me.
00:51:58No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
00:52:09You are so beautiful.
00:52:32Wait. Return to me.
00:52:38I love you.
00:52:49Do you know how many germs you just ate?
00:52:51Some people don't wash their hands after they poop.
00:52:53Yeesh.
00:53:07You're going to eat me!
00:53:23How are we supposed to hitchhike without thumbs?
00:53:26Where's Houdini when you need him?
00:53:28Houdini when you needy?
00:53:30Oh, boy.
00:53:49I'm free. What about me?
00:53:51I think I'd rather leave you like that.
00:53:53I'll fart all the way home.
00:53:55When you put it that way.
00:54:05Revolution cannot be successful without the complete cooperation of my soldiers.
00:54:10So I need to know right now.
00:54:13Who's with me?
00:54:17Oh. Don't let this scare you.
00:54:20I would never threaten my own people.
00:54:23This is just to show you what it means to be a revolutionary.
00:54:27This baby is what's going to protect us from the evil.
00:54:31Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, bang!
00:54:33That will try to stand in our way.
00:54:36Aren't you, baby? Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
00:54:46This isn't working.
00:54:47These people are racist.
00:54:49News flash. They don't even see you.
00:54:51Show some skin.
00:54:53I don't think that's going to work.
00:54:55It can't hurt.
00:54:57We will crush the enemies of freedom with our mighty hands.
00:55:17We will make them pay for sins.
00:55:19We will seize their lands.
00:55:22Why aren't any of you singing along?
00:55:25We will make them eat their words.
00:55:27We will ring their necks.
00:55:29We will force them...
00:55:31Am I at the wrong meeting?
00:55:33Hi, Bobby.
00:55:35You, uh, want to sing a song with me?
00:55:37Uh, what you got there?
00:55:39What, this?
00:55:41It's an M-16 assault rifle.
00:55:43Can I see it?
00:55:45No way, ballers. It taught me enough.
00:55:47Nothing comes between me and my Nelly.
00:55:51You fought in Vietnam?
00:55:53I think so.
00:55:55Maybe it was a video game.
00:55:57Yeah, they say your noodle is fried.
00:56:00Nelly would never cheat on you.
00:56:02She just needs me to clean her tube.
00:56:05Don't ever call her barrel a tube.
00:56:10It's her Petunia.
00:56:13Sorry, Petunia.
00:56:15It won't ever happen again.
00:56:17Okay.
00:56:19Water her Petunia.
00:56:21Okay.
00:56:25So, uh, what's tonight's topic?
00:56:28Violent revolution.
00:56:30Um, I think that's a topic for a different club,
00:56:33but you could always start your own.
00:56:38Okay.
00:56:40Oh.
00:56:42Give me my gun back.
00:56:44Think I could borrow it?
00:56:46I have this horrible rat problem.
00:56:51Okay.
00:56:56That was weird.
00:56:59Okay, so let's get down to business.
00:57:05Someone got a pen?
00:57:07Oh, it's okay.
00:57:12You again?
00:57:14Hi, Seymour. Um, do you know where April is?
00:57:17I think you're in a better position to know.
00:57:19Huh?
00:57:20Casanova.
00:57:22You can't be serious.
00:57:24Look at me. I'm pathetic.
00:57:28You have a point.
00:57:34You wouldn't believe the places I...
00:57:36I left, Seymour.
00:57:39Good move.
00:57:41Where have you been?
00:57:50Thanks.
00:57:58So I guess I need to get a case of mauve jelly beans.
00:58:01What's mauve?
00:58:03It's kind of like a light burgundy.
00:58:08I know I shouldn't be,
00:58:10but I feel a little sad about my breakup.
00:58:13Are you sad that it didn't work out
00:58:15or sad that you ever thought it could?
00:58:18I guess I need a therapist of my own.
00:58:21That's what I'm here for.
00:58:23Don't you ever have relationship issues?
00:58:26I'm not exactly a dating material.
00:58:28No.
00:58:29I mean, do you know any girls who are into nutty homeless guys?
00:58:32We could work on you a bit.
00:58:35Nah. Let's just hit the swings.
00:58:37Okay.
00:58:49I hate to intrude.
00:58:51They gave me two beds.
00:58:53I might as well put the second one to use.
00:58:56And you might want to put the shower to use.
00:59:00Whew. Good call.
00:59:07Good night, Bobby.
00:59:09Good night, little buddy.
00:59:12I can't sleep.
00:59:14Me neither.
00:59:17Want to cuddle?
00:59:19No.
00:59:21Come on.
00:59:23Come on.
00:59:25Come on.
00:59:27Come on.
00:59:29Come on.
00:59:31Come on.
00:59:33Come on.
00:59:35Come on.
00:59:37Come on.
00:59:40Want to cuddle?
00:59:42It's been a while since I've had a good snuggle.
00:59:45Maybe it'll help us sleep.
00:59:47Okay.
00:59:49I get the inner spoon.
00:59:51Fair enough.
01:00:00Your hair smells good.
01:00:02Thanks.
01:00:05Night, little buddy.
01:00:08You little devil, you.
01:00:10Tuffy?
01:00:12What are you doing here?
01:00:14You pimp!
01:00:16How did you pull this off?
01:00:18Um, we're trying to sleep.
01:00:20Hey, Tuffy.
01:00:22Hi, April.
01:00:24You could see him?
01:00:26No, but you were talking in that general direction,
01:00:29so I thought I'd play along.
01:00:31Hmm.
01:00:33Ahem.
01:00:36Ahem.
01:00:38Um, could Tuffy sleep in the extra bed?
01:00:43Why not?
01:00:51Good night, Tuffy.
01:00:53Night, little buddy.
01:00:55Night, little buddy.
01:00:59Snoring.
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