Dating Daisy Page #3

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- Your mom is always...

- Mom!

Samira, honey,

you haven't touched your turkey.

Oh, dear God, don't tell me

you're vegetarian.

- No.

- Oh, no, no, no.

- Oh, I would've had a stroke.

- Me too.

Michael, did I tell you Samira

just got her

master's in biotech?

- Oh, yeah, that's cool.

- [chuckles]

And she teaches at Rutgers.

What do you teach,

again, honey?

Oh, I'm a lecturer,

not a professor...

epidemiology, research and

statistics, and biostatistics.

Is that all?

[laughter]

No.

What else do you do?

Well, I have extracted a DNA

strand from a plant before.

I mean, I extract DNA

on the regular,

I rip that sh*t like DVDs, yo.

I find these mosquitoes

fossilized in tree sap, and bam!

I make dinosaurs

out of that sh*t.

What the hell

are you talking about?

[Samira And Michael]

"Jurassic Park."

Oh!

You kids are sugar high.

All right,

who wants more of this?

I'm good, honey.

[whispering]

Michael, scooch over.

Scooch over.

Just scooch over.

Oh, Dad.

Hey, Pops,

pass the yams, please.

- Yeah, sure.

- Thanks. That was funny.

Ooh, "pass" is one of his words.

Whoa, whoa, Liz!

Okay, there.

She loves that game,

I'll tell you.

Hey, why didn't Michael stay?

I didn't push too hard,

honey, did I?

Daddy...

You know, I just... I hadn't

spoken to him in a while,

and I thought

he was gonna stick around.

I think your

father has a crush.

It's his hair.

He has such attractive hair.

[laughter]

- Yeah.

- [Daisy] Yeah.

Oh, you know what?

I'm gonna be in LA before I go,

and I'd love to see

you and Michael.

Yeah, that would be great,

wouldn't it?

Honey, you're doing

everything right.

We're gonna back off.

Whatever happens happens.

That's your answer

for everything.

If she loves the guy,

why should they wait?

Dad, it's a timing thing.

Same reason that we still

don't have a Christmas tree.

Every year

you wait too damn long,

and we end up

with a broken plastic one.

Wallace, we're gonna

get one tomorrow.

Daisy's gonna take you, okay?

Listen, don't wait.

Otherwise some floozy's

gonna cozy up with this guy,

and you'll be stuck wondering

whatever happened

to that perfect timing of yours.

What do you do in LA?

Uh, I'm in level design at a

video game studio...

Juggernauts.

Oh.

Oh, but your mom said

you had your own company.

Oh, he does.

It's early stages.

I still need the day job.

A few buddies and I have

raised some seed money

to start our own game company.

Yeah, when are we gonna see

the fruits

of our investment here?

Um...

Well, I say, you have a company,

you are a CEO.

Now you're just

negotiating your fee.

Oh, I love you.

I love the way you said that.

She is so right, honey.

You really have to own it.

Reintroduce yourself as a CEO,

a big macher.

- Mom.

- What?

CEO.

You tech bubble nuts

are obsessed with titles.

You know what a joke it

is when some banana-head

in a basement operation is

handing out cards that say CEO?

Okay, enough business.

It's Thanksgiving.

Samira,

what do you need, honey?

Michael, give it to her.

[Wallace]

Let me tell you a story.

- When I was younger than you...

- Mm-hmm.

I met your grandmother,

the love of my life,

and every night we would meet

in her father's

strawberry fields, and we'd...

- Fast forward.

- Okay, stop there.

- All right, all right.

- What would you do?

Oh, no, no, no, all right,

the point is...

Now, listen, the point is

I didn't have a job,

and her father hated my guts.

Oh, do you think

that was gonna stop me?

Oh, no.

Hey, everybody,

grab your drinks.

I just want to say

how proud I am

of our little precious.

One whole year at your first

writing job.

- Yeah.

- Let's hear it.

Yay.

Congratulations, honey.

Yeah, honey.

If you're ever gonna focus

on your own career, Dais,

now is the time.

Totally.

You know what?

I never would've considered

the promotion

at the Stockholm office

if I hadn't broken up

with Jason.

And last year was

the best year of my life.

Yeah.

Maybe that's something

you can only do alone.

So what's the game

you're working on right now?

Um, it's called

"Hunter Gatherer."

Okay.

It's a strategy game

like "Starcraft"...

"Age of Empires."

- [chuckles]

- Never mind,

I can tell this is all immensely

fascinating to everyone.

Oh, it is to me.

Yeah, it's cool that you care.

There's still

lots to work out.

It's tough with the day job.

Not a hobby anymore.

You're taking people's money.

You owe them a product on time.

I know, but it has to be

good first, or no one will care.

Where's the monetization plan

you said you were gonna

run by me three weeks ago?

We're not at that phase, Dad.

The timeline I signed off,

that was

this month's deliverable.

When they

start talking about work,

it's like they're

on another planet.

Nathan, enough

with the big words.

Okay, let's just change

the conversation, please.

All right, all right,

let's forget it.

I forgot I'm talking

to a creative here.

What...

Samira, can you

pass the turkey?

Dark meat, please.

No more dark meat.

He's had enough.

Can you stop running my life

for five minutes?

My hand to God, Nathan,

you make a scene,

I will kill you in your sleep.

[Liz] I mean, it's always

a power struggle.

Like, if push came to shove,

would you have ever moved

for Michael?

I mean, technically, I did.

I came back home instead of

renewing my teaching contract.

See, exactly.

It's not like Michael

would've ever moved for you.

I bet you wish

you hadn't come back, right?

'Cause that job was,

like, really your thing.

Yeah.

Yeah, I loved that job.

I've been looking again,

actually.

- What?

- Hmm?

My friend sent me this link

to an NGO in China.

Could be this really amazing

opportunity working with kids.

Whoa, hold on a second.

Daisy, I thought we were feeling

good about this direction.

I mean, you're

getting paid to write.

Well, she's an Aries, so...

What's that mean?

You guys bore easily.

[chuckles]

Oh, I'm... I'm not bored.

I just...

It'd be nice to have a job

that means something.

Your job does mean

something, honey.

I mean,

people need to buy things.

You inform them

in really fun ways.

Hey, guess what.

I quit.

- What?

- When?

Um, the reason

I got the time off

is because I quit, actually.

- Honey, when did this happen?

- Last month.

Christmas is such a hard time

to look for a job, Dais.

Yeah, thanks.

Sorry.

So...

what now? [chuckles]

I don't know.

You know, I'm just looking

around for what feels right.

Oh, sweetie, I missed you

so much last time.

You know, maybe we could just

find some Chinese kids here.

- Mom.

- Hey, you know what?

It's all gonna be fine.

We're gonna figure this out.

What are you gonna do

about Michael, though?

I-I don't know, Liz.

[chuckles] We're...

we're not even

officially together.

Awesome.

So I don't know

what I'm gonna do yet,

but I don't want us

to figure it out, Dad.

I want to figure it out, so...

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