Madea's Big Happy Family Page #7

All right, Mr. Brown, listen, we're going

to make you as comfortable as we can.

Cora, you don't have to let him

do this to me.

You're gonna be all right, Mr. Brown.

I ain't gonna be all right.

You go in there and they tell you

it's gonna be all right,

...you wake up dead.

- Oh, no...

Y'all kill people in here.

Have anybody ever died in here?

- Exactly. Cora, don't do this

to me, please! - Calm down, Mr. Brown.

- Cora, tell Madea... Tell Madea I love her.

- I will.

- Okay, Cora, tell Madea I'm gonna miss her.

- All right, Mr. Brown.

- Please, Cora, pray for your daddy.

- I will, Mr. Brown.

- Pray for your daddy.

- I'm praying for you now.

- Don't let him do... Pray for your daddy.

- I'm praying for you.

Pray for your dad

I'm praying.

Pray for your daddy

- Cora, pray. Sing it.

- I'm praying.

Pray for your daddy

Bam, this is what I don't understand.

When did you start going to church?

Look, I had to go to church.

Bam, back in the day

we used to share the dime.

We used to steal, kill, rob and stab

and now you run to the church house.

Yes, I had to.

Child, I ran up in that church house...

Stop that lying.

What? I ain't even told you the whole

story yet.

You done told three lies

just that quick, talking about "I ran up."

You're lying.

You ain't run up nowhere.

Look, everybody need run up in here

from this house.

These people, they're just a

mess up in here. It's just awful.

I got about $200 I can let y'all borrow.

About $200, I'll go down there

and put it on his book

or give y'all for bail,

but you can't get it till the 1st.

Can't get it till the 1st?

Got to get it on the 1st.

Well, we need it today, but it's okay.

It's all right.

We'll take what we can get, hon.

But I was just hoping that Kimberly

would just give it all to her.

That thing's still mean as hell, ain't she?

Mean as a junkyard dog.

And listen, Tammy's boys are out of control.

Way out of control.

- Really?

- Just misbehaving.

- Just awful.

- I need to meet them.

Byron's baby mama.

She's just ghetto. Real ghetto.

And then her voice just drives you crazy.

I don't know why she be doing

all that whining and carrying on.

She's just crazy.

I told Shirley, I said, "Let me talk

to them children," long, long time ago.

She saying,

"No, I'm just gonna pray for them."

The Bible say, "Faith without work is dead."

You got to do more than just pray

for them children, don't you?

- You do.

- You got to knock the hell out of them.

- That's what you got to do.

- The Christians...

The Christians need to know that.

That's right. From the top, from the top.

- Ding, there's the Lord.

- Yes. Yes.

- Hey, Shirley. What is you doing, girl?

- Hey, Madea.

- Get on here and sit down.

- What are you doing here?

- How you been?

- Oh, fair to middling.

Fair to middling.

Bam told you, didn't she?

She got you $200 that she's gonna

bring by on the 1st. Is it 1st?

On the 1st. On the 1st.

- On the 1st?

- 'Cause I won't have it till the 1st.

But what did Kimberly say?

Well, did she give you some money for him?

No. She won't even let me borrow

on my own house.

Well, I called Harold and Tammy.

- They ain't got money.

- You're right. They ain't got money.

No, nothing.

Don't you get all worked up

about this, Shirley.

- Don't you do it. Don't you do it.

- Oh, Lord, my children.

That's all right, honey. You done raised

them children the best you can.

Let me tell you something,

parents shouldn't be putting themselves

on no guilt trip

after you done raised the child.

That's what they were supposed...

You're supposed to raise that child.

You get them to a place where they grown

and get the hell out

and take care of their own damn self.

That's what the children need to do.

You done did that.

That's your responsibility.

You did the best you could.

Don't get worked up about no damn child.

Hell, no. You did the best you could.

- Didn't you do the best you could?

- Yeah.

Then that's all that matters.

I know, I know. But I just feel, you know.

I feel like you need to let that go.

Well, anyway, we couldn't get him out.

They wouldn't tell us anything.

They wouldn't even tell us

what he was arrested for.

That what the po-po do.

They don't tell you nothing.

Calvin is going to go back down there

with one of his lawyer friends.

- Oh, oh. Did you call Byron's job?

- Yeah. I called them bastards.

- What did they say?

- They got rid of him.

- They're bastards. They're bastards.

- I hate that. I hate it.

Bam, you know, I need to tell him.

I'm so tired. I'm running out of time.

Why don't you just let me call them?

No, no. I don't want you to call.

I wanna tell them.

I want them to all be together

and I wanna tell them at the same time.

I wanna sit down at a nice dinner

and then I'm gonna tell them.

You've been saying that you want

to tell them at the same time,

you wanna have dinner...

Bam, I understand that.

You want all your children

so they can comfort each other, Bam,

when she tells them the bad news.

That's all right, honey. That's all right.

But, Shirley, let me help you

get these children over here.

- Oh, please.

- Can I help you?

They will be here at dinner at 6:00.

Have dinner ready.

- Today?

- Today. That's right.

How are you going to get them over here?

See, y'all Christians is something.

Y'all gonna pull out that Bible,

but y'all don't know which prescripture

to use for which situation.

You've got to find the right prescripture.

There's a prescripture that says,

"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so."

- Yeah.

- Have you been redeemed by the Lord?

- Yes.

- That's right.

So if you've been redeemed by the Lord

and somebody does something to you

that you don't like, even your kids,

you can beat the hell out of them

and just say, "So?"

So that's what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna beat the hell out of them

and say, "So?"

And I'm gonna bring them over here

'cause you've been redeemed. I am.

You know what?

- It makes sense, don't it? God is good.

- It makes sense.

Hallelujer. Hallelujer.

- Halleluiah.

- Hallelujer!

- Thanks, man.

- That's what family's for.

- You okay?

- Yeah, man.

I just got to get to

work, though, that's all.

- Come on, I'll drop you off.

- Byron! Byron!

Just keep walking.

- So how was your night in jail, Byron?

- Just keep walking.

I've been waiting for them to bail you out.

Hey, Calvin.

Hey, Sabrina.

You better get to work.

You gonna lose that little job.

You know what? You damn right.

'Cause that mean

you won't be getting nothing no more.

I bet I will.

- Byron, come on.

- No, no. No, hold on.

Sabrina, come on.

What are you messing with me for, huh?

I'm trying.

Then what, you're gonna throw me in jail

over some back child support?

Where that little trick Renee at?

Come on, you gotta get to work.

Work? He ain't really working.

He's gonna lose that little job anyway.

Then he's gonna be back on the streets,

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