Dad, You Were Mean On That Sit-Up Board.
Well, Son, It's Just A Matter
Of Getting To The Gym Every Once In A While.
Yes, Yes, I Understand That
But You See, You're Retired.
I Don't Have That Leisure Time
So I Can Do Body Sculpting.
Oh, Well, Son, Maybe When You Retire
You'll Be Able To Do As Many Sit-Ups As Me.
I Don't Know About That.
I Could Have Done More.
Oh, I Know.
A You Just Didn't.
You Smell Banana Muffins?
Yeah.
Never Touch Them.
Good Afternoon, Gentlemen.
Good Afternoon.
Uh, Charmaine, Did You Move In Here?
Yes, Didn't They Tell You?
What?
No-- Psych.
Oh, All Right.
I'm Just Helping Pam Bake For Her Guests.
Oh, Mrs. Whitaker.
Yes.
Mrs. Whitaker Baby-Sat For Pam.
Pam Drives Her To The Supermarket Every Saturday.
That's Very Charitable.
And Manageable.
Well, At Least It Was Until Last Week
When Mrs. Whitaker Invited
Her Good Friend Mrs. Grens Along
And The Snowball Effect Kicked In.
Now, This Week...
Really?
Mm-Hmm.
Hello.
Hi. That's My Good Friend Dr. Huxtable.
All: Hello.
Nice To See All Of You.
Yeah, Mrs. Whitaker And Some.
Pam Used To Handle These Excursions Herself.
Now There's Such A Volume Of Participants
She Called In The Reserves-- My Lance And Myself.
Charmaine, Station Wagon's All Cleaned Out.
Let's Go.
Oh, How You Doing, Dr. Huxtable, Mr. Huxtable?
How Are You This Fine Day?
(Chuckling)
Better Than You Are, Lance.
I Don't Know How We'll Fit All Those Women
And Their Groceries Into Your Car.
You Ever Thought About Getting A Mini-Van?
No, I Haven't
And I Apologize For Putting You In A Midsize Car.
That's All Right.
We'll Make Do.
Oh, Hi, Everybody.
Charmaine, When Are Those Muffins Coming?
The Ladies Are Getting Testy.
Okay, But I'm Not Responsible If They Burn Their Tongues.
I Set Aside Some Muffins For You Two Gentlemen
Just In Case You Don't Want To Socialize
In Your Perspiration Gear.
Oh, Isn't This A Sight?
Smells Like Banana Muffins.
My Husband Richard-- May He Rest In Peace--
Made Banana Muffins.
He Put In Just A Little Nutmeg.
You Didn't Happen To Put In A Little Nutmeg, Did You?
No, Mrs. Grens.
Well, That's All Right.
I Spent My Whole Life Adjusting.
I Suppose I Can Adjust To A Little... Muffin.
I'll Tell You What.
I'll Make You Some With Nutmeg Next Time.
Oh, That's So Nice.
So When Are We Going To See The Rest Of This House?
Rosanna, I'll Show You Around
As Soon As We Go Over Our Coupons.
Now Let's Get Down To Business.
What Supermarket Are We Going To?
The Advantage Market, Four Blocks From Here.
The Advantage Market?
Why?
Yes, It's The Same Old Lousy Chain As In Our Neighborhood
With The Wilted Produce, Dented Cans
And Over Inflated Prices.
It May Be The Same Chain
But This Is A Better Supermarket.
They Have Fresh Produce
They Have No Dented Cans, And Lots Of Variety.
Yeah, But Are They Going To Overcharge Us For Everything
Like They Already Do In Our Neighborhood?
No. In Fact, You Pay Less Over Here.
I'll Testify To That.
Last Week, At The Advantage Market Here
I Bought A Bag Of Sugar And Paid 2.39.
In Our Neighborhood, For The Same Package, We Pay...
All: 2.75.
I'm Sick And Tired Of It.
Well, You're Not Alone.
Is That Whole Milk?
No, Ma'am, I Think It's Skim.
Would You Like Whole Milk?
I Surely Would.
But It Doesn't Agree With Me.
Oh, I'm Very Sorry.
Pam: Ladies, Ladies.
I Don't Mean To Rush
But If We're Going To The Market And Back Before Dark
We Ought To Leave Soon.
So We Don't Get The House Tour?
I'll Show You Next Week.
Oh, I'll Bring Mrs. Lawry.
She'd Love It.
We Don't Have Any Room For Mrs. Lawry.
Indeed We Don't.
I Promised Miss Webster And Mrs. Jimenez
That I Would Bring Them Next Week.
Ms. Whitaker, May I Speak To You For A Moment?
Go Ahead, Sugar.
I'm Right Here.
Okay.
Well, You've Seen The Size Of The Huxtables' Station Wagon.
Right Now We Don't Have Room
For All Of You, Your Groceries, And Lance And Charmaine.
I Know The Station Wagon.
Does It Still Have The Luggage Rack?
Yes.
That Takes Care Of Our Groceries.
And Lance And Charmaine-- Well, It's Such A Nice Day.
Mrs. Drummond: Listen
I Think I Can Solve This Problem.
Why, Do You Know Somebody With A Mini-Van?
No, I Don't
But I Say We'll Go In Shifts
And Those Of Us Who Were Promised A Tour Of The House
Will Look Now And Shop Later.
That's A Good Idea.
Pam, You And Lance Take Paulene And Me
To The Supermarket First.
Yes, Ma'am.
And Charmaine, You Will Stay Here
And Give The Tour To These Three Ladies.
Yes, Ma'am.
Now, See?
That Wasn't So Hard, And Everybody Is Happy.
Both: Yes, Ma'am.
I'll See You In A Week.
I Love You, Too, Man.
All Right. Bye-Bye.
In A Week? Yep.
His Interviews With The Tartan Company
Are Finished
But He's Staying In San Francisco
For The Rest Of Winter Break.
What Happened To Theo's Plans About Grad School
And Working At The Community Center?
Oh, They're Still There.
He's Just Exploring.
In San Francisco.
Are You Two Prepared For Him To Live 3,000 Miles Away?
I Am Prepared...
For Him To Get A Job.
And I Am Prepared For Whatever Makes Him Happy.
Okay, But When That First Teardrop Falls
I'll Be Here For You And Mrs. Stoneface.
Clair: Hello.
Well, If It Isn't The Grocery Carters.
We Put Dinner Aside For You Three.
All: Thanks.
Here's Your Keys, Cousin Cliff.
Thank You.
How Was It At The Supermarket?
They Gave Free Samples At The Bakery And Deli.
All These Women Scooting Back And Forth
Making Tiny Sandwiches.
While They Traded Recipes With Fellow Shoppers
I Chased Down The Meat Manager
To Bring Out More Stewing Parts.
At Least You Weren't In Charge Of Sorting Bulk Items.
Mrs. Grens Accused Me Of Shortchanging Her On Napkins.
I Made Up For It In White Potatoes.
You Had The Satisfaction Of Knowing
You Helped Some Good People.
Yeah, We Understand That.
Yeah, I'm For That.
Me, Too, But This Good Samaritan Thing
Is Definitely Dogging My Weekends.
Well, It's Not Done Being Dogged Yet.
We Still Have To Take The Subway Home.
Unless-- Speaking Of Good Deeds--
Dr. Huxtable Would Lend His Mode Of Transportation
To Those Deserving Youths Without Wheels.
I'd Be Happy To.
Oh-Ho!
Mm-Hmm.
Two Of My Favorite Subway Tokens.
Dr. Huxtable, These Are From 1970.
Nobody Uses These Anymore.
I'll Give The Deserving Youths A Ride Home After They Eat.
Oh, Thank You, Mr. Huxtable.
Wait, Wait, Wait.
Lance, Give The Man His Tokens.
Thank You Very Much.
You Can't Eat Until We Deal With This Shopping Crisis.
Crisis?
When We Took The Ladies Back
At Least 40 People Were Asking To Go To The Market.
Look At These Phone Numbers.
I Thought I Was The Only One.
Me Too.
All This Wagon-Training Back And Forth Makes No Sense.
Why Does Advantage Market Charge More
In A Neighborhood
Where The People Can Afford It The Least?
Because They Can.
They'll Say Rents, Insurance
And Security Costs Are Higher, But They're Not.
Truth Is They Don't Have Any Competition
So They Can Charge Whatever They Want.
Isn't It Illegal?
No, 'Cause In Theory
You Can Take Your Business Elsewhere.
Mm-Hmm. But The Reality Of It Is That The People
Who Live In Those Neighborhoods Really Cannot Afford
To Get Any Sort Of Transportation
To Go To These Other Markets
So They're Stuck.
Well, This Is Wrong.
A Tragedy.
A Travesty!
That's It?
I Think So.
That's The New Generation--
Full Of Truth
Quick To Cite A Wrongful Situation.
Shouldn't We Be Doing Something About All This?
Well, Yes.
Okay.
We're Going To Take Action.
That's Right.
Those People Need Us.
Wait A Minute.
We Are Those People.
We Need Us.
Oh, Lance, You're Such A Take-Charge Man.
Save The Passion For The Protest, Baby.
Ooh, My First Protest.
This Is So Exciting.
Yes! Pam Tucker, Civic Reformer.
First Neighborhood, Then Country...
Let's Change The World.
Yeah.
How?
Let's Talk To Our Neighborhood Advantage Manager.
Ms. Whitaker's Done That Since I've Known Her.
Okay. We'll Go Higher.
We'll Write Letters To The Head Office
And Demand A Meeting.
These Women Have Written Letters For Years.
Mrs. Ortiz Was A Runner-Up
On That Consumer Watchdog Show, Have You No Shame?
What?
You Know.
Have You No Shame?
She Was Almost A Watchdog? Get Out.
What Did They Tell Her On Have You No Shame?
That She Had No Air Time.
If Talking Sense And Writing Letters Is Out
What Else Is There?
Action.
I Say We Plan A Protest March.
A Protest March?
But Where Are We Going To March?
To The Corporate Headquarters In Stanford, Connecticut.
Look Out, Advantage!
Whoa, Reformers.
We Can't Get These Five Shoppers Across Town.
How We Going To Get These Babes To Connecticut?
If Distance Is A Problem
Let's Picket The Advantage Market In Our Neighborhood.
Yeah!
Effective Political Change Starts At Home.
If We Picket The Only Supermarket
In Our Neighborhood
We'll Starve Our Own People.
Think, Charmaine.
I Don't Hear You Thinking Over There.
Why Don't You Tell Us Your Brilliant Ideas?
All Right, I Have A Solution.
Prices Are Too High, Right?
So We Go Into The Supermarkets
Dressed As Stock Boys With Price Guns
And Mark Everything
"Two For .99."
Steak: Two For .99.
Ice Cream? Two For .99.
That's A Very Creative Idea, Lance.
Thank You, Mrs. Huxtable.
And She's A Lawyer.
Of Course, It's Fraud
And Will Get You Three To Five Years.
(Coughing)
(Laughing)
That Was Just A Trial Balloon.
Try This One Here Out.
We Patch Into The P.A. System
Then, During Peak Shopping Hours
I Come On The Mike And Go, "Attention, Advantage Shoppers
"In The Next Two Minutes
"Everything In Aisle Five Will Be Absolutely Free...
"And Remember
We At Advantage Invite You To Take Advantage Of Us."
And You Will Be Taking Advantage Of The Big House
For Inciting A Riot.
Ooh... Ooh...
Well, What Is Up With Our Justice System?
I Ask You.
The System Is There, Lance.
You Have To Work Within It.
Wait, Wait, Wait.
I Got It. I Got It.
What?
Okay, Okay.
Our Problem: High Prices, Poor Quality.
Our Goal:
To Have Poor People Treated Like Everybody Else.
Our Solution:
We Get The Neighborhood Together
Hundreds Of People.
We Buy All The Dented Cans From The Advantage Market
Bring Them To This Advantage Market
And Demand A Refund.
We'll Line Up At The Manager's Office
In Front Of The Store.
Creating A Bottleneck Around The Checkout Counters.
Ooh, Shopper Lock.
I Like That.
Everybody Will See How Crowded It Is
And They Won't Come In.
And Advantage Market Will Lose Business.
We'll Hand Out Flyers.
The Whole Of New York Will Be Outraged.
We Won't Go To Jail.
Will We, Mrs. Huxtable?
Not As Long As You Don't Create Physical Or Verbal Disturbance.
Not Us Civic Reformers.
Mm-Mmm.
Troubleshooters.
World Changers.
Dishwashers.
Now, Let's Get Down To Business.
Now, Our Flyer Said
That We Would Meet Everyone In Front Of The Market
With Their Dented Cans.
Who's Going To Pass Out The Price Comparison Sheets
To The Pedestrians?
I Wouldn't Want You Ladies To Catch A Cold.
You Think I Can't Take The Cold?
I Got Frostbite Standing In The Frozen Food Section
Looking For A Deal On Peas.
(Doorbell Dings)
(Creaking)
(Doorbell Dongs)
Somebody Ought To Fix That Thing.
Lance, You're Out Of Breath.
And We're Out Of Luck, Ladies.
I Just Ran From Advantage Market.
Operation Dented Can Is In Serious Trouble.
What Happened?
Somehow, They Knew We Were Coming.
There Was A Truck Parked Nearby With A Sign On It That Said
"Advantage Cares About Quality.
Redeem Your Dented Cans Here."
They're Cutting Our March Off At The Pass.
How Could That Happen?
Somebody In This Room Leaked The Information.
I Didn't Say Anything.
I Just Told Them
That Saturday Was Their Day Of Reckoning.
And All I Said Was
"I Wonder Where All Those Dented Cans Are Going."
I Just Said I Was Taking My Business
To Brooklyn Heights, But I Didn't Say When.
And What Did You Just Say, Mrs. Whitaker?
Lance, Stop Accusing These Women.
Look, Here's Your Leak.
500 Flyers-- Copyright: Lance.
I Got A Plan.
Thank God.
Who's Got Pennies?
Everybody, Right?
Of Course.
We Save Them In Jars In Our Home.
And Why Do We Save Them?
Because The Stores Don't Want Them
But They're Going To Take Ours
Oneat A Time.
Well, Let's Get Our Pennies.
Cousin Cliff, We Need Your Car.
Let's Go.
Let's Go!
Dad, Thank You For Giving Me A Lift From The Hospital.
The Baby Boom Is Back, And I'm Exhausted.
You Might Have More Pep
If You Got Enough Sleep And Exercise.
I Am Going To Go To Sleep, Thank You.
I Don't Know.
There's A Shindig Going On In The Living Room.
Oh, Lord.
I'm Going Around The Back.
Don't Tell Them You Saw Me.
(Rap Music Playing)
Hello, Ladies!
Grandpa Huxtable, Have A Victory Carrot.
Well, Thank You.
Looks Like Quite A Celebration.
Oh, Yes, It Is.
You Should Have Seen Us Down In That Supermarket Today.
Tons Of People Came.
All Shapes, All Colors, All Ages, All Sizes
People I Hadn't Seen In Years.
Each With A Dented Can.
It Was Inspiring.
You Should Have Seen Them, Russell
All Paying With Pennies.
Whitaker: The Manager
Called The Police.
But We Were Breaking No Laws.
So The Police Just Left.
So Did Their Regular Customers.
Left Full Carts In The Middle Of The Aisle.
Now, Was It Me
Or Was The Manager Crying?
That Wimp Started Welling Up
When His Regular Customers Pulled Out Their Pennies.
Sounds Like A Victory To Me.
It Certainly Was.
Come And Help Me Prepare The Victory Tea
For The Brooklyn Reformers.
(Cheering)
One Thing's For Sure, Advantage Market
Will Never Forget This Day, Or Us.
I Bet They Won't
Since We'll Be Back, With The Press, Next Saturday.
Kids: Next Saturday?!
Oh, Sure, Honey.
This Is Just The Start Of It.
Where You All Been?
Yup.
Get Out Your History Books.
There's Never Been A Change That Wasn't Hard-Fought.
That's Right.
If I Was In Costa Rica Right Now
And I Was Protesting
I Would Be Saying, "Vaya! Vaya! Vaya!"
We All Say It!
(All Chanting:) Vaya! Vaya! Vaya!
What Does That Mean?
It Means We'll Be Doing A Penny Run At The Markets
From Now Until They Make A Change.
Oh. Oh.
Well, To Be Honest
I Mean, We Were Just In This
To See That Justice Was Served.
Yes, We Didn't Know It Would Take All Our Weekends.
After All, We're Just High School Seniors.
We Have To Study.
We Have To... Do Chores.
And Don't Forget About Our Social Scene.
You All Started Us Out On This.
Now You Can Walk Away With Your Heads Held High.
Yeah, We're Proud Of You.
But We're Here For The Long Haul.
We're Not Going Anywhere.
I Know I'm Not.
I'll Be In Charge Of Flyers.
And I'll Get A Phone Tree Going.
I Held Onto My Driver's License
And I Know The Church Still Has A Van.
Hey, Hey, Hey.
I Mean, You're Acting Like We're Nobodies Now.
Well, Puff Up, Dear
And Stop Acting Like You're Nobody.
Well, That's Easy.
Vaya! Vaya!
(All Chanting:) Vaya! Vaya! Vaya! Vaya!
Vaya! Vaya! Vaya! Vaya!...