(upbeat music)
(audience laughing)
- We're back!
- What the-
- What's up, guys, it's China.
- It's Allen Payne.
- Hey, what's up, y'all, it's Doc.
- What's up? This is Lance Gross and -
- Keshia Knight Pulliam.
- It's Cassi.
- Hey, it's Demetria.
- Hey, it's LaVan and the Paynes are back!
♪ What it do we're back ♪
- Uncle Curtis! - He's not here.
(audience laughing)
- Isn't this crazy though?
- It is. - Ooh.
- There's some new things happening
The beautiful thing is, it's still the family.
- That family dynamic is still there.
You lying, ooh, you lying. - Ah, ooh, Calvin.
- The continuation of life stories
and life lessons that are being taught.
- Growing pains for the Paynes.
Hush.
- Just saying. (audience laughing)
- The same laughs, the same calamity,
the same Curtis.
- Come on in! - Hoody hoo!
- Uncle Curtis is still the same. (laughs)
- Not!
- Uncle Curtis is the same.
- Curtis is never changing.
- Uncle Curtis hasn't changed one bit.
- I'm the picture of health.
(laughing)
- The same Curtis.
- 'Sup, thug life?
Ooh! (audience laughing)
Ah!
Curtis is still a butt hole.
- Oh my God.
He wants to tell you.
- I'll tell you.
- No, you will not.
- Yes I will.
And Ella is still hollering "Curtis" every day.
- You are old enough to be her grandaddy.
I'd be a happy grandaddy. (audience laughing)
- And Auntie Ella, she still has
that exact same sweet energy.
- She's the person that we go to
for solutions to problems.
- Malik ain't eatin no healthy after school snack carrots.
Unless you put some chocolate on 'em. (laughs)
- Aunt Ella and Uncle Curtis,
that is the rock of the family.
- She mad at you.
- I shouldn't have done that.
- Nah. - No.
- Me and CJ are doing, you know, a lot of what we do.
We're just in that same love space.
- You know, you still see the dynamics with Janine and CJ.
Hi, Calvin.
Calvin and I have our stuff that we're still navigating.
- Miranda, we can work this out.
- What you're gonna feel,
it is definitely old school "House of Payne."
- Ah!
(audience laughing)
- Ah!
- The party is popping!
- The most memorable part about shooting the new season,
while I was so happy to see everybody
and hug everybody's necks,
I have to say seeing China Anne McClain and Doc Shaw...
- It was so clean.
- Yeah.
- That's 'cause she didn't ever use it.
- I know. (audience laughing)
- Well, certain scenes that I would shoot with Doc Shaw,
who plays Malik, I would really see the same relationship
that I have with my little brother in real life.
- Tyler made a book of when we first started
and I saw a picture of Doc and China.
- Right now you bringing a brother down.
- Don't make it too babyish.
- When they were so small.
- Me and Malik are a little bit older.
- What did I just say? (audience laughing)
- Being in the entertainment business since a child,
and now being an adult,
it has been a very life-changing and great experience.
And not just be a part of it, but be a part of a great cast.
Be a part of a great crew.
- I feel like I actually really raised them, I did not.
I did not. I repeat, I have one child.
Y'all stop asking me about them kids,
I gave birth to two throw pillows.
- There's just so many ways you could swerve this situation.
Just like. - Just jump it.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- Oh, the "House of Payne" couch.
- And, you're gonna be robbing banks!
- Little girl, I don't need no help.
- It might have been the exact same couch
because it definitely felt like it.
- No, new couch.
Yeah, a lot of things still happening in the living room.
- How do they give that stuff to die?
Give me some.
(audience laughing)
- I think that the couch signifies the therapy
that we are to one another.
- Give me some love, boy.
- Everyone has that household that is the family nucleus.
And that couch, that living room, is epic.
- Sit down!
- It was an inviting space.
- Your time out's gonna turn into a knockout.
You hear what I'm saying?
- You didn't look at the couch
unless it was shrouded in plastic,
like some of ours were in that real, real nice living room.
- Signifies the opportunity for a family to bond together.
- Didn't I tell you not to steal them walkie talkies?
- If you're having problems, we're on that couch.
If you're happy, we're on that couch.
- You connected with family
and you see yourself hanging on the couch.
- Look, I coulda been attacked by a pack of wolves.
- A pack of wolves!
- Or a box of snakes! - A box of snakes!
A box of snakes?
- Coming back and seeing everything in place, you know,
and seeing everything still there.
You know, I'm home.
I'm home. That was the feeling, there.
- Love you too, baby.
- Maybe it's 'cause the TV is sitting there. (laughs)
- If you listening to me, turn the TV off.
- You are so demanding.
I think it's the relatability factor
that brings people into the show.
- They think that Jayden may have autism.
(pensive music)
- That's more than a uniform.
That's what we do.
- Everything I touch, I destroy it.
I'm not about to destroy my children.
- There are grandmothers who can watch it
with their teenagers.
Curtis.
Baby, why do you have on that tuxedo?
- Because I look good in it.
People always tell me how they come together
to watch the show,
how they decide to have dinner at the table
so they can all watch the show.
I've been punked!
I've been punked?
Hey, Ashton, where Ashton?
That's gold, man, that's magic.
- Even though we're a family
and we're depicting family life.
(screaming)
The thing that makes it so exciting
is that we've really become a family, after all these years.
- Amen. - People relate to it.
Each generation relate to it and it's a family show.
Which is why I love doing it.
- It's much different parenting teenagers
than it is small children.
- Let them make fun of you.
Because what they say about the girls that give it up?
- Tuh!
Huh! (audience laughing)
- And it's just a wonderful fun time for everyone.
Did you just put that back?
- I feel like I'm chewing bricks.
- "House of Payne" is coming to BET.
Don't forget to set your reminder
for Wednesday, September 2nd.
- Wednesday, September 2nd.
Only on BET.
- Only on BET.
- Did you miss us?
(upbeat music)
- [Producer] I see somebody in the reflection.
- That's my husband. Oh yes.
Make him bigger, make him larger!