- Hello, everyone! - We are trying something ambitious.
A little creative experimentation.
A Convos miniseries where we're taking actual conversations,
like we normally do, and combining them with some scripted storytelling.
So we're going to be introducing some fictional characters
- and scenarios. - Think of it as a hybrid.
- A Convos short film-- - That's gonna be three parts,
released over the next three Tuesdays. This is chapter one.
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- Thank you for watching. - Enjoy chapter one.
(dad) Okay, Coco! Let's go.
(Coco) I'm coming! Are the mugs we made for mom ready yet?
(dad) They sure are! That's where we're going.
- We gotta ride there. - (Coco) Okay, let's go really fast!
(Coco hums)
Look what I can do.
Whoa! That's a good one.
(phone rings)
(dad) Hello?
Mmm! Hey, bro-in-law. Still retired?
Hey, Dylan. Once again...
raising a child is far from retirement.
In fact, it's the most important job in the world.
Probably not.
Pretty sure those ninjas in Japan fixing Fukushima--
(dad) Watch your language! You're on speaker phone. Coco's here.
What're you talking about? It's a name of a place.
How about a little heads up on the speakerphone etiquette next time.
- Hey, Coco! - Hey!
Alright, sorry, you just have a reputation for--
(Dylan) For what? What, I'm not allowed to say
names of cool places anymore, like Bumbum, Venezuela?
- Bum bum! - Okay, great. That's super.
It's the name of a city, dude. It's like Wetwang, England.
- Wet wang! - (Dylan) Ah! Nice, Coco!
- See, she's learning geometry. - (dad) Yeah, you mean the geography.
Sorry, what?
What are you calling for? You guys coming for dinner or what?
Oh yeah, that's why I'm calling.
So I'm wondering what I should get Leela for mother's day.
- You mean Leila? - I'm pretty sure I know
my sister-in-law's name, dude.
Tina's put me charge of getting the gift. She's racked with the pregnancy brain.
- Right, she's four weeks pregnant. - Oh yeah.
Time flies.
I'm thinking I should get her a mug.
Something with a witticism on it. You know, "moms are cool".
How's that witty?
- 'Cause moms are cool. - (dad) Right, right.
- Okay, you can't get her a mug. - I make mugs!
(dad) Yeah, Coco handmade these mugs, painted them.
- They're beautiful, actually. - What?
Hand painted?
Listen, I've seen her work. It's not that strong.
- Plus, what am I supposed to get her now? - Uh-oh. I gotta go!
I gotta go.
- (dad) Coco, hold on! - What? No! Hello?
Hello? Hello? Hello?
(groaning) Okay. I'm okay.
Mattie boy!
- It's spiky in here. - Mattie b--
Ah, Fukushima!
♪ (music) ♪
(dad) Oh my god!
- (Coco) What's happened? - The mug store's gone.
Oh...my...gone.
Yeah.
- Everything. - There's no sink.
No sink, there's no tables. There's no nothing.
No nothing!
Where'd it go?
I don't know. I guess they went out of business.
Maybe they just went out of order.
Out of order?
Yeah, like a ride.
Oooh, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah.
No, no, I don't think that's what happened.
(dad) I think they're just gone.
Then what about the mugs?
I guess they're gone too.
You're here one day... gone the next.
Really makes you think about the mugs you have.
Doesn't it?
Come on. It's alright.
We'll get mom something else.
(Coco sighs) Okay, we need to talk about this.
This is an emergency. Do you think they were ghosts?
What?
Maybe they were just ghosts, and they went, "Whoosh!"
You know? And just disappeared.
- I guess. - Yeah.
Yeah, I think that they were ghosts.
- Check your teeth. - What?
Check your teeth.
Maybe they're hiding in there.
Anything?
No.
♪ (music) ♪
Tell him about the mug store.
Uh...we just need to get some fish.
- Tell him. - He doesn't want to hear the story.
(Coco) Tell him!
So...great story.
Uh, yesterday we went to the mug store and painted some mugs there
on the corner for my wife,
and today, when we went to go pick them up,
we walked up to the front of the store. To our complete shock
and amazement, the entire store is cleared out!
- Everything was gone. - (Coco clears throat)
No, no, no, dad! You have to speak bear!
Bear, right. Uh...
(growling like a bear)
- There was no sink. - Yeah, I'm getting to that.
I'm getting to that.
(growling like a bear)
Right?
(Coco yelling) You heard about the mug store?
- Mug store's closed! - Okay.
- Okay. - Gone!
- No mug store! - Yeah.
- (Coco) Just...hoo! - (dad) It's okay.
(Coco) I think they were ghosts.
Thank you for watching chapter one. Tune in next Tuesday for chapter two.
- Hope you enjoyed it-- - Very much.
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I'm downloading, right now, Still Fooling 'Em, by Billy Crystal.
Well, not by Billy Crystal, but about Billy Crystal.
Maybe it is by--is it by? It is! Check it out.
- Can you even see that, though? - I don't know.
(Matt) Can you see mine? I downloaded Home Game.
- (Matt) It's not focused. - (David) We're outside.
- (Matt) We need a focus puller. - That's okay.
Home Game, by Michael Lewis, which is an awesome book on parenting,
he wrote The Blind Side, and Moneyball, and all those great books.
- Both really good. - It's this journal on parenting.
It's very funny. If you're a dad, I think you're going to really enjoy it.
- Check it out. - Mmm-hmm.
Thanks so much for watching. This is a fun little experiment
that we're trying for a few episodes, so we're gonna see how it goes.
Please let us know your thoughts in the comments.
We're always eager to hear how much you love us,
- and the things that we do. - Or maybe you got some notes.
That's right. Probably. You always have things to say.
I like them. I like a good note,
- as long as it's delivered nicely. - Yeah, I don't like the way
you delivered that.
You see, you could've maybe constructively said that.
Perhaps, "Maybe, David, you should more positively frame
how you would like notes delivered."
That's a better way to deliver that note. That was a good note
on how I can deliver a note.
- Perhaps-- - Thank you guys.
You can deliver us notes like that Thank you very much!
See you next week!
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