- [Announcer] Welcome back.
You know, from time to time we wire guys on the court
just to hear what's going on behind the scenes.
So check it out.
- Are we doing introductions?
All right.
Jeff, nice to see you.
Jeff, all right.
(crowd cheering)
Come on guys, let's push it.
Push it up, push it up, push it up.
I like that, here we go.
Get back on defense.
(whistle blowing)
That's a charge.
Did you see "Big Momma's House"?
I thought that move was funny.
What are you guys getting up to after the game tonight?
You going to Red Robin?
What are you guys gonna do?
Is there a list or is this anybody can walk up?
Is it one of those list things?
- I don't know.
- I'm behind you, I'm behind you, I'm behind you.
1, 2, 3, drinks on the coach.
(Jeff snorting)
You guys got plans tonight?
I'm gonna probably hanging out with the players.
It's a list only thing club.
So you pieces (beep) of can't come.
Let's go.
(whistle blowing)
44.
- He wasn't even near the guy.
- That's a foul on 44.
(air horn blasting)
Look, if you guys want to hang out later
we can't argue like this, all right.
I haven't locked in plans yet, all right.
- These guys are not friends.
We're not going out for drinks.
- Forget about you.
(buzzer sounding)
You got plans tonight?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- You gonna go out?
- Oh yeah, those guys wanna take me out
but I haven't locked anything in yet, so let me know.
I didn't have a dad.
That's what I got in common with you Black kids.
What are you guys up to tonight?
You got any plans?
(Jeff grunting)
(whistle blowing)
(buzzer sounding)
It's a foul.
No, I want one of the players to do it.
(Jeff grunting)
(crowd booing)
Stop crying, you little *****.
That's why dad walked out.
That's why everybody leaves.
- [Announcer] You know, sometimes what you hear on the court
will make you straight up sad.
We'll be back.
(upbeat music)
(intense music)
- [Narrator] In prison a man needs friends to survive.
But making friends can be fraught with peril.
- You guys got lunch plans?
What table you guys sit at?
- [Narrator] Jeff was a referee in the NBA.
- Exactly, that's a carry.
We're going that way.
What are we doing?
We're doing hands and pants, is that what we're doing?
Love the Kid and Play movies.
I love those Kid and Play movies.
Those guys, they ever been in here?
You guys like a duo?
You looking for Three Musketeers?
Two to one says I sit with you guys
and it's tater tots for lunch.
Hey, Crosby, Stills, you looking for a Nash?
No?
- [Narrator] With nowhere to sit.
- You guys hanging, no?
- [Narrator] Jeff needs to assert himself.
(tray slamming on table)
Or risk becoming a target.
(whistle blowing)
- Fine I'll be your enemy.
But the one thing I'll tell you
is I will be downstairs in the TV room this afternoon
and you could do whatever you want at that point.
You could think about your girlfriend at home.
You want it to be sweet, Southern Belle.
Well, I never.
I'll do that all day
but you gotta come down to the TV room
'cause I'm not coming to you.
Unless you want me to come to you, I will.
Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm gonna be a top or a bottom.
I guess I'll find out when when the guys show up.
- [Narrator] No one accepts Jeff's invitation.
- Seems like some of the guys in the yard
are giving me the cold shoulder.
- You'll get through it, I did.
(Jeff laughing)
- Oh, it's good to have a friend.
- More of a cellmate.
- Yeah, cellmates don't talk like this.
- I'm out in a month.
I can't wait to see my beautiful girls.
(Jeff grunting)
You're a family man, huh?
(liquid splattering)
The rest of my life, it's been like I've been in solitary
and all of a sudden I got a group of guys
that I can connect with.
We're locked in here together.
There's no escaping.
Maurice, I had a dream that you wouldn't believe.
So I guess I'll have to tell you the whole thing,
start to finish.
(melancholy piano music)
Maurice?
Guards.
Somebody broke into my cell
and hung my best friend last night.
- [Narrator] Jeff has lost his only friend.
(alarm sounding)
- Don't worry, Maurice.
- [Narrator] Making another...
- [Jeff] Best friend gone.
- [Narrator] Will be the key to his survival.
- Who am I gonna sit with at lunch?
Is he gone?
- [Prison Guard] Shut up.
(happy music)
- Hi.
- Hey.
Hello?
Oh hi, are you with the bounce house?
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm Jeff.
- Oh, you are?
Okay, we have a front door.
- Oh, sure.
- So, I'm sorry, you're not Johnny then?
- No, Johnny's my brother.
He killed himself, so um.
- Honey?
- Yeah, I think your fence is broken.
- Yeah it's not, or it wasn't.
Be careful, I don't want a lawsuit.
Honey?
Um, that's-
- All right, kids, all right kids.
(Jeff laughing)
Now we're having fun already.
All right, okay.
It's Bella's birthday so she's running the show.
It's me and then it's Bella, all right.
This is the most exciting part, kids.
(happy music)
Look at this.
- [Mom] All right.
- Come to life.
You look at this house get filled with air
just like I watched the air leave my brother's body
when he killed himself in front of me.
- [Mom] You know what, Jeff?
- What's that, mom?
- We're gonna maybe not visit that topic anymore.
(upbeat music)
- [Jeff] What's the snack situation?
- Making real heavy eye contact there, man.
- Oh, yeah, oh, no.
- Is this a-
- No, I'm not a...
No, trust me, I had plenty of opportunities in prison
to do that but I didn't.
Okay, all right.
Hey Bella, give uncle Jeff a push in the tush.
It's Uncle Jeff.
You guys are sitting on where my brother passed.
This is the video.
Kids loved him, they would just swarm him.
I don't have that relationship with kids
but you guys seem cool.
We should lock down plans.
- [Mom] What are you doing?
- Oh, just hanging out with the kids, telling 'em stories.
- Okay.
Kids, who has to go to the bathroom?
- I do.
- Everybody come on, here comes the cake.
(upbeat music)
It's Bella's birthday, let's make a wish.
- I wish my brother had killed himself.
But you know what I also wish for is a new family.
And I feel like I have that with you guys,
so let's wish for that.
- Oh my God.
- What's your favorite Will Smith movie?
Oh, hello, neighbor.
- All right, what do I owe you?
- You don't have to pay me.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Well, I'll tell you something.
There's no tip.
- Smells good in there.
What do you guys having tonight?
- Mac and cheese.
- Mac and cheese?
You don't gets me going?
Stroganoff, beef stroganoff.
- There's a diner down the street.
I suggest you get there in the next 10 minutes.
- You gonna meet me over there?
- Nope.
- Can I tell you something?
- What?
- Between family, you don't pay family.
♪ Happy birthday, happy birthday ♪
- I'm not here to make friends.
- I ain't gonna make one friend.
- I'm just here to win, I'm not here to make friends.
- Okay.
No, you're here to make friends.
Making friends is the name of this show.
(upbeat music)
♪ You and me forever ♪
- Okay, I gotta look out for number one.
- Okay, that's not true.
You would lose if you look out for number one.
- Hey look, dude, that's your opinion.
- Does anybody know what we're doing here?
- I'll lock down plans, chicks, guys.
I didn't even know this was a competition.
Just saw a sign for making friends
and thought that would be cool.
- You see, this would be a good time to make a friend.
- I'm Jeff, by the way.
Jeff, how are you?
- Ugh.
- Jeff, hey Jeff, how are you?
- If anyone will be friends with Jeff
they will win a point.
I'll make an alliance with Jeff.
- Great.
- But I will stab him in the back.
- That's your prerogative.
Either way we had a friendship.
- Does anyone go for a light lunch with Jeff?
- Chicken Salad.
- This network will give you 1 million cash dollars.
That's a lot of no's.
- Yeah, what about taxes?
- I'll pay them.
Look, let me just say even though I got voted off first
I feel like I made friends for a lifetime.
(upbeat music)
♪ You and me forever ♪
(whistle blowing)
- [Game Announcer] Welcome back to Upper Peninsula State
Closed Circuit TV.
From time to time we wire guys on the court,
refs on the court,
just to hear what's going on behind the scenes.
Check it out.
- Hey.
- Hey, how are you?
- How's it going, man, nice to meet you.
I'm Jeff.
- Yeah, Rodney, man.
- Just wash my hands, I was just in the bathroom.
It's gonna be fun today.
- All right. - All right.
- All right, get ready.
(air horn blowing)
- All right, ladies, shake them don't break 'em.
- Hold on a sec.
I usually the tip ball.
- I'm gonna do it.
- Okay.
(whistle blowing)
- [Jeff] All right, here we go, here we go.
(whistle blowing)
It's charge.
- Nah, that's a block.
- That's a charge.
- No, that's a block.
- That's not a charge?
- No, that's a block.
- Hey man, that's a charge.
- No, that's a block.
- Hey, that's a charge.
- No, that's a block.
- Do what you did.
- No, she-
- See that?
- No, but that's now what happened.
(air horn blowing)
Oh, okay.
I got, I got it.
Stand up, stand up.
- She's all right.
- I got it.
- She can get up.
- Stand up, stand up.
- She want's to get up, let her get up.
- Let's get some ice for her.
- She probably is coming in way to hot.
They don't like that.
You gotta come in subtle, you wanna-
- What are you talking about?
You talking about hooking up with girls?
- Hey man, you said it.
- You pick one girl, you give her attention.
- That's they way.
You know who I like?
- Which one?
- 15.
- 15, that's your girl?
- Yeah.
- See, I knew you dirty dog.
I knew you gonna like one of them.
- Oh, come on, man.
- 15, I saw that was your girl.
- Yeah? - Hey, hey.
(whistle blowing)
Foul on 15.
- What are you doing, man?
- Save her, save her.
- No way that's a foul on 15, no.
(whistle blowing)
Take that back.
- Hey man.
- Take that back.
- I said it's a foul, are you sure?
- Yeah, I'm sure.
- All right, man, whatever you say.
- Okay, that's not a foul on 15.
You're still in the game, sweetheart.
- Trust me, that's gonna pay off in dividends.
(both giggling)
(air horn blowing)
- I'd give him a shot.
That's all I'm saying.
Did what I could.
- What's your favorite M. Night Shyamalan movie?
- "Signs", no question.
- Yeah.
- Looks like a yellow doodie on his head.
(both giggling)
- I've been thinking that for a while now.
- As I said, I call it like I see it.
Hey doodie head, get off the court.
(both giggling)
(Rodney coughing)
All right.
(whistle blowing)
That's the game, that's it.
(crowd cheering)
- [Game Announcer] Sometimes what you hear on the court
can be surprisingly uplifting.
That's it for today.
Remember, it's amnesty week at the library.
So get those books back there.
- How about "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor?
- Not if I get there first.
(upbeat music)
♪ You and me forever ♪
- You're not wearing shoes and you're not wearing socks,
you're barefoot.
I didn't know Fred Flintstone was flying today.
How are ya?
Nice to see you.
You know what movie actually scares me?
"I'm Gonna Get You Sucker".
I gotta go through here, let him use the X-ray machine,
see what's sloping around inside.
- It'll just be a minute, folks.
Then he is taking a break.
He promised me himself, didn't you, Jeff?
- I think I swallowed a whistle about 12 years ago
during a basketball.
- 1, 2, 3.
- [Jeff] I'm locked in, hold on.
All right, okay.
(Jeff grunting)
If they'd let me, I'd take twice as many.
- You're so strong.
- Oh, hold on.
(machine beeping)
- Okay, I'm gonna reach on your stomach.
You okay with that?
- Okay, oh, geez, Louise.
I don't even need to get online tonight.
- You like this?
It's hot, right?
I feel like she wouldn't be interested
in a guy like me, right?
She probably got some big Black boyfriend
or something like that.
What would I say to a girl like that?
- I don't know.
Try not to say lockdown plans though.
Maybe something more casual.
- You wanna lock down sex?
Something like that?
You wanna lock down my...
But really you don't have a boyfriend?
I can't imagine that.
You're always, you're always on...
Duh-duh, duh-duh, duh.
- Nah, just making plans with my girls, you know?
Trying to find a man.
- Trying to find a man.
- Trying to lock it down.
- Right? Trying to lock it down?
(happy music)
Okay.
- But if you guys wanted to lock in plans
for after the game, I would.
Nothing alcohol.
What's the story with the on-campus restaurant?
Is it a list situation?
They take money?
Is it points, do you use points?
I got $3.
(upbeat music)