(Suspenseful music)
- Who is this?
- [Narrator] Here we see a Todd in his natural habitat.
- Uh-oh, I feel like some mess 'bout to start.
- The Todd's believe that they belong everywhere.
The Todd species is not to be confused with the Michaels.
- Who is that?
He's a cute white man.
I can work with him.
- Girl, look at his cup. He's an ally.
- Uh.
- Child.
- [Narrator] A Todd is a guy who thinks
his mediocre ideas are brilliant.
- I know a lot of Todds.
- [Narrator] Just to convince other people
that his basic ass is a genius.
- Oh.
- Ooh.
- [Narrator] A Todd is a guy who walks into any room
like his ancestors have owned it for hundreds of years.
And yeah they probably have,
but that's not a good thing.
- Oh hell no.
- Oh my gosh.
- This is also triggering.
- No.
- Has that ever happened to you? I wish.
- No because I'm gonna be vocal.
- Todds ain't always white.
- [Narrator] Back in the day there used to be a law
that said you had to step off the sidewalk.
- I hate when that happens too.
Sometimes you gotta shoulder check somebody.
- Watch your mouth.
- Box hard.
- Do you have to do that?
- Yup. All the vitamins and nutrients are at the bottom.
(laughs)
- I wish you ladies a Todd free day.
(laughs)
(upbeat music)
- Oh, that's funny.
- That was an actual conversation.
- Yeah, right.
- Oh yeah, that's Seth.
- Oh snap.
- Otherwise you'll end up a divorced
middle-aged man who lives in a studio apartment
and teaches acting to a bunch of people
- That's Seth Meyers?
- Yeah, I think so.
- And now everyone I want you to
- Oh. - Seth Green.
- Seth Green? One of those Seths.
- Yes.
(laughs)
- Did they cast me and I didn't know?
- Bye, Ryan.
(laughs)
- [Seth] Take a pick.
- Boyfriend and girlfriend.
- Come on.
- Yes, good.
- I feel like she shouldn't be struggling
this hard with her history.
- Yeah, like she was an actress.
- It's like she started like literally all over
like she's down here with us common folk.
- We've gone through that time
you called me by your ex girlfriend's name during sex.
- Oh.
(laughs)
- We've got through that time where you've
tried to set up a surprise threesome.
The time you forgot our anniversary.
- Wow, I'm an asshole.
- Yeah.
- Yes. Yes you are.
Can you hop away from me because I don't wanna
spend my last moments on this Earth near you.
(laughs)
- Yes and scene.
- Class, this is what happens when you say, "Yes."
- Aw.
- She found her thing.
- Now you gotta get outta here
before my next class comes in okay?
Do it quickly.
(scoffs)
- Yes.
- Do it quickly.
- She's trynna feel it again.
- You are so talented.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, you've really grown a lot.
- I'm scared.
- Yeah, he's getting very casting couch.
- Good enough to get in it?
- They build you up to break you down.
- All right, he trynna sell her on six more weeks of class.
(laughs)
- Casting agents, they never come to these things.
Only their assistants.
- Wow.
- That is a total dream killer.
- For what? Did that help you in anyway?
- Have fun. You're good.
- Why people have to touch you?
- Why can't you just give me like
- 'Cause that's like your seal the deal like
it's called a pimp punch.
- Oh.
- That was such crap.
- That was the moment where Hattie should've been like,
"I'm so confused."
(calm music)
- Did you get the job?
- Did you get
(laughs)
(suspenseful music)
- Wait.
- She didn't get the job.
- Ben got the promotion.
- No.
- What?
- I told you she wasn't gon' get it.
- Oh really?
- How did he get it?
He didn't do nothing.
- What are you thinking?
- Oh crap.
- I'm not good enough.
- Oh.
- I figured that's what you were thinking.
- She should be modest at her own business.
- It just means that you work at a place
that doesn't value what you bring to the table.
- Well clearly.
- Well it's not supposed to.
- I'm so conflicted by their relationship.
- Make me feel better.
- No, it's my job to tell you the truth.
- I do not like this relationship.
- I might be goin' in a new direction.
- This business isn't fair.
It was never meant to be.
- We already know that.
(sighs)
- Do you need a reminder?
- This industry will always be frustrating for us.
- Oh my God.
- That's not gonna stop us from pursuing our dreams.
- Oh my God.
- But if I quit.
- You're not gonna quit.
- Of course I'm not gonna quit because I am not a quitter.
- [Man] Nope.
- I am a warrior.
- Come on. Speak to yourself in a pillow.
- I quit. Imma quit.
- I need a man.
I be having to give myself these pep talks or call mom.
(cries)
- [Man] I just want to remind you I know.
- Black women be at the bottom of the totem pole.
- I relate to her 'cause it's so hard like
you navigate life with the what's for me will be for me.
- Yes.
- But so often times you feel so robbed.
- I mean the rug will be snatched suddenly.
- Start your own company.
(laughs)
- To Ben.
- [Crowd] To Ben.
- What did Ben do?
- He's supposed to hug her
that was supposed to be the moment.
- Now I gotta sit up here and toast him.
(sighs)
- Get revenge.
- She 'bouta do something.
- Yeah I don't think I'd be in that room.
- And you know you have to save face.
You can't be a sour grape.
- You can't.
You cannot and he knows he won.
- It's so weird like you suck.
- Put some Ex-Lax in that champagne, girl.
- This is when you have to show up and win your Oscar.
- You snake.
- Mm-hmm.
- He didn't even toast her.
- He knows what he did was wrong.
Oh, she with the Starbucks chick.
- Oh, he's just writin'.
- Kinda hard to focus.
- Whatchu wrtin' about?
- Look better this episode.
- No wonder you can't focus it's a little vague.
What kind of a
- What do you mean?
- Is it about a romantic love?
- She's never done this.
I'm clear of it now like she's just starting
to get into writing she's never done it.
- Oh, yeah.
- Hattie doesn't know what she's doing.
- She never even picked up the book Writing for Dummies.
(laughs)
It's all with who you know.
- Yeah.
- That's how she fell into this job.
It's like an internship and job all together.
- So everybody just goes through life
not saying anything and spending all of eternity
with the wrong person.
- Ooh.
- Sounds about right.
- I hope that's like a fear.
- It's not for me.
I'm not concerned about that but I know people
who are living that right now.
- Please, Vincent tried to get witchu
and chew you up and spit you out.
(laughs)
- Facts.
(laughs)
- What a nice surprise.
- Hey.
- Why he sound like a superhero.
- Okay.
- Uh-uh. Quit all that ugg.
- This is Connor.
- Good to meet you.
- Wassup?
(scoffs)
- What?
- I'm Idina.
- Yeah, she works here.
We don't know each other like that.
- That's your friend.
- Wow.
- Oh, she wrote you a note.
- She threw her totally under the bus.
She gon' learn a hard lesson.
- Yo, she sprung off of this chick.
- I don't know why.
- You just threw her under the bus.
- And let her get ran over with the back tires.
- We don't know each other like that?
- We don't.
- Why would that even need to be the statement?
- That wasn't necessary to say.
- We definitely don't know, right.
- Nah, I've been a fool in a million and one
different ways but I ain't never been that type of fool.
- You worse than these dudes, man.
- She knew.
- She works there.
(upbeat music)
- Now she got what she wanted.
- Exactly.
She knows she has her wrapped around her finger.
- She out here with Todd.
(laughs)
- I thought you said agents didn't come to these things.
- I know.
I think they got forced to, you know,
for inclusion or be too stuffy to hire us.
Just have fun.
- He shouldn't've even put that idea in her head
that agents weren't gonna be there.
- He said they got forced to.
- Stupid.
- Your scene partner will tell you who you are,
where you are, and what you're doing.
Which one of you wants to go first?
- He better not say she no slave.
- At an office supply store
- Oh, brother.
- Why does this feel like a setup?
- Okay.
- And you just got a new weave.
- Uh.
- What?
- Did he say weave?
- Yes, he did.
- [Seth] Okay.
- What?
(laughs)
- This feels like a setup does it not?
- Oh my god.
We have on the same shirt right now.
He's my twin.
I need my check because I didn't get paid.
- Yeah, you look different.
I just can't put my finger on what it is.
- Oh my god. - What do you mean?
- Did you change your hair?
- Yes, apparently I got a weave.
(laughs)
- Can I slap him after the show for you girl?
- Get it together. You can do this.
- Jesus may have saved my soul but this weave saved my life.
(laughs)
- And I was like, "What weave?"
and the weave was like, "Bitch."
- Because what were your five kids gonna eat?
(gasps)
Demarcus, my favorite of the baby daddies.
- Mine too.
- Did you hear what he said?
- What, no?
- He said my favorite of the baby daddies.
- Whenever I need it.
- Now to drop it like it's hot.
- I could ask your weave Marquisha questions?
- Hold my earrings
so I could just talk to him real quick.
- No, look we learning something though.
- Should you get these hands?
- I'm literally 'bout to throw this bowl.
(laughs)
- My weave said you not worthy of being inside of the house.
- Oops.
(snaps)
Take that.
- Right please and scene.
- I felt that oh my God.
- As you reflect on your practice today remember how
- She gotta get her chakras.
- Everybody can't be good at everything.
Maybe there are just things that you should let go of
because they aren't meant for you.
(laughs)
- Namaste.
- Namaste please.
- [Class] Namaste.
- He goes to yoga?
- I see you got the ocean candle burning.
- Whatchu know about the ocean candle?
- Oh no.
- I know that it represents beauty and sensuality.
- Oh no.
- I'm not an Uncle Tom I'm just competitive.
- Nobody thinks you're an Uncle Todd.
- You said it.
- Yes we do.
- Always hanging around my white boss
and y'all feel some type of way about my white girlfriend.
- Becky?
- Her name's Lauren.
(laughs)
- I know you're getting back into acting and I wanna help.
- How are you gonna help me?
- The setup.
- I wanna make some quality black content
and now that I'm in the room where it happens
I'm gonna go Nat Turner on they ass.
- We'll see.
- On they ass.
(laughs)
(hums)
- Tyler Perry.
Give the white folks what they need til you're so rich
you can do whatever you want.
- Isn't that what she just did?
- And when a new VP asks you to have a general meeting
you should say yes.
- I don't know what his ulterior motive is.
- Me either. He got somethin' up his sleeve.
- Girl, your options are looking grim.
- 'Cause you get bestie on your side.
- But see when you get a step in the door.
- This is gonna drive a wedge between
with her friendship though.
- He really switched up on me right now in five seconds.
- Right? That was her affirmation.
- It still felt really really wrong.
- 'Cause then she be like, "Well, he gave me a job, girl.
"Whatchu trippin' for? You ain't giving me no job."
- Yo, guess who walked into the coffee shop
with a Todd today?
- [Women] Lorraine.
- Yep.
(laughs)
- Wow, trigger this is me talking to my friends
and they already know the name.
- I'm taking back my sorry you didn't get promoted gift.
- It was a 10 dollar gift card to Radio Shack.
- You used to love Radio Shack.
(laughs)
- Are they still open?
- I hate Todds.
- Me too.
- And not all Todds are white.
- Speak on it.
- Ben is such a Todd.
- Ben's not that bad.
- See?
- Ooh.
- See?
- He a Uncle Todd.
(laughs)
- What if he walked into every room like he belonged there.
- Mm-hmm.
- What if we took up space?
- I'm a fan of taking up space.
- I'm down. - I ain't trynna get fired.
(laughs)
- Now you're thinking about not getting fired?
She's been on the cusp of getting fired.
- Literally since she started.
- I'm like
- From the time that she crossed the threshold.
- I want something new. Something fresh. Give it to me.
- Todd up.
- What if we had a gay character?
- Oh yeah like a sassy, gay black dude
who everyone loves because he's so funny.
(laughs)
- Cliché.
- This is what really goes on in these meetings though.
- Take over.
- Speak up.
(upbeat music)
(laughs)
- What would Todd do?
Speak up.
- If you really wanna do something new
you should write a character that's a queer, black woman.
- We did the black lesbian thing.
- Yeah.
- Her name was Donna and she had a lot of tattoos.
- Oh God.
- Oh yeah, I must have forgot that she was a lesbian
'cause I never saw her kissing a woman.
- What's your job description again?
- Ooh.
- To make your life easier.
- You're not doing that right now.
(sighs)
- Some people just don't wanna be successful.
- But she just told her that she could
pass to her at any point.
- She did when you're right.
- That was a good idea.
- She also asked the floor for suggestions.
- Oh my God. Oh.
- What is wrong with you?
- Please, if Todd had lost the promotion
you would've blown your car up.
- Who the hell is Todd?
- Why didn't I get the promotion?
- A lot of factors.
- Like what?
- It's all very political.
- Obviously because you're talking but not saying anything.
- Because my colleagues aren't afraid of him.
(gasps)
- Angry black goin' with it.
- So Ben got the job because he's not as good as me?
- Precisely - Basically.
- Makes sense.
- This is for you. Stress eat, friend. Stress eat.
- You deserve better than this.
- Oh my God.
- Well they all try to give it to her.
- You want me to leave?
- Now she gotta go?
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh. Oh.
- You know that I don't.
- I knew there was something going on.
- She gon' kiss a Todd?
- He's not Todd.
- That's a Todd. He always a Todd. That's a Todd.
(laughs)
- See her whole walk change?
- This isn't my elect.
- I feel like Todd just became a Terrence
and I was like, "Wow."
- I like this Marie.
- She went from angry girl to the I can get it
and now I got the power girl.
(sighs)
- What goes around comes back around.
Nia, you will choose who you
(exhales)
- Oh.
- This will be good.
'Cause what goes around comes back around.
- Will I slap somebody in this class?
- Get him together, sis.
- You've just been invited to your old,
black nanny's cookout.
(laughs)
- Class, what does he need to do?
- Say yes, boo. - [Class] Say yes.
(laughs)
- I love that he's gotten closer.
- Oh, hello Todd. Nice to see ya.
You never been around so many black people before?
- No, I have black friends.
- Oh.
(laughs)
- Oh Todd, honey, I don't count.
(laughs)
- They are keen.
- You know what part of you never grew?
(gasps)
Your little wee wee.
(laughs)
- Looks like you have a dish.
- Yes, I brought the potato salad
- That nasty stuff yo mama makes?
Ain't nobody want potato salad with raisins
- Big mistake.
- Not raisins and apples.
- You can't get wet 'cause you'll come out
smelling like a wet dog.
- She gon' end up hitting him in the face.
- She is.
- What's that stickin' out your backpack?
- Huh?
- Is that an assault riffle?
Did I hold a mass murderer to my bossom?
You were such a sweet boy.
- And scene. Scene. Scene.
- Bravo.
- He did not like that at all.
- Shakespearian.
- I feel like this is reverse racism.
- I'm just trynna help you build a character.
- Did he say reverse racism?
- Everybody's character's just showing out
this episode, yes.
- Now she burning Nigerian candles.
- Ocean.
(laughs)
- I don't even know how to describe that right now
I'm a little stuck.
- Yeah. Yeah, it's good.
- Ooh, girl who's on your thoughts?
- See look just meditate. Give me a little meditate.
Ground yourself.
- I just noticed that Terrence is fully out
of the picture Big Sean.
- Oh yeah.
- She did give him that goodbye boink-a-boinka.
- He ridin' the bus with moccasins.
- And no phone.
- She on cloud nine, baby.
- That's when you get to the final stages of Yoga
you can levitate a little bit.
- Oh, you been there?
- Not that point.
- I want to thank you all for being here and
- Look everybody's in the class now.
- [Nia] What do you want to get out of your practice today?
- Peace of mind.
- [Nia] What do you want to get out of life?
- Oh, we're not supposed to answer out loud.
- Okay.
(inhales)
- She so good she got me doin' it.
- I was like
(inhales)
- Everybody with me.
- Why do I see all these black people doin' yoga?
- Open your eyes.
- I'd be the only one in my class.
- [Nia] Now let's walk in our purpose.
- Ooh.
- Mad Todds.
(laughs)
(exhales)
- I want to take her class.
- This is it.
- I really like this episode.
Everything about this episode was
(clicks)
solid.
- That's how they gon' end it?
- Ooh.
That's right. We all got a purpose, girl.
- This is the we fall down but we get up episode.
(laughs)
- But she gon' be with Ben.
Talkin' 'bout, "Ben he not that bad."
Watch he gon' give her a job
and that's gon' cause friction.
She should just leave.
- Well, they gave the episode a purpose.
- Yeah but gave all character's such intention
and such momentum and you don't know
who you don't like anymore.
- That episode was the most triggering for me.
- But, you know, I think that's why they ended
with the meditation because it was
a very triggering episode.
- A lot of, yes.
- You had to breathe yourself back.
- A lot of problematic troupes
a lot of things that I haven't experienced
first hand per se but the parallels.
- Yeah, it's there.
- The parallels.
- Whoa.
- It's in the same wheelhouse of nonsense.
- I think she gon' leave the company
and she gon' take basketball players.
- She gon' take Quintrell start her own joint.
(upbeat music)