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00:00:00and the gnats are plentiful well this is one of them welcome to marionette y'all that's what the
00:00:08sign says but it's also what i say ah welcome let me get that for you sure in marionette you
00:00:15know your neighbors y'all have a great day you do people are a little nicer here oh
00:00:23someone's looking for an excuse to bounce in front of pastor mcgregor
00:00:27well nicer to your face i've seen more dressing on a thanksgiving turkey oh yep everything is
00:00:33genteel until it's not you take it back it's franny who's franny and who's mimi and why is
00:00:43this fella losing teeth over them over a hundred years ago they helped found marionette's main
00:00:50street they were two best friends who were closest sisters together they made near perfect fried
00:00:56chicken yes they were living the dream until they fell out they say it started when mimi had a bun
00:01:03in the oven and franny found out that daddy was her husband mimi swore it wasn't true but franny's
00:01:10husband swore it was who was right who was wrong now i'm only nearly omniscient so i can't say for
00:01:17sure but i can say this once those two split everyone in marionette picked sides you were
00:01:24either team mimi's run by the moors or team franny's run by the hilliers
00:01:34or you were amanda moore hillier
00:01:49frank jr
00:01:50hey you bring home chicken
00:02:05help yourself
00:02:11hi there mister oh what it's already 10 p.m it's just i'm ovulating well i've had a long day
00:02:28can you just cool your gents i don't have forever i already gave you one didn't i
00:02:33how many daggum kids you need amanda two well she's all old and mean now come on don't you
00:02:40remember when she was a little baby and she had to sleep on your chest and she would make all
00:02:44those little squirrel noises i need the business in a better place before i can think about all
00:02:50that it's not like we're in the poor house franny's always does well business is fine
00:02:57fine yeah fine is exactly what i want my legacy to be
00:03:01good night
00:03:11night
00:03:31the hit home living network series ultimate kitchen clash is back and this time it's
00:03:38personal we're looking for rival restaurants with a special connection dear friends with
00:03:44dueling delis you and your ex both serve tex-mex a brother and a mother who serve hash browns
00:03:50smothered and covered if you and a competing restaurant in your town have beef or serve beef
00:03:57this is your chance to show off your food and finally resolve who's the best at dishing out
00:04:01your local specialty the prize dragon rice and 100 000 dollars amanda knew she was right in the
00:04:13center of marionette's own kitchen clash but she hadn't always been as a little one amanda had
00:04:20never even set foot in franny's she'd grown up in mimi's it was all she knew come on we gotta go
00:04:28see about some chickens get your feet off just once i'd love to spend a saturday where i'm not
00:04:35deciding which hands send to their deaths oh may hold the sass manda do i need to hire a calligrapher
00:04:42for your own personalized invitation or you want to get your butt in my truck wait me yeah you
00:04:49you're old enough now it's time you learn the family business well i still have to go
00:04:54fine this is the best day of my life wow that is truly sad
00:05:05dang it to hell it's good for nothing speed us to it all right you two stay in the truck
00:05:12what the hell augusta don't go pitch you just stay out of it this is between me and
00:05:22your underhanded husband you know damn well we're here buying chickens just like you
00:05:32who's that oh looks like you're not the only young one learning the ropes hey little frank
00:05:42yes in that moment a mimi's girl fell for a franny's boy you may kiss the bride sure they
00:05:52were young but when you know you know that you don't believe in premarital relations
00:06:01still it should have been the happiest day of amanda moore hiller's life
00:06:13mama mama where are you going i'm leaving you made your choice my choice between frannies
00:06:21and mimi's you picked wrong by the way amanda is everything all right well miss nancy i guess
00:06:27my mama was just leaving leaving augusta what about the reception the lemon curd cake we
00:06:33picked out is not to be missed oh i was upset because my daughter married that dipstick son
00:06:40of my enemy but if there's cake oh mama please me up and left how is me marrying frank jr worse
00:06:52because she up and left this town you up and left this family oh come on what happened a hundred
00:06:58years ago doesn't have a thing to do with me or who i love that might be the dumbest thing you've
00:07:04ever said oh no honey don't let that woman ruin your beautiful day i know pretty extreme
00:07:17but that's just how it is in marionette besides you got me now and you got him
00:07:25and the pain amanda felt was soothed by the balm of marital bliss
00:07:30you're ready to go man i mean just look at that fella wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating
00:07:36crackers back then frank jr don't you dare eat those on that bed there's no decent food in this
00:07:46house what am i supposed to do but lately amanda was feeling less bliss and more confusion
00:07:56like she had picked out the wrong life by mistake and there were no returns how did this happen
00:08:04what in the heck is this tofu
00:08:12was this all there was to the circus
00:08:20oh you used to be that little what
00:08:23it would there be no more new beginnings would her entire life be defined by a food she didn't
00:08:34even eat amanda figured she could ask herself questions about why her life was the way it was
00:08:41or she could do something to change it
00:08:59okay okay has uh frank jr been drinking tonight is it a day that ends in one
00:09:07big tim wants to talk to him dang it he's already there big tim how are you well i'm fine i hope you
00:09:14are lil frank uh the wife and i were wondering could you put an extra fry on our drumstick
00:09:19these just don't quite have that friend's crunch is that so interesting miss manda well you're the
00:09:28only customer to complain that you heard about ma'am well what my wife means is a lot of the
00:09:34fellows at the club feel like ever since your father passed on bless his memory yes but since
00:09:40he passed it feels like the quality has slipped the quality has slipped am i hearing you right
00:09:46big tim come again sabrina sky oh i'm sorry i thought you said sabrina sky like from kitchen
00:09:54clash i did kitchen clash the show like on tv oh technically we're streaming anyway great news
00:10:04part of being a business owner is taking customer feedback is a huge part of your day
00:10:09giving customer feedback or do you keep most of that feed for yourself okay i'm so sorry um you
00:10:17know what our fryer is on the fritz tonight so i'm gonna bring y'all a new plate and i'm gonna
00:10:22throw in an order of pimento cheese on the house okay excuse us thank you handy girl okay she's
00:10:27lovely
00:10:42they're coming here holy
00:10:48marionette was a small town where small town things happened it wasn't every day hollywood
00:10:53came calling and not everyone was ready for prime time but y'all what if we don't win it'd
00:10:59be embarrassing it on tv no no this show always makes both sides look good i don't need their
00:11:05help i stay tv ready i don't know honey look if you're not comfortable we won't do it then that's
00:11:13that excuse me that is not that read the tea towel frank jr come on mama we're not gonna get beat by
00:11:22mimi's it's a shack and we're a full-service dining institution you know i was raised on
00:11:28mimi's franny's is different you know it could have been a franchise and maybe we still can
00:11:35i mean between the prize money and all the publicity we're gonna get this could be huge for
00:11:39us and mimi's and my etsy store this could be huge for all of marionette but only if you say so
00:11:48come on mama do it for daddy do it for marionette do it for me
00:11:57oh heck why not
00:12:02okay we gotta get back to work now okay oh auntie you were gonna be so glad you said yes
00:12:07what'd your mama say when you told her about all this
00:12:11how about let's keep this quiet until we see how she responds okay
00:12:28work travels fast
00:12:32you
00:12:35mom gus how would you like the opportunity to be a tv star
00:12:43no no the woman doesn't like to be in the background of a photo okay
00:12:54gus since you couldn't be bothered to come to the christening of your one and only grandchild
00:12:59could you please do me this one single solitary favor you crusty old goat
00:13:08now would this kind of appeal work on her mother no amanda knew this news was a blessing
00:13:16but she also knew her mother that woman could have an argument in an empty house
00:13:22so
00:13:27this box is for donate this box is for keep and this box is for trash because tbh that's what most
00:13:34of this is perject i need your advice on kitchen clash oh no what is on there nothing we're
00:13:42perverted stuff no mama no throw me that cardigan too give it to me trash well this is worse makes
00:13:50me wish i was never born i'm not watching it for the reason you think i am it's not like i love
00:13:55watching it may be amazing i watched it because i love the transformation okay it's just may
00:14:00she hasn't earned her aunt title uh well she does send me money on my birthday and offered to fly me
00:14:06to new york i could have had real pizza not the kind they make at school with ketchup oh haven't
00:14:12you ever heard of something called loyalty haven't you ever heard something called let it go
00:14:18oh now what you want we're almost at the reveal okay i've never talked to my mom like that and
00:14:23look how great your relationship is fine watch what you want to watch i just don't want to know
00:14:28about it you should write a parenting book once upon a time you were sweet and little
00:14:39and used to follow me around asking me to do drawings with you well sorry i aged
00:14:48you what you want to ask about kitchen clash i have to get gus on board grandma gus it's just
00:14:55gus and never mind i'll figure it out myself come on get your shoes off the bed
00:15:09tragic horror show i can't help you and you can't be helped
00:15:12um
00:15:23so
00:15:36hello come on in we're just about to open
00:15:42the night can't i'm banned oh you must be amanda i must be and you are sergio i'm the new cook
00:15:59nice try my mom must never let a man in her kitchen first time for everything i know your
00:16:05mom liked to do it all herself now she does it all while washing over my shoulder my restaurant
00:16:11my management style so what do you want i know you're not here to welcome the new guy
00:16:16come over for the best fried chicken in town oh no she doesn't touch the stuff she's a vegetarian
00:16:23loves chickens too much to eat them she'd rather just withdraw them
00:16:30well you're gonna waste my last moment of peace before the lunch rush right so have you ever heard
00:16:37of ultimate kitchen clash i'm old amanda i don't live under a rock okay well they want
00:16:44to come to marinac to do a show about frannies and mimi's what if i wanted to be an actress
00:16:52i would dye my hair blonde and start eating caesar salads what that's not a lot of people
00:16:58eat caesar salads it's not a glamorous food what i'm saying is i don't care about being on a tv
00:17:04show okay do you care about winning one hundred thousand dollars oh i mean the odds are in your
00:17:09favor because mimi's would be the underdog what do you mean the underdog no i just think because
00:17:15you know maybe this is more down home oh oh because we don't have frozen mozzarella sticks
00:17:21or glassware that's actually made out of glass we are what white trash yeah forget it i don't
00:17:27even know why i try you know this was supposed to be a good thing for all of us
00:17:35can you just be agreeable for once in your life and can't you just just
00:17:42let me think about it for one godforsaken second
00:17:44i would i would need my daughter by myself till you'll have to call may
00:17:57well nancy's got you and dipstick so all right i'll do it but not without may
00:18:04now to amanda her sister may was a nightmare no no may tells it like it is
00:18:16closet it's a cry for help while lolly gets to the root of the problem so the boots represent
00:18:23what you exactly well maybe we can remember that the best is yet to come
00:18:30because it can't get any worse than this
00:18:34together they'll get your place sparkling
00:18:40sparkling new episodes wednesdays babe that looks great i know the word on the
00:18:47street is we're gonna get a pickup and if we do we're gonna roll right into shooting season two
00:18:55this is part where you say wow that is incredible what an amazing fiance i have
00:19:00huh so i'm supposed to pretend to be happy about this yes babe we talked specifically
00:19:07about taking time off to travel before the wedding okay and now we're talking about an
00:19:12amazing opportunity that might not happen again okay but what about us having adventures together
00:19:17just the two of us or is there having kids that way we'll be ready see that's how we're different
00:19:21because what would make me feel more ready is to be more established in my career
00:19:26let me get that i got it look i guess that you're disappointed i was already planning our route
00:19:32pricing our v's well there will be another opportunity no there won't because this will
00:19:36just happen again you were never going to do it were you and i've got the perfect excuse
00:19:44that's not true it sort of was come on i want to go on an adventure with you
00:19:52with you i want to see where you came from wouldn't that be cool actually for may that would
00:20:00not be cool in fact much of what jay knew about may's past was at best vague at worst a downright
00:20:08lie she had told jay that to work her way through college she was on broadway wow what was that like
00:20:15may had been on broadway the street the location of the tackiest restaurant in all of america
00:20:24welcome to donkey's home of the thick shake what can i get you
00:20:34not as glamorous as you would think by the time she fell in love with jay
00:20:39real love it felt too late to tell him the truth about her humble
00:20:44and embarrassing beginnings come on jay do you even really want to do this
00:20:50you had two nannies do you actually think you could sleep in a vehicle
00:20:57i'm going to bed
00:21:02come on you have to admit this is a great opportunity
00:21:05congrats yeah it might have seemed easy for her just to fess up
00:21:10but who had time to come clean when there's so much actual cleaning to do
00:21:16oh rinse
00:21:34so
00:21:53ah
00:22:04i don't think that's right for me but best of luck chicken emoji star emoji tv emoji sound
00:22:35so as a nurse you do so much to serve others now it's your turn to let us serve you here's
00:22:44a diagnosis it's a sty but with our sparkling treatment we can have this place turned into
00:22:50a healthy home in no time we'll start by dividing the house into zones that's all to take
00:22:56um i have to take this sorry uh no problem i need to connect with my friends anyway part of the job
00:23:11what's up lollygaggers it's your girl here live i've got a little bit of time so ask me anything
00:23:17oh hey girls you have your answer and i thought i was really polite about it oh yeah your emoji
00:23:23string should be studied by emily post okay have you heard of boundaries amanda because this is me
00:23:29enforcing them okay wow well somebody's insurance covers therapy come on i am not enabling your
00:23:35situation my situation you mean the business i run with my family your husband's family
00:23:44okay now you sound like mama this is tough love amanda okay listen to me the second that you're
00:23:50ready to leave marionette and start your real life i'll be there to help you but i am not wasting
00:23:55one more second of my time in that place come on think of mama this would help her this would not
00:24:01help mama this would destroy her and i think you know that mama on tv mama's house on tv
00:24:08why do you really want this amanda i mean i know about the money but like why really
00:24:15amanda had told herself it was to help both her families to help the town
00:24:20but she also hoped that maybe if someone from outside all this mess came in they would see her
00:24:27her isolation and they'd help but instead of telling me that you know what it must be nice
00:24:34to think one hundred thousand dollars is no big deal miss new york city i'm a lefty so scissors
00:24:40were really hard anyway i guess that's my core trauma you know what this is really about you're
00:24:48ashamed of where you come from yep that's part of it i thought that would have packed more punch
00:24:54i'm sorry should i not be ashamed of being from marionette newsflash amanda being from some
00:24:58pathetic podunk town is embarrassing fine i didn't expect you to actually want to help well fine then
00:25:04i guess you're not disappointed
00:25:23well i can't let you inside this time now that we are officially at war where's gus
00:25:30is she coming back soon no it's pie night she bakes in a commercial kitchen now oh she does
00:25:37that's new oh was that a secret i are you spying for frannie's no i swear no
00:25:45may said no so i was just coming by to see if maybe that wasn't a deal breaker
00:25:53uh yeah well it was fun while it lasted
00:26:05hey wait wait maybe we can figure it out if we put our heads together you want to come in
00:26:12i do but you know it's not allowed i won't tell anyone it can be our secret
00:26:31all right
00:26:32excuse me sorry
00:26:50okay then all right oh seanathan thank goodness what do you think do these tea towels look a
00:26:57little raggedy the tea towels oh what am i saying of course they do look at this one it looks like a
00:27:04pitbull used it for a play thing i gotta get some new ones before that tv crew gets here nancy nancy
00:27:11bless your little heart i'm gonna tell you something because no one else will this is
00:27:15pitiful the tv people don't care about tea towels they care about people looking good and doing bad
00:27:22oh my well i don't know i think i'll just stay in a behind the scenes capacity and let the young
00:27:29ones take center stage i'm not fancy the only tea towel you need to worry about is that one right
00:27:34there ma'am when was the last time you were with a man oh shawna you're fresh i'm just saying you
00:27:40are a gorgeous vibrant single woman i like it you are about to be on tv stop worrying about those
00:27:51rags let's worry about these ones here let me help you
00:28:02oh they do sort of flatter don't they hell yeah they do now that is a woman who's about to win
00:28:10some money it's just such a good opportunity for everyone and now she's gonna slip through
00:28:17our fingers so you're really surprised there's a lot of drama between your families when the show
00:28:22was interested because there's a lot of drama between your families i was just trying to help
00:28:27the town help it have more drama no i'm just i i'm not like that i live a boring very boring life
00:28:38you have no idea i mean it's fine i love my family uh so you think mom would do it without may
00:28:49i know she could use the cash and if mimi's wins she'd get a lot of it right if look if kitchen
00:28:59clash coming is more about the publicity than the money for frannie's then why not guarantee
00:29:05money i don't know to her that either way frannie's and mimi's could split the winnings
00:29:10so even if she loses she still wins not an entirely bad idea i know i'm full of not entirely
00:29:19bad ideas i like it i just need to talk to my um the guy who um the guy the i'm your husband yes
00:29:36i'm sorry i haven't eaten today i have something for you
00:29:50don't be nervous it's vegetarian good it's a hush puppy
00:29:59um
00:30:03tasty right oh my god don't you think your mom should put it on the menu
00:30:08it's so good i mean that's the kind of thing you get a hankering for in the middle of the night
00:30:14well i'm always up
00:30:16so good okay bye bye
00:30:46huh
00:31:04now like i said hollywood didn't come knocking down marionette's door every day
00:31:09but when it did it didn't take long for mrs nancy hillier to take to the idea
00:31:17so
00:31:35she's getting a little bit for her breeches if you ask me
00:31:38hey miss nancy don't you look ready for your close-up
00:31:44kenneth does your aunt still have those trunk shows because i need some new clothes
00:31:51glamorous ones right are you out of your mind split the money that's giving away fifty thousand
00:31:58dollars or it's guaranteeing us fifty thousand dollars even if we lose like mimi's could beat
00:32:05us we aren't gonna lose man hon if gus finds out may's not coming she's gonna call the whole
00:32:09thing off before i can even offer her this deal why you gotta go and ruin this good thing me yeah
00:32:17look the way i see it we can either water the problem tree or the solution tree oh well i know
00:32:22who the problem tree is it's your mother can we please leave gus out of it whose side are you on
00:32:29these days okay so no to splitting it that's what you're saying hell yeah no fine i guess i'm just
00:32:34gonna have to tell everybody the whole thing's off i guess you will
00:32:46i've heard the rumors season two yes but we're gonna have to let you go what
00:32:53should i ask why your constant disparaging of stuff is a turnoff to advertisers who you know
00:33:00sell stuff but getting rid of stuff is the whole spirit of sparkling back me up see
00:33:08lolly doesn't do that people like lolly she's someone you want to go shopping with
00:33:14anytime but i am shocked too viewers find you elitist elitist why
00:33:22why i'm a lefty so scissors were really hard anyways i guess that's my core trauma
00:33:32oh my god you too oh yeah that's part of it
00:33:38newsflash amanda being from some pathetic podunk town is embarrassing
00:33:44you can see how that might alienate our rural viewers
00:33:48wait i'm talking about me i'm from a podunk i mean a small town in the south
00:33:55you're from the south yes you yes like the southern united states yes what is so confusing
00:34:02about that i thought southerners were supposed to be more polite i'm polite what's wrong with you
00:34:09i might tell it like it is which is a southern trait but it's a good balance to lolly's love
00:34:15and light crap no offense love and light please don't fire me don't think of this as being fired
00:34:22think of it as your contract not being renewed it's for the best take some time
00:34:27it's time to take time i i don't need time i need my job i need
00:34:33my
00:34:40this wasn't may's first panic attack rodeo
00:34:46her childhood wasn't exactly relaxing you see gus had a hoarding problem and as soon as may could
00:34:53she knew she had to get away from all that mess they don't go come with me but what about frank
00:35:00junior please i have to go my keys my keys how am i gonna hey where am i hey it's okay it's okay
00:35:13hey breathe breathe
00:35:20breathe
00:35:21uh
00:35:28you know we're gonna give you something new today you know try new things
00:35:32there's a vip in this line move to the front no i have to combine you're not fine yes yes
00:35:40you are single-handedly saving marinax main street i'm i'm i'm i'm sorry on the house
00:35:49i appreciate this i really do but i should pay oh come on you're like family kitchen
00:35:54clash is it coming that'll be 375 wait kitchen clash is off yeah then who are they
00:36:12what on earth
00:36:12wow this place is quaint as hell i feel like i'm in russia oh honey you say that about
00:36:25everything outside the boroughs oh gordo run some b-roll on that bird bath on it
00:36:31oh are you kidding me with this place
00:36:34you're early oh you must be amanda sabrina sky a pleasure to meet a fan we weren't expecting you
00:36:43till next week okay usually it's a pleasure we called i spoke to the owner the owner yeah uh
00:36:52that guy
00:36:56what the heck's going on frank junior you said you told her now don't pitch a hissy but your
00:37:01man took care of business what did you do now your plan was giving your mother half our winnings
00:37:07so i took matters into my own hands she's gonna have a harder time saying no but the camera's
00:37:12already rolling she's gonna be humiliated did you think about that she's not prepared
00:37:18she has no help and may's not here lands end amanda are you gonna stand here and nag at
00:37:23me all day or are you gonna help me promote our business so it can become a franchise
00:37:28i want a baby now don't you
00:37:34pardon me what do you think that's my mama family's family right
00:37:43some family's family i don't like the way that woman ices you out it deals my darn pickle
00:37:51you're always worrying about your good for nothing mom and your spotlight stealing sister
00:37:56this is your moment take it well
00:38:06hey mom nancy is that a pushover maybe i'm a single vibrant woman you know
00:38:14gus gus close the door
00:38:21okay we'll be here for two weeks at the end of which we'll have a final taste test amanda looked
00:38:27around and realized all this it was because of her she had done something something that would
00:38:34change everything she felt powerful she felt in control she was in control of her life
00:38:41powerful she felt in control what the heck hi i'm home she felt pissed
00:38:57hi i thought the answer was no and i bet y'all did too
00:39:03remember i told you may was prone to panicking
00:39:05may okay well cause of that she knew how to pivot
00:39:21thank you for the opportunity
00:39:25i have to take this
00:39:26um
00:39:35hey i was just thinking about y'all well someone changed my mind
00:39:49you called me i was trying to help you were trying to get in good with your cool famous
00:39:54aunt may that's what you're doing she's my aunt i can call her if i want fine
00:39:58when she disappoints you just don't come crying to me oh fine
00:40:05your mom sucks too huh i wouldn't say that
00:40:13is there anywhere to like party around here there's a hoedown every other friday
00:40:19i'm gonna die here
00:40:20here okay not the back way i know the truth
00:40:30gus you gotta come outside
00:40:34what the mama may you you came i thought you said you were never coming back here
00:40:42oh never say never besides when i heard you needed help i just knew i had to be here
00:40:48i lied i can't tell you how much that means sabrina sky
00:40:56may more it's been ages wait you know her i do in fact may and sabrina had history
00:41:07oh we're losing daylight you know but that is a story for another time
00:41:11everybody ready for all of this all right gordo counting down in five four
00:41:21three two and
00:41:29from an early age nancy knew the difference between a franny's girl and a mimi's girl
00:41:34i had nothing to say she listened when people talk and took it all in well you know what i
00:41:41heard i heard that little miss peggy m more is pregnant again who knows who the father is what
00:41:46did you expect from a mimi's girl what she gleaned was this franny's girls were upstanding
00:41:53they were debutantes they were wise and they were exemplary mothers then there were the mimi's girls
00:42:02loose a little odd and from the wrong side of the track
00:42:06sigmund freud might have something to say about dividing women into two categories
00:42:11but he never set foot in marionette there you were a good girl or a bad girl and nancy knew
00:42:18which one she wanted to be well hey there big jim how's magnolia nancy loved to be the woman
00:42:27behind the man and she planned on doing that forever she took till death do us part to heart
00:42:35but that parting happened much sooner than she expected
00:42:43nancy started to wonder if a franny's girl was a wife and a mother
00:42:48hmm thanks mom what the hell was she supposed to do now two chicken restaurants will go to war
00:42:57but only one will rule the roost taking the title of best fried chicken in marionette
00:43:02get ready to grub it's kitchen clash first let's check out mimi's a local institution
00:43:10no can't do that why not yeah why not we just painted in there it's still wet it's gonna have
00:43:16to wait seriously cut well i guess that's a company move great everyone let's relocate to
00:43:23franny's i am so sorry saps but we'll be ready to shoot asap look you know how this works you
00:43:30can't just remove me they painted in there i'm just getting caught up myself how are you you
00:43:36look amazing no you look amazing i don't know what you're doing but you're doing it right
00:43:41nothing so those two know each other gorgeous yeah i didn't know that this is where i'm from
00:43:49lucky for me miss oh i'm sure it's fine lattes on me we'll catch up soon for sure yeah
00:43:59hey guys can we just circle up really quick okay look i know it's everyone's first time on tv
00:44:06is that me i know what you're probably thinking you're like whoa what is that thing pointed at me
00:44:12how am i supposed to be right now we know what cameras are right of course you do look i'm just
00:44:18saying we gotta be smart right i mean we don't want to come across as like a bunch of feuding
00:44:22hillbillies is that what you think we are no no i'm one of you i i just thought i could offer
00:44:28myself as a resource you know like i thought maybe i could lead us in some ad hoc media training
00:44:34like tomorrow morning i think we're all busy right y'all mom don't be rude she's trying to
00:44:39help yeah exactly thank you sweetheart and she's been on tv man she's kind of the expert she'll
00:44:44know what they want i know what they want i'm the one who got them here can't hurt to hear her out
00:44:50can it sorry okay so it's settled tomorrow morning bright and early okay got it gotta go now
00:44:57hi sweetie
00:45:01well your sister acts like she works at nasa just tv anybody with half a brain can do it
00:45:07many do exactly that's what i mean finally someone's on my side oh i'm not on your side
00:45:17team mimi's mom are you coming yeah
00:45:21yeah team franny's
00:45:30come on frankie let's go okay what was all this about mimi's being painted oh i just want to make
00:45:37sure that before the cameras come in that everything's up to snuff that's all up to
00:45:41who's snuff yours mama i took time off of my tv show because i really wanted to make sure that
00:45:47mimi's had a fair shot oh it has a fair shot and it doesn't need any bells and whistles we
00:45:53serve the best fried chicken and everybody knows okay mama can you
00:45:56please just let me do what i do all right i i am here to help okay
00:46:04fine you're already here so i guess you can just go ahead oh but i am not paying for it oh mama
00:46:11thank you that is such a good start well what do you mean a good start nothing let's talk about
00:46:15this later okay i just want to go take off these clothes go check into my room i've been traveling
00:46:19all day oh so you you're staying at the inn then well yeah i i just thought that my old room would
00:46:27be unavailable no yeah i don't like company anyway you know who owns the old inn now don't you
00:46:36kenneth
00:46:38kenneth is in marinac
00:46:44this room has a view right maybe oh i think i booked a room with a view
00:46:50will it be a hardship for you to not have one no great i'm gonna get your key may didn't know if
00:46:58she was excited or scared to see kenneth again he was her childhood best friend they hadn't
00:47:04stayed in touch and it was sort of her fault actually definitely her fault no did he hold
00:47:11it against her i can't believe it kenneth you'd never come back here
00:47:19oh my god you look the same stop it i see you met my husband patrick patrick
00:47:24look this is may oh that's your husband i don't think he's a fan i always like that with everyone
00:47:34oh i cannot believe that you are back here i thought that you'd moved to
00:47:42chicago chicago yes i did for a while and it was fun but then some family stuff brought us back
00:47:48here and when i saw the historic inn for sale i thought what if we stayed i mean it looks
00:47:53incredible the windows were all boarded up when i left well it's amazing what new floors a
00:47:58pastry of period specific windows custom weighing scotting and thousands of hours of backbreaking
00:48:02labor can do one marionette building down the rest you go let's start with mimi's yes yes wait
00:48:11does gus know you want to do that yes and she approved it barely she must be thrilled you're
00:48:19back to have agreed to that i'm sorry have you ever seen my mother thrilled i think the most
00:48:23enthusiastic i've ever heard her saying that's okay so when do we start so here's what i'm seeing
00:48:32we're walking in we're customers at franny's who is greeting us oh that'd be frank jr he's
00:48:38the face of franny's great so we're gonna roll on you handing me the menu seating me
00:48:44showing me that famous southern hospitality you ready frank jr born ready ma'am great okay
00:48:54you want to hand me the menu
00:48:56oh
00:49:00cut so you're looking directly at camera
00:49:05i was yeah it's okay cameras make people nervous it's completely normal let's try it again okay
00:49:14welcome to franny's
00:49:18see now your eyes are closed yeah but i was trying not to look at the camera
00:49:25hmm okay that's a solution
00:49:30are you done yet i'm so over this oh okay um i'm calling an audible uh nancy can i speak
00:49:38with you of course you're gonna have to do it oh no frank jr is usually so photogenic the portrait
00:49:46artist at sears said he could have been a baby model okay here's the thing i had to move the
00:49:51whole production over here because of painting at mimi's bake now i have to deal with this
00:49:57idiosyncratic handsome man who's just not ready for shooting can you please help me
00:50:05out so i can get something i can use today before my kid goes full team meltdown on me
00:50:12please i'm not photogenic at all honestly okay i'll do my best okay frank darling we're gonna
00:50:20give nancy a shot okay sorry i'm sorry honey he's fine now let's see how franny's welcomes a customer
00:50:31okay okay
00:50:35welcome to franny's where strangers are friends and friends are family
00:50:40right this way to the best seat in the house come on
00:50:51hey y'all are leaving uh yeah we just finished up with nancy was there something that you needed
00:50:57actually yes um could we speak privately sure of course let's go back inside nancy head on
00:51:07back to the hotel okay and do what just rot while you work no mom bedrotting is just so over
00:51:12i don't care what you do just do something mother of the year everyone i could show you around town
00:51:18tomorrow maybe it could be fun or something to do see look at that huh you just made a new friend
00:51:25friends no this is a random team yeah and to her you are also a random team go be random teens
00:51:33together okay let's go back well it was nice seeing you again hey
00:51:46oh don't mind gordo he has some footage to look over uh so i don't mean to be a bother
00:51:53but i just want to make sure franny's is gonna get a fair shake here
00:51:57of course he will why would you be worried about that well may is your friend may
00:52:04yeah i saw you two talking this pretty familiar oh honey i know may more that is true but we are
00:52:12not friends oh let's just say in my experience may's not someone who's easy to be close to
00:52:19don't i know it hey mom i thought no one was going to talk to people from the show
00:52:24until after may's meeting tomorrow frankie that's not polite that's fine that's fine
00:52:28she's so smart you know what you are so smart i bet you you are top of your class huh
00:52:35hey hon can you do me a favor i am starved i'd love to have some of those famous franny's
00:52:41biscuits can you go to the kitchen and whip some up go thanks doll
00:52:49ha ha wow i see she's got your daughter on her side classic may wait what's your history with
00:52:58may oh i've known may forever i met her when she was going out on her first job in new york
00:53:03oh at donkey's i'm sorry what did you say her first job yeah
00:53:12uh i've um it's not no i'm i'm did you say donkeys like the butt restaurant yeah she
00:53:26worked at the one in time square i i thought that's what you meant i'm sorry may more
00:53:30polished prim may more may more who wrote clutter no more wore hot pants and served
00:53:37deep fried queso to tourists going to blue man group
00:53:50hello hi may i was really worried i'm so sorry i should have called you sooner it's fine so
00:53:58what's the family emergency is everyone okay i can't get into it right now it's actually
00:54:03really overwhelming so why don't i come help you no no you don't you don't have to do that
00:54:09you don't have to do that my family they are they're a lot may we're engaged your mom and
00:54:15your sister they're gonna become my family too i'm gonna have to meet them at some point aren't i
00:54:20why not now see here's may's trouble ever since she got that ring on her finger she knew she'd
00:54:25have to come clean but every time she had a window she said it's just not a great time
00:54:31ever since may arrived the focus has been on her how do you feel about that it's a little unfair
00:54:38a little sure may's been on tv but i came here to tell your story the one you emailed about you're
00:54:45the one who made all of this happen but may came in and made it all about her and everybody let her
00:54:52have you always been in your sister's shadow um i mean as kids we were close
00:55:02what if may was in your shadow for once what if the next time you saw her it was you taking charge
00:55:10you getting the credit you're the hero of the story amanda you're the one who stayed you were
00:55:18the one in the middle let's make you look like the star you are hey i've been meaning to ask you
00:55:25can i use your inns lobby tomorrow for a little meeting i offered a media train everyone just
00:55:30because i've been on tv before and they have it so really how'd that go over honestly amanda was
00:55:37touchy about it which was weird what it's weird you show up here after years of being gone and
00:55:45steamrolled your sister do you think maybe that's why she's a bit touchy ow i did not steamroll her
00:55:50i'm helping helping do you remember when amanda wanted to put on a show when we were kids and you
00:55:57offered to help but then told her she was doing everything wrong and it ended up being just you
00:56:01and me to put on the show okay i simply don't see how that's relevant and also everybody loved our
00:56:08production of the elder siblings variety however we sold out that whole summer that was great but
00:56:13this is her thing amanda's the reason that kitchen clash was coming to marinac and you just kind of
00:56:18showed up and made it my thing oh yeah right god you're always right you suck i miss you too
00:56:26hmm
00:56:38junior you've had a bee in your bonnet all evening you want to talk about it i blew it i had my
00:56:45moment and i choked what would daddy say about today i think daddy would say he's proud of you
00:56:51for doing your best it's normal to be nervous in front of a camera it's not natural it feels
00:56:56funny you didn't seem to have a problem you know what i think happened for you
00:57:02that woman was telling you where to walk and what to say wasn't you you're not used to being bossed
00:57:08around you're the boss maybe that's what it was now if you were on camera doing something you're
00:57:14passionate about it'd be a whole nother story don't you reckon now it might seem like nancy
00:57:22coddles the boy well there's a reason for that there's something you don't know about franny's
00:57:28girls now franny's girls are picture perfect in public this one's gonna be a girl i can just tell
00:57:37so anything that didn't go perfectly they had to keep that private
00:57:41well try again i'll take you near the park so you can get some rest don't you worry
00:57:50tomorrow's a new day don't you worry tomorrow's a new day
00:58:12okay
00:58:33so that's what i usually do ah natural beauty that's code for sloppy i'm gonna help you okay
00:58:42let's just get rid of these well i just blend it a little bit more
00:58:46yeah blend it a lot more like all the way off
00:58:50hey mama hi nice to see you nancy i don't believe i've met your new chef
00:58:57hi i'm nancy hillier don't talk to her nice to meet you
00:59:04i want you to know that no matter what comes of all this i wish you luck augusta oh the hell you
00:59:10do and unless you are the police or my dead mama you are never to call me augusta again
00:59:18where's amanda she's the last one here as usual you know i find it so comforting that my sister
00:59:24has such a loving supportive husband and i love to be reminded my wife has a sister at all when
00:59:30was the last time you were even here or when you know the one where you left early listen up may
00:59:35you may know your way around the set but you're in my house now you're absolutely right what
00:59:43i'm right you're right i could i steal her for a second
00:59:54i have been meaning
00:59:55to talk to you what are you looking i'm sorry you look so pretty i got distracted i love your
01:00:07hair like this thanks i mean i've been telling you to style it like that for i don't want to
01:00:13anyway anyway i owe you an apology i showed up and i took over this was your thing and i
01:00:20steamrolled you i'm so sorry i hadn't given it another thought well not that many other thoughts
01:00:31i know i can be controlling obviously i just look this isn't an excuse but i mean to be honest i
01:00:38just i got scared there are a lot of secrets about our family about me that i just don't
01:00:49want out there and i let that get the better of my good sense but can you forgive me
01:00:56it's fine yeah i mean we all make mistakes sometimes and we don't have to have this
01:01:01meeting that was an insulting idea you weren't born yesterday you know how to comport yourself
01:01:06no i mean it can't hurt right just in case i'm not for me but for okay well if you think so
01:01:14okay so i have been thinking and i think that the story we should be telling isn't that there's a
01:01:20team mimi's or a team franny's there's just one team team marinac we could be civil we could be
01:01:26kind we could just not air any dirty laundry and keep it focused on the food now look i know that
01:01:32sounds easy but i'm gonna warn you i have done sabrina's job before and she's here to produce
01:01:38a show and she will do whatever it takes she'll triangulate you she'll manipulate you
01:01:47i even would convince people that i was their best friend just to get their guard down
01:01:52oh hey everyone did you all see bestie's makeover
01:01:56hmm she actually thinks you're gonna fall for that what may didn't know is that amanda already had
01:02:11nancy there's my star are you ready for your close-up real quick
01:02:17frank jr has to show you something and it's very special follow me
01:02:21oh
01:02:25so i built a keezer which is basically a freezer with a keg right in there and there's an insulated
01:02:32run that goes through the drywall and attaches to the taps which are hankar cut okay so i gotta
01:02:39be honest with you we're here for the chicken well sure and the chicken's great but i personally put
01:02:46this bar in it's my passion and my contribution to frannie's and here's the thing i built the
01:02:54keezer myself wow yeah you worked so hard on that well nancy can i speak with you oh yes
01:03:04so there's only so many days i'm shooting in here and i've got a lot to cover i don't have
01:03:09time for the sidetracks and the word keezer is really unpleasant to my ears i'd love to
01:03:15shoot with just you please nancy please nancy okay great frank jr we're good okay gordo
01:03:31nancy tell us what does frannie's mean to you
01:03:39oh hey kenneth could you just help me take this menu down and then kenneth could you put it back
01:03:43up again that menu is not going anywhere oh mama i'm gonna make you a new menu a nice one you're
01:03:48gonna love it can i take it down i love the one that's there it's staying mama that menu is trash
01:03:55can i take it down and put it in a dumpster how dare you what if i need that someday
01:04:01this was a mantra of gus's there wasn't a hunk of junk in the county that gus didn't want to
01:04:07take in like it was a straight pup mama come on i'm late to school it's a perfectly good chair
01:04:14we can't let the rain get it we have no room for it well i'll make room i might need it someday
01:04:21well i'm sorry ladies this is not gonna work whatever you two need to do to relax
01:04:34you need to do it
01:04:40so this is main street and this is the bridge like over the river and this is where mccann
01:04:49are buried i'll probably be buried right there wait you know what i'm missing in new york right
01:04:57now all my friends are at a festival in what used to be a tv hospital i heard marshmallow is going
01:05:02to be there oh um well we don't have that but uh we do have a lock-in at a church where they make
01:05:12s'mores i know oh i would love to go to new york actually i'm going on the fallen's day of my aunt
01:05:21may i have an audition at nyu you're not gonna get in i mean i just i know friends that were
01:05:31on broadway and they didn't even get in it's basically impossible oh so do you guys have like
01:05:37a bodega out here uh i don't know what that is like a store for groceries no like for weird hot
01:05:47dogs and like off-brand candy it's like a grab-and-go what's a grab-and-go it's a bodega
01:05:55out she thinks she's better than me she has barged in and started running her mouth about
01:06:01oh changing this and changing that and she just she just wants to just to make everything all
01:06:07different well different doesn't have to mean bad when we first started meeting up you were scared
01:06:16are you worried about what people are gonna say yeah because people are ding-a-lings
01:06:20i know i do but you push through that fear and you try something different
01:06:28how'd that work out for you
01:06:32i guess it worked out okay
01:06:36maybe this is like that
01:06:43uh gotta get going yeah family dinner okay
01:06:46okay all right then go on
01:06:57so my mom and i got along for exactly 10 minutes before we started bickering again
01:07:01i just hoped it would be different that maybe she would appreciate that i'm here you think she's not
01:07:08happy you're here she values your opinion and you came in here criticizing her of course she's upset
01:07:15okay what are you her therapist no i'm her friend you're friends with my mom yeah and we're neighbors
01:07:25she's changed a lot in the past couple years i didn't just stop because you left town
01:07:29what on earth do you two have to talk about well she was really there for me when my mom died
01:07:37your mom died oh my was that the family stuff you were talking about yeah
01:07:45a couple years ago my mom got sick so patrick and i moved back here to help oh i should have asked
01:07:53i steamrolled you just like i steamrolled amanda like i steamroll everyone are you okay yes i am
01:08:01are you okay yes i am
01:08:05but i miss her every day yeah she was the best
01:08:16all right i'm over it do whatever you want
01:08:21are you crying i'll give you something to cry about she's just hungry probably no i'm fine
01:08:28may you're saying you're not gonna eat your mom's cooking uh-huh fried chicken is not exactly on my
01:08:32protocol these days lord gus this girl duncombe forgot where she came from this man more you are
01:08:40gonna eat a plate and you are gonna like it gus was not a warm and fuzzy woman hell she thought a
01:08:49handshake was pda but that didn't mean gus didn't love deeply and this was how she showed it through
01:08:57her food
01:09:13and for the first time in a long time may ate she hadn't eaten her mom's food since she left
01:09:22and with every bite she felt that love
01:09:30cheers hell we could really win this competition as long as you do not change a single thing about
01:09:38this food for real you touch this menu i go right back home and gus knew this was how may showed love
01:09:44by being bossy well uh i want to hit the hay night mama
01:09:54you know different can be hard for me but uh i know that you're here to help me may so thank you
01:10:05holy hell did gus martin's face up and nice we're gonna need another bottle just for that uh get to
01:10:28here it is the store
01:10:31yeah you think this will work here is this a fake id
01:10:40are you sure it's a good idea oh are you sure it's a good idea that's what you sound like
01:10:46okay oh it's your good impressions what does that prove it's not gonna work
01:10:50work well it looks like amanda had pinned the may on the donkeys but may couldn't let on that
01:11:04she was more spun out than a car in an ice storm so she played it cool ha ha ha ha ha ha
01:11:21she is not okay
01:11:32in your face they sold you beer you're underage what took you so long have you been in there
01:11:38not a good selection wait so you live in narnia with nothing to do and you haven't tried to buy
01:11:42beer uh-uh why not is that little frankie hillier you are not of the legal drinking age
01:11:51hey how'd it go over there did your dad's not for the cameras uh i wouldn't say that uh sabrina
01:12:08i need to talk to you about the show hey that's what i want after a long day
01:12:11a conversation about work i'm sorry but what i told you about may earlier you're not gonna
01:12:17use that on the show are you because i know that's a juicy detail and i know y'all have
01:12:22history but that's my sister and this is my life and it would really mess us up if that were to
01:12:30end up public knowledge can you understand that of course that's why it'll make great tv
01:12:37i gotta get back to work amanda had thought she and sabrina were making friends but you can put
01:12:43your boots in the oven that don't make them biscuits sabrina listen um i'm just gonna
01:12:51uh i'm sorry i just i gotta take this hello
01:12:58are you serious
01:13:01dadgummit all right thanks sheriff everything okay frankie was caught buying beer
01:13:11underage oh tough break with lindsey oh she's trying to kill me um i gotta get over there and
01:13:18i i walked here can i ride with you babe i've never driven a day in my life and the only vehicle
01:13:23i have is a transpo van when i get my hands on that kid come on i'll drive you ah thank you
01:13:32can't believe our girls wouldn't do that
01:13:35i'll help you can't be tricky
01:13:42there you go thanks
01:13:48look you don't have to tell me but whatever it is i'm sure they'll work itself out
01:13:53i never should have come here nothing good ever came out of marinac i know that
01:13:59i i don't know why i thought this would be any different
01:14:02this would be any different where are you going that my dear it's my cue to leave oh
01:14:08i wasn't talking about you obviously have a good night may fine be that way
01:14:24sorry ladies the law is the law yeah but we can make a deal right how would you like to be heavily
01:14:30featured in kitchen clash pass what'd you think i was gonna get blonde tips and start eating caesar
01:14:40salads what i don't know it's a thing here and trying to coerce an officer of the law is a big
01:14:46no-no ma'am i'm afraid i'm gonna have to bring these two down to the station i got this hey
01:14:54fast steady do you remember that time after we beat the marauders in the playoffs you and the
01:14:59rest of the team got a case and climbed the water tower hell yeah i do those were the glory days
01:15:05what of it i just feel like it's kind of funny that that same boy grew up to arrest teenagers
01:15:13for just trying to have a little fun that is kind of funny so come on can't you just
01:15:20forget all this send these girls home with just a slap on the wrist
01:15:23all right
01:15:31you can go home with your mothers but don't let me catch you pulling stunts like this again
01:15:37yeah yeah yes sir sheriff lawrence
01:15:43i'm gonna see about a six-pack thanks
01:15:46thank you of course us moms of teenagers gotta stick together yeah well i owe you one well
01:15:54don't put may secret out there i'm not this again come on i don't want to embarrass her
01:16:00she came here to help me she took time away from her job at sparkling is that what she told you
01:16:06no may was fired from sparkling but look you did me a solid tonight and while i can't promise i'll
01:16:15keep may secret i will keep yours mine yeah i won't run with the obvious chemistry between you
01:16:21and sergio wait you think he likes me not that i i hadn't even noticed him well shoot amanda had
01:16:29no idea that it was that darn obvious hey i got us some victory slushies no one's gonna jail tonight
01:16:37tonight oh how thoughtful of you sergio to get amanda's slushy and not me
01:16:48hey honey i brought you some apple pie i'm not hungry what's your favorite look
01:16:55i know you're upset with how it went today i sure didn't want it to go that way could have fooled
01:16:59me excuse me you know what mama i think you love the spotlight you and your new clothes strutting
01:17:06around for the camera like some kind of show pony you made a fool of yourself now frank junior that
01:17:12is no way to talk to your mother well that was no way to act as my mother you were an embarrassment
01:17:18today what would daddy think there was a catch to being a franny's girl that nancy had never realized
01:17:26even if your whole life you'd done the right thing the proper thing
01:17:30if you ever stepped out from behind the man ever took your spot in the sun
01:17:34you could be dismissed and degraded just like a mimi's girl
01:17:49may was thinking how could people treat her this way she was here to help herself sure but
01:17:54also the town and this is the thing she gets well if amanda wants to fight she's gonna get it
01:18:05thanks for the ride hey on second thought i needed to swing back by the inn and talk to me
01:18:10about what i need to apologize for something oh about talking to sabrina when i told you not to
01:18:17oh don't you start i will send you right back to jail uh can i get a ride back with you sure
01:18:25you know i think we all made some mistakes today oh you think you're getting off that easy we are
01:18:31gonna be having a big old chat about what happened your lady tomorrow great do you hear me i hear you
01:18:38mama all right hey gordo where's sabrina i i need to speak with her oh i'm sure she's gone to sleep
01:18:55oh can i help
01:19:01maybe you see i was doing my best but i've never been on camera before and i did not realize how i
01:19:09was coming off so i was hoping that maybe you could just delete that footage how do you think
01:19:16you're coming off like a fool
01:19:24thank you i so appreciate it oh i'm not deleting any of this footage the camera loves you loves me
01:19:33now come on now don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining okay i have no idea what you just
01:19:39said but look what does frannie's mean to me well no one's ever asked me that before
01:19:50well frannie's it means the world to me
01:19:54how many people can say they wake up with a pep in their step to go to work with their family
01:19:59i'm the luckiest girl in the world i get to spend so much time with my son and his wife amanda
01:20:04the joy she brings to my life she's the daughter i never had
01:20:15anyway i'm just going on and on and what i'm trying to say is that
01:20:20when i'm down and the world just seems crazy when i come into this place everything is just
01:20:29oh fine and i hope that everyone who comes in here feels that way too
01:20:37that's me
01:20:40that's me
01:20:47so what terrible thing did you do to your sister
01:20:52i might have told something i shouldn't have
01:20:54i've i've been private with mace oh i want to hear
01:21:02you're no fun
01:21:05so did you ever get busted buying beer underage no i'm just a little goody two-shoes weirdo
01:21:13just always doodling like that chicken on the side i like her yeah i like her too
01:21:20is that what you drew mostly chickens yeah it's what i still draw okay interesting news
01:21:30yeah i know
01:21:33they were just you know always around i guess i just got attached
01:21:40no wonder you won't eat him yeah
01:21:45i guess i've just been you know drawing the same thing my whole life
01:21:50uh i'm sure it evolves yeah yeah it does
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01:22:50amanda saw the last remnant of her mimi's painted over like it was a chipping window frame
01:22:56as a nice franny's girl amanda knew two wrongs don't make a right but they sure do make it even
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