"Oh." "You're here." "Yes, it's my house." "Now it's my turn." ""Oh." "You're here."" "With good reason." "Kendra and I are dropping your little ones off at sleepovers." "The least I can do for allowing me to live in your garage." "And marry your daughter." "All of it." "Um..." "And just know, I respect your boundaries, so please, pretend I'm invisible." "I like that." "But it's hard to pretend you're invisible when I can still see you." "So..." "Psst..." "Back a little bit." "Yeah, there you go." "Oh." "Still got a little peripheral on you." "Right there." "Yeah." "Back..." "Back..." "There ya go." "KENDRA:" "Dad?" "Yeah." "Ugh." "Dad." "Okay." "I cannot study up there." "This is ridiculous." "I shouldn't have to share a room with my baby sister." "It's torture." "Oh, come on, it's not that bad." "All right?" "Oh, it is." "She's biting her fingernails and spitting them into a Gatorade bottle." "Okay." "My Gatorade bottle." "At least she's grooming, all right?" "It's a step in the right direction." "C'mon, Dad, why can't I just live in the garage with Chale?" "I mean, we're engaged." "Yeah." "Exactly, you're not married yet." "If ever." "My house, my rules." "Fine." "But we are gonna revisit this." "Absolutely." "Right after the wedding." "And even then, probably not." "Dad, I love you." "Oh." "Have fun tonight, okay?" "I took 10 dollars out of your wallet, but I told you, so it's not stealing." "I only took five, because you raised me right." "Boom!" "Here we go..." "There we are." "Nice." "Okay." "Oh." "Oh." "Oh!" "Hey, honey." "Hey." "Dug too deep on your bread bowl again, didn't you?" "I did." "Yeah." "The store was a madhouse." "Oh." "What..." "A slab of brie?" "Yeah." "What's my rule on cheese?" "Yes." "If it's not individually wrapped, forget that crap." "Yes." "Don't worry, it's not for you." "My book club's coming over tonight." "It's gonna be fun." "I got the guys here tonight." "No." "Go to Mott's house." "He's got a big place." "Yeah, he's also got seven kids." "And the twins are usually in a naked slap fight." "Well, I'm not canceling." "It's my first time hosting." "I'm excited." "Excited?" "Oh, let me see." "Yeah." "Baseball..." "Book club." "Ooh." "(IMITATES TOILET FLUSHING)" "♪I amnotyour ordinaryguy♪" "Sorry I'm late." "My mom's foot veins are flaring' up again." "Tell your mother to plop her feet in a bucket of hot water for 10 minutes, then ice 'em, then back to heat." "See, I heard it was ice, heat, ice." "Heat." "Ice." "Guys, guys, guys." "Hey, do me a favor." "Slow down on this conversation 'cause I wanna catch all the... (SNORES)" "(WOMEN LAUGHING IN OTHER ROOM)" "What's goin' on in there?" "Oh." "Donna's got her book club." "I don't know what they're doing, but it sounds pretty wild." "(LAUGHS)" "Hey, it's pretty wild in here too." "I'll get us more chips." "Let's focus on the game." "Mets are only down by nine." "Let's change the mojo." "Switch seats, move around." "Oh, no." "I got this." "I got this." "WOMEN:" "Chug!" "Chug!" "Chug!" "(WOMEN CHEERING)" "Oh, I'm sorry, honey." "Are we getting too loud?" "No." "Were we getting too loud?" "To be honest, we didn't even know you were still in there." "Have there been people in that room the whole night?" "Oh yeah, it's off the chain." "(WOMEN CONTINUE LAUGHING)" "We moved." "The Phillies scored." "We moved back." "C'mon guys." "Motty, shotgun!" "Yeah, get on it." "What the hell?" "C'mon, chug it." "I don't want to chug it." "You chipped it." "I didn't chip it." "Chug it." "You chipped it, guy." "Get him a towel!" "Fine!" "(WOMEN LAUGHING)" "Everything okay in there?" "Yeah, you know what, it's just great..." "Mott puked." "Oh yeah, it reached the next level." "Woo!" "(WOMEN CONTINUE LAUGHING)" "(GIGGLING)" "Hmm." "What's up?" "Oh, nothing." "Just something that happened in the book club." "Oh." "(LAUGHING)" "What?" "We had something too." "Duffy was riffing about his mom's foot veins." "Hilarious." "Whoa, you guys had ribs?" "Yeah, our book had a southern theme, so everybody brought something." "Gina brought Kentucky bourbon, Danielle brought biscuits." "And Laura, some pretty racy stories from the Bahamas." "Was there any book readin'?" "Well, we start with the book." "Then the drinks flow, and before you know it we're trying to sign Gina up for whipped cream wrestling at a bar in Ronkonkoma." "Which we all agreed would be very irresponsible." "So, it's like this every week?" "Well, yeah, ever since we got rid of this one girl, Tammi." "Dead weight." "All she would do is talk about her cat." "We get it, you didn't rescue her, she rescued you." "Total downer." "Anyway... (RASPBERRY) cut her loose." "You just kicked someone out of the group?" "Well, I didn't." "Danielle did." "But yeah, if they're not bringin' it, they gotsta go." "Waitress!" "How about a couple more slices, huh?" "Does Mom know you're eating this?" "Okay, you know what?" "Do me a favor." "Listen up, all right?" "This is where I hang out." "My safe place." "And when I got you this job, we laid down some rules and regs." "Remember?" "I do." "Always top off your drink." "If you ask for regular cheese, it means double cheese." "Double means triple." "And if Mom asks, you ate something with carrots." "And most important?" "And if there's a pizza made by mistake, you guys get first crack at it." "Boom." "So..." "You're probably wondering why I summonsed you here today." "Not really." "We're here every day." "True." "But today's different." "I summonsed you." "You texted us." "It's a summons, guy." "Summons." "Anyway, it doesn't matter." "Last night was a real eye-opener." "And it brings me to a question." "Is this as good as it gets?" "I guess if it had mushrooms." "And they burned the crust a little." "Not the pizza." "I mean this..." "Life." "I mean, come on." "When we were on the force, talking about our dream retirement, is this is what we pictured?" "Kinda." "I mean, every day can't be the Fourth of July." "This is like July fifth." "Hey, my aunt's birthday." "Hey, focus." "Last night, six women in a book club completely lapped us." "A book club." "I'm gonna let that sink in for a minute." "You want us to start a book club?" "No, I want you to ask yourself," ""What do I bring to the table?" Mott, tell me why you're an asset." "Why do I wanna be in the Mott business?" "Well..." "I'm honest." "I live close by." "There you go." "I think my minivan's a plus." "Hold up, you're evaluating us?" "Think about it, how do baseball teams get better?" "They evaluate performance." "This is just an informal, yet permanent record of who's contributing what." "Yeah, maybe we should evaluate you." "Evaluate me?" "Already did." ""Insane leadership skills." "Laser focused, but with a playful side."" "The only negative, I "care too much."" "Yeah, you left something out." ""Bully." You're a bully." "I'm out." "Yeah, me too." "Oh." "Okay." "Mott, let's go, you drove." "(LAUGHING)" "I'm right behind you." "Don't turn around." "I'm just going to use the microwave." "Hey, Chale." "Still invisible, still invisible." "Okay." "You can use the microwave." "And by the way, you wanna sit down and watch the game?" "No reason we can't get to know each other." "My heart wants to believe you, but..." "My brain says this is a trap." "It's not a trap." "(LAUGHING NERVOUSLY)" "You almost got me, but not today." "(WOMEN CONTINUE LAUGHING)" "That's where the book loses me." "Would an educated woman be with a guy that stupid and self-centered?" "Don't answer that, I'm in the room." "Anyway, I made way too much of my special onion dip." "So ladies, have at it." "I'm going to bed." "Wow." "This is insane." "What's in this?" "It's just herbs, some sour cream, and a special ingredient I'm not at liberty to tell you." "But I will." "Lipton onion soup." "(LAUGHING)" "'Night, honey." "Yeah, good night." "Okay." "Wait." "Kevin, you're a guy." "Thank you." "If you had to pick between a slutty servant woman or an educated governess, who would you choose to help you on a cattle drive?" "Ah, that age old question." "First I have to ask, how long is this cattle drive?" "And what does a guy have to do to get a glass of merlot around here?" "Um..." "Oh!" "Okay." "Hmm." "Ooh." "Pretty bouquet." "I like it." "(GIGGLING)" "What's so funny?" "I was just thinking about Steph." "When she was ripping on her husband for wearing skinny jeans." "I was literally crying." "I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." "We've never had a husband join us..." "And stay until the very, very end." "Anyway, thanks for letting me hang out." "No problem." "Next week I promise I'm just gonna blend in." "Next week?" "Honey, is there something going on with the guys that I don't know about?" "Guys?" "You mean the weak links that are weighing me down?" "They hadsta go." "(PHONE CHIMES) Oh." "No, Nancy, you're the best." "Smiley face, smiley face with glasses, dynamite." "Where's the food?" "I got hungry women out there." "No, no." "It's gotta sit for a minute." "Nothing worse than runny lasagna." "So, any single ladies in this club?" "Hey, this is about literature." "You can't hook your own brother up?" "I'm on call at the fire house right now." "I'm doing this as a favor." "I can't." "I'm a newbie myself." "I've only been there a few weeks." "I'll tell you what, I'll float your name and see how it washes out." "I'll start 'em with this." "Here you go ladies." "I thought everybody would enjoy a little cru-dite, which is just a posh way of saying raw vegetables." "It's crudite." "Ooh, French language police are here, take me away." "Kidding!" "You're my Yoda." "You are." "I think someone's looking for you." "What are you doing?" "Nothing." "Just, the one on the chair over there, she's kinda cute." "She gave me the eye." "That's 'cause she hasn't seen a handlebar mustache since 1974." "Sorry about that." "You know, we should probably start talking about the book now." "Before we do, I wanna thank you girls for embracing me." "I know that being here is not a right, it's a privilege, and everybody's gotta step up..." "You don't have to step up, sweetie." "Just sit there, and..." "Just sit there." "No, what I bring, and what I think you ladies have latched on to, is a male perspective." "Right?" "I'm not saying The Honeybee and the Looking Glass isn't a great book..." "But how 'bout we throw "a curve ball" and light this party on fire?" "TheDrewOttStory." ""This shortstop played more minor league baseball games than anyone in history." ""But on the day he finally gets called up to the big leagues, tragedy strikes..." ""...him out."" "I'm not sure that's something we'd..." "Wanna read." "Danielle, I know you have a problem with commitment, but don't miss this boat like you did with Tyler." "Sorry, but somebody had to say it." "You were all thinking it." "Honey, I think this would be a good time to get those broccoli pinwheels going?" "I'm in the middle..." "No, it's okay." "I'll help you." "Okay, fine." "Look, I know you think it's a book about baseball, but it's not." "It's about life." "Honey, you're out of the club." "What?" "I'm sorry." "You gotsta go." "But everyone loves me." "They loved it when you came the first night, but you're like triple chocolate cake." "It's great one time, but you can't eat it every night." "That's not a good analogy for me." "Okay, sweetheart, it's a girls' club." "I know something happened with you and your friends, but you have to work that out." "'Cause the book club is my time." "Oh, I see, it's..." "Okay." "You're jealous because I'm fitting in a little too well." "I'm stealing your thunder." "All right, I got it." "No..." "I'm not the only one who feels this way." "Now you're telling me your friends don't want me in the group?" "Yeah." "Wow." "Wow." "This is sad." "This is so, so sad." "Sad." "Allow me to read a text." "Okay." "Yeah." "Okay." "Here we go." "Ready?" "Me, "See you Tuesday, Lisa." Her response, "Sounds good, Kev."" ""Sounds good, Kev." Mmm-hmm." "Okay." "From Nancy..." ""If we have book club at my house, do you think Kevin will show up?"" "It's all in how you're reading it." "I see it as," ""Do you think Kevin will show up?"" "Uh-huh." "All right." "Well, this one..." "It's not even a text." "It's just a picture of you with the word "OUT" underneath it." "She took my head and put it on a manatee's body." "I'm sorry, honey." "Wow." "So, that's it?" "Well, I guess I'll just finish out the night." "Mmm, no." "Ladies, it's been brought to my attention that I may not be your cup of tea." "Some of you even consider me a little pushy..." "With the body of a manatee." "So I guess this is goodbye." "Annie, I told you things I've never told another human being." "Cake balls are in the freezer." "And the merlot should breathe a few minutes before serving." "But what do I know?" "No one's gonna stop you, hon." "Yes!" "All we do is play corn hole." "Aren't you guys about corn holed out?" "How 'bout stick ball?" "Stick ball?" "What are we, 12-year-olds in the Great Depression?" "And stop looking at him." "Dad, just go talk to them." "Talk to who?" "The three grown men playing with beanbags and pretending not to notice you for the last two hours." "They can apologize to me." "All I was trying to do was make our lives better." "Yeah, that worked." "He just looked over here!" "Let's just talk to him." "No." "We blink first, he wins." "Somebody ordered a large pepperoni and never picked it up." "According to your rule, you guys get first crack at it." "I'm grabbin' a slice." "Stay strong." "This is stupid." "We can call a truce." "At least until we finish the pizza." "You take this one." "I know how much you like the burned crusts." "Did you remember that about me?" "Or was it in my file?" "It's in here." "And it's in here." "Classy move, kid." "Thanks, Enzo." "Ya know, I'm gonna need you to pay for that large pepperoni." "Yeah, I know." "I mean now." "I'm counting out the drawer." "Hey, Dad." "What you doing?" "Watching a movie." "You wanna watch?" "Yeah." "How you doin', kiddo?" "I'm okay." "But I missed you." "Sometimes I miss Mom, but today..." "Today's a Dad day." "Oh, that's sweet." "How was school?" "It was good." "Actually you might get a call from the vice principal with a very one-sided story about a food fight I was accused of starting." "He already called." "And you're grounded for a week." "Well, I guess there's no reason to do this anymore." "Probably not." "You know, Mr. Gable, I was thinking about your offer to watch" "TV with you the other day, and you're right." "There is no reason why we can't get to know each other." "Yeah, I worked things out with my buddies." "You're out." "Fair enough."