* Sometimes the world looks perfect
* Sometimes you just get a feeling
* Like you need some kinda change
* Nothing's gonna stand in my way
* This flame in my heart like a long lost friend
* Gives every dark street a light at the end
* Standing tall
* On the wings of my dream
* Rise and fall
* On the wings of my dream
* The rain and thunder
* The wind and haze
* I'm bound for better days
* It's my life and my dream
* Nothing's gonna stop me now *
Balki, will you come on?
If we don't leave for work right now
all the really good donuts will be gone.
Okay, cousin, I'm ready, I'm ready.
Hello? WOMAN ON PHONE: Balki!
It's for you.
I think it's from Mypos, I hear chickens in the background.
Nay?
Uh, dazo, yaya!
Who is it, your mother? No, it's my yaya!
Your yaya? My grandmother.
Oh! WOMAN: Balki!
Uh, nay, yaya.
Okay. Okay.
Bye-bye, babe.
Cousin, the most wonderful news.
My yaya is coming to America.
Well, that's great!
Grandma Bartokomous is coming to America.
Get out of the city. She's coming too?
You just told me she was coming.
No. Um... No.
My Yaya Bartokomous is not coming to America.
This is Yaya Biki from my mother's side.
who's 106 years old?
No, this is the Yaya Biki who has a lounge act in Vegas.
What I meant was, I can't believe someone
who's 106 is gonna be making a trip like this.
Isn't it too much for her?
but not for my yaya.
This woman, every morning before the sun come up,
she takes the goats six miles uphill to graze them
then she come back down the hill
and cook breakfast for 26 men,
then after the 26 men go out to the fields
she does 45 minutes of low-impact aerobics.
So you see, for someone over 100
she's very much an 80s woman.
Balki?
What can I do you for?
Could we have a chat?
Balki...
When you brought 100 pounds of garlic
into the apartment, I said to myself,
"Okay, so Yaya Biki loves scampi."
When you told me she likes to keep fresh eels
in the bathtub,
I said to myself, "Hey, no problem.
"I take showers."
But-- It's the cow, isn't it?
Well, yes.
The cow...
Bothers me.
I want Yaya Biki to feel at home,
I really do!
But have you ever thought that she'd like to see how we live?
Experience the American way of living?
Things like, oh... Uh, I don't know, uh, jeez.
What example can I think of?
Uh... Oh!
Beef on the table instead of beef at the table?
Sorry.
Please,
can we get rid of the cow?
Well, cousin, I'm just trying to give Yaya Biki
a few of the little comforts of home.
See? Look, I made her this blanket.
I weave it myself so that she won't get cold
while she's watching Letterman.
It's beautiful. How about that chair?
That chair is just like the one she has on Mypos.
Look, I don't mind the chair.
I mind the cow.
Please... Let's take it back?
We can take it back, can't we?
Okay, we can 86 the cow.
She's just a rental.
Good, I'll go change clothes.
Ah, cousin, before you go, um...
You ought to know that there may be a penalty
for returning her unmilked.
I'll chance it.
(ALL SINGING SHE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW IN MYPOSIAN)
* Ipepita irinki halla hop chop yop yop
* Ipepita irinki
* Halla hop chop yop yop
* Aynel
* Och viddi voy poy
* Dimina babbasticki *
Very good.
I think For She's a Jolly Good Fellow
really works in Myposian.
Oh, real toe tapper.
Everybody please be at the apartment at 7:00
so that when Cousin Larry and I arrive with Yaya Biki
you can jump out and yell "surprise!"
Wait, wait, hold on, honey.
and yell at a woman who's 106?
No problem.
Of course, she has better legs.
Now, I got to run.
I got to pick up party hats and half a pound of head cheese.
And listen, don't forget to bring your dancing feet.
Yaya Biki loves to party down.
One hundred and six
and as strong as a sea turtle.
I wonder what I'll be like when I'm old.
Probably a lot like Yaya Biki.
Why, Harriette, you think so?
Sure I do, honey.
I'll get that.
Hello?
No, Mr. Bartokomous is gone for the day.
I'm his cousin.
Oh, no.
Yeah. I... I understand.
Uh... Thank you.
Goodbye.
That was the airline.
to change planes in New York and, uh...
Her heart stopped.
She's dead.
Jennifer... Oh!
Are you sure we have enough potato chips?
Balki, you already bought 15 bags
and we only have 10 people coming.
You're right, maybe we do need more.
Cousin! Cousin, look! Look, look what we did!
Does this say
"Welcome to America" or what?
Well, yes, it does.
Uh, Jennifer and Mary Anne,
don't you need to hurry upstairs
and change for the party?
Larry, we have changed for the party.
And lovely you are too.
but Lydia is wearing that exact same dress.
But if you don't mind-- Oh, no, no, I'll change.
Mary Anne, did I mention that Harriette is wearing
what you have on?
Wow, small world.
I better change.
Uh, cousin,
is 15 bags of potato chips enough?
We have 10 guests coming,
I made four gallons of sheep dip.
Balki, sit down.
Okay.
I guess I could take a break.
I have been running around
like a chicken with his head glued on all day.
Balki, the airline called.
Yaya Biki is...
Is going to be late.
How late?
A lot.
Cousin, what is it?
Yaya Biki
is not coming.
Something happened.
She bought the farm, didn't she?
Well, yes, she did.
Oh! Oh, this is wonderful!
She's always wanted that farm.
Of course, she can't come now
she's got to go out and buy sheep and goats and--
No, no, Balki, Balki. I don't know what all.
Balki, "Bought the farm" is an expression.
What does it mean?
but Yaya Biki got off
the plane in New York
and died.
Okay, so we got 10 guests coming.
Fifteen bags of potato chips enough?
Balki, did you understand what I said?
Yes, you said Yaya Biki is dead.
But that don't solve the chip problem.
Where are you going?
If we run out of munchies, this party's gonna be a dud.
Cousin...
Wasn't that the best circus you ever see?
How about that Joko The Human Fireball?
What an entertainer.
I just hope they got him to the hospital okay.
The daring young man on the flying trapeze...
What kind of a person
would climb 25 feet up in the air
then just drop off and then swing back
and forth, and back and forth,
and then just hand himself to somebody?
Cousin, cousin, I have a storm in my brain.
Why don't we invite the girls down
and rent a movie and get ourselves a pizza--
Balki, Balki, Balki,
For the past three weeks,
zoo, movie, and video arcade in Chicago.
Well, excuse me for being fun.
Okay, I know.
in our mouths.
Balki, Balki,
this is Cousin Larry.
You don't have to do this.
No, cousin, it's no bother. I love making popcorn.
No, no, not that.
I mean, you don't have to pretend
you're happy around me.
What are you talking about?
I'm happy.
I am happy. No, you're not.
I'm happy! No, you're not.
I'm happy. No, you're not.
I'm happy.
Now let it go.
Okay, fine. You're happy.
Your yaya dies and you're happy.
It makes perfect sense.
Okay, cousin, I'm not happy.
Let me explain something to you.
I've been prepared for this.
On Yaya Biki's 100th birthday
she pulled me aside, she said, "Balki,
"today, I am 100 years old.
"Chances are I'm not going to make another 100.
"So when I go,
"please just go on with your life
"as if nothing happened.
"Please, promise me this so that I can rest in peace."
I promised her that
and that's all there is to it.
Well...
You're doing happy things,
but I can see you're hurting inside
and you're trying to hide it.
I know you too well.
Cousin, I'm trying to do
what I promised Yaya Biki I would do.
Yaya Biki was very wise.
And I'm sure she wanted to make things easier for you.
But if she could see you now
she'd say she made a mistake.
When someone close to you dies
you have to mourn for them.
No.
No, no.
I had an uncle whose wife died
and he had a very hard time getting over it.
He held things in,
but the poor guy was a wreck.
He wrote a letter to his wife
telling her all the things
he wished he could say to her.
And did this make everything better?
But if you don't wanna write to her,
try talking to her.
It doesn't matter what you do.
The important thing is to get it out, to...
To say goodbye.
I don't want to say goodbye.
Well...
I'm only trying to help.
I'm gonna go upstairs and, uh, tell the girls
they don't have to come down tonight
and watch you be happy.
Well, Yaya, here we are.
Oh, what the...
Yaya...
Here I am
in America,
just where you wanted me to be.
I...
I know it was your dream to come here too.
I just wish you could've seen more of this country.
I was thinking
maybe you saw the Statue of Liberty
from the window of your airplane.
Wasn't she beautiful?
I remember
the first time I ever saw her
I was... I was sailing into New York Harbor
on the tramp steamer,
and the sun was coming up,
and there she was,
just like you said,
And it was
the most wonderful day of my life.
And you
made that day possible.
I am so blessed
to have had somebody
to fill my heart
with such
wonderful dreams
and then to help me to make them come true.
Yaya,
I've been trying to do what you told me to do.
To go on with my life as if nothing has happened.
But you don't understand
how hard it is,
because you've never lost you.
I made this for you.
I hope you like it.
Um...
Cousin Larry said that
And that...
And that, I have to feel sad
before I can feel happy again.
And I think he was right.
I miss you.
Well...
I'm gonna go upstairs now
and tell my friends that I'm sad.
I think that'll make them happy.
Bye-bye, Yaya.
I see you again someday.