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A New Start
00:00:13(crickets chirping)
00:00:15MAN (over radio): Keep your eyes open.
00:00:19All right, guys, what do we got?
00:00:21It's quiet out there.
00:00:23(over radio): Stand by.
00:00:24(indistinct radio transmission)
00:00:25Yeah, we, uh, we better be ready.
00:00:28Yeah, I'm a man.
00:00:30Don't make it look like makeup.
00:00:32-(vehicle approaching) -Car.
00:00:34Car.
00:00:35Is that guy one of ours?
00:00:38Look at the license plate.
00:00:41Looks like we got ourselves an anus tart.
00:00:44NARRATOR: Tobias Funke was on his way to reconnect
00:00:48with a daughter he'd lost touch with.
00:00:49Hey, there.
00:00:50It's Big Daddy.
00:00:52I thought I'd try to call you before I surprised you.
00:00:55Things are... really looking up, and...
00:00:58(phone beeps)
00:00:59Hello? Oh, damn it.
00:01:01What Sudden Valley does to these cell phones.
00:01:03Oops.
00:01:04Unbeknownst to Tobias, however,
00:01:06the Sudden Valley home he was on his way to visit...
00:01:09Anus tart is turning on Tracey Lane.
00:01:11...had been rented out to a television crew.
00:01:13He's creeping up George Michael.
00:01:14All right, guys, let's entrap a local predator.
00:01:17Come on. Lowlife.
00:01:18We got to put this piece of (bleep)...
00:01:21Who, what, when, where, why and how.
00:01:22Who, what, where, when, why and how.
00:01:23Who, what, when, where, why and how.
00:01:28MAN (over radio): Anus tart is approaching the portico.
00:01:30NARRATOR: Yes, Tobias was finally about to get
00:01:32a starring role on a hit TV show.
00:01:35Is there a little girl here all by herself?
00:01:39BEARD: And now the story of the awful people
00:01:41who are about to lose everything, and the one newsman
00:01:43who had no choice but to entrap them all together.
00:01:46It's John Beard's To Entrap a Local Predator, "Supercreeps."
00:01:50NARRATOR: Now the story of a family
00:01:52whose future was abruptly cancelled,
00:01:55and the one son-in-law who had no choice
00:01:57but to keep himself together.
00:02:03It's Tobias's Arrested Development.
00:02:08Five years before Tobias was to appear on John Beard's TV show,
00:02:13his acting career was as washed up...
00:02:15-None taken. -...as his family...
00:02:17You are soaked to the bone.
00:02:19...and those men he was touching for some reason.
00:02:22And his wife challenged him
00:02:24to reexamine the other parts of his life as well.
00:02:26There's nothing keeping us together.
00:02:28It's time to give up our dreams if they're not working.
00:02:31You know, your acting career, this marriage that everyone thinks is a sham because you're gay.
00:02:36I-I'm sorry.
00:02:38Everyone thinks I'm gay?
00:02:41Well, I mean, it's kind of a running joke in the family.
00:02:46I mean, y-you know that, right?
00:02:49'Cause of the misleading way you talk sometimes.
00:02:51Oh, you're saying the way I talk makes me sound gay?
00:02:54(chuckles) When in the last year have I said anything remotely mis...
00:02:58♪ It's just a fallacy! ♪
00:03:01...leading? Is this because I want to be an actor, and all the leading men in Hollywood are gay?
00:03:05I don't think that all the leading men in Hollywood are gay.
00:03:08-Oh, honey. -(sighs)
00:03:10Look, we're chasing things that aren't real.
00:03:12Maybe we need to go out there and find out what we're meant to do.
00:03:17His wife was giving him the cold shoulder.
00:03:20And after kissing it good-bye,
00:03:22he sat with her family, feeling lost...
00:03:26Well, you look like I feel.
00:03:29...and very misunderstood.
00:03:31Gay?
00:03:32No, I...
00:03:34No.
00:03:36Tobias knew it was time to find out
00:03:38what he was truly meant to do.
00:03:39So when he came across a book
00:03:42the universe had placed in his path,
00:03:44he was open to its inspiration.
00:03:45Oh, they're still reading, but... well, I guess I can leave them some love.
00:03:50So he just took "eat" and "pray."
00:03:54"Eat" was easy,
00:03:55although it provided no cosmic answers for him.
00:03:59But it was the part about India that really got to him.
00:04:02And so, like the heroine of Eat, Pray,
00:04:04-Tobias decided -Wait a minute.
00:04:06to get as far away from his wife as possible.
00:04:11And so Tobias found himself booking passage to India.
00:04:16And soon, he discovered his wife was also
00:04:19preparing to go somewhere...
00:04:21-I think you have my suitcase. -...far away.
00:04:23(sighs) I'm so sorry, Tobias.
00:04:25Look, I've already packed.
00:04:26Can I just use this one?
00:04:27Oh, what the heck.
00:04:29I guess having matching luggage isn't so romantic anymore.
00:04:32And these romantic gestures are possibly why people think I'm a homosexual.
00:04:36Well, it's time to correct old misconceptions.
00:04:40And that is why I'm making a new start.
00:04:43Oh, a new start.
00:04:45Filled with compassion and love.
00:04:48I like that.
00:04:49Well, I've already got the license plate, so go cry in your pie!
00:04:52And so Tobias, hoping to
00:04:54"straighten out" his image, set out on a new start,
00:04:58beginning with a trip to the airport in an outfit
00:05:01he pretty much put together himself.
00:05:04Well, I guess this is why you never see them driving convertibles.
00:05:07I'll have to check on that one.
00:05:08But it certainly wasn't embraced...
00:05:10Stay in your lane, anus tart!
00:05:12(bleep) anus tart!
00:05:13...by the local Indian community.
00:05:14You have the true sense of the oneness of all.
00:05:16And his quest hit a bump early on,
00:05:18as he struggled to learn the customs and gestures of
00:05:22-the culture he hoped to adopt. -Oh, goddamn it!
00:05:24Am I the only one who still dresses to fly?
00:05:27Well, there we go.
00:05:29India clean.
00:05:30(chuckles)
00:05:32Now, how did I...
00:05:34No. No.
00:05:35Unfortunately, recreating the look
00:05:37-of the traditional Indian garb -Are you finished? Oh.
00:05:39turned out to be more difficult...
00:05:41I look like one of those hot guys from Spartacus.
00:05:43...without the aid of Pradeep, the helpful Indian salesman...
00:05:46I feel like there was less up top.
00:05:48...at Bed, Bath & Beyond, who helped him learn how to tie it.
00:05:51Ah, got it, okay.
00:05:52(choking)
00:05:56Yes, I actually like this better.
00:05:57-(knocking) -Yes?
00:06:01Canadian?
00:06:03No, I'm American.
00:06:04Oh, yeah. I'm Canadian.
00:06:06Oh. Sorry.
00:06:08But because it was a long flight,
00:06:10he figured he'd wait a beat on finding his true calling
00:06:12and watch something to take his mind off Lindsay...
00:06:14How could they not have Failure to Launch?
00:06:17...who he knew was far away at the time.
00:06:19(groans) Goddamn it.
00:06:22And after taking
00:06:23the wrong bag at the airport...
00:06:25WOMAN (over P.A.): Do not leave any goats unattended.
00:06:26All unattended goats will be confiscated.
00:06:30...Tobias finally arrived...
00:06:32And so Tobias Funke embarked on a--
00:06:35Oh, dear, Lord, it's... hot!
00:06:38...in India, yes, where he was very uncomfortable.
00:06:41Not only because the wind whipped up
00:06:44his queen-sized fitted mini-sarong,
00:06:46but because he looked the wrong direction
00:06:49when stepping into the street.
00:06:50(tires screeching)
00:06:51And so Tobias experienced India
00:06:53from the inside of a hospital room,
00:06:55where the staff was being trained...
00:06:57This man here broke his skull in two places.
00:06:59...by the same doctor he'd had in America.
00:07:01Once outside the airport and once in the elevator when his sheet got caught and he was pulled off his gurney.
00:07:06Literally.
00:07:07-(laughter) -Two places indeed.
00:07:08This is very funny.
00:07:10It's like that new show we just caught, Laugh-In.
00:07:12My name is...
00:07:13Oh!
00:07:15Now I've broken my skull in a third place!
00:07:18On this elephant guy statue!
00:07:21Tobias had wanted the universe to provide him a sign.
00:07:24You should be a comedy actor.
00:07:25And finally it had.
00:07:27This is the sign I've been... (groans)
00:07:29Looking for.
00:07:32And after two more weeks in the hospital,
00:07:34it was time for his flight home.
00:07:36And that's when he got another sign.
00:07:38(cell phone ringing)
00:07:40A call from Lindsay.
00:07:42Although he wouldn't be able to reach the phone for hours...
00:07:44I'm ready to make this work.
00:07:46...due to his already weakened spine.
00:07:48(bell chimes)
00:07:52NARRATOR: Tobias and Lindsay
00:07:53shared the news of their new start
00:07:55at a family gathering.
00:07:57I got the part.
00:07:58You know, it's funny, for I, too, find that
00:08:01I am on a journey.
00:08:02Although, as we discovered when our MasterCard bill came back, it was the same one she took.
00:08:07But mine has confirmed that I should redouble my efforts to achieve the unachievable dream of being an actor.
00:08:15A journey that has left me eager to connect with my true love.
00:08:22Particularly if she finds her... way clear to covering a 2,000-rupee
00:08:27City of Hopelessness hospital debt.
00:08:30The trick is going to be getting anyone to believe that her husband is straight enough to have a true love that's a woman.
00:08:35What are you implying?
00:08:37Oh, I don't think there was any implying going on at all.
00:08:39Didn't hear any implying.
00:08:40I wasn't implying.
00:08:41I'm sorry, Mother.
00:08:43It's just, I've got a bit of a stick up my "bunghole" about what I've now found is a running joke about me.
00:08:47But let's be honest.
00:08:49For 2,000 rupees, we'd both go down on Matthew McConaughey.
00:08:53(chuckles): Yes, Michael?
00:08:55At the time of this family meeting,
00:08:572,000 rupees was $36.
00:08:58I wouldn't.
00:09:00GEORGE SR.: Of course you wouldn't, Michael.
00:09:02You never accept help from anyone.
00:09:04And hoping to do things differently this time,
00:09:06Lindsay immediately started spending money she didn't have.
00:09:09JAMES: Are you ready to make a move?
00:09:11As you can see, I'm ready for a lot that's new.
00:09:15Oh, good heavens.
00:09:17While Tobias pursued
00:09:19the life of a professional actor.
00:09:21Listen, I'm an actor, you're an agent.
00:09:23You do the math.
00:09:24I want you to represent me.
00:09:25In other words, you do the math-- the money, the negotiating.
00:09:29You know I'm not that kind of agent, right?
00:09:31I'm a real estate agent.
00:09:33I'm a predator; I sell giant houses to very poor people who can't afford them with predatory loans.
00:09:37No, see, that's the money stuff I don't understand.
00:09:39All you need to do is tell people what a terrific actor I am, 'cause I can't do it believably.
00:09:43What do you say?
00:09:45Sounds like it shouldn't be too much work.
00:09:46(laughs): Huzzah!
00:09:48Okay, here's the number of my current agent Mike Matthews.
00:09:51He's at Allstate. Fire him.
00:09:54Tobias started seeing positive career signs everywhere...
00:09:58...decorating my quarters.
00:09:59...he chose to put them.
00:10:03And at his new agent's suggestion...
00:10:05Hi. I'm after pending.
00:10:07...he even snuck on to a studio lot to hand out head shots
00:10:09to extras and other show business insiders.
00:10:12Taft-Hartley pending.
00:10:14Things were looking up for the Funkes.
00:10:16They even celebrated their first
00:10:18-home-cooked Thanksgiving. -Including duck l'orange.
00:10:20-(duck quacking) -Oh!
00:10:22-Oh, no! -(Lindsay screams)
00:10:24Lindsay! Lindsay, get the scooper!
00:10:26Throw oranges at it.
00:10:27-Hot orange! Hot orange. -(duck quacking)
00:10:29All right...
00:10:31It's throwing its voice!
00:10:32-MAEBY: Oh! -TOBIAS: Lindsay!
00:10:35And so they went
00:10:37to the Fountain Valley China Garden instead.
00:10:40And if the collapse of the housing market,
00:10:43-his lack of auditions... -Tobias Funke.
00:10:46or even the writers' strike
00:10:48couldn't deter Tobias from his dream,
00:10:50the suicide of his ruined
00:10:52and despondent agent certainly could.
00:10:54I believe he died as a warning, in a way, his message perhaps to live within our means and be realistic about our lives.
00:11:03And yet it didn't.
00:11:04Well, then I shall redouble my efforts
00:11:07-so that he died in vain. -(others gasp)
00:11:11(stammers)
00:11:12Meaning he will have led a pointless life, is what I mean.
00:11:15Yes, carry on. Thank you.
00:11:16And he soon found himself
00:11:18bringing his wife to an acting class
00:11:21in an effort to jump-start his career and marriage.
00:11:24If everyone's good, you'll get your juice.
00:11:26What did you say the name of this acting class was again?
00:11:28Method One Clinic.
00:11:30LINDSAY: Okay, I'm gonna go get coffee.
00:11:31Garden Grove Method One Clinic.
00:11:34And Tobias found himself captivated
00:11:36by one of the monologues.
00:11:38And I made it in that movie, the Fantastic Four, uh, but it wasn't fantastic for me.
00:11:43Uh, I got carried away.
00:11:45And I'm like, "This (bleep) is (bleep) up,
00:11:48"and I've got to get my (bleep) together or I'm gonna be (bleep), too."
00:11:53Anyways, now I'm sober, and I'm trying.
00:11:55It's... super hard.
00:11:57-(groans) -(applause)
00:11:58Thank you. Thank you.
00:12:00It was a devastating and personal story.
00:12:02Okay, notes: um, first of all, it seemed you were slurring a bit there, and I just think you'd have so much more fun punching those... those words.
00:12:10Get it out there.
00:12:12"This (bleep) is (bleep) up, sir."
00:12:14I'm-I'm sorry. I'm not familiar with the piece, so...
00:12:16No, no, that's it.
00:12:18But I am familiar with your work in the Fantastic Four, however.
00:12:22-You've seen that? -Of course I have.
00:12:2420 years earlier, DeBrie Bardeaux
00:12:26had played Sue Storm in the low-budget version
00:12:28of the Fantastic Four, produced by Imagine Entertainment,
00:12:31when, during Imagine's Christmas party,
00:12:33a drunk lawyer reminded them they'd lose the rights
00:12:36if they didn't make the film in the next six days.
00:12:39After a two-hour search, they found their entire cast.
00:12:44They also proved useful six days later at the wrap party.
00:12:47I almost never get recognized as the Invisible Girl.
00:12:50I can't believe you saw me.
00:12:52Well, I-I thought it was "fantastic."
00:12:55Actually, most of the performance
00:12:57that had so captivated Tobias...
00:12:58Hey, maybe she came into this Light Bulbs Unlimited.
00:13:00She was here a minute ago.
00:13:02...was performed by a fishing line.
00:13:04This is the gayest Starbucks ever!
00:13:06Did his fishing line break, too?
00:13:08DeBRIE: Well, my acting career is over.
00:13:11Oh, don't say that. You've got to say, "Keep the dream alive."
00:13:14That's what helps me.
00:13:15Well, this is what's helping me.
00:13:17-Oh. -It's really good.
00:13:19Carl Weathers used to give us grape juice.
00:13:22But then he'd add five dollars to our credit card.
00:13:24Well, here is to our acting addiction.
00:13:26Yep.
00:13:27May we never be cured.
00:13:29Are you crying? Oh, I'm crying.
00:13:32Oh, it's a nosebleed.
00:13:34(DeBrie gasping)
00:13:36Oh, thank you so much.
00:13:38Tobias had found a friend.
00:13:40-You're neat! -You're neat.
00:13:42(laughing): You're neat.
00:13:43You're neat.
00:13:48NARRATOR: And after a not-very-cute meet-cute,
00:13:49Tobias continued to find DeBrie's behavior delightful,
00:13:52even when the methadone made her think
00:13:54she was a piece of toast.
00:13:57There, now I can see a pretty face under all that butter substitute.
00:14:02And I recognize you from somewhere, but it's not the Fantastic Four; it's from somewhere else.
00:14:08I've done some things I'm not proud of.
00:14:10Episodics? Been there.
00:14:12It wasn't episodic.
00:14:15She had been in a series
00:14:16of soft-core porn movies about women
00:14:18leading straight men into gay sex,
00:14:20-called Straight Bait. -This is my brother. He's gay.
00:14:22If you want to have sex with me, then you've got to have sex with him first.
00:14:25And if you don't want to have sex with her, you must be gay.
00:14:29I'll show you how not gay I am.
00:14:34She did six of these movies,
00:14:36and after lunch, did three more.
00:14:39It's nice to be recognized though.
00:14:41Marky Bark-- sometimes he doesn't know when I'm in the same room.
00:14:45And sometimes it feels like it's not the face blindness, you know?
00:14:48It's the same with me and Lindsay.
00:14:50I know she's trying, but she doesn't believe in my acting career.
00:14:54Maybe she's right. I've yet to make more money as an actor than I ever did as a doctor.
00:14:59And that's with Country-Wide behind me.
00:15:01You're... wait, you're a doctor? You can write scripts?
00:15:03Well, I like to think so.
00:15:05You should never give up a dream if you can write scripts.
00:15:08You seem like you'd be a good doctor/actor.
00:15:11It was the first positive reinforcement
00:15:13Tobias had had since India.
00:15:16You remind me of Billy Crystal... Mmm, mmm!
00:15:19It would have broken Tobias's heart if he knew
00:15:22she was about to say "Billy Crystal Meth,"
00:15:24a funny drug dealer.
00:15:26Uh, I... got a bit carried away when you compared me to Billy Crystal.
00:15:31You remind me of Billy Crystal...
00:15:34Once again, she was going to say "Billy Crystal Meth."
00:15:38I'm sorry, but, DeBrie, I-I've never met anyone who understands me like you do.
00:15:42-Or at all. -Maybe, with someone like you,
00:15:44I could have a new start.
00:15:46Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:15:49Did you see my license plate-- "A-N-U-S-T-A-R-T"?
00:15:53Whoa. Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:15:56Did you see my Straight Bait movie of the same name?
00:16:00(singsong): Coincidence.
00:16:02We should be together.
00:16:03We should run away.
00:16:05(stammering)
00:16:06Oh, my gosh.
00:16:08Well, this is happening so fast.
00:16:09Well, what do I do about Lindsay?
00:16:11I mean, can I just improv my way out of a marriage?
00:16:15Yes, and... let's do this.
00:16:18Blackout.
00:16:19Unaware that a similar
00:16:21off-menu swap had just occurred at Swappigans,
00:16:24Tobias broke the news
00:16:25that he was leaving Lindsay in a phone call.
00:16:27...for I have met someone.
00:16:29It's not important who it is.
00:16:31(laughs): It's Sue Storm.
00:16:32I'm so sorry, but DeBrie believes in me, and she stopped my heart, too.
00:16:36If you're wondering what "too" referred to, it was this:
00:16:39Let's do this.
00:16:41Blackout.
00:16:42And scene, as they say.
00:16:44Her heart stopped! She-She's dying!
00:16:46Please, someone! She had too much butter!
00:16:48-She's a very famous actress! -Someone say "butter" out here?
00:16:50Oh, my God, that's a butter face.
00:16:52-How much butter did the patient have? -I don't know.
00:16:54-A Star Trek chess set's worth. -Damn it, that Swappigans puts more people in this hospital. Make way, people!
00:16:58We got a 61-year-old male in full cardiac arrest coming through.
00:17:01You have to wait outside, sir.
00:17:02Be careful of her face!
00:17:03She's an actress!
00:17:05(loud sobbing)
00:17:07It's worth noting that Tobias
00:17:09had heard this hospital in Orange County
00:17:11was a favorite of show business big shots
00:17:13seeking plastic surgery.
00:17:15We're both actors!
00:17:17(loud, exaggerated sobbing)
00:17:22NARRATOR: On the day of Lucille's trial,
00:17:24Tobias was in a hospital with a woman
00:17:27he'd both fallen for and had rushed into an ICU.
00:17:29See? Makeup makes everyone feel a little better.
00:17:32You didn't leave me.
00:17:34Everybody leaves me.
00:17:35I've been left in Dumpsters and on a curb and...
00:17:39Oh, I wouldn't dream of it.
00:17:41Excuse me. Could you, uh, leave us alone for...
00:17:43-Yeah, absolutely, yes. -Thank you.
00:17:45Oh, no, I-I'd like him to-to stay.
00:17:47-Really? -Yeah.
00:17:48Okay.
00:17:49I'm afraid that you have tested positive for chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, hepatitis, pancreatitis, trichomonitis, nongonococcal urethritis.
00:17:57All the itises, really, and there's also a host of osises.
00:18:02Now, what this means in nonmedical terms is that you have landed, uh, a real party girl.
00:18:06TOBIAS: Well, will she be okay?
00:18:08Well, we can treat all of these things, but if she's really gonna be okay, uh, she's gonna have to tackle this drug problem.
00:18:14You didn't tell me you had a drug problem.
00:18:16We met at a methadone clinic.
00:18:18Are you high?
00:18:19We met at an acting class.
00:18:20The Method One...
00:18:22There it is. I'm gonna let you guys, uh, hash this out.
00:18:25I guess I shouldn't have lied about being clean when I took that methadone, but I'll do better this time.
00:18:30Or are you gonna leave me now that you know that I'm a druggie?
00:18:34DeBrie, look, some people struggle with addiction, other people are incapable of ever being nude.
00:18:40Everybody has something.
00:18:41And it's my professional opinion that your drug use is a direct result of your abandoning your dream of acting.
00:18:48You are a gifted actress.
00:18:50When I first saw Straight Bait, there were two men making love, but I couldn't take my eyes off of you.
00:18:56You watched Straight Bait?
00:18:57Oh, just 2, 4 and 9.
00:18:59You were with a guy who didn't care about you.
00:19:01But stick with me, and I'll make you famous.
00:19:04By cashing in on your most celebrated role.
00:19:08Come one, come all!
00:19:09Get your photo taken with Sue Storm from the Fantastic Four!
00:19:13Hey, is that Jessica Alba?
00:19:15No, this is the original Sue Storm, DeBrie Bardeaux!
00:19:18-Who? -The original Sue Storm,
00:19:20DeBrie Bardeaux. She-- No, no!
00:19:21No free pictures, kids!
00:19:22No, no, scram!
00:19:23Get out of here! Go!
00:19:24Go, get out of here.
00:19:26I don't think this is working.
00:19:27Maybe I need to get a regular job.
00:19:30I do have a law degree.
00:19:32I know, I know, and I'm a doctor.
00:19:34But no, let's not settle.
00:19:36Look, it's the Fantastic Four.
00:19:38No one recognizes one alone.
00:19:40I've got an idea.
00:19:42Ten dollars gets you a picture with real Hollywood characters!
00:19:45What do you say? Ten dollars.
00:19:46That's certainly cheap.
00:19:47Oh! Hello, young man, and his... uncle? Neighbor?
00:19:52Father.
00:19:53Oh! That's terrific.
00:19:54(laughs) Well, how would you like to have your picture taken with real Hollywood movie land characters?
00:20:00Are you the Smurfs?
00:20:01No, no, no.
00:20:03They're the Ambiguously Gay Duo.
00:20:05Oh, I assure you, there's nothing ambiguous about me.
00:20:08I'm Johnny Storm, the human flamer.
00:20:10And this is Sue Storm, my sister and fellow fighter-in-law.
00:20:14Now watch as I get-- no, I have special effects!
00:20:16Look, children love fire.
00:20:18Oh.
00:20:19This isn't working either.
00:20:20(sighs) You're right.
00:20:22Two people in blue doesn't say Fantastic Four.
00:20:24You know what though?
00:20:26I think I may have just the thing.
00:20:28Oh?
00:20:29Just "the thing."
00:20:31Cut to...
00:20:33Now that I'm the iconic rock man The Thing, no one will misunderstand.
00:20:37I'm sure the Blues Brothers here will know who we are.
00:20:40Excuse me, are you Sue Storm and The Thing?
00:20:42Oh, who's smart now?
00:20:43Indeed we are.
00:20:45In fact, they were orthodox members of the law firm
00:20:47Feinberg, Feinberg, Feinberg & Feinberg.
00:20:50We represent Stan Lee and Marvel Enterprises.
00:20:53This is a cease and desist ordering you to stop impersonating any of our trademark characters.
00:20:58Oh, let me take a look at that.
00:20:59I have a law degree.
00:21:00No, DeBrie, I've got this.
00:21:02Mr. Feinberg?
00:21:04Uh, would it change your mind if I offered you a free Sue Storm armband?
00:21:10It did not change his mind.
00:21:12And although the hate crime charges were dismissed,
00:21:14they were told they could not continue
00:21:16to pose as the Fantastic Four.
00:21:18Can they really make us leave Hollywood Boulevard?
00:21:20Well, apparently in this instance, paper beats rock.
00:21:23You have a rock?
00:21:24No, I am your rock now.
00:21:27Oh.
00:21:28So what are we gonna do now that we don't have the rights?
00:21:31Well, we just go off-brand.
00:21:32Uh, we'll just change the names and do a cheap generic knockoff.
00:21:36Kids don't care.
00:21:38Tobias took them down to a street
00:21:40near Harbor Boulevard, where his friend Gary Goose
00:21:42told him they didn't police very much.
00:21:44Rock Monster and Ability to Be Invisible Person.
00:21:46Hello, young man. What brings you to at least 500 feet past the entrance of Disneyland?
00:21:50Dad, can I get my picture taken with The Thing and Invisible Girl?
00:21:53They're the Fantastic Four.
00:21:54Well, actually, technically, I'm Rock Monster, and this is Ability to Be Invisible Person.
00:21:59-Hey, you guys want the ten dollars or not? -Yeah.
00:22:01-Uh... -Yeah, yeah.
00:22:02Yes. Okay.
00:22:04We're The Thing and the Invisible Girl.
00:22:06-You're under arrest. -What?
00:22:07Boom. Turn around.
00:22:09-Let's go. -I didn't...
00:22:10-Let's go. Get up there. -Oh! Oh!
00:22:12Come on.
00:22:14-Oh, come on, now. -(chuckles): No, no, no.
00:22:16We're not gonna kill him, we're just gonna handcuff him.
00:22:18You can't shoot us 'cause it's not a felony.
00:22:20Keep your eyes on her. I'll be right back.
00:22:22Okay.
00:22:26DeBRIE: If it happens again, you know, it will be a third strike.
00:22:30Three-strikes law's up for review in the appellate courts, but we really shouldn't be charging.
00:22:33I know of a street in Garden Grove
00:22:34-where they don't police very much. -Okay.
00:22:36NARRATOR: Things were looking down.
00:22:38And over the following weeks,
00:22:41their financial situation grew dire enough
00:22:42for this to happen.
00:22:44We're broke.
00:22:46But you can't sell your Fantastic Four costume.
00:22:48I mean, that would be like a fisherman selling his fishing costume.
00:22:51No, I was gonna have sex with him.
00:22:53For money.
00:22:55What? No. Put that back on.
00:22:57You don't have to degrade yourself this way.
00:22:59Hey, I'm not a thing.
00:23:01Hey, I am a Thing.
00:23:03And so, with no other options, Tobias returned
00:23:06to his in-laws' penthouse,
00:23:07desperate enough to ransack the place,
00:23:10when it appeared someone had beaten him to it.
00:23:13Michael.
00:23:15No, George Michael.
00:23:17LUCILLE 2: Somebody, help!
00:23:19And that's when he heard what sounded like two ostriches
00:23:20making love to a pop hit.
00:23:23But was actually this.
00:23:24♪ Why don't you go away, go away ♪
00:23:28♪ Get away, get away ♪
00:23:29♪ Stay away ♪
00:23:31♪ You're hopelessly hopeless... ♪
00:23:34(screams) Good bird.
00:23:36-(screams) -(ostrich squawking)
00:23:38Stop it, chicken!
00:23:39Somebody help!
00:23:42Lucille 2!
00:23:43Help! Help! Kevin, give me a hand!
00:23:45Get Dr. Bowman or Alicia.
00:23:46Either one.
00:23:48This woman's been attacked by an ostrich!
00:23:50Ah, Tobias got a new girlfriend.
00:23:52(laughs)
00:23:56NARRATOR: Tobias had acted like an actual superhero
00:23:58-and saved Lucille 2. -There's my hero.
00:23:59You know, the doctor said if that bird had gotten through my second layer of makeup, it could've done permanent damage to my skin.
00:24:05And I want to repay you.
00:24:07You're a doctor, and you're out of work.
00:24:10-Well... -How would you like to come work for me, at Austerity?
00:24:13The rehab center? That's yours?
00:24:15Well, my brother Argyle runs it day to day.
00:24:17But we are so understaffed.
00:24:18You'd be such a gift.
00:24:20It would only pay 120 grand a year to start.
00:24:23Tobias, whose girlfriend had nearly
00:24:25sold her body for money in front of him,
00:24:28knew that everyone at some time has to face reality.
00:24:31(sustained groaning)
00:24:35-But that this wasn't the time. -No.
00:24:37-You turned it down?! -Uh-huh.
00:24:39I almost (bleep) a guy for a hamburger, and you turned down $120,000 a year?
00:24:45To keep our dream alive, yes, I did.
00:24:47I thought you'd be proud of me.
00:24:49After all, a doctor in India told me that I have the gift to make people laugh.
00:24:53-(sobbing) -Why are you crying?
00:24:55(sobbing): You're worse than Marky.
00:24:57He couldn't see me, but you can't hear me.
00:25:01(sobbing)
00:25:03The setback sent an emotionally fragile DeBrie
00:25:06back to her old ways.
00:25:08And before long, she was picked up by a limo
00:25:11for a night of being passed around
00:25:13amongst Hollywood creeps.
00:25:15For three weeks, Tobias waited, hoping DeBrie would return.
00:25:19Perhaps it was the morning he awoke to find
00:25:22two bums using him as a pillow
00:25:24that he realized she wasn't coming back.
00:25:26Who are you supposed to be?
00:25:28Oh, I'm The Thing from Fantastic Four.
00:25:30You've been served, (bleep).
00:25:33Oh, (bleep) me.
00:25:36Are you undercover as well?
00:25:38I'm CIA. Not here for you though.
00:25:40Scoping out Imagine Entertainment.
00:25:42So, with nowhere to go...
00:25:44Thought I'd try you again.
00:25:46...and no one to help him out of his rock suit...
00:25:48Honey, you read comic books, yes?
00:25:50...he went to see if his daughter
00:25:52would give him a place to stay.
00:25:54(indistinct radio transmission)
00:25:56(singing quietly)
00:25:59Now the fun begins, right, Officer Three?
00:26:01I'll say.
00:26:03...and why and how. Who, what, when, where, why and how.
00:26:07Is there a little girl here all by herself?
00:26:10And perhaps it was this that would finally
00:26:12get him to admit that he sometimes did speak
00:26:15in a misleading way.
00:26:17Daddy needs to get his rocks off.
00:26:24BEARD: On the next To Entrap a Local Predator...
00:26:27(high-pitched): I'll be down in a minute.
00:26:29Have some lemonade.
00:26:31TV NARRATOR: Predator gets its first rock-solid case.
00:26:33(normal voice): Pretty good lemonade, huh?
00:26:35It is.
00:26:37Is there alcohol in here-- John Beard!
00:26:38Please, have a seat.
00:26:39Okay.
00:26:40Why are you here?
00:26:41I'm here to see my little girl.
00:26:43I wanted to show her Daddy's Thing.
00:26:45What are you doing here?
00:26:46I'm doing a, um, a local interest piece.
00:26:49Mm.
00:26:50Okay, get in there, boys.
00:26:51Oh, really local.
00:26:53That's right, yeah.
00:26:54Is this about my daughter?
00:26:55Oh, so it's your daughter
00:26:56-you're here to see? -Yes.
00:26:59Maeby.
00:27:00If he's got a daughter, then how old is she?
00:27:02BEARD: Let me ask you this.
00:27:03How old is she?
00:27:04(chuckles): Oh.
00:27:06Why do you put me on the spot?
00:27:08Um, I want to say 19?
00:27:11But I like to think of her as 15.
00:27:14Well, you're free to go.
00:27:15She's not here.
00:27:16TV NARRATOR: But this creep won't take "go"
00:27:18-for an answer. -Oh, that's all right.
00:27:19I'll stay, I'll wait.
00:27:21And this creep makes himself right at home.
00:27:23-Give me just a minute. -He's not leaving.
00:27:25-He's not leaving. -He's not leaving.
00:27:27Tell him there's a raccoon in the backyard.
00:27:29Hey, guess what.
00:27:30There's a raccoon out on the patio!
00:27:32Bull (bleep).
00:27:34Where is that little guy?
00:27:36And this guy turns out to be a real comedian.
00:27:38(groans loudly)
00:27:39I just broke my skull in a fourth place: the patio!