black-ish

Fact... being a teenager is dumb.

Look at this one trying to close the deal

wearing his grandpa's fishing vest.

And she's for sure going to regret that haircut.

Teenage emotions can climb to the highest highs

and bottom out to the lowest lows.

That's because everything is so heightened, so emotional.

Love is more dramatic.

Music can make you lose your mind.

Your jokes are funnier.

Your fights are fight‐ier.

And your friendships never seem more important.

Ever since Diane's sleepover,

she and her friend Sophie had been attached at the hip.

- Oh, my God! - Oh, my God!

They could never do anything without the other.

Which one best says... "Don't try me"?

I wouldn't mess with you in either of those.

It was a never‐ending stream of "what‐ifs"

and plans for the future...

...and I had never seen

Boom.

- First. - You're always first.

I know.

Which is why we weren't expecting this.

Hey, Mom.

‐ Hey, guys. ‐ Hey, Mom.

How was school?

They caught a seventh grader selling access

to the teachers' bathroom for number twos.

That's disgusting.

It was wild.

Hey, Diane, let me know when you want to go shopping

for Sophie's birthday gift.

Actually, I don't think I'm gonna go to her party.

What do you mean you're not gonna go?

I'm not going to the party, and Sophie's dead to me.

What? What?

Just let it go, Mom.

Diane and Sophie are over.

*BLACK-ISH* Season 06 Episode 16

*BLACK-ISH* Episode Title: "Friendgame"

Synchronized by srjanapala

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Sophie's dead to you? What does that even mean?

What happened?

It's fine, Mom.

But you guys were best friends.

Yeah, that was fun for a minute,

but then I realized having a best friend

really isn't my brand.

Okay. Uh, she was born with a best friend.

She doesn't need to be running around all over town

- looking for one. - Uh‐huh.

Anyway, I decided to get a jump‐start

on being my own best friend.

Hmm. If it works for Beyoncé, it works for me.

Okay.

Jack.

What is really going on?

All I know is they don't eat lunch together anymore.

And Joshua told Emily, who told Tyler, who heard from Savannah

that Sophie thinks Diane is too much.

Oh, no.

It's happening.

Yeah. Diane's in trouble.

- What? - Our little girl

has experienced her first heartbreak.

What? I didn't know she was dating somebody.

She wasn't, Dre. It was her best friend.

She got dumped by her best friend!

Ugh. Oh, look, Diane's gonna be fine, alright?

Friendships, they come and they go.

That's what happens.

You know that me and Sha didn't speak for six years?

And we were fine.

- You know why, Dre? - Why?

Because male friendships are garbage.

Female friendships are a lifeline.

Your best friend is the one person in the world

that can make you feel like you belong,

and if she rejects you,

then, I mean, it's devastating.

So make a sad playlist, get a revenge body, and get over it.

Dre, not everyone can just get over it.

Sophie told Diane she was "too much."

Do you know what it's like to be told that you're "too much"

at a formative age?

It can have devastating consequences.

This is about Amelia, isn't it?

Of course it's about Amelia!

But they're friendship bracelets.

I made them for you because you're my friend.

See, this is what I'm talking about, Rainbow.

It's just so intense with your friendship bracelets

and your sleepovers.

You're just way too much.

Yes, what happened

to me and Amelia

is happening to Diane and Sophie.

- Okay. - She got kicked to the curb, Dre,

for doing nothing!

You sound like me

when I talk about my first girlfriend, Tamika.

Oh, my God.

She broke up with me on the bus,

and I had to wait seven stops before I could let it out.

Now, that was a breakup.

This is a breakup, too, Dre.

And you know what?

You know what the hardest part of my breakup was?

- What? - The fact that I was alone.

My mother said that, "If Amelia is gonna treat you like this,

then she doesn't deserve you."

Well, I'm not gonna leave Diane

swinging in the wind like that.

No, I'm not! I'mma fix this.

Do you even know what happened to Amelia?

I don't have time to waste on a part‐time doula dog walker

from San Bernardino with a Red Hot Chili Pepper tramp stamp

who doesn't talk to her sister!

I'm a doctor! I save lives!

- Pass the ball! - Here's good defense.

Pass the ball!

- Oh, we got this. - It's all us! No! - That's it!

- Okay. - No!

- Touchdown! - No!

- Yeah! - Yo!

‐ Let's go! Let's go! ‐

I would've won this game had Kaepernick been playing!

Uh.

What the hell?

What happened?

Well, we tried to re‐create the classic Wrestle Kingdom

Okada/Tanahashi match.

I went for the Rainmaker,

and I accidentally threw him into the wall.

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie... my grades dipped after that.

We didn't want you to freak out, so we covered the hole

with a poster.

It was a pretty elegant solution.

No, it was not!

Hey, hey, hey.

What's all the yelling about?

Your grandsons put a hole in one of my favorite walls.

Don't they know how hard you work to give them walls?

No, they do not.

When I was your age, I broke her favorite lamp,

and you know what happened?

You got spanked?

Damn skippy.

I got spanked.

And then I had to put her lamp back together,

and it was good as new!

You two are gonna need to learn

how to fix things for yourselves

so you don't depend on other people.

Great. Well,

how do we learn how to fix things for ourselves?

Damn it, you're men.

Figure it out!

And fix my wall before anything nests.

I'll handle it, Dad. Already ordering a new poster.

Fix... my wall.

Yeah, listen. Hey, hey, hey!

Do it fast.

If squirrels get in that hole, the house is legally theirs.

Eh? Eh?

Ah.

I understand your concern, but we can't expel a girl

for not wanting to continue a friendship with Diane.

Okay.

So how about we aim a little smaller,

do a "Day of Healing"

about not stabbing your friends in the back?

Obviously, we can't do that either.

Okay, it feels like I am the only one

coming up with suggestions here.

I understand that you don't get it,

but when I lost my best friend, school became torture for me,

and I will not let that happen to Diane.

You think I don't get it?

When I was 14, my best friend dumped me.

And to hurt me, she told the whole school

that I had sex with my stuffed animals.

I did not have sex with my stuffed animals.

Of course you didn't.

But a lot of people believed it.

Oh.

Haven't been able to go to a reunion.

So you get it.

Dre doesn't understand.

Your husband doesn't understand

not to park in a handicapped spot.

How's he supposed to understand this?

Finally, someone hears me.

What are we gonna do, Biggsy?

Well, unfortunately, as principal,

I can't intervene here.

- Ohh. - But