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"How to Be an American" is the ninth episode of the third season of Fresh Off the Boat. It first aired on January 3, 2017.
Synopsis[]
Jessica is applying for U.S. citizenship with an immigration agent, who forces her to explain some questionable items on her record. As her explanations are played out in flashbacks, Louis is stunned to find that Jessica finally accepted his marriage proposal (following five unsuccessful attempts) only after her last-ditch effort to get a work visa extension failed. Elsewhere, Eddie convinces his brothers to take a joyride with him in the family minivan, but they boys don't get very far.
Plot[]
To be added
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Randall Park as Louis Huang
- Constance Wu as Jessica Huang
- Hudson Yang as Eddie Huang
- Forrest Wheeler as Emery Huang
- Ian Chen as Evan Huang
- Lucille Soong as Jenny Huang (credited as Grandma Huang)
- Chelsey Crisp as Honey
- Ray Wise as Marvin Ellis
Recurring Cast[]
Guest Cast[]
- Paul Mabon as Second Immigration Officer
- Zachary Knighton as Doug
- Brian Reed Garvin as Manager
- Marie Del Marco as Waitress
- Cheryl Francis Harrington as Swearing-In Officer
Trivia[]
Jessica's Visa application
- Jessica's Visa application reveals her birth date to be June 12, 1962 while Louis' is stated to be March 23, 1955, giving the pair a seven-year age difference.
- The song Jessica sings when trying to apply for an Extraordinary Ability Visa is "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac.
Quotes[]
Evan: I still don't understand how Mom is not a citizen if I'm a citizen. Louis: Because you boys were born here. And I'm a citizen because I applied for the green card lottery and then I naturalized. And after that, I sponsored Grandma, who also then naturalized to become a citizen. Jessica: And now she gets to stay here forever. Louis: But your mom is a permanent resident with a green card. [to Jessica] Remember when we got your green card? How they took us into separate gray rooms and grilled us about how we met. Emery: Tell us the story of how you guys met again. It's my favorite love story, after My Girl, of course. |
Louis: We took the world by storm. We bought a mini van. Because I wanted so many kids. Jessica: I told him shop closed after two. Evan: So what made you decide to have me? Jessica: White wine. |
Jenny: 我要去房間整理香水。 你們男孩應該幫助我. [1] Eddie: [to Emery and Evan] Just pretend like you don't understand Mandarin and back away. |
Eddie: You guys need to learn how to dream. How often do we get a day off of school and Mom and Dad are out of the house? Never. Emery: Eddie's right. How about after math, we reward ourselves with a little cheese string par-tay? Evan: I can't eat cheese, but I'll pretend to smoke it like a cigar. Eddie: First of all, I finished all the string cheese. Second, you need to think bigger. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. We're gonna take Mom and Dad's minivan for a ride. Evan: Are you crazy? Emery: You know Grandma's home. Eddie: She's neck deep in perfume. She'll be in her room all day. Evan: But none of us even know how to drive. Eddie: Evan, you know I'm an amazing driver. You've seen me play Mario Kart. Scoreboard don't lie, son. Evan: [to Emery] He does always banana my red shells. Eddie: Come on. Brothers road trip? Emery: I guess I will build some memories, like The Hardy Boys. Eddie: And we can go to Hardee's. Evan: I don't know. Eddie: You can use your AAA card for discounts on the road. Evan: I'll grab my motion-sickness pills. |
Jessica: It was at that moment I realized that I could never be part of such a corrupt profession. I quit right then and there. Doug: It says here you were fired for spanking a child. Jessica: Well, if you knew that, why did you let me keep talking? Louis: You spanked a child? Jessica: Spanking is a strong word. It was a gentle tap over the pants. Louis: I thought I knew everything about you. You were a teacher. Jessica: I did what I had to do to survive. Teach advanced calculus. Doug: Says here you taught drama. Jessica: Damn you, Doug! |
Eddie: Emery, I know we've had our differences over the years, but sometimes you really feel me, dawg. |
Jessica: You know what, I am so sick and tired of men always changing a woman's narrative, just like Joan of Arc. |
Emery: What are we gonna do? Mom and Dad are gonna murder us. Eddie: We'll set the car on fire and blame it on vandals. Or even better... Hobos! You know Mom hates hobos. She's always saying that. Emery: I think we should just run away and find a new family. If we split up, we'll have a better chance of being adopted. Evan: Or we can call AAA to come and unlock the car. Eddie: Evan, I know we've had our differences in the past, but you're the real MVP. Evan: Do I get a trophy? Eddie: No. You get this. This moment right here. Evan: I'll take it. |
Louis: Wait. You had just gotten rejected for your Visa right before you finally said yes? Did you only agree to marry me so you could get a green card? Jessica: Yes. Obviously, yes. Doug: Dude. Jessica: You married me for a green card? Jessica: It's not that big of a deal. I liked you and everything. Louis: Liked me? I fell in love with you the first moment we met. I thought our love story was one for the ages. Now I'm finding out I was just a marriage of convenience. Jessica: What? I'm practical. You love that about me. |
Eddie: Fellas, I think we did it. Seriously, if we get away with this, I'm never getting behind the wheel of a car again. Emery: Not even a Yukon with rims? Eddie: Well, yeah. I mean, a Yukon with rims, obviously. I'm only human, man. |
Louis: You wrote my number on a restaurant canoe so you wouldn't forget it? You loved me at first sight! Jessica: I'm so embarrassed. Louis: All these years, you were acting like you weren't a romantic, yet really, you fell in love with me at first sight. Jessica: Louis, stop saying it! Louis: But wait, if you knew you wanted to marry me from the first moment we met, why did you say no all those other times I proposed to you? Jessica: Because I wanted to enter the marriage on equal footing. Get my Visa situation sorted out first so that when I did say yes, you wouldn't think that I was just marrying you for a green card. When I got denied that day, I didn't have a choice. It was either marry you or get deported and never see you again. I wasn't gonna do that. |
Gallery[]
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References[]
- ↑ Translates from Mandarin to: "I'm going to my room to organize my perfumes. You boys should join me."
Episodes
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| Fresh Off the Boat – Season One | |||
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| Episode 1 "Pilot" |
Episode 2 "Home Sweet Home-School" |
Episode 3 "The Shunning" |
Episode 4 "Success Perm" |
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| Episode 5 "Persistent Romeo" |
Episode 6 "Fajita Man" |
Episode 7 "Showdown at the Golden Saddle" |
Episode 8 "Phillip Goldstein" |
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| Episode 9 "License to Sell" |
Episode 10 "Blind Spot" |
Episode 11 "Very Superstitious" |
Episode 12 "Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon" |
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| Episode 13 So Chineez | |||
| Fresh Off the Boat – Season Two | |||
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| Episode 1 "Family Business Trip" |
Episode 2 "Boy II Man" |
Episode 3 "Shaquille O'Neal Motors" |
Episode 4 "The Fall Ball" |
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| Episode 5 "Miracle on Dead Street" |
Episode 6 "Good Morning Orlando" |
Episode 7 "The Big 1-2" |
Episode 8 "Huangsgiving" |
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| Episode 9 "We Done Son" |
Episode 10 "The Real Santa" |
Episode 11 "Year of the Rat" |
Episode 12 "Love and Loopholes" |
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| Episode 13 "Phil's Phaves" |
Episode 14 "Michael Chang Fever" |
Episode 15 "Keep 'Em Separated" |
Epsiode 16 "Tight Two" |
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| Episode 17 "Doing It Right" |
Episode 18 "Week in Review" |
Episode 19 "Jessica Place" |
Episode 20 "Hi, My Name Is..." |
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| Episode 21 "Rent Day" |
Episode 22 "Gotta Be Me" |
Episode 23 "The Manchurian Dinner Date" |
Episode 24 "Bring the Pain" |
| Fresh Off the Boat – Season Three | |||
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| Episode 1 "Coming from America" |
Episode 2 "Breaking Chains" |
Episode 3 "Louisween" |
Episode 4 "Citizen Jessica" |
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| Episode 5 "No Thanks-giving" |
Episode 6 "WWJD: What Would Jessica Do?" |
Episode 7 "The Taming of the Dads" |
Episode 8 "Where are the Giggles?" |
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| Episode 9 "How to Be an American" |
Episode 10 "The Best of Orlando" |
Episode 11 "Clean Slate" |
Episode 12 "Sisters Without Subtext" |
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| Episode 13 "Neighbors with Attitude" |
Episode 14 "The Gloves Are Off" |
Episode 15 "Living While Eddie" |
Episode 16 "Gabby Goose" |
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| Episode 17 "The Flush" |
Episode 18 "Time to Get Ill" |
Episode 19 "Driving Miss Jenny" |
Episode 20 "The Masters" |
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| Episode 21 "Pie vs. Cake" |
Episode 22 "This Is Us" |
Episode 23 "This Isn't Us" | |
| Fresh Off the Boat – Season Four | |||
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| Episode 1 "B as in Best Friends" |
Episode 2 "First Day" |
Episode 3 "Kids" |
Episode 4 "It's a Plastic Pumpkin, Louis Huang" |
| Episode 5 "Four Funerals and a Wedding" |
Episode 6 "A League of Her Own" |
Episode 7 "The Day After Thanksgiving" |
Episode 8 "The Vouch" |
| Episode 9 "Slide Effect" |
Episode 10 "Do You Hear What I Hear?" |
Episode 11 "Big Baby" |
Episode 12 "Liar Liar" |
| Episode 13 "The Car Wash" |
Episode 14 "A Man to Share the Night With" |
Episode 15 "We Need to Talk About Evan" |
Episode 16 "Ride the Tiger" |
| Episode 17 "Let Me Go, Bro" |
Episode 18 "Measure Twice, Cut Once" |
Episode 19 "King in the North" | |
| Fresh Off the Boat – Season Five | |||
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| Episode 1 "Fresh Off the RV" |
Episode 2 "The Hand That Sits the Cradle" |
Episode 3 "Working the 'Ween" |
Episode 4 "Driver's Eddie" |
| Episode 5 "Mo' Chinese Mo' Problems" |
Episode 6 "Sub Standard" |
Episode 7 "Where Have All the Cattlemen Gone?" |
Episode 8 "Cousin Eddie" |
| Episode 9 "Just the Two of Us" |
Episode 10 "You've Got a Girlfriend" |
Episode 11 "Driver's Eddie 2: Orlando Drift" |
Episode 12 "Legends of the Fortieth" |
| Episode 13 "Grand-Mahjong" |
Episode 14 "Cupid's Crossbow" |
Episode 15 "Be a Man" |
Episode 16 "Trentina" |
| Episode 17 "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" |
Episode 18 "Rancho Contento" |
Episode 19 "Vice Mommy" |
Episode 20 "Nerd Watching" |
| Episode 21 "Under the Taipei Sun" |
Episode 22 "No Apology Necessary" | ||
| Fresh Off the Boat – Season Six | |||
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| Episode 1 "Help Unwanted?" |
Episode 2 "College" |
Episode 3 "Grandma's Boys" |
Episode 4 "S'Mothered" |
| Episode 5 "Hal-Lou-Ween" |
Episode 6 "Chestnut Gardens" |
Episode 7 "Practicum?!" |
Episode 8 "TMI: Too Much Integrity" |
| Episode 9 "Lou Wants to Be a Millionaire" |
Episode 10 "Jessica Town" |
Episode 11 "A Seat at the Table" |
Episode 12 "The Magic Motor Inn" |
| Episode 13 "Mommy and Me" |
Episode 14 "Family Van" |
Episode 15 "Commencement" | |