Look, there's Michael Jackson on the ol' TV again.

The second week of the now-$1.6 million civil case against Jackson concluded Friday with another viewing of the singer's videotaped deposition taken by the plaintiff's attorney, Howard King, last summer.

Jackson's former business associate, F. Marc Schaffel, had been asking for $3.8 million in unpaid expenses, royalties, salary and loans from the onetime King of Pop, but reduced his asking price this week after some legal negotiating took place.

After hearing from Schaffel's camp that Jackson is a manipulative businessman whose claims that he can't remember what exactly went on with his ex-colleague are untrue, the jury heard Jackson testify that he remembered at least one time when Schaffel brought money to him on the set of a music video.

On second thought, maybe it was actually a burger instead. Jackson said that he and Schaffel referred to the cash as "French fries" and that it was delivered to him in an Arby's sandwich bag.

But whether those fries were super-sized or not, Jackson then stated that he thought it was his money Schaffel was bringing him.

"I would never ask him for his money," he said. "That's ridiculous. I would never."

Furthermore, Jackson said, he thought that any money and time Schaffel put in to help him produce a charity record to benefit 9-11 victims (one of the joint projects Schaffel is saying he's owed big-time for) was a charitable donation.

Though Jackson and Schaffel's so-called partnership ended in 2001 when the "Billie Jean" singer found out that Schaffel had produced gay pornography, the plaintiff was supposedly back on the payroll in 2003, aiding in the production of two Fox specials Jackson made to counter the child molestation charges against him. King said that Jackson had agreed to pay Schaffel 20 percent of the gross from the shows, which ended up amounting to $10.6 million.

"I didn't directly rehire Marc Schaffel," Jackson told King during one of two taped interviews conducted last year. "It was somebody in the organization who obviously did."

King, who met with Jackson in London, asked him whether he had instructed Schaffel to shell out $1 million to Marlon Brando in 2001 to make an appearance at Madison Square Garden during one of his shows.

Jackson said he couldn't remember asking Schaffel to do that, but that he had wanted to give Brando some money.

"It wasn't so much for the appearance as it was for the fact that he said he really needed it and I wanted to help a friend," the pop star said.

But when it came to where that million--and many other millions--came from, Jackson said this:

"Nobody just gives me money. That's not right and I work for what I get. Don't make like I'm begging from anybody. I have pride."

And despite the fact that people all over the world have watched Jackson go on televised shopping sprees, he laughed at King's suggestion that Schaffel loaned him $375,000 to go shopping.

"It sounds spoiled, but it doesn't sound like me," Jackson said. "Give me $300,000 to go shopping? That's not me. I am sorry."

"You're not a big shopper?" King asked.

"Not like that, no," Jackson replied.

Jackson's attorney, Thomas Mundell, has said that it's perfectly reasonable for his client to have forgotten inconsequential financial details over the years because he's such a prolific artist and has other things to think about. He also continued to hammer away at Schaffel's credibility, drilling him about his record-keeping habits.

Schaffel admitted on the stand Thursday that he didn't have receipts for cash transactions he made on Jackson's behalf, including the $300,000 he supposedly withdrew in Brazil to take to an undisclosed party in Argentina (an exchange that Jackson has denied).

"I learned a very hard lesson," Schaffel told the court yesterday.

But the plaintiff did have this choice detail to offer in court Friday, however, after Mundell accused him of taking that trip to South America to recruit talent for gay videos:

"The main purpose of my trip was Mr. Jackson wanted to adopt some boys."

Mundell immediately dismissed the statement as a smear and even King said he was shocked to hear his client say that.

"It's not really relevant to this case," King said outside the courthouse. "I thought we were not going to go there. We've tried to be upstanding."

Mundell humorously called the outburst "one of the fun trial moments."

"It was an effort to smear Mr. Jackson with a remark that could be interpreted to hurt him in light of the case against him last year," he said. "I don't know anything about this. I never heard of Michael looking to adopt children from South America. I don't know, I doubt it. He's got three of his own."

Though it wasn't quite as fun as the above moment, Mundell also questioned entertainment attorney Raul Perez, who repped Schaffel during his quest to get that as-yet unreleased charity record, "What More Can I Give," into circulation.

Perez testified that Sony, which needed to sign off on the release, didn't approve of Schaffel's involvement. (Jackson's side has been saying that Schaffel's lack of music biz know-how helped get him canned, as well, in addition to that pesky porn thing.)

"This was a major record, with every pop star at the time," Perez said. "I don't think Sony was happy that a person no one ever heard of named Marc Schaffel was the producer??There was always a sense of how the heck did Michael Jackson put this person in charge of this record?...Things were not kosher from day one. There was always this underlying suspicion of who Mr. Schaffel was."

Mundell also introduced the idea that Schaffel had backdated checks for legal fees he incurred after he and Jackson split in 2001. The attorney showed the jury a check for $11,960.50 made out to Perez dated Nov. 16, 2001 and a check stub dated Nov. 14. Meanwhile, his and Jackson's partnership fizzled Nov. 15.

Perez was paid $29,953 overall for the work he did in October 2001 on behalf of the charity record. The checks were from Schaffel's Neverland Valley Entertainment, which Jackson has stated he wired Schaffel $2 million to establish.

Jackson, who has announced his intent to make Europe his new home now that Bahrain just isn't doing it for him anymore, countersued Schaffel in October, claiming that his ex-pal, whom he once lavished with sweet-natured phone calls, had defrauded him and owed him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"Michael certainly appears forgetful at times," another Jackson attorney, L. Londell McMillan, told the Los Angeles Times Thursday. "But he did not seem dishonorable and that's how the plaintiff appeared."

While on the other hand, King said: "We so far have managed to show that [Jackson] has no knowledge about anything."

The trial resumes Monday. We hear there are going to be balloons, an organ grinder and 10 clowns piled into a tiny car.

And perhaps just to make sure that all of L.A.'s judges and court clerks remain employed come hell or high water, Jacko's ex, Debbie Rowe, filed a motion Monday requesting that her quirky former husband be forced to pay her $50,000 for living expenses for the next four months and $195,000 for legal fees because "she sits on the brink of bankruptcy," per court documents obtained by TMZ.com. Rowe stated that if she doesn't get that money to aid her custody battle for her and Jackson's two children, she'll have to represent herself.

Rowe gave up her parental rights in 2001 but asked a judge to reinstate them in 2003 when Jackson was hit with molestation charges. She says that her ex stopped making his promised payment--$1 million a year for the first three years after their split and $750,000 for six years after that--in October 2003.