Everybody Hates Chris

When Keisha moves away, Chris prepares for his first date with a new girl from the neighborhood. Meanwhile, a nosy new neighbor (Whoopi Goldberg) moves in next door and pressures Rochelle to organize a neighborhood watch patrol. After volunteering to be a crossing guard, Drew has girls all over him. Chris meets Tasha Clarkson (Paige Hurd).

Chris runs for eighth-grade class president against Caruso. Meanwhile, Julius learns he has high blood pressure and tries to reduce the amount of stress in his life. Tonya wants Drew to teach her how to Moonwalk like Billy Ocean.

In order to win votes for class president, Chris tries to write a campaign speech. Meanwhile, Rochelle rents out the upstairs apartment to a funeral director (Ernest Thomas) with a long list of lady friends. Drew finds money that his mother lost and spends it.

Chris makes everybody think that he is going out with Tasha. Meanwhile, Julius wants to get something fun with his trading stamps, but Rochelle wants a new refrigerator.

Chris gets robbed by Malvo, a local thug, after Doc lets him work the cash register at the corner store, and he fears the thief will kill him if he snitches. Meanwhile, after buying a Betamax, Julius gets angry when Tonya tapes over his Young and the Restless and refuses to apologize to her after Rochelle tells him he hurt Tonya’s feelings. But; in the end, Tonya told Julius, who finished apologizing to Tonya about the Betamax that the Young and the Restless is for women which Julius told her about soap TV shows for women in the future.

The new school principal, Mr. Edwards (Jason Alexander) teams Chris with Caruso on a field trip in hope that the two will bond. Meanwhile, Tonya loses one of Rochelle’s hoop earrings after being told she cannot wear them. Julius tries to buy a Wayne Gretzky jersey for Drew.

Students want to impeach Chris as class president after he fails to deliver on his campaign promises. Meanwhile, Rochelle’s never-do-well brother, Michael, visits after their mother kicks him out of her house, and asks if he can stay. Rochelle agrees, but Julius ("Big Man") is not happy about it.

Julius wakes up the family at 5 A.M. in order to create a fantastic Thanksgiving meal to impress his younger brother, Louis (Wayne Brady). When Chris spoils his family’s favorite Thanksgiving tradition, Mac N’ Cheese, Chris’s boss Doc shows him how to make it from something different. This episode is a spoof of the TV series, 24.

Things start going Chris’s way at home and at school after he wears his dad’s lucky socks; Drew prepares to sing in a school talent show, even though he cannot carry a tune. In the meantime, Julius and Rochelle have a plan to end Tonya and Drew’s greedy behavior.

Julius works as a department store Santa and Chris is one of his elves, but Julius upsets the kids when they ask for expensive gifts that costs him money fearing that they will bankrupt their families this year, which results in his firing, and Chris gets so sick he has to be hospitalized. While in the hospital, he meets a mysterious man named Kris (Richard Lewis), who helps him see how blessed he really is.

Chris must care for an egg like it is a baby for a week as part of a social-studies project on parenting, but when Rochelle finds out that Chris was going to keep it in the refrigerator for the week, Chris finds out being a parent isn’t as easy as it sounds; Tonya is afraid to sleep because Drew told her werewolves will come out in the dark, which explains the reason why the electric bill is $25.83 more than usual; Julius tries to find ways to lower the electric bill. Caruso puts Chris’s egg on a chair, and Chris accidentally sits on it when he is about to be called up in class.

Chris becomes a hall monitor at school to get some respect, but no one takes him seriously. Meanwhile, Julius grows weary of Rochelle complaining about her new job. Tonya gets frustrated because her girlfriends spend more time with Drew than with her.

Chris is the only one that shows up when Corleone is closed for a snow day and has to stay with Principal Edwards until they can get in touch with his parents. Meanwhile, when he realizes his son is not around, Julius comes to find him. Rochelle gets robbed on the subway.

After Ms. Morello goes to Africa, Chris is excited to get a black substitute teacher (Orlando Jones), but his enthusiasm quickly turns to dread when the substitute pressures him to get an A. Meanwhile, Julius gets frustrated with Mr. Omar because he keeps borrowing his phone. Tonya keeps getting Drew in trouble by telling Rochelle that he hit her.

When Ms. Morello is away for the day, Chris and Greg cut school so they can see Ghostbusters and end up getting busted. Meanwhile, Rochelle embarrasses Tonya and Drew when she helps out at their school’s book fair, and Julius spends a frustrating day trying to get his driver’s license renewed at the DMV.

Malvo demands Chris steal a gold chain for him when he warns someone Malvo was about to steal one and threatens a beating if Chris does not comply. Tonya tries to win tickets to a Billy Ocean concert from a radio station, but after some trial-and-error and some help with Drew, she gets the tickets. And Julius is keeping a credit card secret from Rochelle when she finds out, but she finds out he had a credit card to get her something special: Her wedding ring (With Chris narrating for the first time, Julius got Rochelle to shut up).

Chris becomes a DJ after the neighborhood DJ, Hilly Hill (DJ Quik), is arrested and, in doing so, has a problem when he scratches his mother’s James Brown album. Meanwhile, Julius takes Drew to a magic show and passes out when he sees a rabbit. The episode ends by repeating "Everybody" like a scratched record in "Everybody Hates Chris".

Chris must decide whether he wants to go to a Mets game with his father and brother or to go see Back to the Future with Tasha. Meanwhile, Rochelle’s slacker brother asks her hairdresser, Vanessa (Jackée Harry), out on a date, and Rochelle tries to talk her out of going. Rochelle forgets to mail Tonya’s letter to the Billy Ocean fan club.

Chris wins a lot of money for Doc by correctly predicting upsets in pro basketball games—until the neighborhood bookie, Paulie (Vincent Pastore), threatens him. Back at home, Tonya gets tips from Julius on how to beat Drew in checkers. Julius gets behind Rochelle’s back to bet on an upcoming basketball game—not realizing it is his son, "Chrissy the Black," who is calling the shots.

Chris starts telling dirty jokes at school after he secretly listens to his parents’ Redd Foxx album. Meanwhile, Rochelle tries to set up a blind date for her mom, Maxine (Loretta Devine); and Drew is pestered by a girl who keeps telling friends that he kissed her.

Chris has trouble learning algebra, so Rochelle tries to teach him. But when he has problems with her, he goes to his grandmother, a former algebra teacher herself, for help. Meanwhile, Julius gets Risky a job helping him deliver newspapers. Drew breaks his dad’s chair, but Tonya takes the blame and then makes Drew wait on her hand and foot.

It is the last day of school, and Chris wants revenge on Caruso for making his life miserable. He puts cat food in the heating ducts and everywhere around the school causing Caruso to get blamed due to his love for cats. Meanwhile, Julius tries to fix Mr. Omar’s clogged drain, but only makes things worse and gets reported to the housing authority. Drew teases Tonya causing his graduation to nearly end in disaster when Tonya throws an ice cream sundae on his cap and gown in retaliation. To make matters worse, Rochelle told him to not wear it until the graduation. In the end, Rochelle fixes the cap and gown with a pair of scissors and a well placed scarf.