Everybody Hates Chris

Chris fails an assessment test and is sent to the guidance counselor (series co-creator Chris Rock), who doesn’t have a clue how to help Chris. Back at home, Julius tries to find a way out of buying the kids new school clothes.

Caruso gets beat up by a kid he picked on and abdicates his role as school bully. Unfortunately, the situation makes life even more troublesome for Chris, because his fellow students are vying for Caruso’s old post, by picking on him. Back at home, Julius takes on extra work while he is supposed to be on vacation and tries to hide it from Rochelle.

Julius asks Chris to move the family car across the street, but Chris ends up driving it to school even though he doesn’t have a license in order to impress a girl. Meanwhile, Rochelle goes to traffic court to argue about a speeding ticket.

Chris is allowed to get a dog, which Julius names Blackie, after a burglary at his home but unlike him, Julius wants it to be a guard dog, not a pet. Meanwhile, because the TV has been stolen, Tonya and Drew decide to entertain themselves by making prank calls. The singing at the end is in Spanish, since Blackie responds to Spanish.

Chris is left alone in Mr. Omar’s apartment when his family comes down with the flu and Mr. Omar, who’s supposed to look after him until the family recovers, leaves him for a widowed woman. Tonya lies about being sick to avoid failing a quiz she forgot to study for. Greg then suggests he invite Tasha over for some alone time watching Richard Pryor, but the moment gets ruined when more people come to watch as well. Even though Chris puts his whole family in a coma, Rochelle catches Chris and Tonya in a middle of the party.

Chris makes up a story about a serial killer that causes a panic in the community after joining the writing staff for the school newspaper, as his skills as a writer don’t go down well. Meanwhile, Rochelle campaigns for Lamar Johnson, a slick city councilman, much to Julius’ dismay.

With his dad out of town, Greg comes to stay at Chris’ house and gets special treatment from Rochelle, which upsets Chris. Meanwhile, Julius gets a job as a cab driver and takes a passenger named Eddie (Tommy Davidson) on a road trip to Las Vegas for $1000 despite his initial reluctance to do so. Unfortunately, Eddie is a bank robber.

Chris quits his job at Doc’s store and gets another job at a Chinese restaurant called Hoo’s Hunan because he isn’t getting paid minimum wage; Rochelle becomes a hair model for an upcoming hair show. Meanwhile, Julius visits Drew’s school in order to find out why he’s failing history tests and Greg tries to find the courage to talk to a girl.

Chris is happy when another black kid named Albert arrives at his school, but Greg worries that Chris will forget about him. Although Chris and Albert are friends, Chris doesn’t realize that Albert is different from what he thought. Meanwhile, Rochelle gets an unexpected tax refund and goes on a shopping spree, but Julius is concerned that the IRS will come and take back the extra cash.

For a school assignment, Chris must help Kill Moves find his estranged mother (Phylicia Rashād). Meanwhile, Julius decides it’s cheaper to celebrate Kwanzaa than Christmas.

Chris and his family decide to take a trip down South to attend the funeral of Julius’ distant relative. Unfortunately, while waiting for the bus at Port Authority, Chris and Julius get sucked into playing Three-card Monte and are too afraid to tell Rochelle that they lost all their money.

Chris adapts from a ’nice guy’ into a ’bad boy’ when he discovers Tasha likes bad boys, while Julius wins a free meal with his family at a fancy restaurant called Domaine et Mer after he wins employee of the month but it comes with unexpected restrictions.

After finding out that Tasha is going to "spin the bottle" parties, Chris is determined to get an invitation to the next party so he can finally experience his first kiss. When Rochelle runs into an old boyfriend while the family is out to dinner, Julius becomes extremely jealous and asks Tonya to spy on her mother and find out whether she still has feelings for her ex. Mr. Omar borrows five dollars from Drew, not realizing that Drew is deadly serious about getting his money back.

When Tasha breaks up with her boyfriend, Chris is more than happy to step in and serve as her escort for the Easter Pageant, but first he has to figure out how to be in two places at the same time without his mother finding out. Rochelle is confident that she’ll win the Easter Pageant Hat-Off competition for the fourth year in a row, but she definitely has to up her game after finding out that the church’s newest member intends to take away her title. Julius pretends that he has to work on Easter so that he can stay home and watch baseball.

In an attempt to keep his younger brother, Drew, out of further trouble, Chris reluctantly agrees to skip school and accompany Drew on a mission to find his idol, hockey great Wayne Gretzky. Also, Tonya was supposed to go on a school trip to Philadelphia, which was unsuccessful as Julius couldn’t afford to take her.

Chris is so desperate to raise the funds to go to a Run–D.M.C. concert that he jumps at the chance to participate in Mr. Omar’s Black Funeral Directors’ (BFD) scholarship fund. Meanwhile, when Rochelle injures her arm, she quickly realizes that the longer she’s out of commission, the longer she can avoid taking care of Julius and the family.

Chris attempts to help Malvo, a career criminal who was recently released from jail, turn his life around by going back to high school. Rochelle is alarmed by the parenting skills of one of Tonya’s friend’s parents (guest star Shar Jackson) and decides to share her wealth of knowledge. A die-hard Dodgers fan, Julius feels betrayed when Drew decides he’s a fan of the Mets.

Chris must come up with a school project for Earth Day, so he decides to collect cans, believing it will be an easy task and something Julius can help him accomplish. When Rochelle is called to school to discuss Tonya’s inappropriate behavior, it quickly becomes obvious to Rochelle that it’s a case of the apple not falling far from the tree.

On a mission to become one of the "cool" kids, Chris is caught with cigarettes and suspended from school. Of course, Tonya intercepts the call from Chris’ school letting his parents know he has been suspended and decides to blackmail him. Meanwhile, in an effort to get even with Julius for keeping a coat given to him by his ex-girlfriend, Rochelle decides to parade around the neighborhood in inappropriate clothing.

When Chris is the only boy without a date for the ninth-grade dance, Greg suggests he ask out Carrie but when he does, word spreads of the inter-racial couple. Meanwhile, Tonya pesters her parents about taking ballet lessons. Tony Rock, the inspiration for Drew, guest stars as entrepreneurial Uncle Ryan.

When Chris attempts to buy Rochelle expensive perfume as a Mother’s Day gift from a store, he discovers he cannot afford it and buys a knock-off from Risky. However, Rochelle breaks out in hives and takes Chris to the store she believes he bought it from.

Chris’ joy at graduating to junior high school is short-lived when he finds out Greg is going to a different school next year, so he needs enough money to go to Greg’s school. Meanwhile, Rochelle volunteers Drew to be Tonya’s partner in "Swan Lake" after her partner suffers an ankle injury.