A young African-American teen attempts to survive with his dysfunctional family and his all-white school in the 1980s.
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Feb 19th 2:00p ET
Everybody Hates the Buddy System
Chris' new principal, Principal Edwards, decides that the best way to solve the tension between Chris and Caruso is to pair them up as buddies on the school field trip.
Feb 20th 2:00p ET
Everybody Hates Promises
After the school newspaper runs several inflammatory stories about Chris and his class presidency, Chris must defend himself against Caruso and his classmates at an impeachment hearing.
Feb 21st 2:00p ET
Everybody Hates Thanksgiving
When Julius' successful younger brother Louis joins the family for Thanksgiving, Julius gets in the competitive spirit, determined to make the perfect meal.
Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bussed to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and dealing with a school bully.
Ep 2: Everybody Hates Keisha
When Chris' mother, Rochelle, hires the girl next door, Keisha, to tutor Drew at math, Chris sees this as an ideal chance to impress her. But someone else may have the same intentions.
Ep 3: Everybody Hates Basketball
Chris joins the school basketball team even though he can't play, but a failed pop quiz threatens to get him dropped. Back at home Julius gets a lodger after he offers 6 months rent up front, despite the fact he makes Rochelle nervous.
Ep 4: Everybody Hates Sausage
When Julius buys a big crate of sausage, he makes everyone eat it with every meal. But Tonya refuses to, causing friction between her and Rochelle.
Ep 5: Everybody Hates Fat Mike
Chris lets a neighborhood kid ride his bike, despite Julius'ds warnings, and he takes off with it.
Ep 6: Everybody Hates Halloween
It's Halloween and Chris is excited when another girl invites him to a costume party. But Caruso has plans for him.
Ep 7: Everybody Hates the Babysitter
When Julius and Rochelle have a special 'date night' they hire a baby-sitter. But Chris is called upon to take charge when she leaves to take care of something personal.
Ep 8: Everybody Hates the Laundromat
While Julius and Rochelle go shopping for a new TV, Chris has to take his warring siblings to the Laundromat. Then things take a turn for the worse when Tonya storms out.
Ep 9: Everybody Hates Food Stamps
Julius finds $200 in food stamps but Rochelle is too embarrassed to let Sheila see them, so she dips into the family savings while at the store.
Ep 10: Everybody Hates Greg
Chris and Greg fall out when they break the rule of 'no computer games' after school at Greg's house. Back at the Rock home, Tonya is missing Chris a she can't blame everything on him.
Ep 11: Everybody Hates Christmas
It's Christmas and Julius and Rochelle find it difficult in breaking the news that they can't afford presents because of broken water heater. Chris is surprised to discover who the canned food drive is really for.
Ep 12: Everybody Hates a Part Time Job
Tired of "hand-me-up" winter coats from Drew, Chris decides that a leather jacket will make him look "cool", but he learns the value of a dollar when he goes to work with his dad to earn the money to buy one.
Ep 13: Everybody Hates Picture Day
Chris tries to put together the right outfit for the school pictures in order to convince the other kids that he's cool. Rochelle tries to earn extra money selling cosmetics from home.
Ep 14: Everybody Hates Valentine's Day
While Chris develops a crush, Julius and Rochelle have their work cut out dealing with all of Tonya's and Drew's admirers.
Ep 15: Everybody Hates the Lottery
Chris receives a challenge to his crown of asteroid champion. Julius and Rochelle agree to give up some guilty pleasures.
Ep 16: Everybody Hates the Gout
Chris fails math but he changes the grade on his report card before showing it to his parents. Julius recovers from the gout by staying at home and watching soap operas.
Ep 17: Everybody Hates Funerals
Chris' beloved grandfather (Jimmie Walker) dies while paying a visit to Rochelle and the family, and the extended family comes to town to pay their respects.
Ep 18: Everybody Hates Corleone
The daily beatings at his school have Chris wanting to change schools. But when Julius and Rochelle won't let him change Chris resorts to attempts at getting himself expelled. Julius gets a job at a fish market.
Ep 19: Everybody Hates Drew
Hoping to FINALLY out-perform his brother, Chris convinces his parents to let him take up karate lessons. Meanwhile, Tonya goes with Rochelle to the beautician and discovers the fun of gossiping.
Ep 20: Everybody Hates Playboy
Chris finds Julius' copy of Playboy and takes it to school and charges kids to look. But when Joey steals it he must work out a way to get it back before Julius realizes it's gone.
Ep 21: Everybody Hates Jail
Chris must raise cash for the school trip by selling cookies. Meanwhile, Julius regrets sending Rochelle to Dreamgirls while he looks after Tonya and Drew who have chicken pox.
Ep 22: Everybody Hates Father's Day
While Chris finds his dad the perfect gift, Julius decides he would like to spend Father's Day alone.
Ep 1: Everybody Hates Rejection
Rochelle decides to host a neighborhood watch meeting after Julius' truck is stolen, but her good intentions quickly turn competitive when her new neighbor, Louis, thinks she'd make a better block captain than her.
Ep 2: Everybody Hates the Class President
Hoping to make a better life for himself at Corleone Junior High, Chris throws his hat in the ring for Class President and asks Greg to be his running mate.
Ep 3: Everybody Hates Elections
After failing to make an impression at the town hall meeting, Chris realizes that he needs to deliver the best campaign speech of all time if he's going to win the election for class president, but when his opponent, Caruso, steals his speech, Chris is driven to extreme measures.
Ep 4: Everybody Hates A Liar
After Chris accidentally misleads the neighborhood into thinking he and tasha are dating, Rochelle gets quite an earful from Tasha's grandmother, Louise.
Ep 5: Everybody Hates Malvo
Chris is honored when Doc finally entrusts him with watching the cash register, but the situation goes from good to really bad when Chris is robbed by the neighborhood's notorious repeat-offender, Malvo.
Ep 6: Everybody Hates the Buddy System
Chris' new principal, Principal Edwards, decides that the best way to solve the tension between Chris and Caruso is to pair them up as buddies on the school field trip.
Ep 7: Everybody Hates Promises
After the school newspaper runs several inflammatory stories about Chris and his class presidency, Chris must defend himself against Caruso and his classmates at an impeachment hearing.
Ep 8: Everybody Hates Thanksgiving
When Julius' successful younger brother Louis joins the family for Thanksgiving, Julius gets in the competitive spirit, determined to make the perfect meal.
Ep 9: Everybody Hates Superstition
Things start going Chris' way at home and at school after he wears his dad's lucky socks. Drew and Tonya play Julius and Rochelle against each other. Drew asks Rochelle for a new suit for his talent show performance.
Ep 10: Everybody Hates Kris
Chris falls ill while working with Julius at a department store as Santa Claus and one of Santa's elves. While in the hospital, he meets a mysterious man named Kris, who helps him see how blessed he really is.
Ep 11: Everybody Hates Eggs
For a classroom lesson on parenting skills, Chris and Greg are each assigned an egg to care for as if it were their own child, but the task proves quite challenging after Chris' mom decides to show him what it really means to be a parent.
Ep 12: Everybody Hates Hall Monitors
Hoping to get more respect from his classmates and to stop being Caruso's punching bag, Chris signs up to be a hall monitor.
Ep 13: Everybody Hates Snow Day
When Chris accidentally shows up for school on a "snow day", he and Principal Edwards are stuck with each other until they can reach Chris' parents.
Ep 14: Everybody Hates the Substitute
A scholarly substitute teacher makes Chris' life a living hell by holding him to a higher standard than his classmates.
Ep 15: Everybody Hates Cutting School
With their teacher Ms. Morello out for the day, Chris and Greg decide to cut school and go see the movie "Ghostbusters".
Ep 16: Everybody Hates Chain Snatching
When Chris thwarts Malvo's attempt at stealing a gold chain from Vanessa, Malvo gives Chris one day, or suffer the consequences, to produce a replacement necklace.
Ep 17: Everybody Hates DJs
When the neighborhood DJ is arrested in the middle of a party, Chris steps in for him and proves to be a huge hit with the crowd.
Ep 18: Everybody Hates Baseball
Chris is put in a difficult position when he must choose between going to a baseball game with his dad and Drew and going to the movies with Tasha.
Ep 19: Everbody Hates Gambling
Chris becomes Bed-Stuy's favorite odds-maker after Doc discovers he has a natual talent for predicting a game's outcome.
Ep 20: Everybody Hates Dirty Jokes
After secretly listening to his parents' comedy albums, Chris tries out some dirty jokes on his classmates and discovers that making people laugh is the key to popularity, but his teacher has a different take on the situation.
Ep 21: Everybody Hates Math
With Chris' entire class counting on him to master algebra in time for a math competition, Rochelle takes it upon herself to tutor Chris.
Ep 22: Everybody Hates the Last Day
With the end of the school year fast approaching, Chris decides to exact revenge on Caruso to pay him back for making Chris' life miserable for the past two years.
Ep 1: Everybody Hates the Guidance Counselor
After Chris tests poorly on a standard exam, his teacher, Ms. Morello, refers him to the school's guidance counselor, Mr. Abbott.
Ep 2: Everybody Hates Caruso
Without Caruso to establish the school's power hierarchy and with everyone vying to fill his shoes, Chris and Greg realize they'd better come up with a fast solution.
Ep 3: Everybody Hates Driving
Things take a literal turn for the worse when a license-less Chris volunteers to move his dad's car, but finds himself driving the car all the way to school as a result of trying to impress Tasha.
Ep 4: Everybody Hates Blackie
As a result of their apartment being broken into, Julius and Rochelle decide it's a good idea to get a dog, something Chris has always wanted.
Ep 5: Everybody Hates the Bachelor Pad
When Chris' entire family comes down with the flu, Rochelle and Julius make arrangements for Mr. Omar to look after Chris until the family recovers.
Ep 6: Everybody Hates the Bed-Stuy
With no extracurricular activities to his name, Chris decides to join the writing staff of the school newspaper.
Ep 7: Everybody Hates Houseguests
With Greg's father out of town, Chris invites Greg to stay at his house for the week.
Ep 8: Everybody Hates Minimum Wage
When Doc refuses to give Chris a raise, Chris goes out and gets a new job at the local Chinese restaurant.
Ep 9: Everybody Hates the New Kid
When a new student, Albert, enrolls at Corleone, Chris realizes that he has a lot more in common with Albert than just being the only two African American kids in school.
Ep 10: Everybody Hates Kwanzaa
With Christmas break right around the corner, Chris' holiday cheer turns to holiday blues when his teacher, Ms. Morello, assigns homework requiring each student to do a good deed over the break.
Ep 11: Everybody Hates the Port Authority
Chris and his family decide to take a trip down South to attend the funeral of Julius' distant relative.
Ep 12: Everybody Hates Bad Boys
When Chris discovers that his long-standing crush, Tasha, likes "bad boys", he decides it's time to lose his "nice guy" image and win over the girl of his dreams.
Ep 13: Everybody Hates the First Kiss
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.
Ep 14: Everybody Hates Easter
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.
Ep 15: Everybody Hates Gretzky
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.
Ep 16: Everybody Hates the BFD
Chris is so desperate to raise the funds to go to a Run DMC concert that he jumps at the chance to participate in Mr. Omar's Black Funeral Director's (BFD) scholarship fund.
Ep 17: Everybody Hates the Ex-Cons
Chris attempts to help Malvo, a career criminal who was recently released from jail, turn his life around by going back to school.
Ep 18: Everybody Hates Earth Day
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.
Ep 19: Everybody Hates Being Cool
On a mission to become one of the "cool" kids, Chris is caught with cigarettes and suspended from school.
Ep 20: Everybody Hates the 9th Grade Dance
Chris and Greg are without dates to the ninth-ggrade dance, until Greg gets asked, leaving Chris as the odd man out. Ms Morello suggests to Chris that he ask the only girl who hasn't been asked yet, Carrie White, and she accepts.
Ep 21: Everybody Hates Mother's Day
Chris decides to buy his mother an expensive bottle of perfume for Mother's Day to pay her back for all the things she has done for him.
Ep 22: Everybody Hatest Graduation
Chris' excitement about graduating from junior high school is ruined when Greg announces that he'll be going to a different high school in the fall.
Ep 1: Everybody Hates Tattaglia
As a first time high school student, Chris is really looking forward to attending a school with some diversity.
Ep 2: Everybody Hates Cake
Chris agrees to help a classmate, Angel, improve his grades if Angel will help him get the attention of Chris' latest crush, Maria.
Ep 3: Everybody Hates Homecoming
Chris is on cloud nine when a cute girl, Jenise Huckstable, invites him to the Tattaglia Homecoming Dance.
Ep 4: Everybody Hates the English Teacher
When Julius and Rochelle decide to raise Mr. Omar's rent, Mr. Omar demands they bring the apartment up to code and moves in with Chris' family until the repairs are done.
Ep 5: Everybody Hates My Man
Chris realizes that by helping the school's star running back and his friends with homework he is allowed to hang out with the cool kids.
Ep 6: Everybody Hates Doc's
When Doc's obnoxious new girlfriend, Stacy, makes Chris' life a living hell, Chris decides it's about time he split up the happy couple.
Ep 7: Everybody Hates Snitches
Although he is supposed to be home watching Drew and Tonya, Chris sneaks out to go the movies with his friends and witnesses a shoot-out outside the theater.
Ep 8: Everybody Hates Big Bird
Chris is just starting to fit in at his new high school when he gets asked on a date by the dorkiest girl in school, Kelly, whom everyone calls "Big Bird".
Ep 9: Everybody Hates James
Julius realizes that the key to keeping Rochelle happy in their marriage is getting advice from "The Oprah Winfrey Show". Unfortunately, the plan backfires when Rochelle equates Julius' new attitude with an extramarital affair.
Ep 10: Everybody Hates New Year's Eve
Chris is determined to spend New Year's Eve in Times Square, but Rochelle says Chris can only go if he finds a responsible adult to accompany him.
Ep 11: Everybody Hates Mr. Levine
When Rochelle orders a copy of her birth certificate, she realizes that she is actually one year younger than she thought she was and decides to start living her life with a new, younger attitude.
Ep 12: Everybody Hates Varsity Jackets
Chris and Greg decide to join the wrestling team to land a varsity jacket to impress the ladies.
Ep 13: Everybody Hates Fake IDs
Chris and Greg realize they'd better find fake IDs or they won't be able to go to the "18 and over" Fat Boys concert. Rochelle plans a surprise party for Julius.
Ep 14: Everybody Hates PSAT's
Knowing that he needs to score well to help get him into college, Chris decides to cram for his PSAT test. When Rochelle makes the family attend a social event, Chris is left with no time to study and resorts to buying the PSAT answer key.
Ep 15: Everybody Hates Boxing
Coach Thurman witnesses Chris being bullied by Caruso and suggests Chris learn to box to defend himself.
Ep 16: Everybody Hates Lasagna
Chris reluctantly agrees to hold onto a stash of marijuana for a criminal on the run, but he finds it difficult to find an appropriate hiding place that won't get him in trouble.
Ep 17: Everybody Hates Spring Break
Chris accidentally hits Greg while test driving the janitor's car, landing Greg in the hospital with a broken leg. Meanwhile, with both of Greg's parents out of town, Rochelle decides to skip the family vacation so she can take care of Greg.
Ep 18: Everybody Hates the Car
After Chris gets his driver's license, Rochelle and Julius give him permission to buy a car, but when the car is stolen and vandalized Chris realizes owning a car is a huge responsibility.
Ep 19: Everybody Hates Back Talk
Chris decides to take a stand against his mother, Rochelle, and refuses to do his household chores, causing Rochelle to complain to Julius that her son is disrespecting her.
Ep 20: Everybody Hates Tasha
Chris works up the courage to ask Tasha to be his girlfriend and is surprised when she accepts. Unfortunately, Chris had no clue that being a boyfriend entailed giving up all his free time and only doing things that Tasha wants to do.
Ep 21: Everybody Hates Bomb Threats
As punishment for Chris' disruption of history class, Chris and his classmates are given the assignment of memorizing a famous speech from World War II and reciting it in front of the class.
Ep 22: Everybody Hates the G.E.D.
During the last week of school, Chris is informed that if he gets one more tardy, he will have to repeat the 10th grade.
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