This was going to be yet another great episode of a series that never relies to heavily on sitcom conventions for its humor, but by the end, that’s precisely what the episode had done. You can see a video of Grammer talking about it here.
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I plus had outside help from a tutor, but despite her efforts, she just couldn’t get through to me.Continue reading Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Math Permalink | Email this | | Comments that is an example of how my brain tries to solve a basic math problem:
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Filed under: Everybody Hates Chris, Celebrities, Episode Reviews(S02E20) Up to that point, we’ve seen how his upbringing, home life, and troubles at school helped to shape Chris’ worldview, but that is the first episode where we caught a glimpse of what made Chris want to be a comedian.
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Filed under: Everybody Hates Chris, Episode Reviews(S02E19) You can watch the episode here whether you missed it.
I’ve never really gambled, as that whole concept is a little too complex for me. Chris additionally gets sucked into helping his boss, Doc, bet on sports when it’s discovered that Chris…

Kurt Vonnegut once told McSweeneys that a male writer should never write about his father: “you learn about life by the accidents you have, by and by again, and your father is always in your head when that stuff happens.”
I don’t fully understand what Vonnegut was getting at, but I do agree with h…

While jotting down notes for that episode I nearly wrote, “this is his best work since Diff’rent Strokes” but soon after stopped myself when I realized I couldn’t think of anything besides Diff’rent Strokes he had been on. I guess that’s kind of like being a square dance caller? that episode was n…

Thanks for reading my reviews, and here’s hoping Everybody Hates Chris keeps going so I can continue not reviewing it for many seasons to come. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments is keeping the CW off my TV.Usually when I stop reviewing a show i…

A lot of sitcoms derive their humor from their characters inherent selfishness, but Chris is a genuinely good person, and in a rough neighborhood like his, that’s adequate to get the snot kicked out of him. Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Everybody Hates Chris, The CW(S02E16) One of the thin…

Get out right now and go see Ghostbusters, it’s one of the defining movies of that decade, damn it!”Putting aside the fact that Chris Rock was actually 19 or 20 years old when Ghostbusters was released, that was a pretty solid episode, and it nicely showed how doing poor things can take its toll on …

I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t have kicked his ass out the minute he said “hold on” when someone asked to use their own phone. Now, she’s just another idiot.That’s really my only beef with that episode, which was otherwise pretty solid. It was never my best subject; even today I have no concept …

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Everybody Hates Chris, Celebrities, The CW(S02E15) When you get older and have to actually drive to work when the winter weather gets poor, it’s easy to forget just how much you loved those days when you were a kid and didn’t have to go to school. Still, I lik…

Most of the students want nothing to do with Chris considering he’s black, but it’s additionally considering Chris has no interest in going along with the group-think that’s prevalent in most schools. Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Everybody Hates Chris, The CW(S02E14) I don’t think that e…

And, now, as Adam pointed out, Mrs. That’s small town Iowa for you. Unfortunately, that means having a mom (Rochelle) who won’t let him get by with just keeping the egg in the fridge all week. The show focuses on struggles we all went through but doesn’t disregard how being a minority can exacerb…

Also, for you Mac users out there, the in-browser player should work just fine. I’m completely useless when it comes to technology, so whether I’m wrong about that, share your complaints in the comments and we’ll all break into The CW headquarters together and demand they scrap that player for a b…

“Even Jean-Paul Satre was a freak in his day,” he quipped after the spirited debate by use of the word in the Pussycat Dolls’ hit “Don’t Cha.”But not even a funny executive could hold a candle to Chris Rock.Rock joined Ali LeRoi, his fellow executive producer on Everybody Hates Chris, along with cas…

Among them was the announcement that Everybody Hates Chris is getting a full-season order for the 2007-08 season.”Producing one great episode after another, that is a show that we want viewers to associate with the CW. The presence of executive producer Chris Rock probably helped.By the way, the wo…

I hopped on my computer and went to VH1’s site, but there was no mention of it at all. Well, that “special” is five back-to-back episodes of Everybody Hates Chris according to both my Tivo and TV Guide. Seriously, I was like Encyclopedia “Mother-F’n” Brown. whether you haven’t seen the show, you …

Sorry, I’m just really amused by my mistakes.
So anyway, Vincent Martella, who plays Chris’ best friend Greg on the series, is additionally a musician. You can listen to one of his original songs on his MySpace page. The song, “Closest Thing to Heaven,” probably won’t blow the lid off popular musi…

I can turn down my cynicism a little during Christmas and enjoy some of the sappier things TV has to offer, but I like how that episode proved that Christmas doesn’t have to rely on magic and other nonsense, it can just be about trying a little harder to show others how much they mean to you.
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