Chappelle's Show
Trading Spouses
TV Flash files “Trading Spouses” as the last listed hour of season 1 — Chappelle's Show (2003–2006) on Comedy Central, season 1, episode 12, aired 2003-04-09, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E12: listed hour 12 of 28 in the Chappelle's Show guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 2003-04-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Fisticuffs” (S01E11). Next is “The Racial Draft” (S02E01).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Dave delves into what would happen if couples attempted "Trading Spouses" and introduces a new family-oriented form of marijuana which contains no THC. Also featuring musical guest Blackstar.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Trading Spouses sit in the Chappelle's Show guide?
S01E12 is listed hour 12 of 28 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 12.
When did Chappelle's Show S01E12 air?
Trading Spouses aired 2003-04-09 and is listed at 30 minutes.
How much Chappelle's Show is there, really?
Two full seasons and incomplete third-season material after Chappelle left at the height of the fame. The silence is part of the history.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan mixed racial satire, music, and absurdity into Comedy Central events people recited the next morning — then Chappelle walked away at the fever's height. Two complete seasons, DVD-era dorm-room canon, an exit that is still comedy's central mystery-myth.
The first look is a sketch that people recited the next morning like a look they could not afford to miss: racial satire, music, absurdity, Comedy Central as a weekly event carpet. Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan premiered *Chappelle's Show* on January 22, 2003 — primarily two complete seasons plus a troubled third-season fragment, 2003–2006. Donnell Rawlings, Charlie Murphy, Paul Mooney populate a show whose characters and catchphrases outran the episode clock. Then Chappelle walked away at the height of the…
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- Dave Chappelle as Various
Dave Chappelle made Chappelle’s Show a Comedy Central event people recited the next morning — racial satire, music, absurdity, then a walk-away at the fever’s height. Two complete seasons, DVD-era dorm-room canon. TV Flash files him as…
- Donnell Rawlings as Various
Donnell Rawlings charged through Chappelle's Show as ensemble voltage — Comedy Central sketch heat, racial satire recited the next morning, and the fever that still has a DVD-era aftertaste. Two complete seasons, then an exit that remains…
- Charlie Murphy as Various
Charlie Murphy’s various turns on Chappelle’s Show made recitation a national sport — 2000s catalog True Hollywood voltage, a brother’s stories as gossip scripture, then the 2010s file parking him beside Happy Valley’s Yorkshire crime…
- Paul Mooney as Various
Paul Mooney did various turns on Chappelle’s Show, the 2000s Comedy Central event people recited the next morning — racial satire, music, absurdity, then an exit that is still comedy’s central mystery-memoir. Two complete seasons, DVD-era…