Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Hates Jail
TV Flash files “Everybody Hates Jail” as hour 21 of 88 in the TV Flash guide — Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009) on UPN/CW, season 1, episode 21, aired 2006-05-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E21: listed hour 21 of 88 in the Everybody Hates Chris guide, hour 21 of 22 in season 1. It aired 2006-05-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Everybody Hates Playboy” (S01E20). Next is “Everybody Hates Father's Day” (S01E22).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Chris has to sell cookies in order to go on a field trip to Washington D.C. Meanwhile Julius and Rochelle had tickets for Dreamgirls but Drew and Tonya get sick.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Everybody Hates Jail sit in the Everybody Hates Chris guide?
S01E21 is listed hour 21 of 88 — hour 21 of 22 in season 1, season 1 episode 21.
When did Everybody Hates Chris S01E21 air?
Everybody Hates Jail aired 2006-05-04 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is Everybody Hates Chris a kids' show?
It is memoir comedy about a childhood: school panic, family frugality, Bed-Stuy. Humor and hardship share the joke; the hardness stays in.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Chris Rock narrates a Bed-Stuy childhood like a stand-up set with sitcom walls: Terry Crews pinching every dollar, Tichina Arnold running the house, a kid surviving school on timing and panic. Everybody Hates Chris is memoir comedy that keeps the hardness in the joke.
The first useful device is a stand-up cadence inside sitcom walls. A semi-fictionalized young Chris Rock survives school, family frugality, and Bed-Stuy life — narration that turns memory into punchlines and pathos. Chris Rock and Ali LeRoi's series (2005–2009) ran on UPN then the CW: Tyler James Williams as Chris, Terry Crews pinching every dollar, Tichina Arnold running the house, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim, Vincent Martella. A kid surviving school on timing and panic. Beloved for balancing humor and hardship…
Filed against
- Tyler James Williams as Chris
Tyler James Williams’s Gregory Eddie is Abbott Elementary’s new-teacher stare — Quinta Brunson’s ABC mockumentary, a Philadelphia public school as awards-season soft power, lounge-as-premiere energy. On TV Flash he is the intern of the…
- Terry Crews as Julius
Terry Crews’s Julius pinched every Bed-Stuy dollar on Everybody Hates Chris — memoir comedy that keeps the hardness in the joke — then turned Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s precinct into found-family muscle under Captain Holt’s deadpan.…
- Tichina Arnold as Rochelle
Tichina Arnold’s Pamela James was the grown-up in Martin’s Fox apartment — Sheneneh, Jerome, clip-proof punchlines, messy offscreen lore — then ran Everybody Hates Chris as the Bed-Stuy house that kept the hardness in the joke. 1990s…
- Tequan Richmond as Drew
Tequan Richmond played Drew on Everybody Hates Chris — Bed-Stuy childhood as a stand-up set with sitcom walls, a kid surviving school on timing and panic, memoir comedy that keeps the hardness in the joke. TV Flash files him as 2000s…
- Imani Hakim as Tonya
Imani Hakim's Tonya kept Everybody Hates Chris a family argument — Chris Rock narrating a Bed-Stuy childhood like a stand-up set with sitcom walls, Terry Crews pinching dollars, Tichina Arnold running the house. Memoir comedy that keeps…
- Vincent Martella as Greg
Vincent Martella’s Greg survived Everybody Hates Chris as the brother in a Bed-Stuy memoir sitcom — Rock’s narration, Crews pinching dollars, hardness in the joke — then spent endless summer as Phineas on Phineas and Ferb, original songs…