Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Hates Superstition
TV Flash files “Everybody Hates Superstition” as hour 31 of 88 in the TV Flash guide — Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009) on UPN/CW, season 2, episode 9, aired 2006-11-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E09: listed hour 31 of 88 in the Everybody Hates Chris guide, hour 9 of 22 in season 2. It aired 2006-11-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Everybody Hates Thanksgiving” (S02E08). Next is “Everybody Hates Kris” (S02E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Chris's luck changes after he borrows a pair of socks from his father; Drew and Tonya conspire to get their parents to buy them things.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Everybody Hates Superstition sit in the Everybody Hates Chris guide?
S02E09 is listed hour 31 of 88 — hour 9 of 22 in season 2, season 2 episode 9.
When did Everybody Hates Chris S02E09 air?
Everybody Hates Superstition aired 2006-11-27 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…