Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Hates the Port Authority
TV Flash files “Everybody Hates the Port Authority” as hour 55 of 88 in the TV Flash guide — Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009) on UPN/CW, season 3, episode 11, aired 2008-03-02, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E11: listed hour 55 of 88 in the Everybody Hates Chris guide, hour 11 of 22 in season 3. It aired 2008-03-02 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Everybody Hates Kwanzaa” (S03E10). Next is “Everybody Hates Bad Boys” (S03E12).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The family plans to go to a relative's funeral in South Carolina, but Chris and Julius lose the ticket money to a three-card monte dealer.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Everybody Hates the Port Authority sit in the Everybody Hates Chris guide?
S03E11 is listed hour 55 of 88 — hour 11 of 22 in season 3, season 3 episode 11.
When did Everybody Hates Chris S03E11 air?
Everybody Hates the Port Authority aired 2008-03-02 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…