Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Hates the Ninth-Grade Dance
TV Flash files “Everybody Hates the Ninth-Grade Dance” as hour 64 of 88 in the TV Flash guide — Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009) on UPN/CW, season 3, episode 20, aired 2008-05-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E20: listed hour 64 of 88 in the Everybody Hates Chris guide, hour 20 of 22 in season 3. It aired 2008-05-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Everybody Hates Being Cool” (S03E19). Next is “Everybody Hates Mother's Day” (S03E21).
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Chris catches a lot of grief for asking a white girl from his class to the ninth grade dance, so he backs out of it, which only makes things worse. Julius and Drew help out a relative starting a business, and Tanya takes up ballet.
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Where does Everybody Hates the Ninth-Grade Dance sit in the Everybody Hates Chris guide?
S03E20 is listed hour 64 of 88 — hour 20 of 22 in season 3, season 3 episode 20.
When did Everybody Hates Chris S03E20 air?
Everybody Hates the Ninth-Grade Dance aired 2008-05-04 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.
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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
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- Terry Crews as Julius
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- Tichina Arnold as Rochelle
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- Tequan Richmond as Drew
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- Imani Hakim as Tonya
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- 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…