Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Hates the G.E.D.
TV Flash files “Everybody Hates the G.E.D.” as a desk essential hour — Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009) on UPN/CW, season 4, episode 22, aired 2009-05-08, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E22: listed hour 88 of 88 in the Everybody Hates Chris guide, last listed hour of season 4. It aired 2009-05-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Everybody Hates Bomb Threats” (S04E21). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Everybody Hates the G.E.D.”. Everybody Hates the G.E.D. is the series closer titled like a joke with a diploma — memoir comedy taking a school-system bow after four seasons.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Chris opts to take the G.E.D. over repeating the 10th grade, Drew tries to go on Amateur Night at the Apollo, Julius tries to get $25 back from somebody who owes him, and Tanya graduates from sixth grade.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Everybody Hates the G.E.D. sit in the Everybody Hates Chris guide?
S04E22 is listed hour 88 of 88 — last listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 22.
When did Everybody Hates Chris S04E22 air?
Everybody Hates the G.E.D. aired 2009-05-08 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
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- 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
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- 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…