Living Single
I'll Take Your Man
TV Flash files “I'll Take Your Man” as hour 2 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — Living Single (1993–1998) on Fox, season 1, episode 2, aired 1993-08-29, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 118 in the Living Single guide, hour 2 of 27 in season 1. It aired 1993-08-29 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Judging by the Cover” (S01E01). Next is “Whose Date Is It Anyway?” (S01E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After Regine breaks up with her latest beau, a handsome attorney named Charles, she grants Max permission to give him a call. However, she is furious when Max goes to church and Sunday brunch with Charles. She suspects that Max doesn't even care about Charles, and is only using him to hurt Regine. Regine persuades a reluctant Khadijah to ask Max to break up with Charles. Max refuses, as she enjoys Charles's company and doesn't feel that Regine should always get her own way. Max later drops by the apartment and announces that she has dumped Charles. When Regine praises her for her selflessness, Max admits that Charles was the one who broke things off. The girls agree not to date each other's ex-boyfriends--unless he's really fine. Overton is forced to endure a slew of phone calls from lonely women when his ad offering handyman services accidentally ends up in the personals.Tag:Overton puts out toaster fire when Synclaire is distracted by phone calls.
Viewer FAQ
Where does I'll Take Your Man sit in the Living Single guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 118 — hour 2 of 27 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did Living Single S01E02 air?
I'll Take Your Man aired 1993-08-29 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is this "the Black Friends"?
That comparison is the discourse, not the origin story. Bowser's brownstone ensemble premiered in 1993 and treated Black professional friendship as default sitcom physics.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Four women, a Brooklyn brownstone, and sitcom chemistry that never needed a Central Perk comparison to land. Queen Latifah’s magazine hustle, Kim Coles’s comic spark, and an ensemble that treated Black urban friendship as default, not special episode. The friend-com with better clothes, sharper mouths, and a legacy still arguing in group chats.
Flash: four women, a Brooklyn brownstone, and a group chat that still thinks *Friends* stole the furniture. Yvette Lee Bowser's Fox sitcom (1993–1998) put Queen Latifah's magazine hustle at the center of a Black professional twenty-something ensemble and treated urban friendship as default, not a special episode. Someone's publicist will call the comparison a compliment. **It is the discourse, not the origin story.** Bowser's room premiered in 1993. The other couch can wait in the lobby.
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- Kim Coles as Synclaire James
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- John Henton as Overton Wakefield Jones
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