Living Single
What's Next?
TV Flash files “What's Next?” as the last listed hour of season 1 — Living Single (1993–1998) on Fox, season 1, episode 27, aired 1994-05-15, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E27: listed hour 27 of 118 in the Living Single guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 1994-05-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother” (S01E26). Next is “There's Got to Be a Morning After” (S02E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Alonzo asks Khadijah to move in with him, but she asks for some time to consider this major life decision. Alonzo refuses to relent, constantly sending her flowers and other gifts at the office. When another shipment of flowers comes in, Khadijah is shocked when the "deliveryman" turns out to be Scooter, who had been calling her almost daily for several weeks. He announces that he is in town for a job interview, and hopes to pick up where he left off with Khadijah. Khadijah is faced with a quandary when Alonzo and Scooter show up at her apartment at the same time. She retreats to the kitchen, and Alonzo follows her. She admits that she has feelings for Scooter, and that she isn't ready for the type of commitment Alonzo is seeking. They decide to break up. When Khadijah returns to the living room, she fears that Scooter has also left. However, he had only gone upstairs to help an eavesdropping Regine get her hair out of a vent. Khadijah and Scooter decide to begin dating. Max is suspended when she recommends that her wealthy client seek a pre-nuptial agreement (without receiving approval from the partners), and the woman's fiancé dumps her. She seeks support from Khadijah, who ignores Max because she is busy dealing with her suitors. Overton is furious when Kyle tries to dispose of a reclining chair that he had salvaged. Synclaire takes him to an all-night '70s film festival to take his mind off the argument. The next morning, Kyle and Max wake up naked in Overton's chair.Music:"One Nation Under a Groove" by Funkadelic.
Viewer FAQ
Where does What's Next? sit in the Living Single guide?
S01E27 is listed hour 27 of 118 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 27.
When did Living Single S01E27 air?
What's Next? aired 1994-05-15 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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- Erika Alexander as Maxine Shaw
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- Kim Fields as Regine Hunter
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- John Henton as Overton Wakefield Jones
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- T.C. Carson as Kyle Barker
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