Living Single
There's Got to Be a Morning After
TV Flash files “There's Got to Be a Morning After” as a desk essential hour — Living Single (1993–1998) on Fox, season 2, episode 1, aired 1994-09-01, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 28 of 118 in the Living Single guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1994-09-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “What's Next?” (S01E27). Next is “I Love This Game” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “There's Got to Be a Morning After”. There's Got to Be a Morning After: ensemble spark, Kim Coles already the comic heat the other friend-com wished it had.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Kyle and Max must deal with the consequences of their drunken night together. Kyle manages to sneak Max out of the apartment without detection; but everyone becomes suspicious when they show up at the group's rooftop gathering singing the same song, and seem hesitant to insult one another. After Kyle returns to his apartment with Overton, he and Max each confess what has happened. Overton suggests that Kyle find out if what he and Max share is love or hate. Kyle asks Max to dinner, and she accepts. This horrifies Regine, as she fears that she would be left as the only target for all of Max's scorn and ridicule. She bets Khadijah, Synclaire, Overton and Scooter (who has found a job in New York) on the outcome of the date. Kyle asks Max why she is so reluctant to open up to anyone, and she admits that she needs to protect herself from getting hurt. She nixes a relationship with Kyle because she would miss their antagonism too much. They dance and have a nice evening, but Regine wins her bet.Tag:Everyone performs the tango.Music:"Tell Me Something Good" (Rufus featuring Chaka Khan), sung by T.C. Carson and Erika Alexander
Viewer FAQ
Where does There's Got to Be a Morning After sit in the Living Single guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 28 of 118 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Living Single S02E01 air?
There's Got to Be a Morning After aired 1994-09-01 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.
Filed against
- Queen Latifah as Khadijah James
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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
John Henton’s Overton Wakefield Jones gave Living Single its super’s heart — four women, a Brooklyn brownstone, Queen Latifah’s magazine hustle, Kim Coles’s comic spark, an ensemble that treated Black urban friendship as default.…
- T.C. Carson as Kyle Barker
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