Living Single
To Grandmother's House We Go
TV Flash files “To Grandmother's House We Go” as hour 52 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — Living Single (1993–1998) on Fox, season 2, episode 25, aired 1995-05-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E25: listed hour 52 of 118 in the Living Single guide, hour 25 of 27 in season 2. It aired 1995-05-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Raw Talent” (S02E24). Next is “Talk Showdown” (S02E26).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Khadijah and Regine send their mothers to the Bahamas as a Mother's Day gift, and Khadijah's grandmother comes to stay with her. Rita expresses concern about the fact that Nana has been wandering off, and fears that her age is showing. Nana vanishes, and Khadijah is stunned to find that she has returned to New Jersey for a rendezvous with her boyfriend, the town baker. With Khadijah as a buffer, Nana finally has a talk with Rita about her need for a personal life. After Laverne reminds her about her affair with a snorkel instructor, Rita agrees to give Nana a break, provided that she be more honest in the future. Overton videotapes the events as a gift for his mother. While researching his family tree, Kyle discovers that his great-great-grandfather invented the sipping straw, only to be bilked out of his money by a hustler who was one of Max's ancestors. Kyle has the last laugh when he learns that the pain of losing their fortunes was what first brought his great-great-grandparents together.Tag:Overton shows some leftover footage.
Viewer FAQ
Where does To Grandmother's House We Go sit in the Living Single guide?
S02E25 is listed hour 52 of 118 — hour 25 of 27 in season 2, season 2 episode 25.
When did Living Single S02E25 air?
To Grandmother's House We Go aired 1995-05-04 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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