Living Single
Likes Father, Likes Son
TV Flash files “Likes Father, Likes Son” as hour 70 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — Living Single (1993–1998) on Fox, season 3, episode 16, aired 1996-02-01, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E16: listed hour 70 of 118 in the Living Single guide, hour 16 of 27 in season 3. It aired 1996-02-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Scoop Dreams” (S03E15). Next is “Wake Up to the Break-Up” (S03E17).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While at the TV station to visit her boyfriend, simple-minded weatherman Cole Front, Regine makes a date with a handsome older man named Warner Devant. When she later learns that Warner is Cole's father, she continues to see both men (she considers it a challenge); but has difficulty keeping track of their birthdays and likes and dislikes. The men eventually figure out what is going on, and show up at her door to confront her. Regine apologizes for the deception, and Cole orders her to choose between them. She picks Warner, causing Cole to have an on-air breakdown. Meanwhile, Overton, Max and Khadijah drive Kyle crazy when they invest money with his firm. He finally resigns as their broker, prompting one of his colleagues to thank him for the "suckers."Tag:Cole loses it on the air.Music:"Theme from Sanford and Son," hummed by T.C. Carson
Viewer FAQ
Where does Likes Father, Likes Son sit in the Living Single guide?
S03E16 is listed hour 70 of 118 — hour 16 of 27 in season 3, season 3 episode 16.
When did Living Single S03E16 air?
Likes Father, Likes Son aired 1996-02-01 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.
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