Living Single
I've Got You Under My Skin
TV Flash files “I've Got You Under My Skin” as hour 88 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — Living Single (1993–1998) on Fox, season 4, episode 7, aired 1996-10-31, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E07: listed hour 88 of 118 in the Living Single guide, hour 7 of 24 in season 4. It aired 1996-10-31 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Multiple Choice” (S04E06). Next is “School's Out Forever” (S04E08).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
On her way out of the hospital following hemorrhoid surgery, Khadijah makes a date with a doctor named Charles. When she learns that he was her anesthesiologist, she becomes embarrassed and is unable to show any physical affection toward him. After he makes a fool of himself in the batting cage at the hospital's charity carnival, Khadijah's mind is eased and she kisses him. Regine begins moonlighting as a wedding coordinator. Her first clients are a spooky couple with bizarre supernatural powers, such as the ability to call Regine over a disconnected telephone. They wish to hold their ceremony in a cemetery, and are thrilled by Regine's suggestion of throwing the bouquet into an open grave.Tag:Regine receives unwanted "gift" from Edwin and Damiana
Viewer FAQ
Where does I've Got You Under My Skin sit in the Living Single guide?
S04E07 is listed hour 88 of 118 — hour 7 of 24 in season 4, season 4 episode 7.
When did Living Single S04E07 air?
I've Got You Under My Skin aired 1996-10-31 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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