TV-PG
S1 • E1
Thea has a hectic routine: working at the supermarket checkout by day, dressing hair by night, and supervising her four demanding children. Jarvis gives his mother $25 which he earned delivering sandwiches during his school lunch hour, but she insists that he keep the money and eat his own lunch in the cafeteria. Danesha returns from taking James clothes-shopping, and James blabs that he had to keep trying on ill-fitting clothes while she talked on the phone to her new boyfriend Leonard, whom she's meeting at the library later. Thea insists that Leonard pick Danesha up at home so she can inspect him. Meanwhile, Jerome is supposedly at a friend's house doing a geography assignment, but Thea finds his geography book and knows that he has been at the video arcade instead, and grounds him before she leaves to attend a memorial service. It's the night of a big video-game competition, and Jerome sneaks out despite Jarvis' attempts to keep him at home, then must face Thea's wrath
S1 • E2
Jerome is failing English because of his desperate attempts to make the school basketball team. When Thea forces him to finish his book report on "To Kill a Mockingbird", he doesn't make the team but gets a B on his report. Meanwhile, Danesha attempts to submit a video to America's Funniest Home Videos
S1 • E3
The washing machine breaks down, which means endless trips to the laundromat. Meanwhile, Danesha's boyfriend is in hot water after he kisses another girl, and Thea puts him through the wringer before he can come clean with Danesha.
S1 • E4
Thea gets a chance to train for manager, but Jerome plans a boxing-match party while she's at her night-school class.
S1 • E5
Jarvis lets his younger brother drive and they get into an accident, but they don't tell their mother who was behind the wheel. To punish them, Thea cooks up a scheme with Lynette, who pretends to have lost her wedding ring in her trash, now at the bottom of a very fragrant dumpster.
S1 • E6
Conflict brews when Arthur invites Jarvis to his bachelor party but Thea thinks he's too young to attend
S1 • E7
Thea is called to attend a parent-teacher meeting when son Jerome acts up in his math class.
S1 • E8
On her birthday, Thea's treasured gift of tickets to a Motown reunion concert go unused when her boss calls her in to work a replacement shift
S1 • E9
Jarvis and Jerome plan to split up Danesha and Leonard.
S1 • E10
Danesha is put in charge of cooking the Thanksgiving meal when Thea must work at the market.
S1 • E11
Thea invests money in stocks that Jerome suggests after he gets an A on a stock-market project for school.
S1 • E12
Jarvis procrastinates putting up the Christmas lights because he's afraid of heights.
S1 • E13
Danesha's class-project partner, the school's star athlete, counts on her to do all the work
S1 • E14
Thea is unable to afford mandated improvements to her home salon and an inspector wants to close down her business.
S1 • E15
Ebonie Smith plays a popular girl who uses Jerome to make her boyfriend jealous.
S1 • E16
Thea has a full schedule so she tasks Jerome or Danesha with changing their plans so they can escort James to a party; Jarvis goes fishing with Charles like he used to with his father.
S1 • E17
Thea takes a day off, leaving the kids to do the household chores. She visits her favorite barbecue joint, Mickey's, but Mickey has died and new owner Roy's cooking doesn't come close, so Thea joins the restaurant as the head chef.
S1 • E18
Barbecue-sauce chef Thea is offered a restaurant partnership
S1 • E19
An unethical banker threatens to foreclose on the restaurant after Thea and Roy deny him special favors.
Thea Turrell
Jarvis Turrell Jr.
Jerome Turrell
Danesha Turrell
James Turrell
Charles
Lynette
Otis
Riddick
Rickey