40 Fun Facts About Cousin Skeeter

Although no character on Cousin Skeeter ever mentions it, Skeeter is played on screen by what?

A puppet plays Skeeter, yet his family and classmates treat him as an ordinary kid. Critics and viewers were left wondering why he was one at all.

Which stand-up comedian and former MTV VJ provided the voice of Skeeter on Cousin Skeeter?

Bill Bellamy first found fame on HBO's Def Comedy Jam. He went on to host MTV Jams and MTV Beach House before lending Skeeter his voice.

Which NBA superstar, a real-life cousin of Skeeter's voice actor, directed an episode of Cousin Skeeter?

Shaquille O'Neal directed a first-season episode in 1998. He also fronted a Nickelodeon sports anthology series made by the same production company.

Which R&B girl group, known for the hit Where My Girls At, recorded the Cousin Skeeter theme song?

702 performed the original version as musical guests on Nickelodeon's All That. A remix of that song became the sitcom's opening theme in 1998.

Which Nickelodeon duo joined Skeeter, Bobby and Nina on a ranch vacation in a two-part Cousin Skeeter crossover?

Kenan & Kel came from the same producers as Cousin Skeeter. In the crossover, Skeeter and Kenan rescue Kel and Nina and catch a scheming ranch owner.

Rondell Sheridan, who played Bobby's father on Cousin Skeeter, later played the dad in which Disney Channel hit?

That's So Raven cast him as chef Victor Baxter. He repeated the role in Cory in the House and Raven's Home, the only actor in the main cast of all three.

Angela Means, who played Bobby's mother on Cousin Skeeter, was Felisha in which 1995 Ice Cube comedy?

Friday turned her brief role as Felisha into a lasting meme years later. Means has since become a vegan chef who opened a soul food cafe in Los Angeles.

Which actress, later seen in Think Like a Man and Shazam!, played Bobby's friend Nina on Cousin Skeeter?

Meagan Good had broken out a year earlier in the film Eve's Bayou. Nina starts as Bobby's best friend and crush, and the two later begin dating.

Which chart-topping 1990s music star guest-starred on Cousin Skeeter as Brenda, a new girl both cousins fall for?

Left Eye, the rapper Lisa Lopes of TLC, played Brenda in the second-season episode Jezebel. The new girl at school catches the eye of both Bobby and Skeeter.

Skeeter claims to have saved the life of which pioneering rapper, who appeared as herself on Cousin Skeeter?

MC Lyte was the first female rapper to release a full solo album, 1988's Lyte as a Rock. On the show she is one of the famous friends Skeeter loves to mention.

The Cousin Skeeter intro is a reworked version of which 1996 debut single by an R&B girl group?

Steelo reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and went gold. A remix of it became the opening theme of the sitcom two years later.

Which rapper and producer co-wrote, and appears on, the 1996 hit reworked as the Cousin Skeeter theme?

Missy Elliott wrote the song with Chad Elliott and George Pearson. She performs on the track as a guest and also appears in its music video.

The song behind the Cousin Skeeter theme samples Voices Inside My Head, a 1980 track by which rock band?

The Police recorded Voices Inside My Head for the album Zenyatta Mondatta. Its writer, Sting, earned a songwriting credit on the R&B hit that sampled it.

The slang word that titles the hit behind the Cousin Skeeter theme refers to a person's what?

Style is what the slang title means. The group's lead singer admitted she did not understand the word and sent curious people to the songwriter for a definition.

Which star of the sitcom Martin voiced Nicole, who becomes Nina's best friend on Cousin Skeeter?

Tisha Campbell voiced Nicole, who arrives as a new neighbor in the TV movie New Kids on the Planet. Skeeter spends much of that story trying to impress her.

Which actor, later Arnaz Ballard on the UPN sitcom One on One, starred as Bobby on Cousin Skeeter?

Robert Ri'chard had just won a Daytime Emmy for the TV film In His Father's Shoes. He went on to roles in the films Coach Carter and House of Wax.

On the sitcom Cousin Skeeter, what does Bobby's father Andre, played by Rondell Sheridan, do for a living?

Music producer is Andre's job. In one first-season episode, Bobby is asked to give an acceptance speech on his dad's behalf.

On Cousin Skeeter, what is the profession of Bobby's mother Vanessa, whose boss is mistakenly sent a nasty e-mail?

Lawyer Vanessa is often as annoyed by Skeeter as her son is. She and her husband cannot wait for both boys to leave for college.

Before moving in with his cousin Bobby in New York, Skeeter of Cousin Skeeter lived in which Southern state?

Georgia was home before the big move. A 1998 Variety review described Skeeter as a relative from Atlanta about to invade a newly relocated family.

Bobby's family on Cousin Skeeter had only just moved to New York from which state across the country?

California was home for Bobby, who comes from the Los Angeles area. He is nearly as new to the city as his cousin when the series begins.

Usually easygoing Skeeter flies into a rage on Cousin Skeeter whenever anyone remarks on what about him?

His height is the one sore spot. Skeeter is written as confident, charismatic and hard to anger, unless somebody points out how short he is.

In one Cousin Skeeter episode, Bobby suffers a streak of bad luck after choosing to ignore what?

A chain letter is what Bobby shrugs off, and the misfortune piles up from there. The second-season episode carries the punning title Unchained.

Skeeter goes to extremes over what problem before a big date in one second-season Cousin Skeeter episode?

A pimple is the volcano in the episode's title, The Volcano. Skeeter tries everything he can think of to get rid of it before the date arrives.

Which baby animal do Bobby, Skeeter and Nina discover in a second-season episode of Cousin Skeeter?

A piglet turns up in the episode Two Men and a Baby Pig. Its title is one of many on the show that riff on a well-known film.

Skeeter gives which treasured possession of Bobby's mother to the Salvation Army in a Cousin Skeeter episode?

Her wedding dress is what Skeeter hands over in The Bother of the Bride. The first-season episode aired in November 1998.

At a school fundraising car wash on Cousin Skeeter, the kids wreck which prized car owned by Nina's dad?

A Cadillac is the casualty. Bobby, Nina and Skeeter manage to wreck it at the very event meant to raise money for their school.

On a class outing in Cousin Skeeter, Bobby and Skeeter must steer what to safety after its driver passes out?

A bus is speeding along on the class trip when its driver blacks out. The second-season episode is fittingly called Out of Control.

At camp in the Cousin Skeeter episode Apocalypse Skeeter, the cousins oversleep and miss the start of which game?

Capture the flag is under way against a rival camp by the time they wake. With their teammates captured, the pair must free them and grab the other side's flag.

In the Cousin Skeeter episode Skeeter Stays, Skeeter overhears that he is about to be sent where?

Military school is the threat. Skeeter sets about cleaning the house to impress Andre and Vanessa so they will let him stay in New York.

Skeeter disguises himself as a girl in one Cousin Skeeter episode so that he can join what?

A singing group, popular and all-female, is his target. The second-season episode is titled The Feminine Ms. Skeet.

In the Cousin Skeeter episode Trading Places, a spell from which object makes Nina and Skeeter switch with each other?

A doll with magical powers causes the switch. Bobby is the one who uses it on his friend and his cousin.

Which wrestling nickname does Skeeter adopt when he schedules a match in the Cousin Skeeter episode Skeeter's Suplex?

Stone Cold was the ring name of Steve Austin, a central figure in wrestling's late-1990s boom. The episode aired in March 1999, in the middle of that craze.

Skeeter comes out of retirement in one Cousin Skeeter episode to end which school team's losing streak?

Basketball is Skeeter's old game in the episode Air Skeeter. On the show he also counts Michael Jordan among his many famous friends.

On Cousin Skeeter, Skeeter and Bobby become contestants on The Good Stuff, which is what kind of TV program?

A trivia show gives the last episode of the first season both its setting and its title. The cousins compete on it as contestants.

What is stolen from Nina and Bobby in the Cousin Skeeter episode that Rotten Tomatoes singled out in 2019?

Their bikes vanish in The Bicycle Thief. The site praised the story for tackling how officers deal with Black children, in a piece on 1990s kids' shows that advanced representation.

Which Nicktoon premiered alongside Cousin Skeeter on Nickelodeon on September 1, 1998?

The Wild Thornberrys shared the same evening block on the night both shows launched. It follows a family that travels the world filming wildlife documentaries.

A 1998 Variety review called Cousin Skeeter a jive-talking version of which 1980s sitcom?

ALF was the comparison the critic reached for in a scathing review. Within months, though, the show was ranking as Nickelodeon's top-rated live-action series.

Which future comedy star, still a teenager, earned a writing credit on a first-season Cousin Skeeter episode?

Nick Cannon has a writing credit on Mo' Skeeter Blues, which aired when he was 17. He later turned up on screen in another episode as a character called Little Rick.

Skeeter accidentally injures Andre on Cousin Skeeter just before an important father-son tournament in which sport?

Bowling is the event that Andre has been looking forward to. The second-season episode first aired in October 1999.

On a Cousin Skeeter school trip to the natural history museum, what does Bobby slip on?

A sandwich is the culprit in Tyrannosaurus Wrecked. The first-season episode aired in September 1998, two weeks after the series began.