50 Fun Facts About Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Hates Chris was created by Chris Rock and which writer-producer?

The show was first developed for Fox before UPN picked it up.

On which network did Everybody Hates Chris premiere on September 22, 2005?

It moved to The CW when UPN and The WB merged, and ran there until May 8, 2009.

How many seasons did Everybody Hates Chris run?

Each season had 22 episodes for a total of 88.

In which Brooklyn neighbourhood is the show set?

The series follows Rock's own teenage years there from 1982 to 1987.

Which years does the series cover?

The family has just moved out of the low-income housing projects when the show begins.

Who narrates the show?

The real Chris Rock provides intermittent narration over his younger self's misadventures.

Which actor plays the teenage Chris?

He was about 12 when the show launched and later won a Golden Globe for Abbott Elementary.

Who plays Julius, Chris's penny-pinching father?

Before acting he played defensive end and linebacker in the NFL for the Rams, Chargers and Redskins.

Which actress plays Rochelle, Chris's temperamental mother?

She had already spent five seasons as Pam on a Fox sitcom and won an NAACP Image Award for this role.

What is the name of Chris's popular, athletic younger brother?

He is played by Tequan Richmond and, to Chris's annoyance, is bigger than his older brother.

Chris's little sister, spoiled by her father and fond of tattling on her brothers, is called what?

Imani Hakim plays her; she enjoys getting her brothers in trouble by whining to their parents.

What is the surname of Greg, Chris's small, nerdy best friend at school?

Vincent Martella plays him; his father Art is played by Gary Basaraba.

Chris is bused across town to a junior high school slyly named after which movie crime family?

The all-white school is where he meets Greg, Ms. Morello and the bully Caruso.

The show's title parodies which CBS sitcom?

The joke being that, unlike Raymond, nobody in Chris's world seems to be on his side.

Which well-meaning white teacher treats Chris with condescending stereotyped assumptions?

Jacqueline Mazarella plays her, and by the final season she has become principal of Chris's high school.

What is the name of the red-haired bully who torments Chris at school?

Joey Caruso is played by Travis T. Flory.

Complete Rochelle's catchphrase: 'I don't need this, my man has...'

Julius does indeed work two jobs, and has been a newspaper deliveryman, security guard, cab driver and fish packer.

Which of these is NOT one of Julius's jobs during the series?

He also drives a cab, and famously knows the price of every item in the house to the cent.

Which funeral director neighbour is known for exclaiming 'Tragic! Tragic!'?

He is played by Ernest Lee Thomas, best known as Raj on What's Happening!!

What is the name of the local grocery store owner Chris later works for?

He is played by Antonio Fargas, Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch.

Which street dealer sells goods that are always bootlegged or stolen?

Mike Estime plays him; Malvo, by contrast, is the petty criminal who robs Chris at Doc's.

Which neighbourhood character routinely greets Chris with 'Lemme hold a dollar'?

Kevontay Jackson plays the perpetually broke older kid.

What is the name of the homeless man who practises martial arts around the neighbourhood?

Jeris Lee Poindexter plays him, and Phylicia Rashad once guest-starred as his mother.

Which sitcom veteran plays Vanessa, Rochelle's wise-cracking best friend who owns the beauty salon?

Rochelle later manages the salon herself.

Which Oscar winner plays Louise, the nosy next-door neighbour and Tasha's grandmother?

Tasha, played by Paige Hurd, moves into Keisha's old house next door.

Who plays Rochelle's soft-spoken but critical mother, Grandma Maxine?

Devine had recently finished a run on Boston Public and went on to Grey's Anatomy.

In season four Chris moves up to a high school named after which Godfather family?

Coach Thurman, played by Paul Ben-Victor, is his homeroom teacher and football coach there.

What is the title of the series finale?

Chris drops out to sit the test after being told one more late arrival will make him repeat tenth grade.

The final scene of the series is a spoof of which HBO drama's famous ending?

It cuts to black mid-scene, just as Tony Soprano's diner visit did in 2007.

What is the title of the very first episode?

It aired on September 22, 2005.

Which Seinfeld star guest-starred as Principal Edwards?

Wayne Brady also appeared, as Julius's brother Louis.

Which jazz bassist composed the show's music?

Miller is best known for his work with Miles Davis on Tutu.

Where was the show shot?

Brooklyn was recreated on a Hollywood lot despite the very New York setting.

Ali LeRoi's writing and the two lead performances as Chris and Rochelle each won which honour?

The series was also nominated for a Golden Globe and three Emmys.

The animated revival Everybody Still Hates Chris premiered in September 2024 on which channel?

Terry Crews and Tichina Arnold returned to voice Julius and Rochelle, with Tim Johnson Jr. as young Chris.

Who voices the young Chris in Everybody Still Hates Chris?

Chris Rock returned as narrator, and the revival received a 20-episode order.

The actor who played teenage Chris later won a Golden Globe playing Gregory Eddie on which sitcom?

In between he played Noah on The Walking Dead and starred in the film Dear White People.

The actor who played Julius went on to play Sergeant Terry Jeffords on which police comedy?

He also began hosting America's Got Talent in 2019.

Before playing Rochelle, the actress spent five years as Pam on which 1990s sitcom?

As a teenager she was also one of the doo-wop chorus girls in the 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors.

How many episodes of Everybody Hates Chris were made in total?

Four seasons of 22 episodes each; Chris Rock said in 2009 that ending there suited his own story.

After its first season, the show moved to which network for its remaining three seasons?

The move came when UPN and The WB merged in 2006; the show bounced between Sunday, Monday and Friday slots over the next three years.

What two-word catchphrase does Drew use to dodge blame for anything that goes wrong?

The narrator claims it was his first phrase as a baby; it debuted in the pilot and stuck for the whole run.

Chris's athletic younger brother loves hockey and idolises which player?

He is also into magic and karate, copying moves from TV so well that the neighbourhood's homeless martial artist gives him lessons.

Before playing teen Chris, the lead actor appeared as himself from 2000 to 2005 on which PBS series?

He started acting at four and also voiced Bobby on Little Bill; two younger brothers, Tyrel and Tylen, are actors as well.

Which sweet treat calms Rochelle down, leaving her in withdrawal whenever she gives it up?

The narrator calls her a 'Ghetto Snob' for how carefully she polices the family's public image; she never actually hits her kids despite constant threats.

Which former Diff'rent Strokes star plays Monk, the paranoid veteran who minds the grocery store?

Monk always wears a beret and surplus army gear and is married to a Korean American woman who works at the beauty salon.

The show was originally developed for which network before being passed over to UPN?

Rock ended the series himself in 2009, saying the finale matched where his own teenage story had reached.

Which singer is Tonya's favourite entertainer, whom she credits with inventing the Moonwalk?

She later develops a fondness for Danny Glover; the character is based on Chris Rock's real sister, Andi.

Who developed and ran the animated revival, having previously co-run Central Park?

He turned the project down until he learned it would be animated, and would not proceed without Terry Crews and Tichina Arnold on board as producers.

The Kazakh remake of the sitcom moves the family to which city instead of Bed-Stuy?

The show also found a huge following in Brazil, where RecordTV still reruns it on Sundays two decades after its 2006 debut there.