70 Fun Facts About Living Single

On which network did Living Single originally air?

It ran for five seasons on Thursday nights, paired with Martin for much of its run.

Who created Living Single?

She said the four women were four sides of herself: ditsy, superficial, bitter and driven.

The gang's brownstone is in which New York City borough?

The neighborhood is Prospect Heights, and the two households share one building.

Who played Khadijah James?

The character was written for her: an entrepreneur running a magazine, mirroring her own hip-hop label.

What is the name of the magazine Khadijah edits and publishes?

It is pitched as an independent magazine for the African-American community, and it is where Synclaire answers the phones.

What does Kyle do for a living?

His verbal sparring with Max barely hides the attraction that eventually turns into a relationship.

What is Max's profession?

She raids the women's refrigerator so often that keeping it stocked is a running problem.

Which character is the brownstone's handyman?

He is also described as co-owner of the building the gang lives in.

Who played Synclaire?

She won an NAACP Image Award for the role.

Which actress played Regine?

It was her first big adult role after growing up on television.

Which actress played Max Shaw?

She had just come off Going to Extremes, an ABC drama canceled after one season.

Which actor played Kyle?

He later said his exit before the final season was a firing.

Who played Overton?

A stand-up comedian, he was discovered after a 1991 Tonight Show set.

How is Synclaire related to Khadijah?

Synclaire moves in and works as the receptionist at Khadijah's magazine.

What is Regine's job when the series begins?

Her other full-time pursuit is finding a wealthy man to marry.

Synclaire has a well-known affinity for which toys?

The dolls decorate her desk at the magazine office.

Khadijah and Max were college roommates at which school?

Khadijah is a Howard graduate, and their friendship dates back to those days.

Kyle and Overton have been best pals since childhood in which city?

Overton stays loyal to the Browns even after the team leaves town in a season-four episode.

Regine grew up as Khadijah's childhood friend in which New Jersey city?

It is the same city where the actress who plays Khadijah spent most of her own childhood.

Regine later works as a costume assistant on which fictional soap opera?

When the soap is canceled she reinvents herself as a wedding planner.

Kyle leaves the brownstone in season five to take a job in which city?

He invites Max to come along, and her refusal sends her into a crisis.

In the series finale, Max learns that the sperm donor for her pregnancy is who?

She had picked the donor from a list of desired qualities without knowing who it was.

Which actor played Scooter, the childhood friend Khadijah ends up with?

The other three all guest-starred too, as a neighbor, a study partner and an anesthesiologist boyfriend.

Season-five roommate Tripp Williams is an aspiring what?

He moves into Synclaire's old room after she marries Overton.

Which role was originally intended for rapper Monie Love?

Monie Love had guested on the star's 1989 single 'Ladies First' but could not take the part.

What was the show's working title before the network renamed it three weeks ahead of its debut?

Fox had announced it in March 1993 as a comedy about roommates in New York City.

Newspaper critics repeatedly compared Living Single with which NBC sitcom that premiered a year later?

The creator was frustrated that Warner Bros. Television promoted the NBC show far more heavily than hers.

How many episodes of Living Single were made?

The first three seasons ran 27 episodes each before the order was cut back.

On what date did the series finale air?

Fittingly, the finale is built around an impromptu New Year's Eve party.

How many episodes were in the fifth and final season?

Fox originally planned to hold the shortened season until January 1998, then moved it up to September 1997.

What was the title of the very first episode?

It has the women figuring out how to tell Regine her new boyfriend is married.

In 'Mr. Big Shot', Overton can win $10,000 with a halftime three-pointer at which team's game?

Synclaire manages to jinx him.

In the fantasy episode 'A Raze in Harlem', the gang travels back to which decade to save a jazz club?

It was one of two period fantasy episodes; a later one turned the cast into Motown singers.

Which NBA star had an on-screen fling with Khadijah in 'On the Rebound'?

All four played themselves on the show; Ceballos got a disastrous date with Khadijah in season five.

Who played Max's mother, Nina Shaw?

Jenifer Lewis and Denise Nicholas also guested, as a talk-show host and as Synclaire's mother.

Which singer played Overton's mother, Odelle Jones?

Antonio Fargas played his father, and Chaka Khan and CeCe Winans turned up as themselves and a choir member.

Regine's mother, Laverne, was played by the actress's real-life mother. Who is she?

Khadijah's on-screen mother was likewise played by the star's real mother, Rita Owens.

In a season-two episode, which future talk-show host played Khadijah's high school friend Sheri?

The same season also squeezed in Will Ferrell as a talk-show guest and Regina King as a would-be roommate.

Which actress played Khadijah's spoiled half-sister Stephanie?

Monica appeared too, in a different role as a date's sister.

Which rapper played Darryl, Regine's boyfriend, across three episodes?

Regine later plans his wedding and suspects his fiancée, played by Vivica A. Fox, is a gold digger.

In season one, Max hides a relationship with a younger man played by which actor?

The episode is called 'The Hand That Robs the Cradle'.

Russell, the magazine's music editor who carries a torch for Regine, was born in which country?

In one episode Khadijah lies to keep him from being deported.

What is the profession of Roni DeSantos, who moves into the men's apartment in season five?

She was played by former MTV VJ Idalis DeLeon and had a fling with Tripp.

In the finale, Synclaire is cast in a TV pilot as what?

The job means moving to California and leaving Khadijah behind.

By what nickname is Overton often known?

His full name is Overton Wakefield Jones.

What is Max's middle name?

The character grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia.

In the Half & Half crossover, Max and Kyle's seven-year-old daughter is named what?

The 2005 UPN episode revealed the couple stayed together after the finale.

The 2008 retrospective 'Living Single: The Reunion Show' aired on which network?

The Khadijah actress and Mel Jackson were the two regulars who could not take part.

In January 2018, every episode began streaming on which service?

HBO Max added the series in September 2022.

The show's only Primetime Emmy nominations, in 1995 and 1996, were in which category?

Both nominations went to Bryan Hays for a comedy series.

In its first season, Living Single consistently out-rated which show airing right before it?

It quickly became the fourth highest-rated show among Fox's twelve series.

Living Single made its creator the first African-American woman to do what?

She had started as an unpaid apprentice writer on A Different World in 1987.

In 1996 the creator became the first African-American woman with two network sitcoms on the air: Living Single and what?

Lush Life did not survive its first season; her next hit was For Your Love.

Which publication put Living Single on its 2023 list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time?

Nielsen had ranked the show No. 1 among Black and Latino households during its run.

The creator later served as showrunner of which Netflix comedy-drama?

It ran four seasons from 2017 to 2022.

Before playing Synclaire, the actress had been fired after one season of which sketch show?

She was told Keenen Ivory Wayans did not think she was versatile enough.

Two of the show's stars launched a rewatch podcast called what?

The hosts are the actresses behind Synclaire and Max.

The actress who played Max previously played Pam Tucker on which sitcom?

She stayed with it from 1990 through its 1992 finale.

How many NAACP Image Awards for comedy actress did the Max actress win for the show?

They came in 1996 and 1998; her Synclaire co-star won the same award as well.

The Max actress played a detective in which 2017 horror film?

She was Detective Latoya, the officer who is skeptical of Rod's story.

The actor who played Kyle later became the original voice of which video game character?

He voiced the God of War lead from 2005 to 2013, before Christopher Judge took over.

The Kyle actor also voiced which Jedi in the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars?

He first voiced the character in the 2003 Clone Wars series.

Which jazz standard did Kyle famously sing to Max in a fan-favorite scene?

The actor is a working jazz vocalist who has released albums of his own.

After the show, the actor who played Overton played Milsap Morris on which sitcom?

That series ran on ABC and then UPN.

The Overton actor got his break in 1991 when waved to the guest couch after a stand-up set on whose show?

Told he had no agent, the host replied: 'Well, you will after tonight.'

The actress who played Regine was already famous as Tootie on which show?

She was so short at first that producers put her on roller skates to avoid awkward camera angles.

Which reality show did the Regine actress join for its eighth season in 2015?

She left after one season and then competed on Dancing with the Stars, finishing eighth.

The Khadijah actress earned an Oscar nomination for which 2002 musical?

She played Matron 'Mama' Morton, and later starred in Hairspray as well.

In 2006, the actress behind Khadijah became the first hip-hop artist to receive what?

Two decades later she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The actress who played Khadijah was born under what name?

She found 'Latifah', Arabic for 'delicate', in a book of names when she was eight.