List of Everybody Hates Chris episodes

Chris (Tyler James Williams) commutes to and is bullied at a predominantly white school to fulfill his mother, Rochelle's (Tichina Arnold) wish for a better education, and also move out of the projects into a house. His schedule for this one school day is to go to school, buy lunch with money, come home from school on time to pick up his sibling Drew and Tonya and ensure that his father maintains a stable rest & meal. Unfortunately, the day does not go as planned.

Julius buys a crate of cheap sausage for the family to eat for a week, but the family soon begins to dislike it, and Tonya tests Rochelle's patience by outright refusing to eat it. Elsewhere, Chris has to deal with bullying by Joey Caruso's gang after false rumors spread that he beat up Caruso, and has to deal with an unfair school administration.

Chris finds himself in hot water when he, disregarding his father's warning, allows a neighborhood kid to ride his bike who then takes off with it. Elsewhere, Julius's coworkers go on strike, so he fills his free time with housework, much to Rochelle's dismay.

Chris is excited to go to a Halloween party that an older girl invites him to, but his day is abound with trouble. Meanwhile, Julius buys cheap candy to hand out to the neighborhood kids, to Rochelle's -- who despises being perceived as poor -- disapproval. He gives the invite to Chris who is determined to go. Elsewhere, Drew and Tonya hold back Chris from attending the party since they want to go trick-or-treating, which does not go ideally.

Julius and Rochelle go out to a restaurant for a night, leaving a babysitter (Erica Hubbard) to watch the kids, but both at home and at the restaurant does disaster after disaster occur. In the end, Chris gives some much deserved karma to the babysitter, making this the only episode in the season, and one of the very few in the series, where the very ending is not bad for Chris.

Chris wants a portable cassette player for Christmas but his parents cannot afford to buy one, despite them obliging his siblings and themselves. At school, Chris brings in canned goods for the needy, but his teacher insistently believes that he is one of the needy. When Tonya heard that there is no Santa Clause from Drew, she gets upset leaving to where Rochelle is trying to help Tonya learn the truth about Santa.

Chris' beloved grandfather (Jimmie Walker) dies from a unexpected heart attack while paying a visit, which causes Rochelle to act nice in a strange way as her extended family comes to town to pay their respects, and this forces Chris to become a mother to the rest of the family. Meanwhile, Rochelle becomes fed up with her impolite mother (Loretta Devine).

Chris tries to get himself expelled as he grows intolerant of his constant physical & verbal bullying at Corleone, where in which he is the sole black student. Meanwhile, Julius finds a new job that pays more than his previous two jobs combined, but fast and adamantly does the family become tired of one of it's new consequences.

Chris becomes a DJ after the neighborhood DJ, Hilly Hill (DJ Quik), is arrested and, in doing so, has a problem when he scratches his mother's James Brown album. Meanwhile, Julius takes Drew to a magic show and passes out when he sees a rabbit.

Chris must decide whether he wants to go to a Mets game with his father and brother or to go see Back to the Future with Tasha. Meanwhile, Rochelle's slacker brother asks her hairdresser, Vanessa (Jackée Harry), out on a date, and Rochelle tries to talk her out of going. Rochelle forgets to mail Tonya's letter to the Billy Ocean fan club.

Chris is allowed to get a dog, which Julius names Blackie, after a burglary at his home but unlike him, Julius wants it to be a guard dog, not a pet. Meanwhile, because the TV has been stolen, Tonya and Drew decide to entertain themselves by making prank calls. The singing at the end is in Spanish, since Blackie responds to Spanish.

When Chris attempts to buy Rochelle expensive perfume as a Mother's Day gift from a store, he discovers he cannot afford it and buys a knock-off from Risky. However, Rochelle breaks out in hives and takes Chris to the store she believes he bought it from.

Chris is asked to tutor an androgynous classmate named Angel (pronounced in spanish as An-hel) (Hector Garcia), so he can get the attention of Maria. When Mr. Omar goes away for a week, he asks Drew and Tonya to watch after his goldfish. Meanwhile Tasha's ex-con mother, Peaches (Tisha Campbell-Martin) asks Rochelle for help to turn her life around. In the end, Greg is kicked out of the Bronx Academy of Science, and becomes a nerd again.

Chris is thrilled when Jenise Huckstable (Tristin Mays) asks him to the homecoming dance. His nerves begin to get the better of him when Jenise tells him that her father Dr. Clint Huckstable (Orlando Jones) and mother Blair Huxtable (Devika Parikh) want to meet him before the dance, but Rochelle disapproves and makes Chris stand Jenise up, which she and Tonya meet Jenise and Clint, and Rochelle is relieved the situation is over. Drew tries to get Doc to feng shui the store when he takes over Chris' hours. A boy tries to seduce Tonya, which makes James jealous.

Special guest stars: Orlando Jones as Clint Huckstable, Devika Parikh as Blair Huckstable and Tristin Mays as Jenise Huckstable

Chris witnesses a shooting outside a movie theater when he is supposed to be babysitting Drew and Tonya while his parents are at a Broadway musical for their anniversary; however, when Julius accidentally hits one of the performers, he and Rochelle get thrown out.

Chris and Greg try to obtain fake IDs in order to attend an age-restricted Fat Boys concert. Meanwhile, Rochelle plans a surprise party for Julius and Drew tries to return a faulty pair of X-ray glasses he received through the mail.

Chris is told that if he is late to school one more time, he will have to repeat the tenth grade. This happens two days later, so he decides to drop out of school and get a job. At first Rochelle and Julius are against the idea, but they decide to support him. Chris takes the G.E.D. test, and if he passes he will be able to get a job. Meanwhile, Drew wants to perform at the Apollo for amateur night, but later realizes he doesn't have talent as all he does is bang drumsticks on a bucket with a talented dancing girl and Tanya is graduating from the sixth grade. In the last scene, Rochelle, Drew and Tanya meet Chris at a diner and are waiting for Julius, The episode ends with the entire family sitting around a restaurant table, listening to and singing along with Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer", and eating fried crests. Julius brings the G.E.D. results and the last thing said is Chris asking, "What's it say?". The scene then blacks out, ending the episode and the series.