Chris fails math but he changes the grade on his report card before showing it to his parents.


Julius recovers from the gout by staying at home and watching soap operas.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 16 of Everybody Hates Chris resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Everybody Hates Chris Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Everybody Hates the Pilot
• s01e02 - Everybody Hates Keisha
• s01e03 - Everybody Hates Basketball
• s01e04 - Everybody Hates Sausage
• s01e05 - Everybody Hates Fat Mike
• s01e06 - Everybody Hates Halloween
• s01e07 - Everybody Hates the Babysitter
• s01e08 - Everybody Hates the Laundromat
• s01e09 - Everybody Hates Food Stamps
• s01e10 - Everybody Hates Greg
• s01e11 - Everybody Hates Christmas
• s01e12 - Everybody Hates A Part-Time Job
• s01e13 - Everybody Hates Picture Day
• s01e14 - Everybody Hates Valentine's Day
• s01e15 - Everybody Hates the Lottery
• s01e16 - Everybody Hates the Gout
• s01e17 - Everybody Hates Funerals
• s01e18 - Everybody Hates Corleone
• s01e19 - Everybody Hates Drew
• s01e20 - Everybody Hates Playboy
• s01e21 - Everybody Hates Jail
• s01e22 - Everybody Hates Father's Day

Everybody Hates Chris Show Summary

Motivated by his childhood experiences, Emmy Award-winner/actor/comedian Chris Rock, narrates this very hilarious & touching story of a teenager growing up as the oldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s.

Uprooted to a neighborhood and bused into a primarily white middle school two hours aways by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place, all while keeping his younger brother & sister in line at home and surmounting the tests of junior high school. This dependable, resilient teen brings a unique, comedic spin to his everyday trials & upsets in UPN's new single-camera comedy, "Everybody Hates Chris".

The year that Chris turned 13 was 1982. Filled with dreams that being a teenager would be really cool, Chris' entry into adolescence is turning out to be less pleasant. Moved from the projects to the tough "Bed-Stuy" neighborhood of Brooklyn, Chris is still stuck in his big brother role. As the family's "emergency adult", he's accountable for taking care of his younger brother Drew, and his younger sister Tonya while his parents are working; Drew, although younger, is taller and more confident than Chris, while Tonya is the baby of the family, who gets all of the attention from his parents.

Chris' rough, cost-conscious father Julius works numerous jobs in order to properly support his family. Meanwhile, his very strict, sassy mother Rochelle, who works part-time in a small real estate office, runs the household on a very tight budget, while demanding the best for her children.

With his mother strong-minded to see him in a good school, Chris reluctantly faces multiple bus transfers each day to attend Corleone Junior High School in the fiercely Italian neighborhood, South Shore. Although being an immediate target for bullies, Chris' innate charm and sharp wit enable him to make new friends at school, such as Greg, another smart, nice kid... who can't fight, by the way.

As Chris Rock pointedly looks back, his younger self is set to find what his family already knows: Chris' sharp, scrappy character is going to take him places. But first, he's going to have to think, talk or run his way through one growing experience after another at both home and school, and on any number of buses along the way.