The Hughleys

In series premiere, Darryl Hughley and his family are getting settled into their new home in the L.A. suburbs, but Darryl keeps seeing racism where there is none and lets his best friend Milsap scare him into thinking that hes on the ""slippery slope"" to losing his blackness.

Darryl feels left out when Milsap hits it off with Dave and Yvonne becomes busy with Sallys baby shower.

Darryl and Yvonne are having trouble finding time alone together.

Daves not around when Sally goes into labor. The Hughleys and Milsap come to her rescue. Darryl overhears a conversation between Yvonne and a nurse and thinks that Yvonne might be pregnant.

Darryl is neglecting Sydney and realizes that he has to do something drastic when Sydney asks Milsap to escort her to her schools ""Father-Daughter"" dance.

Darryl starts to obsess about losing everything.

The couples in the suburbs are worried about Milsaps single status and try to set him up.

Darryl question his friendship with Dave after meeting one of Daves friends who is a racist.

Darryl ruins the fun for everyone when the Hughleys and the Rogerses stop at a haunted hotel.

Yvonne threatens to call off the wedding if Darryl and her father do not at least pretend to get along with each other.

Yvonne takes a job doing fund raising at a local hospital.

Milsap accepts another job when Darryl refuses to give him what he deserves.

Darryl gets a reputation around work as giving good love advice. When Milsap starts to despair about his long-distance relationship with Regina, Darryl tells him to make a big gesture. Milsap buys a huge house very near the Hughleys (of which Darryl is extremely jealous), and proposes to Regina, who says no.

Milsap starts dating a movie star, and Darryl gets so caught up in the Hollywood lifestyle that he forgets Yvonnes birthday. To make up for his gaffe, Darryl sets up a romantic night of tango dancing for himself and his wife. Michael keeps trying to steal Milsaps girlfriend.

Darryl, Milsap and Dave try to scare Michael and Sydney by telling them stories of the Coyote Man and then scaring them while theyre trick or treating on Halloween. They scare the wrong kids, and then cut through the woods to catch up with the Hughley kids. Cops come the Hughley house with a video tape and a red stained sweat shirt. In a Blair Witch style documentary, the three men get lost and separated in the woods, and then Darryl is apparently attacked by Coyote Man. When the lights go out and a furry beast crashes into the house, everyone is terrified. It turns out that Darryl paid the real Coyote Man to scare his family.

Darryl is incredibly upset by the news that Henry is not his biological father. Darryls mother tells him about Jerry Rose, his real father, and how he took off shortly after Darryl was born. Henry tells Yvonne where to find Jerry Rose, and Yvonne packs up Darryl and takes him to Oakland, where Jerry has a restaurant. Jerry is incredibly excited to meet Darryl, and wants to be a part of his life. Jerry tells Darryl that he once sent $35,000 to Hattie Mae, but Henry sent the check back with a letter saying he didnt want to accept payment for raising ""his"" sons. Darryl realizes that Henry really is his ""real"" father even if he isnt his biological father, and goes back to L.A. and has a heart to heart with him.

Yvonne fills in when Darryls assistant quits, but their fabulous working relationship quickly deteriorates and Darryl ends up having to fire her. Yvonne hires Darryls mother as her replacement for revenge.

Darryl and his Korean neighbor feud over their differences, but then finally realize that they do have some things in common.

At a charity auction, Yvonne meets a number of working mothers who are condescending when they find out Yvonne is a stay at home mom, but her gift-basket that she donates sells for a lot of money. Yvonne decides to start a gift-basket business to prove she too can do it all and starts to work herself to the bone. Yvonne feels badly when Sydney gets a D on a math test, Michael has a new friend she hasnt even met, Darryl has to take Sydney to her Buttercup Girls meeting, and Michael starts gaining weight from Jessie Maes butter-heavy cooking. She realizes shes doing something she hates and ignoring something she loves to prove something to people she doesnt care about, so she quits.

Way back in the middle ages, Jack Sr. (D.L. Hughley) works for meager wages. With his hungry, hovel-dwelling brood, they have little to do but complain about food. When Jack Jr. (Dee Jay Daniels) sells their cow for beans, his father chides him for their lack of means. But the legumes, of course, are the magic kind, so the two Jacks climb the sprouting vine. In the clouds they search for untold wealth, to ensure a lifetime of happiness and health.

Mr. Ballard is fired from Sydney and Michaels school after Darryl encourages him to stand up for himself when the budget for his school musical is cut. Darryl hires him on at the vending comapny, but he brings productivity way down. So Darryl decides to go to the school superintendant to try to get Mr. Ballard his job back. He ends up striking a deal where Mr. Ballard can do his school musical if Darryl funds it. At the last minute, the superintendant sells all of the schools musical instruments, so Ballard puts on a take-off on ""Stomp"" called ""Whomp,"" and all-percussion show using sports equipment and trash can lids. Everyone loves the show and pressures the superintendant into giving Ballard his job back.

Yvonnes parents drop the familys hated Aunt Thelma off at the Hughley residence where she proceeds to die. Darryl goes with Yvonnes father to make funeral arrangements, and even though he also hated Aunt Thelma, he is horrified with how cheap his father-in-law is being. At the wake in the Hughleys house, the family realizes that they have a strange white woman in the casket instead of Aunt Thelma, and the guys have to crash a confederate funeral to steal their hated Aunts body back. The finally have a proper wake that Darryl pays for and the kids even find something good to say about the old woman.

Yvonnes cousin makes a documentary of the Hughleys, making Darryl hyper-aware of the possibility that he is selling out by moving to the white suburbs. Sydney gets into a fight with a girl at school who calls her white. The Rogerses are made to feel that some how they are racist.

Darryl is afraid that his ""girl-hating"" son Michael might be gay, suspicions that ultimately lead one of his neighbors to come out of the closet at a lively neighborhood get-together. Meanwhile, Mr. Park is named President of the Homeowners Association, and cant wait to start handing out citations - especially to Darryl.

Darryl decides to launch a Web site for Hughley Vending that features scantily clad women. When Yvonne learns about the idea, shes taken aback. Then, when she visits the business during a casting call, she becomes jealous of the pretty young women and, in an effort to get him to stop, informs Darryl that she wants to pose. But Darryl, believing that she really does want to pose, is afraid to say no.

The Hughleys and the Rogerses decide to throw a joint party in their two houses, but Darryl gets all competitive and decides he has to throw a better party than his neighbors. Darryl finds out that Crazy Larry, the appliance store owner, used to live in his house and died in the kitchen when he tried to get a bagel out of toaster with a fork. Darry, with the help of a talisman that unleashes dark evil, finds himself being haunted by the ghost of Crazy Larry, and he has to perform and exorcism on Yvonne. It turns out that Darryls friends ganged up to pull a prank on him to teach him not to be so competitive.

When an old friend comes to visit, Darryl and Yvonne recount when they first met at the Jackson Victory Tour concert at Dodger Stadium in the eighties, but the nostalgic trip proves bumpy when they learn that their recollections do not necessarily match.

Darryl and Mr. Parks feud gets so bad that Yvonne and neighbors insist they call a truce. Mr. Park refuses to sign the treaty because Darryl is up one prank on him. He says hell sign the treaty if Darryl does him the favor of watching his dog while hes away. Darryl gets talked into it, but when he goes over to Mr. Parks house to feed the dog, the dog is dead. Darryl, instead of just telling Mr. Park the truth, freaks out and buys a look-alike Dalmation. When Mr. Park gets home, he of course isnt convinced that this new dog is his. When Darryl admits the truth Mr. Park laughs because his dog was actually dead BEFORE he left for his trip and he just set Darryl up.

Darryls belief that blacks and Jews do not get along is tested when he and his Jewish neighbor take part in a fund-raising event for the local community center.

Worried that their relationship is based just on sex, Yvonne decides she and Darryl should abstain for the week leading up to Valentines Day.

When Darryl is having difficulty with Yvonne he thinks it would be better to be married to a white woman. That night, he dreams that he is, and he soon realizes that as long as he is a jackass it doesnt matter what color his wife is, hes still going to have problems.

Darryl plays host for the wedding of Yvonnes sister, but things turn difficult when he catches the groom cheating.

After they receive traffic citations, Darryl, Dave and Milsap attend driving school, where Darryl runs into radio talk-show host Larry Elder, whose conservative opinions irritate him. Meanwhile, Milsap tries to get into the eccentric teachers good graces.

Darryl and Yvonnes anti-drug lessons to their kids nearly go up in smoke. Darryl is having a bad day: Yvonnes freeloading sister Shari is moving into an apartment in their neighborhood. Then Shari comes over to his place and tries to steal a jacket that belongs to Sydney . Darryl struggles with her over it and a joint falls out of a pocket. That throws Darryl and Yvonne for a loop, but theyre even more shocked when Sydney reveals to whom the jacket really belongs

After Michael is diagnosed with dyslexia, Darryl and Yvonne hire a tutor to help him with his studies. Darryl, however, is quickly taken aback by the woman because she makes him feel dumb.

Yvonne worries that the romance has dimmed between her and Darryl. To prove to her that it hasnt, Darryl arranges a night on the town that she wont soon forget.

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Darryl brings Sydney to a store with very revealing clothes against Yvonnes protest. Sydney convinced Darryl that she was only gonna buy a shirt that was not fit for a ""Hootchie"" but she went out of control and bought very revealing clothes just because she won a contest to meet rapper Lil"" Romeo.Meanwhile, Dave and Milsap have Lil plans of their own involving Michael, which includes making him a rapper. Michael aka Spoon Boy auditioned in front of Romeo trying to get a record deal, but no luck.

Darryls mother, Hattie Mae, wrests control of Thanksgiving dinner from Yvonne, forcing Darryl to make a stand. Also, Shari bets Milsap and Dave that shes more football savvy than them.

When Michael leads the neighborhood effort to rename their street after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Darryl puts the plan into jeopardy by alienating a neighbor with a particularly egregious breach of political correctness. Meanwhile, Sydney uses VIP concert tickets to bribe her way into the popular school crowd.

Musical guest: Gerald Levert Darryls planned Valentines Day surprise for Yvonne - a weekend vacation - turns into a bust when theyre stranded at the airport. Meanwhile, Milsap is left in charge of Michael and Sydney.

When Michaels fear of heights prevents him from participating in a school rope climbing project, Darryl is compelled to reveal that he, too, has long shared the same phobia. Together they choose to face their fears in the ultimate test: a perilous skydiving adventure. Meanwhile, Yvonne explores news ways to maintain a friendship with teenage daughter Sydney.

In pursuit of a kiss from his dream girl, Michael joins the school production of Damn Yankees/em> and finds that his father, who is directing, may jeopardize his plans. Meanwhile, Milsap and Shari find that a new computer dating service leads them to familiar territory.

Milsap and Darryl attend their 20th high-school reunion, where Milsap learns that he became a father after the 15th reunion. Also: Darryl reunites with a former girlfriend.