Everybody Hates the Pilot

Episode aired Sep 22, 2005
TV-PG
20m

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7.7/10

552

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Tichina Arnold in Everybody Hates Chris (2005)

Comedy Drama Music

Chris and his family move to Bed-Stuy and Chris attends a predominantly white middle school where he meets his new friend, Greg and ends up in the crosshairs of the school bully, Joey Caruso... Read allChris and his family move to Bed-Stuy and Chris attends a predominantly white middle school where he meets his new friend, Greg and ends up in the crosshairs of the school bully, Joey Caruso.Chris and his family move to Bed-Stuy and Chris attends a predominantly white middle school where he meets his new friend, Greg and ends up in the crosshairs of the school bully, Joey Caruso.

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Trivia
The the first uniform of Julius is from Overlook Hotel, reference from "The Shining".

Goofs
As Chris is riding the bus to school, narrator Chris Rock mentions that he was the only black person on the bus, and that nobody ever sat next to him. This was evident by a pregnant passenger who gives Chris a dirty look after he offers her his seat by sliding down in the two-seater. Chris Rock. then says, "You think she's mad now? Wait 'til her daughter brings home O.J." Nicole Brown Simpson was born in 1959, and this episode takes place in 1982, which would be 23 years after she left her mother's womb. However, O.J. has dated other white women. Also, Nicole Brown Simpson was born in Germany, then moved to California. It is highly unlikely her very pregnant mother would have been on a bus in Bed-Stuy, New York. Therefore, this is not a reference to Nicole Brown Simpson.

Quotes
Joey Caruso: This isn't over, nigger.
Narrator: Oh, he got away with calling me nigger that day, but later in life, he said it at a DMX concert and almost got stomped to death.

Alternate versions
In subsequent reruns, Caruso's use of the N-word is dubbed over with him calling Chris "Satchmo".

Connections
Featured in Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Caruso (2007)

Soundtracks
Ebony and Ivory
Written by Paul McCartney
Performed by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney

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Featured review

6/10

Everybody Hates the Pilot

I would not say Chris Rock's brand of stand up is original. I did go to a comedy event a few weeks ago and I noticed that a lot of the young comedians seemed to be influenced by his type of comedy.

This first episode is a nostalgic coming of age sitcom, a lot like The Wonder Years. It combines that with Rock's wisecracking narration culled from his stand up act.

Set in 1982, a 13 year old Chris has left the projects to a better area of Brooklyn. One that is going to be the centre of the crack epidemic. He goes to an all white school rather than the one near his new house because his mum does not want him to be a hoodlum who sticks up a liquor store.

At least this is not a warm glow nostalgic show. The young Chris encounters racist bullying, guns that go off at the school near his house and the previous principal of his new school was chased out by the police for reasons the network censors will not allow. At least Chris's father is one of four fathers on the block. He might count the cost of everything but he has two jobs and comes home.

There is a hard edge to the pilot, a reworking of Rock's various stand up gigs. It shows a lot of promise and contained a few good jokes.