Everybody Hates Chris

Name: Everybody Hates Chris
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Tyler James Williams, Tichina Arnold, Terry Crews, Imani Hakim, Tequan Richmond

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Everybody Hates Chris (2005-2009)

Seasons: 4, episodes: 88

Average rating: 7.8/10 94 005

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Premiere

2005-09-22

Last episode

2009-05-08

Status

Ended

Country

United States

Network

UPN, The CW

Production

3 Arts Entertainment, CBS Studios, Paramount Television Studios, Chris Rock Entertainment

Genre

Comedy

Website

http://www.everybodyhateschris.com/

Creators

Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi

Actors

Tyler James Williams, Tichina Arnold, Terry Crews, Imani Hakim, Tequan Richmond, Vincent Martella, Chris Rock, Wayne Brady, Gary Basaraba, Whoopi Goldberg
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Ali LeRoi, Andrew Orenstein

Producer

Chris Rock, Jim Michaels, Ali LeRoi, Don Reo, Chuck Sklar, Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi, Michael Rotenberg, Dave Becky

Camera operator

Composer

Marcus Miller

Editing

Whole Team (51)

Short description

Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1	22	2005-09-22	7.7
Season 2	22	2006-10-01	7.5
Season 3	22	2007-10-01	7.4
Season 4	22	2008-10-03	7.7

What's left behind the scenes

Chris Rock mostly grew up in the 1970s rather than the 1980s, but he felt that 1970s culture had already been parodied enough—for example, in the series "That '70s Show" (1998-2006)—and moved the setting to the 1980s.
It was originally intended that Jacqueline Macarrella would appear in only one episode and had only one line ("Hi, Chris"), but she made such an impression on the producers that they asked her to flirt with Chris and improvise her own lines, and it was decided to expand her role.
At the beginning of the series, Chris attends Corleone school, and later Tattaglia college. These are two competing mafia families from the movie "The Godfather." The college sports team is called the "Sleeping Fish." In "The Godfather," Tattaglia sent a dead fish to the Corleone family as a sign that their man, Luca Brasi, was "sleeping with the fishes."
The finale of the last episode of Season 4 is copied from the finale of the last episode of Season 6 of 'The Sopranos' (where the whole family is sitting in a diner, and the last person is unable to park their car).