document_title: List of Everybody Hates Chris characters

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text: Main characters[edit]

text: While the protagonist is clearly based upon Chris Rock, the surname "Rock" is never used when referring to the character Chris or any member of his family.

text: Chris[edit]

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Chris

Everybody Hates Chris character

First appearance
"Everybody Hates the Pilot"

Last appearance
"Everybody Hates the G.E.D."

Created by
Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi

Portrayed by
Tyler James Williams

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Nickname(s)
Little Dude from Across the Street, Chrissy The Black, DJ Chrissy Chris, Juicy Fruit, Mr. Cool, Swish, Short Bus

Gender
Male

Occupation
Grocery store clerk, football team manager, student

Relatives
Julius (father), Rochelle (mother), Drew (brother), Tonya (sister)

text: Tyler James Williams as Chris, the ambitious, normal, responsible, kind-hearted, but unlucky, unpopular, untalented, nonathletic, nonacademic, hapless, awkward, nerdy, vulnerable and mischievous eldest child and main protagonist of the series. He wishes he was more like his younger brother, Drew. Regardless of whether Chris possesses any of these traits, he's certainly never treated as if he does (being disliked by the opposite race, unlike his siblings). He tries hard to fit in with his peers, but often finds himself a victim of circumstance. Chris is bullied at school (with little help from teachers or faculty members), tortured by his sister, shown up by his brother, victimized by the racist teaching staff, rejected by girls, slandered by his neighbors, gets his money stolen by neighborhood thugs, does poorly in class, is underpaid at work, and receives tough love from his mother and distressing treatment from his father. As the eldest child, he is often put in charge of his younger siblings, but they usually disobey him and he usually has to take the blame for them. Next to all this, Chris is always the butt of the last jokes on each show. People just seem to hate him for inexplicable reasons. His luck improves as the series progresses. One of his talents is playing Asteroids and the other is calling basketball games. As he gets older, Chris becomes interested in stand-up comedy and begins telling jokes in school. At the end of the series – after being told that he has to repeat the tenth grade for constantly being late for school – he drops out and gets his GED.

text: Julius[edit]

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Julius

Everybody Hates Chris character

First appearance
"Everybody Hates the Pilot"

Last appearance
"Everybody Hates the G.E.D."

Created by
Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi

Portrayed by
Terry Crews

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Nickname(s)
Herc, Big Man

Gender
Male

Occupation
Newspaper delivery man, security guard, cab driver, fish packager

Spouse(s)
Rochelle (Wife)

Children
Chris (Son),
Drew (Son),
Tonya (Daughter)

Relatives
Louis (Brother)
Ryan (Brother)
Pete (Brother),
Gene (Father-in-law),
Maxine (Mother-in-law),
Mike (Brother-in-law),
Charlotte (Sister-in-law)

text: Julius (played by Terry Crews) based on Chris Rock's real father, he is Rochelle's cheap, frugal, worrisome, levelheaded devoted, husband and the father of Chris, Tonya, and Drew. He is known for his extreme cheapness and taking the easy way out when it comes to purchasing essential items for his family (such as by using food-stamps and buying store-brands). Julius' cheapness is also exhibited by how he uses duct tape to fix everything and anything broken in the house. He has even been shown to memorize the price of nearly every object in his family's possession, shouting it out loud when such an item has been wasted or ruined. One of his most famous character attributes is bargaining his way out of having to pay full price for an item. He coddles Tonya and is more likely than his wife to give her what she wants, and will react with a lecture every time one of his children considers quitting or asks him about receiving money. Said lectures having been known to last for hours on end and be encouraging to his kids in order to avoid bringing up such subjects around him. It is implied that Julius can understand Chinese but cannot speak it due to the fact that when he communicates with Mr. Fong, (who speaks in Chinese towards him) he is able to respond back. Whenever Chris has a problem, he goes to Julius, who gives him advice in a confusing manner. Once, Chris remarked that even though he didn't understand what his father said, it made him feel better anyway.

text: Rochelle[edit]

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Rochelle

Everybody Hates Chris character

First appearance
"Everybody Hates the Pilot"

Last appearance
"Everybody Hates the G.E.D."

Created by
Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi

Portrayed by
Tichina Arnold

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Nickname(s)
Chelle

Gender
Female

Occupation
Secretary, Beautician, Waitress, Realtor, Store Worker, Shoe Saleswoman.

Spouse(s)
Julius (Husband)

Children
Chris (Son),
Drew (Son),
Tonya (Daughter)

Relatives
Michael (Brother),
Gene (Father, deceased),
Maxine (Mother),
Charlotte (Sister),
Mousey (Aunt),
Louis (Brother-in-law),
Ryan (Brother-in-law),
Pete (Brother-in-law)

text: Rochelle (played by Tichina Arnold) is Julius' strict, humorously cheeky wife and is the mother of Chris, Tonya, and Drew. She is an assertive woman who frequently becomes apprehensive over things that often have nothing to do with the current subject matter (such as Tonya becoming pregnant or her kids selling drugs). She is noted for the saucy comebacks that she uses to put a stop to any complaints that her children might have. She uses the comebacks to ensure that they do not end up performing a crime or great misdeed of some sort; she also fears that they may wind up as street criminals. The narrator describes her as a "Ghetto Snob", likely because of her cautious behavior towards the way her family is perceived in public. She shares loving moments with her children, showing that her true intentions for her assertive ways are sincerely because she cares for them. She also has a passion for chocolate Turtles, which often calm her, and experiences symptoms of withdrawal whenever she must sacrifice them for whatever reason. She is also noted for having to get jobs, and then quitting her job whenever she has a problem with it. Rochelle's famous catchphrase that refers to this running gag is: "I don't need this, my man has two jobs!" This expresses her using Julius' having two jobs as an excuse to quit her job and be comfortable at home. She is very judgemental towards Julius when it comes to their marriage. This can be seen in the episodes where she starts to think that Julius will leave her for a white woman or finds something which leads her to believe that Julius is having an affair. She sometimes disagrees to Julius' methods about being cheap, like when they celebrated Kwanza instead of Christmas. Julius believes that this method is an effective way to save money for more important things rather than materialistic items. There are times where Rochelle understands Julius' behavior, like in the episode where he got a second job in order to earn more money for the family. However, Rochelle eventually developed second thoughts about the situation, for she believed that Julius was actually throwing money away. In the final season of the series, Rochelle works as a beautician at Nessa's Beauty Salon, where in previous seasons she would often get her hair done. She also shared gossip with her friend and owner of the salon, Vanessa (Jackee Harry) and other workers of the salon. Another running gag about her is that she regularly threatens her children with physical violence but does not hit them. It is only when she takes them into a room saying "we need to talk" when she smacks them.

text: Drew[edit]

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Drew

Everybody Hates Chris character

First appearance
"Everybody Hates the Pilot"

Last appearance
"Everybody Hates the G.E.D."

Created by
Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi

Portrayed by
Tequan Richmond

Information

Nickname(s)
My Baby Boy

Gender
Male

Occupation
Student, Grocery Store Clerk

Relatives
Julius (Father) Tonya (Sister) Rochelle (Mother) Chris (Brother)

text: Drew (played by Tequan Richmond) is Chris's popular, lucky, talented, athletic, academic, not-virgin, and handsome younger brother. As opposed to the malicious rejection and harassment Chris receives from his peers, Drew is idolized above all of his classmates. His supreme charm earned him a multitude of girlfriends in the past. Secretly, Chris envies the limitless amount of luck and talent possessed by his younger brother, who appears slightly older than he does. Drew's height as opposed to that of Chris provides his elder brother with a number of disadvantages. Ironically, Drew himself looks up to Chris and envies all the responsibility and trust their parents give him. Highly athletic, Drew loves hockey and idolizes Wayne Gretzky. He is also shown to be interested in magic and karate. Drew also has the talent of copying things he sees off of television, especially karate movies. He becomes more responsible and more hardworking as the series progresses. "Wasn't Me" is a familiar catchphrase of his, often to get himself out of any possible trouble he is sure he had nothing to do with. In one episode, the narrator even claims that this was his first phrase as a baby. This was first introduced in the Pilot episode.

text: Tonya[edit]

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Tonya

Everybody Hates Chris character

First appearance
"Everybody Hates the Pilot"

Last appearance
"Everybody Hates the G.E.D."

Created by
Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi

Portrayed by
Imani Hakim

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Gender
Female

Occupation
Student

Family
Julius (Father) Rochelle (Mother) Drew (Brother) Chris (Brother)

text: Tonya (played by Imani Hakim) is Chris and Drew's younger sister. She is a smart-mouthed, and shrewd little girl who enjoys getting her brothers in trouble by whining to her parents about things they never actually did, and Julius and Rochelle always believe her. However, in the third and fourth seasons, she tends to hold a soft spot for Drew and Chris (when Chris got thrown out of the house, she admitted she doesn't want him gone and she and Drew try to rethink Chris's and her mother's decisions) by charging money to keep her mouth shut if they do something wrong (particularly to Chris), and sometimes hangs around Drew. Billy Ocean is her favorite entertainer (though later on she adopts a fondness for Danny Glover), and telling by the way Tonya believes that he originally was responsible for the invention of the Moonwalk instead of Michael Jackson, she might not like to believe what she does not want to believe. Julius over-indulges Tonya and is usually the parent apt to give her what she wants, whereas Rochelle is normally not afraid to not provide Tonya with one of her desires if it is for something she is unwilling to give to her daughter, and worries that one mistake in raising her will be linked to her being pregnant one day, and "She ain't raisin' no babies". She is very attractive, and is usually given nice gifts from the neighborhood kids; for example, James (one of her admirers) bought her a car in one episode.

text: Greg[edit]

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Greg Wulliger

Everybody Hates Chris character

First appearance
"Everybody Hates the Pilot"

Last appearance
"Everybody Hates the G.E.D."

Created by
Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi

Portrayed by
Vincent Martella

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Gender
Male

Occupation
Student

Relatives
Art Wuliger (Father)

text: Vincent Martella as Gregory "Greg" Wuliger, Chris's weird, nerdy, and anxious best friend. He is the only kid at Corleone Junior High who doesn't hate Chris. He is almost as unpopular as Chris. Chris always comes to Greg for advice, even though Greg is usually terrible at coming up with solutions. Despite being Chris' best and only friend, Greg is always quick to abandon Chris when bullies come in order to save himself. On top of being a good student, Greg also has a series of odd quirks (such as going to bed dressed as different superheroes), but considers himself cool. He has a book about almost everything in his locker. He is an only child and is of Italian and Swedish descent. His mom married his dad because she lost a bet but ran off with his uncle Patrick Wuliger, who later had a gender change. After graduating from Corleone, Greg went to a different high school from Chris in Season 4, but got kicked out due to poor grades when he tried to portray a tougher image. He transferred to the same high school that Chris attends and the two continue their friendship. Although his father was seen in one episode his mother is never actually seen. Greg's catch phrase is "You're so in there". He was absent from only two episodes in the entire series.

text: The Narrator[edit]

text: Chris Rock as The Narrator (voice), a sarcastic older Chris looking back at his youth, like that of The Wonder Years. His narration is usually the opposite of what his younger self says, but is actually thinking. The Narrator also mentions his disdain for George W. Bush as he frequently says sarcastic things about him. For instance in one episode the narrator talks how Greg has gone from bad to worse like "America under Bush".

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Mike Estime as Risky, a street dealer who sells items that are always bootlegged or stolen by him. His real name is Richard. Whenever he appears, a chorus of people whispering "Risky!" is heard in the background in the early episodes. He later works at Manny's barbershop. He also tried working with Julius for a night, but found the job not be as exciting as he hoped for, and then quit working with Julius.
Antonio Fargas as Doc Harris, the local grocery store owner. Chris later works for Doc. He is kind to Chris and gives him advice. When Chris is unable to work, Drew fills in for him. In addition to Doc, Fargas also played Mr. Harris, a butcher who, on Halloween, dresses as a pimp named "Sweet Tooth" and takes children's candy.
Todd Bridges as "Monk", Doc's nephew and former U.S. Armed Forces member who manages the store when his uncle is away. Monk is a severely paranoid Vietnam veteran suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Monk always wears a beret and surplus military clothing, and is married to a Korean American woman who works at the neighborhood beauty salon. In Episode 14 of Season 2, the Narrator says that Monk's real name is "Jimmy".
Kevontay Jackson as Jerome, Chris' only friend aside from Greg. A dimwitted, older teenager in the neighborhood who frequently greets Chris with "Lemme hold a dollar" to which Chris almost always complies. He'll sometimes ask for a dollar just out of boredom. He nicknames Chris "li'l dude from across the street", or simply "li'l dude". In Jerome's first appearances on the series, he is a predatory, minor villain but that idea is soon abandoned and subsequent appearances portray him as a much friendlier person. Chris soon finds him becoming an unlikely friend, and on occasion, Chris will go to him when in need of some useful teenage advice, advice that he is only too happy to give – as soon as Chris gives him the dollar he asks for. The family once caught him breaking into their apartment with a credit card. Despite all of this, he does display genuine concern for Chris when he needs him.
Ernest Lee Thomas as Mr. Omar, a funeral director, who rents an upstairs room in the family's building. He is seen with a different newly widowed woman for almost every appearance he makes. He claims just to be consoling these attractive women in their time of grief. He frequently says "Tragic! Tragic!". He also frequently requests to "borrow" things and takes advantage of Rochelle's need to keep up appearances to the chagrin of Julius. For example, he uses their phone and racks up a huge phone bill, invites himself to dinner, and even borrows his way into a Thanksgiving dinner invitation. He seems to have something wrong with his right eye.
Jeris Lee Poindexter as "Kill Moves", an insane, senile, homeless man who practices martial arts and at one point teaches Drew some karate moves. His real name is Edgar Devereaux. Kill Moves' mother is actually a millionaire, but he prefers to live freely on the streets. After being laid off by Ronald Reagan (he was in the Air Force, and got fired when Reagan introduced budget cuts) he had a breakdown, but he nevertheless sometimes reveals himself to be highly intelligent and cultured. In his first appearance, he is named Mr. Jackson. He occasionally gives Chris a hard time, for example when Chris is collecting empty cans for a school project, Kill Moves appears in trash bins before Chris can even run to them and leaves no cans for Chris.
Blake Hightower as James, a 12-year-old neighborhood kid. James is flirty towards Tonya and wishes to have a relationship with her. He hangs alongside with the other supporting male characters at Manny's barbershop. The adult males treat James like he is their equal although he is a child. Another time, Chris volunteered to be a "Brother from Another Mother" for the sake of the school, and the child he mentors turns out to be James. Chris learns that James' real name is Cleavon Barris.
Aree Davis as Keisha Ridenhour, the girl next door and Chris's dream girl, who he unfortunately catches kissing Chris' younger brother Drew. In season 2, Keisha moved away to Compton, ironically believing it to be a crime-free city.
Keesha Sharp as Sheila Ridenhour, Keisha's mother and a good friend of Rochelle's. Julius usually feels uncomfortable around her because she's an attractive woman. Sharp however left after nine episodes to play the role of Monica on Girlfriends.
Paige Hurd as Tasha Clarkson, the girl who moves in next door in season 2. Chris is in love with her but she wants to keep their relationship platonic. She dated and dumped him near the end of Season 4, due to Chris believing her to clingy and slightly demanding as she constantly wanted to do the things she wants to do together. According to Chris, she is the only girl who doesn't hate him. She seems to have a slightly promiscuous side to her, and has also expressed attraction to bad boy types – something Chris is not.
Whoopi Goldberg as Louise Clarkson, the evil and nosy next door neighbor and Tasha's maternal grandmother. She insults Chris because she believes that he wants to sleep with her and calls him a "cock-eyed hooligan" and infuriates Rochelle due to her being chief of the Neighborhood Watch for not being responsible. She only appears in two episodes of season two.
Tisha Campbell-Martin as Peaches Clarkson, Louise's daughter and Tasha's mother. Peaches is very loud, ignorant and eccentric. She is an ex-con who befriends Rochelle in her first appearance. She also dates Malvo during her later appearances. She is also a kindhearted person despite her bad past.
Jackée Harry as Vanessa, Rochelle's bubbly, wise-cracking girlfriend and the gossipy owner of the local beauty salon after winning the lottery and buying it from Pam. She has dated Kill Moves and Rochelle's brother, Michael.
Tasia Sherel as Pam, co-owner of the beauty salon. In season 4, it is stated that Pam sold her share of the salon to Vanessa. Rochelle takes Pam's place as the salon's manager. In the series finale, she returns once again to the beauty salon and it's constantly implied that she's rich and greedy, despite the fact that she asked Julius to give her $25 and said that "the best part about being rich, is that she doesn't owe any money to anyone". When asked her again for his $25, she pretends that she forgot about it and that she doesn't have any money despite that there's a cash register in front of her.
J. B. Smoove as Manny, the local owner of the barbershop who appeared in season 3. He is always shown giving helpful advice and joking around. He says that his real name is Lester but he changed his name to Manny so he didn't have to change the sign on the shop. In the fourth season, it is said that Manny moved away to Detroit. Smoove left to join the cast of 'Til Death.
Jazz Raycole as Lisa Patterson, a neighborhood girl. She threw a Halloween party in season 1. Chris briefly developed a crush on her when she danced with him after being rejected by Keisha. She later appeared in season 3 having a spin the bottle party that Chris wants to get into with Tasha.
Jim Lau as Mr. Fong, the owner of the Chinese restaurant where Chris works briefly after quitting Doc's. He gave Chris a very hard time, shows no sympathy for Chris's problems, he gets more demanding towards Chris, even if he doesn't work for him anymore. He constantly calls Chris "Lionel Richie". He is first seen trying to operate the restaurant out of the family's upstairs room.
Ricky Harris as Malvo, a petty criminal who robs Chris at Doc's and threatens to kill him if he identifies him. Later, after he gets out of jail, he forces Chris to chain-snatch a gold medallion. After he gets out of jail again, he enlists Chris to help him go back to high school. Soon after that, he becomes Chris' friend, but manages still go on as a thief. He begins going out with Tasha's mother Peaches. They met at the parole office that they shared.
Myzel Robinson as Fat Mike, a neighborhood kid who protects Chris from local thugs and makes friends with him. In "Everybody Hates a Part-time Job" he buys the last leather jacket in the store, that Chris had been hoping to buy.

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Travis T. Flory as Joey Caruso, the Irish-Italian-American, racist school bully who routinely picks on Chris, although he is surprisingly fond of African-American culture. Since the beginning of the show, he mostly picked and beat up Chris for no good reason, to which surprisingly he never got suspended or caught for, possibly for just being white. He is the main antagonist of the series. In each episode, he refers to Chris by a different nickname such as "Satchmo", "Kareem", "Tito" or "Cornbread". In the series finale, it is revealed that Caruso actually admires Chris and the only reason he has picked on Chris in school is because he has been jealous of his determination and achievement and had crushed Chris's spirit only so he himself would not feel inferior.
Jacqueline Mazarella as Ms. Vivian Morello, Chris' naively racist teacher, and later his high school principal. Due to her apparent attraction to African American men, she holds a soft spot for Chris and tries to support him at every opportunity (such as giving him a Valentine's Day card out of sympathy, or giving him advice on running for the class president). In her efforts to be supportive, however, she makes statements or uses analogies that come off as racist, even though she might not realize that – such as saying that "black people" must wake up and work up fields before sunrise, that they have tendencies towards vandalism, criminality and drugs, that they often make use of lies and blackmail to rise in life, that Chris has no father and his mother is crack-addicted, and when Chris tries to tell her the truth, she assumes Chris is lying because "he is on drugs" – most of which Chris tolerates. However, in "Everybody Hates Graduation", she finally realizes Chris' lifestyle, but believed that Chris lied, despite her being the one who made up all that stuff about Chris. In Chris Rock's narration often consists of him wanting to physically hurt her ("smack her upside the head with a brick") as well as making sarcastic remarks on her ethnicity as she does to him.
Lynda Scarlino as Mrs. Abigail Milone, the elderly school monitor who is later promoted to Vice Principal of Corleone because, according to the adult Chris, she proved that the one thing that she hated a lot more than kids was working with them. She's often seen disciplining someone, and occasionally disciplines Chris even when he hasn't done anything wrong.
Jude Ciccolella as Dr. Julius Raymond, the stern principal at Corleone Junior High. He makes racist assumptions about Chris and thinks that Chris is a crack baby. He normally is always grumpy because, according to the adult Chris, the school didn't pay him enough for his job. It is implied that he is gay when he is shown dancing with men in a bar dressed in leather. He is last seen in Everybody Hates Halloween
Jason Alexander as Principal Edwards, the eccentric new principal of Corleone who replaces Dr. Raymond in the second season. He is possibly the only non-racist staff member. He first appeared in Everybody Hates The Buddy System when he caught Chris and Caruso fighting and then tricks them into being buddies during a field trip. In Everybody Hates Snow Day, Chris and Edwards are the only ones who come to school on a snow day. In Everybody Hates Gretzky he calls to inform Julius that Chris did not show up for school. Additionally, Alexander directed two episodes for the series Everybody Hates Gambling and Everybody Hates Graduation.
Paul Ben-Victor as Coach Roy Thurman, Chris' homeroom and social studies teacher in Tattaglia and also the coach for the football team. He hires Chris as the team's manager. He is hateful, sarcastic and unfair against people, especially towards Chris, and it is implied that he is racist, despite denying that he is, as he believes that the reason why black people were brought into slavery was because white people were too lazy to work. He once helped Chris by teaching how to box, despite the constant belittling he always gives to him.
Monica Anne Parales as Lisa, a hard-working Asian student and the head of the school's newspaper. She criticizes Chris very harshly about his writing when he joins the school's newspaper. When Chris is elected school president, she writes negative stories about him in effort to get him impeached.
Peter Onorati as the Janitor and Coach Brantley. The janitor works at Tattaglia, and it is said in the show that if you give him 5 dollars, he can help you with anything. He refers to Chris as "Hey, you're that black kid." He has an identical cousin who is the coach of the wrestling team in Tattaglia. The coach gets Chris to join the team because no other schools have wrestlers in his weight class resulting in an automatic win.
Johnny Palermo as Frank DiPaolo, a popular but dimwitted student. Chris picked him to be his school vice president in Corleone. He became president after Chris got impeached.
Shelby Young, as Jennifer Thompson, a student at Corleone who at first is attracted to Chris when he joins the basketball team. In later episodes, she is seen being mean to or ignoring Chris and Greg.
Mackenzee Donham as Jennifer, another Corleone student who is attracted to Greg. Greg is attracted to her as well but always accidentally says something that makes her angry and storm away.
Brooke Mackenzie as Sydney, a Corleone student who is mean to Chris.
B.J. Britt as Walter Dickerson, the popular, selfish, careless, self-absorbed star of Tattaglia's football team who befriends Chris when he becomes the team's manager. He always belittles or insults Chris when it comes to him being nice. His catchphrase was "My man!" when Chris accepts one of his commands or says no, to which Walter took it too far as he began giving Chris a ridiculous amount of a chores to do for him, leaving him no time to do his own homework.
Chris Rock as Mr. Abbott, an unhelpful school guidance counselor with a familiar voice. He tells Chris that he does not have the skills to make it to college. He advises Chris to take time to find himself instead of worrying about college. His dream was to serve America by becoming a crash test dummy.
Marcel Lam as Bernard Yao, a Corleone student who beats Caruso up using martial arts. Bernard refuses to take Caruso's place as the school bully which causes anarchy in the school. Chris convinces Bernard to fight Caruso again and lose on purpose. Later, Bernard constantly forces Chris to do his math homework for him much to Chris's surprise who assumed Bernard was good at math because he is Asian.
Sam Mandel as Fisher, who helps forge Chris's report card. He later helps Chris retrieve Chris's father's Playboy magazine from Mrs. Milone. Though he is usually seen with friends while sitting at a desk, he has a mysterious ability to make it instantly disappear by diverting people's attention.
Mario Quinonez Jr. as the Puerto Rican Kid in Corleone who only speaks Spanish. Was once Greg's science fair partner. He spoke English once in an episode.
Hector A. Garcia as Angel (actually pronounced "On-hell" but people address him by how it's spelled), an androgynous male student at Tattaglia High, who is in Chris's cooking class. He helps Chris meet a girl in exchange for Chris helping him with his homework. Because of Angel's androgyny, he and Chris prefer not to be seen together in public. Angel appears a few times in Season 4.
Kwame Boateng as Albert, the new black kid at Corleone who befriends Chris, which makes Greg jealous. Actually a street vandal, Albert committed several acts of vandalism inside Corleone High and Chris was framed. Greg helps Chris prove his innocence by exposing Albert's wrong deeds, resulting in Albert's expulsion.

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Earthquake as Uncle Mike, Rochelle's lazy, freeloading and obnoxious older brother. He knows how to get on Julius' bad side, such as by roaming about the house in Julius' clothes without asking him, giving him out-dated tickets for sport events or even shouting his trademark salutation "Big man!" at Julius – a thing that drives Julius into wrath or causes him to imagine that Mike wants something (generally unpleasant or unacceptable) from him. "Hey 'Chelle, y'all got somethin' to eat?" or " I didn't know y'all was about to have dinner," as his repeated phrases.
Tony Rock (real-life brother of Chris Rock) as Uncle Ryan, Julius' younger brother and Drew's favorite uncle who frequently asks him to invest in his shady business ventures. He has an office where he makes fake ID cards and X-ray glasses. His dream is to run a successful business, which can be difficult because all his attempts get shut down for one reason or another.
Loretta Devine as Maxine, Rochelle's soft-spoken, helpful, but critical mother. She and Rochelle don't always get along because she is critical of Rochelle and likes to take over. She also caused chaos when she visited for her husband's funeral. In a later episode Rochelle tries to set her up on a date, but it didn't go so well. Maxine is also a mathematician and taught Rochelle everything she knows about math and helped out Chris with his math. It was said on one episode, that she's an even bigger "ghetto snob" than Rochelle.
Monica Calhoun as Charlotte, also known as "Grievy", Rochelle's sensitive, sad, cynical, and unhappy younger sister who never stops crying. She's only seen at funerals. In her first appearance, She just cries about her father Gene's death, She's very worried about his death. In one episode, Rochelle claims that Charlotte cries at every holiday: Easters, Halloweens, and Flag Days.
Ikona Starr as Mousey, Maxine's sister, and Rochelle's aunt. She speaks inaudibly and she talks less. According to Julius, in Everybody Hates Bomb Threats, she knows how to cure the mojo.
Jimmie Walker as Gene, Rochelle's hilarious father, who dies of a heart attack at the dinner table on his first appearance on the show. Gene reappeared in flashbacks in "Everybody Hates Gambling", where Rochelle says that Gene gambled on just about anything and "Everybody Hates the Port Authority", where he is shown teaching little Rochelle how to play three card monte.
Wayne Brady as Uncle Louis, Julius' successful, highly skilled and charismatic younger brother, of whom Julius is very jealous.

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Gary Basaraba as Art Wuliger, Greg's divorced father who never lets him have friends over.
Mario Joyner as Dr. Information who explains to the audience phrases and concepts of African-American culture.
P.J. Marino as Detective Marino, the inept but persistent neighborhood detective who never seems to remember Chris. Marino frequently appears in Chris's mind when he imagines getting busted.
Shon Little as the Cop who usually shows up whenever there is a disturbance in Chris' neighborhood and sometimes in Chris' mind.
Julie Lancaster as a Reporter who is seen on television covering news events that usually involve Chris or his family
Robert Wuhl as Abe Himelfarb, a pawnbroker who gives Chris everything he needs to be a DJ. He also runs for Councilman off-screen in "Everybody Hates Bed-Stuy".
Orlando Jones as Mr. Newton, the substitute teacher, who's exacting towards Chris, and Chris only, because he want him to get A's. Jones also plays Dr. Clint Huckstable, a Bill Cosby-esque dad who insists on meeting Chris when his daughter Jenise invites him to the Tattaglia Homecoming Dance. His Bill Cosby accent annoys Rochelle a lot.
Tristin Mays as Jenice Huckstable, a girl Chris really liked and liked him back. Their attraction towards each other caused Greg to become jealous as he believes that Chris doesn't pay attention to him anymore, as he preferred hanging out with her than Greg, he constantly complained that whenever something good would happen to Chris, much worse things would happen to Greg. But exaggerated the point, by not coming home a day before the Homecoming dance in a depressed state. She later becomes Chris's Homecoming date, but had to stood her up, because he was pressured by illusions of Jenice and Greg giving him the choice of finding Greg or wait for Jenice at the dance. Chris' family constantly assumed that she was retarded, as he was told that Jenice got kicked out of her old school. As Chris and Rochelle came back home, she officially declared that she hates Chris and saying that he could have called her before leaving her at Homecoming.
Steve Landesberg as Stan Levine, an elderly man who is the last white person living in Bed-Stuy and rarely leaves his apartment. He very distrustful against black people, as proven when he asked Chris to check his pockets, because he believed that Chris must have stolen something, since he spent his years living in Bed-Study. He helps Chris during a citywide blackout and Chris tries to repay for his kindness by helping him meet new friends. It's revealed that he knows Doc and has an unfinished feud with him, because Stan "stole" Doc's girlfriend. However, it's revealed by Stan that he had an affair with Doc's girlfriend, ending up with her pregnant and having no choice but by taking care of her and the child. Later, he began having a heart attack, with Chris being constantly blamed for taking him outside and getting a visit from his daughter, who planned taking him with her to Las Vegas. She decides let him stay in Bed-Stuy, which actually was because he refused to leave. By the end of the episode, another blackout happens and Chris wants to Stan to let him inside, but refused to him in, because he was "about to die because of him."
Jim Lampley as a Sportscaster in Tonya vs Drew in Checkers.
DJ Quik as Hilton "Hilly Hill" Reed, the DJ, who takes over Chris's DJing duties at a party.
Richard Lewis as Kris, a mysterious man whom Chris befriends at the hospital.
Michael Spellman as Magician the Magician, a magician who once scared Julius with a rabbit.
Christina DeRosa as Trixie, a young, tough New York stripper that Chris falls for.
Vincent Pastore as Paulie, a mean bookie who threatens "Chrissy the Black" unless Doc loses a bet on basketball game.
Phylicia Rashad as Kathleen Devereaux, Kill Moves' estranged mother whom Chris helps him find.
Tommy Davidson as Eddie, a bank robber whom Julius takes to Las Vegas while working as a cab driver despite his initial reluctance to do so.
LaVan Davis as Rev. Terrence Willstom, the local Church preacher.
Shar Jackson as Alyson, the mother of one of Tonya's friends, Latrinda.
Devika Parikh as Blair Huckstable, Clint's wife who also insists on meeting Chris.
Robin Givens as Stacy Deveaux, Doc's crazy, conceited, rude, extremely demanding, and egotistical new girlfriend. She makes Chris do a ridiculous amount of chores around the store and her house and gives Chris, and Rochelle a hard time when she came to the salon and wanted her hair done immediately.
Kadeem Hardison as Judge; he and Rochelle bumped heads in court, due to him adding another ticket for making a victory dance in court, after Rochelle won the case of her speeding ticket and he was also on the board of Hansel and Gretel. He's shown to be very unfair towards other people, but beautiful woman, as he is captivated by them, despite being married, as it is constantly indicated by the Narrator and Rochelle.


document_title: Kho kho

question_text: what is the hight of a post of kho-kho

question_tokens: what is the hight of a post of kho-kho

root

text: Kho kho

text: History[edit]

text: In 1999,The Asian Kho Kho Federation was established during the 3rd SAF Games in England . Member countries included India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives. The 1st Asian Championship was held at Kolkata in 1996 and the second championship at [Dhaka] in Bangladesh. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan, Thailand and Bangladesh were participants of this championship. Kho kho is a game

tag: p

text: Field Dimensions And Equipments Used[edit]

text: Each team consists of 12 players, but only 9 players take the field. A match consists of two innings with each inning consisting of chasing and running turns of 9 minutes each. One team sits on knees in the middle of the court, in a row, with adjacent members facing opposite directions. The runners play in the field, 3 at a time and the team that takes the shortest time to touch all the opponents in the field, wins. There is a pole on each end and the runner can go between two players who are sitting in zig zag manner, but the chaser is not allowed to turn back while running and go between the players. But chaser can go to pole and touch it and can go back or go to other side. A kho kho playground is rectangular.It is 36 metres in length and 18 metres in width. There are two rectangles at the end. Length of the rectangle is 16 metres and the width is 2.75 metres. In the middle of these two rectangles, there are two wooden poles. The central lane is 23.50metres long and 30cm wide. There are eight cross lanes which lie across central lane, length of the cross lanes, are 16 metres and width 30; cm. It makes the small rectangles and each of it is 16m in length and 2.3metres in breadth,(the two rectangles of near by the wooden poles are 2.5 metres width) at right angles to the central lane and divided equally into two parts of 7.85 metres each by central lane. At the end of central lane, the free zone tangent to the post-line, two smooth wooden posts are fixed, 120 cm height from the ground and their circumference is not less than 30 cm and not more than 40 cm. The equipment used in kho kho are poles/post, strings, metallic measuring tape, lime powder, wire nails, two watches, types of rings having inner circumference of 30cm and 40cm, score shots (like a whistle, for instance), and stationery to write results.

text: Dismissal[edit]

text: Referees: There are usually two referees standing on the opposite sides of the rectangular field. Both carry a stopwatch and each of them is responsible for giving a decision on their opposite side of the field (because they can watch the gameplay in front of them more clearly than when it is on their same side).


document_title: List of School of Rock episodes

question_text: when does season 3 episode 7 of school of rock come out

text: List of School of Rock episodes

text: Series overview[edit]

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
12
March 12, 2016 (2016-03-12)
June 18, 2016 (2016-06-18)

2
13
September 17, 2016 (2016-09-17)
January 28, 2017 (2017-01-28)

3
20[1]
July 8, 2017 (2017-07-08)
TBA

tag: table

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Season 1 (2016)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [2][3]
Directed by
Written by
Original air date [2][3]
Prod.
code [2]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"Come Together"
Jonathan Judge
Jim Armogida & Steve Armogida
Mike White
March 12, 2016 (2016-03-12)
112
2.38[4]

Dewey Finn, a rock musician, becomes the new substitute teacher for a class when their teacher, Mrs. Calpakis, was taken to rest indefinitely due to falling from a skateboard. The students quickly discover that he's not a real teacher. Mr. Finn then discovers that the students are very talented with music and has an idea to have them play rock music to learn. The students like it at first, but they're afraid that Principal Mullins will catch them so they come up with a plan to be a secret band. Mr. Finn thinks that he's not qualified to be a teacher and decides to quit, but the students convince him to come back and start a secret band which he agrees to.
Guest stars: Jama Williamson (Principal Mullins), Vernèe Watson

2
2
"Cover Me"
Jonathan Judge
Gigi McCreery & Perry Rein
March 19, 2016 (2016-03-19)
102
1.68[5]

The band needs a singer to be able to compete in "Battle of the Bands", so Summer decides to do it so that Freddie will notice her. The problem is that she can't sing, so Tomika teaches her but still isn't able to get it right. Tomika helps Summer by having her lip synch and Tomika will do the actual singing. The class realizes that Summer can't sing and that Tomika can. The class convinces Tomika to be the singer but rejects it. Summer then convinces Tomika to be the singer and finally she agrees.
Special guest star: Pete Wentz

3
3
"Video Killed the Speed Debate Star"
Bruce Leddy
Jeremy Hall
March 26, 2016 (2016-03-26)
104
1.63[6]

In an effort to provide warnings whenever Principl Mullins comes to the class, Lawrence inadvertently suggests to put a camera on the class, which disables the band to practice. Meanwhile, Mr. Finn helps Summer for the speed debate contest through rapping. As Mr. Finn and Lawrence install the video of him teaching on Mullins' office, Summer buys them time by slowing down the debate, but goes rapping when they are finished, which make her winning the speed debate. The next day, Principal Mullins ask Lawrence to put the camera down due to camera tape on her dancing in the hallway gets leaked.
Guest star: Jama Williamson

4
4
"The Story of Us (But More About Me)"
Bruce Leddy
Eric Friedman
April 2, 2016 (2016-04-02)
103
1.42[7]

Guest star: Jama Williamson

5
5
"We're Not Gonna Take It"
Trevor Kirschner
Laurie Parres
April 9, 2016 (2016-04-09)
105
1.47[8]

When Zack's father catches him playing rock on the electric guitar when he is supposed to be playing classical music on the classic guitar, he moves Zack to another class, convinced that Mr Finn is a bad influence on Zack. The class that Zack is moved to is very boring and Mr Finn, Tomika, Lawrence and the gang must work together to get Zack back. They device a plan: every time Mr Finn comes with a distraction for Zack's new teacher, Zack jumps out of the class window to escape for band practice and Freddy and Lawrence catch him. However, Principal Mullins catches Zack when Freddy and Lawrence run away when spotting her, leaving a clueless Zack to jump out right in front of Principal Mullins. Zack's father is called to the school and talks to Principal Mullins, Mr Finn and Zack. After discovering that Mr Finn has been able to influence Zack to be able to express his opinion by himself like Zack's father has never done, Zack's father agrees to let Zack return to Mr Finn's class. The episode ends with Zack returned to Mr Finn's class and the band being able to continue holding practices, ensuring the continuation of the band.
Guest stars: Jama Williamson, James Kyson, Matt Champagne

6
6
"A Band with No Name"
Michael Shea
Kevin Jakubowski
April 16, 2016 (2016-04-16)
106
1.42[9]

As the band gets their first gig on the birthday party of a seven-year-old girl, they are faced with a challenge: they have to choose a band name or else they will end up with a princess band name. Mr. Finn suggests "Paradoxx", but nobody seems to like that idea. After a lot of arguing over the name, the band splits up to two parts, "Summer and the Timewarps" and "Smog Check". Mr. Finn gets them back together by lying to both of them that only they will be performing at the birthday party. The girl notices that the band split up and makes the princess she hired as a backup perform a song instead, but after some time, the band stops fighting and they sing a rock version of the princess' song, and everyone likes it. They end up with the name "School of Rock".
Guest stars: Kira Kosarin, Tom Wilson, Ashlyn Faith Williams

7
7
"We Can Be Heroes, Sort Of"
Savage Steve Holland
Jay Kogen
April 23, 2016 (2016-04-23)
108
1.25[10]

Tomika becomes shy after her brothers post some videos of her making silly faces while practicing at home. Mr. Finn helps her overcome her fear by suggesting her to take inspiration from her idol, who is Demi Lovato. Mr. Finn lies that he knows Lovato, who is in town for the week, but he fails to find her in the hotel because she used a fake name. Meanwhile, Tomika dresses up like Lovato, but she ends up pushing the band too hard by trying to match Lovato's band too closely. Tomika apologizes to the band for pushing them too hard, and after some rehearsals they have done earlier, they end up performing Lovato's song "Heart Attack" by being themselves rather than trying to copy her band. As Mr. Finn enters the classroom dressed up like Lovato, the students immediately recognize him and he says he was unable to find her. To everyone's surprise, Lawrence says he met Lovato in the hotel, and everyone gets tickets to her show that night.
Guest stars: Jama Williamson, Iqbal Theba

8
8
"Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
Sean Lambert
Gigi McCreery & Perry Rein
April 30, 2016 (2016-04-30)
107
1.41[11]

Guest stars: Kendall Schmidt, Sam Horrigan

9
9
"Money (That's What I Want)"
Trevor Kirschner
Gigi McCreery & Perry Rein
May 7, 2016 (2016-05-07)
110
1.11[12]

Guest stars: Jama Williamson, Shaun Brown

10
10
"Freddy Fights for His Right to Party"
Jay Kogen
Jeremy Hall
June 4, 2016 (2016-06-04)
109
1.40[13]

Guest star: Lucas Adams

11
11
"(Really Really) Old Time Rock and Roll"
Jonathan Judge
Eric Friedman
June 11, 2016 (2016-06-11)
111
1.29[14]

Guest stars: Jama Williamson, Haley Powell, Shanti Lowry, Aaron Hendry

12
12
"We Are the Champions ... Maybe"
Trevor Kirschner
Jay Kogen
June 18, 2016 (2016-06-18)
113
1.39[15]

The band rehearse their song for Battle of the Bands, unaware that Justin and The Night Lizards is spying on them. The band sneak out of the school to go the competition, outsmarting a suspicious Clark. However, they face some troubles on their way. When they arrived wet, they are denied entry, so they decide to put some pajamas (as there was only a pajama store open nearby). Things got worse when they discover that their song is being performed by the Lizards. As they begin to lose hope, they rehearse "Shut Up and Dance" on the rooftop, where the Lizards lock them up. To cheer the kids, Mr. Finn encourage them to perform for themselves. The judges overhear their performance and go upstairs, where School of Rock was crowned winner, much to the dismay of Justin. As everyone is upstairs, Clark failed to show Principal Mullins that the students snuck out.
Special guest star: Pete Wentz
Guest stars: Jama Williamson, Kendall Schmidt, Sam Horrigan

text: Season 2 (2016–17)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [2][16]
Directed by
Written by
Original air date [2][16]
Prod.
code [2]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

13
1
"Changes"
Trevor Kirschner
Jim Armogida & Steve Armogida
September 17, 2016 (2016-09-17)
201
1.34[17]

After their victory at Battle of the Bands, they still have to keep their band a secret. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Calpakis returns and Mr. Finn was released from duty. The class gets bored by Mrs. Calpakis' strict guide-ridden teaching style. Then they realize they would rather have Mr. Finn as their teacher and they plan to get Mr. Finn back. Principal Mullins agrees to rehire Mr. Finn as a regular teacher for kindergarteners, where he gets tortured by them. When the kids discovers that Mrs. Calpakis could discipline the kindergarteners more, Summer made a deal with them to exchange their respective teachers. Mr. Finn finally becomes their regular and permanent teacher.
Guest star: Vernee Watson

14
2
"Wouldn't It Be Nice?"
Trevor Kirschner
Jay Kogen
September 24, 2016 (2016-09-24)
202
1.33[18]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger (Kale), Haley Powell, David Pressman

15
3
"With or Without You"
Jody Margolin Hahn
Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie V. Freeman
October 1, 2016 (2016-10-01)
203
0.96[19]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, David Pressman, Meyrick Murphy
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

16
4
"Brilliant Disguise"
Trevor Kirschner
Steve Skrovan
October 8, 2016 (2016-10-08)
204
1.32[20]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon

17
5
"I Put a Spell on You"
Jonathan Judge
Lindsay Golder
October 15, 2016 (2016-10-15)
208
1.58[21]

Guest stars: Daya, Ivan Mallon

18
6
"Welcome to My Nightmare"
Trevor Kirschner
Alison Flierl & Scott Chernoff
October 22, 2016 (2016-10-22)
210
1.50[22]

As Halloween approaches, the students inform Mr. Finn that Principal Mullins has banned Halloween and changed it to a harvest festival. With Principal Mullins sick, the school holds a Halloween party, where Vice Principal Sternhagen offers a pizza party for the scariest class. The band competes with Clark's class by building a haunted house, where it almost fails when a drunken by meds Principal Mullins returns to school. When she's aware of what's going on, Freddy pretends to be the schoolboard head to praise the Halloween celebration, making Principal Mullins officially disband her restriction towards Halloween.
Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Elisha Henig, Haley Powell, David Pressman

19
7
"Truckin' "
Trevor Kirschner
Jeremy Hall
November 5, 2016 (2016-11-05)
209
1.22[23]

When the cafetaria gets closed due to a rat invading it, Zack brings a food truck to sell his "Meal Shakes". It is a success until Justin from the Night Lizards comes to the school and brings his own food truck and sells sticked food called "Stick It to Ya!" in revenge for School of Rock's victory in Battle of the Bands. The food trucks compete as the Principal only allows one to operate, and Stick It to Ya! quickly outshines Meal Shakes. Zack gets angry when the rest of his bandmates eat Stick It to Ya!. They make it up by helping Zack improve his truck and promoting it better, which beats Stick It to Ya's popularity and forces Justin to leave the school in disgrace. Mr. Finn is assigned to catch the rat, but is so frightened. He overcomes his fear when the rat is willing to go to the cage and in return he secretly keeps him in his teacher desk.
Guest stars: Kendall Schmidt, Ivan Mallon, Will Kindrachuk

20
8
"Voices Carry"
Eric Dean Seaton
Jeremy Hall
November 12, 2016 (2016-11-12)
207
1.42[24]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac

21
9
"Is She Really Going Out with Him?"
Jonathan Judge
Harry Hannigan
November 19, 2016 (2016-11-19)
206
1.70[25]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon

22
10
"Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Jay Kogen
Corinne Marshall
January 7, 2017 (2017-01-07)
211
1.29[26]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon, Will Kindrachuk
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

23
11
"Takin' Care of Business"
Jonathan Judge
Scott Chernoff & Alison Flierl
January 14, 2017 (2017-01-14)
205
1.56[27]

Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

24
12
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Trevor Kirschner
Jay Kogen
January 21, 2017 (2017-01-21)
212
1.23[28]

Guest stars: Haley Powell, Devion Harris

25
13
"Don't Stop Believin' "
Jonathan Judge
Steve Armogida & Jim Armogida
January 28, 2017 (2017-01-28)
213
1.18[29]

Special guest star: Ryan Tedder
Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Will Kindrachuk, Ivan Mallon, Haley Powell, Johnathan McClain, Cleo Berry

text: Season 3 (2017)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [2][30]
Directed by
Written by
Original air date [2][30]
Prod.
code [2]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

26
1
"Hold On Loosely"
Jonathan Judge
Jim Armogida & Steve Armogida
July 8, 2017 (2017-07-08)
301
1.03[31]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac, Tamara Mello, Christopher Darga

27
2
"Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
Eric Dean Seaton
Suzie V. Freeman & Sarah Jane Cunningham
July 15, 2017 (2017-07-15)
302
0.91[32]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Will Kindrachuk

28
3
"True Colors"
Victor Gonzalez
Steve Skrovan
July 22, 2017 (2017-07-22)
303
1.14[33]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac

29
4
"Leader of the Band"
Trevor Kirschner
Jeremy Hall
July 29, 2017 (2017-07-29)
305
0.89[34]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, David Anthony Higgins
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

30
5
"The Other Side of Summer"
Victor Gonzalez
Jay Kogen
August 5, 2017 (2017-08-05)
307
1.32[35]

Guest stars: Miriam Flynn, David Pressman

31
6
"Minimum Wage"
Jay Kogen
Clay Lapari
August 12, 2017 (2017-08-12)
309
1.00[36]

Guest stars: JoJo Siwa, Chelsea Ricketts, Jason Michael Snow
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

32
7
"Puppy Love"
TBA
TBA
November 13, 2017 (2017-11-13)
306
TBD

33
8
"Would I Lie to You?"
TBA
TBA
November 14, 2017 (2017-11-14)
308
TBD

34
9
"A Matter of Trust"
TBA
TBA
November 15, 2017 (2017-11-15)
310
TBD

35
10
"Love Is a Battlefield"
TBA
TBA
November 16, 2017 (2017-11-16)
312
TBD

36
11
"Kool Thing"
TBA
TBA
November 17, 2017 (2017-11-17)
311
TBD

37
12
"Heroes & Villains"
TBA
TBA
November 18, 2017 (2017-11-18)
304
TBD

38
13
"Jingle Bell Rock"
TBA
TBA
December 3, 2017 (2017-12-03)
TBA
TBD


document_title: Meadowlark Lemon

question_text: when did meadowlark lemon play for the globetrotters

text: Meadowlark Lemon

text: Early life[edit]

text: Lemon was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, and attended Williston Industrial School, graduating in 1952.[7][8] He then matriculated into Florida A&M University, but was soon drafted into the United States Army, serving for two years stationed in Austria and West Germany.[7][9]

text: Career[edit]

text: Basketball[edit]

text: Lemon made his first basketball hoop out of an onion sack and coat hanger, using an empty Carnation milk can to sink his first 2-point hoop.[10]

text: Lemon first applied to the Globetrotters in 1954 at age 22, finally being chosen to play in 1955. In 1980, he left to form one of his Globetrotters imitators, the Bucketeers. He played with that team until 1983, then moved on to play with the Shooting Stars from 1984 to 1987. In 1988, he moved on to "Meadowlark Lemon's Harlem All Stars" team. Despite being with his own touring team, Lemon returned to the Globetrotters, playing 50 games with them in 1994.[11]

text: In 2000, Lemon received the John Bunn Award,[12] the highest honor given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame outside induction.[13] He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.[12][14]

text: Television appearances[edit]

text: In the 1970s, an animated version of Lemon, voiced by Scatman Crothers, starred with various other Globetrotters in the Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series Harlem Globetrotters,[15] as well as its spinoff, The Super Globetrotters.[16] The animated Globetrotters also made three appearances in The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

text: Lemon appeared alongside Fred "Curly" Neal, Marques Haynes and his other fellow Globetrotters in a live-action Saturday-morning television show, The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine, in 1974–1975, which also featured Rodney Allen Rippy and Avery Schreiber.[17]

text: In 1978, Lemon appeared in a memorable Burger King commercial by making a tower of burgers until he found a double-beef pickles and onions with no-cheese burger.[18]

text: In 1983, Lemon appeared on an episode of Alice entitled Tommy Fouls Out

text: In 1983, Lemon appeared in a Charmin toilet paper commercial alongside Mr. Whipple (actor Dick Wilson).

text: In 2009, on FOX's TV show The Cleveland Show, the name of Meadowlark Lemon was used for a dog's name for the character of Rallo Tubbs. The dog died in the first season.

text: Other work[edit]

text: In 1979, Lemon starred in the educational geography film Meadowlark Lemon Presents the World. Also in 1979, he joined the cast of the short-lived television sitcom Hello, Larry in season two, to help boost the show's ratings; in the same year, he played Rev. Grady Jackson in the movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. It was several years before he actually became an ordained minister himself.[19]

text: In 1982, Lemon was featured in the Grammy-nominated video Fun & Games, an interactive educational video produced by Optical Programming Associates and Scholastic Productions, on the then-emerging LaserDisc format.[20][21]

text: Personal life[edit]

text: Lemon had 10 children: Richard, George, Beverly, Donna, Robin, Jonathan, Jamison, Angela, Crystal, and Caleb.[1]

text: A born-again Christian, Lemon became an ordained minister in 1986 and received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Vision International University in Ramona, California, in 1988. He was also featured as a gospel singer within several Gaither Homecoming videos.[22] In his last years, he took up residence in Scottsdale, Arizona, where his Meadowlark Lemon Ministries, Inc. is located.[19]

text: Death[edit]

text: Lemon died in Scottsdale, Arizona on December 27, 2015, at the age of 83. No cause of death was given.[23]


document_title: The Death of Stalin

question_text: the death of stalin cast who plays stalin

text: The Death of Stalin

text: Plot[edit]

text: After a live Radio Moscow broadcast of a Mozart recital, Joseph Stalin orders a recording of the performance. Having not recorded the recital, the station rapidly restages the concert, going to farcical lengths to do so; these include bringing in passersby to replicate the acoustics, replacing the passed-out conductor with another, and bribing the disgruntled lead pianist Maria Yudina.

text: Yudina hides a note in the pressing of the recording telling Stalin he has ruined the country. As Stalin reads it in his dacha, he is paralysed by a cerebral haemorrhage. He is discovered the next day and the members of the Central Committee are alerted. The first to arrive are NKVD head Lavrentiy Beria, who discovers Yudina's note, and Deputy General Secretary Georgy Malenkov. As Malenkov panics, Beria guides him to take leadership, hoping to use him as a puppet.

text: Moscow Party Head Nikita Khrushchev arrives with the rest of the Committee, except for Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, whom Stalin added to one of his lists of enemies the night previously. Beria closes off Moscow, has the NKVD take over city security duties from the Soviet Army, and replaces Stalin's enemy lists with his own, reprieving Molotov. Khrushchev and Beria struggle for symbolic victories such as control over Stalin's unstable son Vasily and daughter Svetlana.

text: When Stalin dies, the Committee members rush back to Moscow as the NKVD loot Stalin's dacha and execute witnesses. Khrushchev goes to Molotov's home and attempts to enlist his support, but Molotov, a true believer in Stalinism, opposes any factionalism within the Party. Beria buys his loyalty by releasing his wife Polina Molotova from confinement.

text: Malenkov is named as nominal Premier while being largely controlled by Beria. At the first Committee meeting following Stalin's death, Beria sidelines Khrushchev by putting him in charge of Stalin's funeral and suggesting many of the liberal reforms which Khrushchev had planned to introduce. Stalin's body is laid in state in the Hall of Columns, while many political prisoners are released and restrictions on the Russian Orthodox Church are loosened, earning Beria more popular support. Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov arrives and demands to know why the Soviet Army troops have been confined to barracks within Moscow.

text: Beria learns that Khrushchev has a passing acquaintance with Yudina, who was hired to play at the funeral, and threatens them both with the note. Khrushchev approaches Zhukov, who agrees to provide the Army's support in a coup to overthrow Beria, but only if the Committee agrees.

text: To undermine Beria's popularity, Khrushchev orders the trains into Moscow to resume, allowing thousands of mourners into the city. As he planned, the NKVD guards around the Hall fire on the crowd, killing 1,500 people. The Committee suggests scapegoating low-level NKVD officers; as Beria believes blame attached to security services will tarnish him, he angrily threatens the Committee with incriminating documents he has collected on them. Molotov secretly tells Khrushchev and Kaganovich he will support the coup if they can enlist the support of the others, including Malenkov.

text: On the day of Stalin's funeral, Khrushchev lies to the Committee and Zhukov that he has Malenkov's support. The Soviet Army overwhelms the NKVD and takes up positions outside the conference room. Zhukov and his men arrest Beria, and Khrushchev coerces Malenkov into signing the papers for Beria's trial. Khrushchev and his allies find Beria guilty of treason and of sexual assault in a kangaroo court and execute him. As Beria's body is burnt, Khrushchev gives Svetlana a ticket to Vienna and assures her that her brother will be cared for. Several years later, Khrushchev, now Supreme Leader of the Soviet Union after removing his co-conspirators, attends a concert given by Yudina, while future leader Leonid Brezhnev watches him.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev
Simon Russell Beale as Lavrentiy Beria
Paddy Considine as Comrade Andreyev
Rupert Friend as Vasily Stalin
Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov
Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov
Andrea Riseborough as Svetlana Stalina
Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov
Adrian McLoughlin as Joseph Stalin
Olga Kurylenko as Maria Yudina
Paul Whitehouse as Anastas Mikoyan
Paul Chahidi as Nikolai Bulganin
Dermot Crowley as Lazar Kaganovich
Justin Edwards as Spartak Sokolov, conductor
Richard Brake as Anatoly Tarasov
Jonathan Aris as Mezhnikov
Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Musician
James Barriscale as The General

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text: Production[edit]

text: Hitler is poison. Hitler is toxic. You wouldn't get any portraits of Hitler in any hotels in Germany, but the hotel we were staying at in Moscow had a portrait of Stalin up. He's gotten away with it, really. We've quietly drawn a veil over him and not really concerned ourselves too much about him.

text: The project began development during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Armando Iannucci was set as director and co-writer, alongside regular collaborators David Schneider,[4] The Thick of It co-writer Ian Martin, and Peter Fellows.

text: Production began 20 June 2016 and ended 6 August.[5] Filming locations included Kyiv, Ukraine (for exteriors scenes and exterior of Public Enemies building and NKVD building), and UK (at Blythe House, Freemason's Hall and Alexandra Palace in London, Mongewell Park in Oxford).[6]

text: Release[edit]

text: The Death of Stalin was released by eOne Films in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2017 and IFC Films in the United States on 9 March 2018.[7][8][1] The film was screened in the Platform section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[9]

text: Nikolai Starikov, head of the Russian Great Fatherland Party, said The Death of Stalin was an "unfriendly act by the British intellectual class" and part of an "anti-Russian information war".[10] In September 2017, the head of the Public Council of the Russian Ministry of Culture said Russian authorities were considering a ban on the film which, they alleged, could be part of a "western plot to destabilise Russia by causing rifts in society".[11] On 23 January 2018, two days before film's scheduled release in Russia,[12] a screening was attended by State Duma MPs, representatives of the Russian Historical Society, members of the Culture Ministry’s Public Board, and film industry members. Two days later, the Ministry of Culture withdrew the film's distribution certificate. However, several movie theaters screened the film in late January, claiming that by then they didn't receive any information that the movie's exhibition license was revoked. Russia's culture ministry filed a lawsuit against these theaters.[13]

text: Russian Culture Ministry’s lawyers, including the daughter of Marshal Zhukov, Era Zhukova, cinematographers Nikita Mikhalkov, Vladimir Bortko, Sergei Miroshnichenko, Igor Ugolnikov, Alexander Galibin, and Head of the Russian State Historical Museum Alexey Levykin, petitioned Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky to withdraw the film's certification, saying "The Death of Stalin is aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, violating the dignity of the Russian (Soviet) people, promoting ethnic and social inferiority, which points to the movie’s extremist nature. We are confident that the movie was made to distort our country’s past so that the thought of the 1950s Soviet Union makes people feel only terror and disgust."[14] The authors said the film denigrated the memory of Russian World War II fighters. They pointed out that the National Anthem was accompanied with obscene expressions and offensive attitude, decorations were historically inaccurate, and that the planned release on the eve of the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad was "a spit in the face of all those who died there, and all those who are still alive".[15] The film was banned in Russia and Kyrgyzstan.[16][clarification needed] Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are the only members of the Eurasian Economic Union to show it. In Armenia, the film premiered in two theaters in Yerevan on 25 January 2018. In Kazakhstan, the film was screened only in the Clique festival.[16][17]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 194 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Death of Stalin finds director/co-writer Arnando Iannucci in riotous form, bringing his scabrous political humor to bear on a chapter in history with painfully timely parallels."[18] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 89 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[19]

text: Donald Clarke, writing for The Irish Times, wrote that the film "starts in a state of mortal panic and continues in that mode towards its inevitably ghastly conclusion".[20] In The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw wrote that "fear rises like gas from a corpse in Armando Iannucci's brilliant horror-satire". Bradshaw says it "is superbly cast, and acted with icy and ruthless force by an A-list lineup. There are no weak links. Each has a plum role; each squeezes every gorgeous horrible drop."[21]

text: Raphael Abraham, writing for Financial Times, wrote that "As this coven of vampiric apparatchiks feasts on the remains of Stalinism, the unremitting blackness of the situation at times threatens a full comedy eclipse. But the discomfiting balancing act of humour and horror is precisely Iannucci's game—and only he could pull it off with such skill."[22]

text: Historical accuracy[edit]

text: A number of academics commented on the historical accuracy of The Death of Stalin. Historian Richard Overy noted in The Guardian that the film "is littered with historical errors", which can be "viewed as cinematic licence",[23] but was most critical that the film did not appropriately honor those who died during Stalin's leadership. Director Iannucci stated that he "chose to tone down real-life absurdity" to make the work more believable.[24]

text: Samuel Goff, at the Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, while admitting that the film′s numerous historical discrepancies could be justified inasmuch as they helped focus the drama, found the grotesque way "Beria and the NKVD" are portrayed in the film less forgivable.[25] Contrary to what both the film and Goff's essay say, the NKVD did not exist in early 1953, the secret police being a separate ministry headed by Semyon Ignatyev, while Lavrentiy Beria was appointed the Minister of the Interior on 5 March 1953, on the day of Stalin's death. Goff believed that Iannucci's approach to satire was not transferable to something like Stalinism, and the film is "fundamentally ill-equipped to locate the comedy inherent to Stalinism, missing marks it doesn't know it should be aiming for".[25]