An American Comedy-Drama that has follows the lives of a garbageman (Charles S. Dutton) and his wife (Ella Joyce), a nurse, as they balance their jobs and their family.
The show also starred Rocky Carroll, Carl Gordon, Garrett Morris, Clifton Powell, Heavy D, Tone Lōc, and Jamie Foxx.
It aired for three seasons on Fox.
Tropes for the series:
- Dumpster Dive: Charles "Roc" Emerson is a garbageman and uses his job to supply the house with much of the things it needs. In the pilot he's shown with a day-old newspaper ("Hey, this isn't USA Today, it's USA Yesterday.") and he picks up a broken VCR which his friend Wizz fixes for him - but the user has to hold the play button down at all times in order to watch a video.
- Live Episode: The show arguably started the modern-day trend for live episodes. After presenting one episode live in the first season, the entire second season was broadcast live. It went back to taped shows for its third (and last) season.
- The Loins Sleep Tonight: This happens to Roc in one episode. Eleanor is trying to comfort him, but her ebonics accent makes it come out wrong.Eleanor: "Now honey, what happened last night is not that impo'tant (Roc storms out of the room) I mean imPORtant! IMPORTANT!".
- One-Word Title:
- Pilot.
- Unforgiven.
- R.E.S.P.E.C.T..
- Brothers.
- Mood Whiplash: Done in progressive stages in "Nightmare on Emerson Street." Eleanor has a terrible nightmare, and the others try to comfort her by telling her about their worst dreams. First there's Joey's mostly-comedic-but-still-kind-of-dark-at-the-end nightmare where he gives up on his musical dreams and becomes a garbageman. Then there's Andrew's starts-out-kind-of-funny-but-quickly-turns-really-depressing nightmare where he's become a helpless invalid trapped in his own body with his family about to put him in a home. Then it's Roc's dark-all-the-way through nightmare where everyone else is dead, they all tell him what a disappointment and failure he is, and he's dead too. And then finally we get to Eleanor's pitch black nightmare that turns out to be memories of her being molested as a child.
- Where da White Women At?: A long lost relative gets engaged, and carefully breaks it to Roc's racist black father that his fiance is white, though forgets to mention it's a man.
