History Series / EverybodyHatesChris

Oh yeah and if you haven't guessed, the title is a joke on ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', even though the show itself [[XMeetsY feels like]] ''Malcolm in the Middle'' filtered through Chris Rock's actual childhood.

Oh yeah and if you haven't guessed, the title is a joke on ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''.

''Everybody Hates Chris'' is an American sitcom that is [[ArtisticLicense loosely based]] on the life of Creator/ChrisRock. Set in [[TheEighties the 1980s]], it revolves around the home and school life of Chris, featuring his easygoing, although money worrying, father Julius, [[SassyBlackWoman sassy]], if somewhat overreacting, mother Rochelle, younger brother Drew (who gets all the girls Chris can't), and "daddy's girl" sister Tonya. It also features the equally, if not more, [[ButtMonkey hapless]] Greg, Chris's best friend and confidant from school. The series is also [[NostalgicNarrator narrated]] by the humorous Rock looking back at his younger self, typically saying the opposite of what the younger Chris thinks.

---->'''Rochelle:''' (muttering) "Now, call I call the insurance company?"

* DisproportionateRetribution: In "Everybody Hates Hall Monitors," Chris becomes a hall monitor and eventually becomes DrunkWithPower. He then starts giving other kids citations for things for littering and snacks in the hallway.

* FreakOut: Chris, who had trouble memorizing a speech in "Everybody Hates Bomb Threats" and would fail 10th grade if he didn't. It's lasts temporary, and is played for laughs.

--->'''Narrator:''' "Another time, a plane drop the load!"

--->"That's why I hate gambling! 'Cause you can't win if you lose it!"

--> "You lost ten dollars?! [[CaptainObvious That's $10 worth of dollars!]]"

** Sometimes Chris Rock himself.

* NWordPrivileges: Early on, Caruso uses the word on Chris, but it being Brooklyn Beach in the '80s, gets away with it. However, according to the narration, he did it at a Music/{{DMX}} concert twenty years later and got stomped.

* ForceFeeding: Rochelle keeps trying to get Tonya to eat the sausage they got in bulk to no avail, eventually rather than make her do it the family have a heartwarming talk about it laughter which results in Tonya trying and liking it, [[spoiler:Or at least, that's what Chris shows us what he would have preferred happen instead of what actually did happen. What really happened was Rochelle lost it and jumped the table to physically force her daughter to eat the sausage so that her husband and sons had to restrain her while Tonya screams.]]

** A good one happens to Caruso. In "Everybody Hates Sausage," Chris attempts to get revenge on Caruso for bullying him by attempting to throw a D sized battery at him, but he fails horribly when the battery misses Caruso and it breaks the school door, causing Chris to get put in detention for three days.[[spoiler: On the third day, Chris gets his revenge and succeeds by luring Caruso and two other boys near the principals office. Chris kicks the principal's door and then Caruso and the other boys throw batteries at him. The principal walks out of his office and sees the bullies attacking Chris and Caruso and the other two boys ends up in detention while Chris walks off scot free.]]

--> '''Narrator:''' ''My mother always did the best for us she could, [[LampshadeHanging even if it didn't make a bit of sense.]]''

** The doctor who occasionally pops up on the show. However, he doesn't so much explain the plot as he does concepts related to the plot that the audience may not be familiar with, such as what the gout is or the causes of hypertension.

** In the episode "Everybody Hates Caruso," the whole school has this attitude towards Caruso. To elaborate, a Chinese kid that Caruso bullied fights back, and then the students now see the Chinese kid as the bully. Caruso also stops bullying everyone else which upsets the balance at school, namely many other students becoming bullies themselves. This prompts Chris to toughen Caruso up to what he was before.

** In the episode "Everybody Hates Caruso," the whole school has this attitude towards Caruso. To elaborate, a Chinese kid that Caruso bullied fights back, and then the students now see the Chinese kid as the bully. Caruso also stops bullying everyone else which upsets the balance at school. This prompts Chris to toughen Caruso up to what he was before.

* XMeetsY: ''Series/TheWonderYears'' meets ''Series/GoodTimes''.
** ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' meets ''Series/That70sShow'' (but in TheEighties).

* WouldntHitAGirl: Rochelle won't tolerate her sons hitting girls, going to the extreme of not allowing them to defend themselves even if a girl tries rip off their arm. Tonya learns about this and uses it against Drew in one episode, [[spoiler:though Rochelle later finds out she's been lying and beats her up off-screen.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In one episode, when Rochelle discovers she is one year younger than she thought she was, Drew even questions if her mother is even her mother, and Rochelle seems to be a little thoughtful about it. This is never brought again.

''Everybody Hates Chris'' (2005-2009) is an American sitcom that is [[ArtisticLicense loosely]] based on the life of Creator/ChrisRock. Set in [[TheEighties the 1980s]], it revolves around the home and school life of Chris, featuring his easygoing, although money worrying, father Julius, [[SassyBlackWoman sassy]], if somewhat overreacting, mother Rochelle, younger brother Drew (who gets all the girls Chris can't), and "daddy's girl" sister Tonya. It also features the equally, if not more, [[ButtMonkey hapless]] Greg, Chris's best friend and confidant from school. The series is also [[NostalgicNarrator narrated]] by the humorous Rock looking back at his younger self, typically saying the opposite of what the younger Chris thinks.

* AssShove: Chris inadvertently yells at his own mother, resulting in a ''very'' embarrassing incident [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments with a shoe]].

** Chris is a bit of a "dork" at the beginning of the series and struggles socially, which in one episode he realizes is part of the cause of his bullying problems rather than just being the only black kid in school. By season four he is much more normal and a straight example of a [[CoolLoser "cool loser" protagonist]].

** The episode when Chris refuses to do the dishes when Rochelle. Like always, Chris's mom asks him to do it, but never makes Drew and Tonya do any chores, which he deems unfair and unreasonable. The entire episode, Chris and Rochelle are at odds with each other, with Julius trying to get both sides to meet in the middle (with Julius noting to Rochelle about how illogical her decision making can be, and that Chris has fair reason to be angry). In the end, Chris and Rochelle apologize, but Chris ''still'' winds up doing the dishes by episode's end while Drew and Tanya watch TV.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: When Drew unwittingly takes $10 from Rochelle, Julius' response to her losing it is "You lost ten dollars?! [[CaptainObvious That's $10 worth of dollars!]]"
* DiabolusExMachina: Most of the time things do not end well for Chris. To the point where even when everything ''does'' end well, it took a ''dream'' to pull this off. Though there are some exceptions:

** One episode ends with Rochelle screwing up. She still yells Chris' name, then sadly says "I know" when he points out he didn't do anything.

* DisproportionateRetribution: In the episode "Everybody Hates Hall Monitors," Chris becomes a hall monitor and eventually becomes DrunkWithPower. He then starts giving other kids citations for things for littering and snacks in the hallway.
* TheDogBitesBack: Chris planned a diabolic revenge against Caruso in "Everybody Hates the Last Day". It worked as Caruso was punished for something he did not do. Afterwards, Chris told him "don't mess with me anymore". Of course, it backfired on Chris in the end of the episode.

* DownerEnding: If the situation starts off fine, something goes wrong. If the situation is already bad enough, [[FromBadToWorse Chris is subjected to more torment.]]

* EggSitting: In "Everybody Hates Eggs," Chris had to do this. The episode went from OhCrap to fine, but being ''Everybody Hates Chris''...

** Apparently, the one thing Risky won't sell is ''Playboy'' magazine, at least to kids.

* EvolvingCredits: Subtle but in each new season, the opening slowly adds more movement. Compare Season 1 which just had still shots of the cast to Season 4 which had full on movement.
* ExactWords: In "Everybody Hates Bomb Threats," [[spoiler: Chris's teacher tells him he has to memorize a speech or else he'd fail the 10th grade. He never said anything about reciting it.]]

* ForceFeeding: Rochelle keeps trying to get Tonya to eat the sausage they got in bulk to no avail, eventually rather than make her do it the family have a heartwarming talk about it laughter which results in Tonya trying and liking it, [[spoiler: Or at least, that's what Chris showed us what he would have preferred happen instead of what actually did happen. What really happened was Rochelle lost it and jumped the table to physically force her daughter to eat the sausage so that her husband and sons had to restrain her while Tonya screams.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: Eventually, the opening credits started showing the sky for a half second with the clouds spelling, "Even the clouds hate Chris."

** During one episode, Chris and Greg talked about [[GoshDangitToHeck plucking girls]]. Constantly.
** In "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Everybody Hates Badboys]]" Chris finds out that Tasha loves rapper [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Slava Slav]], and determines that he should act more like him to impress her, which leads to this line from narrator Chris:

** In the first episode, Caruso beat the hell out of Chris, then he and his friends chased Chris down to beat him up some more, until he caught a bus. In "Everybody Hates Sausage," somehow that story got turned into various, escalating ones, ranging from Chris knocking out Caruso's teeth to Chris beating up his family and taking his house.
** In the Season 2 episode "Everybody Hates a Liar", Chris helps remove a mouse from [[GirlNextDoor Tasha]]'s room, and after the task is completed, a grateful Tasha gives him a peck on the cheek while they are outside after the event. Jerome sees them, and when Chris denies attempts to dissuade anything more with a "yeah, you know", word spreads through the neighborhood & their school and ranges from him kissing her to being her boyfriend. It gets to the point where Chris, whom has since been confronted by Tasha's grandmother, who had previously confronted his parents, had to declare to the whole neighborhood that nothing actually happened. He even apologized to her grandmother personally, though it did little to convince her that he wasn't a hooligan, but at least Tasha finally forgave him.

* LaughTrack: Averted, except for a parody scene in "Everybody Hates Homecoming." It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the same episode, to boot. It's averted in "Everybody Hates the Ninth Grade Dance."

* LazyBum: ''My Uncle Michael was almost 40 and never had a job. He put the "um" in "bum."''

* LovableCoward: ''There are "got your back" guys, and "I'll be back" guys. Greg was a "I'm running like a bitch" guy.''

* NeverTrustATrailer: Pretty much the entire last season (last two?) had promos with things that just never happened in the episodes.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Everybody Hates Bomb Threats", it's revealed at the end that [[spoiler: Chris' fake bomb threat led the bomb squad to ignore ''another'' bomb threat... which resulted in ''a school being blown up''[[note]]It was after hours, so miraculously, no one was in the building.[[/note]].]]

* NoEnding: [[spoiler: The series finale. Just as Chris asks for his GED scores, the screen goes black.]]

* NothingButHits: The show thrives on this, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic especially its soundtrack]], [[TropesAreNotBad though it's none the worse for it.]]

* PapaWolf: Julius handled his business when Malvo threatened Chris in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Odr15W8rI Everybody Hates Chain Snatching]]."

* PlotHole: There is a huge timeline plot hole: the entire series is stated to cover five years of Chris's life (series premiere is in 1982 and series finale is in 1987). However, Chris passes 4 years at school (3 in Corleone and 1 in Tattaglia). The mistake can be traced back to the season 2 premiere, in which Chris apparently starts the new school year in 1984 despite season one taking place during the 1982-1983 school year. This mistake continues throughout the rest of the series: season 2 takes place from 1984-1985, season 3 from 1985-1986, and season 4 from 1986-1987.

** Chris employes this in "Everybody Hates Being Cool". It's here that Chris is faced with two options: either he can be known as being cool for being a lookout for the "cool kids", i.e. the juvenile delinquents that loiter around the arcade, and risk being named and imprisoned as an accessory to them before/during/after the fact, or he can forever be known as the nerdy kid, make like a banana and split. Chris chooses to save his own hide and flee the scene of the crime when the cops show up; a wise option, indeed.

* NothingButHits: The show thrives on this, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome especially its soundtrack]], [[TropesAreNotBad though it's none the worse for it.]]

* KarmicDeath: Every Halloween, Mr. Harris the local butcher dresses as "Sweet Tooth the Candy Pimp" and steals children's candy. Adult Chris mentions that he died in 1984 from a bad case of gingivitis.

* NarrationEcho: Used all the time, often in the form of adult Chris pointing out what the worst thing would be for his younger self to say/do in a particular situation, only for his younger self to immediately say/do that exact thing. Occasionally it's more of a Narration IronicEcho when young Chris says/does the exact opposite.
* NamesTheSame: Chris has about ten different people named "Mike" in his neighborhood, not counting his uncle Mike and "Fat Mike", whom he met in the episode named after him.

-->'''Rochelle (to Chris):''' Boy, get in here.

* RaceFetish: Despite making cringeworthy racist comments about black people, Ms. Morello has a noticeably potent fetish for black men and African culture. It's implied to be the reason why she is so amicable towards Chris while being blatantly racist at the same time.

** There's also the new year's episode, Chris ''finally'' gets a kiss from Tasha, that ended pretty well aside from Rochelle getting upset at him over messing up her good luck charm or something like that.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Keisha does this in her second appearance. In her first appearance, she was polite to Chris, despite her preferring his younger brother Drew and breaking Chris' heart. In the second appearance, "Everybody Hates Halloween," when Chris asks Keisha if she wanted to dance with him at the party, she rudely refuses his offer and said that she preferred to have met Drew. Even a woman named Lisa who witnessed the whole thing sympathized with Chris and allowed Chris to dance with her out of pity. Also, in the episode "Everybody Hates Funerals," when Chris hugs her, she pushes him off her and decides to hug Drew.

* NamesTheSame: Chris has about ten different people named "Mike" on his neighborhood, not counting his uncle Mike and "Fat Mike", whom he met in the episode named after him.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Monk.

** The names of the schools in the series are [[Film/Dolemite Dolemite]] Elementary, [[Film/TheGodfather Corleone]] Junior High, [[Series/SanfordAndSon Lamont Sanford]] Junior High and [[Film/TheGodfather Tattaglia]] High.

* SmokingIsCool: "Everybody Hates Being Cool."
* SnowballLie: In "Everybody Hates Bed-Stuy," Chris takes Doc's story about his romantic adventures and turns it into a story about a serial killer loose in the neighborhood, in order to turn in a good story for the school newspaper. Unfortunately, that story got relayed to local news outlets, and Chris was finally forced to kill it [[spoiler:when a cop had a gun to Julius's head.]]