History Series / EverybodyHatesChris

* BreatheOnTheFan: Chris' father is so cheap that he even complains about how much electricity the stupid fan game uses.

Chris and his family live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, colloquially known as Bed-Stuy, primarily a black and Puerto Rican residence. It is home to many comedic recurring characters, including the aptly-named black market dealer Risky, Jerome (who always asks "the little dude from across the street" (Chris) to let him "[[{{Hustler}} hold a dollar]]"), "Doc", owner of the local grocery store, and Mr. Omar, a womanizing funeral director and later tenant to Julius and Rochelle.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint:
** The episode when Chris refuses to do the dishes. Like always, Rochelle asks him to do it, but never makes Drew and Tonya do any chores, which he deems unfair and unreasonable. As such, Chris and Rochelle are at odds with each other, with Julius trying to get both sides to meet in the middle. 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.
** In "Everybody Hates Kris", Julius gets a job as a mall Santa to make some extra cash. The problem, however, is that his cheapness makes him forget that these kids truly expect Santa to bring them their expensive gifts. Julius tells all the children about how all the costs and financial stuff getting their gifts would do, resulting in a bunch of crying kids and one less mall Santa in the world.

* NoNameGiven: Chris's family's name is intentionally not given. Although it could be Rock, it is not wholly accurate in its interpretation of Chris Rock's childhood. Mr. Omar even calls Chris's parents Mr. Julius and Ms. Rochelle [[UnnamedParent to avoid saying their surnames]].

* AdultsAreUseless
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: This is how Chris views his younger brother Drew.

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

* RealityEnsues: Chris doesn't attempt to fight back every time he gets bullied and physically assaulted by Caruso. Chris has lampshaded that he would either get framed by Caruso or beaten. Given the time period of the series, when racism was rampant, and the useless school rules regarding bullying, yep this counts.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Chris is jealous of Greg when he comes to stay with them because he's an only child and he expects all of the attention and does everything by himself, whereas Chris usually has to take care of his younger siblings. Near the end of the episode, Chris confronts Greg, and Greg says that the reason why he does everything by himself is not that he wants to, but because he has to, being an only child.

* 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 four years at school (three in Corleone and one 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 1 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.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Well, it ''is'' a family show, despite being a Chris Rock show. For example:
** In one episode, Chris and Greg talk about [[GoshDangitToHeck plucking girls]]. Constantly.
** In "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Everybody Hates Bad Boys]]", 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:
--->Chris: Maybe if I went to prison, I could get lucky.
--->(beat)
--->Chris: Wait, that didn't come out right.
** In another episode, when Rochelle is talking with Sheila on the phone after the latter had a very cheap date, Rochelle says the man had better have "big feet" (i.e. have a large manhood) being that cheap.

** Chris actually listens to a George Carlin record with the seven dirty words in "Everybody Hates Dirty Jokes." Each word is rendered as its place on the list--for instance, the episode's final line is "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Number]] [[PrecisionFStrike three]]!"

* ComicallySmallBribe: Julius actually tries to bribe someone with a penny.

** 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:

''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.

** Downplayed again in the episode "Everybody Hates Caruso". 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 turning many other students into bullies themselves. This prompts Chris to toughen Caruso up to what he was before.

* 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 gives her a belt spanking off-screen.]]

** 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.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Well it ''is'' a family show, despite being a Chris Rock show. For example:

* 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.]]

-->''1982. That was the year I turned 13. Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me'' ''was being a teenager. I was gonna have women, money, stay out late... I thought it was gonna be the bomb!''

-->''Boy, was I wrong!''\\

* CharacterDevelopment:
** 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 4, he is much more normal and a straight example of a [[CoolLoser "cool loser" protagonist]].
** Greg starts out as a typical social outcast whom Chris bonded with, but his dorkiness was flanderized to the point that he apparently couldn't sleep without dressing up as a superhero and praying to said hero for protection.

* {{Flanderization}}: In the first season, Ms. Morello's racist comments were naive and light. However, in subsequent seasons, they became more and more mean-spirited. This makes her attraction to black men even more ironic.

* ScaryBlackMan: Averted with Julius most of the time, despite [[PlayingAgainstType his actor's previous roles]]; Rochelle is the real power in the household. The one time in the series Julius does invoke this is when he [[spoiler:threatens to beat the crap out of Malvo if he doesn't leave Chris alone]].

* TimeshiftedActor: In a [[FollowTheLeader similar vein]] to ''Series/TheWonderYears'', this show follows Chris Rock's childhood.

* 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.
* However, she is back to being neutral in her next appearance and all subsequent appearances, which suggests (like the narrator says) that her rant was all his imagination.