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@nick...that wasnt necessary. The show pretty much went down after wendell left and when micheal "went off to college" i guess

That @#$@#$@#$#@$@ show was a !@#$!@# shameless, !@#$!@# predictable, absolutely ####$!@#$ lame Cosby Show wanabe piece of @#$!. It sucked! It sucked! It sucked! It sucked! It sucked! It sucked! It sucked! It sucked! It sucked! It sucked! It sucked!

The show was good at times,but the youngest son was just plain annoying man they should have got rid of him

Oh, let me add a couple of corrections:first,none of the kids came as Frederick Douglass,although there was a "Jackie Robinson" and a "Martin Luther King Jr."Second,the kid who "paid tribute"to Buckwheat was Nicholas(the youngest kid in the main family depicted on this show.)Last,the name of this episode(aired during the second season)was "I'm O-Tay,You're O-Tay".

From what little I've seen of this show,it never really jumped.One of the best episodes I've seen of any show came from this series:when the parents all attend a "Black History Month"event at the local elementary school,in which all the kids come dressed as famous African-Americans.Of course,most of the kids came as Frederick Douglass,Harriet Tubman,George Washington Carver,and others equally dignified...then,the young son of Robert Townsend's character comes dressed as Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas,sending the whole room into an uproar over this "perpetration of a negative stereotype".The parents calm down after the boy explains that Billie Thomas,and fellow thespians Hattie McDaniel and Mantan Moreland,had to dress and act "that way" in order to work in the movies.I think that the late Mr.Thomas,as well as "Farina "Hoskins,"Stymie" Beard,and Ms.McDaniel and Mr.Moreland would all have applauded this episode!

I kinda liked the show....except for those stupid daydreams Robert Townsend would have....geez how corny can a show get? I really thought it was dumb when that new kid came....the gangsta thug who was friends with Da Brat. The show was cool for what it was, but if you ask me, it was kind of a Cosby Show rip-off. I still watch it though on TBS early in the mornings when I'm awake.

For me, three different occurrences made it jump for me: when Michael and Wendell left and TK and Kelly came, when they started doing too many special episodes, and when every episode started being about Nicholas (the younger brother) conning Cece (the younger sister) and her friend. They beat the $#!+ outta the two latter dead horse. C'mon, someone should've reminded the writers that too much of the same thing, especially sequentially, gets really old really fast. Other than those things I thought show was pretty decent and might've lasted otherwise. I loved and actually looked forward to Robert's dream sequences, they were priceless. I also loved the 2-XL (Nicholas's toy robot) cameos. Like how Robert is holding it in the theme sequence. 2-XL was one of my fav toys growing up and I still have mine and 6 of his tapes. I have no idea why they gave 2-XL cameo air shots, but I thought it was a priceless gesture. Perhaps Tiger (the makers of 2-XL) paid them to hype him, but the toy's craze had long been dead when the show came out so I don't think that was why.

This show jumped when Faizon Love (Wendell) left. That man was hilarious... I'll never forget that Halloween episode where he dressed up as Wesley Snipes... or the episode where he was about to get married and he and his chick wanted to go down the aisle to "Kung Fu Fighting". Kelly was funny too, but certainly not in the same way. Why isn't this show on rerun?

The parent hood JTS from day one with those dumb as hell dream sequences Robert had. The only and I mean ONLY reason i watched the show was because of Zaria. She was fine as fine can get which was probably the reason why WB kept the show on that long for the first place. But even with that fine goddess on there, parent hood should have jumped the shark to the point where the shark has indigestion when Robert got shot by some thugs due to T.K. for two reasons. One, where was Michael when his father got shot? He did not even come back to the show and see him in the hospital. Two, at the end of part two Robert wakes up and tells T.K. that all is forgiven and he is still a part of the family. I dont think that even the Brady Bunch could have pulled off something that corny which is probably why the show finally JTS six episodes after that one.

When Wendell left. He kept the show lighthearted even when it became too preachy.

Too many preachy episodes . . black history, crime, rap images, etc. (Although I DID like how Ira referred to his father as THE MAN). The Show tried too hard to "send a message" instead of being entertaining. It's not a bad thing to send a message, but the makers of The Parent 'Hood needed to realize that sitcoms are primarily there to entertain.

i was not a watcher of the show during it's first run and i am just seeing the series for the first time. these are a few of my obversations after seeing 4 and a half of the full five seasons. the best performer on the show was the eldest brother michael. he was very talented and should never have left. maybe they felt too much time was spent on listening to his music. airtime jealousy,maybe..... wendell was the requisite fool. with all his grinning, dancing, and shucking and jiving. the daughter was what she was suppose to be young, pretty, nothing more or less. i felt they could have better children actor choices with the two i like the fact she represents a strong black woman.Robert Townsend. he has always been a favorite actor and director of mine and i have always liked what he has to say about being black in hollywood. my only complaint when did he attend the william shatner school of acting? pausing in strange places when he says his lines. to summ it up,with all it's good and bad points i still like watching the show.it jumped after michael left but still pretty decent.

This show didn't jump when Bobby McGee, Wendell's mother, Wendell or Michael left. If you take it for what it was it was very entertaining in its own way. TK was the probably the most realistic of the characters and the episodes focusing on him were actually quite good. Since some of these are in the last year you can't say that the show jumped in its final season. The show actually hit the ground running: the pilot where Michael and Zaria try to convince their parents that they want to get tattoos is funny before the opening credits even roll By the way does anyone beside me notice that the episode switches from video to an ugly digital film when they go outside? What was up with that? I noticed the same thing in episodes of The Wayans Brothers and Cosby at that same time. Really ugly man. Anyway, this show's last episode was a let down, even if Kenya Moore was fine as hell they could have ended it better. Having the cast do solo dances at the end was the only nice touch to a lackluster series finale. And they knew it would be the last episode too, it wasn't like they were suddenly cancelled! Also it would have been appropriate to have all the old cast members come back in the finale, at least Michael who literally VANISHED when the actor that played him went on to continue his studies. Did he have a beef with the produces or something? As for Wendell, he seemed to have been fired because of a coke habit or something. One week you see him then POOF he's gone and never mentioned again. Kelly Perrine was OK in a goofy sort of way (he basically plays himself in everything he does), though he was a bit of a stretch as Robert's younger brother who was never mentioned before, what happened to the older brother who was a thief? All in all a good show, better than the utter S--T on TV now in general and on the WB in particular.

This show was more for the entire family because it was really a family oriented show but it really tanked when Wendell (Faizon Love) one of the best comedians left for no reason and the brought on robert's brother Kelly. Dont get me wrong now, Kelly was cool but he'll never be like Wendell.

When the frog said,": And after Sister Sister it's a brand new comedy on the w..w..w...wb. Get ready for The Parent' Hood" and I was one of the writers.