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Special Features
- 22 episodes from the 2005-06 season on four discs
- Everybody Hates the Making of Everybody Hates Chris
- Everybody Hates the Set
- Everybody Hates Video Cameras
- Everybody Hates the Music
- Everybody Hates Tichina's Theme Song
- Everybody Hates Ali's Photos
- Everybody Hates Bloopers
- Deleted Scenes
- Auditions
Editorial Reviews
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Beginning with its assured pilot episode, it's love at first sight for Everybody Hates Chris. This loosely autobiographical family sitcom has a distinctive voice (belonging to co-creator Chris Rock, who also serves as narrator) and a strong sense of time (1982-83) and place (Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood). For Chris (the winning Tyler James Williams), turning 13 is anything but a wonder year. He is the only black kid in an all-white junior high school (to which he is bused) that offers him "not a Harvard-type education, just not a sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education." At school, he is befriended by the geeky Greg (Vincent Martella), and mercilessly tormented by the red-haired bully Joey Caruso (Travis T. Flory). At home, his father, Julius, (former NFL player Terry Crews) works two jobs to make ends meet, and knows the cost of everything ("That's 49 cents of spilt milk on my table"). His mother, Rochelle (Tichina Arnold), also works part-time and knows "100 recipes for whooping ass." Chris is often called upon to be "the emergency adult" to his younger brother, Drew (Tequan Richmond), who is taller than Chris and better at everything from karate to girls, and his younger sister, Tonya (Imani Hakim), who is Daddy's favorite and delights in getting Chris into trouble.
While Chris's family is much more functional than Roseanne's clan, it, too, etches a vivid portrait of a family struggling to get by, as when Rochelle explains to Julius the "debt system" of paying bills. But most of the humor is universal, from Chris's life-changing discovery of his father's Playboy magazine to his anxiety over Picture Day at school. Everybody Hates Chris also manages to show the love without being mawkishly sentimental. In the pilot, narrator Rock notes that his father didn't express his feelings, but as he was only one of four fathers on the block, his "'I'll see you in the morning' meant he'd be coming home. And that was his way of saying, 'I love you.'" --Donald Liebenson
Product Description
Inspired by his childhood experiences, comedian Chris Rock narrates the hilarious, touching story of a teenager growing up as the eldest of children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is one of the funniest shows around. I really love it. Chris Rock narrates, while actors act out the story of his childhood when he was 13 years old. It's about Chris and his family moving out of the projects and making a new start. Chris goes to school by himself to a good school in an Italian neighborhood (a real long haul) while his two siblings (younger brother Drew and younger sister Tonya go to their same school) so he has to learn to fight new battles as he tries to fit in. His first day there he faces a bully but also makes a new friend Greg (who couldn't win a fight if he tried). Back at home there is his dad Julius (played by the hilarious Terry Crews) and his take-no-nonsense mum Rochelle. His dad is really tight and tries to save money wherever he can and however he can.
All the episodes are called Everyone Hates The ... and each episode keeps getting better and better. To me, my favourite is episode 7 called Everyone Hates The Babysitter. Julius and Rochelle decide to have a date night and hire this girl to babysit the three kids. She always leaves the house to take care of her business. That in itself is funny but then Julius and Rochelle are at a restaurant that doesn't accept their coupon and the restaurant gets robbed.
It's such a great show and you will be in stitches watching it. Chris Rock narrates perfectly and you can see his life coming to life in each episode. I love it and hope you enjoy it and are as entertained by it as much as I am. I can't wait to get my copy.
All the episodes are called Everyone Hates The ... and each episode keeps getting better and better. To me, my favourite is episode 7 called Everyone Hates The Babysitter. Julius and Rochelle decide to have a date night and hire this girl to babysit the three kids. She always leaves the house to take care of her business. That in itself is funny but then Julius and Rochelle are at a restaurant that doesn't accept their coupon and the restaurant gets robbed.
It's such a great show and you will be in stitches watching it. Chris Rock narrates perfectly and you can see his life coming to life in each episode. I love it and hope you enjoy it and are as entertained by it as much as I am. I can't wait to get my copy.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A Kid's Review
Format:DVD
everybody hates chris is the best serie i've ever seen the best thing is that it is so real. In the normal live it happens like this and the people chosen for the video have the right faces for their personage when watching the serie you feel like it's real, i want to know if their are more videos of everybody hates chris, if not it would be fine to make some more seasons before teh boys grow up.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Comedian Chris Rock created Everyone Hates Chris. This show is a cross between American Graffitti and The Wonder Years.
What makes this show funny is the reason The Wonder Years were funny. A family show covering LIFE, real life-where there is so much humor.
It is worth it-YES. The humor crosses color lines and is worth it
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
What makes this show funny is the reason The Wonder Years were funny. A family show covering LIFE, real life-where there is so much humor.
It is worth it-YES. The humor crosses color lines and is worth it
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Expectations met!
I purchased this item for my grandson who really enjoys that sitcom. It has met all of our expectations.
I would recommend this package to other people.
I would recommend this package to other people.
Published 1 month ago by SKEPTIC
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best show known to me!
I absolutely LOVE Everybody Hates Chris...& love even more the fact that I was able to purchase the first season at such a wonderful price. Read more
Published on February 22, 2011 by ankleblackrose
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Fun, family entertainment
These are the first shows of Everybody Hates Chris. We've been watching this show since it first came out. Read more
Published on December 30, 2010 by Rosebud
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Speedy
My first time ordering with Amazon.com. And the DVD I ordered was in great condition and it only took 2 days to be received after it was shipped. Read more
Published on September 13, 2010 by honeybee
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DVD order
The dvd's were all in perfect condition and worked well.
Great laughs at a great price!
Great laughs at a great price!
Published on March 11, 2010 by Tiny Titan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Everyabody Hates Chris - The Frist Season - AWESOME!!!
I purchased the First Season of Everybody Hates Chris for my 13 year old son. He ABSOLUTELY LOVES THIS SHOW and has watched the DVD's over and over. Read more
Published on January 4, 2010 by C. L. Bolling
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funny perspective for a sitcom. Talented cast. Good Fun. : )
I bought season one of "Everybody Hates Chris" used at a pawn shop. The lady at the pawn shop let me have the first season for FIVE DOLLARS, so if I hated the show I wouldn't be... Read more
Published on November 25, 2009 by R. Long
5.0 out of 5 stars
very funny, kind and human...
i really liked this one - reminds me of my childhood, brings a lot of fun and warmth inside...actin crew is fantastic and real. thanks guys!
Published on October 30, 2009 by Denis Aksenov
5.0 out of 5 stars
Full of laughs...
I enjoyed watching these episodes - since I missed most of them when they were broadcast. Funny content - especially the penny-pinching dad.
Published on July 7, 2008 by A. Wathel
5.0 out of 5 stars
The first year of Chris Rock's "autobiographical" Emmy-worthy series
Tyler James Williams has the title role in this comedy gem, now in its second year on the CW Network. Read more
Published on May 20, 2007 by Reginald D. Garrard
