Parent 'Hood Boned the Fish When...

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The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired from 1995 until 1999 on The WB. The series starred Robert Townsend and Suzzanne Douglass. The Parent 'Hood, along with The Wayans Bros., Sister, Sister, Unhappily Ever After and Muscle were the first four programs to be aired on the upstart WB network in January 1995 (with The Parent 'Hood being the second to end its run).

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  from day one this show was the crappiest show ever, with robert townsends brief cooooorrrnnny daydreams of his kids. This show was so stupid I can go on for hours, this show took cheap attempts at being funny and warm, my god. Robert townsend is way overreated.
  The Parent 'Hood was a good show for its first few years but it came close to jumping when eldest brother Michael left and was replaced by TK, who was an all right character. But, IMO, the show made a big jump for its last 13 episodes when Wendell left and Robert's little brother Kelly (Kelly Perrine) came aboard. He was lackluster compared to Wendell.
  How stupid can you possibly get? Those daydreams suck, the whole cast is annoying, its stupid, and the little boy is extremely annoying.
  Michael Peterson was the funniest person in the family. He was smart, cute and I missed him when the show returned and he wasn't there. He was funny with his sister Zaria, they were partners in crime. The two of them were always getting into trouble and trying to cover-up for each other. His little funny, funny brother Nicholas was fat, funny and you could see he adored his older brother. The little smart a** CeCe was adorable. She was so grown and thought her older brother was a god! Yeah, they should have kept, the older brother in the family. I would have loved to see what would have happened in that house-hold when they brought on the supposedly bad guy who was really a good-guy. You go figure. Also, they had a real funny guy on the first season, who disappeared in the second season. He was Robert's best friend. He was a real fool. Then they brought on two fools, I can't remember their names, but one was fat and the other was skinny a real comedy team , Oh well, Maybe that older brother will show up on another show. I hope so!
  It was good when it premiered in 1984. Of course then it was known as "The Cosby Show".
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  When Wendell left. He kept the show lighthearted even when it became too preachy.
  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.
  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?
  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.

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The Parent 'Hood was never that great of a show, but it probably boned the fish when the son left and they replaced him with T.K.

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Originally Posted by SitcomsOffline

The Parent 'Hood was never that great of a show, but it probably boned the fish when the son left and they replaced him with T.K.

I do agree that The Parent 'Hood wasn't really that great of a show to begin with (it was basically, a really poor man's attempt at doing The Cosby Show for the '90s). I think when T.K. came in, The Parent 'Hood turned into a lightweight, more "Afterschool Special" version of Roc. The problem I have w/ a guy like Robert Townsend (and this is most evident in stuff like The Meteor Man, which he did post his partnership w/ Keenan Ivory Wayans), is that he his so caught up in wanting to deliver his skewed view of wisdom (Townsend was pretty much the Tyler Perry of the late '80s early '90s), that it completely gets in the way of creating otherwise solid entertainment.