The Final Episode #139: The Hughley's (1998 - 2002)

 

So, as you know I finished off The Disney Afternoon. Or at least the shows I can do a Final Episode of. (I will probably talk about the very short lived Disney cartoons that were done in the 1990s in TV YOU FORGOT ABOUT. I have a decent amount of them to talk about). So I figured I needed to turn over to the other most important TV BLOCK of shows. Known as TGIF. I have talked about Boy Meets World, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Full House, Family Matters, Step By Step, and finally Dinosaurs. I have I believe four more shows to talk about and discuss their Final Episodes. Then I got a bunch of short lived shows that will be discussed over the next little while in the TV YOU FORGOT ABOUT series of blog posts. I can't wait to tell you all about Aliens in the Family because I guess that's the reason I was put on this planet for.

 You might be wondering what TGIF is? I mean that is you are a Zoomer or Generation Alpha CHILD that somehow found this blog. First off if you really are a GENERATION ALPHA CHILD, please leave. I say a lot of things that uh, no one should really have to read but REALLY no one under the age of 18 should read. but to answer the question to any adult (the fact there are adults out there who didn't enjoy the MAGIC of TGIF makes me feel like I am going to explode into a weird to the touch powder. Okay, enough of this clearly trying to make the paragraph bigger as to make it look like you actually put effort into this thing and didn't. TGIF was a block of shows on ABC that ran from I believe the late 1980s and too the year 2000. As you can see I have chosen a show from near the end of the run. We will discuss why in the next paragraph.

 I chose this one because uh I didn't really like it all that much and would like to get it over with. In 1998. I wasn't watching as much TGIF really. I remember watching Sabrina and that was about it. Boy Meets World decided it wanted to go too serious and I think this and some show I forget about were the only other ones. Family Matters was on CBS giving it one Final go and so did Step By Step. Yeah, CBS did their own TGIF like 8 or 9 years after ABC did it. Way to hit when the idea was on top and not clearly dying. I should be in management making the big bucks. I at least know when to FUCKING STRIKE WHEN THE IRON IS HOT YOU STUPID MORONS. Anyway The Hughley's was a sitcom based around D. L. Hughley a pretty unmemorable African American comedian. Seriously I will watch black youtubers talk about 90s nostalgic thigns because well it's neat to get a different school of thought on these things. I can't think of a single one of them who ever brought up Mr. Hughley. This is clearly one of those things I dig up out of the dirt of the past that should have been kept from the dirt but fucking hell if I had to watch this shit then you gotta listen to me talk about it! Best reasoning I can say is that this is a show starring black people that did not make it on UPN. I think that really says it all but I will type another insane amount of words about this crap because I clearly have nothing else to do.

The Final Episode was entitled "It's a Girl Part 1 and 2" Yes. We get a two parter. I mean the show I was planning on discussing first was a THREE PARTER and I was like yeah let's go with DARRYL HUGHLEY instead. The episode was written at least it says was written on IMDB by three guys. So let's discuss all of them. John D. Beck I think might be Canadian, I say this because his first writing gig was for Student Bodies, the High School comedy sitcom thing from Canada. I have no idea for sure though. He would work on According to Jim which was a TERRIBLE sitcom and I say this as like the one human being who likes Jim Belushi. I mean besides Jim Belushi. He then worked on some Disney Channel and or Nickelodeon (really they all seem so indistinguishable to me. I've been tempted to pick a few of each and just talk about them. I see so many YOUNGSTERS blathering on about them that I got a little curious. Probably won't happen but really who the hell knows?)  shows. Ron Hart wrote for some of the same shows at John so I'm guessing they might be some kind of writing partners or something. Maybe even real life partners. I don't fucking know or care. EARL RICHEY JONES who clearly has the best name of the bunch uh... worked on In Living Color and some terrible looking movie starring Cedric the Entertainer, which I probably will watch because I spend my time wisely.

 So I guess it's time to rip this bandage off. This episode is about THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION. I am one minute in and I already am not a fan of the character DARRYL HUGHLEY plays. He's what I like to call THE COMEDIC JERK. I think this might just be the hardest role to play. Sometimes a JERK character can be memorable and fun and you can't wait to see what they do next. Sometimes they just come off as abrasive and not fun to watch. I personally feel this character already comes off as abrasive and not fun. I do have to say that I kinda like his wife character. She has this "Jesus Christ why the fuck am I still married to this shithead" vibe going on. He's talking to his friend who is apparently named MILTSAP and if someone called me MILTSAP I would probably cry. What the fuck is up with that nickname? Anyway they are talking about REAL DEAL CAMILLE a woman who broke up with DEE JAY HUGHLEY.

Darryl being the NOT FUNNY Jerk that he is wants to rub it in her face and still cares about something that happened AT LEAST 15 years prior to this. He wants her to know that he's successful. He also says SHES PROBABLY FAT BLAH. I do not like his voice. It bothers me. Miltsap then talks to a lady named SHONDRA. she says that she got pregnant after the last reunion and he then puts two and two together and OH MY GOD MILTSAP IS A DADDY! Yes I am going to type the name MILTSAP as much as I possibly can. Fuck you. Oh hey it's the RANDOM WHITE GUY some of these shows had. I get the feeling they were pressured to put them in there. NO ONE COULD LIKE A SHOW WITH ALL BLACK PEOPLE JUST GRAB SOME RANDOM WHITE GUY AND SHOVE HIS ASS IN THERE. They did that because they don't care. Also apparently his name is MILLSAP but that's still really weird. Anyway they are at his house talking about his unknown daughter and MS. DEE JAY HUGHLEY talks about how she thinks its wild that SHONDRA never told you.

So his daughter comes ot the door and then says IM A GIRL I HAVE A GUGNIA. Or something like that. That causes the rest of the cast to walk out of his house leaving him to put up with this weird weird child. This is gonna be a rough fucking sit. OH MAN THIS KID GET THIS........ MAKES IT HARD FOR THIS GUY WHOS NEVER BEEN AROUND CHILDREN. OH MY. NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE. This was written by four people and literally feels like a random script a wanna be screenwriter writes at 15 just to try and write a TV Script.  OH MY GODDDD he gets a call from Shondra and she tells him she's not coming back! He's stuck with the CHILD who randomly talks about her guhgnia. Jesus Christ maybe I should have suffered through a third episode of the other show. God fuck this is miserable.

Darryl then lectures him that he needs to take care of this child that he just met and didn't know about at all. I'm not saying he should just throw her away to some foster home or orphanage or something but uh this was a REALLY FUCKING BIG THING TO GET DROPPED ON SOMEONE WILLY NILLY DEE JAY you SHITHEAD. Some other things happened before this but you could literally not talk about them and I won't.  I'm just amazed he's all like this during this VERY SERIOUS SHIT. Oh I dunno maybe his friend really isn't equipped to be a dad? Ever think of that DEE JAY? God. I'm also not saying his friend shouldn't try but maybe actually HELP your friend instead of being a DILDO. The Comedic Jerk is a really hard thing to pull of to be fair but I would not want to be around DEE JAY. Oh, we are bringing back the REAL DEAL CAMILLE plot. They really wanted to force this into two plots. It really feels like they had to turn this into two plots to make it feel like a big FINAL EPISODE but it really doesn't. It just feels like they are setting up for a season 5 that never came to be (thank the lord) 

So DEE JAY's wife has to work and he's off to see CAMILLE. He even bothers her about being JEALOUS and stuff and I'm like GOD I HATE YOU. Oh good now SHONDRA came back and is now arguing with MILLSAP. They try to make her sound a bit better for what she did and all but she still comes off as a SHITHEAD. everyone in this show is a SHITHEAD but they are also NOT FUNNY.  Beavis and Butthead were SHITHEADS but at least funny things happened to them or were caused by them. These guys do nothing. NOTHING. I hate them all. So we go back to DEE JAY at the SECOND NIGHT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION. I do not think that happens. I did not go to any of my High School Reunions. I do not even know if any happened. I just stayed away and will continue to do so. I never really interacted with many people and they all thought I was probably MENTALLY DISABLED or something.

So he's at the dance and guess what... Camille is there and she's not fat or toothless like he thought. He's like WOW SHE'S TILL SUPER HOT and I'm like bro you're married and not even that you're married to a woman who is clearly more attractive. I don't really like getting up on peoples looks because I look like Larry from the Three Stooges became a cannibal and ate Curly. I do not and should not try to judge anyone but I will here. This Camille woman is not as hot as your wife. She's okay. I guess.  You know how with a lot of cartoons and sitcoms and hell even stuff that wasn't that you could tell OH SHIT THEY AREN'T GONNA FINISH THIS OFF THIS EPISODE and you had to come back next week like I think this might be the least interesting TO BE CONTINUED of all time. I just do not give a flying hot fuck. or a cold fuck or any kind of a fuck. I cared more about the Care Bears getting out of some trouble in their Christmas Special more than this!

So I guess here is the SECOND PART. Of this WILD SHIT. you see the BIG ENDING of the last episode is that HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND KISSED HIM and.................HE LIKED IT. Wow! I am so exicited to see how this concludes. Also it seems that MILLSAP is becoming a dad and maybe liking it.  Yep. I'm all enthralled and can't wait to be sarcastic and sassy to this episode too. She asks about Camille and HE ACTS GOOFY AND AWKWARD and she clearly knows now that something is going on. Cool. I hope she stabs him in the dick and thats how this show ends. Now he's talking ot his friends MILLSAP and RANDOM WHITE MAN. RANDOM WHITE MAN looks like the kinda guy you'd hire to be a henchman in an action movie where the bad guys are white supremacists. Anyway MILLSAP's kid is there and I bet she blabs about the kiss to DEE JAY's kids. If this is not what happens I'll I dunno eat my hat. I'll have to buy one first though.

 Some character I don't know is going to COLLEGE. OH MAN. She's now happy to be out of that house and free. OH NO AN ANNOYING NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR CHARACTER IS IN HER DORM. AHHH. I think this lady was on another sitcom because she looks familiar, but I am not wasting the time to find out who she is. I do not want to know more about THE HUGHLEYS then is completely necessary. No more. Just THIS. Oh said college girl is DEE JAY'S niece. I think the COLLEGE NEIGHBOR is actually Angela from Boy Meets World. I wish I was watching Boy Meets World instead of this. Oh man do I. Anyway DEE JAY'S NIECE is annoyed by her cousins and WOW THEY COME TO VISIT. What a great side plot I can't wait to not talk any more about until I jam the conclusion into the end paragraph. 

Yeah they were clearly setting up WILD STUFF for PLOTS for the fifth season. I really think they no season five isnt happening, go away had to happen before they had time to make a real Final Episode. It's not like I care that these characters didn't get a good send off because I'm never going to watch or hopefully think of the Hughley's ever again after this. OH MY GUESS WHAT I WAS RIGHT. THE GIRL DID SPILL THE BEANS!!! wow I know this stuff isn't rocket science but maybe have some surprises in the episode for people. I dunno. Maybe I'm being too mean to the Hughley's. I will feel that way until DEE JAY shows up and I just hate it all again.  The two of them will yell and scream and then forgive each other. Cool. SHE ACTUALLY TELLS HIM TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE. It's half way through the episode. Will this end on a cliffhanger???

 OH NO HIS WIFE WENT TO THE HOTEL THAT HIS EX IS ALSO AT!!! the one he just left!!! oh no!!!  His wife and CAMIEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEE oh god I'm starting to talk like BILL COSBY OH SHIT WATCH OUT. She tells him when he learnt she was there he left and that he loves her. Wow. Oh no he's now at his nieces and she said she was at at concert so her stupid cousins would leave her alone. I don't think MR KISSING OTHER WOMEN gets to sass anyone for lying. Anyway she gets him to go back him to make up with her and WOW she came here to talk to him! Oh man! Thankfully this shit seems to be over with. There's a joke after this but I don't care enough to talk about it.  

I haven't seen them all but I am very sure that this is the worst TGIF show to last longer than a season. Hell the 892 that only lasted a season were probably better than this. This was just terrible. Awful. ATROCIOUS. ANNOYING and I did not enjoy my time with this. This was a show I didn't really like to watch at fifteen and I certainly don't like watching it now at forty.

FINAL THOUGHTS: D.L. Hughley might be the luckiest man alive. You see in 1996 or 1997 or whenever, CBS bought out FAMILY MATTERS and STEP BY STEP for their last season which ended up making ABC scramble for new shows. They made two TEEN ANGEL and YOU WISH which yes, I'm sure I'll do something with. I did like both of those shows when I was like twelve.  Those shows failed and ABC had to scramble YET AGAIN and pick up The Hughley's. I do not think this show would be a thing if ABC didn't have to scramble over and over for something. I hope I never have to think about D.L. Hughley again. Original King of Comedy my ass.