Everybody Hates Chris, Season 1

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Julius:
Rochelle, I feel bad enough about not working. I don't need you around here complaining about how I do things.

Rochelle:
[Shrugs] Well, if you did things right, I wouldn't have to complain.

Julius:
Half the stuff around here I do better than you! [Rochelle pauses while eating] It ain't that hard!

[Rochelle looks at him]

Chris:
[Narrating]] My father was the oldest of ten brothers and sisters. He had been cooking and cleaning all of his life. But even if the job wasn't that hard, he's not supposed to say it.

Julius:
What? You got somethin' to say? [Rochelle smiles and stands up]

[A warning message reading, "Warning! The following scene contains language of a frank and explicit nature. Viewer discreation is advised." appears on screen as a narrator reads it out loud]

Rochelle:
Well, ain't this about a bitch?! [Cuts to outside of house as Rochelle is heard inside yelling. Crashes can be heard. People outside stop.] Are you crazy?! You do my job for one day, and now it ain't that damn hard?! You bacon-frying, biscuit-baking, pancake-making, bald-headed bastard! [Time card reading, "One Hour Later", appears] You must think I'm crazy! You can kiss my "Ain't-That-Hard" ass! [Cuts to Rochelle inside] Have you LAWST yo mind?! [She leaves the room]

Chris:
[narrating] And that was my mother's way of letting him of easy.

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  • kellen_k
    What episode was that?
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