Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) Everybody Hates the BFD (2008) User Reviews

"There was some place I wanted to be, but I was right where I needed to be"

[pedroedro · 8/10 · 19 March 2020]

In this episode we follow FOUR storylines, I know it doesn't feel like four paralell stories but it definetly is: 1. Chris borrows money from his dad to go to a concert of Run DMC with Greg. 2 Chris , in order to pay his father, takes a scholarship about funeral homes. 3 - Julius asks Tanya to wrap up money for him. 4 - Rochelle has an accident with her arm when she is about so smack Drew, but she overdoes it. I actually adore this episode, I think the episodes with Mr. Omar can become very predictable, but in this one it felt good and he was very funny "it's not about mourning the death it's about conforting the living" as he puts it. Tanya/Julius storyline doesn't really go anywhere and it brought the episodes down a couple of notches, there was only three scenes and no real point, we were just made to believe Julius thought Tanya capable of stealing because she wraps up the quarters in a different way, and lefts money behind, but she ends up giving him the money which she intend to do all along, so no real point in this one , if it was totally cut off the episode would be fine. Rochelle's story was funny, Tichina Arnold is always great . The real heart of this story is Chris's, it really seems like an ordinary 6/10 episode up until the end when he is stopped by a widow who wants to talk about her late husband, at first I thought "Ok, here we go, now she makes him lose the concert, and Chris misses the concert and that's the bad ending every episode has to have for Chris." But no, although that's precisely what happens, the way it happens it's so hearfelt, Chris really endears the widow and learns more in that night than in any concert he would've gone to, really great acting as well here, the sentence "There was some place I wanted to be, but I was right where I needed to be" really says a lot. In the end of course Chris finds out that the concert was a blast (if he would have gone it would've been horrible, that's the way the show works). Also the very ending? I saw that coming a mile away, right off the bat in the beggining of the episode when Chris said that he was doing that to get the money , I knew in the end in some way he wouldn't get it, or he would get but it would get stolen, something like that, that's how predictable these endings can be, whatever Chris is planning doesn't work, it's the journey that matters. Besides all of that, a great episode, mainly for one scene that completly elevates what would otherwise have been a run of the mill episode. MVP: Chris. 8/10 ******** Peter Shelby

A very touching episode

[xaquetv · 10/10 · 3 May 2008]

This episode was moving, funny, and well-written. I was especially touched by the final scenes in the funeral home between Chris and Mrs. Mitchell. They had a rapport that felt real, and rare in situation comedies. Every scene with Mr. Omar was hysterical, as was "toast for dinner" and spraying the asbestos to save money on heat.

Tachina Arnold, as always, proves she's one of the brightest talents working in television comedy today. Her scenes were outrageously funny. Of all the episodes of "Everybody Hates Chris" that have aired this year, I think this one was the most compelling and emotional.

Tender, heartfelt, and genuine. Nice job!