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The PJs

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63 feature instances
36 referencing feature instances

The PJs	type	TVTItem
The PJs	label	The PJs
The PJs	page	ThePJs
The PJs	comment	The PJs (Short for "The Projects") is a Stop Motion television sitcom created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins, and produced for Imagine Television and Touchstone Television that ran from 1999-2001. The show centers around Thurgood Stubbs (voiced by Murphy in the first two seasons, Phil Morris in the third season), the superintendent of a housing project in a fictional city modeled after Chicago. It is best remembered for its unique use of claymationnote Courtesy of Will Vinton Studios, for which this was their Swan Song prior to their reformation as Laika. when most animated primetime shows still relied on hand-drawn animation.It lasted for two seasons on FOX, after which the show was canceled. Then, The WB swooped in and gave the show one more season before it was canceled for good due to high production costs.The third season of The PJs had a number of major changes in production, with the most notable being the recasting of Thurgood Stubbs due to Murphy leaving the series over contractual disputes, as well being involved in other projects at the time. Other notable changes include smaller production budget, outsourcing from Will Vinton Studios to Charged Productions, and Disney having no involvement in the third season, as they were uninterested in making a third season. As a consequence, the season was co-produced by The WB's production arm Warner Bros. Television in Disney's place (Warner Bros. eventually agreed to give the rights to the third season to Disney in order to settle ownership claims).Not to be confused with characters wearing PJs.
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The PJs / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The PJs / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: One-shot character Deke "The Physique" Van Owen, the ex-professional wrestler turned senator in "Let's Get Ready to Crumble", is based on Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
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The PJs / int_17b30e42	type	Pro Wrestling Episode
The PJs / int_17b30e42	comment	Pro Wrestling Episode: "Let's Get Ready To Crumble"; Thurgood reveals that he used to wrestle for the NWA back in the days before the WWE (still known as the World Wrestling Federation when the episode aired) rose to prominence. Not the National Wrestling Alliance, the Negro Wrestling Alliance! He ends up coming out of retirement to face Governor Deke "The Physique" Van Owen, an Expy of Jesse Ventura, to decide the fate of the Projects.
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The PJs / int_1d6ac70d	type	Dagwood Sandwich
The PJs / int_1d6ac70d	comment	Dagwood Sandwich: In the episode "A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Super" Thurgood contemplates eating one before compacting it to fit his mouth. But then he says. "Muriel, I think the mayonnaise has gone bad."
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The PJs	hasFeature	The PJs / int_1d6ac70d
The PJs / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The PJs / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The Christmas Episode is framed as Walter telling a guy he's just arrested the story of Thurgood learning the true meaning of Christmas.
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The PJs / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The PJs / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Thurgood can never get resources he wants/needs out of the lady behind the window at the HUD. She always ends sentences to him with "NEXT!" even if there's nobody in line behind him. (There's a reason their slogan is "Keeping you in the projects for over 30 years.") The HUD Lady, however, is much nicer to Muriel.
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The PJs / int_234c6fad	type	Deep-Fried Whatever
The PJs / int_234c6fad	comment	Deep-Fried Whatever: While Thurgood already loves his fried food, it's taken to a comical extreme in "He's Got To Have It", when he's trying to get his blood pressure up to qualify for a drug trial, and Muriel serves him a meal consisting of "chicken-fried steak fried chicken, beer-battered fish (no fish, extra batter), and a fried salad".
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The PJs / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
The PJs / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode: "Journal Fever" where Muriel comes down with the flu and Thurgood agrees to take care of her.
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The PJs / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The PJs / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Thurgood, from time to time.
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The PJs / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
The PJs / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Outside of special occasions, the characters always wear the same outfits.
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The PJs / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The PJs / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: The street thugs who were frequent antagonists.
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The PJs / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The PJs / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: In "What's Eating Juicy Hudson?", Thurgood is asked to look after Juicy. They take to building a treehouse and doing other activities together, which causes Juicy to regard Thurgood as a better father figure than his actual father. Amid the ensuing friction, Thurgood tries to mend fences and convinces Mr. Hudson to step outside as a show of good faith.
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The PJs / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
The PJs / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: The projects which are crime-ridden and rundown to the extreme, though they have their good spots where the residents have worked together to create something out of the squalor.
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The PJs / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
The PJs / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: With a truck backing up.
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The PJs / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The PJs / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Emilio Sanchez, who's by far the biggest whipping boy in the entire projects.
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The PJs / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
The PJs / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: Every woman in the cast, most notably Muriel's sister and the lady at HUD.
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The PJs / int_5202e4a5	type	Confidentiality Betrayal
The PJs / int_5202e4a5	comment	Confidentiality Betrayal: In "Boyz 'n the Woods" Thurgood tells a ghost story on the spot to try and scare Calvin and Juicy, as part of an effort to salvage an already lackluster camping trip. He refers to Red Moley as "the bastard son of a hundred maniacs", to which his friend Walter Burkett protests by saying "Thurgood, I told you about my childhood in complete confidence!" In "Weave's Have a Dream", Muriel lets it slip that Bebe had sex with an exotic dancer the night before her wedding to Jimmy, not realizing that Tarnell is behind her getting his hair permed. She begs Tarnell not to say anything, which he does before yelling after Mrs. Avery. Muriel protests that she told Tarnell that in complete confidence, before admitting that Bebe trusted her with that secret. This sets in motion a feud between the two sisters.
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The PJs / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
The PJs / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: While demonstrating his new cleaning solution in "Miracle Cleaner on 134th Street", Thurgood intentionally dumps the ashes of Sanchez's late wife onto Sanchez's floor, then cleans them up with the solution.
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The PJs / int_5a6aeb9e	type	How the Character Stole Christmas
The PJs / int_5a6aeb9e	comment	How the Character Stole Christmas: In "How the Super Stoled Christmas" Thurgood becomes a repo man so he can earn enough money to buy his wife a computer. Since residents of the projects have recently quit paying their bills on new items, his job becomes quite easy.
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The PJs / int_5fcb3c79	type	Golden Snitch
The PJs / int_5fcb3c79	comment	Golden Snitch: The gumbo contest from "Operation Gumbo Drop"; the contest has several events, including a quiz, artistic interpretation and a stage show, all of which Thurgood dominates... only for the final event, the gumbo cook-off, to make up 95% of the total score, making the rest of the competition a complete waste of time.
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The PJs / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The PJs / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Juicy. In early episodes his mother has to affix a "Do Not Feed" sign on him when he goes out. This is ironic, as both his parents are so fat they literally can't leave their apartment (though perhaps they were hoping he wouldn't reach their extreme state).
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The PJs / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The PJs / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While Thurgood's laziness doesn't help, his argument that he has very few resources for the upkeep of the Hilton Jacobs building is absolutely true; HUD gives him little to work with (to the point where he had to resort to burglary just to get a new water filter in one episode), and the fact that they live in a crime-ridden ghetto means that many of the improvements Thurgood could do to the building would just be stolen, as seen in "The Door".
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The PJs / int_6e95f5c1	type	Nutritional Nightmare
The PJs / int_6e95f5c1	comment	Nutritional Nightmare: Intentionally invoked with Thurgood's deepfried dinner in "He's Gotta Have It", but also applies to his regular diet, such as deep-fried smothered pork chop sandwiches, and chocolate milk made with Coco Puffs.
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The PJs / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The PJs / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "How the Super Stoled Christmas". See below.
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The PJs / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The PJs / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Tarnel
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The PJs / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The PJs / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Several. Muriel calls Thurgood "Goodie" on occasion. The other tenants (and Smokey) refer to him as "Super." "Smokey" itself is one; his real name is Elister. Thurgood tends to call him "Crackhead", and called him "Mr. Crack" and "Mr. Crackhead" in early episodes. Garcelle Dupree, a Haitian mambo, is usually referred to as "Haiti Lady", though she tends to take offense to that name.
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The PJs / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The PJs / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Zigzagged when two cops accost Thurgood during a blizzard. They clearly intend to do this, but neither wants to get out of their warm patrol car to rough him up in the bitter cold. They instead order him, via the car's loudspeaker, to frisk himself, slap himself around, beat himself up, and make it look like a black-on-black assault, followed by an open-mike discussion of whether that technically would make it a black-on-black assault.
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The PJs / int_77aae115	type	Hated by All
The PJs / int_77aae115	comment	Hated by All: Just about every adult in the projects sans Muriel hates Thurgood's guts.
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The PJs / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The PJs / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Parodied for all it's worth in "Robbin' HUD", when we meet a never before mentioned Token White guy named Buster. Who is along for One Last Job and just had a baby. You can guess what happens.
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The PJs / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
The PJs / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Played with in "The HJs" when Juicy finds a copy of Bicentennial Nigger in the radio station, Thurgood complains that they can't even say the name of the album, let alone play it, because of "African-American pleas" while the cover itself is given some screen time completely intact.
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The PJs / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The PJs / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: The Corrupt Corporate Executive in "Miracle Cleaner On 134th Street". Also the recurring HUD-lady that is mean to Thurgood, but quite pleasant to Muriel. Rasta Man, who is often either behind a door or covered up by his familiar cloud of ganja smoke.
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The PJs / int_7d791b62	type	Rewind, Replay, Repeat
The PJs / int_7d791b62	comment	Rewind, Replay, Repeat: In "Operation: Gumbo Drop", Thurgood discovers that Muriel taped over his "happy tape" (a recording of O.J Simpsons aquittal) to film a documentary about the projects. When he realizes that the footage contains Juicy making his own Gumbo (Thurgood's main conflict in the episode), he decides to take advantage of this and use the tape to study Juicy's cooking methods.
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The PJs / int_82956594	type	To Be Continued... Right Now
The PJs / int_82956594	comment	To Be Continued... Right Now: "Cliffhangin' with Mr. Super", a parody of Cliffhanger episodes, looks like it's about to end as one, with several different plot threads still needing to be resolved... only for the "scenes from next season's PJs" to end up resolving them all by way of exposition.
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The PJs / int_83ea0763	type	Rouge Angles of Satin
The PJs / int_83ea0763	comment	Rouge Angles of Satin: In the Christmas episode, Thurgood explains why he paid for all his friends' back payments on their rented stuff because "there's no 'I' in 'friendship'". And in another he leaves a director a note that says he won't get his "flim" back. When the government wants to offer residents free flu shots, Thurgood insists that "Flu" is like "Ful", which you'd be if you trust the government. The episode ends with him having written a Wheel of Fortune puzzle in Muriel's diary that turns out to be "I Luv Yuu"
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The PJs / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
The PJs / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: It's never said what city they live in, all the police cars says Metro Police Department on them. The projects is modeled after Brewster-Douglas public housing projects in Detroit, and the city seems to be an Ambiguous mix of Detroit, Harlem, and Chicago. Mrs. Avery does mention Cook County in one episode, where Chicago is.
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The PJs / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
The PJs / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: Season 3's "Scarthroat". When Sanchez becomes the only resident of the projects to prepare for Y2K, Thurgood and the other residents have to take his rations of supplies when a power outage and food shortage hits the projects.
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The PJs / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The PJs / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Inverted in the episode "Robbin' HUD" where a one-shot Token White character is the first and only one to die.
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The PJs / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
The PJs / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Mrs. Avery.
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The PJs / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The PJs / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Mrs. Avery has a stroke at least Once an Episode, and is still kicking.
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The PJs / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
The PJs / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Thurgood and Smokey's "Who's on Crack" routine from "The HJs": It ends up becoming their most popular skit, and is the most requested at the fundraiser performance in the end.
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The PJs / int_a1257d6	type	Fat Best Friend
The PJs / int_a1257d6	comment	Fat Best Friend: Juicy.
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The PJs / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The PJs / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Combined with Inherently Funny Words. Thurgood is working on a stand up act and the book he got on how to be funny says things in threes are funny, as well as words with a hard k (like knish, tukas, fakakta). He logically assumes then that the funniest thing ever is KKK.
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The PJs / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
The PJs / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: One of the biggest sources of comedy in the series, especially in the first two seasons. The Hilton-Jacobs projects are almost 60 years old, and have barely seen any upkeep during that time, not helped by HUD's shoestring budgets and Thurgood's laziness. It has features such as ventilation pipes held on by tape, ledges held on by gum, doors put up with plastic twist ties, asbestos insulation, safety levers held in place with paint cans, and a nuclear-powered furnace, which almost went critical in one episode.
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The PJs / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The PJs / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In the Christmas Episode, Thurgood is surprised by a little girl seeing him repossess goods and asked what he's doing.
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The PJs / int_b6738eed	type	Hint Dropping
The PJs / int_b6738eed	comment	Hint Dropping: Subverted in the Christmas Episode. Muriel drops repeated hints about wanting a computer as a present, but Thurgood acts completely clueless (such as claiming she wants some cheapo CDs). After an irritated Muriel storms off, Thurgood demonstrates he was just messing with her, so he sets out to find a way to get her what she wants. He admits to Walter that this is the first time he ever successfully picked up the hint.
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The PJs / int_b6db5695	type	Political Overcorrectness
The PJs / int_b6db5695	comment	Political Overcorrectness: Parodied in "The HJ's" when Thurgood shows Richard Pryor's album Bicentennial Nigger to Calvin after finding it in the old projects radio station, and says they can't even say the name of the album anymore.
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The PJs / int_b9fb7790	type	When Elders Attack
The PJs / int_b9fb7790	comment	When Elders Attack: Florence Normandy Avery has shown time and again why you shouldn't mess with her. She even has a gun, which Thurgood finds out the hard way.
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The PJs / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The PJs / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: In the Christmas Episode, Thurgood takes a repo job to pay for Muriel's present (a computer). He does it fine with random tenants he doesn't know very well, but he's reluctant to repossess the stuff belonging to his actual friends. He's about to forget the whole thing and return the computer, but then Muriel stumbles onto him with it and is ecstatic. Thurgood is left torn, as he doesn't want to hose his friends or disappoint his wife. The choice becomes a lot easier when he thinks his friends actually stiffed him on tips, only to learn later that they were pooling money to buy him a gift.
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The PJs / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The PJs / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Thurgood. It's not uncommon for him to ruin good opportunities for the other tenants just because it disagrees with him in some way. Played with in the episode where Muriel beats down a criminal (including shoving a hot comb up his ass) and has him arrested, but everyone thinks it was Thurgood. He goes along with it because the tenants are actually respecting him for the first time, but then the criminal's brother comes looking for revenge and kidnaps him. Muriel sees them but doesn't realize the situation, and casually brags about beating down that crook. Thurgood begs the brother not to listen to her and that he was the one who did it. She outshouts him...Gilligan Cut to her tied up along with him.
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The PJs / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Played with in the episode where Muriel beats down a criminal (including shoving a hot comb up his ass) and has him arrested, but everyone thinks it was Thurgood. He goes along with it because the tenants are actually respecting him for the first time, but then the criminal's brother comes looking for revenge and kidnaps him. Muriel sees them but doesn't realize the situation, and casually brags about beating down that crook. Thurgood begs the brother not to listen to her and that he was the one who did it. She outshouts him...Gilligan Cut to her tied up along with him.
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The PJs / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
The PJs / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: The subtitle for the HUD building changes with every appearance.
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The PJs / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The PJs / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "Cliffhangin' with Mr. Super", Fry is shown as missing on the back of Thurgood's milk carton. This was a response to an episode of Futurama featuring the show's Title Card manhole cover. In "Miracle Cleaner On 134th Street", Thurgood called one of the Corrupt Corporate Executive's bodyguards Mushmouth. The Hilton-Jacobs Projects are named after Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, the actor who played Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington on Welcome Back, Kotter. I'M KING OF THE WORLD!!!
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The PJs / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The PJs / int_cbe687ab	comment	In "Miracle Cleaner On 134th Street", Thurgood called one of the Corrupt Corporate Executive's bodyguards Mushmouth.
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The PJs / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The PJs / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: By a very slim margin, but the show toned down quite a bit of its humor for its move to the WB in the third season.
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The PJs / int_d01a97fb	comment	E = MC Hammer: Actually written by Thurgood in an attempt to prepare for school. His second attempt read, "E=McNuggets"
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The PJs / int_d8085f48	type	Hollywood Voodoo
The PJs / int_d8085f48	comment	Garcelle Dupree, a Haitian mambo, is usually referred to as "Haiti Lady", though she tends to take offense to that name.
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The PJs / int_dae3844e	type	Hidden Disdain Reveal
The PJs / int_dae3844e	comment	Hidden Disdain Reveal: In "Survival: In tha hood" Mrs. Avery goes into what seems to be a hours long rant over how she completely hates Calvin while mistaking Juicy for him.
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The PJs / int_eb6912	type	Pretty Fly for a White Guy
The PJs / int_eb6912	comment	Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Well, Jimmy's Asian, but he still fits the bill. He acts this way due to being the illegitimate son of a U.S soldier who was supposedly black, though it's revealed in season 3 that he was actually native-american.
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The PJs / int_ec4585b2	type	Delivery Guy
The PJs / int_ec4585b2	comment	Delivery Guy: "What's Eating Juicy Hudson?" reveals that Thurgood was this for Juicy. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson didn't even know she was pregnant, until she went into labor, so they couldn't even try to get to the hospital. Thurgood had to step in, after Mrs. Avery fainted, and he actually managed quite nicely.
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The PJs / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
The PJs / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: Despite being married for decades and Muriel's blatant sex drive, Thurgood and Muriel have no children due to Thurgood having "lazy sperm" that causes a level of impotence according to Muriel. However, Thurgood did manage to unintentionally impregnate Muriel's sister after accidentally sleeping with her while drunk.
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The PJs / int_f8702398	type	Economy Cast
The PJs / int_f8702398	comment	Economy Cast: The Hilton-Jacobs housing projects is a large, multi-story building that's part of a complex of three other buildings. And yet we never see anyone besides the dozen or so characters that make up the main cast (aside from some brief glimpses of other tenants in the Christmas Episode).
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The PJs / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
The PJs / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: In "Miracle Cleaner On 134th Street", Thurgood isn't getting that the Corrupt Corporate Executive wants him to keep quiet about the addictive additive in Thurgood's cleaning spray until he explicitly stated it.
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The PJs / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
The PJs / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Sometimes the characters try to be upstanding citizens and hate being associated with ghetto stereotypes, and other times they happily embody those stereotypes to a T. Sometimes the tenants of the Hilton-Jacobs are a close knit group and other times they hate one another.
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