The BEST episodes of The Hughleys
Every episode of The Hughleys ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Hughleys!
Darryl Hughley moved his family from the inner city to the suburbs, and the neighborhood hasn't been the same since. Part Archie Bunker, part George Jefferson; with an opinion about everything, Darryl Hughley knows exactly why he moved to there. Let's just hope the suburbs can survive the move. Based on comedian D. L. Hughley's real-life experiences, Darryl is a stubborn man, totally devoted to his wife Yvonne and trying to raise his head-strong kids in an upwardly mobile world that he fears will spoil them. Together, the "vending machine king" and his friend and employee Milsap, who has followed the Hughleys to the suburbs, make life difficult for their tall, loud, very white neighbor Dave. Meanwhile, Dave's wife Sally, who has bonded with Yvonne, tries to apply her professional skills as a psychologist to the neighborhood with hilarious results.
#1 - Sydney
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1998
Darryl is neglecting Sydney and realizes that he has to do something drastic when Sydney asks Milsap to escort her to her school's ""Father-Daughter"" dance.
#2 - Rich Kids Bad, Poor Kids Good
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1998
Darryl is worried that his kids are growing up spoiled. So he decides to show them what life is like to grow up poor.
#3 - Roots (2)
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1999
Darryl is incredibly upset by the news that Henry is not his biological father. Darryl's mother tells him about Jerry Rose, his real father, and how he took off shortly after Darryl was born. Henry tells Yvonne where to find Jerry Rose, and Yvonne packs up Darryl and takes him to Oakland, where Jerry has a restaurant. Jerry is incredibly excited to meet Darryl, and wants to be a part of his life. Jerry tells Darryl that he once sent $35,000 to Hattie Mae, but Henry sent the check back with a letter saying he didn't want to accept payment for raising ""his"" sons. Darryl realizes that Henry really is his ""real"" father even if he isn't his biological father, and goes back to L.A. and has a heart to heart with him.
#4 - I Ain't Heavy, I'm Your Father
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1999
Darryl goes camping with the kids to prove that he's fun.
#5 - I'm Shrinnnking
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1998
Darryl starts to obsess about losing everything.
#6 - Reliving Single
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1999
The couples in the suburbs are worried about Milsap's single status and try to set him up.
#7 - Daddy's Going to Hell
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1999
Darryl doesn't go to church because he feels that it's full of gossiping hypocrites and is always trying to get money out of him. He's honored when Dave and Sally ask him to be Gretchen's god-father, but then gets all bent out of shape when he finds out the whole christening thing costs $200. He backs out, and then gets into a car accident. A man in a white suit who looks suspiciously like Isaac Hayes gives him a new appreciation for church, and he gets to the christening just in time to take his place as god-father.
#8 - So What Do You Do, Mrs. Hughley?
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/2000
At a charity auction, Yvonne meets a number of working mothers who are condescending when they find out Yvonne is a stay at home mom, but her gift-basket that she donates sells for a lot of money. Yvonne decides to start a gift-basket business to prove she too can do it all and starts to work herself to the bone. Yvonne feels badly when Sydney gets a D on a math test, Michael has a new friend she hasn't even met, Darryl has to take Sydney to her Buttercup Girls meeting, and Michael starts gaining weight from Jessie Mae's butter-heavy cooking. She realizes she's doing something she hates and ignoring something she loves to prove something to people she doesn't care about, so she quits.
#9 - South Side Story
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/5/2001
After Darryl donates vending machines to the community center where he hung out as a teenager, Michael starts spending time there too. While Yvonne worries about the effect it's having on Michael, Darryl is pleased about his son's interest in the community center... until an old acquaintance reveals a secret about Darryl's past as a gang member.
#10 - Baby Fever
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1998
Dave's not around when Sally goes into labor. The Hughleys and Milsap come to her rescue. Darryl overhears a conversation between Yvonne and a nurse and thinks that Yvonne might be pregnant.
#11 - Class Clown
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1998
When Darryl finds out that Michael is the popular class clown, he worries about his Michael's academic future.
#12 - G.E.D.
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/16/1999
When Michael tells his family that he doesn't plan on going to high school, Darryl tries to set an example by going back to school for his G.E.D.
#13 - Lost in the Suburbs
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1998
Darryl feels left out when Milsap hits it off with Dave and Yvonne becomes busy with Sally's baby shower.
#14 - Thanksgiving
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1998
Yvonne wants to impress Darryl's hard-to-please relatives by cooking Thanksgiving dinner all by herself. Meanwhile, Darryl's family visits for the first time.
#15 - Why Can't We Be Friends
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1999
Darryl question his friendship with Dave after meeting one of Dave's friends who is a racist.
#16 - The Truth Shall Set Me Free
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/2000
After firing one of his employees for incompetence, Darryl is shocked when he is sued for racial discrimination. While Darryl's friends try to convince the judge - and themselves - that Darryl isn't really a racist, his hopes of winning fade further when he discovers that the former employee has hired a world-famous lawyer.
#17 - Soccer
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1998
Darryl is not psyched when Yvonne signs him up to coach Michael's suburban soccer team.
#18 - Milsap Moves Up
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1999
Darryl gets a reputation around work as giving good love advice. When Milsap starts to despair about his long-distance relationship with Regina, Darryl tells him to make a big gesture. Milsap buys a huge house very near the Hughleys (of which Darryl is extremely jealous), and proposes to Regina, who says no.
#19 - Carpool
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1998
Yvonne asks Darryl to carpool for a few days, but things don't work out when the other kids' moms vote him out the day before Yvonne is to appear before city council.
#20 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1998
In series premiere, Darryl Hughley and his family are getting settled into their new home in the L.A. suburbs, but Darryl keeps seeing racism where there is none and lets his best friend Milsap scare him into thinking that he's on the ""slippery slope"" to losing his blackness.
#21 - Dog Eat Dog
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1999
Darryl's neighbor takes him to court after he claims the family's stray dog attacked him.
#22 - Storm o' the Century
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1999
Darryl ruins the fun for everyone when the Hughleys and the Rogerses stop at a haunted hotel.
#23 - Young Guns
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1999
The school the Hughleys' and Rogers' kids attend is considering putting in metal detectors because kids have been caught bringing guns to school. Both Dave and Darryl are gun owners, and insist on their right to bear arms. Yvonne tries to get Darryl to get rid of his gun, which he refuses to do until Michael is checking it out one night, drops it, and it accidently goes off and breaks a window.
#24 - Clan of the Cave Bear
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/6/1999
Yvonne takes a job doing fund raising at a local hospital.
#25 - It's a Girl (2)
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/2002
Darryl faces the music—and possibly the end of his marriage—when Yvonne learns what happened between him and his old flame Camille at their high-school reunion. Meanwhile, Milsap continues to adjust to his new life with Adriana; and Darryl's niece Carly heads off to college in hopes of finding peace, tranquility and no Hughleys. But to Carly's dismay, Michael and Sydney arrive for an impromptu visit on her first day.