The WORST episodes of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Every episode of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper!
Life couldn't be better for Mark Cooper (Mark Curry). He's charming, funny, playful and athletic--a really great guy ... And he'll be the first to tell you so! Just out of school and on his own for the first time, Mark shares a house with two beautiful women. The former college basketball superstar and ultimate prankster also happens to be the coolest substitute teacher around in Hangin' With Mr. Cooper.
#1 - Getting Personal
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/30/1997
Vanessa wonders if Mark really understands her. She places an advertisement in a section of the personals and then tests Mark by telling him to determine which ad is hers.
#2 - Wedding Bell Blues
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1994
PJ and Victor are planning to get married, and this couldn't make Mark any happier, cause that would mean she would be leaving to go to Chicago. But Mark discovers something about Victor and wrestles with whether or not he should tell her or not.
#3 - Together Again
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1995
Everyone's plans to leave Oakland, California go awry and they all come back.
#4 - It's a Matter of Principal
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1995
Rehired as basketball coach, Mark takes advantage of Geneva's position as principal.
#5 - R.O.T.C.
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/1995
Geneva recruits a new instructor for the Reserve Officer Training Corps, her former boyfriend, Master Sergeant Ken.
#6 - Ghost in the Machine
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1995
Nicole breaks Mark's prized mug and lets Vanessa take the blame. Later, while playing a fantasy computer game, Nicole falls asleep and has a dream that teaches her the importance of honesty.
#7 - Globetrotters
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1996
Mark is upset when he is unable to attend a show put on by the professional basketball pranksters The Harlem Gobetrotters for the fifth time in his life.
#8 - Rivals
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1996
Mark tries to end a rivalry with a coach from another high school basketball team.
#9 - The Curse
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/1996
Mark causes a lot of bad luck for himself and those around him when he buys a beautiful car that the previous owner claims is haunted.
#10 - Grumpy Old Man
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/8/1996
Knuckleball Smith, one of Vanessa's patients at the retirement home, intends to sell his classic car to please his jealous elderly lover, Edna.
#11 - The Argument
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/16/1997
Mark and Vanessa get into an argument, but they both have conflicting viewpoints as to what really happened.
#12 - Lifesaver
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/22/1997
Vanessa pressures Geneva's longtime boyfriend, Ken, into asking Geneva to marry him. Geneva accepts, but Ken reconsiders after Mark inadvertently scares him about the seriousness of marriage.
#13 - A Moving Experience
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/1993
Mark, Robin, and there friends are playing dominos. Vanessa and Tyler want to play. Earvin has to ask Mark a question. The coach wins the game and breaks the table. Earvin has trouble in maths and if he does not pass he will have to repeat the grade. Mark decides to help him. The next day, Mark tries to teach Earvin but both of them get distracted. Mark finds out that his friend needs a new roomate at his new apartment. Mark tells Vanessa and Robin and they wonder what to do with Mark's room. Mark moves into the new apartment. Mark tries to tutor Earvin but does not have time because of the new parties around the building. One night, Earvin comes over and Mark tries to tutor but Mark gets distracted because of another party going on at their apartment. Earvin feels left out and also feels that he will flunk the math class. That night at home, Vanessa and Robin miss Mark. Mark comes back home to visit and do his laundry. Robin also notices at school and at home that he is falling
#14 - Limpin' Lizards
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1993
Nicole and Vanessa watches ""Lester the Lizard and the Crocodile Kids"", a kids' show on TV. They are searching for a new crocodile kid and Nicole wants to try out. Geneva won't let her. Vanessa wants to meet Lester since he owns a piece of his business and she wants to try to get his account to her company. Mark is teaching Driver's Ed. Earvin and André has got hold of a piece of Lester the Lizard's tail. They got it when they nearly ran over Lester during one of Mark's classes. Mark wants P.J. to get him another class. Driver's Ed is too dangerous. Tyler provokes Geneva to let Nicole audition. P.J. gives Mark a new class. He becomes the school's new Home Ec. teacher. It turns out to be even more dangerous. His eyebrows get burned. Mark takes Nicole to the audition and Vanessa joins them. It turns out that Lester is a woman who smokes and is hated by everybody on the show. She finds Mark attractive and she thinks she has seen him before. Vanessa doesn't get Lester's account. Nicole
#15 - Slumber Party
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1993
Mark solos as chaperone at Nicole's party when Geneva and Vanessa go shopping and don't return on time.
#16 - P.M.S.: Post Moving-in Syndrome
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/1993
In the beginning of the episode, Mark is fixing Tyler's bike. Tyler asks to have dinner with them but Mark says no. Tyler asks Vanessa and Robin and they say yes. They are celebrating their eight month anniversary of living together and being roomates. We go back in time when they moved in together. Mark and his friends are playing basketball outside and Vanessa and Robin takes their basketball. Mark gets a Spanish class at the high school. Mark tries to use the bathroom so he could get their earlier but Vanessa is doing her hair. Mark gets into the bathroom through another door. Robin, Mark, and Vanessa are having a hard time using the only bathroom. Mark goes to class late and meets the principal. The principal remembers Mark and gets a headache. Mark tries to read the lesson plan but he can't because it's in Spanish. Robin asks Mark to get home and sign for the new chairs arriving at home. Mark gets locked out of the class by Earvin. At home, Mark tries to get used to the new fu
#17 - Livin' a Large Lie
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/1993
Tyler is shaving with Mark in the bathroom. Robin and Vanessa are trying to get Tyler's father to fix the bathroom tiles. Mark also tries to fix the bathroom tiles but gets injured and also gets his hand stuck to the wall. Mark's grandmother calls up from Detroit. She will come over in a few days. Mark tells a lie to her grandmother that he still plays with the Warriors. Mark tires to get Robin to be the cook and Vanessa the maid when she comes over. The day comes and Mark tries to get Tyler out of the house and Robin and Vanessa serves Mark. The grandmother is impressed and eats everything that Robin cooks. Also the grandmother, still does not know that Mark was cut from the Warriors. The grandmother is so fascinated, that she will stay for another week. Robin and Vanessa urge Mark to tell the truth. Mark tries to tell the grandmother the truth but does not have the courage. Everything goes well until the grandmother sees Tyler watching the Warriors game and Mark is upstairs. The
#18 - Piano Lesson
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1993
Tyler comes over asking for food and sees Mark's fireworks. Mark hides the fireworks. Robin's boyfriend, Jason, gives Robin a necklace. Robin assumes that she will go to Hawaii that weekend. Robin cannot go with Mark to play pool that night so Robin makes Vanessa go with Mark to the pool house. When Vanessa was young, she went to the Senate Rec. Center with her father, where she learnt to play pool. Vanessa still does not fit in with the crowd. Vanessa also gets Mark into a fight with a professional pool player and Vanessa also challenges him to a pool game. When they get back home, they tell Robin they had a great time at the pool house and that they won the game. Mark and Vanessa goes to a Jazz Concert. Also, Robin's boyfriend tells Robin that he has to go to Hawaii for meetings and can not bring her along. Robin wants to go to the Jazz Concert with Vanessa and Mark but they only have two tickets. Robin is stuck at home when Tyler comes over and sneaks to Mark's toolbox and get
#19 - Groom and Doom
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1994
Mark stands in the way of Geneva's happiness when she receives a marriage proposal from a man willing to take on being a father figure to Nicole.
#20 - Robo Golf
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1996
Mark invests in a co-worker;s invention, a robotic suit designed to imporve the wearer's golf skills.
#21 - Double Cheeseburger, Hold the Diploma
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/18/1994
During detention, Mark gets the kids to write job applications. Earvin gets a job and drops out of scool. He starts working at a hamburger restaurant (Clown Burger). Since it was Mark's idea to write the application, Earvin's mother tells Mark to go to that restaurant and talk Earvin into coming back to school. Mark brings Tyler and Nicole when he goes down there. In the hamburger restaurant, Mark argues with Earvin and tries to embarass him. Finally, he gets Earvin top come back to school. But Earvin's mother still wants Earvin to have a part-time job and Mark is going to help him get one.
#22 - Trading Places
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1994
Vanessa wants to get a job at a Christian, conservative radio station. She can't tell them that she's living single together with a man. So, she tells the manager, when she has him over for dinner, that Mark is her husband and that Geneva is her wild cousin.
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Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/11/1994
Mark catches Vanessa lying on the phone to Thaddeus. They make a bet. So, when P.J. invites them to her fund raiser thay can't get out of it. P.J. wants Mark to take her niece Luttie to the fund raiser, and that's the way it goes since Mark can't lie about not having a date. Tyler falls in love with Geneva.
#24 - The Courtship of Mark Cooper
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1994
Mark is dating an attorney named Denise (Lela Rochon). And when Mark tells her how he really feels about coming over to the house unannounced, she then breaks up with him. Meanwhile, the student hold a car wash to raise money for a school dance. Mark receives a court supbeona stating he damaged Thaddeus White's car on the driveway where the students held the car wash. Mark and Denise battle it out. Mark finds out why Denise wants him to meet her parents - it's not because she wants to get married, they're just big NBA fans.
#25 - Private School
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1993
Mark is assigned to a private school by P.J. to teach American history. The school is nothing like what Mark is used to. Everyone is properly uniformed, preppy, and all white! He ends up teaching them all about black history ""from slavery to Soul Train"".