Tutti odiano Chris

After Chris tests poorly on a standard exam, his teacher, Ms. Morello, refers him to the school's guidance counselor, Mr. Abbott.

Caruso relinquishes his role as school bully after getting bullied himself. However, without Caruso to establish the school's power hierarchy and with everyone vying to fill his shoes, Chris and Greg realize they'd better come up with a fast solution.

Things take a literal turn for the worse when a license-less Chris volunteers to move his dad's car, but finds himself driving the car all the way to school as a result of trying to impress Tasha. Meanwhile, Rochelle spends an interesting day at traffic court with Drew and Tonya.

As a result of their apartment being broken into, Julius and Rochelle decide it's a good idea to get a dog, something Chris has always wanted.

When Chris' entire family comes down with the flu, Rochelle and Julius make arrangements for Mr. Omar to look after Chris until the family recovers.

With no extracurricular activities to his name, Chris decides to join the writing staff of the school newspaper.

With Greg's father out of town, Chris invites Greg to stay at his house for the week.

When Doc refuses to give Chris a raise, Chris goes out and gets a new job at a local Chinese restaurant.

When a new student, Albert, enrolls at Corleone, Chris realizes that he has a lot more in common with Albert than just being the only two African-American kids in school.

With Christmas break right around the corner, Chris' holiday cheer turns to holiday blues when his teacher, Ms. Morello, assigns homework requiring each student to do a good deed over the break.

Chris and his family decide to take a trip down South to attend the funeral of Julius' distant relative.

When Chris discovers that his long-standing crush, Tasha, likes "bad boys," he decides it's time to lose his "nice guy" image and win over the girl of his dreams.

After finding out that Tasha is going to "spin the bottle" parties, Chris is determined to get an invitation to the next party so he can finally experience his first kiss.

When Tasha breaks up with her boyfriend, Chris is more than happy to step in and serve as her escort for the Easter Pageant, but first he has to figure out how to be in two places at the same time without his mother finding out.

In an attempt to keep his younger brother, Drew, out of further trouble, Chris reluctantly agrees to skip school and accompany Drew on a mission to find his idol, hockey great Wayne Gretzky.

Chris is so desperate to raise money to go to a Run DMC concert that he jumps at the chance to participate in Mr. Omar's Black Funeral Directors' (BFD) scholarship fund.

Chris attempts to help Malvo, a career criminal who was recently released from jail, turn his life around by going back to high school. Rochelle is alarmed by the parenting skills of one of Tonya's friend's parents and decides to share her wealth of knowledge.

Chris must come up with a school project for Earth Day, so he decides to collect cans, believing it will be an easy task and something Julius can help him accomplish.

On a mission to become one of the "cool" kids, Chris is caught with cigarettes and suspended from school.

Chris and Greg are without dates to the ninth-grade dance, until Greg gets asked, leaving Chris as the odd man out. Ms. Morello suggests to Chris that he ask the only girl who hasn't been asked yet, Carrie White, and she accepts.

Chris decides to buy his mother an expensive bottle of perfume for Mother's Day to pay her back for all the things she has done for him, but when he learns that it costs much more than he anticipated, Chris buys a knock off version of the perfume.

Chris' excitement about graduating from junior high school is ruined when Greg announces that he'll be going to a different high school in the fall. Not wanting to be separated from his best friend, Chris sets out to qualify for the necessary grant money needed to attend Greg's expensive school, on the season finale.