That's exactly how i remember it. She became very sweet natured, but in no way was she an airhead. The original character of Clair, well, the way her personality was written didnt vibe at all with the family dynamics. @serenitysubs933
@@serenitysubs933 I think they made jennifer freeman's version less sassy, but I wouldn't have considered her sweet. What I overwhelmingly remembered about her character was how ditzy she was. Like they dumbed her down for laughs.
I had barely any sympathy for Jay and Michael when they caught JR and Vanessa in their bed. These the same people that had sex in their sons bedroom while Jay wore his football helmet…Then had the nerve to get mad at him because he left his webcam on. Make it make sense.
@@alarias9927 Yes that was disgusting and weird. I didn't like how hypocritical Michael Sr. was.. among many other things. He was an a--hole to his children.. But the whole sex in Jr's bed takes the freakin cake.
That made me SO mad. Lead by example. I'm tired of this "do as I say and not as I do" type parenting. Not to mention, they violated his boundaries. That's what they get, with the Webcam thing. They shouldn't have been in there.
one joke on this show that always gets a laugh out of me was when claire's actress got recasted and the way they found to make it feel less jarring to the audience was to make michael ask her if she did something to her appearance and she was like "no, dad, i just brushed my hair back" and he's like "whatever it is, you look like a whole new person". that was a very clever one. pretty sad the show didn't age all that well, it was a great part of my childhood alongside everybody hates chris.
Oooooh my favorites include: Half & Half (so underrated in my opinion) One on One (has the BEST father-daughter relationship I've seen) The Parkers That's So Raven (of course) And of course Living Single Honorable mention: Girlfriends.
I haven’t watched it a bunch but too discovered half and half recently, idk if I watched it when I was younger, it feels vaguely familiar, but what I did watch I very much enjoyed, I wished I’d known or remembered it earlier
During a time when cheap laughs were sought after, I really do applaud the Bernie Mac show for being able to write a funny show based in realism, and absent a laugh track.
Agreed. In the first couple seasons he treated him with respect (while making a few jokes here and there), but later on, Junior just became his verbal punching bag.
I love MWAK, but looking back as a young adult, I wish the characters had better development for their characters; like yes it was funny and everything but the show lost me after season 3. After Claire was recast in s2, she didn’t change much, she was still smart and trying to navigate teenage life but she became more confident as she was beautiful whereas s1 Claire had insecurities and they just vanished like that. Then on s3, she became some sort of Jr 2.0, being dumb, falling down stairs and they only acknowledge her being pretty but she did have moments where she could outsmart Michael which I liked. Jr just became dumber and dumber every season passing by and I wish they would’ve given some new arc where he stops being such a child but not even having a baby made him realize that (especially after s3) Janet became crazier as the seasons went on, a little bit like Gina on Martin but it didn’t seem to lead nowhere. As for Kady, she just became a bratty child in a relationship with a genius boy and boy I liked Franklin but that storyline gave me a headache especially in the latter seasons. Yes it’s a sitcom but one thing I hated with sitcoms, is how they would make the characters ridiculously dumb as the seasons went on, just so unnecessary and annoying. But still a memorable show and I watch the first three seasons often.
Honestly, the worst of it was season 4 and 5 Michael. His hard parenting style turned goofy and obnoxious and it seemed like every episode was him fumbling some hairbrained scheme. He was by far the most annoying character by the end. At least junior was funny
@@TheAngryj I agree with you: Michael went from being a hard but loving father to a crazy maniac one but for me Junior also became annoying by the end, I was just tired of him being so dumb lol. Same goes with all the cast.
@0:25 I say the same time every time I do a re-watch. Look at who got somebody pregnant, Junior, not Claire. Hated Michael Kyle for his behavior; he's up there with Frank Mitchell as the biggest parental hypocrites on tv.
Saying this even though Michael literally kicked Junior out of the house and then made him live in the garage after Junior and Vanessa got caught in Michael’s bed is crazy
hiii correct me if im wrong but did i say tisha was biracial in this video? i thought i just said she was lightskin. but parker and jennifer are biracial from what i know.
It would have been interesting if Junior got smarter and more mature once he was expecting a baby instead of becoming dumber, following in his father's footsteps. Now that I think of it, I'm having trouble thinking of an idiot character that got smarter, or at least wasn't fladerized into the ground. The only one I could think of was Wanda from The Fairly Oddparents.
I’m glad they got a replacement for Vanessa because I refused to believe Junior knocked up Meagan Good. Fun fact: Her replacement, Brooklyn Sudano is one of Donna Summer’s daughters.
I heard that dark skinned Claire left because she didn’t like where the story line was going. Also her character got dumbed down like how aunt viv was dumbed down
@@cressapellom4205 she was dumbed down her autonomy was taken away her career was taken away and all her story lines revolved around uncle Phil such as him forgetting an important day like Valentine’s Day. Her character was dumbed down. Instead of being integral to the story she became an accessory to the plot
I hated Jr. Why did they have make him so stupid? I'm sick of the dumb son stereotype and the daughter is smart stereotype. I wished they had made them both equally smart.
@@MarcusScott-ix1il the thing that really gets me was that Junior wasn't dumb at all in the 1st season they just randomly decided to change his character from season 2 on 🤦🏾♂️
I didn't watch the show (I vaguely remember it), but good lord. You weren't kidding about the Claire recast. I understand wanting an older actress so they could have more "interesting" storylines, but the least they could've done was find someone who resembled the original actress. It's like they barely tried, so it makes total sense those rumors would flourish. Edit: My favorites were probably Sister, Sister, Kenan & Kel, and Smart Guy. "Who loves orange soda?" lives rent-free in my head to this day. When I was even younger, I loved My Brother and Me on Nickelodeon. I hear so little about that one, I think I hallucinated it sometimes.
I am so glad that you did a recap of this show. Growing up as a little kid I loved watching the first three seasons, and didn't care for the rest of it. Watching this sitcom now as a young adult for starters Janet and Michael's relationship is super toxic😮💨😔. From season 2 of Michael size-shaming Janet, to the constant arguments and marriage therapy sessions with the two. I especially hated the favoritism shown to Junior and how Janet and Michael never worried about him getting a woman pregnant or sleeping with many women,but yet Claire had gotten lectured and targeted every chance she had gotten and the Irony is that Junior ended up not only getting a woman pregnant,but made love in his parent's own bed. This show is just ughhh, but I love the nostalgia of watching the re-runs of it at my great-grandparent's house🤗💖💖. Much love to you Harri💖💖💖💖!!
there was an episode where junior went off on Michael about how hard he was about junior becoming a young parent. He kept bugging him about an egg and there was a moment where junior really did step up to Michael and tell him that his best might not be what his dad expects but he’s trying and it was so tense to the point Michael was speechless. I HATE that scene because instead of having us sit in that and really get the Dad’s reaction, immediately the egg broke and Michael just laughs at junior. IM STILL PISSED ABOUT THAT. I feel like it was those rare moment in the show where the dad got humbled but they completey dropped the ball on actually making the scene stick. I think even though junior was stupid most of the season, you got to see him develop and want more for himself. He went to college and found a passion of art. But his family was his biggest opp and kept telling him how stupid he was. I feel like he wasn’t as stupid as he let on because you seen pockets of him trying but his family STAYED demeaning him. I really can’t watch it without growing annoyed. I love the sitcom but there’s some episodes I just skip.
I'm Mexican & my sis and I liked watching my wife & kids 😂 we loved The Bernie Mac show! And I watched Girlfriends a couple years ago and binged it so fast, i loved it.
i said this a while back , my Michael was the worst type of black tv dad. manz kicked his son out to the garage then wouldnt teach his kids anything. top 3 worst tv black dad
This was definitely a show I enjoyed as a child but don’t think I’ll revisit as an adult. I do remember hating Michael because he always did waaayyyy too much just to make a point even when repeatedly called out for it. He was so extra and arrogant and unlikeable. 😒
Here in Brasil 🇧🇷 "My Wife & Kids" and "Everybody Hates Chris" are HUGE shows on open TV, but EHC is about a poor family, so there is more identification hahah 
I feel like the recasting situation in The Fresh Prince Bel Air is much worse because Aunt Viv becomes pretty much a background character instead of being one of the protagonists, plus the original Aunt Viv has been in the show for three seasons and the original Claire was only in season one.
The original Claire was also kinda just there. The newer one sucked but at least stood out more. The original Aunt Viv was an actually interesting character who added to the overall family dynamic. Her replacement just blended in and was a shell of her original character.
My family used to accuse me of not liking shows with black people but I was like, and I didn't know how to express it at the time: I am not watching any show where every female member of the family has to follow the paper bag test. Bernie Mac Show and Everybody Hates Chris-- I don't remember them well, but these were some of the first black family sitcoms that I really got into. Agree about light skinned and dark skinned Claire being completely different characters, but either way, yes. The way they eventually wrote her character was SO hateful. Just say you hate teenage girls.
When the show became available on Netflix, went ahead to tried to rewatch it out of nostalgia but since the of the the jokes did Not age well I had to stop because a majority of them were offensive, especially by modern day standards
Jay seemed like a nonexistent parent to me in the show. Every time Michael wanted to discipline them she was against it. I’m like what is her solution to anything besides just letting them do whatever.
Carlton and Ashley had the same skin tone. Hilary was light-skinned since Uncle Phil was, while the mother was originally dark-skinned (making Carlton and Ashley in the middle).
@@DBZAOTA482 Ashley though I love her is clearly half Indian and half black, with a full head of Indian hair. Hilary was even lighter than uncle phil so my point still stands
Haven't even started watching this but i just wanna say THANK YOU. I saw this in my recommendations and clicked instantly, the universe KNEW. I have thought about a video like this for a while now but just didn't have the volition to make it myself. I started rewatching this show a couple years, ago as i grew up watching it, and omg has it become one of my "love to hate" shows i throw on in the background. Between the colorist recasting, the never ending gay "jokes" and the absolute hypocrisy and poor as f parenting...yeah. 💀
Agreed 100% loved this show as a child but as an adult it’s just typical cookery and buffoonery made to make black people look like a joke, which is par the course for the Wayans family
I am Latina and I grew up watching shows like: 1.Fresh Prince (I think this one is my favorite) 2.Everybody hates Chris 3. My Wife & Kids I also watched these show but don't remember much. I saw family matters and Sister, Sister. I'm sorry if the roster is small. I'm mostly a cartoon head lol
I always thought the rebellious part of me was why I hated him.. But no, he was actually an obnoxious, misogynistic, unfair, annoying, and unbearable father. I would have ran away 😂
"Fresh Prince of Bel-air" kept me company during the 90s. Shout-out to "The Wayans Brothers", "The Jamie Foxx Show" and "In Living Color".5:50 Be safe.
If you've seen scream 2 Omar Epps character was stabbed in the ear. They Parody of scream 2 was Jada pinkett smith's character being loud and ghetto and shawn being Omar Epps being taken out with a p*nis in his ear.
The Show is loosely about Michael Getting to such a good place in his business where he can have more time at home with his wife and kids. Lol.. no pun intended.. And Jay taking advantage of that by goin back to work and school and re-finding herself having been juat a housewife for so long.. And Seeing how He and Her and the kids adjust to that.. amongst observing how Mike & Jay having been teen parents imacts them and their kids well into their middle ages. Despite their successes .. Tho.. it does kinda lose focus on that aspect after the 1st season.
It did have good actors and very memorable moments. As a kid, it was one of my favorites, and I think the humor landed with me as a child, as an adult tho... the humor doesn't land. And then learning the behind the scenes issues with the actors and looking at certain dynamics and jokes with a critical eye... it don't rank for me.
It's so weird, I'm like 80% sure I watched a whole lot of the series when it re-running around the late 2000s and early 2010s, yet I only remember a few moments from it? Not saying that as a dunk on it necessarily lol, but damn I really can't recall much funny stuff from it.
idk i feel like junior did marry vanessa and loved her so she wasn’t just baby mama the show did become a lot more revolved around them tho! as for the recast i get the biracial actor problem but at the same time neither micheal or jay was darkskin (which could be a problem in itself) so light skin claire did fit in more to me and i didnt think either one of them looked mixed but maybe that’s jus me
Ok my favorite sitcoms growing up? That's So Raven, Half and Half, and of course Bernie Mac. I remember when the UPN/The U was the channel for black comedy
I know I'm a few days late, Mz Hook I hope that you and your family are safe. Everyone's power went out up here in the Carolina's, and the landscape is brutal, but I'm sure you seen the news by now . Thank you for putting a smile back on my face during this tough time, once again I hope all is well with you, I love your work, stay frosty, with love from Carolina.
You look gorgeous bae!! Yes missed this style of videos❤ love it here. And same the self deprecating humor got old and didn't balance showing the love the family had for each other like Fresh Prince did. Maybe that's just how the Wayans family was at home but sometimes it felt like the dad wasn't attracted to the Mom and saw his daughter more valuable for her beauty with the claire switch. Junior showed no growth. And the baby was the baby lol
Hispanic gringa, I grew up with this show - ridiculous-cute!!!! I liked when Lilo and Stitch were mentioned!! I liked it felt wholesome with a ridiculous dad, like my dad is. I also like Everybody Hates Chris and Blackish.
Haven't watched this show in years, since the mid 2000's, but I guarantee there's some dated not cool stuff there. The 2000s shows, sitcoms, and movies were full of problematic stuff
I love my wife and kids! At least I think I still do lol when i do a rewatch i usually only watch the episode with kat williams and like one other, but i definitely agree where it felt like nothing be happening on that show and theyre just like stuck in the house. And it didnt help that i personally hated the vacation episode so i was like damn.... nevermind.just go back home atp lmao. I guess as a kid i liked it because it felt like stuff was going on but as i got older and watched more sitcoms it was like not much going on to keep me watching despite the cast being funny together
Does anybody notice that Gina and Janet's name was similar? Like Gina waters Payne and Janet Marine kyle? Like the marine and waters idk if I'm reaching. Also I think one thing about Claire's casting is that they attempted to make her more 'femenine' by making her self absorbed. The old Claire was still selfish at times but to me she seemed like a typical teenager who wanted distance from her parents in order to make her own identity, for instance the episode where she doesn't wanna go out with kady and the one where she doesn't want her dad to go bra shopping with her. She also stood up for junior and punched that one kid, whilst the new Claire seemed to be more dependent on junior and more idiotic,thinking her looks would do everything for her whilst the old Claire was insecure, remember when she cut her eyebrows too thin to get the attention of one boy. To put it simply besides their skin tone, their personalites was something that made the character so different throughout the series.
When I started watching My Wife and Kids, they played the episodes where Jay was absent. And I remember thinking, why is the show My Wife and Kids if the wife wasn't around?
In Brazil, shows like My Wife and Kids and Everybody Hates Chris are a pretty universal watching experience. At least for my generation (older gen z) (I'm white)
@@harriyanna I don’t remember the first episode I watched but the one I remember the most of is where Junior’s baby was crying and the dad made everyone leave the room because he had a “secret method” of making a baby stop crying. I was waiting the whole episode to figure out what it was and then the dad made the baby fart 💨 and that fixed it. I thought it was hilarious as a kid.
My Wife and Kids was cool up until halfway thru Season 3. It got too corny up to a point. For me, the inclusion of Franklin as a regular was where the series declined. Eventually, he began getting more screentime than the three Kyle kids. Oh, and then there was the cliffhanger at the end of Season 5. It's cancellation was putting a train wreck out of its misery.
i can't even get mad at the cliffhanger because the show was just becoming unbearable and was lowkey depending on shock from the audience. also franklin was ANNOYING that's why i barely talked about him lmaooooo
I loved my wife and kids, it was one of those shows that I would put on at night when other scary/inappropriate stuff were on. It is definitely hard to watch now with all the interesting humor and sexism. 😬
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So sad to see that Thee Pirate hates her wife and kids 😔😔
Yeah, when Clair was recast, her personality did a 180. She became a total ditzy airhead.
Really? Cause if I remember correctly she just became sweet, they made the original Claire rude and sassy
That's exactly how i remember it. She became very sweet natured, but in no way was she an airhead. The original character of Clair, well, the way her personality was written didnt vibe at all with the family dynamics. @serenitysubs933
@@serenitysubs933 I think they made jennifer freeman's version less sassy, but I wouldn't have considered her sweet. What I overwhelmingly remembered about her character was how ditzy she was. Like they dumbed her down for laughs.
@@serenitysubs933 Nah, don't lie. Not only did they make her an idiot, but a complete ditz and very vain.
@@ariesmrypretty sure that was junior- he was really smart in the first season and had tons of medals and then they made him an idiot
I had barely any sympathy for Jay and Michael when they caught JR and Vanessa in their bed. These the same people that had sex in their sons bedroom while Jay wore his football helmet…Then had the nerve to get mad at him because he left his webcam on. Make it make sense.
that whole situation was DIABOLICAL
not to mention jrs car he was fixing up in the painting episode
@@alarias9927 Yes that was disgusting and weird. I didn't like how hypocritical Michael Sr. was.. among many other things. He was an a--hole to his children.. But the whole sex in Jr's bed takes the freakin cake.
That made me SO mad. Lead by example. I'm tired of this "do as I say and not as I do" type parenting. Not to mention, they violated his boundaries. That's what they get, with the Webcam thing. They shouldn't have been in there.
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one joke on this show that always gets a laugh out of me was when claire's actress got recasted and the way they found to make it feel less jarring to the audience was to make michael ask her if she did something to her appearance and she was like "no, dad, i just brushed my hair back" and he's like "whatever it is, you look like a whole new person". that was a very clever one. pretty sad the show didn't age all that well, it was a great part of my childhood alongside everybody hates chris.
@northrnstar my wife in kids was a STAPLE for me, that and the George Lopez show lmao. Idk if I wanna rewatch them and ruin it for me!
Oooooh my favorites include:
Half & Half (so underrated in my opinion)
One on One (has the BEST father-daughter relationship I've seen)
The Parkers
That's So Raven (of course)
And of course Living Single
Honorable mention: Girlfriends.
i just started half and half and i really like it!!!!!
omg half&half is great my fav episode was the music casting
Half & Half is a hidden gem
I haven’t watched it a bunch but too discovered half and half recently, idk if I watched it when I was younger, it feels vaguely familiar, but what I did watch I very much enjoyed, I wished I’d known or remembered it earlier
I can’t stand The Parkers and I don’t like One on One after Breanna graduated high school. But the rest of the show is great.
Bernie Mac Show was my fav.
💯💯💯 RIP bernie mac
During a time when cheap laughs were sought after, I really do applaud the Bernie Mac show for being able to write a funny show based in realism, and absent a laugh track.
yes fr
Mine too, lol
@@HorrorSurvivalist fr it’s one of my favorite shows rip to Bernie mac
Michael just bullied Junior. Unloving father & way too over the top for me
Agreed. In the first couple seasons he treated him with respect (while making a few jokes here and there), but later on, Junior just became his verbal punching bag.
That's So raven or Proud family is my favorite (Idk if y'all will consider them black sitcomes but I will) 😂
That's so Raven is a sitcom
@@othelliusmaximus Kenan& Kel
I love MWAK, but looking back as a young adult, I wish the characters had better development for their characters; like yes it was funny and everything but the show lost me after season 3.
After Claire was recast in s2, she didn’t change much, she was still smart and trying to navigate teenage life but she became more confident as she was beautiful whereas s1 Claire had insecurities and they just vanished like that. Then on s3, she became some sort of Jr 2.0, being dumb, falling down stairs and they only acknowledge her being pretty but she did have moments where she could outsmart Michael which I liked.
Jr just became dumber and dumber every season passing by and I wish they would’ve given some new arc where he stops being such a child but not even having a baby made him realize that (especially after s3)
Janet became crazier as the seasons went on, a little bit like Gina on Martin but it didn’t seem to lead nowhere.
As for Kady, she just became a bratty child in a relationship with a genius boy and boy I liked Franklin but that storyline gave me a headache especially in the latter seasons.
Yes it’s a sitcom but one thing I hated with sitcoms, is how they would make the characters ridiculously dumb as the seasons went on, just so unnecessary and annoying. But still a memorable show and I watch the first three seasons often.
Honestly, the worst of it was season 4 and 5 Michael. His hard parenting style turned goofy and obnoxious and it seemed like every episode was him fumbling some hairbrained scheme. He was by far the most annoying character by the end. At least junior was funny
@@TheAngryj
I agree with you: Michael went from being a hard but loving father to a crazy maniac one but for me Junior also became annoying by the end, I was just tired of him being so dumb lol. Same goes with all the cast.
I heard the intro and instantly sat 🍿 (also I have no one to rant to about junior from my wife and kids annoying my soul so yes yes yes let’s goooo)
omg i was literally just watching your wendy williams book video! love your channel so much!
Moesha has always been a comfort show for me. I had the biggest crush on Brandy when I was little, still do 🥰
brandy is an icon
@0:25 I say the same time every time I do a re-watch. Look at who got somebody pregnant, Junior, not Claire. Hated Michael Kyle for his behavior; he's up there with Frank Mitchell as the biggest parental hypocrites on tv.
oh i hate frank SO MUCH. and michael was a horrible dad
It's the endless cycle dads have where boys will be boys but girls are "IRRESPONSIBLE and need to be watched" 💔
Saying this even though Michael literally kicked Junior out of the house and then made him live in the garage after Junior and Vanessa got caught in Michael’s bed is crazy
Tisha Campbell is not biracial. She is just a light skin person. While others in her family line maybe mixed, both of her parents are black.
hiii correct me if im wrong but did i say tisha was biracial in this video? i thought i just said she was lightskin. but parker and jennifer are biracial from what i know.
i be getting stuff wrong sometimes lmaoooo i just wanna double check so i can make a note of it in the description if i did
It would have been interesting if Junior got smarter and more mature once he was expecting a baby instead of becoming dumber, following in his father's footsteps. Now that I think of it, I'm having trouble thinking of an idiot character that got smarter, or at least wasn't fladerized into the ground. The only one I could think of was Wanda from The Fairly Oddparents.
I can only think of ONE, and that's Bridget from 8 Simple Rules. In the beginning, she was dumb, but came smarter and more well rounded later.
I’m glad they got a replacement for Vanessa because I refused to believe Junior knocked up Meagan Good.
Fun fact: Her replacement, Brooklyn Sudano is one of Donna Summer’s daughters.
SCREAMING
🤣🤣🤣! I always felt like Junior and Vanessa (Meghan Good) weren't a good pair together, at least acting wise
@@Gemgirl05 They weren’t. No chemistry.
Replacement is Donna summers daughter
Always felt like that relationship was purposely ironic. Cuz ain’t no way buddy pulling that in any universe lol
I heard that dark skinned Claire left because she didn’t like where the story line was going. Also her character got dumbed down like how aunt viv was dumbed down
Yeah she was like 12 or 13 at the time. She quit and went off to a dance school and returned back to acting as an adult.
Aunt viv character wasnt dumbed down. She just didn’t have as much script as darker aunt Vic had.
@@cressapellom4205 she was dumbed down her autonomy was taken away her career was taken away and all her story lines revolved around uncle Phil such as him forgetting an important day like Valentine’s Day. Her character was dumbed down. Instead of being integral to the story she became an accessory to the plot
Kenan & Kel is my favorite black sitcom
I forgot how dumb Junior was. "BINGU and Bingo was him name-U" 😂😂
I hated Jr. Why did they have make him so stupid? I'm sick of the dumb son stereotype and the daughter is smart stereotype. I wished they had made them both equally smart.
@@othelliusmaximus ok but thats super funny tho☠️☠️. I feel like yall want this episodic sitcom to be some kinda character driven comedy drama.
@@MarcusScott-ix1il but Claire was dumb too.
@@dmetriusmarch who is y'all? I ain't say that.
@@MarcusScott-ix1il the thing that really gets me was that Junior wasn't dumb at all in the 1st season they just randomly decided to change his character from season 2 on 🤦🏾♂️
Franklin being the smartest was so unreal.
@@MarcusScott-ix1il annnyyywhooo
I didn't watch the show (I vaguely remember it), but good lord. You weren't kidding about the Claire recast. I understand wanting an older actress so they could have more "interesting" storylines, but the least they could've done was find someone who resembled the original actress. It's like they barely tried, so it makes total sense those rumors would flourish.
Edit: My favorites were probably Sister, Sister, Kenan & Kel, and Smart Guy. "Who loves orange soda?" lives rent-free in my head to this day. When I was even younger, I loved My Brother and Me on Nickelodeon. I hear so little about that one, I think I hallucinated it sometimes.
I am so glad that you did a recap of this show. Growing up as a little kid I loved watching the first three seasons, and didn't care for the rest of it. Watching this sitcom now as a young adult for starters Janet and Michael's relationship is super toxic😮💨😔. From season 2 of Michael size-shaming Janet, to the constant arguments and marriage therapy sessions with the two. I especially hated the favoritism shown to Junior and how Janet and Michael never worried about him getting a woman pregnant or sleeping with many women,but yet Claire had gotten lectured and targeted every chance she had gotten and the Irony is that Junior ended up not only getting a woman pregnant,but made love in his parent's own bed. This show is just ughhh, but I love the nostalgia of watching the re-runs of it at my great-grandparent's house🤗💖💖. Much love to you Harri💖💖💖💖!!
I hate how every black male character was pretty much ball-headed on that show.
there was an episode where junior went off on Michael about how hard he was about junior becoming a young parent. He kept bugging him about an egg and there was a moment where junior really did step up to Michael and tell him that his best might not be what his dad expects but he’s trying and it was so tense to the point Michael was speechless. I HATE that scene because instead of having us sit in that and really get the Dad’s reaction, immediately the egg broke and Michael just laughs at junior. IM STILL PISSED ABOUT THAT. I feel like it was those rare moment in the show where the dad got humbled but they completey dropped the ball on actually making the scene stick.
I think even though junior was stupid most of the season, you got to see him develop and want more for himself. He went to college and found a passion of art. But his family was his biggest opp and kept telling him how stupid he was. I feel like he wasn’t as stupid as he let on because you seen pockets of him trying but his family STAYED demeaning him. I really can’t watch it without growing annoyed. I love the sitcom but there’s some episodes I just skip.
I feel like Michael should have got on those men for checking out his teenage daughter rather than make her change her bikini 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Never seen 'My Wife and Kids', but I like watching your videos. Great to see you again.
I only watched the first episode and it did get some laughs out of me, so me personally, I'd recommend it.
@@usnatv2007 okay, thanks.
Michael was trash for not wanting Jay to go back to school. He wanted her to go back to being a housewive.
@@jbuggin8811 That was especially confusing to me considering that the family had at least two instances where they had a hired housekeeper.
@JunAlex86 I think jay was only a housewife until Jr. started school. It wasn't long. Michael was just dumb lol.
He called Junior stupid. He didn’t get there by himself. Smh. Mike’s an asshole.
i love how this comment section is just full of mike slander
I was watching My Wife and Kids when this was recommended
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YOU TOO?!??
I'm Mexican & my sis and I liked watching my wife & kids 😂 we loved The Bernie Mac show! And I watched Girlfriends a couple years ago and binged it so fast, i loved it.
Bernie Mac was my show in middle school!!!
I have the same problem with Kenan and Kel in later seasons they basically had Kel become a full on idiot
lol
Family Matters is technically 80's but I really liked it! If that doesn't count then:
Sister Sister
Fresh Prince
Smart Guy
Kenan & Kel
samrt guy is sooo underrated
The Parkers is my favorite black show ever
Half & Half, the Bernie Mac show, the Parenthood, and Sister Sister were my favs
Parent hood and one on one but I love all of the black sitcoms from the 90s and 2000s because even if the acting was bad the outfits were banging.
i knew there was a reason as to why i would always change the channel whenever this show was on as a kid 😭
i said this a while back , my Michael was the worst type of black tv dad. manz kicked his son out to the garage then wouldnt teach his kids anything. top 3 worst tv black dad
This was definitely a show I enjoyed as a child but don’t think I’ll revisit as an adult. I do remember hating Michael because he always did waaayyyy too much just to make a point even when repeatedly called out for it. He was so extra and arrogant and unlikeable. 😒
Here in Brasil 🇧🇷 "My Wife & Kids" and "Everybody Hates Chris" are HUGE shows on open TV, but EHC is about a poor family, so there is more identification hahah

I love it when i was a kid but as a adult yeah i just can't
Living Single, A Different World, Sanford and Son is my JAM, The Parkers, and Family Matters
I feel like the recasting situation in The Fresh Prince Bel Air is much worse because Aunt Viv becomes pretty much a background character instead of being one of the protagonists, plus the original Aunt Viv has been in the show for three seasons and the original Claire was only in season one.
The original Claire was also kinda just there. The newer one sucked but at least stood out more.
The original Aunt Viv was an actually interesting character who added to the overall family dynamic. Her replacement just blended in and was a shell of her original character.
These shows always rely too much on flanderization! Totally a shame.
My family used to accuse me of not liking shows with black people but I was like, and I didn't know how to express it at the time: I am not watching any show where every female member of the family has to follow the paper bag test. Bernie Mac Show and Everybody Hates Chris-- I don't remember them well, but these were some of the first black family sitcoms that I really got into.
Agree about light skinned and dark skinned Claire being completely different characters, but either way, yes. The way they eventually wrote her character was SO hateful. Just say you hate teenage girls.
When the show became available on Netflix, went ahead to tried to rewatch it out of nostalgia but since the of the the jokes did Not age well I had to stop because a majority of them were offensive, especially by modern day standards
Jr became borderline special needs towards the end of the show . His character regressed as it went on
Ooh, my God, YES!!! I thought I was the only one recognizing that 😅.
Wake up, Harriyanna just dropped a new banger!!!
Jay seemed like a nonexistent parent to me in the show. Every time Michael wanted to discipline them she was against it. I’m like what is her solution to anything besides just letting them do whatever.
A few of my favorite’s Fresh Prince, the Sinbad Show, Family Matters, The Parenthood, Sister, Sister, and My Brother and Me!
Dark skin son and lighter/ ambiguous daughters are also seen in fresh Prince
Carlton and Ashley had the same skin tone. Hilary was light-skinned since Uncle Phil was, while the mother was originally dark-skinned (making Carlton and Ashley in the middle).
@@DBZAOTA482 Ashley though I love her is clearly half Indian and half black, with a full head of Indian hair. Hilary was even lighter than uncle phil so my point still stands
Haven't even started watching this but i just wanna say THANK YOU. I saw this in my recommendations and clicked instantly, the universe KNEW. I have thought about a video like this for a while now but just didn't have the volition to make it myself. I started rewatching this show a couple years, ago as i grew up watching it, and omg has it become one of my "love to hate" shows i throw on in the background. Between the colorist recasting, the never ending gay "jokes" and the absolute hypocrisy and poor as f parenting...yeah. 💀
My favorites are a tie between That’s So Raven and Everybody Hates Chris.
I’m so glad someone else feels this way about my wife and kids I think Damon as a dad was insufferable not a good parent at all
Agreed 100% loved this show as a child but as an adult it’s just typical cookery and buffoonery made to make black people look like a joke, which is par the course for the Wayans family
I am Latina and I grew up watching shows like:
1.Fresh Prince (I think this one is my favorite)
2.Everybody hates Chris
3. My Wife & Kids
I also watched these show but don't remember much. I saw family matters and Sister, Sister. I'm sorry if the roster is small. I'm mostly a cartoon head lol
I HATE Michael sooo much even when i was a kid watching that show
I always thought the rebellious part of me was why I hated him.. But no, he was actually an obnoxious, misogynistic, unfair, annoying, and unbearable father. I would have ran away 😂
"Fresh Prince of Bel-air" kept me company during the 90s. Shout-out to "The Wayans Brothers", "The Jamie Foxx Show" and "In Living Color".5:50 Be safe.
If you've seen scream 2 Omar Epps character was stabbed in the ear. They Parody of scream 2 was Jada pinkett smith's character being loud and ghetto and shawn being Omar Epps being taken out with a p*nis in his ear.
In regards to the mentioned scene in Scary movie, it was supposed to be a play on the scene from SCREAM. Someone gets a knife in the ear.
A different world was definitely a favorite of mine along with half and half
I only watched this show when it aired in reruns late at night and there was absolutely nothing else on.
21:12 she became an accountant at Michael's company (the ep where that happend was probably one of the most mysoginistic eps of the hole show)
thank you for this!
The Show is loosely about Michael Getting to such a good place in his business where he can have more time at home with his wife and kids. Lol.. no pun intended.. And Jay taking advantage of that by goin back to work and school and re-finding herself having been juat a housewife for so long.. And Seeing how He and Her and the kids adjust to that.. amongst observing how Mike & Jay having been teen parents imacts them and their kids well into their middle ages. Despite their successes .. Tho.. it does kinda lose focus on that aspect after the 1st season.
Moesha
Sister Sister
That’s So Raven
Eve
The Parkers
One on One
Fresh Prince
Half & Half ❤
Kenan & Kel ?
I love the office siren aesthetic! ✨️
I'm surprised more comments aren't saying Martin. It's the best show. Everyone was funny and good actors.
It did have good actors and very memorable moments. As a kid, it was one of my favorites, and I think the humor landed with me as a child, as an adult tho... the humor doesn't land.
And then learning the behind the scenes issues with the actors and looking at certain dynamics and jokes with a critical eye... it don't rank for me.
You should talk about The Bernie Mac Show that came out in the early 2000s 2001
It's so weird, I'm like 80% sure I watched a whole lot of the series when it re-running around the late 2000s and early 2010s, yet I only remember a few moments from it? Not saying that as a dunk on it necessarily lol, but damn I really can't recall much funny stuff from it.
alot of it is not memorable 😭😭😭 they barely left the living room!
My favorite Early 2000s sitcoms is Half & Half, and that show has a fatphobic problem and a bad parenting problem
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"Biracial lightbright."
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Yes she's coined that phrase LMFAO 💚
@@papi_sativa
Lol
One on One, Half & Half, Living Single as my top 3
i started watching half and half and i like it so far!!!!
@@ShanariahWilliams-Simpson living single has such healthy group friendship dynamics, I love it 😻
@@ae0nsLiving Single is that girl 🫶🏾🫶🏾
everybody hates chris is my fav sitcom fsss and family matters 😩 fresh prince is a honorable mention
BAYONETTA MENTION AHH🙌🏽, but as for my fav black sitcom, probably everybody hates chris.
everybody hates chris is a classic!
Bayonetta? AVAVAGO!! CELEBRITY IN THIS TOWN!!
idk i feel like junior did marry vanessa and loved her so she wasn’t just baby mama the show did become a lot more revolved around them tho! as for the recast i get the biracial actor problem but at the same time neither micheal or jay was darkskin (which could be a problem in itself) so light skin claire did fit in more to me and i didnt think either one of them looked mixed but maybe that’s jus me
Ok my favorite sitcoms growing up? That's So Raven, Half and Half, and of course Bernie Mac. I remember when the UPN/The U was the channel for black comedy
Is the Lisa Frank pallet for me girl. PERIODT 😌🤍🥹
I know I'm a few days late, Mz Hook I hope that you and your family are safe. Everyone's power went out up here in the Carolina's, and the landscape is brutal, but I'm sure you seen the news by now . Thank you for putting a smile back on my face during this tough time, once again I hope all is well with you, I love your work, stay frosty, with love from Carolina.
You look gorgeous bae!! Yes missed this style of videos❤ love it here. And same the self deprecating humor got old and didn't balance showing the love the family had for each other like Fresh Prince did. Maybe that's just how the Wayans family was at home but sometimes it felt like the dad wasn't attracted to the Mom and saw his daughter more valuable for her beauty with the claire switch. Junior showed no growth. And the baby was the baby lol
Hispanic gringa, I grew up with this show - ridiculous-cute!!!!
I liked when Lilo and Stitch were mentioned!! I liked it felt wholesome with a ridiculous dad, like my dad is.
I also like Everybody Hates Chris and Blackish.
Haven't watched this show in years, since the mid 2000's, but I guarantee there's some dated not cool stuff there. The 2000s shows, sitcoms, and movies were full of problematic stuff
@@nedzed3663 The 90s and 2000s were THE era of "stuff that aged badly", with a few exceptions, simple as that 😅🤗.
LIVING SINGLE!
Parker was in a movie with Alyson Stoner called Alice Upside Down. She played Alyson's new friend from her new school Elizabeth.
Living Single is my favorite sitcom
I love my wife and kids! At least I think I still do lol when i do a rewatch i usually only watch the episode with kat williams and like one other, but i definitely agree where it felt like nothing be happening on that show and theyre just like stuck in the house. And it didnt help that i personally hated the vacation episode so i was like damn.... nevermind.just go back home atp lmao. I guess as a kid i liked it because it felt like stuff was going on but as i got older and watched more sitcoms it was like not much going on to keep me watching despite the cast being funny together
As a Black girl I have never seen or remembering hearing the show "my wife and kids "
Does anybody notice that Gina and Janet's name was similar? Like Gina waters Payne and Janet Marine kyle? Like the marine and waters idk if I'm reaching. Also I think one thing about Claire's casting is that they attempted to make her more 'femenine' by making her self absorbed. The old Claire was still selfish at times but to me she seemed like a typical teenager who wanted distance from her parents in order to make her own identity, for instance the episode where she doesn't wanna go out with kady and the one where she doesn't want her dad to go bra shopping with her. She also stood up for junior and punched that one kid, whilst the new Claire seemed to be more dependent on junior and more idiotic,thinking her looks would do everything for her whilst the old Claire was insecure, remember when she cut her eyebrows too thin to get the attention of one boy. To put it simply besides their skin tone, their personalites was something that made the character so different throughout the series.
When I started watching My Wife and Kids, they played the episodes where Jay was absent. And I remember thinking, why is the show My Wife and Kids if the wife wasn't around?
If she’s insufferable and you don’t like her kids why’d you marry her?
This was funnier in my head
I’m white but I watched this growing up too. Maybe I’m an anomaly.
you probably are cause my white friends have no idea this exist lmaooo
In Brazil, shows like My Wife and Kids and Everybody Hates Chris are a pretty universal watching experience. At least for my generation (older gen z)
(I'm white)
@@xXmaxtopoulosXx I’m from the US but I watched both of these too. I loved Everybody Hates Chris.
@@harriyanna I don’t remember the first episode I watched but the one I remember the most of is where Junior’s baby was crying and the dad made everyone leave the room because he had a “secret method” of making a baby stop crying. I was waiting the whole episode to figure out what it was and then the dad made the baby fart 💨 and that fixed it. I thought it was hilarious as a kid.
I noticed that there's a lot a light skin women in the show.
That’s So Raven. Easily.
classic!
never thought i’d see a video like this, this is one of my favorite sitcoms 😭. great vid though
When aunt Viv was recasted too it PMO too in Fresh Prince. How is the "dark skin" person always _hard to work with_
aw i done watched this show a billion times so cool u made a vid on it
My Wife and Kids was cool up until halfway thru Season 3. It got too corny up to a point. For me, the inclusion of Franklin as a regular was where the series declined. Eventually, he began getting more screentime than the three Kyle kids.
Oh, and then there was the cliffhanger at the end of Season 5. It's cancellation was putting a train wreck out of its misery.
i can't even get mad at the cliffhanger because the show was just becoming unbearable and was lowkey depending on shock from the audience. also franklin was ANNOYING that's why i barely talked about him lmaooooo
My wife & kids is my most favorite show at all time😊💙💜💙💜💙
Is "The Famous Jet Jackson" a black show?
Yes.
yes!
I loved my wife and kids, it was one of those shows that I would put on at night when other scary/inappropriate stuff were on. It is definitely hard to watch now with all the interesting humor and sexism. 😬
16:25 I would have thought they would have gone with some girl that looks more like Clair.
My faves are The Proud Family, Living Single, Everybody Hates Chris & The Wayans Brothers