In the series opener, unemployed Mark Cooper gets a job as a substitute teacher at his old high scho...

When Mark becomes a substitute teacher, he gets a handful. His class includes playful little Michell...

Mark's former girlfriend, Paula, moves back into town and wants to get reacquainted with him.

Robin goes to a skiing camp and needs money to go. So she tries to find a way to teach more children...

Vanessa's car does not start. Mark, ""Man of the house"", can not fix it either. Robin says that it...

Mark is trying to kill the ""super"" fly flying around the house. Vanessa is watching a stock that i...

In the beginning of the show, Mark shows the audience how in the last episode he was dunking during...

Andre can't choose between his music and basket-ball. Robin wants him to go for his piano-playing bu...

In the beginning, Mark tells the audience that the show is LIVE. Mark does not know his lines. Van...

It's Christmas time in Oakland! Vanessa finds out that she won't be able to go to her family for Chr...

Vanessa speaks French to her fashion photographer boyfriend and Mark tries to find out what she is t...

The roommates' landlord dies, so they decide to use Vanessa's trust fund to buy the house.

Mark has a date with a new teacher's assistant--Coach Ricketts' daughter.

In the beginning of the episode, Robin is trying to convince the teachers to unite as a strike group...

In this episode, Tyler sneaks into Vanessa's room while she gets dressed. Mark gives advice to keep...

Robin and Mark are getting ready for a ""Wilderness Training-Camping Trip"" with the students. In th...

Tyler comes over and wants to run away from his parents because their new baby is annoying and is ge...

In the beginning of the episode, Mark comes in and tells the audience about the show and Mark snaps...

Tyler comes over asking for food and sees Mark's fireworks. Mark hides the fireworks. Robin's boyf...

In the beginning of the episode, Mark is fixing Tyler's bike. Tyler asks to have dinner with them bu...

Mark, Robin, and there friends are playing dominos. Vanessa and Tyler want to play. Earvin has to as...

Tyler is shaving with Mark in the bathroom. Robin and Vanessa are trying to get Tyler's father to fi...

Mark and Vanessa get new roomies when his cousin and her daughter visit---and move in.

Mark solos as chaperone at Nicole's party when Geneva and Vanessa go shopping and don't return on ti...

Geneva has got a job as a music teacher at the High School. Mark tries to show her the ways around t...

Nicole and Vanessa watches ""Lester the Lizard and the Crocodile Kids"", a kids' show on TV. They ar...

A person at Vanessa's job has quit and Vanessa thinks she'll be promoted. When she isn't, she demand...

It's Halloween time! P.J. orders Geneva and Mark to go chaperone the Halloween party at the high sch...

Geneva is forcing more rules for Nicole's safety since they now live in Oakland instead of Georgia....

Mark gets to be head coach of the high school basketball team. He is holding a try-out for the baske...

Vanessa starts working at a ""Soul food"" restaurant. There she meets a prince from an African count...

Vannessa new boyfriend decideds to put Mark in a commerical advertsing these new shoes, since he pla...

Mark works as Santa in a mall.

Mark is assigned to a private school by P.J. to teach American history. The school is nothing like w...

In this episode, Geneva has a hard time at the grocery store. Nicole asks why men treat women differ...

Mark is turning 30. Vanessa and Geneva decides to arrange an over-the-hill party. Tyler discovers a...

Mark is dating an attorney named Denise (Lela Rochon). And when Mark tells her how he really feels a...

PJ and Victor are planning to get married, and this couldn't make Mark any happier, cause that would...

Mark catches Vanessa lying on the phone to Thaddeus. They make a bet. So, when P.J. invites them to...

Vanessa wants to get a job at a Christian, conservative radio station. She can't tell them that she'...

Vanessa wants to show Geneva how to have a good time. Geneva tries to hit on a man who turns out to...

During detention, Mark gets the kids to write job applications. Earvin gets a job and drops out of s...

Mark stands in the way of Geneva's happiness when she receives a marriage proposal from a man willin...

Mark mother comes to visit him because she wants to start working and get out of the house but Mark...

During the summer, P.J. (the principal) has been calling Mark's house and leaving messages. Geneva t...

Mark discovers that Nicole is up in the middle of the night doing another kid's homework. His name i...

Geneva has bought a desk for Nicole, which Mark is supposed to put together. But Mark's old friend f...

Vanessa is upset to learn that Mark wants to date her friend from the office. Everytime he goes on a...

Mark takes Nicole and a few of her friends to the matinee only to suffer through the pains of taking...

Mark decides to invest in the vending machine business.

Mark finds out that his former basketball rival will be back in town to play at his high school's up...

Geneva invites P.J. to stay at their house...but Mark didn't anticipate P.J. moving in along with he...

Mark finally gets a job interview with the head coach at San Francisco State, but he hurts his back...

While Mark substitutes for a sportswriter friend by writing a sports column, he is continually inter...

Mark goes to a men's clothing store to buy a new tie for a weekend banquet and ends up getting conne...

It's Christmas. Mark accidentally leaves a window open. When they get back, they have been robbed.

Mark finally gets his dream job as the school's head basketball coach after Coach Corley leaves the...

Mark's friend, Steve, convinces Mark that his relationship with his girlfriend Denise is boring. Con...

Instead of keeping his promise to Nicole to bring her to the circus, Mark lies to her so he can go o...

Geneva convinces Mark to coach Nicole's all-girl basketball team, which hasn't won a game all season...

Mark and Vanessa are determined to win the lottery and enlist Geneva's help in obtaining her aunt's...

While waiting to use the ATM, Mark witnesses a botched robbery attempt. A woman stops the thief but...

Mark advises Earvin to slow down his romance with his new girlfriend Lisa. However, Mark's good inte...

Mark and Geneva's crazy Aunt Eunetta comes to visit, and with her quirky technique of touching peopl...

After being pestered by Geneva, Mark reluctantly tries to help Geneva's boyfriend, Ken, become a par...

It looks like roommates Mark, Geneva and Vanessa may all be leaving Oakland.

Everyone's plans to leave Oakland, California go awry and they all come back.

Rehired as basketball coach, Mark takes advantage of Geneva's position as principal.

Geneva recruits a new instructor for the Reserve Officer Training Corps, her former boyfriend, Maste...

Vanessa saves Mark's life after he falls and gets a concussion.

When Tyler becomes scared while watching a horror movie, Nicole and her friend, Sandy (SHEKINAH WILL...

Nicole breaks Mark's prized mug and lets Vanessa take the blame. Later, while playing a fantasy comp...

When the ancient plumbing system breaks down in the house, Vanessa and Geneva hire a plumber. But Ma...

Mark unwillingly goes to clean out Grandpa Cooper's mountain cabin.

Geneva becomes exasperated with everyone in the house treating like a servant. So, she moves out wit...

Mark allows medical trainee Vanessa to practice wrapping bandages on him. While wearing a shoulder b...

Disgusted by the commercialization of Christmas, Mark persuades everyone to accompany him to a nosta...

A gang member at school harasses Earvin, and threatens him with a gun.

Mark invests in a co-worker;s invention, a robotic suit designed to imporve the wearer's golf skills...

Mark becomes a student guidance counselor and advises an egotistical football player.

Geneva assigns Mark to be in charge of the Winter Carnival at school, but everyone knows that he act...

Mark is upset when he is unable to attend a show put on by the professional basketball pranksters Th...

Mark tries to end a rivalry with a coach from another high school basketball team.

Mark causes a lot of bad luck for himself and those around him when he buys a beautiful car that the...

Knuckleball Smith, one of Vanessa's patients at the retirement home, intends to sell his classic car...

After Geneva introduces Vanessa to a successful, handsome man, Mark does everything he can to sabota...

Mark and Vanessa announce that they are dating. But after their first fight, they decide that it wou...

Despite wanting to marry Mark, Vanessa innocently has lunch with her former boyfriend. When Mark fin...

After Vanessa accepts Mark's marriage proposal, Mark looks for a deal on a ring he can afford. But t...

When Geneva feels she's in the way of the newlyweds-to-be and makes plans to move out, Mark enlists...

Mark meets Vanessa's extremely weathly parents for the first time, and hopes that they will pay for...

Vanessa's job working as an emergency medical technician is eliminated due to budget cuts, so she st...

Vanessa is very tense from planning her wedding, so her friend Florence invites her to a spa for rel...

Tyler makes a date with a girl for his first school dance, but Mark gives him bad advice on how to t...

When Mark argues with the high school's girls' basketball coach, they decide to settle their differe...

To help the school earn money for textbooks, Mark works at a carnival pretending to be a fortunetell...

Mark and Vanessa get into an argument, but they both have conflicting viewpoints as to what really h...

Vanessa pressures Geneva's longtime boyfriend, Ken, into asking Geneva to marry him. Geneva accepts,...

Mark promises that he will introduce Tyler to his favorite rap star who happens to be an old friend...

While Vanessa's friends give her a pre-wedding party at a strip club where her old boyfriend works,...

Vanessa wonders if Mark really understands her. She places an advertisement in a section of the pers...