The PJs (1999)
The PJs is an American stop-motion animated television series, created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It portrayed life in an urban public housing project, modeled after the Brewster-Douglass housing projects in Detroit that once housed Diana Ross and Lily Tomlin. The series starred Eddie Murphy, and was produced by Imagine Entertainment by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, The Murphy Company & Will Vinton Studios in association with Touchstone Television and Warner Bros. Television. The original run of the series debuted on Fox on Sunday, January 10, 1999 in the time slot, following a divisional conference football playoff game. Two days later, the second episode aired in its regular Tuesday night time slot, following King of the Hill.
- Matt Groening
- Larry Wilmore
- Eddie Murphy
Stars:
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Episode 1 - Home School Dazed
Release Date: 2000-05-30During a teachers' strike, Thurgood joins Juicy and Calvin in home schooling after it's revealed he never got his diploma.
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Episode 2 - The Postman's Always Shot Twice
Release Date: 2000-05-30The Stubbses take in Mrs. Avery after authorities threaten to send her to a rest home following her shotgun attack on the mailman.
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Episode 3 - The Preacher's Life
Release Date: 2000-06-06Thurgood undergoes a religious transformation after receiving an electrical shock, followed by a vision of a black Jesus. So, he decides to become a preacher.
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Episode 4 - The HJs
Release Date: 2000-06-13Thurgood revives the project's defunct radio station, and it takes off after he and Smokey inadvertently form a comedy team. But Smokey proves to be more popular, and that doesn't help Thurgood's ego.
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Episode 5 - Haiti and the Tramp
Release Date: 2000-06-13Matchmaker Muriel pairs Haiti Lady with Walter. They fight like cats and dogs, which acts like a mutual aphrodisiac. But that may be the extent of their relationship.
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Episode 6 - Smokey the Squatter
Release Date: 2000-06-27The law's on Smokey's side when he claims squatter's rights after Thurgood lets him spend a night in a vacant apartment to ride out a storm.
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Episode 7 - Weave's Have A Dream
Release Date: 2000-06-27Thurgood turns the boiler room into a beauty shop for Muriel, whose gossip doesn't match Bebe's--until she dishes dirt on Thurgood.
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Episode 8 - Let's Get Ready To Crumble
Release Date: 2000-07-04A former wrestler-turned-politician comes to help Juicy after Thurgood's demonstration of his wrestling moves puts the boy in a bind.
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Episode 9 - Who Da Boss?
Release Date: 2000-07-04Thurgood wants Jimmy hired to replace his late (and lax) supervisor. But a group effort to fill out the application backfires, and Thurgood's new boss is...bossy.
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Episode 10 - Fear of a Black Rat
Release Date: 2000-07-11After capturing a thieving rat, Thurgood enters the rodent in the Friday night rat fights, where their success is short-lived.
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Episode 11 - Ghetto Superstars
Release Date: 2000-07-11Snoop Dogg plays a rap artist whose interest in the rhymes of Calvin and Juicy prompt Thurgood to become their manager.
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Episode 12 - What's Eating Juicy Hudson?
Release Date: 2000-07-18Stressed from caring for his parents, Juicy finds solace building a treehouse with Thurgood, who becomes mediator between boy and father.
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Episode 13 - The Jeffersons
Release Date: 2000-07-25After Muriel finds he's a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, Thurgood decides to run for political office, but his ideals are compromised by some shady new "friends."
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Episode 14 - Robbin' HUD
Release Date: 2000-08-01When HUD refuses to grant the building a new water filter, Thurgood and the tenants break into the office to steal one, but find something else even more valuable.
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Episode 15 - Cliffhangin' With Mr. Super
Release Date: 2000-08-15Thurgood is unsure of the facts when he wakes up with Bebe after a night of heavy drinking.
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Episode 16 - The Last Affirmative Action Hero
Release Date: 2000-08-29Jackie Chan guest stars as his film shoots in the neighborhood. Thurgood is made responsible for protecting the area's image in the movie.
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Episode 17 - A Parole Officer and a Gentleman
Release Date: 2000-09-05Walter arranges a brief jail stay to get free dental care for Thurgood, who assaults the dentist and lands on probation, overseen by Walter.