T.J. Henderson goes from being a fourth grade elementary student to a high-school sophomore at ten years old, much to the dismay of his brother, Marcus, who is in the same grade. T.J. ends up getting sent to the guidance counselor's office, twice in the same week: first for laughing at the word "breasts" in class, and then defending Marcus when he gets into a fight with Mo over a girl they both like. Things get worse for Marcus when T.J. becomes the school's penguin mascot, and the eventually tells T.J. in anger that he wishes that T.J. would disappear from his life. Later, T.J. hides out under the bleachers during his first basketball game as the mascot after hearing Marcus' outburst. Marcus and Floyd manage to get T.J. on the court after Floyd lets T.J. know that he is not the only one who is the "odd man out" in life, and Marcus apologizes for the things he said to T.J. T.J. helps orchestrate a play that leads Piedmont High to win the basketball game.

Guest Starring: Oliver Muirhead as Mr. Taylor, Venus DeMilo Thomas as Mariah, Michael J. Cutt as Coach
Co-starring: Joseph Ashton as Eldin, Phil Buckman as Barry, Jill Jaress as Receptionist, Jennifer Lyons as Celia, Kimberly S. Newberry as Mrs. Neiter

T.J. finds himself being ostracized after he tattles on Mo for smoking in the bathroom, going against "The Code", a rule in which friends are not supposed to rat another friend out if they do something wrong. T.J. ends up getting Mo suspended from the basketball team for two weeks, and he cannot play in a game against rivals Truman High. After the basketball team's mural gets defaced by the Truman High basketball players (making them look like women), T.J. comes up with a plan in which he, Marcus, Mo and their friend Lester sneak into the school so T.J. can change the grades of the players. After successfully carrying out the plan, Principal Dowling finds out that a note from Mo's notepad was left in the Truman High computer room, and rather than risk getting kicked off the basketball team, they rat out T.J. as being the third member in the plan. T.J. learns that it is better to do the right thing when he sees someone doing something wrong.

Guest Starring: Marsha Warfield as Principal Dowling, Cirroc Lofton as Lester

Marcus unwittingly asks twin transfer students named Rochelle and Roxanne out on a date, not knowing until asking Roxanne (thinking she's Rochelle) what they are going to do on their date that they are twins. With the help of T.J., he creates a suave twin of his own, named Marquise. But the plan eventually hits a snag, and he reveals his real identity. Meanwhile, Principal Dowling enlists T.J. to look for a computers for Piedmont High, and he ends up getting wooed by the two companies, who offer him cool presents in order to sway his opinion.

Guest Starring: Tia Mowry as Rochelle, Tamera Mowry as Roxanne, Marsha Warfield as Principal Dowling
Co-starring: Kenya Moore as Vivian Kennedy, Jack Tate as Hank, Granville Ames as Gary
Title Reference: Fellow WB sitcom Sister, Sister

When the keyboard player in Marcus' band breaks his finger and gets sidelined, T.J. steps in to save the day, but Marcus is not willing to let T.J. play during their big gig at the school's "Battle of the Bands" competition. T.J. shows his talent for tickling the ivories at the competition, which makes Marcus jealous. Meanwhile, Yvette is utterly shocked when her friend admits to having a crush on Floyd.

Guest Starring: Gabrielle Union as Lydia, Christopher "Kid" Reid as Ernie Tracy
Co-starring: Sean Parhm as Keyboard Player, Justin Urich as Goose, Terrence Winter as Ace, Ken Lawson as Tiko, Jeanine Michele as Pianist, Christina Milian as Kiki, Amarillis as Natasha
Title Reference: That Thing You Do!
Notes: This is the first time Marcus' band Mackadocious is shown in the series; however, the only permanent members of the group when the band is seen in later episodes turn out to be T.J., Marcus and Mo (a drummer named Goose is seen in this episode, but not in season two's "Big Picture" (in season three's "Achy Breaky Heart", he is forced to quit by his mother due to failing grades and is replaced by a female drummer named Stacy) and a different keyboard player (the one whose finger gets broken) is seen in this episode's teaser scene). Essence Atkins and Gabrielle Union would later co-star together in the 2003 film Deliver Us from Eva. Guest star Christina Milian is credited as Christine Flores. In Disney Channel airings, the first commercial break appears after the scene where T.J. asks Marcus why he isn't given a cue to play the keyboard during rehearsal (instead of after the opening credits), and the second is played after the scene where Marcus throws T.J. out the band (instead of after the scene at the "Battle of the Bands", where T.J. performs a keyboard solo).

When T.J. and Mo are paired for a science project to observe animal behavior, T.J. decides to observe and alter the romantic life of Marcus and Yvette. He decides to teach Yvette to train her boyfriend Tyler, by using a dog training manual, and get Marcus' crush Alina to notice him by getting him to wear a red sweater. But the plan goes awry when Tyler starts acting like a dog and Marcus has to face Alina's ex-boyfriend Warren, who threatens to beat him up.

Guest Starring: Wesley Jonathan as Tyler, Natashia Williams as Alina, Sam Monroe as Warren

T.J. realizes that the family is having some money troubles after Floyd has to buy bulk foods and denies Marcus a motorcycle and Yvette a winter coat because the family doesn't have enough money, so he decides to audition for a "Junior Edition" of the game show "Knowledge College". Marcus announces to everyone in school that T.J. is going on the show, and even buys the motorcycle he wants from a student, knowing that T.J. will win the money needed. But he gets more than he bargained for when T.J. stays up all night studying, hopped up on chocolate and coffee, and crashes and burns during the show. Floyd tells T.J. that he shouldn't worry about the family's finances, and that they are doing fine.

Guest Starring: John O'Hurley as Hugh Sterling, Ashley Tisdale as Amy, Kristopher Kachurak as Travis
Co-starring: Noreen Reardon as Amy's Mom, Brian Kaiser as Travis' Dad, Natasha Pierce as Kimmy, Martin Maurice Davis as Craig
Absent: Omar Gooding as Morris Tibbs

As the school prom looms, Floyd, Marcus, and Yvette wish to ensure that T.J. has a date, even though T.J. claims that he does not want to go. However, this causes them to unknowingly set T.J. up with three different girls to take without conferencing one another. T.J., afraid he'll disappoint his family if he tells either one of them that he can't accept their offers for the dates they set him up with, decides to go with Marcus' plan (orchestrated by Mo) to take all three dates without them meeting each other.

Guest Starring: Kyla Pratt as Lillie Simms, Richard Gant as Rev. Simms, Bianca Lawson as Shirley, Lauren Robinson as Andrea

T.J. begins to set up a campaign to run for school president, believing that it would take nothing to win. But when T.J.'s campaign flounders, he decides to have Marcus run in his place, thinking that he'd be a shoo-in to win, and then control him behind the scenes. But his plan goes haywire when Marcus does not go along with one of T.J.'s campaign promises and Marcus decides to run by himself, forcing T.J. to have Mo run against Marcus, which ends up putting a strain on their friendship.

Guest Starring: Monica McSwain as Shannon, Esteban Louis Powell as Sheldon
Co-starring: Marvin Jones as Cyrus, Nicole Brown as Michelle, Shaun Cozzens as Brock Slaney
Title Reference: Primary Colors

Marcus, Mo and T.J. get jobs as apart of a school assignment. As T.J. earns a job at an electronics company, he soon becomes a little too obsessed with his job, and Floyd feels it's time to lay down the law when he finds that T.J. is barely spending any time with the family, and he ends up missing his father's basketball game.

Guest Starring: Jim Jansen as Paxton Murdoch, Scott N. Stevens as Mr. Ferret
Co-starring: Robin Stapler as Jeanine Neufelt, Roxanne Beckford as Perkins, Michele T. Carter as Sasha, James K. Ward as Principal Militich

When the basketball coach quits in the middle of a game, the team must come up with another coach or forfeit -- so T.J. is elected. However, T.J. abuses his new position, pushing the team players a little too hard, forcing Floyd to teach T.J. on how to be a leader. Meanwhile, Yvette has second thoughts about quitting the cheerleading squad.

Guest Starring: Dann Florek as Coach Gerber, Liz Torres as Principal Maldonado
Co-starring: Fred Applegate as Mr. LeBeau, June Christopher as Mrs. Lang, Joe Colligan as Referee, Sebastian Tillinger as Terry, Jamal Hamilton as Opposing Player, Joshua Levey as Student #1, Maya Elise Goodwin as Valerie

Feeling that it's time for his Dad to start dating again, T.J. uses a computer dating service to hook Floyd up with a beautiful woman. He regrets his decision when he feels uncomfortable about their relationship, when Floyd's new girlfriend seems to monopolize his time from T.J.

Guest Starring: Jackie Mari Roberts as Jamie

T.J.'s IQ takes a dive after he's accidentally on the head by a wood plank while helping Marcus and Mo stack some 2x4s, allowing him to act more his age. Marcus decides to step up and become the smarter brother for the first time, which he finds to be hard. However when T.J.'s intelligence reappears while in class one day, he decides to continue acting dumb, realizing the benefits as he is no longer getting picked on by classmates and fits in with Marcus and Mo. But T.J. eventually reveals his intelligence is back during the trio's presentation on the War of 1812.

Guest Starring: Yeardley Smith as Mrs. Rawlings, Esteban Louis Powell as Clark
Co-starring: Johari Johnson as Dr. Ross, Andrew Hill Newman as Mirisch

The school's chemistry lab catches on fire, and when Mo's burned chemistry book is found in the rubble, Mo becomes the prime suspect and he gets suspended, prompting T.J. to defend him. After it seems Mo may be done for during a mock trial that T.J. convinces Principal Whitfield to hold, T.J. and Mo sneak in to the school so T.J. can do forensic work on the chemistry book. T.J. finds out that it is actually Mo's hated teacher Mr. Bringleman who set the fire after T.J. gets him to confess that he accidentally the fire after leaving a lit cigarette in the classroom. Meanwhile, Marcus tries to get noticed in the school play, even though his role has no lines.

Guest Starring: Taylor Negron as Mr. Bringleman, Jenny O'Hara as Principal Whitfield

T.J., Marcus and Mo decide to do a music video for their video-production class, with T.J. directing. But when everyone involved complains about T.J.'s inability to compromise with the other students, he decides to value the others' input, leaving T.J.'s creative project a mess. Meanwhile, Yvette falls for a hunky swimmer who's a little shallow.

Guest Starring: Francesca P. Roberts as Mrs. Clendening, Jason Olive as Xavier, Amy Leland as Tammie
Co-starring: Taraji P. Henson as Monique, J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Sebastian Tillinger as Terry, Charity Hill as Mia, Love Barnett as Farrah

T.J.'s teacher begins to reprimand him due to the fact that their constant rounds of back-and-forth about various school subjects are disrupting the class from learning anything. In the meantime, Marcus and Mo try to figure out how to get into a female self-defense class in order to meet girls but after they get in, they regret it after they become the practice dummies and end up in pain.

Guest Starring: Jack Blessing as Mr. Delk

To stop Deion from following her and asking her for dates even though she is not interested, Yvette agrees to T.J.'s plan to dissuade him and pretends to be Mo's girlfriend. Meanwhile when Marcus again gets mediocre grades on his report card, Floyd aims to teach Marcus a life lesson he won't soon forget by giving him an after-school job on his roofing squad.

Guest Starring: Arvie Lowe Jr. as Deion White

T.J. ghostwrites love letters for Marcus to Nina, the new girl in their literature class -- and winds up having to ghostwrite letters for Nina back to Marcus. But things become complicated when T.J. develops a crush on Nina, and conspires to break the two up so he can have her. Meanwhile, Yvette teaches Mo how to cook so he can pass his class, but is ends up causing problems when the family thinks that Mo's cooking is better than Yvette's, leading to a food fight in the kitchen.

Guest Starring: Reagan Gomez-Preston as Nina

T.J. challenges a supercomputer named Socrates, to a game of chess in order to win computers for the school. Marcus and Mo decide to bet on T.J. knowing he would win the match. But when T.J. shockingly loses to Socrates, a rattled T.J. decides not to challenge the computer to a rematch, and Marcus and Mo try to convince him to play again. When T.J. discovers that Marcus and Mo are betting against him on their next match, he backs out. When Marcus apologizes and helps him devise a play to confuse Socrates, he ends up winning. Meanwhile, Yvette resents Floyd when he does not pay any attention to her when she talks about her plans for her future.

Guest Starring: Arvie Lowe Jr. as Deion White, James K. Ward as Mr. Militich

When Yvette becomes disgruntled over having to share a bathroom with Marcus and T.J., Floyd enlists T.J. and Marcus to help build Yvette her own private bathroom, but she is less than thrilled with the end result. The guys try to redo the bathroom after Mo gives them a floor plan on what her dream bathroom would look like, and ends up making a mess after Marcus fails to reinforce the floorboards after replacing the shower with a tub. Yvette tells Floyd that she wants decisions involving her to be made with her, instead of for her. Meanwhile, T.J. and Mo must work out a family budget for their Life Science class.

Co-starring: James K. Ward as Mr. Militich

Although Floyd initially refuses, T.J. thinks his dad's business would benefit from a TV commercial. He, Marcus and Mo go to a local television station where the manager sells them on having a commercial for Floyd's business produced. But when the station does not air the commercial between 8:00-10:00pm as the manager made it sound and it airs it at 3:00am (after they fail to read the fine print that it would air between 8:00pm-10:00am), T.J. sneaks in and accidentally it during the Super Bowl. Fearing that he might be sent to jail after they see that they are looking for the culprit in the incident, T.J. eventually confesses to Floyd that he moved the commercial.

Guest Starring: Steve Bean as Kenny Bell, Hattie Winston as Felicia Vanowen

T.J. decides he wants to be a reporter, but since answering to Yvette as the editor of the school newspaper is more than he can take, he starts his own rival publication called "The Weekly Veritas". When Marcus and Mo convince T.J. to turn his fledgling paper into a tabloid, Floyd is unamused and Yvette tries tactics to take down T.J.'s paper. But the competition goes too far when T.J. posts a photo of Yvette in a swimsuit making Yvette, the Veritas' "girl of the week".

Guest Starring: La'Myia Good as Tina

T.J. falls for a girl named Brandi at the arcade but falls short in the style department, so Marcus and Mo decide to give him a new look that is more "'bout it, 'bout it" -— one his dad does not approve. When T.J. and Floyd disagree on his new look and grounds him, T.J. decides to sneak out to the arcade to meet her and unwittingly ends up in a fight.

Guest Starring: Kyla Pratt as Brandi, Bryton McClure as Cory
Co-starring: Shekinah Williams as Robyn, Bryan A. Robinson as Aaron

When Anthony "The Hammer" Williams, the star player of the Piedmont High basketball team is in danger of flunking history and being off the team, it's up to T.J. to tutor him before the big game. But T.J. ends up being blamed for Anthony's new enlightened non-confrontational self, and it is up to T.J. to convince Anthony to be his old aggressive, in-your-face self again.

Guest Starring: Coby Bell as Anthony "The Hammer" Williams, Dann Florek as Coach Gerber
Co-starring: J.D. Walsh as Mackey, James K. Ward as Mr. Militich

T.J. qualifies as an intern at the Primate Intelligence Research Project, and has to teach a chimpanzee named Homer. But when Homer is faced with having to go to a zoo if he can't learn anything, T.J. brings him home with him. Meanwhile, Marcus and Mo try to get rich selling "nutritional, energy supplement" candy bars. But they discover that Deion is involved them in a pyramid scheme, when they discover that he has convinced every other student in school to sell the bars as well.

Guest Starring: Arvie Lowe Jr. as Deion White, Mimi Leiber as Dr. Bonham, J.D. Cullum as Paul
Co-starring: J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Stephanie Charles as Leslie, Roderick Garr as Delivery Man

After hearing of tales of Floyd's Uncle Mert, a 1960s activist who staged a sit-in at a lunch counter in North Carolina after he was refused to sit in the lunchroom because of his skin color, T.J. becomes inspired. When the students constant lateness to class to get lunch off-campus causes Vice Principal Militich to impose a ban on students going off-campus to eat lunch, T.J. protests the change and recruits the other students in a sit-in in Militich's office.

Guest Starring: Arvie Lowe Jr. as Deion White

T.J. and his friend Karen buy bootleg computer games from an online friend named "Marky412" they met at an online chatroom for kids. After meeting him, T.J. and Karen are surprised to discover that he is an adult. They think they can trust him, but they soon run into trouble when they discover Mark may be a child molester, causing T.J. to get him and Karen out before they get into a situation they might live to regret. Meanwhile, Marcus and Mo buy a used car that does not seem to run, and have Yvette buy a stake in the car.

Guest Starring: Cerita Monet Bickelman as Karen, Jim Fyfe as Mark Breslin
Co-starring: Sandy Edgerton as Det. Shevlen

After attending a dance class with Yvette, T.J. decides his life's ambition is to become a tap dancer, but he finds out it's no cakewalk. Floyd (after a little nudging from Yvette) and the school's dance teacher Mr. Tierney convince T.J. not to quit dancing. Meanwhile, Mo finds out through an aptitude test that he should be a motivational speaker.

Guest Starring: Dulé Hill as Calvin Tierney
Co-starring: James K. Ward as Mr. Militch, J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Denise May Taylor as Dana

When Mo's parents leave for a second honeymoon, Marcus and T.J. convince Floyd to let Mo stay with the Henderson family, but it drives a wedge between T.J. and Marcus -- so much so, that Marcus moves out of their bedroom and into the attic. Meanwhile, Floyd objects to Yvette dating a college guy.

Floyd starts having doubts when T.J. bonds with a new astronomy teacher named Mr. Harrison, making him question his importance in T.J.'s life. Meanwhile, Marcus and Mo find out that Deion is exploiting their personal style by photographing them for a fashion magazine against their wishes. So they come up with a plan to make Deion look like a fool, by making themselves and other students look unfashionable.

Guest Starring: Arvie Lowe Jr. as Deion White

T.J. is thrilled when he talks Brandi into joining the basketball team—until she replaces him as starting point guard, and he is relegated to the bench. When Brandi finds out that T.J. dislikes the fact that she is now the star player on the team and he is not needed, she fakes an injury so T.J. can play. Meanwhile, Mo tries to woo an older woman who happens to be the mother of one of T.J.'s teammates.

Guest Starring: Kyla Pratt as Brandi, Charmin Lee as Bernadette
Co-starring: V.P. Oliver as Curtis, Bryan A. Robinson as Kamaal, Paul Franklin Dano as Nicholas
Title Reference: He Got Game

When the drummer in Marcus' band Mackadocious has to drop out because of his failing grades, the band has to search for a new drummer and finds one in a girl named Stacey. T.J. also becomes the band's manager and helps Marcus get his groove back after he gets dumped by Stacey and goes back to her ex-boyfriend, and has to deal with Mo's new girlfriend -- who doesn't talk for herself.

Guest Starring: Shar Jackson as Stacey, Ian Gomez as Art Bruno, Brook Kerr as Shakra, Aiysha Sinclair as Jasmine, Ashlee Turner as Kesha, Ross Leon as Lance
Title Reference: The 1992 hit song Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus

Yvette and Mo enter a contest at a mall to win a Volkswagen Bug, and go up against two other men for the car. But when they end up the last ones sitting in the car, they try tactics to get the other own so they can win. In the end, Yvette forces Mo out the car, but loses anyway when she finds that one of the contestants snuck back in the car and hid in the trunk. Meanwhile, Marcus gets a date with a sophomore who has a reputation, but the date ends up ruined when T.J. has an allergic reaction to shellfish at a friend's party and has to come home.

Guest Starring: Len Lesser as Sidney Bloom, Crystal Celeste Grant as Erica

When Floyd leaves town on business, T.J. throws a party to make himself popular -- problem is everyone' thinks that Marcus threw the party. Marcus goes along with the plan when T.J. explains that he has plausible deniability, and if Floyd finds out he'll take the rap for it. But when the party gets out of hand, Marcus gets in trouble anyway and he takes the rap for T.J. Meanwhile, T.J. meets the little sister of one of the party guests, and ends up sharing a slow dance and his first kiss with her.

Guest Starring: Arvie Lowe Jr. as Deion White, J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Jazz Raycole as Vanessa, Tinsley Grimes as Nina
Co-starring: Venus DeMilo Thomas as Mariah, Manu Intiraymi as Carl, Kente Scott as Tony

The Hendersons throw Mo a surprise 17th birthday party (which he already found out about thanks to a message left on his family's answering machine), and at the party Mo walks in on a conversation between his parent and accidentally learns that he is adopted. So T.J., Marcus and Yvette help him find his birth mother, which ends up involving Mo and Yvette creating a diversion by pretending to be a unwed couple with a baby on the way. Mo finds out that a woman who was a musician is not his birth mother, but finds her in that a psychic in Delaware. Mo's parents and Floyd let Mo known that even though he is adopted, that his parents love him anyway.

Guest Starring: Rolanda Watts as Lydia Huckabee, Esther Scott as Verla Mae Tibbs, Earl Billings as Delroy Tibbs

Floyd meets an attractive divorcée at T.J.'s Mensa meeting, but T.J. can not stand her uppity son Blake. Things come to a boil when T.J. punches Blake, after he makes an insult about T.J.'s father. Meanwhile, Marcus and Mo start a hair-cutting business, which cuts into the business of a man named Mr. Jerome and they end up getting confronted by him.

Guest Starring: Brenden Jefferson as Blake, Wendy Davis as Hillary Jordan
Co-starring: Rosey Brown as Mr. Jerome, Ashley Malinger as Ronnie, Travis Tedford as Chris
Title Reference: The PSA campaign "Reading is Fundamental"

Coach Gerber takes over as math teacher, but he needs T.J.'s help as a teacher's assistant. Marcus is pressured by Floyd to pull up his slumping grades, and he resorts to even trying to get T.J. to do his homework assignment. Meanwhile, Yvette meets a guy named Calvin and is shocked to discover is actually 15-years-old and a sophomore.

Guest Starring: Dann Florek as Coach Gerber, Tinsley Grimes as Nina, Chad Haywood as Calvin
Co-starring: Vanessa Rice as Rosalinda, Jarrett Lennon as Student

T.J. is forced to take wood shop and finds out it's not as easy as he thought. When Mo is assigned as his tutor, T.J. accidentally injures him; but T.J. discovers he can get a good grade if Floyd "helps" him with the project. Meanwhile after doubting that men and women can be friends after an incident between her and another student while working on the school paper, Yvette meets a student named Victor, who is an aspiring photographer and she eventually becomes shocked to discover that she has a crush on him.

Guest Starring: Dale Godboldo as Victor, Cirroc Lofton as Ramone, Blake Clark as Mr. Petrasek
Co-starring: J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Taraji P. Henson as Leslie, Haylie Johnson as Hannah, Carmen Filpi as Janitor

When Floyd tells the kids to get jobs to pay for things they want, Yvette gets a job at a clothing store at the mall that her friend Nina is also working at, and they both discover that the manager is racist after Ms. Hendra tells Nina to follow black customers around so they don't steal. Meanwhile, Marcus and Mo get a late night shift at the radio station as hosts, but after they end up falling alseep in the kitchen, Floyd finds out what is going on.

Guest Starring: J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Tinsley Grimes as Nina, Janice Kent as Ms. Hendra
Co-starring: Tony Winters as R.J. Reese, Debra D. Holt as Delores
Absent: Tahj Mowry as T.J. Henderson

Marcus, T.J., Yvette and Mo audition a role as a dancer in a Destiny's Child video. When T.J. lands the role, and gets an offer to perform with the group on a world tour —- his dad is not approve of the idea. Meanwhile, Mo tries to get Mackadocious a record deal, by trying to get Marcus to give Beyonce Knowles a demo tape of the band, but when he refuses because he wants to get to know Beyonce better and does not want her to think he is using her, Mo takes matters into his own hands.

Guest Starring: Destiny's Child (LaTavia Roberson, Kelly Rowland, Beyonce Knowles, LeToya Luckett) as Themselves
Co-starring: Burt Bulos as Rudy, Alec Ledd as Lenny, George Sharperson as Security Guard

When Marcus and his girlfriend Dana break up, Mo steps in and goes out with Dana to a concert behind Marcus' back, creating tension between the two best friends. Meanwhile, T.J. faces gym class and showering in the locker room for the first time -- and tries any way to avoid showering in gym class, because he is the "smallest" one in his gym class.

Guest Starring: Dann Florek as Coach Gerber, J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Tinsley Grimes as Nina

Marcus sees a dating opportunity with a girl named Janice, who is T.J.'s partner on an assignment on the Lizzie Borden murders, and he concocts a plan to become the man Janice wants after her computer diary accidentally ends up on T.J.'s computer. But he starts to realize that the object of his affection may be too zealous, after finding out that he wants to get married soon, and meet her dead grandmother at the cemetery. . Meanwhile, Floyd and Mo bond over grilling and end up getting carried away with their new pasttime.

Guest Starring: Natashia Williams as Janice Walker, Jordan Wood as Alicia

Yvette has a recurring dream in which she marries Mo, so she decides to figure out what the dreams really mean. Yvette decides to ask Mo out on a date, to find out if she has feelings for him. Meanwhile, Marcus, T.J., and Mo start a "Homework Hotline" to earn extra cash, but Marcus and Mo go overboard.

A dejected Yvette decides she needs breast augmentation after another actress is picked for a role she wanted in a play, but Floyd balks at her decision. Meanwhile, T.J. is harassed by bullies who make fun of his ears. So Marcus and Mo decide to teach T.J. how to beat them at their own game by teaching him "the dozens".

Guest Starring: Tinsley Grimes as Nina, Jesse Flanagan as Tucker, Jennifer Lyons as Lisa

To try to enlighten Mo about feminism, Yvette decides to buy him at a school slave auction, but Mo quickly tires of Yvette. Meanwhile, Coach Gerber buys T.J. at the auction and has T.J. help him do his taxes and Marcus is auctioned off to a rich, lonely teenage boy, who decided to "buy" his friendship.

Guest Starring: Dann Florek as Coach Gerber, Joshua Gibran Mayweather as Cordell Ross

While at the mall with Floyd, Marcus catches Mo's new girlfriend Tracy out with another guy, but he cannot decide how to tell Mo. Meanwhile, T.J. writes an angry letter to the White House and worries that he might be in trouble with the CIA.

Guest Starring: Bianca Lawson as Tracy, David Michael as Will
Co-starring: James K. Ward as Mr. Militich, Richard Simms as Mr. Baser, Ethan Young as Kid

Marcus scores a date with Danita "The Hammer" Mills, the star player of the girls' volleyball team, but plays second string socially. Meanwhile, T.J. tries to boost Mo's brainpower by making him think that some sugar pills will make him smarter, a plan which backfires when Mo tells all the underachieving students in school about it.

Guest Starring: Kent Masters King as Danita "The Hammer" Mills, Megan Cavanaugh as Coach Frayda
Co-starring: Sebastian Tillinger as Sebastian, Krishna LeFan as Barry, Josh Raisin as Leo

T.J. develops a crush on his science teacher, Ms. Cauldwell, and gets upset when Floyd starts dating her after he thinks that T.J. was setting him up with her. Meanwhile, Marcus is accidentally offered a basketball scholarship to a university after being mistaken for another high school student with the same name -- who actually lives in Washington State.

When T.J. calls in to a political TV talk show, he gets an offer from the show's host to fill in for T.J.'s favorite panelist Pete Gilroy, who is going to rehab for his drinking problem. But T.J.'s fresh style gives him a permanent spot on the show and ends up replacing Pete permanently, which leads Pete to hang out at the Hendersons house and T.J. figuring out how to get fired from the show. Meanwhile, Marcus and Mo discover online auctions, and sell some junk -- and Floyd's Beverly Hillbillies lunchbox from when he was a kid.

Guest Starring: Brian Doyle-Murray as Pete Gilroy, Keone Young as Ted Shaw

T.J. finds out that Colonel Bubble soda has raised their price from 80¢ to $1.10. Angered over the rising soda prices, he decides to brew his own soda called "Admiral T.J." and sell it at the school with Marcus, Mo and Yvette helping. But when the suits at Colonel Bubble see T.J. as a threat, they try to take down T.J.'s business.

Guest Starring: Paulette Braxton as Jessica Fox, J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Lou Felder as Mr. Breslin
Co-starring: James K. Ward as Mr. Militich, Robert Briscoe Evans as Axler, Mary Kate McGeehan as Secretary

Yvette wants to protest the speaker at the senior graduation ceremony, and boycotts the school. But when the speaker drops out, Yvette still does not want to go, only for Floyd to find out that it is because her late mother won't be there to see her graduate. Meanwhile, T.J., Marcus and Mo plan a class prank, after they, Mackey and the rest of the junior class get the fire sprinklers turned on them during a "Junior Class Pancake Breakfast", but when their plan fails, Mackey decides to streak across the stage (a plan he had the whole time).

Guest Starring: J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Dann Florek as Coach Gerber, Tinsley Grimes as Nina, James K. Ward as Mr. Militich

T.J. sulks about having to go to a 12-year-old's birthday party —- and discovers that he has a hard time fitting in with kids his age. But when he meets some old classmates and they start drinking beer, he joins in. After Yvette finds out that there was drinking at the party, Floyd refuses to believe her intimation that T.J. drank after she suspects something was off with T.J. the day after the party. Meanwhile while on cafeteria duty after they accidentally hit Vice Principal Militich with a piece of bread pudding, Marcus and Mo become disgusted with the slop lunch lady Mrs. Tudjman serves and decide to cook some real food, which doesn't go over well with the students.

Guest Starring: Marianne Muellerleile as Mrs. Tudjman, J.D. Walsh as Mackey, Vincent Berry as Rich, Mitchah Williams as Kevin
Co-starring: Naya Rivera as Kelly, James K. Ward as Mr. Militich, Brandon Gilberstadt as Josh, Antoinette Picatto as Sarah, Natalie Marston as Randy, Nathan West as Paul