This mama was no saint. She took on a child tht she couldn't care for then expected her adolescent daughter to take care of him all while trying to instill the value of not having a baby at an early age & letting her near adult son do as he pleased. She was a mess & Tasha actually held the family together through all her sacrifice & "helping." Women who do things like this irk me.
@@starlightrocks7 Yes, he was a foster child. Joan adopted him, knowing he was a (very) special-needs child. He doesn't speak & he was born addicted to crack. Tasha was forced to do what the MOM signed on for. I am all for every member of the family helping out......but Tasha is not the parent.
Looking back the Mama should've never adopted that special needs child just for the children to take care of. Caring for a child is a lot of work and a special needs one is extra work.
Is it possible that the writer did it to show the struggle of taking care of a special needs child while struggling as a single parent, people keep bashing this mom in the comments as if it's a reality show, she is just following the script that she was paid to act. Back then women took on the responsibility of taking care of family members or neighbor kids inspite the fact that they themselves were struggling, it was just part of the community spirit. And as far as doing it for the money well back then the foster money was barely enough to take care of the child so I don't know if that was the case here.
Tasha had a right to feel the way she did. The mom is trifling for bringing in the crack baby and forcing the daughter to take care of him. Single mom is hard and now making the daughter a single mom without even having a child
@@WaterfallVee Exactly. Joan was already having a hard time, so she makes it worse. She did a nice thing, but made it way too hard for everyone else. I bet she never even asked her family if they wanted a new kid.....never mind one that needed so much help.
21:55 I remember that scene & thought it was perfect. The way Dion walks over on his own volition & blinks several times sadly.....basically saying he was sorry for what happened. And Tasha understands & they make up......all with no words at all. Excellent stuff.
I know right?!! Tasha can't have a life at all, just because Joan decides to take home a kid, likely without even mentioning it to ANYONE! I had an annoying little brother & while I didn't have to watch him too often.....I always felt bad for kids who constantly had to watch their siblings! Its not a kid's job to be a parent.
@@taracollins5597 Most likely, Joan, took in a special kid for a check and didn't tell her children because she knew they would not go along with the idea.
In some ways ahead of its time, but in other ways "behind" it. Shows that featured realistic portrayals of working-class Black characters had their heyday in the 1970s (Good Times, Sanford and Son, What's Happening). But ever since the Cosby Show, the successful shows (sitcoms at least) became those with very "upwardly mobile" characters.
@@dannylamar4020 Since then, Maia has been back in the streets. Dealing with her bipolar issues and her mother's death caused her to fall from grace. I pray an angel would touch her to get her sobriety back and live a fruitful life on earth.
This is my first time ever seeing this show. Never even heard of it before. why I started on this episode, idk, but damn does it have me in tears. The situations were so real and Tasha's acting was top tier. I was only 7 when this show came out, way too young to fully understand the situations and emotion, so I'm happy I didn't discover it until now. Sad it only got 1 season
My lil cuzz Tasha did her thing on this show, playing the lil sis of Larenz Tate which she is actually three years older than him, she was 21 turning 22 one month before that went off the air in 94 and my lil cuzz can sing to
Tashas character is the daughter that has to grow up too fast because they are filling in the spot that the dad left, I see this so much in the black community how the boys are coddled by the mom and the daughter is expected to be the fill in parent, given bottom of barrel treatment. I love that this show is so authentic in that way, it kinda points out that scary dynamic
I watched this show when it debuted, I loved it! I was so ticked off when they canceled it. I wonder if it got 'too real' (God forbid) for the times. I remember when a certain female singer debuted a few years later, who just happens to be the cashier at the Co-Op:...I was like "HEY ITS LUCILLE!!" We know her as Jennifer Lopez! :)
I'm sure the mother adopted Deon to cope with the loss of her first-born but taking care of a child with disabilities while struggling to balance work isn't good. Forcing the daughter and not both teens to take care of the younger brother is also cruel.
I could not stand Joan. The older son did what he wanted and Joan treated Tasha like a slave . No child should be responsible for their siblings . I still dont know how she was allowed to adpoted a child as a single mom who was struggling . No wonder Tasha was always mad
@@profound_wisdom80 That is what I think too; that she felt guilty about what happened with her son Marcus so she took Dion. But guilt-choices often don't work well.
Jennifer Lopez favorite person on this TV show damn she was fine and does anybody remember when she played on in living color as a dancer and I can’t get enough of those movies she played in we love you Jennifer Lopez❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
SMH Bobby didn’t need to do Joan like that….. just to highlight his struggling business !!!!! I’m surprised Tasha didn’t want to go move in with her daddy !!!! Joan put too much on that girl shoulders !!!! Deandre was childish to everyone with air in his head instead of a brain I’m surprised Nicole put up with him !!!!
The therapist should’ve had a one on one with the mom and tell her she was putting too much on Tasha and that it wasn’t right cuz it’s obvious the mom didn’t see it… Tasha couldn’t be a teenager and do stuff that teens do because the mom put it ALL on her… and just let Andre run the streets… that wasn’t right I understand she has to work to provide but why take in a child that needs EXTRA attention if you’re not gonna be 1000% committed and involved?? GOOD SHOW!! hate that it only lasted one season
Jennifer Lopez is my favorite in this south-central TV show. She got real big in those movies she played in. She’s all over Hollywood Jennifer Lopez finest.💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
Its more like a dramedy. It was something sort of new for the time-frame. It got too 'real' for the people of the time....sadly. I missed it a lot when they canceled it. I even wrote the network, asking them to give it another chance. Sadly, no dice.
Watching this now takes me back to when I first saw it and how pissed I was at the mom. I hate parents that have kids and make the other kids responsible for them. You shouldn’t have any kids if you can’t afford them or take care of them yourself. A special needs kid is a 24 hour job and it isn’t Tasha’s responsibility. She shouldn’t be neglecting her homework and missing her childhood taking care of a kid her mom brought home on her own. She had every right to feel how she did and she wasn’t wrong for it. She can’t afford the 2 living kids she has left, then she goes and gets a slow,problematic crack baby for them to raise. She lets Andre do whatever and leaves Tasha to handle all the responsibility. No way in hell should Tasha be responsible for taking him to therapy session, feeding him or doing cuddle time. It’s ok to maybe pick him up from school every now and then, but all that stuff everyday. It ain’t like she working at a good job making lots of money. I had a friend in junior high who could never do any school activities because she had to go pick up siblings,walk them home and watch them daily and all weekend, I felt so sorry for her. The fake African bothered me, such a hypocrit con artist, I love Clifton Powell, Tina Lifford and Larenz Tate but I hated them in this show. This fake ass wanna be hard gang banger virgin before O Dogg character got on my nerves. They had good storylines, I hung in there to see Tasha, she was the star of the show for me and the real talent…..
I agree. I am all for siblings helping out, I certainly did for my little brother. I mostly enjoyed it, it made me feel good. But I also had my OWN time & Tasha didn't seem to have much of that. I knew classmates that had to babysit their siblings too often! Worse still, ones that had kid after kid after kid....& they had to help out their siblings every single day, That is terrible. Use a condom, people. Or parent your OWN kids.
Not true about Andre's character. He never wanted to be a gang banger. He only had the gun to protect himself when seeing his girlfriend. He had a hood mentality but still a good guy. Also the mother didn't let him get away with anything. I don't know how much you know about the show but she CONSTANTLY fussed and complained at him lol. Andre would lie and sneak all the time. I watched every episode when it aired. Too bad it didn't last long; I loved it.
Tasha is so annoying and funny looking . why is she always screams and yelling and the mom is such a snob and should not be in her situation another thing i think funny is the guy always talking about african this that african roots and i doubt hes ever been to Africa , Most of the Africans I have met think very poorly of African Americans
Tasha Scott understood the assignment in this episode I love her acting
Tyler Perry should hire her to do movies. She was a great actress, and she still looks good.
Ok wait a minute.... wait wait wait wait. how the FUCK was she already 22 when this show started.. WTF! Holy shit. Didnt look a day over 15.
This mama was no saint. She took on a child tht she couldn't care for then expected her adolescent daughter to take care of him all while trying to instill the value of not having a baby at an early age & letting her near adult son do as he pleased. She was a mess & Tasha actually held the family together through all her sacrifice & "helping." Women who do things like this irk me.
NAILED IT!
Yeah she was not fair at all.
I wonder if he was a foster child and Joan left the burden on Tasha. I understand why Tasha was always angry. 😂
@@starlightrocks7 Yes, he was a foster child. Joan adopted him, knowing he was a (very) special-needs child. He doesn't speak & he was born addicted to crack. Tasha was forced to do what the MOM signed on for. I am all for every member of the family helping out......but Tasha is not the parent.
Looking back the Mama should've never adopted that special needs child just for the children to take care of. Caring for a child is a lot of work and a special needs one is extra work.
She most likely did it for a check. They get paid for taking them in.
@@jazmynbrown6820 I felt she did it because she felt so bad about what happened to her son Marcus.
@Tara Collins think about it, she never spent time with the boy. She only left him home with the other two kids to watch.
Is it possible that the writer did it to show the struggle of taking care of a special needs child while struggling as a single parent, people keep bashing this mom in the comments as if it's a reality show, she is just following the script that she was paid to act. Back then women took on the responsibility of taking care of family members or neighbor kids inspite the fact that they themselves were struggling, it was just part of the community spirit. And as far as doing it for the money well back then the foster money was barely enough to take care of the child so I don't know if that was the case here.
@@gene5148 You are absolutely right!
wow! it's so unfortunate that they only produced one season of this show. so good!!
Tasha had a right to feel the way she did. The mom is trifling for bringing in the crack baby and forcing the daughter to take care of him. Single mom is hard and now making the daughter a single mom without even having a child
I felt the same way
Parentification
Joan already had a hard time raising three kids alone. Then Marcus dies and she brought the crack baby home.
@@WaterfallVee Exactly. Joan was already having a hard time, so she makes it worse. She did a nice thing, but made it way too hard for everyone else. I bet she never even asked her family if they wanted a new kid.....never mind one that needed so much help.
Yeah she was filling an emotional void
This show is so real that it felt scary it's like they wasn't even acting anymore.😊But damn they good
Real life miss dis show.... straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
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Why would she even adopt a child if she didn’t have time to take care of him. Let Tasha live her own life.
This show is so relatable it's crazy 🤯
21:55 I remember that scene & thought it was perfect. The way Dion walks over on his own volition & blinks several times sadly.....basically saying he was sorry for what happened. And Tasha understands & they make up......all with no words at all. Excellent stuff.
It's annoying the girl couldn't just be a kid and be with her friends. She had to be a mom🙄
I know right?!! Tasha can't have a life at all, just because Joan decides to take home a kid, likely without even mentioning it to ANYONE! I had an annoying little brother & while I didn't have to watch him too often.....I always felt bad for kids who constantly had to watch their siblings! Its not a kid's job to be a parent.
True !!!!! true !!!!!
You women you layed/ laid down, spread your legs open, !!!!!! , some of youll are so stupid, men !!!!!/ etc.....
I know the feeling my mom took n one if my aunts kids n it wasn't easy.
@@taracollins5597 Most likely, Joan, took in a special kid for a check and didn't tell her children because she knew they would not go along with the idea.
Thanks for posting these eps!! I loved this show as a kid! I wish they had continued a season two, great show!!
I wanted more Episodes
Tasha is so responsible it is hard sometimes to be responsible child.It is worth it to be responsible . Love episode and show.
Shout of to my cousin Tasha Scott. Did your thing boo.
KOOL
Does she still act? She should.
I loved her in troop beverly hills
Awesome 👏🏾 💕
She was very believable as a teenager too
Show was to ahead of its time
In some ways ahead of its time, but in other ways "behind" it. Shows that featured realistic portrayals of working-class Black characters had their heyday in the 1970s (Good Times, Sanford and Son, What's Happening). But ever since the Cosby Show, the successful shows (sitcoms at least) became those with very "upwardly mobile" characters.
WOW that actress that played Tasha has some serious talent! Brilliant ⭐
I miss this show, it was really good!!!
THE SUBJECT MATTER WAS AN EYE OPENER FRFR......THIS WAS A SOLID SITCOM
Shame how Maia Campbell fell from grace
She’s doing much better now
@dannylamar4020 i hope so
@@dannylamar4020 Since then, Maia has been back in the streets. Dealing with her bipolar issues and her mother's death caused her to fall from grace. I pray an angel would touch her to get her sobriety back and live a fruitful life on earth.
Lady who plays the consular is such a great actress I actually met her.....
Why she bring that crack baby home then make Tasha take care of him and she can't enjoy her childhood dam shame but it is Soo true in our community
This is my first time ever seeing this show. Never even heard of it before. why I started on this episode, idk, but damn does it have me in tears. The situations were so real and Tasha's acting was top tier. I was only 7 when this show came out, way too young to fully understand the situations and emotion, so I'm happy I didn't discover it until now. Sad it only got 1 season
About time Clifton Powell Play a character that’s not a evil person 😅. He gave me the creeps on saints and sinners ⛪️ 😂
The first HOTEP CHARACTER on the television 📺 🤣.
18:00 Powerful Scene!
Yea. It was a good scene
Black women hate each other, even their own
They need a Reboot
It could work, with a slight recast. The little sister could be the mama. And set it in Chicago.
Bring back so many memories man these kids today wouldn’t understand
Tasha Omg what an amazing job 🔥🔥🔥she owned this episode and many others of this show.
Well darn, he just put all of her business out there!
My lil cuzz Tasha did her thing on this show, playing the lil sis of Larenz Tate which she is actually three years older than him, she was 21 turning 22 one month before that went off the air in 94 and my lil cuzz can sing to
Wow! That I didn't know. But she definitely can sing.
It’s not right the mother wants them to do everything for deon and she the one that took him in to replace his murdered son smh that is just so sad
Such a good show and great cast.
When Tasha said, "I'm sad, momma" I wanted to cry!
Same here! I thought that at the time....& do so today. This show was ahead of its time.
The counselor is the actress that plays the pathologist in NCIS New Orleans she was tall back in the day
I am still startled that the cashier at the Co-Op is J. Lo!
Seeing Andre from Roc as a positive brother is unreal
Nah, he ain't positive, he's manipulative.
This was a good show! I remember it when I was a kid and I get nostalgia. ♥♥
the best character is tasha!
Thanks for this i love 💘 this show. Tv wasn't ready for this show back then. #MyChildhood
Not bagging groceries instead of begging for them😂
Great show! a lot of brilliant stars giving everyone's point of view.
South Central L.A & Brooklyn NYC
Nothing like those 2 places 💯💯💯
Man,Bobby did Joan dirty putting her business all in the street! SMDH
Where did she come up with cuddle time it must be a ….baby thing she never did that with me that seen was so sad
Tashas character is the daughter that has to grow up too fast because they are filling in the spot that the dad left, I see this so much in the black community how the boys are coddled by the mom and the daughter is expected to be the fill in parent, given bottom of barrel treatment. I love that this show is so authentic in that way, it kinda points out that scary dynamic
This is a good show, I am glad I found it.
O dogg and Chauncey changed there lives after menace
Raise the girls, baby the boys.
Poor Tasha 😢
Is that jenny from the block? Lol
Yup! That's Jho!😂😂
Thanks 4 this.
I watched this show when it debuted, I loved it! I was so ticked off when they canceled it. I wonder if it got 'too real' (God forbid) for the times. I remember when a certain female singer debuted a few years later, who just happens to be the cashier at the Co-Op:...I was like "HEY ITS LUCILLE!!" We know her as Jennifer Lopez! :)
She makes her kids take care of Deon.
I'm sure the mother adopted Deon to cope with the loss of her first-born but taking care of a child with disabilities while struggling to balance work isn't good. Forcing the daughter and not both teens to take care of the younger brother is also cruel.
Why take on a foster child just for the kids to have to raise him
I could not stand Joan. The older son did what he wanted and Joan treated Tasha like a slave . No child should be responsible for their siblings . I still dont know how she was allowed to adpoted a child as a single mom who was struggling . No wonder Tasha was always mad
Where are the Emmys for these performances? I missed this show
The show lasted one season, so no Emmys.
I agree. This show was way ahead of its time. It would likely work well today.
Just imagine this show WITHOUT Larenz Tate (Andre) and just focused on Deon the baby boy and Tasha lol
That girl sure could act.
You should watch her movie, "Troop Beverly Hill."
Where can I find the missing episodes, there's at least 3 missing and I can't find them anywhere. Please help lol
I don’t Love u…. I Don’t Love Them😂🤣😂
Thinking about it. how little the mom actually takes care of deon she more than likely took him in for the check.
That could be true.
I think she adopted him to fill the void of losing her first son, but took on too much alone
@@profound_wisdom80 That is what I think too; that she felt guilty about what happened with her son Marcus so she took Dion. But guilt-choices often don't work well.
Wow shes your cousin great actress
Is that JLo?
Yep! I just today realized JLo was on this show!
Tasha sassy she don't play no games
Jennifer Lopez favorite person on this TV show damn she was fine and does anybody remember when she played on in living color as a dancer and I can’t get enough of those movies she played in we love you Jennifer Lopez❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
She puts alot on Tasha...sometimes too much
Yes so heartbreaking
SMH Bobby didn’t need to do Joan like that….. just to highlight his struggling business !!!!! I’m surprised Tasha didn’t want to go move in with her daddy !!!! Joan put too much on that girl shoulders !!!! Deandre was childish to everyone with air in his head instead of a brain I’m surprised Nicole put up with him !!!!
I don't love you I don't love her 😂🤣🤣😂
That grocery man is a scam artist 😡
😅😅 that’s sleazy Clifton Powell always play no good character
The therapist should’ve had a one on one with the mom and tell her she was putting too much on Tasha and that it wasn’t right cuz it’s obvious the mom didn’t see it… Tasha couldn’t be a teenager and do stuff that teens do because the mom put it ALL on her… and just let Andre run the streets… that wasn’t right I understand she has to work to provide but why take in a child that needs EXTRA attention if you’re not gonna be 1000% committed and involved?? GOOD SHOW!! hate that it only lasted one season
Jennifer Lopez is my favorite in this south-central TV show. She got real big in those movies she played in. She’s all over Hollywood Jennifer Lopez finest.💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
damn pay J-LO!!!
&&&& Andre had no bussiness coming to her job acting so childish. . . 💔💔💔
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes 11 : 4
2:15
Deon gets on my nerves why did they adopt that kid lol
For a check. 😂😂
Isiah was mean
This was a good ass show......too bad it had to be rebooted to make Moesha but love the M to the O to the E .
tasha is someone I knew from parenthood
This show was awesome back in the day but here is thing we all gotta blame the screen writers they make or break a show
13:17
The mom makes the same type of face expressions Molly on Insecure does
😂😂😂😂
thelma^ 0:28 🥃
mom wanted another boy after Marcus gets killed their other brother
Her mother did her dirty with crack baby it sad as hell
i loved him on royal family than this show
Go ahead and kiss again
This is a comedy? The first minute looks like Boyz in the Hood.
Its more like a dramedy. It was something sort of new for the time-frame. It got too 'real' for the people of the time....sadly. I missed it a lot when they canceled it. I even wrote the network, asking them to give it another chance. Sadly, no dice.
Slick Mac Productions/NBC Productions (1994)
Watching this now takes me back to when I first saw it and how pissed I was at the mom. I hate parents that have kids and make the other kids responsible for them. You shouldn’t have any kids if you can’t afford them or take care of them yourself. A special needs kid is a 24 hour job and it isn’t Tasha’s responsibility. She shouldn’t be neglecting her homework and missing her childhood taking care of a kid her mom brought home on her own. She had every right to feel how she did and she wasn’t wrong for it. She can’t afford the 2 living kids she has left, then she goes and gets a slow,problematic crack baby for them to raise. She lets Andre do whatever and leaves Tasha to handle all the responsibility. No way in hell should Tasha be responsible for taking him to therapy session, feeding him or doing cuddle time. It’s ok to maybe pick him up from school every now and then, but all that stuff everyday. It ain’t like she working at a good job making lots of money. I had a friend in junior high who could never do any school activities because she had to go pick up siblings,walk them home and watch them daily and all weekend, I felt so sorry for her. The fake African bothered me, such a hypocrit con artist, I love Clifton Powell, Tina Lifford and Larenz Tate but I hated them in this show. This fake ass wanna be hard gang banger virgin before O Dogg character got on my nerves. They had good storylines, I hung in there to see Tasha, she was the star of the show for me and the real talent…..
I agree. I am all for siblings helping out, I certainly did for my little brother. I mostly enjoyed it, it made me feel good. But I also had my OWN time & Tasha didn't seem to have much of that. I knew classmates that had to babysit their siblings too often! Worse still, ones that had kid after kid after kid....& they had to help out their siblings every single day, That is terrible. Use a condom, people. Or parent your OWN kids.
Not true about Andre's character. He never wanted to be a gang banger. He only had the gun to protect himself when seeing his girlfriend. He had a hood mentality but still a good guy. Also the mother didn't let him get away with anything. I don't know how much you know about the show but she CONSTANTLY fussed and complained at him lol. Andre would lie and sneak all the time. I watched every episode when it aired. Too bad it didn't last long; I loved it.
Can't believe that long hair girl from... In the house id s basehead. ...Sad
J LO!
Why are there so many destructive black men? Honestly being curious
@Keely Marks Always an excuse smh
@Keely Marks let me guess , your raciest or one of them that hung up on color .🤦♀
The daughter is so so stupid at times I would had an talked w/ that mom / mother lol am serious for putting that responsibility on me etc....
Unless am wrong I do not even hear the mom saying or what lot Thank - you especially to the younger daughter or her child/ children
Ok the mom did say Thank - you
This show must only showed in different states I never seen it in Chicago
They teaching people what autism is
free logga black xxxx
Tasha is so annoying and funny looking . why is she always screams and yelling and the mom is such a snob and should not be in her situation another thing i think funny is the guy always talking about african this that african roots and i doubt hes ever been to Africa , Most of the Africans I have met think very poorly of African Americans
Do you blame them?!!!! We don’t take advantage of opportunities here that they would take advantage of.
We don’t gaf wat them mfs from Africa think about us they ain’t been in our shoes in America anyway