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Stand-up comic D.L. Hughley stars in this TV sitcom, based on his own life, about an African-American family moving into an upscale California suburb. Surrounded by Caucasians, vending machine king Darryl Hughley (Hughley) finds fears surfacing despite his friendly neighbors (Eric Allan Kramer and Marietta DePrima). What's happening? Is he losing his blackness as his buddy Milsap (John Henton) suggests? Premiered September 22, 1998 on ABC. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Season Four of Living Single opens with a jam-packed episode which resolves the many crises left unresolved at the end of Season Three: Khadijah (Queen Latifah) is spared the loss of her beloved magazine "Flavor" through the intervention of loyal employee Russell (Shaun Baker); Max (Erika Alexander) survives a vicious smear campaign and wins a local election, with erstwhile boyfriend Kyle (T.C. Carson) as her biggest booster; and Overton (John Henton) finally proposes to Synclair (Kim Coles). Surprisingly, the only person not affected by these crucial plot developments is Regine (Kim Fields Freeman), whose mercenary misadventures usually dictate the direction in which the story is going. As the season progresses, Khadijah finds romance in the form of Dr. Charles Roberts (Isaiah Washington), despite the embarrassing revelation that Roberts had been the anesthesiologist during our heroine's hemmorhoid surgery; Synclaire lands a few more oddball acting jobs, including the role of a clown on a popular daytime show starring a truly repulsive child actor (Adam Wylie); and when the TV soap opera "Palo Alto" is cancelled, Regine loses her job as wardrobe assistant, though she quickly secures new employment as a party coordinator (typically, her first client turns out to be one of the many boyfriends she'd dumped in the past. Season Four ends during the wedding of Overton and Synclaire, during which Kyle receives an offer to start up a new job in London--thereby driving yet another wedge between himself and his off-and-on sweetheart Max. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Magazine editor Khadijah (Queen Latifah) continues to preside over the merry mayhem in her crowded Brooklyn brownstone as Living Single enters its second season. After avoiding making a commitment to her erstwhile boyfriend Scooter (Cress Williams), she finally decides that he's stable enough to suit her when he lands a job as a PR man for a big record company; alas, the couple is soon rent asunder when Scooter departs on a six-month promotional tour with a female R&B group, never to be seen again. . .at least until Living Single's final season. Meanwhile, the eternally bickering Max (Erika Alexander) and Kyle (T.C. Carson) try to make sense of their "one-night stand" from the previous season, concluding that they're now in love--or at least that's what they think until they start sniping at one another again. On the professional front, Max survives a series of humiliating temp jobs until she finally lands a good position with the Public Defender's office, where her new boss is her former flame Preston August (played by Phil Morris of Seinfeld fame. Also, Khadijah's impressionable cousin Synclaire (Kim Coles) continues to date Overton (John Henton),even going on lengthy vacations with him; but she refuses to go to bed with her sweetheart, a fact that proves startling to her worldlier roommate Regine (Kim Fields Freeman). Synclaire also manages to secure a few acting assignments in some decidedly off-off-Broadway productions, one of which requires her to appear in the nude. And getting back to Regine, our favorite gold-digger continues to primp and preen in hopes of landing a wealthy husband, but experiences more than a few setbacks in this pursuit, notably when she is forced to undergo breast-reduction surgery to cure her aching back. Although the popularity of Living Single did not hinge upon its guest stars, mention should made of the prominent persons appearing in various Season Two episodes, among them composer Branford Marsalis, New York Mets player Bobby Bonilla and boxer Roberto Duran in "Who's Scooping Who?" Also, Rosie O'Donnell shows up as an old friend of Khadijah who disrupts the equilibrium of Flavor magazine when she is hired as a columnist in the episode "There's No Ship Like Kinship", while a young Will Ferrell appears as the"Roomate from Hell" in "Talk Showdown." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi