Hangin' with Mr. Cooper: Season 02 (1993)

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Season Two of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper finds high school substitute teacher Mark Cooper (Mark Curry) still platonically sharing a house with sexy stockbroker Vanessa Russell (Holly Robinson Peete), though the couple's third roommate, music teacher Robin Dumars, has moved out. Building up enough capital to stop being mere tenants, Mark and Vanessa buy the house outright from the entrepreneurial father of wisecracking neighborhood youngster Tyler (Marquise Wilson, a new regular who was evidently intended to be the series "breakout" character, a la Urkel on Family Matters). Moving into the house is Mark's boss, by-the-book school principal Pamela Jane (P.J.) Moore (Nell Carter). Later on, Vanessa's cousin Geneva Lee (Saundra Quarterman) joins the household, and also takes over the teaching job vacated by Robin. Accompanying Geneva is her daughter Nicole (Raven-Symone, an outspoken 7-year-old who provides a sharp comic foil to the precocious Tyler. While Mark continues getting the occasional teaching assignment, and at one point is appointed head athletic coach of Oakbridge High School in the absence of Coach Ricketts (Roger E. Mosley), Vanessa manages to get herself fired, and spends most of the season holding down a variety of odd jobs--and none too competently. Also, Vanessa begins dating the wealthy Thaddeus Jamison White (Dominic Hoffman), but has difficulty remaining true to him. Episode highlights include a segment wherein Mark takes over a class in an all-white prep school, where he wins the hearts of his charges with his enthusiastic recitation of black history "From Slavery to Soul Train"; and the scene in which Vanessa watches a rerun of 21 Jump Street, making snide comments about the series' leading lady--who of course was Holly Robinson Peete. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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