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MY WIFE AND KIDS: MEET THE PARENTS (TV)

Summary

One in this comedy series starring Damon Wayans as an old-fashioned husband and father who struggles to adapt to the modern ways of his wife and three kids.

Junior tells Vanessa’s parents that she is pregnant and they react with hostility, forcing him to flee. Vanessa’s father Calvin is still chasing Junior and Michael prepares to confront him. He arrives and Michael backs off when he sees that her father is a rather muscular imposing individual. Janet meets Jasmine, Vanessa’s mother as Junior claims to Vanessa that his father is about to get violent with her father despite Michael’s attempts to backpedal. Michael convinces everyone to go out to a restaurant where they can talk the situation over. At dinner Calvin and Jasmine both express their anger over the situation, but Jasmine believes that Junior comes from “good stock” after seeing the expensive furnishings in Michael and Janet’s house. She and Calvin insist that Junior will have to marry Vanessa, but Janet and Michael both feel that they should not rush to conclusions and that Junior and Vanessa need more time to develop their relationship. Michael is too intimidated by Calvin to let him know his true feelings, and is cowed into agreeing with him. Calvin and Jasmine run out on them at the restaurant, leaving them with a very expensive check.

Janet is furious and demands that Michael go confront Calvin over the check, but Michael is reluctant and fears for his own safety. Janet is also suspicious about Calvin, particularly about his disability payments from his past three jobs, all of which he apparently quit after suffering accidents. She comes to believe that they may be running some sort of scam and that Michael is afraid of Calvin, and to prove her wrong Michael invites him and Jasmine over. Inspired by the story of David and Goliath he plans to hurl a rock at Calvin’s head, but is intimidated when he discovers that Calvin killed a wolf on the way over. He hits him with the rock, but Calvin barely notices. Calvin and Jasmine produce a list of demands, including a larger house and new furniture, that they claim they need before the baby arrives, but Michael and Janet view them as ludicrous. Michael and Janet refuse their demands, claiming that they owe them nothing, and defend Junior when they insult his character. They throw Calvin and Jasmine out of their house, and Janet is proud of Michael for standing up for himself. Includes commercials.

Details

  • NETWORK: ABC
  • DATE: October 15, 2003 8:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:29:58
  • COLOR/B&W: Color
  • CATALOG ID: B:80274
  • GENRE: Comedy
  • SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Comedy; TV - Comedy
  • SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 2001-2005
  • COMMERCIALS:
    • TV – Commercials – Bounty paper towels
    • TV – Commercials – Claritin antihistamine
    • TV – Commercials – Clorox stain remover
    • TV – Commercials – Energizer batteries
    • TV – Commercials – JCPenney department stores
    • TV – Commercials – Pillsbury cooking dough
    • TV – Commercials – Pizza Hut pizza
    • TV – Commercials – Royal Caribbean cruise line
    • TV – Commercials – TGI Friday’s restaurants
    • TV – Commercials – Toys ‘R’ Us toy stores
    • TV – Commercials – Verizon phone service
    • TV – Commercials – “Radio” motion picture
    • TV – Commercials – “The Lion King” home video release
    • TV – Promos – “Hope and Faith”
    • TV – Promos – “It’s All Relative”
    • TV – Promos – “Karen Sisco”
    • TV – Promos – “Life with Bonnie”
    • TV – Promos – “Married to the Kellys”
    • TV – Promos – “The Bachelor”
    • TV – Promos – “The George Lopez Show”
    • TV – Promos – “The Wonderful World of Disney”

CREDITS

  • David Himelfarb … Executive Producer
  • Dean Lorey … Executive Producer
  • Damon Wayans … Executive Producer, Created by
  • Don Reo … Executive Producer, Created by
  • Eric. L. Gold … Co-Executive Producer
  • Jim Vallely … Co-Executive Producer
  • Kevin Rooney … Co-Executive Producer
  • Kim Wayans … Producer, Writer
  • Craig Wayans … Producer
  • Susan M. Crank … Producer
  • Mark Nasser … Co-Producer
  • Annice Parker … Co-Producer
  • Damien Dante Wayans … Director
  • Dwayne Wayans … Music by
  • Damon Wayans … Cast, Michael Kyle
  • Tisha Campbell-Martin … Cast, Janet Marie Kyle
  • George O. Gore II … Cast, Michael Kyle, Jr.
  • Jennifer Nicole Freeman … Cast, Claire Kyle
  • Parker McKenna Posey … Cast, Kady Kyle
  • Noah Grey-Cabey … Cast, Franklin Mumford
  • Brooklyn Sudano … Cast, Vanessa Scott
  • Ella Joyce … Cast, Jasmine
  • Rasta (See also: Lester Speight) … Cast, Calvin
  • Stuart Nixon … Cast, Waiter