History Series / SmartGuy

* DropTheHammer: In "Boomerang," Mo is assigned as T.J.'s shop class tutor (the only class that T.J. isn't good at). A literal example of the trope happens when Mo teaches T.J. to hammer a nail and Mo holds it, with T.J. driving the nail in on the last hit, breaking Mo's thumb; Mo then teaches T.J. to use an electric screwdriver, T.J. flips it the same way that Mo did but drops it on Mo's foot by accident; Mo then teaches T.J. how to work an electric sander, T.J. loses control of it and sands Mo on the side of his right eye. Mo then quits, and hops off without his crutch when T.J. tries to show him that he can work a nail gun.

* GoYeHeroesGoAndDie: [[ButtMonkey Coach]] [[TheEeyore Gerber]]'s attempts at a RousingSpeech is anything but.

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* WildTeenParty: In "Henderson House Party," T.J. throws a party, while Floyd is out of town attending a homebuilders' convention, in order to increase his popularity (Mo places a $5 cover charge for the attendees; surprisingly, it doesn't hamper the turnout). Marcus catches wind of this after seeing Mo arrive at the house, just before the partygoers do. Unfortunately for T.J., everyone thinks Marcus was the one who threw the party. It's not all too bad for T.J., as he meets the younger sister of one of Marcus and Mo's classmates (even getting kissed by her when he walks her home after the party). The party gets out of control, when a guy who Nina tries to fend off thinks Mo was making a move on her, and accidentally punches another partygoer through the window while trying to deck Mo after the two shove each other. Floyd arrives early (though Marcus gets almost everyone out before he arrives, the lone except being a guy who snuck beer into the party and got drunk, who vomits on the pathway as Floyd catches Marcus and Mo escorting that partygoer from the house). Floyd blames Marcus, but after being informed that T.J. threw the party, T.J. confesses after finding out Marcus is being punished for it; Marcus admits blame since he volunteered to be in charge while Floyd was gone and didn’t do the responsible thing of stopping the party earlier, and both brothers are grounded (though they are forced to attend Yvette's all-female adaptation of ''The Brothers Karamazov'').

* WildTeenParty: In "Henderson House Party," T.J. throws a party while Floyd is at a home convention in order to increase his popularity (Mo places a $5 cover charge for people attending the party; surprisingly, it doesn't hamper the turnout). Marcus catches wind of this after seeing Mo arrive, before everyone else does. Unfortunately for T.J., everyone thinks the party was thrown by Marcus. It's not all too bad for T.J., as he meets the sister of one of Marcus and Mo's classmates (even getting kissed by her when he walks her home after the party). The party gets out of control, when a guy who Nina tries to fend off thinks Mo's making a move on her, and accidentally punches another partygoer through the window. Floyd arrives early (though Marcus gets everyone, except a guy who snuck beer into the party and got drunk who winds up vomiting on the pathway, out before he arrives). Floyd blames Marcus, but after being informed that T.J. threw the party, T.J. confesses after finding out Marcus is being punished for it; Marcus admits blame since he volunteered to be in charge while Floyd was gone, and both brothers are grounded (though they are forced to attend Yvette's all-female adaptation of ''The Brothers Karamazov'').

* SurpriseParty: In "That's My Momma," Mo's parents Delroy and Verla Mae arrange for Mo's birthday party to be held at the Henderson house (since their home is being fumigated due to an infestation of Australian bulldog ants that arrived at their house via a mail-order meat shipment). Mo finds out about the party beforehand from a phone message, however when Mo gives a hammy look of surprise, Marcus, T.J. and Yvette are definitely not convinced.

** In "Baby, It's You, and You, and You," Yvette, Floyd and Marcus get T.J. dates for the upcoming dance, but because they didn't tell the other (and because T.J. fears saying "no" to their choices would hurt his family’s feelings), he wound up having three dates, and Mo's plan to hide it makes it hilariously worse. Marcus and T.J. try (and fail) to keep the three girls from seeing each other (Mo comes over just to hang out with Marcus and T.J., forgetting he was supposed to be at the dance... with his date! ...and apparently forgetting the whole plan). After everyone finds out about the mess, T.J. ends up taking all three dates to the dance!

** In "Baby, It's You, and You, and You," Yvette, Floyd and Marcus get T.J. dates for the upcoming dance, but because they didn't tell the other (and because T.J. fears saying "no" to their choices would hurt his family), he wound up having three dates, and Mo's plan to hide it makes it hilariously worse. Marcus and T.J. try (and fail) to keep the three girls from seeing each other (Mo comes over just to hang out with Marcus and T.J., forgetting he was supposed to be at the dance... with his date! ...and apparently forgetting the whole plan). After everyone finds out about the mess, T.J. ends up taking all three dates to the dance!

-->'''Yvette''': Wow. [[{{PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy}} Pretty fly for a white guy]].

-->'''Yvette''': Wow. [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Pretty fly for a white guy]].

* StrawFeminist: Played with and inverted in "Can't Buy Me Love," Yvette buys Mo at a servant auction in order to teach him about feminism (this after he knocks the WNBA). Mo is exasperated with being subjected to relentless feminist teachings, so Mo takes T.J.'s advice to get Yvette to stop incessantly trying to force her viewpoints on him by agreeing with her positions non-stop. Mo constantly comes to Yvette either talking about feminism or asking about what his opinions on various feminist subjects should be. Mo lowers the boom on her, when an exasperated Yvette tells him that he should form his own opinions. Oddly, some of the stuff Yvette taught Mo stuck, when he turns down Marcus's offer to watch a tape of the 1998 film ''Film/ThePlayersClub'' (which centers around a woman who starts working as a stripper while trying to finish her education). The final scene has Marcus and Mo watching a WNBA game, but only because they find the female players attractive.

* StrawFeminist: Played with and inverted in "Can't Buy Me Love," Yvette buys Mo at a servant auction in order to teach him about feminism (this after he knocks the WNBA). Mo is exasperated with being subjected to relentless feminist teachings, so Mo takes T.J.'s advice to get Yvette to stop incessantly trying to force her viewpoints on him by agreeing with her positions non-stop. Mo constantly comes to Yvette either talking about feminism or asking about his opinions on feminist subjects. Mo lowers the boom on her, when Yvette tells him that he should form his own opinions. Oddly, some of the stuff Yvette taught Mo stuck, when he turns down Marcus's offer to watch a tape of ''Film/ThePlayersClub'' (a film released in 1998 that is set in a strip club). The final scene has Marcus and Mo watching a WNBA game, but only because they find the female players attractive.

* StrawFeminist: Played with and inverted in "Can't Buy Me Love," Yvette buys Mo at a servant auction in order to teach him about feminism (this after he knocks the WNBA). Mo is exasperated with being subjected to relentless feminist teachings, so Mo takes T.J.'s advice by agreeing with her positions non-stop. Mo constantly comes to Yvette either talking about feminism or asking about his positions on feminist subjects. Mo lowers the boom on her, when Yvette tells him that he should form his own opinions. Oddly, some of the stuff Yvette taught Mo stuck, when he turns down Marcus's offer to watch a tape of ''Film/ThePlayersClub'' (a film released in 1998 that is set in a strip club). The final scene has Marcus and Mo watching a WNBA game, but only because they find the female players attractive.

** In "Perchance to Dream," T.J., Marcus and Mo start a homework helpline to help students, which isn't toll-free (T.J.'s the only one providing answers for obvious reasons). It becomes so successful that they add additional phone lines to handle all the calls, as Marcus and Mo become money-hungry. After Mackey gets a "D-" on a math midterm (due to Marcus and Mo limiting the length of the calls T.J. takes, preventing T.J. from giving more thorough help), Floyd puts the hotline back on track, paring them back down to one line. He then [[{{Lampshading}} lampshades]] how unnecessary Mo and Marcus are to the project when Mo asks what they are going to do when T.J. is taking calls.

** T.J. starts his own newspaper in "Stop the Presses," after he objects to Yvette only assigning him to write puff pieces. ''The Weekly Veritas'' doesn't get any readers until he turns the paper from a serious publication into a tabloid at the suggestion of Marcus and Mo. Needless to say, the inclusion of sensationalized stories and a "Girl of the Week" centerfold feature increases readership. Yvette bribes Mo with movie passes in exchange for a story that was going to be in T.J.'s paper. As retaliation, T.J. doctors a family beach photo featuring a swimsuit-clad Yvette, editing himself and Marcus out of it, and publishes the edited photo of Yvette for the "Girl of the Week" page. Yvette is furious at being made the centerfold as revenge, as is Floyd upon learning of it, resulting in him ordering T.J. to shut down the ''Veritas''. A regretful T.J. offers to let Yvette publish one of his baby pictures in ''The Piedmont Penguin'', but has him do it in a final edition of the ''Veritas'' instead to preserve her journalistic integrity; Floyd, who is fond of the so-called "tush picture", approves of T.J. publishing the embarrassing picture.

** T.J. starts his own newspaper in "Stop the Presses," after he objects to Yvette only assigning him to write puff pieces. ''The Weekly Veritas'' doesn't get any readers until he turns the paper from a serious publication into a tabloid at the suggestion of Marcus and Mo. Needless to say, the inclusion of sensationalized stories and a "Girl of the Week" feature increases readership. Yvette bribes Mo with movie passes in exchange for a story that was going to be in T.J.'s paper. As retaliation, T.J. doctors a family beach photo featuring a swimsuit-clad Yvette, editing himself and Marcus out of it, and publishes the edited photo of Yvette for the "Girl of the Week" page. Yvette is furious at being made the centerfold as revenge, as is Floyd upon learning of it, resulting in him ordering T.J. to shut down the ''Veritas''. A regretful T.J. offers to let Yvette publish one of his baby pictures in ''The Piedmont Penguin'', but has him do it in a final edition of the ''Veritas'' instead to preserve her journalistic integrity; Floyd, who is fond of the so-called "tush picture", approves of T.J. publishing the embarrassing picture.