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1* AbilityOverAppearance: Tyler James Williams doesn't look or sound anything like the real Chris Rock but his endearing performance more than makes up for it. In fact, Rock was apprehensive about casting him because he felt that Williams didn’t have the look of someone that “everyone hates”.
2* AdoredByTheNetwork: In Brazil. The open-air station responsible airs it many times as well.
3* BillingDisplacement: Terry Crews has top billing over the cast, which is bizarre seeing how Tichina Arnold was a more reputable actor than Crews at the time the show premiered. The actual star, Tyler James Williams, gets a special “And” credit.
4* ChannelHop: Having premiered in the final year of Creator/{{UPN}}, it was forced on the show as it joined the inaugural lineup of Creator/TheCW.
5* InMemoriam: In the episode "Everybody Hates a Part-Time Job" was dedicated to Ray Cymoszinski, the sound mixer of the show, who died in Christmas 2005, 15 days before this episode aired.
6* PopCultureUrbanLegends: A common theory for the series' ending is that it was because, since the last season was set in the year of 1987, the following season would have to be set in 1988; and since Chris Rock's real life dad, Julius Rock, died precisely that year, he stopped the show to avoid having to portray his father's death. In reality, the series ended simply because the child actors were growing too old, and the years the show is set in don't match the years of Chris Rock actual teenagehood anyway (he was a teen in TheSeventies, not TheEighties).
7* PlayingAgainstType: Terry Crews as Julius, a lovable and easygoing patriarch. He was more of a ScaryBlackMan in all his previous roles. But he plays it to the ''hilt'' when Malvo threatened Chris in "Everybody Hates Chain Snatching".
8* RealLifeRelative: Tyler James Williams's brothers Tylen Jacob and Tyrel Jackson played Little Chris and Baby Drew, respectively, in the episodes "Everybody Hates Halloween" and "Everybody Hates Greg".

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