Heartwarming / Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Hates Heartwarming Moments

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• Any time..
  • Someone shows even the most basic kindness to Chris.
    • Despite the latter's constant torture of the former, Chris and Caruso are capable of getting along. The best examples would be Everybody Hates Funerals, Everybody Hates the Buddy System, and Everybody Hates Caruso.
    • Almost every time Ms. Morello interacts with Chris. She is an Innocent Bigot who genuinely loves and cares for Chris but believes every stereotype of black people in the book. This doesn't stop her from doing numerous good deeds for Chris, such as setting up a huge surprise gift with the local news because she believes his family is far too poor to celebrate Christmas.
  • Things work out without a hitch for Chris.
  • The family all gets along, especially Chris, Drew, and Tonya.
  • An episode revolves around events that test Chris and Greg’s friendship but in the end, they always work things out.
• This narration from the first episode, one of the defining descriptions of Julius.
  "My father wasn't the type to say 'I love you'. He was one of four fathers on the block. 'I'll see you in the morning' meant he was coming home. Coming home was his way of saying 'I love you'."
• In "Everybody Hates Chain Snatching", Rochelle finds out that Julius had been hiding a credit card from her. Julius explains that he had gotten the card 15 years ago because he needed the money. He bought only one thing with the card, which took him 7 years to pay off. What was the one thing he bought? Rochelle’s wedding ring.
• In "Everybody Hates Earth Day", it's revealed that Rochelle's yelling is not because she does it to be mean to her children; if Rochelle didn't yell at all, nothing would get done around the Rock household and she'd be walked all over like a doormat; she just loves her children that much and wants them to be respectful to themselves and others.
• The way Chris' normally jerkass classmates fell pity for him after his grandfather dies. Even Caruso gives him his condolences.
  Narrator: He later punched a Chinese kid in my honor.
• Chris and Tasha kissing in "Everybody Hates New Year's"
  • Speaking of the said episode, this may not seem heartwarming at all, but the reason that Rochelle refused to let Chris go with Peaches and Malvo, two ex-cons mind you, to Times Square is that she was worried about Chris being alone in such a huge gathering of people even if she didn't show it and while she may be a tad hard on her children, Rochelle still loves them.
  • There's even one for Julius: he was trying his hardest to get home to his family in time for New Year's, putting aside everything else and trying his hardest to accomplish that goal. Granted, he does manage to get there after managing to convince a man not to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge by having a long banter about many famous people who had problems, yet they didn't jump off bridges. Saving that guy's life could technically be a second heartwarming thing.
• In "Everybody Hates Funerals", after being threatened by his grandma to be knocked into another family after bravely defending Rochelle, Chris imagines what it would be like to be knocked into another family. The family do inquire on whom Chris is, and when Chris tells them that they don't want to know what happened, they don't question it further or overreact to this abnormality. Instead, they allow him to bond with them and watch some television. Quite the Pet the Dog moment, indeed.
  • Chris standing up for his Mom, despite it being a lose-lose situation is this. Even more so because Rochelle is often harsh, if not a bit abusive, towards Chris and he still stood up for her. Later Julius doesn't even get mad at him, just gently encourages him to be patient with his grandmother's critical ways.
  • After Rochelle delivers "The Reason You Suck" Speech to her relatives for criticizing her and taking advantage of her hospitality (and their annoying traits), she is in bed resting when Julius brings her a new box of Turtles to eat and tells her that he is proud of her for standing up for herself to her overbearing mom, even laughing with her about the idea of her smacking her Mom with a brick. Shows that even with her snobbish ways, Julius has an affection for Rochelle and her strong will, even appreciating that trait and actually wanting her out of her Extreme Doormat phase she was under with her family. Julius likes Rochelle as she is.
  • During the funeral, many recurring characters approach Chris and his family to pay their respects and show their condolences. Special mention goes to Jerome (who Julius and Rochelle didn't know at the time, funnily asking each other who he was) who approaches Chris and lets him "hold a dollar" while explaining he robbed his grandfather a few times, apologizing because he didn't know he was related to the "Little Dude From Across The Street".
• In “Everybody Hates Halloween,” when Keisha rudely rejects Chris’ offer for her to dance with him (though the narration clarifies that she only said "no" to him and it only felt like she was rude to him like that), an older woman named Lisa takes pity on the poor guy and allows Chris to dance with her.
• In "Everybody Hates Gretzky" Chris, knowing that he will face the wrath of Rochelle, skips school to accompany Drew to meet Wayne Gretzky to look out for him. By the end of their journey, Chris, for the first time, sees Drew as a friend not a little brother, and Drew thanks Chris for looking out for him and considers the day he spent with his brother one of the best days of his life even though he never got to meet Gretzky in the end.
• Greg finally attends high school with Chris, after briefly having to attend another school.
• A handful of episodes imply Tonya, for all her brattiness, has at least a somewhat close relationship with Drew.
• According to Terry Crews on an interview with GQ, he was thanked by many members of Chris Rock's family for his portrayal as Julius. Julius was based on The Rock family patriarch and he died relatively young (before Chris Rock's career made him successful). When Chris met Terry Crews on the set of The Longest Yard, he saw him as the perfect fit for the role after seeing him with his own family. Terry Crews felt honoured to play such an iconic figure in Chris Rock's life and he ends the segment by saying how proud he is to have played that role.
• In “Everybody Hates the Babysitter,” Rochelle insists on hiring a babysitter for the night despite Julius's objections that Chris could watch them because Chris already takes care of the kids for them during the day. And when she finds out that he ended up watching the kids anyways, the episode ends on her getting ready to, in her own words, kick the babysitter's ass.

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