3rd Season
2000-2001
#1 Boyz Under the Hood
#2 Scarthroat
#3 Smoke Gets in Your High-Rise
#4 National Buffoon's European Vacation
 		#5 Cruising for a Bluesing
#6 It Takes a Thurgood
#7 Miracle Cleaner on 34th Street
#8 Survival: In tha Hood
 		#9 Let's Get Ready to Rumba
#10 A Race to His Credit
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#1 Boyz Under the Hood: Aired Sunday, October 8, 2000

Thurgood and the guys overhaul an abandoned car and it turns out that Juicy is a talented mechanic. Calvin is jealous of Juicy bonding with the guys. Calvin and Juicy end up driving the car, and somehow get involved with a bank robber who is hitch-hiking.

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#2 Scarthroat: Aired Sunday, December 31, 2000

The gang leaves Sanchez out of the New Year's party plans, so he stockpiles supplies in preparation for a Y2K disaster. When disaster strikes, Sanchez helps out his neighbors, but then finds out that they're only being nice to him because they need him. He resorts to a Godfather style of intimidation and bribery until the other tenants rise up against him. Just as the battle is coming to a head the power comes back on and the supermarket opens, ending the stand-off between the tenants with guns and Sanchez with a grenade.

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#3 Smoke Gets in Your High-Rise: Aired Sunday, February 4, 2001

In a deal to get air-conditioning for his sweltering tenants, Thurgood agrees to put a giant cigarette billboard on the side of the building, but the plan backfires as he begins to believe that "Coolio the Crocodile" is taunting him and succumbs to the temptations of smoking. It isn't until Thurgood starts a fire in the boiler room that almost kills everyone in the building that he finally quits.

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#4 National Buffoon's European Vacation: Aired Sunday, February 11, 2001

Juicy develops a schoolboy crush on Muriel, and rather than nip it in the bud, Thurgood capitalizes on the boy's romantic gestures and claims the gifts from a "secret admirer" as his own. When Muriel finds out, she goes to stay with her sister and tells Thurgood she won't be coming back until he proves his love to her. Thurgood has to turn to Juicy for help and together they create a beautiful European getaway for Muriel right in her own back yard.

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#5 Cruising for a Bluesing: Aired Sunday, February 18, 2001

Thurgood and his friends are feeling old, so when Muriel goes to stay with her sick aunt for the night, they go out on the town and decide to play a gig at an old club they remember from their younger days. Thurgood leaves Calvin and Juicy in charge, and the kids take their job seriously, acting as superior and annoying as Thurgood himself. As Thurgood and his pals get lost in their old neighborhood and held up by gangsters, Haiti Lady and Mrs. Avery decide to teach the haughty young boys a lesson. Their plan fails, however, and Calvin and Juicy just end up playing with Haiti Lady's voodoo dolls, causing Thurgood to do some crazy moves that scare the gun-toting gangsters away. Thurgood and his band despair when they finally get to the old club and it seems closed down, but they finally find the owner who admits them and lets them play to an empty house. Meanwhile, Haiti Lady creates a huge cyclops using magic that finally scares the boys silly.

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#6 It Takes a Thurgood: Aired Sunday, February 25, 2001

While Thurgood is on probation with HUD, Calvin and Juicy let a pretty homeless girl live in the boiler room. When Thurgood discovers the girl, Sharique, he freaks out and tells HUD that she's his daughter. He and the other Hilton Jacobs residents transform the uptown rich girl into a girl from the 'hood to convince a government inspector, but of course they bungle the operation hopelessly. When the government inspector asks for the truth, he finds out that Sharique's rich parents are in jail for investment fraud and she has no one to take her in. She says she's happy at Hilton Jacobs, so he tells her to stay because then she's one less problem for the government. Mrs. Avery ends up taking her in.

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#7 Miracle Cleaner on 34th Street: Aired Sunday, April 29, 2001

When Sharique wants to sell her new cell phone/make-up compact invention, Thurgood tells her the story of his miracle cleaner. While trying to make hot sauce, Thurgood accidentally concocted an amazing miracle cleaner. He sells the formula to a big conglomerate, but the company makes a slight change in the formula that makes the cleaner an addictive drug. Thurgood complains, but the company threatens his safety and that of his family. Thurgood finally exposes the company on Don King Live.

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#8 Survival: In tha Hood: Aired Sunday, May 6, 2001

The residents of the projects are split into two rival tribes, one led by Muriel and one by Thurgood, for a televised competition, "Survival: In tha Hood." The winner gets $400, which Muriel hopes to use to convert the boiler room into a rec room for the kids, but Thurgood, desperate to save his boiler room for himself, creates an alliance against Muriel so he can get the money for himself. Thurgood wins the game, but admits that he never pays taxes and so gets arrested. Muriel is successful in creating her rec room.

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#9 Let's Get Ready to Rumba: Aired Sunday, May 13, 2001

Mrs. Avery's new zest for life after surviving a heart attack leads her to challenge champs Bebe and Jimmy in a local dance contest. Meanwhile, Thurgood, still humiliated from dancing at his own wedding, refuses to enter the competition with Muriel. Muriel decides to dance with Sanchez, while Thurgood turns to Mrs. Avery for dance lessons so that he can dance with his wife. Mrs. Avery teaches Thurgood well, and then demands that he be her partner. Thurgood can't turn Mrs. Avery down, and upsets Muriel by competing against her. Once Mrs. Avery makes the finals with Thurgood, she sabotages herself and Sanchez, causing Thurgood and Muriel to pair up and beat the trash-talking Jimmy and Bebe.

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#10 A Race to His Credit: Aired Sunday, May 20, 2001

Thurgood becomes the first man in the projects with a credit card and treats the Hilton-Jacobs tenants to the luxuries that only rich people can afford. However, when the bills get to be too much for him to handle, he and Muriel work around the clock and still can't get out of debt. Finally, they sell off all their new belongings along with Muriel's quilt that was given to her by her grandmother.

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