Thea

- Season 1

(1993)

Thea has a hectic routine: working at the supermarket checkout by day, dressing hair by night, and supervising her four demanding children. Jarvis gives his mother $25 which he earned delivering sandwiches during his school lunch hour, but she insists that he keep the money and eat his own lunch in the cafeteria. Danesha returns from taking James clothes-shopping, and James blabs that he had to keep trying on ill-fitting clothes while she talked on the phone to her new boyfriend Leonard, whom she's meeting at the library later. Thea insists that Leonard pick Danesha ...

Jerome is failing English because of his desperate attempts to make the school basketball team. When Thea forces him to finish his book report on "To Kill a Mockingbird", he doesn't make the team but gets a B on his report. Meanwhile, Danesha attempts to submit a video to America's Funniest Home Videos

The washing machine breaks down, which means endless trips to the laundromat. Meanwhile, Danesha's boyfriend is in hot water after he kisses another girl, and Thea puts him through the wringer before he can come clean with Danesha

Thea gets a chance to train for manager, but Jerome plans a boxing-match party while Thea is at her night-school class

Jarvis lets his younger brother drive and they get into an accident, but the boys don't tell their mother who was behind the wheel. To punish them, Thea cooks up a scheme with Lynette, who pretends to have lost her wedding ring in her trash, now at the bottom of a very fragrant dumpster

Conflict brews when Arthur invites Jarvis to his bachelor party but Thea thinks he's too young to attend

Thea is called to attend a parent-teacher meeting when son Jerome acts up in his math class.

On her birthday, Thea's treasured gift of tickets to a Motown reunion concert go unused when her boss calls her in to work a replacement shift

Jarvis and Jerome plan to split up Danesha's romance with Leonard.

Danesha is put in charge of cooking the Thanksgiving meal when Thea must work at the market.

Thea invests money in stocks that Jerome suggests after he gets an A on a stock-market project for school.

Jarvis procrastinates putting up the Christmas lights because he's afraid of heights

Danesha's class project partner, the school's star athlete, counts on her to do all the work

Thea finds herself is a hairy situation when she is unable to afford mandated improvements to her home salon and an inspector wants to close her business down.

Ebonie Smith plays a popular girl who uses Jerome to make her boyfriend jealous.

Danesha is paired with a basketball star for a school project, but he tries to pass all the work off on her

Thea takes a day off, leaving the kids to do the household chores. She visits her favorite barbecue joint, Mickey's, but Mickey has died and new owner Roy's cooking doesn't come close, so Thea joins the restaurant as the head chef.

Barbecue-sauce chef Thea is offered a restaurant partnership

An unethical banker threatens to foreclose on the restaurant after Thea and Roy deny him special favors.