Chris Rock fails his GED and has to return to his all-white school, where he tries to improve his social standing by impersonating a gang member. Chris' mom gets a job at a mattress store, only to discover her husband Julius is her new supervisor.

Chris' neighborhood hosts its annual block party, where Chris tries to spend time with girl-next-door Tasha, and Rochelle gets embroiled in a nasty mac n cheese competition with her arch nemesis Peaches.

Chris feels overshadowed by Drew at school and leans into his identity as "Drew's Brother." Tonya gets a house key but loses it and has to break in. Rochelle forces Julius to make a work friend.

Chris debates using a cheat code in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out to win a free Nintendo, while Rochelle debates kicking her brother out of the house.

When Chris, Drew, and Greg start a breakdancing club to get out of gym class, Greg tests the limits of Chris' friendship. Tonya wants to wear grown up clothes, and the guys at the barbershop try to cure Julius' "butt blindness."

Chris enlists Tonya to help him break up with a girl, Drew prepares to give a speech about the time Jackie Robinson held him as a baby, and Julius tries to one-up his "fake-doctor" chiropractor brother Louis.

Chris gets a gig DJing at a drag ball, while Julius tries to handle Tonya's sore throat on his own without calling Rochelle back from her business trip.