The homecoming dance is approaching, and no one, including chaperone Steve, is happy with their dates. Romeo and Bullethead turn to Steve for help with the homecoming dance; Cedric joins a video dating service. - - - Steve enters the office to find Cedric attempting to pick the lock to the supply cabinet. Cedric explains he needs to borrow the video camera to record a tape for the new video dating service he has joined. Steve promises he can use the camera the in apartment. Although he's upset by the cost of this year's homecoming dance, Romeo won't let Sophia help him out with some money. Instead, he works extra shifts in order to make enough money to pay for the dance. Bullethead searches for the nerve to ask Sara, but when he can't muster the courage, Steve offers a few pointers. Sara, the other hand, hopes to go with football star Dexter King. Despite Steve's advice, Bullethead is too late when Dexter asks Sara and she accepts. Regina tells Steve he will be a chaperone at the

Steve gets Regina to help trick his mother into believing they're a couple; Romeo makes two dates for the same night.

When Steve scores hard-to-get tickets to a concert, Regina agrees to go out with him.

Steve tries to put some ""sparks"" into Regina's dull party -- and proceeds to set the roof on fire. Then, he offers to let her stay at his place. - - - As Regina invites Steve and Cedric to her annual ""Spring Fling,"" Cedric recalls last year's boring party. Regina hires Sophia, Bullethead, Romeo and Sara to work as servers, but Romeo plans on taking advantage of the situation and turning his friendly relationship with Sara into a romantic one. After hitting it off with Rochelle, a woman he met at the car wash, Cedric is ready to go to Regina's party. Once Steve arrives with Cedric and his date, he finds that the party's staid atmosphere is even worse than expected. Steve offers to liven things up. As Romeo showers Sara with compliments, it appears things might turn in Romeo's favor after all. But as Steve sends the party's guests into a dancing frenzy, Cedric discovers his new girlfriend is married to Scar, a former Navy SEAL presently a SWAT sharpshooter. When Bullethead and Soph

Steve gives a birthday gift to Regina on her birthday, to show her he cares. But Regina also gets a gift from another admirer, an expensive gift, and believes the expensive gift is from Steve. - - - Regina reminds Steve his supervision of two junior high students, participating in a Fine Arts exchange program, begins today. Steve is excited at the prospect of shaping two new minds until he discovers Junior and Vincent, boys whom he and Cedric mentored in the Big Brother program, are the students. Upon their arrival, Junior makes it clear he has a crush on Regina. Steve warns the two youngsters they are in for a tough day, only to find they are better prepared to discuss the lesson than are his own students. Meanwhile, Romeo and Bullethead try to save a frog from a biology class experiment.

Cedric wins a cooking contest when he enters his chocolate chip cookies. The victory results in a local television appearance, which he hopes will launch a new business venture. While Vincent,

Steve and Cedric argue over Lovita making herself too much at home in the apartment, so Ced storms out and spends the night at Regina's. - - -

As Lovita and Cedric spend more and more time together, Steve quickly tires of her constant presence at the apartment. Steve's fuse burns faster when he discovers Cedric and Lovita have eaten all his food and Lovita wears one of his shirts to work. Steve complains to Regina, who suggests Steve take a lesson from Cedric's loving relationship.

Meanwhile, after she's asked on a date, Aisha needs help learning to dance. Romeo offers to assist her and, as they dance together, Romeo wonders why he isn't the one taking her to the event.

Back at the apartment, Steve and Cedric discuss their problem. Steve still won't back down from his assertion that Lovita spends far too much time at their apartment. Cedric suggests Steve is simply jealous of his success with Lovita. Steve asks him to move out. Angry, Cedric leaves.

After his mother refuses to have h

Regina drives her partner Cedric hard, in her quest to win the school's dance contest. - - -

Following their previous second-place finish, Regina is determined she and Cedric will win the charity dance contest this time. While Cedric is more than happy teaming up once again with Regina for a run at the title, Lovita isn't. Steve enjoys watching Cedric squirm out of the most uncomfortable of positions.

After class, Steve delivers aptitude exam results to Romeo. Romeo thanks him and throws them away. As Steve opens the envelope, he attempts to soften the blow until he realizes Romeo's score identifies him as a genius. Romeo is thrilled, while Steve is skeptical.

Trying to keep Lovita happy, Cedric agrees to fix her a very special dinner provided he and Regina can stay a team. Meanwhile, Romeo transforms himself into a serious student who scores well on his exams and presents lucid reports to his classmates.

After getting too wrapped up in rehearsals with Regina, Cedric completely forge

Steve and Cedric are up for membership in a men's club, where they'll be ""rubbing elbows with Chicago's business elite"". Romeo and Bullethead use a new camera to meet girls. - - -

A new camera appears to be just the magnet Romeo and Bullethead need to attract the school's most beautiful girls. Taking advantage of the situation, they plan to take pictures of the hottest girls under the guise of using them in the school newspaper.

After they are invited to join the exclusive Onyx Club, Steve and Cedric are certain their stars are on the rise. Warned by Regina not to take their final interviews lightly, Steve and Cedric take care to impress the membership committee. And to celebrate their admission, they invite Regina and Lovita to the club's annual Charity Casino Night.

As Romeo and Bullethead plan their photo shoots, they ask Steve - under the pretense of using it as a study hall - for access to his classroom. After a quick lesson on responsibility, Steve agrees.

At Casino Night, Lov

Bullethead and Romeo get the OK to take driver's ed, now being taught by Steve.

Steve's girlfriend, who works for the IRS, learns that Cedric is committing tax fraud.

Steve wants to rekindle an old flame, but his former girlfriend has some news that might change his mind.

A breakup leaves Steve broken, as does an injury he received while helping Regina move furniture. Meanwhile, Cedric tries to stamp out Lovita's petty jealousies.

While Cedric is away at a coaches conference, his grandmother stays at Steve's apartment and torments Lovita. Meanwhile, Lydia, Romeo and Bullethead are bullied by a female student.

Steve poses as Lovita's fiancé when Cedric is unable to attend premarital counseling, and a bond forms between them that Cedric finds disturbing. Meanwhile, Romeo and Bullethead's band auditions for a school dance and Regina tries to be more hip.

Retrieving a top hat for his wedding gets Cedric locked in a storage room with Steve--just as the ceremony is about to begin.