Calvin decides that he wants to be just like Thurgood. But after getting yelled at by Calvin's parents over the phone, Thurgood must change Calvin's mind, and in turn remind himself of how great he is.
When Thurgood stumbles across an old movie theater, he calls on the help of his tenants to fix it. But he ends up making it a porno theater after accidentally bringing in a dirty movie on opening night thanks to Tarnell.
A mysterious tenant (who is actually Hilton Jacobs, the owner of the building) dies and bequeaths his luxury penthouse apartment, which the Stubbses move into and then face criticism from the residents that Thurgood has gone "bougie".
When Thurgood enters a gumbo cooking contest, Juicy enters the contest after encouragement to do so, and a jealous Thurgood decides to sabotage Juicy's gumbo in order to win the contest.
Thurgood decides to renovate the housing project, not by fixing the problems the tenants have, but by adding a space-age toilet that takes care of his main problem of fixing toilets, and forces him to resign.
Haiti Lady places a curse on Thurgood that fails; and she must deal with the loss of both the tenants' and her own self-respect, over her absentee powers.
When Thurgood can't afford to get Muriel a computer for Christmas, he makes a deal with the owner of the pawn shop to repo the items the other tenants can't make their payments for. Unbeknownst to Thurgood, they were skipping their payments to buy Thurgood a Christmas present. Eventually they find out through Nula that Thurgood was the repo Man and proceed to jump him. parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Thurgood sets up a hair salon for Muriel, but Bebe invites herself in as a stylist, taking customers from Muriel, as the customers prefer Bebe’s gossip. Muriel, then blurts out a secret about Bebe, only it’s not gossip. Not liking the taste of her own medicine, Bebe’s disdain leads to the two sisters coming to fisticuffs.
Thurgood is pleased when he finds out that Muriel is going to become his boss, however he gets frustrated when he finds out that she wants to make him work.
When HUD fails to provide the Hilton Jacobs Projects with a new water filter, Thurgood and his posse resort to burglary and discover a distinct absence of honor among thieves.
Sanchez, who was the only person to prepare for Y2K, lords over the distribution of victuals after New Year's Eve brings a power outage and food shortage to the Hilton-Jacobs Projects.
Thurgood gets a credit card and, thinking that it's free money, spends it on anything and everything he wants—until he realizes that credit card users have to pay back what they buy.
Jimmy cashes in on his American Indian ancestry when he opens a casino in the projects. Note: The episode was not shown on The WB, but was aired on syndication networks.
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"Clip Show"
Earlton Davis
Steve Tompkins & Larry Wilmore
2003 (2003)
PJ-220
N/A
Thurgood talks about his life making the show to an interviewer, with clips from past episodes used to illustrate his points. This episode is done from a lack-of-fourth wall perspective and features a different voice actor for Thurgood. Note: The episode was not shown on The WB, but was aired on syndication networks.
