The PJs

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The PJs was a claymation television series created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It centered around life in a Detroit urban public housing project. The show starred Eddie Murphy, and was produced by Imagine Entertainment by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, Eddie Murphy Productions & Will Vinton Studios in association with Touchstone Television.

41 episodes were aired during the show's three-year run. Each episode took over two months to produce, owing to the laborious claymation process. Originally broadcast on FOX, the show later moved to the Warner Bros. network in 2000-2001, but was soon cancelled due to its high budget.^{[citation needed]} Reruns previously aired on Trio, a cable television network. The PJ's is currently airing weeknights at 3am on the Bravo channel in the United Kingdom.

The PJs won three Emmy Awards and one Annie Award during its run. Some social activists, including director Spike Lee, accused the show of depicting a negative racial view of the projects.[1]

Contents 1 Characters 2 Episode list 2.1 Season 1: 1999 2.2 Season 2: 1999-2000 2.3 Season Three [WB]: 2000-2001 3 References in other series

[edit] Characters

• Thurgood Stubbs - The superintendent of the projects. He is short-tempered and usually gets himself in trouble.
• Muriel Stubbs - Thurgood's wife - the voice of reason.
• Ms. Avery - The senior citizen, who was known notoriously as the one who shot the mailman...and the garbage man.
• Calvin & Juicy - Two children who are best friends and who idolize Thurgood.
• Smokey - The crackhead who always angers Thurgood. His real name is Elister.
• Jimmy Ho - A Korean tenant (married to Bebe). He opened a casino in an unaired episode.
• Bebe Ho - Muriel's trash-talking sister. She hates Thurgood.
• Mambo "Haiti Lady" Garcel - A voodoo practicing tenant at the Hilton Jacobs Project
• Sanchez - Thurgood's friend who is unable to talk. He has to use a cancer kazoo held up to his throat in order to communicate.
• HUD Lady - The social worker at HUD who never gives Thurgood what he wants and simply yells, "Next," at the end of every sentence. Her son's name is Chevron and her daughter's name is Lasagna.

[edit] Episode list

[edit] Season 1: 1999

1. Hangin' With Mr. Super [1/10/1999]
2. Bones, Bugs, & Harmony [1/12/1999]
3. The Door [1/19/1999]
4. The Journal [1/26/1999]
5. Rich Man, Porn Man [2/2/1999]
6. Bougie Nights [2/9/1999]
7. A Hero Aint Nothin But A Super [2/16/1999]
8. He's Gotta Have It [Nominated for an Emmy] [2/23/1999]
9. Boyz N The Woods [4/6/1999]
10. Operation Gumbo Drop [4/13/1999]
11. U Go Kart [5/4/1999]
12. House Potty [5/11/1999]
13. Haiti Sings The Blues [5/18/1999]

[edit] Season 2: 1999-2000

1. How The Super Stoled Christmas [12/17/1999]
2. Home School Dazed [5/30/2000]
3. The Preacher's Life [6/6/2000]
4. The HJs [6/13/2000]
5. Haiti & The Tramp [6/27/2000]
6. Weave's Have A Dream [6/27/2000]
7. Let's Get Ready To Crumble [7/4/2000]
8. Who Da Boss? [7/4/2000]
9. Ghetto Superstars [7/11/2000]
10. Fear Of A Black Rat [7/11/2000]
11. What's Eating Juicy Hudson? [7/18/2000]
12. The Jeffersons [7/25/2000]
13. Robbin HUD [8/1/2000]
14. Cliffhangin With Mr. Super [8/15/2000]
15. The Last Affirmative Action Hero [8/29/2000]
16. Parole officer & A Gentleman [9/5/2000]

[edit] Season Three [WB]: 2000-2001

1. Boyz Under The Hood [10/8/2000]
2. Scathroat [12/31/2000]
3. Smoke Gets In Your High Rise [2/4/2001]
4. National Buffoon's European Vacation [2/11/2001]
5. Cruising For A Bluesing [2/18/2001]
6. It Takes A Thurgood [2/25/2001]
7. Miracle Cleaner on 134th Street [4/29/2001]
8. Survival: In Tha Hood [5/6/2001]
9. Let's Get Ready To Rumba [5/13/2001]
10. A Race To His Credit [5/20/2001]
11. Red Man's Burdem [Unaired]
12. Clip Show [Unaired]

[edit] References in other series

• The manhole cover that served as the show's title card had made appearances on Futurama as an entry point into the mutant-populated sewers of New New York. After seeing this, the writers put a picture of Fry, the main character on Futurama, on a milk carton. This is in tune with the plot of Futurama, in which Fry is frozen in 2000 and thawed in 3000.
• In the episode of The Simpsons Missionary: Impossible, Thurgood is one of the phone operators at the Fox Network fundraising drive.