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"Everybody Hates Chris" (2005)

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• All episode titles start with the words "Everybody Hates...”.
  
  
• The character 'Drew' is loosely based on Chris Rock's brother Tony Rock. Growing up, real-Chris Rock said that Tony was cooler than he was.
  
  
• Though the German series title "Alle hassen Chris" is a direct translation of the English title, episode titles of the German version start with the words "Chris hasst...” ("Chris hates...”) in the first season. From then onwards "Alle hassen...” ("Everybody hates...”) is used.
  
  

• The first episode scored the highest rating for a comedy premiere on UPN and the third best rating for any program on UPN.
  
  
• After the first season, the show was picked up by The CW, which was created by the merger between UPN and The WB.
  
  
• According to the season 1 DVD release of the show, the episode "Everybody Hates the Babysitter" on the disc has the cast commentary in the episode and said that Tichina Arnold ad-libbed a lot of the things she says in the show.
  
  
• Tequan Richmond auditioned for the role of Chris, but Ali LeRoi and Chris Rock thought he was 'too cool' for that role so they chose him to play Drew.
  
  
• Chris Rock's real family had mom, dad, 6 other brother, 1 other sister, and himself. He said that using 6 brothers and 1 sister would've been weird, so he thought it'd be better to use some of his sibling's personalities to make 2 siblings for the show.
  
  
• Chris Rock's mother's name in real life is Rose.
  
  
• Tichina Arnold composed a theme song for the show and recorded it with 2 of her friends. However, Ali LeRoi and Chris Rock already had some themes in mind, so they kept the ending of it to put in at the end of episodes and before commercial breaks.
  
  

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