
Ahmad befriends Callie ( Tamara Hope), a female student at his school. Maxine mortgages her one-third ownership in Big Mama’s house to invest in an IPO Lem uses some of his ill-gotten gain to invest as well. Arrested while trying to purchase a bootleg video game for Ahmad, Kenny is persecuted by the interrogating police detective ( Bokeem Woodbine) and jailed with a mentally unstable prisoner ( Lamont Bentley). Maxine and Teri clash over the preparations for Ahmad’s 12th birthday party. Teri & Damon are mugged by a man who was Teri's class mate in highschool. Hardy Lester tries to avoid the court order awarding 50% ownership of the grocery store to the sisters. With Lem out of work again, he decides to help Kenny at Chadway Towing the two become embroiled in a dangerous conflict with a rival towing company.ĭamon finally meets the rest of the Joseph family. Teri meets Damon’s father and stepmother. Maxine befriends one of the only other African-American parents from Ahmad’s school. Ahmad accidentally walks in while Kenny is masturbating. Bird, Lem, Jeremiah and Uncle Pete move back into Big Mama’s house. Jack involves Lem in more felonious activity. Teri defends a corporate racist, to the chagrin of her family and her colleague Josefina ( Eva LaRue). Jack finds work for Lem, but it turns out to be a stolen credit card scam. Lem narrowly avoids arrest, thanks to the intervention of his cousin Jack ( Gary Dourdan), a police detective.

The sisters ask Hardy Lester’s ex-wife ( Gloria Foster) to testify against him. Teri is forced to confront her feelings about Miles when he prepares to leave Chicago with his band ( Case, Montell Jordan, R.L., Jazz (from Dru Hill), and Musiq Soulchild). Unemployed and desperate for money, Lem begins working as a courier for his drug-dealing cousin Franco ( Richard Chevolleau). Tensions and mixed feelings linger between Teri and Miles. Ahmad has problems adjusting to his new private school. The Joseph sisters file a lawsuit against their late father’s business partner ( Richard Roundtree) over ownership of the local grocery store that the two men owned. Water damage to Big Mama’s house forces Bird, Lem, Jeremiah and Uncle Pete to move in with Teri ( Boyz II Men's " A Song for Mama" - which was used as the theme song for the 1997 motion picture-is heard briefly at the beginning of the opening scene). Now divorced from Miles ( Isaiah Washington), Teri goes on a date with Damon Carter, a well-educated delivery man in his twenties.

The Joseph family celebrates the birth of Bird and Lem’s son Jeremiah.

The opening theme song - "The Way Love Goes"-is composed by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Al Green, and performed by Green himself. Hall (reprising her film role as Big Mama). Recurring cast members include Boris Kodjoe ( Damon) and Irma P. The major principal cast members are Rockmond Dunbar ( Kenny), Darrin Dewitt Henson ( Lem), Aaron Meeks ( Ahmad), Nicole Ari Parker ( Teri), Malinda Williams ( Bird) and Vanessa A.
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Episodes Season 1 (2000–01) Īs the series premieres, six months have passed since the events of the 1997 motion picture upon which the series is based.
