Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that starred Mark Curry as the titular character, an NBA player-turned-substitute teacher/gym coach (and later basketball coach). Holly Robinson played his roommate Vanessa. The show ran for five seasons from 1992 to 1997 on ABC, airing a total of 101 episodes.
Mark Cooper is hired as a substitute teacher and his roommate Robin teaches him how to control his students. Alan Thicke guest stars as Jason Seaver from Growing Pains, who gives Mark the Seaver home following the end of Pains.
Michelle Tanner (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) from Full House takes care of Mark when he hurts himself substituting for her class. John Stamos makes an uncredited appearance as Uncle Jesse.
Note: The house is officially changed like the one Mark Cooper lives in 5 years.
Mark is offered a contract to play for a professional basketball team for the warriors and offered to be in the preseason after getting a permanent teaching job as a basketball coach. To be continued...
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"Warriors (Part 2)"
Jeff Melman
Story by : Jeff Franklin Teleplay by : Alan Eisenstock & Larry Mintz
Mark is given a temporary contract to play professional basketball with the Warriors, but must play guard against Charles Barkley. Cooper got cut from the team.
Mark helps Robin settle an argument with her father. Saundra Quarterman who played one of the club patrons would join the cast the next season as Mark's cousin Geneva Lee.
When Vanessa and Geneva get stranded in the middle of a forest due to a broken down car, Mark is forced to chaperone Nicole's slumber party by himself.
Nicole gets the part as the new crocodile kid on the "Lester the Lizard and Crocodile Kids" show. When Mark complains about being assigned as the Driver's.
When Earvin tells Mark that his greatest wish is to see his long-lost father, Mark locates Earvin's dad and invites him to Halloween dance, with nearly disastrous consequences.
Mark persuades Geneva to use "reverse psychology" on the rebellious Nicole, and they let her do anything she wants to teach her the rules are important.
When a man claiming to be an African prince proposes to Vanessa, Mark convinces her that the man is a clever thief trying to cheat them out of their home.
Mark is assigned to teach Black history at an expensive private school for one week. When the principal offers him a job at a much higher salary, Mark has a big decision to make.
It is almost Mark's 30th birthday; Tyler discovers a lump on Mark; after a misunderstanding between Mark and his doctor, Mark believes that he is dying; he goes skydiving and gives away his stuff.
When Mark's demanding employer, P.J., tells him she is going to marry her old boyfriend and quit her job, Mark has to decide if he should tell her a secret that could make her cancel the wedding.
Guest star: Queen Latifah and performs "Just Another Day."
When Vanessa applies for a job at a conservative Christian radio station, she tells the manager that Mark is her husband and Geneva is her wild cousin.
When Vanessa shows Geneva how to have a good time, Geneva hits on a police officer who mistakes them both as prostitutes. They both are arrested, and Mark is arrested while trying to bail them out of jail.
Mark teaches Tyler how to be a tough guy so that he can protect Nicole from a bully at school. When Tyler's approach doesn't work, Geneva goes up to the school and makes a big scene, scaring the bully away. Vanessa takes care of her boss' prized orchid.
Mark and a former college buddy embark upon an all-out competition: first with wrestling, then with women. Vanessa finally manages to get a job answering phones at a doctor's office.
Geneva fights with the video store clerk who claims that she never returned the "Mrs. Doubtfire" tape. Just after mailing a letter to the senator concerning the tape, the kids find it. Mark dates a woman from Vanessa's wishes. When Mark breaks up with her, Vanessa is kicked out of the carpool.
Mark reluctantly plays basketball with former classmate Reggie Wilson (played by Indiana Pacers superstar guard Reggie Miller), now an NBA star. Vanessa connives to go on a date with Reggie.
In order to go on an important coaching interview after he hurts his back, Mark undergoes some experimental treatment for the pain at the doctor's office where Vanessa works. After the treatment, Mark suddenly experiences random muscle spasms, where disastrous results occur.
Vanessa rescues Steve and Mark when are tricked into buying new expensive clothes from a beautiful saleswoman who tells them they are very attractive and wants them to model in a calendar. Geneva is convinced Nicole is a future chess champion.
Mark becomes the new head coach of the undefeated basketball team after Coach Corley quits. He starts to think that he doesn't have what it takes to be a winning coach when the team loses their very first game under his coaching.
After Mark and Denise's break-up. Mark discovers that he really does love her and jumps through hoops to get her back. Nicole and Tyler work together selling candy bars in an effort to win the prize for the most sold, a CD player.
In order to be with his girlfriend, Mark lies to Nicole. Mark allows Nicole to punish him after she realizes that he lied. But soon he is tempted to lie to her again.
Mark becomes a local hero but an awards ceremony reveals the truth. Elihu Harris, the mayor of Oakland, guest stars as himself in his acting debut. Dick Clark also appears as himself.
Note: Outtakes from the episode are shown during the end credits, making it the only episode to have them.
Geneva's crazy Aunt Eunetta (also played by Saundra Quarterman) comes to visit and decides that roommates Mark and Vanessa would be the perfect couple. Nicole is upset when Tyler and his friend won't let her play in their boys-only clubhouse.
Mark tries to help Geneva's boyfriend become a part of his group of male friends with disastrous results. Nicole hides a stray cat in her room, but Vanessa is allergic to cats.
It looks like Mark, Geneva, and Vanessa may all be leaving Oakland forever due to some unexpected surprises good and bad in this season finale cliffhanger.
Note: Final appearance of Nell Carter as P.J. Moore.
Mark, Vanessa, and Geneva return to Oakland after their plans go awry. Geneva gets promoted to high school principal and wonders if she should rehire Mark.
Note: Omar Gooding is promoted to main cast in season 4.
Mark takes advantage of Geneva's position as high school principal. Vanessa refuses to return her wedding gifts, which gives Nicole and Tyler a naughty idea.
Mark has to go clean his grandfather's cabin, and he and Geneva realize they have different memories of the place. Mark Curry plays a dual role as Mark and his grandfather.
Mark mistakenly thinks that Eric has proposed to Vanessa so he asks her to marry him. Mark revokes the proposal when he discovers his mistake, but proposes to her again seriously on a scoreboard at an NBA game. Tim Hardaway and Gary Payton guest stars.
Note: After this episode, the show went on a year-long hiatus.
Mark works at a carnival pretending to be a fortune-teller to help the school earn money for textbooks, but his fake predictions begin to cause problems.
In the series finale, Mark wears a squirrel costume for his wedding pictures with Vanessa, angering her. Will she cancel the wedding?
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