5.5/1024 votesLoading...#1 - Double Cheeseburger, Hold the Diploma
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/18/1994
During detention, Mark gets the kids to write job applications. Earvin gets a job and drops out of scool. He starts working at a hamburger restaurant (Clown Burger). Since it was Mark's idea to write the application, Earvin's mother tells Mark to go to that restaurant and talk Earvin into coming back to school. Mark brings Tyler and Nicole when he goes down there. In the hamburger restaurant, Mark argues with Earvin and tries to embarass him. Finally, he gets Earvin top come back to school. But Earvin's mother still wants Earvin to have a part-time job and Mark is going to help him get one.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1018 votesLoading...
#2 - Christmas Show
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1994
It's Christmas. Mark accidentally leaves a window open. When they get back, they have been robbed.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1014 votesLoading...
#3 - Guys' Night Out
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1995
After being pestered by Geneva, Mark reluctantly tries to help Geneva's boyfriend, Ken, become a part of Mark's group of male friends.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1019 votesLoading...
#4 - Air Cooper
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1993
Vannessa new boyfriend decideds to put Mark in a commerical advertsing these new shoes, since he played with the Warriors and all. If agress to do and ask P.J. if they could you the school gym for the commercial. She said that if he got her a pair of the tennis shoes then it would be a deal. On the other hand Nicole has to do a report on the person that she thinks is a hero to her and she is not allowed to do her parents so she decide to do Mark as her hero. She follows him around and then tells the kids at school that he will be staring in the commercial. Vannessa goes over to her boyfriend/the director for lunch. She finds out that Mark will be wearing the brand X shoes while a superstar actually gets to wear the other ones. They decide to tell Mark but he says that they should just go ahead. Then the director puts a banner up which says ""Those Who Can Play, Those who can't teach"" They decide to put a stop to the commercial. Well the dircector gets fired and his boss made the chang
Director: N/A
Writer: Gigi McCreery, Perry Rein
- 5.9/1017 votesLoading...
#5 - Coach
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1995
Mark finally gets his dream job as the school's head basketball coach after Coach Corley leaves the position to coach college basketball.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Jeffrey Duteil
- 6.1/1019 votesLoading...
#6 - Matinee
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1994
Mark takes Nicole and a few of her friends to the matinee only to suffer through the pains of taking little kids to the movies.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1017 votesLoading...
#7 - True Romance
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1994
While Mark substitutes for a sportswriter friend by writing a sports column, he is continually interrupted when people ask his advice on their love lives.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1024 votesLoading...
#8 - The Ringer
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1995
Geneva convinces Mark to coach Nicole's all-girl basketball team, which hasn't won a game all season. Determined to help the girls win, Mark convinces Tyler to dress up like a girl and play on the team.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Scott S. Gorden
- 6.1/1018 votesLoading...
#9 - Down in the Dumps
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1995
Mark and Vanessa are determined to win the lottery and enlist Geneva's help in obtaining her aunt's guaranteed winning formula.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Dan Cross, David Hoge
- 6.2/1020 votesLoading...
#10 - The Goodbye Girl
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1993
Geneva is forcing more rules for Nicole's safety since they now live in Oakland instead of Georgia. Geneva catches Nicole riding her bicycle to the store to buy candy. Geneva punishes her and Mark and Vanessa think Geneva is being harsh on Nicole. Tyler recommends that Nicole should get a divorce from Geneva. Mark convinces Geneva to use reverse pshycology and soon Nicole would want to follow Geneva's rules. Nicole is having a fun time and Mark feels that the reverse pshycology is not working. Will Nicole obey Geneva's rules? Meanwhile, Mark will play poker with his friends and Vanessa wants to get on a date with one of Mark's friends that came off of a divorce from his wife. Vanessa plans to play poker with the guys wearing some clothes that would attract Mark's friend. Instead, Mark convinces Vanessa to talk about sports and wear casual clothes. During the poker game, Vanessa wins everyone's money and Nicole puts hand-cuffs on Mark and Nicole and does not know where the key is. M
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1018 votesLoading...
#11 - Groom and Doom
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1994
Mark stands in the way of Geneva's happiness when she receives a marriage proposal from a man willing to take on being a father figure to Nicole.
Director: Chip Fields
Writer: Charlene Seeger
- 6.2/1022 votesLoading...
#12 - The Swami
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 8/15/1997
To help the school earn money for textbooks, Mark works at a carnival pretending to be a fortuneteller.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: Dan Cross, David Hoge
- 6.3/1020 votesLoading...
#13 - Limpin' Lizards
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1993
Nicole and Vanessa watches ""Lester the Lizard and the Crocodile Kids"", a kids' show on TV. They are searching for a new crocodile kid and Nicole wants to try out. Geneva won't let her. Vanessa wants to meet Lester since he owns a piece of his business and she wants to try to get his account to her company. Mark is teaching Driver's Ed. Earvin and André has got hold of a piece of Lester the Lizard's tail. They got it when they nearly ran over Lester during one of Mark's classes. Mark wants P.J. to get him another class. Driver's Ed is too dangerous. Tyler provokes Geneva to let Nicole audition. P.J. gives Mark a new class. He becomes the school's new Home Ec. teacher. It turns out to be even more dangerous. His eyebrows get burned. Mark takes Nicole to the audition and Vanessa joins them. It turns out that Lester is a woman who smokes and is hated by everybody on the show. She finds Mark attractive and she thinks she has seen him before. Vanessa doesn't get Lester's account. Nicole
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1019 votesLoading...
#14 - Seoul Shake
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1993
Mark gets to be head coach of the high school basketball team. He is holding a try-out for the basketball team. One of the students, Sammy, is going to try out. He is a new student from South Korea. His parents wants to have him work in the family market but the student wants to be on the basketball team. Unfortunately, Sammy does not play very well at the try-out. Sammy brings his parents over to make Mark convince his parents to let Sammy play basketball. Mark tells the parents and Sammy that he should work in the market and Mark agrees with his parents. Sammy does not respect Mark anymore. Meanwhile, Geneva is trying to build Nicole a play house and she has a hard time doing it. Vanessa is still trying to find a job. So, Geneva hires Vanessa to build the desk for $5 an hour. The next day, Mark promises P.J. that the school will win the State Championships. The opening games are a few days away when they find out that their star player is injured. Mark sees Sammy playing basket
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1025 votesLoading...
#15 - The Prince of Soul
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1993
Vanessa starts working at a ""Soul food"" restaurant. There she meets a prince from an African country who she starts seeing. The Prince likes her too and then he proposes to her and Vanessa says yes. Mark and Geneva think he is a con, and Nicole starts to act like a Princess! Dissappointed by the fact that he is accused of being a con the prince calls the wedding off and he leaves for home. But it wasn't till they watch the news later that night that they realize he was really a prince after all. At the end of this episode Mark and Vanessa race off to the airport to stop the plane, but it's too late.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1020 votesLoading...
#16 - Santa's Got a Brand New Bag
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1993
Mark works as Santa in a mall.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/1019 votesLoading...#17 - Trading Places
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1994
Vanessa wants to get a job at a Christian, conservative radio station. She can't tell them that she's living single together with a man. So, she tells the manager, when she has him over for dinner, that Mark is her husband and that Geneva is her wild cousin.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1024 votesLoading...
#18 - House Guest
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1994
Geneva invites P.J. to stay at their house...but Mark didn't anticipate P.J. moving in along with her new little dog, aptly named Monster.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1020 votesLoading...
#19 - Clothes Make the Man
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1994
Mark goes to a men's clothing store to buy a new tie for a weekend banquet and ends up getting conned by a beautiful but cunning saleswoman.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1020 votesLoading...
#20 - One Is the Loneliest Number
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1995
Mark's friend, Steve, convinces Mark that his relationship with his girlfriend Denise is boring. Concluding that Denise is to blame, Mark makes plans to stop dating her, but Denise stops dating him first.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1018 votesLoading...
#21 - True Lies
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1995
Instead of keeping his promise to Nicole to bring her to the circus, Mark lies to her so he can go out with his girlfriend Denise.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1019 votesLoading...
#22 - Hero
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1995
While waiting to use the ATM, Mark witnesses a botched robbery attempt. A woman stops the thief but leaves the scene quickly. Everyone believes that Mark actually prevented the robbery and he doesn't deny it.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Jeffrey Duteil
- 6.4/1032 votesLoading...
#23 - Cheers
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1992
Vanessa's car does not start. Mark, ""Man of the house"", can not fix it either. Robin says that it is an engine problem and convinces Vanessa that she can fix it free of charge. Unfortuntly, Robin takes apart the engine but can not put it back together again. Vanessa finds out and wants Robin to fix it by the weekend. Robin puts back the engine together and the car still does not start. Vanessa is still mad at Robin and Robin doubts her own judgement. It was all over, until Robin bangs the dashboard and the gasoline indicator goes from Full to Empty! Vanessa has been driving the car, without refueling, for 2 weeks! Mark substitutes his first P.E. class in Oakland High and coaches the Girl's Cheeleading Class. Mark finds out that the Division 3 competiton is in 3 days at their school and Oakland High is not a very good squad. The competition (Oakland Prep High School) shows up and does stunts 12 feet high! The only cheer for Mark's team is ""Go Penguins Go! Waddle! Waddle! Waddle!"" The te
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1029 votesLoading...
#24 - Torn Between Two Teachers
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1992
Andre can't choose between his music and basket-ball. Robin wants him to go for his piano-playing but Mark wants him to go for BasketBall.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz
- 6.4/1024 votesLoading...
#25 - School's a Drag
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1993
Geneva has got a job as a music teacher at the High School. Mark tries to show her the ways around the school. They are getting a new principal and the rumour tells that she loves to fire people. It turns out to be Mark's sister's best friend, P.J. Moore. She says that Mark is the kind of teacher she hates. Mark's schedule includes Driver's Ed. and he's not very happy about that. Mark drives the Driver's Ed. car home. Darnell takes it for a ride without Mark's promission. He accidentally hit a lawn mower and gives the owner Mark's name. The owner is going after the school. Mark dresses up as a woman to play the role as the principal when they man is coming to the school. He wants a date with ""P.J."" (who Mark is pretending to be) at a karaokee bar. When they meet there, Mark gets him to sign the settlement. Then the real P.J. shows up. Mark tries to hide from her, but after a while she sees him. She realises that Mark really loves teaching and doesn't fire him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Every episode of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper!
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 1992 to 1997, starring Mark Curry and Holly Robinson. The...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Double Cheeseburger, Hold the Diploma" is the worst rated episode of "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper". It scored 5.5/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/18/1994. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Christmas Show".