Breanna's crush on a handsome football player inspires her to do the unthinkable. Meanwhile, Duane pulls a fast one on Flex, who finds himself in a surprising new sideline.

Playing Possum

Kyla Pratt

Flex Alexander

Robert Ri'chard

Kelly Perine

Sicily Johnson

Ellen Gittelsohn

Eunetta T. Boone

Phantom Menace

Let's Wait Awhile

Baltimore sportscaster Mark ""Flex"" Washington finds his bachelor's paradise disrupted when his feisty 14-year-old daughter, Breanna, comes to live with him full-time. Flex is used to the carefree life of a young single man, complete with junk food, sports and women. Breanna is accustomed to no rules and all fun when she visits her dad for two weeks a year. But when the demands of her mother's new job make it necessary for Breanna to move in with her father for the foreseeable future, Flex must adjust to raising a teenager on a day-to-day basis. In the series premiere, Breanna's jealousy of Flex's date causes her to act out, straining their relationship.

When Flex Got Breanna

When Breanna finds out that her friends are going to a club for ages (14-18) and figures her father won't mind, she decides to follow them to the club. Meanwhile, Duane is trying to avoid a customer he cheated. When Flex comes home from work and finds his parents there and learns that his daughter Breanna was at a club without any permission, he shows her what it's like to be an adult. Which isn't easy. Meanwhile, Duane ends up at Flex's house with the customer he cheated.

Jailbait

Flex gets his first taste of what it's like to be an overprotective father when, Tracy, Breanna's best friend from Atlanta, comes for a weekend visit and is revealed to be a 16-year-old boy. The situation becomes even more complicated when Breanna discovers that she may have more than friendly feelings for Tracy and seeks out dating advice from Flex's girlfriend, Tonya. Meanwhile, Duane makes a bird-brained attempt to get an autograph from the retiring Cal Ripken Jr.

Radioactive Platonic

Flex and Breanna find themselves at loggerheads over where she should go to school. While Breanna is eager to attend a funky public school for the performing arts, Flex prefers that she enroll in a posh private academy. But once he hears her excruciatingly bad singing voice, he agrees to let her audition for the performing arts school.

School Dazed

Flex is dismayed when Breanna tries to recover from her recent heartbreak by taking on the persona of a ""player,"" flirting outrageously and toying with every boy around. But he is even more distressed to discover that she's emulating him.

My Life as a Dog

While Breanna is away on a school ski trip, Flex snoops into her room where he makes a shocking discovery. In alarm, he rushes to the ski resort to put a halt to her shenanigans and to have a long-overdue fatherly talk about the birds and the bees.

Flex's competitive spirit is kicked into high gear when an old nemesisâ€”a successful player on and off the courtâ€”moves into the neighborhood. His apprehension grows worse when the man throws a hot Hallowe'en party. Meanwhile, Breanna, Spirit and Arnaz's spying leads them to witness something they wish they hadn't seen.

It's Breanna's 15th birthday, and she's very excited. After recieveing such cool presents from her Grandma and Mom, Flex tries to top them all by inviting Lil' Zane to Breanna's birthday party. Everything starts to go wrong when Duane tells Breanna before Flex can actually invite him. In the end after all that stalking Flex is finally able to get him to perform at Breanna's birthday party.

Fifteen Candles

MTV decides to shoot a documentary of Flex's home, but Tayna decides to decorate his home before they come. After the finishing touches Flex's manly bachelor pad turns into a woman's dreamhouse. He decides to change his apartment back to the way it was and change the date of the documentary. When Tayna finds out she gets deeply hurt and decides that their relationship is over.

Mi Casa Es Mi Casa

Breanna's mother comes to town for Thanksgiving. Flex at first disagrees, but he soon falls in love with her again. They make love and the next day Breanna catches them thinking that her parent's are coming back together again. Later they attend Breanna's  football game and after that they started arguing, so Breanna has some second thoughts about this parents together thing.

Thanksgiving It to Me, Baby

Once again Breanna's mother has come over for the holidays. This time she feels sick. Later on Flex's whole family comes over for Christmas, and Breanna's grandma discovers that Nicole is pregnant. Breanna overhears and tells Flex. At first their all happy about it thinking that it's a miracle, but when she takes a pregnancy test she realizes that there's no baby, but Breanna says that there's still a miracle because her parents are together for Christmas.

Santa Baby

Breanna gets the leading part in a play called Shakespeare's ""The Taming Of The Shrew"". When the lines become old and whack Breanna decides to liven it up in a 2pac version, but when she lets her ego get the best of her the director decides that Spirit should have the role leaving Breanna as her understudy. Meanwhile Flex is having some competition trying to get the lead sports anchor position at his job. Also Duane has discovered that he is related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., so he decides to make a tunnel to dedicate him.

Tame Me, I'm the Shrew

After Flex's father eats unheatly and gets a heart attack Flex decides to take risk and live his life as the last day everyday. Meanwhile at Breanna's highschool the upcoming Ghetto-Fabulous dance arrives and Arnaz brings his country cousin for a visit. She wants to go to the dance but not until Breanna and Spirit give her a ghetto makeover.

The Case of the Almost Broken Heart

Breanna goes on her first date with a boy named Keith and just as Duane and Flex remember their dating days he decides to tag along with Breanna on her date. They go to the movies and Flex annoys the couple even more. When he finally decides to go to se another movie he runs into the sexy mother of Breanna's boyfriend! The kids of the parents are not happy and Breannna and Keith put their heads together to think up a way for their parents to stop dating. Meanwhile Duane has to take his boss' wife out to dinner but she begins to fall madly in love with Duane and wants him. When Duane says no she starts to think she is unattractive to him until Nate Dogg shows up and woo's her.

Adventures in Double-Dating

When a music contest comes up Flex and Duane decide to have a reunion with their highschool band ""Midnight Gold"", but during rehearsal Duane turns out to have an incredible singing voice and the band wants him as leader instead of Flex but will he remain in Flex shadow forever or will he finally stand up to Flex and make something out of himself? Meanwhile when Tiffany gets a broken ankle she tricks Breanna into being the coach of the cheerleaders for revenge, but in the end Breanna's efforts on the team helps them win a cheerleading trophee award which Tiffany decides to take credit for.

Me and My Shadow

Flex is a ladies man and can't help but love to tangle with the opposite sex, but when he makes a bet with Stacy his boss to keep off of women for 3 days he has to learn to diminish his cravings. Also Arnaz plays one of Flex's old albums and Breanna scratches it and when Duane sees this they become his slaves so he'll keep his mouth shut until Flex finds out and tells them that Duane scratched it a long time ago so, Breanna, Arnaz, and Spirit then plan to get revenge.

It's Raining Women

Flex dates famous show host Michelle McCall. She'll date him and do anything for him but only if he keeps their relationship secret so her fans won't find out what she's been up to. They make love and the next day cameras and news reporters come flooding to Flex's door finding out about their relationship. Flex soon finds out that Duane is the one who squealed. Meanwhile Breanna's friend Natasha comes to town and she has a crush on Arnaz. When they meet they instantly fall in love but Natasha asks Breanna permission to date Arnaz. She allows her and they take their relationship to the next level but Breanna gets jealous along the way.

The Way You Make Me Feel

Flex thinks that he and his boss Stacy are hitting it off, but what he doesen't know is that his best friend Duane has been secretly dating her. It's hard for them to hide it from Flex but when they both have to go on a buisness trip together Duane takes it to the extreme. Meanwhile that Flex is out of town Breanna and Spirit throw a party. Arnaz brings Natasha over and Breanna once again gets jealous. She tries to stop them but when their about to have sex all Arnaz can think about is Breanna. Also a boy named Lewis tries to get with Breanna. At the trip Duane can't take it and tries to stop Stacy and Flex from having sex only to reveal his relationship to Flex.

Love Means Never Having to Say I Know You

At McKinley highschool all the cool boys are called Pro's. They have a hottie list and if you're a girl and you get on it you're a hottie. Breanna gets on the list and starts to think that she's cool. Spirit didn't get on the list so she starts to dress sexy to impress Derrick, the leader of the McKinley Pro's. Meanwhile at a hangout Flex meets an old flame, his ex-girlfriend Tonya who is engaged to be married to her new guy. She tells Flex that she met him at and anger-support group when they broke up and now she and Flex decide to be friends, but this gets complicated when they start to have feelings for each other in his apartment. Back at the highschool Arnaz gets to be the new member of the McKinley Pro's and finds out from Derrick that they are also known as the Panty Possie who has sex with all the hotties. At the party Derrick plans to have sex with Spirit but Breanna and Arnaz stop it. Flex goes over to Tonya's apartment late at night and not knowing it's Flex but thinking it'

Fatal Attractions

Tonya turns on the lights and a shocked Flex wakes up. She tells him that she thought he was a burgular. After that they turn off the lights and make love all weekend. By Monday Flex can't find his keys because Tonya has hidden them. She wants to have more sex from Flex but he has to go to work, so he spots his keys and runs the minute she's not looking. When he's finished at his job and gets home from work the whole house has romantic items in it. Breanna says that it's from Tonya and she has declared off her engagement from her fiance. Flex goes to Tonya immediately and tries to reason with her but she won't listen. When he leaves she throws his picture at a wall. Flex then tries to woe another woman but the waiters along with serenaders keep doing things that remind Flex of Tonya then the main waiter says that these were all compliments of his wife Tonya. That puts a dent in Flex's evening and he suddenly remembers why he didn't commit to Tonya, because she's litterally crazy about

Misery

Spirit and Breanna practice before Arnaz shows up, then when he does Breanna gets nervous and messes up. She decides to tell Arnaz that she loves him another way by putting her feelings for him on a video tape. She does it but the problem is she has a chunk of spinach in her teeth while recording it. Meanwhile Breanna's mother Nicole has come back in town to host a celebrity basketball game and Flex decides to be in it. Breanna thinks he'll be okay but Nicole warns her that her father is more in love with basketball than herself. During practice he seems a little rusty but in the last quarter of the game the coach puts him in and he turns out to be a basketball superstar. After the game the coach decides to return him to the NBA. He accepts but Nicole warns him that he might not have time for Breanna anymore, but Flex says that he'll always make room for his daughter. Back at the house Breanna finds out that she had spinach in her teeth so she and Spirit go undercover to get the tape b

He Got Game...Again

A sportscaster becomes a full-time dad when his ex-wife decides to accept a job out of the country and his teenage daughter, Breanna, moves in with him.

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