Why Eddie Murphy's 'The PJ's' Ended - Here's Why
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- www.hypeplustv.com/ - In 1999 Eddie Murphy would take on animation with his series The PJs, which was to help add a voice to the inner city. Murphy alongside a respected cast would entertain viewers for 3 seasons but would unfortunately come to an end. We explore why the show was canceled in this episode of 'Here's Why'. Instagram: @ComedyHype & Twitter: @ComedyHype_
- Komedie
I actually found the entire series on DVD at a goodwill and decided to get it out of curiosity. What an amazing show!
@Robin D if I’m not mistaken, I think it was $10-15?
🥰🤜🏾🤛🏾🥰 great find I’m a thrifter too
@@marzdavinci5970 I saw that! After watching the show and then watching CZcams vids about the show, I wondered if there was a blu ray set. THEN I saw the prices the dvds were going for and thought it was insane! definitely need to be on more streaming services or be able to buy at a reasonable price!
@@tammyboyd1113 never know what you might find for sure! 💯🫱🏾🫲🏽
@@marzdavinci5970 it on hulu
I liked the PJs...it was a solid show, especially being part of the fox Sunday lineup. They had a hell of a sunday back then...king of the hill, simpsons, the pjs, Futurama, family guy.
Yes indeed! Looked forward to it every Sunday 😂
Funny stuff!
@@lawrenceirvin2899 I didn't that's when you know the weekend over and school tomorrow 😢😢😂😂😂😂
Man good times after a crazy weekend ya end with all these classics during the summer or at least until school started Monday morning 🙄
The PJ'S came on on Tuesday
Once a show got sent to UPN or WB and they started messing with the time slots, you knew it was finna be a wrap
It was a little bit too black. Thats why it should have been great on upn
Not surprised Mission Hill aired on the WB and they’re air scheduling got fiddled with thus being cancelled
Same with other successful 🖤 sitcoms
Shocked to hear someone talk about Mission Hill it’s one of my favorite shows of all time I rewatch it at least once a year
@@95SanSann never saw it. Was its target audience black folk?
The PJ's was so UNDERRATED. It was a GREAT SHOW.
No fr I still b binge watching it lol. U can relate when u from the hood lol
I agree, funny as fuck !!
A show that was literally before it’s time 🙏🏽🍷
There's no such thing as , "*literally* before it’s time."
@@Hotobu right. And those two emojis are random af
Shit was trash and degrading
@@OsceolaNola7 😂😂
I think the emojis explain why the text is off
Thurgoode: "Nobody calls me bougie!!!"
"Muriel, what is bougie?!?!"
Muriel: "It means you think you're better than other people"
Thurgoode: Well then hell, bougie as charge..
The PJ's was funny as hell. Too bad it didn't last long like it should have.
Much agreed! Loved that show! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man I read this in their voices 😂
😅😂😂That Was Very Funny 😂😂😅😅
My favorite episode 😂
To this day. My sisters and I put on our “Juicy” voice when explaining certain situations and people 😂
Me too!
“damn it damn it damn it”😭😭😭
"Hey, Super!"
"Loik diiis?"
Lol😂😂😂
I still watch it. One of the funniest shows ever... very underrated.
Very good show. The nineties had some of the best shows.
I wasn't even born in the 90s and I agree
Now we don’t have anything 🥴😂
@@ChocolateGumDrop89good times on Netflix 🤣
I always thought of this show as the animated version of "Good Times."
That’s exactly what it is. The actress who played willona was also on this show. They knew what they were doing
It’s like a spin off of Good Times you right! Like 20 years later!
"Can I get a Amen?"
"I say can I get a Amen?"
"If I don't get a Amen I'm gonna whoop somebody ass up in here. Can I get a Amen?"
That part of the show always stuck with me. 😂😂😂
"He was told this was gonna be cancelled because this show gave us a positive image of two black couples together with a family...which is what's missing in the black community today." 😎😎😎
I call bull because Muriel carried that relation, he used her
The PJ's was/is a Hilarious Magnificent Sitcom. People just don't miss the water till the well runs dry!
People were bitching and complaining about this show BACK THEN. If this was on during the social media era they would have canned it after one episode. Thank goodness this was long before that time. Long Life The PJ’s. Dope show from my childhood.
Kid: "Super...Our hot water ain't working".
Super: "Ya hot water ain't workin cause ya Daddy ain't workin. When ya Daddy get a job then ya hot water will start
workin. Until then, gone and chill. Ain't that what you kids say...Chill. Now gone and keep it real".
FINALLY SOMEONE ON CZcams IS TALKING ABOUT THE PJS
Omg somebody finally covered this topic🙌🏾.. I grew up on the pjs and still watch it. I’ve always wanted to know what happened to such a great show. This is a big piece of my childhood. Thanks for this!
My favorite one was when he was getting his blood pressure high for the meds with "side effects " 😂
Bruh when the dog took the pill, my mother decided we were no longer allowed to watch the show 😂
that was a good one and then juicy dropping his 40s from the rooftop My '40s
@Will Cortez
(Knock knock knock)
Muriel-"Thurgood, how did you knock on the door with your arms full of groceries?"
Thurgood-"Hehehehe"
Wait a second what side effects!
-vito spatafore
I really liked this cartoon. I never laughed so hard at all the characters, especially Thurgood. I was disappointed when it ended. I felt like the series should of ran much longer. I still watch its reruns whenever I find it, and introduced it to my grandchild.
I still be watching this show, I wish he would reboot it every time I watch it. Probably was helly expensive back then to make and I’m sure it would cost them even more now . (Or maybe not because of the tech we have) I def appreciated the culture that was in the show, there’s nothing like it !
Think it would be cheaper, since they'd prob use computers instead of stop motion.
Man i be watching The PJs all the time on CZcams, its a CZcams channel that got all The Boondocks and The PJ's episodes
That algorithm got us pegged bruh
The Boondocks was a FAR, & WAY MUCH BETTER SHOW than The PJ.s ever were okay James Hathaway.
@@reginald8570i don’t think he made that claim.
@@samanthanickson6478 Weird that it got cosigned too. Ppl don’t read lol
@@BlackShogun my personal opinion doesn’t mean that that it was inferred by the original poster.
I used to LOVE this show❤️ Good one K-Rob.
I own 3 dolls from the PJs series!!! Such a classic thankful to own a part of this show!
I worked at the DisneyTouchstone lot at the time for “SmartGuy”, and I use to see Larry Wilmore daily.
WOW
I remember the PJ’s. Really interesting how it premiered along with Family Guy back in January 1999. And aired on FOX along with The Simpsons, Futurama, KOTH and also Family Guy. I have to watch the show again. Really beautifully animated in stop motion
I was not expecting to hear about this show again. Used to watch it at my grandmothers house. Such a classic. Good to see its still loved
I’ve seen every last episode and still will watch them time and time again
Abiut time someone acknowledged this show. Great writing and acting,
Living in the pjs living in the projects…. I still have full seasons😅 💪🏾👏🏾
Man i used to watch PJ's just to see my boy Smokey pop up 😆
The C-Head Smokey was funny is hell but hard to look at lol 😄😂😂
Crazy YT has been recommending episodes from this show all month. Enjoyed it way back when and enjoying it now.
I was 3 when the show came out but didn’t really get a chance to watch it until I was 5 or 6.. I watched it with my grandmother .. then all of a sudden like 5yrs ago people was watching it and I’m was like damn this show a classic I remember when theres was new episodes.. The PJ’s just bring back a few memories
The PJ's was a show way ahead of it's time, which in my opinion is sadly why it was Canceled.
This show was an absolute banger! I still watch it on this platform every now and again. Also, shoutout to The Brewster Douglass projects for giving me my first real experience of a non related family when I picked up and moved to Detroit, MI in my early 20’s trying to figure out how to adult! My parents raised me but y’all made me a man 🫡
My high school daughter and I loved the PJ show!!! We would be hooting and hollering because it was so funny and real!!! And her classmates loved it also!!!
I never knew Eddie Murphy was connected to this show. It was a show I only watched when I randomly came across it late at night. It was the strangest thing to me at the time but I'd always watch it when I came across it
Eddie Murphy was always in the credits.
@@MRSZ5440 yeah, cause everybody reads the credits. How could I have missed that.
He's literally the main character
Really miss how shows can just come up with something and it could be a hit, cult or otherwise like The Critic.
Back then the economy was a lot stronger and corporations were more willing to invest 1 million an episode for a show that would bomb.
its the same thing with games like NBA Street Vol 2 and Def Jam FFNY, these types of media don't get made today because they are too risky and don't guarantee a profit.
I remember watching this show when I was younger around 05-7...loved it.
I loved this show! Back in the day there was a crackhead in my grandparent’s neighborhood who looked just like Smokey! And the lady who had kids named Lasagna and Chevron! Classic! 😂
I just started watching the PJs randomly a few weeks ago, there’s a channel that posts all the episodes. I hadn’t thought about the show since it was on!
The episode when the old lady was eating dog food has stuck with me throughout my life 😭 Little me was traumatized!
Just rewatched this on Hulu
I used to watch The PJs when I was a kid when it first came out on tv. Nice to know the background now. It was really good. Can’t understand why it was protested. I wish it lasted longer.
This was my sh**.. Man.. I still watch it wen I can.. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This was a great show and entertaining back in the day.
I was scared to watch it back then because of the claymation . Now that I gave it a chance, I find it so funny. Every line out of Thurgood’s mouth is a joke.
PJs was a solid show. Wish it would have lasted longer...
So someone thought that this was a negative view on the inner city??? THATS EXACTLY HOW THE HOOD IS 😂😂😂😂😂
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Watching the PJs together was a staple in the Bee family! Ppl in my family, to this day can quote scenes from the PJs line by line and we'd still laugh as if we've just heard it for the first time! That's how funny this show was. We hated to see it get canceled! The characters were spot on typical of many in the hoods of Detroit, not just the projects.
The Pj's actually stands for "The Projects". What a lot of people don't know is that Eddie Murphy and Charlie are originally from Brooklyn projects (Tilden houses to be exact), wich were (and still are) the worse and most dangerous projects in the country. His mother moved him and Charlie out at the age of eleven, not too long after their Biological father (who was a police officer) was stabbed and murdered by a woman, to Long Island where she met and married "Vernon" Eddie and Charlie's step father. So much of the pj's is most likely loosely based on Eddie and Charlie Murphys rough and chaotic early traumatic childhood memories while living the notorious Brooklyn projects. It's been a popular presumption that the show was originally based on The rough "Brewster Projects" of Detroit, but this is actually not the case.
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Something’s aren’t stereotypical if it’s just true ❤ love The PJs #BringItBack
Christopher B does deserve more movie roles. I really thought him and Jamie were gonna be on the same level acting wise
I like The PJs & I love everything that Loretta Divine is in!
Wish they could bring it back on a streaming service
Still caught me off guard when futurama featured the manhole cover as a reference about a decade later.
I’ve been bingeing it on Hulu these past few days! It holds up well to this day!
😢 man i miss this show
They hooked all of our good shows early
he needs to bring this show back... i still watch reruns of this to this day... loved this cartoon
I loved this show back in the day.
My fam and I watched it every Sunday evening. ❤
Mos def is also in the show it’s such a good show
This show was a classic
The show is on HULU at the moment.
It's also on tubi for free
I watch the PJ's all the time now!
As someone who is 28, I saw it growing up after it was done on Adult Swim. It was funny but the claymation wasn’t the move IMO
I loved this show. Gotta rewatch it.
Eddie Murphy will always be one of my favorite comedians along with Bernie Mac
Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤ greetings from NYC
The best ever I want more... This was the best ever Eddie Murphy is genius he inspired everything now EVERYTHING BLK and more I miss it the most iconic projects are short lived 😢
Wow. The PJ's is the best Black Animation sitcom that will ever be seen in history. Indeed, it was mostly for adults but kids love it too. In fact, there was nothing wrong with Living Color or the PJ's because all of it is true about being Black and struggling day to say just to survive. Yes, the Projects are Black People homes and we just have to face the fact that we are living in the real world with real discrimination, prejudice and racism.
Just finished all 3 seasons with my daughter. This show was suppose to be at least 6 seasons. Even tho it received hate, this was a good watch.
i LOVED this show - set in the lawrence hilton-jacobs projects!! 😆😆😆 i wonder if he ever liked that nod from eddie murphy? not a bad episode was ever made. all were solid and funny af! when smokey had to take in borders and gave a tour of his “humble abode” sewer dwelling, omg nothing was funnier!!!!!
The Brewster Projects in Detroit Michigan ❤ since demolished.
Fun fact:they brought it back for another season or a half it did ok but paired into comparison to the previous seasons 😂
Loved this show one of the best ever made
This show reminded me of my block in bk.. I was a kid watching this but I watched it because I can relate timeless show man 💯💪🏽
Man this still my JOINT!! I still watch it!!
I had the California raisin toys 😂
I remember being a kid and couldn’t wait to watch this show’s pilot. It’s a classic IMO and I sometimes watch an episode here or there
Way ahead of it’s time. This was the 1st boondocks.
I wouldn't say that but they're were too different shows but had different satire of both shows.
bring this show back asap
This show was funny as hell
I'm still watching this on Hulu still funny still this day
Still watching it till this day
The streaming service I have, has a 24/7 station up there that plays nothing but The Pj’s back to back without any commercials. When 1 episode goes off, the next 1 comes right on.. I love it!! It’s actually A LOT of channels like that up there…
What station of service is that?
@@ZekeGotViews it’s called joker tv over 5000 channels for only $15/month
@@MrMathematics00va thanks bro, I’ll look into it
@@ZekeGotViews yea man $15/month & that comes with 5 connections. You download to your fire stick. I’ve had it for about 2 years now & I love it
The PJ's was literally one of the Fox shows I forgot about but that theme song is pretty rad lol.
I still watch this show till this day! Its on Tubi......
I just seen the pjs on Tubi this year first time
Very informative take it from a member of the 46th Street projects West Philly😂
I totally forgot about dis show until like couple year ago i watched a YT video dat was a marathon of commercials nd dis showed up
WB watered down the 3rd season. They essentially removed any edge the show had left and people just quit watching.
I remember being 7 years old and saying “it’s an El Negroe!!” Whenever there was a storm ! 😂
The PJs was the shit I still watch it and it's on Hulu
All talented & hilarious voice talents actors & actresses👏🏾👏🏾
Smokey: Haha! I’m a crack test dummy.
Thurgood: “That’s “crash test dummy” dummy
😂😂
I wish that series kept going that show was underrated
There is a legend called Shorts Magee who uploads this and several other classics regularly. Go show him love!