Episode
Moesha: Home is Where the Car Is
Overview
Moesha is envious of a gifted, yet reclusive, classmate who is named valedictorian but she also learns that he's homeless and cleans tables in the school's cafeteria. Meanwhile, Frank thinks Myles is ready for the ""talk.""
Details
- Series
- Moesha
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1999-03-09
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Home is Where the Car Is is Episode 16 in Season 4 of Moesha. It aired on 1999-03-09. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 15: I Love Moesha
Moesha's singing dilemma is illustrated in a 1950s-style sitcom episode, a la ""I Love Lucy,"" about an audition for a Broadway revue.
Episode 17: Girls' Night In
Moesha throws a slumber party with her girls, Kim and Niecy, to reflect on the good times they've spent together before they leave for college.
More episodes from this season
Episode 14: The Rite Stuff
Moesha and her friends participate in The Ladies of Eminence Debutante Ball, but Moesha has second thoughts because she's not interested in ""high-class society."" But she changes her mind when she learns that her former classmate Mary Ellen Hobbs is banned from the affair after getting pregnant.
Episode 18: It Takes Two
In this Parker's spin off episode, Kim's mother returns to high school with her after leaving 18 years ago. Nikki is looking to receive her high school diploma and head to college with Kim.
This episode serves as a back-door pilot for the spin-off series "The Parkers" (1999) focusing on Kim Parker (Countess Vaughn James) and her mother Nikki (Mo'Nique).
Episode 13: Ohmigod, Fanatic
Musical guest: LeAnn Rimes
Moesha and Kim have a fight over Kim's unprepared college plans. Later, MTV's ""FANatic"" picks Moesha to escort Kim to meet country singer LeAnn Rimes. LeAnn Rimes gives Kim and Moesha some good advice on how to remain good friends. Meanwhile, Hakeem accidentally sees Dee naked.
Episode 19: Had to be You
Musical guest: Johnny Gill
After Andell thinks her relationship with Bernie is headed nowhere, Earl Thomas, Andell's college boyfriend, returns to rekindle the flame by proposing to her. Meanwhile, Frank overreacts to Dee's urge to keep a picture of a young man from her past.
Episode 12: Life Imitating Art
During Black History Month, Moesha and students divide along racial lines after a protest over the lack of black representation in Antonio's mural of Mexican-American migrant workers. Meanwhile, Myles tries to win a new bike in a contest.
Episode 20: The Prom
Moesha meets the boy of her dreams at her prom and shares a romantic dance until he dashes off mysteriously. She spends the next day combing through yearbooks to find this mystery man who turned out to be an employee at the hotel where the prom was being hosted.
Episode 11: Barking up the wrong tree
Hakeem takes a job instead of pursuing college.
Episode 21: Independence Day
Moesha turns 18 and the gang decides to throw her a surprise birthday party but Kim spoils it by telling her. But the real surprise for Moesha is when all her former boyfriends, Ohagi, Q, Jeremy and Aaron, all stop by to show how they all want her back. But Moesha doesn't want to start over with any of them- except for her former teacher, Channing. After realizing that a relationship between them wouldn't work, Moesha and Channing both decide to just remain friends.
Episode 10: The Crush
Andell holds a tutoring program at The Den, and Moesha decides to write an article about the tutoring sessions in hopes of winning a newspaper's journalism contest. One of Myles' friends named Justin reveals a story that he has trouble reading (only so he can be around Moesha). So, Moesha decides to write a story on Justin's illiteracy but she forgets one important thing-- she didn't check the facts after Justin lied about not being able to read. Meanwhile, Frank goes on a diet after he becomes slightly overweight.
Episode 22: I Studied Twelve Years For This?
Moesha, Hakeem and Niecy go across town for a graduation day brunch where Moesha's car breaks down an hour before the big event. After finding many solutions to finding a way to their graduation, Moesha, Hakeem and Niecy finally make it across the stage. But Moesha's post-graduation plans change when she gets a job offer with VIBE magazine.