Brown History Month
Cleveland & Lester learn to accept their differences.
Season: 1 Episode: 19
Total Episode Count: 19
Prod. no.: 1APS21
First Aired: May 9, 2010
Featuring: Cleveland, Rallo, Lester, Kendra
Also Appearing: Donna, Cleveland Jr., Roberta, Tim, Holt, Ernie, Princess, Federline Jones, Angus, Gordy, Hadassah Lowenstein, Julius, Walt, Hot Wheels, Dylan, Carl Carlson, Uncle Thomas the Tank Engine, Judge Dave, Bailiff Tony, Randy Jackson, Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, Madonna, Barbaro, Robert Parish, Larry Bird
Musical Numbers: Black History Month, For We're a Jolly Good Race
Director: Ian Graham
Writers: Matt Murray
Storyboarders: Paul Lee, Jae Woo Kim
Plot:
After Cleveland forces an early wake up to celebrate the beginning of Black History Month on the family, Rallo anticipates getting to portray President Obama on the school Unity Parade float but finds it has been given to another student. When he looks to accept a position as the first black President, he is shocked to learn there have been no others and of black people's history as slaves. Rallo targets Lester and his Confederate flag as the symbol of his hate. When Lester questions why there was a need for a 'black' anything, it prompts a fight between him and Cleveland. Lester files charges of a hate crime against Cleveland because of the names called during the fight.
In court, the judge sentences the two of them to work together on a Unity Parade float. While they grit their teeth to work together, Rallo plans to do something about Lester's confederate flag. He takes off from school and sneaks into Lester's house but shock's Kendra into falling on him, being saved only by managing to prop up her grabber tool to give himself some room. Stuck together, they ending up bonding until Kendra's blood sugar starts to dip and she becomes weaker, loosing what little control she had to arch her back and keep from crushing Rallo. At the parade, while Lester and Cleveland start fighting again, Mrs. Lowenstein informs Donna that Rallo never showed up for school. Donna hijacks the parade float and rushes home to try to locate Rallo. Talking of food to distract Kendra, she starts to sweat and they get the idea that if she can sweat enough, Rallo may be able to wiggle free. Rallo succeeds and manages to get Kendra some sugar in time to save her. Lester and Cleveland are happy enough that everyone is safe and agree to a truce, although Cleveland asks Lester to remove his flag. Lester has no idea of it's connection to the Confederacy and only displays it for it's connection to The Dukes of Hazzard.
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| The Cleveland Show Season 1 | Season 2 >> | ||||||||||
| #01 | Pilot | #08 | From Bed to Worse | #15 | Once Upon a Tyne in New York | ||||||
| #02 | Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance | #09 | A Cleveland Brown Christmas | #16 | The Brown Knight | ||||||
| #03 | The One About Friends | #10 | Field of Streams | #17 | Gone with the Wind | ||||||
| #04 | Birth of a Salesman | #11 | Love Rollercoaster | #18 | Brotherly Love | ||||||
| #05 | Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb | #12 | Our Gang | #19 | Brown History Month | ||||||
| #06 | Ladies' Night | #13 | Buried Pleasure | #20 | Cleveland's Angels | ||||||
| #07 | A Brown Thanksgiving | #14 | The Curious Case of Jr. Working at the Stool | #21 | You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown | ||||||