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Holy crap drug episode

posted 11 years ago by branenj001
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I just watched the episode where a teen befriends Brenda and Calvin but turns out to be a drug runner. Mary tries to warn the boys mom but she's angry that she'd even suggest such a thing. At the end -------------//spoilers//---------------/the mother drops into the anti drug meeting and says that her son was stabbed to death by dealers who thought he had stolen their drugs, since they were never delivered. (He asked Calvin to drop off a package and Calvin noticed it was drugs and turned it into the police).

What a sad ending. I thought it was interesting that Mary and Rose were so adamant that Tiffani and Brenda should approach drug runners and dealers and cuss them out, because ignoring them was part of the problem. I was just thinking man, that doesn't sound like a good idea, telling your teenager to approach a dealer and give them a lecture.

[–] ow-3 11 years ago

I saw the same episode. I have my DVR set to catch them all and when I get time I catch up on them. I had never saw this episode until a few weeks ago and it was actually very sad. That women just couldn't believe her son was a drug dealer. I believe the boy was played by one of Larenz Tate's brothers... they all used to act in the 80s.. Larenz' career is the only one that took off though. I'm glad I'm not the only one still enjoying 227 episodes LOL.

[–] TheLightFantastic 11 years ago

I'm still watching them on the Up Network. Can't stand all the bad commercial cuts but I'm glad to see the show again. I'm recording all the episodes I can since it seems like Sony isn't going to bother releasing the other four seasons.

[–] ow-3 11 years ago

If you have Encore Classic they have been playing episodes of 227 and Amen without commercials. I have been recording those also.

[–] AdrianLePier 10 years ago

Lorenz Tate's brother (his name escapes me) did an episode of 227, but he wasn't the drug dealer in this one. LT's brother did that episode playing the street kid who spray-painted the building.

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[–] threadman80 9 years ago

To the contrary. I think approaching drug dealers and going off on them is a good idea. It worked out very well in The Blind Side.

That mom sashayed up there in her tight assss skirt and high heels with that hot little body and dresses down the drug dealer. I'm pretty sure it worked out that way in real life, and allowed Michael Oher to go on to a decorated football career.

[–] ow-3 9 years ago

Marla Gibbs wrote this episode...I had no idea.

Which episodes did you write on “227”?

There was one called “Rich Kid.” I wanted [the character] to die and they said no. I said “No, that’s what happens when you sell drugs. People lose their children.” He was a well-dressed young man in high school with Brenda (Regina King) and Calvin (Curtis Baldwin) and they were enamored with him. He had a fancy car that he was driving that he told his mother was his friend’s. But he asked Calvin to hold a package for him and he just gave him $50. All he had to do was give him the package. But his grandmother got the package. And then we realized he was selling dope. So I went over to tell his mother and of course she put me out. I told her about the neighborhood watch meeting. She came to the next one and she said he had been killed. And she said “Somebody help me because I’ve got another one at home. Somebody tell me what to do.”

And that’s where we ended because nobody knows what to do. We let it end like that.

[–] Butta25 8 years ago

That episode was pretty powerful. I've seen a ton of drug movies but for some reason this episode felt realistic.