In the show's tag, the family is eagerly watching a scene from the pilot of Margaret Cho's sitcom, All-American Girl.įor a country project at their school, Eddie is assigned Iceland but all of his friends switch to the Caribbean islands because they are an easy A. Louis becomes the coach for Eddie's basketball team. This results in social services visiting the Huang home. Taking this to heart, Eddie tries to gain favor in a student council election at school by making up a story about how he hurt his arm. Later, he catches his father lying to Jessica, and Louis responds by saying little white lies are okay if some good can come of it. Meanwhile, the chicken pox is going around.Įddie slips on a rug at the steakhouse and breaks his arm. Things get even weirder when Oscar reveals that in college he thought he and Louis were dating, not he and Jessica. Jessica wants Louis to be jealous of Oscar, but Louis is not because although Jessica does not see it, Louis knows that Oscar is gay. Jessica's college boyfriend Oscar Chow ( Rex Lee) visits the Huangs. Eddie attempts to use his father's advice in trying to get Nicole to like him. Her husband eventually discovers this and tells her that she should never give up, and she then eventually takes and passes the exam. Afraid that she will never be the best, as she often tells her children, "Always be the best", she instead lies about passing the test. Jessica goes in to take her realtor exam only to meet the best realtor in the city. Jessica ends up taking Eddie to the concert the next day, and does not like it. Eventually Phillip abandons Eddie and Eddie has to miss the concert looking for Phillip. Phillip and Eddie make a deal that if Eddie takes Phillip to see " Les Misérables" Phillip will go along with Eddie to the Beastie Boys concert. Jessica immediately likes Phillip because he plays the cello and is a "good Chinese boy". Jessica finds out the truth about the Cattleman's Ranch and Golden Saddle, while Eddie tries his best to catch Nicole's attention.Ī Chinese Jewish boy, Phillip Goldstein (Albert Tsai), is the new student at Eddie's school and they are paired up in all activities because of their race, even though Eddie does not like Phillip. Eddie tries to impress the kids in his school by showing them a 'dirty movie' which is actually Louis' sexual harassment video for the restaurant.Īs Jessica searches for a job for herself, Eddie starts working at the Cattleman's Ranch to get enough money for a video game he wants. Jessica requests that Louis has a sexual harassment seminar for the restaurant, but ends up making the employees feel harassed. Eddie is excited about seeing his cousin who introduced him to hip hop, Justin ( Lance Lim) - but Justin is now very depressing to be around now that he is a fan of grunge music instead. As they arrive in Orlando, Louis and Jessica have tried to make their house and the restaurant look better than they are - so that successful Steve, snotty Connie, and penny-pinching Grandma Chu will think they are successful as well. Lee), and Jessica's mother (Shu Lan Tuan) visit the family. Jessica's sister Connie ( Susan Park), her husband and Louis' old boss Steve ( C. Louis uses a neighborhood block party to shamelessly promote the restaurant. To gain more popularity after not being able to have Jordans like the other kids at school, Eddie figures showing off a hot girl like Honey to them will make him more popular instead. Jessica finally makes a new friend she likes named Honey (Chelsey Crisp), only to discover that the other neighborhood women dislike her for breaking up her husband's previous marriage. When she finds out that Louis is keeping her away from the restaurant in order to relax the strict regime she has implemented there, she brings the boys there so that she can teach and keep watch over the restaurant. Wanting to get Jessica and her incessant micromanaging away from the restaurant, Louis convinces her to home-school the boys. She then considers enrolling them in a Chinese Learning Center (CLC), but there are none in the area. She tries to get him moved into gifted programs but the school does not have them. When Eddie gets high marks in school, Jessica reacts by thinking that the schoolwork is not challenging enough. Eddie finds it difficult to fit in at school, while Emery seems to be doing just fine. Jessica is confused by the rituals and habits of her new neighbors. to Orlando when his father Louis assumes control of a failing steakhouse, certain that he can turn around its fortunes. In 1995, Eddie Huang's family moves from D.C. Noel Gugliemi (credited as Noel G.) as Hector Martinez.Main article: List of Fresh Off the Boat characters Main
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