Hangin' with Mr. Cooper - Season 4

Everyone's plans to leave Oakland, California go awry and they all come back.

Rehired as basketball coach, Mark takes advantage of Geneva's position as principal.

Geneva recruits a new instructor for the Reserve Officer Training Corps, her former boyfriend, Master Sergeant Ken.

Vanessa saves Mark's life after he falls and gets a concussion.

When Tyler becomes scared while watching a horror movie, Nicole and her friend, Sandy (SHEKINAH WILLIAMS), tease him and dare him to camp out in a haunted house on Halloween. Tyler does, and Mark skips a costume party to go get him. But they both stay the night in the haunted house. Meanwhile, Vanessa gets a job as an emergency medical technician and has her first ambulance assignment on Halloween night.

Nicole breaks Mark's prized mug and lets Vanessa take the blame. Later, while playing a fantasy computer game, Nicole falls asleep and has a dream that teaches her the importance of honesty.

When the ancient plumbing system breaks down in the house, Vanessa and Geneva hire a plumber. But Mark chases away the plumber and insists on fixing the problem himself.

Mark unwillingly goes to clean out Grandpa Cooper's mountain cabin.

Geneva becomes exasperated with everyone in the house treating like a servant. So, she moves out with Nicole. Mark invites his inconsiderate friends Steve and Lydell to move in, causing Vanessa to move out.

Mark allows medical trainee Vanessa to practice wrapping bandages on him. While wearing a shoulder brace, Mark meets his beautiful new neighbor, Monique. Before Mark can explain that he is not injured, Monique becomes sympathetic. Using the sitaution to his advantage, Mark asks her on a date. Meanwhile, Nicole insists on wearing hip-hop clothing to express her individuality.

Disgusted by the commercialization of Christmas, Mark persuades everyone to accompany him to a nostalgic Christmas tree farm. The adventure is ruined when they discover that the farm is just a booth with scrawny little trees. Then Mark's car becomes disabled on a deserted road. When the group finally reaches a place to stay for the night, the North Star Inn, they witness the birth of a child and remember the true meaning of Christmas.

A gang member at school harasses Earvin, and threatens him with a gun.

Mark invests in a co-worker;s invention, a robotic suit designed to imporve the wearer's golf skills.

Mark becomes a student guidance counselor and advises an egotistical football player.

Geneva assigns Mark to be in charge of the Winter Carnival at school, but everyone knows that he actually wants to perform in it himself.

Mark is upset when he is unable to attend a show put on by the professional basketball pranksters The Harlem Gobetrotters for the fifth time in his life.

Mark tries to end a rivalry with a coach from another high school basketball team.

Mark causes a lot of bad luck for himself and those around him when he buys a beautiful car that the previous owner claims is haunted.

Knuckleball Smith, one of Vanessa's patients at the retirement home, intends to sell his classic car to please his jealous elderly lover, Edna.

After Geneva introduces Vanessa to a successful, handsome man, Mark does everything he can to sabotage the developing relationship.

Mark and Vanessa announce that they are dating. But after their first fight, they decide that it would be better if they were just friends.

Despite wanting to marry Mark, Vanessa innocently has lunch with her former boyfriend. When Mark finds out, he frantically proposes marriage to her. But Vanessa rejects him, thinking he only did it out of jealousy.