Mark is hired as a substitute teacher, but his roommate Robin must teach him how to control his students. Alan Thicke guest stars.

Hangin' With Mr. Cooper

The Presentation

Mark injures himself while performing a story for his substitute first-grade class, including Michelle Tanner (MARY KATE/ASHLEY OLSEN). Afterward, Mark is too embarrassed to keep his date with a beautiful woman (GALYN GORG).

Hangin' With Michelle

Mark's ex-girlfriend, Paula (LELA ROCHON), moves back into town and revives their passionate romance.

On The Rebound

Mark helps a student basketball player (CHRISTOPHER CARTER) pass an important algebra test. Chris Tucker guest stars.

Please Pass the Jock

When Mark coaches a girls' cheerleading team, he desperately asks Vanessa to help him train the untalented cheerleaders.

Cheers

After Mark finally gets a permanent teaching job as a basketball coach, he's offered a contract to play for the Warriors, a professional basketball team. First of a two-part episode.

Warriors, Part I

Mark is given a temporary contract to play professional basketball with his favorite team, the Warriors. Unfortunately, Mark must play guard against basketball star Charles Barkley (HIMSELF). Second of a two-part episode.

Warriors, Part II

Mark and Robin try to make Andre choose between his interests in basketball and music.

Torn Between Two Teachers

When Vanessa's boss is stranded at an airport, she convinces Mark to impersonate him for an important meeting with an influential businesswoman.

My Dinner with Mark

While portraying Santa Claus, Mark helps to make a little boy's Christmas wish come true.

Miracle in Oaktown

Mark helps settle a family fight between Robin and her father, Chip.

Unforgettable

After their landlord dies, Mark, Vanessa and Robin try to buy their house for themselves.

In Vanessa We Trust

Mark eagerly dates Teresa (ROXANNE BECKFORD), an attractive schoolteacher, until he learns that her father is Coach Ricketts.

Forbidden Fruit

When Mark takes a temporary job in an office mail room, he is quickly promoted to an executive position. MARCUS ALLEN guest stars as himself.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Robin and Vanessa win dates with handsome bachelors on a television game show while Mark spends Valentine's Day at home.

Valentine's Day Massacre

Mark, Vanessa and Robin take several high school students on a camping trip.

Boyz in the Woodz

Tyler is jealous of his parents' new baby and asks to move in with Mark, Vanessa and Robin.

Boys Don't Leave

When Mark teaches a history class for lazy students, Coach Ricketts wagers that he can't get them to study.

The Unteachables

Robin begins to feel neglected as Mark and Vanessa develop a close friendship.

Piano Lesson

Mark and his roommates Robin and Vanessa learn how to share the responsibilities of living together. Shawn Wayans guest stars.

P.M.S.: Post Moving-In Syndrome

Mark accepts Trey's (REGGIE McFADDEN) offer to be his roommate in an apartment building filled with beautiful women and wild parties.

A Moving Experience

When Mark's grandmother (MONTROSE HAGINS) visits him, he wants to impress her with his success and asks Robin and Vanessa to pose as his servants.

Livin' A Large Lie

Pluto

After convincing Vanessa to marry him, Mark must buy her an engagement ring.

The Ring

As Mark and Vanessa plan their wedding, Geneva has an unexpected reaction.

Please Don't Go

Mark competes for the respect of Vanessa's father--and loses.

The In-Laws

Mark takes an additional job that might lead to movie stardom.

Security

Mark is jealous when Vanessa goes to a spa where the sexy male employees are eager to please.

The Spa

Tyler gets some bad romantic advice from Mark.

The Dance

Mark and Tyler learn lessons in respecting women. Former basketball player and Olympic medalist CHERYL MILLER guest stars.

One On One

Mark works at a carnival pretending to be a fortune-teller to help the school earn money for textbooks, but his fake predictions begin to cause problems.

The Swami

Vanessa and Mark present opposing versions of an incident--until Tyler reveals what really happened.

The Argument

Geneva's boyfriend wants to marry her--until Mark meddles in their relationship.

Lifesaver

Mark introduces Tyler to his favorite rap star, and Tyler learns a lesson about hero worship.

The Idol

Mark and Vanessa spy on each other during their bachelor and bachelorette parties.

Bachelor Party

In the series finale, Mark wears a squirrel costume for his wedding pictures with Vanessa, angering her. Will she cancel the wedding?

Getting Personal

Just out of school and on his own for the first time, former college basketball superstar Mark Cooper shares a house with two beautiful women—his best friend and her roommate. Mark also happens to be the coolest substitute teacher around.

S5 E1 The Ring

Full Episodes

Season 5, 13 Episodes