No matter how you slice it, My Brother and Me was one of the greatest shows ever to grace the slime-soaked Nickelodeon network. In 1994, the show became their first program to feature a predominately-black cast. While it focused on the Parker family, it was really about Alfie, his younger brother Dee Dee, and their sister Melanie (as well as Alfie's road dog, Goo). It was your usual sitcom-style programming, but with a dope '90s, hip-hop flair.
In its one (and only) season, it was one of the more memorable live action programs from Nickelodeon's '90s heyday. Its cast included a young Amanda Seales (who many of you probably knew as Amanda Diva at one time or another), a cameo from NBA star Kendall Gill, and a rapper named Cool Dr. Money with a fire haircut.
One of the most important episodes was the show's 13th and final, and it was about bullying, before bullying was cool.
In "The Big Bully," younger brother Dee Dee is getting roughed up by a fourth grader named Big Lou. Like a good big brother, Alfie and his jackass homey Goo saw him with his shirt all torn and tried to teach him how to bluff. In a now-infamous lesson, Dee Dee gets told to drop his hands, stand up to his bully and yell "HIT ME! YOU THINK YOU SO BAD, HIT ME!"
As you can see in the video up above, goading your bully into hitting you usually ends up with you getting hit... and dragged through the mud, apparently.
Now, as we all know, Big Lou ended up being a girl, and when Alfie and Goo came down to the playground to help Dee Dee out the next day, Big Lou's older homegirls sonned Alfie and Goo. I have a few bullet points that we all should take into consideration, seeing as these shows are ultimately built to educate us:
- Why was Dee Dee still riding with those busters? You mean to tell me he was always chilling with Donnell and Harry, yet they couldn't help him out at ALL?
- The LAST thing Alfie should've done was give that "hit me!" advice to Dee Dee. Unless he had some death wish against his little brother, he probably should've done a stealth mission to figure out who the hell Big Lou was, and then get the drop on them.
- What's wild is that, at the end of the episode, Alfie knew the older girls that Big Lou rolled with. He called out LaToya by name! You mean to tell me he didn't know that she had a lil homey who went by "Big Lou?"
- Goo is an asshole, but you can't be mad at him for keeping it G and laughing his ass off when Dee Dee walks in all muddy.
Ultimately, if you have a bully in your life, don't take advice from your older brother on how to handle it. Or, if you do, please tell him EVERYTHING first, even if it means you get ridiculed for getting your ass kicked by a girl. At the very least, Alfie should've gotten one of his homegirls to shoot the fair one with Big Lou.
