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Louis Huang is the father of Eddie, Emery and Evan, the husband of Jessica, the eldest son of Jenny, and older brother of Gene. He is the owner of Louis Huang's Cattleman's Ranch Steakhouse. He is portrayed by Randall Park.
Season 1
Louis uprooted his family, including his mother, from Chinatown in Washington, D.C. to Orlando, Florida after he opened a Western-themed steakhouse named Cattleman's Ranch in Orlando. While his family believed the steakhouse was his genuine idea, in reality Louis stole the idea from Golden Saddle; Louis wanted to franchise one of Golden Saddle's restaurants, but being unable to pay the $50,000 fee upfront, stole their franchise manual and opened his own replica restaurant. However, the restaurant was not faring up to expectations, much to Jessica's ire. Believing that the restaurant's lack of attendance was due to customers seeing an Asian man at a Western steakhouse, Louis hired Mitchell, or Mitch, to be the host. While Louis wants his employees to be happy, believing that happy workers makes a happy workplace, Jessica, who has begun working at the restaurant as a singer, begins to micromanage as she believes Louis' actions (allowing croutons to be eaten liberally by the workers and napkins to be served freely) are costing them money. Wanting Jessica to be gone but unable to bring himself to do so, he convinces her that she should homeschool their sons' CLC and prioritize their education, feigning serious sacrifice for the restaurant. However, Eddie realizes Louis' deception and tips off his mother. Louis attempts to tell Jessica that his way of dealing with people, by being nice, is more effective and attempts to convince three Dine and Dashers to pay their bill or find a way to work things out, and while he believes he has appealed to them, they leave anyways, prompting Jessica to handle the matter. Louis then returns home and plays basketball with his sons. In order to boost his restaurant popularity, Louis forbade Jessica from hanging out with her new friend Honey, citing that the other neighborhood women hated her. During a NASCAR block party, Louis witnessed Jessica sing a song announcing her desire to continue being friends with Honey, and told a neighbor who complimented Jessica's voice that she was a singer at the restaurant. Steve Chen, Louis' former boss and the husband to his sister-in-law Connie, soon paid them a visit, with both parties pretending to be more affluent. Both men got a perm as an indication of success, with Louis pretending to have a dedicated fax line and a busy restaurant, while Steve relished tales of a successful business which led him to consider opening a second store, all while boasting that his Miata was new. Louis was forced to admit to Steve that the restaurant wasn't doing too good, but was able to come over the top when it was revealed that Steve's car was in fact used and that his family was in severe debt, which made him and Jessica content. The restaurant's success began to grow, and Jessica, fearing that the success would lead to lawsuits, wished to have the employees be given a seminar on sexual harassment. However, after Jessica ends up sexually harassing the employees, Louis hires Dusty Nugget, a repeat sexual harasser who is on a plea deal. However, Louis' relation with Dusty is strained when Louis and Jessica insult him in Mandarin, only to find out Dusty knows Mandarin. After Eddie gets in trouble for introducing the students to a dirty movie, which was in fact one of Dusty's sexual harassment videos, Louis is tasked with having "the talk" with Eddie. However, rather than go by the textbook, Louis elects to give him a realistic and natural conversation, which Eddie appreciates. When Eddie asks him for money to buy "Shaq Fu", Louis instead puts him to work at Cattleman's Ranch, wanting Eddie to work hard and learn the value of money the way his father taught him. Eddie begins working as the "fajita boy" before deciding to not show up out of the blue, after having earned only eighteen dollars. Louis is reminded by his mother that her husband never spent time with the kids or showed affection, and Louis decides he does not want to be that kind of father; Louis pays Eddie a visit in his room and gives him money to buy Shaq Fu. Louis has Mitch take over Eddie's duties, although Mitch fails. Eddie then shows up at the restaurant with the game, explaining that he wishes to earn the game himself, adding that he did not come to this realization until after he purchased Shaq Fu. Eddie gives Louis the game to hold on to while he becomes what Louis affectionately refers to "fajita man." After the two return home, Jessica informs them that she has become a realtor. Following the growing success of Cattleman's Ranch, Louis purchased a billboard in a prime spot to advertise the restaurant, only for the billboard to become vandalized, which he initially attributed to children pulling a prank. However, after being invited to a country club and heading there for a night out with Jessica, the pair witnessed that the billboard had been vandalized once more, with a newfound message decrying Louis as a thief. Taking Jessica to a Golden Saddle, Louis confessed to Jessica that he had stolen the idea of his restaurant from them, ripping off their design as he did not have the $50,000 franchise fee. Jessica assures him that the restaurants aren't identical, as Louis had changed the bear color and added wanted posters for customers with bounced checks, and adds that she prefers a good businessman to a visionary any day. Louis and Jessica are then approached by Finnegan, the owner of Golden Saddle, who reveals that he poached Mitch from Cattleman's by doubling his salary. Although Louis and Jessica are initially miffed, they let Mitch go easily once Mitch offers to return to them if they double his salary as well. With Mitch gone, Louis hired Wyatt, an experienced and highly qualified worker who embodied the Western lifestyle, garnering Cattleman's further success. However, Louis began to feel that the smooth running restaurant was too perfect, as they weren't facing any hiccups anymore. When Mitch returned to get his job back, with Louis correctly deducing it was because the Golden Saddle conducted drug tests, Louis agreed to rehire him and fire Wyatt. However, Louis could not bring himself to fire Wyatt and attempted to pawn it off on Mitch and Jessica. Jessica and Mitch both refused, but when Louis tells Mitch that the two hosts would have to split their salaries because he couldn't afford the two of them, Mitch fired Wyatt. The success of the restaurant allows Louis to purchase a commercial hair dryer for his home, which Evan and Emery use to play games. After giving Eddie advice on how to be near Nicole, likening the situation to opening and marketing a restaurant, he tells Jessica, who had been lying about gaining her realtor's license, that he would support her whether she chose to go through with it or not. After Jessica gets her license, Louis stays up at night verbally playing pretend with the machine, situated in their bedroom, much to Jessica's ire. At the restaurant, Louis is given sexual innuendo by his employee, Vanessa, although he is oblivious to her advances. Returning home, Louis helps take care of his son Evan when he gets the chickenpox, isolating him from his siblings and running him an oatmeal bath. At the same time, Jessica's ex-boyfriend from college, Oscar Chow, comes to stay with them for a short while. Jessica wonders why Louis isn't jealous that her ex-boyfriend is staying in the same house as her, and he replies that it is because Oscar is gay. Jessica refuses to believe Oscar is gay, with Louis telling her that her "gaydar" is broken, although Jessica soon realizes the truth. However, Jessica also discovers that Oscar was in love with Louis during their time in college. Jessica tells Louis that his "lovedar" is broken and that he cannot tell when people are in love with him. Louis goes to talk to Oscar, who reveals that he is in love with him and that they even dated in college, much to Louis' shock. Louis had interpreted their weekly dinners as "friend-dinners", with the pair sharing one dessert not being a romantic thing but something they had done because they were broke; Oscar had even introduced him to his parents, although Louis had believed that was due to their friendship. Louis apologizes to Oscar for giving him any misunderstandings, and Oscar later tells him that it was Louis who gave him the courage to come out to the world as a gay man. Louis and Oscar go to the Denim Turtle, a lesbian bar that Jessica often frequents. There, Louis makes amends with Jessica, telling her that everyone else should be jealous of him for having her. Louis then goes home, and both he and Jessica watch Oscar's audition tape for Aladdin on Ice; Jessica proudly states that Oscar was her boyfriend, and Louis responds that Oscar was his boyfriend as well. Jessica is tasked to sell a house situated on 44 West 44th Street, which is troubling for her as she is superstitious due to the number 4 being considered bad luck in Chinese culture due to it being pronounced sì (四), which sounds like the Chinese word for "death", sǐ (死). While she manages to sell the house with ever stepping foot inside of it, she refuses to cash in a check for $7,500 due to the check number being '4444'. While Louis is reluctantly supportive of her decision and watches as she rips up the check and throws it away, he tapes the pieces together and secretly cashes in the check, using it purchase a mechanical bull for the restaurant. However, when Eddie trips on the bull's cord and breaks his arm, Louis asks his sons not to tell Jessica and informs them that it is okay to tell a white lie at times. Louis soon receives a visit from Child Services after Eddie gave conflicting reasons at school for why his arm broke; Louis tells Eddie to tell her the truth, that he wasn't abused at home, although Eddie reveals the truth about the bull. Jessica becomes angry that Louis cashed in the check with 'bad luck', claiming that they have invited the bad luck into their home and that was the reason Eddie was injured. Louis attempts to dismiss her notions as mere superstition, but when she tells him to remove his jade necklace, which he wears for superstitious reasons, he relents. Jessica then has a Chinese ritual done at the restaurant to ward off the bad luck much to the amusement of the Caucasian workers, particularly Vanessa, Mitch and Nancy, who comment on their "weird rituals" before throwing salt behind their backs. Returning home, Louis receives tax advice from Scottie Pippen, but then shoots a basketball through a net, proudly proclaiming that he scored against Scottie Pippen, much to Pippen's irritation. Louis and Jessica are called in by Principal Thomas of Palms Elementary School to volunteer or donate; somehow this causes Louis to be assigned as coach to the boys' basketball team at Abraham Lincoln Middle School, run by Principal Hunter. Since Louis played semi-pro basketball in Taiwan, Eddie believes he will teach their team Taiwanese-style basketball, which he imagines to be gravity and physics defying feats of athleticism. Louis tries to impart on the team the notion of working together as a team, since the other boys, including Eddie, do not really play, instead allowing Dmitri, a much taller, stronger and mature young man on their team to single-handedly play the game for them. After Louis accidentally injures Dmitri, rendering him unable to play the game, he still tells them that they could win, likening the situation to the film The Mighty Ducks. However, the opposing basketball team has a "Dmitri" of their own, and they lose horribly. Louis speaks to the referee about a mercy rule and suggests that they forfeit the game and instead go to a restaurant, although Eddie rallies the boys, claiming that while they can't win, they could still beat the other team. The boys proceed to assault and cause technical violations against the opposing team; while they lost the game, they set the record for the most fouls in the process. Louis then returned to Cattleman's, where he witnessed Emery and Evan stating they didn't want to do their school play anymore, much to Jessica's joy, who wanted her kids to have work ethic rather than fun. Louis asks her if it would be so bad for their kids to have both, adding that her parents could have gotten her the pony doll she wanted while still giving her a strong work ethic. Jessica then allows Evan and Emery to do the school play in its original format, with Louis in attendance. Louis then makes a few phone calls to Taiwan to locate the pony doll Jessica wanted as a child and presents it to her. Jessica urges Louis to purchase a membership for them at the North Orlando Country Club after the Huangs were invited, believing it to be an ultimate symbol of their success. While Louis is reluctant to spend that much money, Jessica urges him to give it a chance and he is eventually won over. However, when Marvin Ellis responds to the Huangs' statements of them being the first Asian-American members that he forgot they were Chinese, this upsets Jessica, who fears they are losing hold of their ethnic identity. Upon realizing that she eats chip-wichs, watches Melrose Place, makes macaroni-and-cheese dinners and allows shoes to be worn in the house, along with the fact that her children cannot speak or understand Mandarin as well as Eddie's love for Jamaica, Jessica overhauls the entire family to be more culturally Chinese. She tells Louis to cancel the club membership, claiming that they cannot surround themselves by white people and attend country clubs if they are to maintain their cultural identity. However, Louis has grown to like the club and has forged business deals through them, with the idea to open up another location, dubbed Cattleman's Express. Louis lies to Jessica about cancelling the membership, but she realizes he went to the club due to his aftershave, although Louis discovers that she has stayed home to watch Melrose Place. Jessica laments that she likes the show and she likes making macaroni-and-cheese dinners and that she hates that she likes American culture, although Louis tells her that it is okay to like it and that they don't have to give up American culture to maintain their Chinese identity. After witnessing Eddie defend China at school, Louis tells Jessica that the kids would be fine. Shortly after, they all head to the country club, with Louis finally swapping out the family minivan's Washington, D.C. plates with Florida ones; custom ones that read "SO CHINEEZ".
Season 2
Louis informed his family that he was going away for two days for a franchisee conference; however, when Jessica noticed that he packed casual things including swimwear, she became suspicious and suggested that the whole family join him on his business trip, located at the Gator World hotel. Arriving at the hotel, Gator Carol informed Jessica that Louis had faxed his driver's license over in order to reserve a massage and a prime cut rib at a steakhouse. Louis attempted to keep up the pretext of it being a business trip, including seminars, although he was eventually caught by Jessica. Admitting to Jessica that was indeed a vacation, he explained how his past business trips were all vacations he took because he needed to do so, with Jessica replying that she cannot take a vacation without the entire family falling apart. He then tells Jessica to try relaxing, taking over her duties and handling the vacation himself. Louis sends Eddie to Gator World and explains room service to Emery and Evan, allowing them to try it out. However, he is soon struck with a massive hotel bill filled with multiple hidden fees and charges. He approaches Jessica, who tells him that she couldn't warn him of such a predicament because she was relaxing. Louis then comes to the realization that he has the luxury of relaxing because Jessica looks out for him and the family, and Jessica takes the bill from him, successfully getting the service charges waived and a discount on the hotel fee. After not receiving hugs from his sons and hearing Marvin gush about how he still viewed Nicole as his little girl, Louis began to desire having a daughter of his own. Returning home, he asked Jessica, although she declined, citing that the "shop [was] closed." Louis then placed calendars of baby girls around the house for Jessica to find; when she did, she informed him that baby girls became teenage girls and neither of them wanted that. Following Eddie's depressive bout after Nicole met Chris, which led to him playing "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men on repeat, Louis sang the song at dinner along with Emery. After hearing Jessica talk to the heartbroken Eddie, Louis declared that he did not want a daughter anymore as he would murder the boy who would break her heart. Louis then goes to the dealership himself and buys a brand new 1995 Honda Accord for full retail price, much to Jessica's shock and ire. Believing Louis got scammed, Jessica goes to the dealership and returns the car for the exact value Louis bought it for, although upon exiting the dealership, she realizes that Louis bought the car for full price on purpose in order to have her revisit a dealership. Jessica and Louis return to the dealership to repurchase the car, although Jessica claims that the car is now used and therefore should be sold at the price of a used Accord. Louis asks to speak to the manager as only the manager can authorize a deal, but Clark, the floor attendant, claims he is the manager. Jessica and Louis take Clark on an hour and a half test drive to the docks in Tampa, witnessing the 1996 Honda Accords in cargo, and Clark admits he is not the manager. Jessica and Louis return to the dealership and face various employees who claim to be the manager before encountering the real manager himself, who is none other than Shaquille O'Neal. Jessica negotiates a deal with Shaq and gets the brand new Accord at a discounted price, with the free floor mats and autographed shoe by Shaq to give to Eddie. Jessica is overjoyed at successfully winning a car negotiation and returns home with Louis. The next day, they appreciate their new car, although they continued driving the minivan out of fear of ruining the Accord. While working at Cattleman's Ranch, Louis received a phone call from Principal Hunter at Abraham Lincoln Middle School in order to chaperone at Eddie's school dance, dubbed the Fall Ball. Louis was enthusiastic, informing Hunter that while working at a factory in New Jersey, he watched John Hughes' Pretty in Pink over a hundred times and it was the closest he got to an American school dance, and believes he can now experience it vicariously through Eddie. However, in his attempts to craft the perfect school dance John Hughes would be proud of, he puts a lot of pressure and expectation on Eddie, who decides to ditch the dance and stay home. Eventually, the pair comes to amends and Eddie goes to the Fall Ball, dancing with Alison Olsen as Louis watched on proudly. When Halloween rolled around, Louis was very excited about finally being able to truly celebrate the holiday now that they lived in the suburbs, as they were not able to do so back when they lived in their Chinatown apartment. Louis dressed himself as Mr. T and bought a cap for Jessica, a "bow-hawk" as he put it, so that Jessica could be Mrs. T, although she refused as she was not interested in Halloween nor its celebration. Louis purchased decorations for Halloween, only to be told by Evan and Emery that their street was considered a dead street on Halloween, and that the homeowners' usually turned off all the lights and went to nearby Highland Avenue where many Disney Imagineers lived instead. Wanting to decorate the house and experience trick-or-treaters, Louis attended a Homeowners Association meeting and convinced the neighborhood to decorate their street. Jessica later informed him that her new investment property was about to be egged by a group of teenage boys, although Louis dismissed it as a Halloween prank. While he enjoyed Halloween, he realized it wasn't complete without Jessica and rounded up his sons and their friends to egg the boys, although the plan failed when the eggs cracked. He later witnessed his children revel in their candy while snuggling on the couch with Jessica, who wore a Mrs. T T-shirt as a compromise. One week later, Louis was working at the steakhouse when Mitch notified him that two celebrities wished to meet him, which turned out to be Gus and Mey-Mey, the two hosts of Good Morning Orlando. Louis gave them impressions of Sylvester Stallone and Donald Duck, which amused and impressed the hosts, causing them to invite him to be interviewed on their show. While Louis was initially hesitant, Jessica agreed on his behalf as the increased exposure for their restaurant would increase their income. Going on the show, Louis attempted to promote his steakhouse, although the hosts preferred hearing Louis' imitations, which he gleefully did. However, returning home, Jessica berated his actions, reminding him that Chinese people were rarely featured in a positive light on television and thus they must present their best face, reminding him of the character Long Duk Dong from one of his favorite John Hughes movies, Sixteen Candles, whom Louis despised because he was often asked by white friends to imitate the character, a racist and stereotypical Chinese caricature. While Louis dismissed her thoughts initially, he began to imagine his customers, who loved the interview, asking him to imitate Long Duk Dong; as a result, Louis went back to the studio for a second interview to discuss race and yell at the hosts, prompting him to be banned from the studio. He later realized that there was nothing wrong about him doing imitations he loved and people appreciating him for it, and interrupted a live broadcast by the network to apologize to the hosts and showcase his Michael Jackson impression. On November 9, 1995, the day before Eddie's 12th birthday, Jessica and Louis were preparing to decorate the house and throw Eddie a birthday party. At that moment, Eddie returned from a "sleepover" prematurely, upset about the fact that due to Jessica's rules, he was the only one who didn't get to actually sleep over at a sleepover, although Jessica replied that she was protecting him from pedophilia. Jessica then informed Eddie that just because they lived in the suburbs didn't mean he would have birthdays at a bowling alley or pizza with a rat (referring to Chuck E. Cheese), although much to her surprise, Eddie responded that he didn't want a birthday party or cake , wishing to spend the day with his friends at the mall. No longer having to throw a party, Jessica and Louis decided to go to work instead. The next day, at the investment property as it was now treated for termites, Honey notified her that Nicole had once told her she didn't want a party, and when they obliged, she cried for a week straight as she actually wanted a surprise party. Jessica then contacts Louis to get balloons and decide to throw Eddie a surprise party, and head to the mall to invite his friends. However, arriving at the mall, they realize that Eddie has thrown himself his own party, having invited his own friends and arranged to have a cake; Louis states that Eddie probably wanted to have a party with just friends his age and no adults, only to see that Mitch was invited, much to his surprise. After Eddie returns home, Jessica and Louis confront Eddie on his secret party, with Louis focusing on the fact that Mitch was invited and wondering when they became friends. Eddie explains that he cannot be himself around them due to their rules and expectations and that he wanted to be himself and with his friends on his birthday. Going to bed, Jessica tells Louis that she believes he thinks Eddie is right about them being too strict, and Louis responds that they could loosen the rules. As a result, Jessica states that the next time Eddie has a sleepover, he could attend, and Eddie reveals that he has an open invite for a sleepover at Dave's that very night; while Jessica is reluctant, citing that she does not trust Dave and that not even Dave's father wishes to stay at the Selby house, she is coaxed by Louis into agreeing. Jessica soon heads to Honey's house to spy on him, with Louis following her to stop her, where she witnesses Eddie having fun. The two then return home, opting to stay up all night to wait for Eddie, only for Eddie to return in the middle of the night, claiming that he didn't have fun anymore and that while he liked hanging out with his friends, he liked staying at home, too. Jessica then offers to make birthday noodles and Eddie agrees; Louis points out that they take six hours to make, to which Jessica replies that she would still do it for her son, and the three stay up to make and eat the noodles. The next day, Louis goes to Cattleman's Ranch and sees Louis and Mitch talking amicably. He asks them when they became friends, and they reveal that they became friends while serving as fajita men during the fajita craze, and show off the scars they received. As a result, Louis shows them a scar on his leg that an old man with dementia gave him. Louis was soon informed by Jessica that Grandma Chu had chosen them to host Thanksgiving that year. Louis was enthusiastic to host the holiday, which he dubbed "Huangsgiving", and had a family meeting to divvy up roles and assignments. Louis opted for individual Cornish hens instead of the family having to share one roast duck like they did at Steve and Connie's house. As the guests arrived, Louis aided Jessica; when Connie attempted to cause a scene by announcing that she couldn't share a room with Steve, Louis immediately responded that it wasn't a problem and that Steve could sleep on the sofa, which was a pull-out, with Jessica being impressed with his quick response. Louis then told Jessica that together Connie was no match for them and instructed her to go to sleep while he spent the night prepping for the upcoming dinner. However, as the rest of the family went to bed, Steve convinced Louis to have one drink, which resulted in many more. As a result, Louis became increasingly drunk and woke up the next morning on the driveway with a hungover. As he entered the house, Jessica was aghast that no prepwork had been done and realized off of his smell that he had consumed copious amounts of alcohol. Louis apologized for the last night's activities but assured her that they would get back on track. They were then interrupted by the sound of a doorbell, which Louis took to being his Cornish hens, promising Jessica that he would have them brined, roasted, and on the table by 6:00pm; however, when the hens arrived, he was surprised to find out that they were live ones, prompting him to secure a turkey from his restaurant instead. Louis was then tasked with putting the turkey in the oven, which he did, although he simply turned the oven light on and not the oven itself. Moments after, Marvin and Honey arrived, as Louis had invited them over for Thanksgiving and to play football while he was drunk. Louis tried to extricate himself from the game as he had to help Jessica, although as Jessica wished to give the appearance that everything was going smoothly, simply told the guests that it was just finishing touches and told Louis to go play. Jessica attempted to inform Louis shortly after that the turkey was raw, but he was then knocked unconscious by Oscar Chow, who threw a football at his head. After Jessica purchased a turkey fryer, the bird was cooked in less than an hour and the family enjoyed their Thanksgiving dinner. Afterwards, Louis asked Jessica if she was still mad that he got drunk and ruined their Thanksgiving, to which she replied that was super mad but that she would wait until tomorrow once the guests left. Louis was contacted by his old roommate, Barry, whom he lived with for two months in New Jersey. Barry was in town and needed a place to stay, and Louis allowed him to stay at their home; however, Jessica was against this, citing that Barry was a leech and that he had asked them for money before and would ask them for money again. Louis refuted this, believing that Barry had changed. For good measure, Louis still asked Barry if he came to ask for money, although Barry responded that he had money now as he sold new and used goods for a flexible price for people worldwide. Louis then took Barry out to lunch at Cattleman's, where Barry revealed that he did not actually work in a business that sold goods worldwide but that it was actually an idea he had, and that he needed investors, claiming that Louis would not be giving him money per se but rather would be investing in a business. Louis returned home and notified Jessica that she was right and that he would have to get rid of Barry; at the same time, Jessica was dealing with an issue in friendship too, having cut off Honey, and Louis advised her to apologize to Honey rather than to pretend like nothing had ever happened. Soon after, Louis packed Barry's suitcase and found Barry in their kitchen finishing their mayonnaise. Barry asked Louis to buy more, to which Louis responded that he would not only not buy him mayo, but that he would not be giving him any money and that he would have to find someplace else to stay. Barry tried to use their friendship as leverage, although when Louis asked him what his last name was, Barry did not know. As Barry left, Louis told him that he wasn't interested in his "garagesale.com", and the exiting Barry announced that his website was in fact called Ebay. As the Christmas season began, Jessica began to decorate the house, including "Jessicatown", a small Christmas town of her creation where she gave all the character statues there names, personas and backgrounds. Louis walks in and appraises her town, sadly noting the gap where the bakery was meant to be, that they were unable to locate and purchase. Louis notices the discarded Santa and remarks that Jessica still has the same feelings for Santa, to which she elaborates that she does not like him as he does not possess a higher degree and is either an over-glorified toymaker or a deliveryman. She wishes to improve on Santa, and decides to tell Evan that Santa is a scientist and graduated from Princeton, using his degree to patent his high-tech sleigh and using the money from the patent to make all the toys. This causes issues as the family is heading to Cattleman's Ranch for a holiday breakfast where "Santa" would be present, and Evan would no doubt ask "Santa" a ton of math and science questions. Jessica and Louis realize that they need an older white man who is smart and enjoys having children on his lap, and they decide to ask Marvin, who has his much younger wife Honey on his lap. Jessica presents Marvin with binders on math and science in case Evan asks questions and Marvin agrees. While Marvin does a stellar job at Cattleman's, Mitch arrives dressed as Santa, as Louis had originally given him the job. Evan is confused at the existence of two Santas, one of them being Mitch, and Jessica decides to "tell him the truth"; that the real Santa is Chinese, much to Louis' surprise. Louis decides to play along, explaining that Santa is indeed Chinese as he wears red and explaining that the white Santas are because he needs to present a white face, citing his hiring of Mitch as the face of Cattleman's as an example. Returning home, Louis berates Jessica's attempts to modify Santa, telling her that certain traditions do not need to be altered. Louis and Jessica soon attend Evan's holiday concert at school, but faces embarrassment when Evan openly declares that Santa is Chinese. Jessica decides to deal with the problem by dressing up as Santa and convincing Evan that the real Santa is a Chinese woman named lao ban Santa, "lao ban" being Mandarin for "boss". Louis wakes up in the middle of the night to see the dressed up Jessica in his bed, although she asks him to keep quiet, promising to explain things later. The family then enjoys their Christmas morning and he witnessed Emery and Evan present Jessica with gifts as Evan opens his own gifts. Later that night, Jessica gives him a binder containing all the information regarding lao ban Santa; when Louis points out certain inconsistencies, however, Jessica retorts that he shouldn't try to improve on an established character's tradition, much to his chagrin. A few months later, as Chinese New Year approached, Louis notified his workers at Cattleman's that he would be heading back to Washington D.C. to spend the holiday with his family. However, Louis believed the flight back to D.C. was on Friday the 15th, whereas the 15th was actually Thursday, the day before. As a result, the Huang family was stranded in Orlando, where there weren't any other Asian people they were aware of, which prevented them from celebrating Chinese New Year. Louis decided to go through the White Pages phone book to find Chinese surnames; while he failed to do so, Jessica discovered a number for the Asian-American Association of Orlando. The pair called the number and were greeted by a person named Rick on the other end, who informed them that they would be hosting a Chinese New Year festivity nearby. Louis took the family to the AAAoO's party, only to discover that Rick and most of the members were white. Louis noted that there were Indians and Russians who were members and admitted that India and parts of Russia were in fact located in Asia, making them Asians, but was miffed at discovering that despite the AAAoO "celebrating" Chinese New Year, they had no knowledge of Chinese New Year celebrations, including what red envelopes were. The family then returned home, although Louis stepped out to get pastries. He initially stated them to be pork buns, much to Jessica's delight, only to immediately disappoint when he informed her they were actually jelly-filled doughnuts. Upset that he had ruined the holiday, Louis went to Cattleman's and rallied the workers there as well as their friends to create a makeshift Chinese New Year's celebration, with Mitch and Nancy as the Chinese dragon performing the dragon dance while their friends, such as Deidre and Carol-Joan, supplying the fruits and explosives while Honey had contacts who could bring in Chinese lanterns. He then brought his family to the restaurant, and everyone enjoyed a nice dinner. As the Huang family were preparing to go Marvin and Honey's house for dinner, Louis noticed that Emery was hanging all the Valentines cards he got on his wall, which he dubbed his "love wall". Emery informed his parents that he got his romantic side from them, although Louis pointed out that he and Jessica had met at a seafood restaurant waiting in line for the bathroom. The family then went next door for dinner. Afterwards, Honey told Marvin that all Louis and Jessica spoke about was work and since the next day was Valentine's Day, they should offer to take the boys for the night in order to allow Louis and Jessica a romantic night alone. Louis and Jessica agreed, claiming they would go out for dinner and dancing, although in reality the pair chose to stay at home and enjoy a quiet night of filing their taxes. Emery soon walked in on them and was surprised that this is how they spent their alone time together, and began to dismantle his love wall, citing that he thought he wanted what his parents had, but that he wasn't sure. He then added that he had never seen the pair share a romantic kiss, and while Louis and Jessica attempted to do so, they ended up hurting the other. They relocated to the kitchen, claiming they were still romantic but just couldn't kiss in front of an audience. As they continued to file their taxes, Jessica pointed out that their van was serviced and she wasn't aware of it, and Louis responds that he had forgotten to tell her but that he had done it as she was driving important clients and he wanted her to make a good impression, unaware that Emery was listening. As Emery had been told by Marvin that real romance was in the small, loving gestures, Emery reassembled his love wall. Louis and Jessica walked past his room and witnessed it, and he apologized to them for his behavior, giving them a tax rebate love coupon as a token. Louis purchased a computer and Internet access and set it up at home as his family returned from grocery shopping. Louis then told them that they would have to take a course on how to use it, although Evan immediately began using the computer and the Internet as he was already well-versed. Evan searched up Cattleman's Ranch Steakhouse and a review it was given by the website "Phil's Phaves", with Emery pointing out that Cattleman's had been given a B-minus, which Louis and Jessica declared to be a Chinese "F". Jessica initially dismissed the website's review but they were both aghast when they discovered it had over a hundred views. Louis declared that he wished he could reach out to Phil and have him return to Cattleman's and give it a better review, and Evan, on his parents' behalf, contacted the webmaster of the site and extended the invitation. That night, Louis and Jessica stared at the website's view count in hopes it did not increase, although Evan notified them that they would have to refresh the page, which revealed an increase in page visits. Evan then decided to see whether they received an e-mail back, which confused Louis, who wondered how they would get mail at this hour of night, although Evan opened up their inbox and informed them that Phil had responded. Louis and Jessica added new decor to the restaurant and gave the employees hats in anticipation of Phil's visit, only to find out that Phil was none other than Phillip Goldstein. Louis and Jessica believed now that Phillip knew they owned the restaurant he would change his grade, although Phillip refused. Louis and Jessica had Phillip waited on-foot, which Phillip detested, and he gave them an updated review with a lower grade, that of a C-plus. Louis and Jessica then went to the Goldstein house to talk with his mother, who refused to have the site taken down as she and her husband advocated journalistic integrity to their son. Louis then asked to use their restroom, although in reality he stole the mouse from their computer, believing it crippled Phillip's access to the Internet and would shut down the site, only for Evan to later point out that the site would still be active regardless. Jessica then had Evan create "PhillipGoldsteinHasBadOpinions.com" to slander Phillip, giving Phillip the choice of either having his name smeared or to take down his bad review of Cattleman's. However, Phillip merely informed his principal and the police about the cyberbullying, and claimed that while he had his suspicions (having confronted Louis and Jessica before), he would not oust the perpetrators as he had no proof. As Officer Bryson declared that their cyber crimes unit would investigate the matter during a parent assembly at the school, Jessica got up and blamed Louis for buying the computer, prompting Louis to announce that the website was Jessica's doing. As a result of their admission, the pair were given thirty hours of community service to fulfill, and they decided to store away their home computer for the time being. Louis invited his family to watch what he referred to as the "Asian Super Bowl", which were Michael Chang's tennis matches. Louis informed his sons that they were lucky to have an Asian pro athlete to look up to, adding that he was younger, all he had was the Asian referee, whom he still supported even when he made the wrong calls. Eddie and Evan left, as they found tennis to be boring, although Emery was immersed and interested in the sport. Jessica was initially dismissive of the sport until hearing that Michael Chang made millions of dollars, and wished to foster Emery's interest in tennis as well as dissuade him from his ambitions of being a flight attendant. The trio headed to the country club to play tennis, where they were surprised at Emery's skill in the game despite never having played before. Tennis pro Billie Jean King, who had been watching, praised Emery's talent, informing Louis and Jessica that he had an innate skill for the game. Jessica then attempted to have Emery receive lessons from the country club, but upon hearing that lessons were $90 an hour, instead decided to have Louis take a few lessons so that he could teach Emery second-hand for free. Louis wanted to play in father-son competitions and have a tennis rivalry with his son, adding that he would pass his skills on to Emery and Emery on to his son, dreaming that one day Emery would beat him on the court and they wouldn't talk for years until making amends on his death bed. Jessica, on the other hand, wanted Emery to gain athletic scholarships and become wealthy. Jessica became his manager and Louis his coach, with Jessica making him victory dumplings and both of them rubbing his legs after his victories. Since Jessica wanted Emery to have no distractions, she forced Eddie to give up his room to Emery, causing Eddie to share the bunk bed with Evan. Jessica created an extreme training schedule for Emery, which resulted in tennis, school and then more tennis for every day without a break. Louis was against this, claiming that he just wanted Emery to develop a healthy passion for the sport and that Jessica was going overboard as Emery was only ten. This resulted in Jessica telling Emery that in order to truly focus on his career, he would have to fire Louis, giving Emery a speech to use as well. While Emery did fire Louis, Emery ended up using Jessica's own speech to fire her as well, instead taking on Billie Jean King as his coach and manager, as she had offered to do it for free. While lying in bed at home, Jessica and Louis overheard Billie Jean King training Emery at night, where she "rewarded" him by making him run laps. Jessica and Louis then attempted to watch Emery's games, but since Jessica often shouted and belittled the umpire at Emery's games, she was banned from attending the tournament. Emery eventually won the tournament but was informed that he would have to move to a tennis academy four hours away in Coral Gables to advance his career, which he did not want to do. As she did not want her son to move away from her, Jessica instantly agreed, informing him that she would support whatever decision he made, only for Emery to respond that he still wanted to travel the world as a flight attendant, irking her. Jessica then procured a brochure for space camp, which she left on Emery's bed, informing him that astronauts were like the flight attendants of space. As Louis attempted to remind her that she had agreed to support Emery no matter what, she added that if her son was going to be a flight attendant, he would have to be the best kind of flight attendant. Jessica began to get irritated as Louis kept crashing her "girl time" with Honey, as Louis was no longer staying behind to close up the restaurant, having defected those duties to Mitch instead. The pair attempt to hide at the Denim Turtle, although Louis follows them there, too. Honey asks Jessica if Louis was as 'present' in D.C. as he is now, and Jessica explains that he was not as he spent his free time playing pool with a friend named Hank. Jessica then finds three pool halls in their vicinity and ushers Louis to reinvigorate his love for pool, wanting him to find a friend, thereby spending less time with her and Honey, explaining to Honey that while Louis is friendly, he doesn't have a close or best friend in Orlando. Jessica is initially enthusiastic about Louis successfully making a friend named Tony and playing pool with 'him' at night, only for Louis to reveal that Tony is a woman. Jessica becomes irate at the thought of Louis hanging out with another woman, claiming that adults should not have friends of the opposite sex. Honey attempts to comfort her, assuring her that as it is the '90s now and that adults could have opposite sex friends, citing that she and Marvin were friends first before realizing that Marvin was married at the time and that he had cheated on his wife to be with Honey. Jessica and Honey make their way to the pool hall, witnessing Tony and Louis play, with Honey admitting that Tony looks sexy. Jessica then approaches Tony and asks her why she has a "man's name" (she reveals it is short for Antonia) and calls her a demon and a witch before ushering Louis away. Jessica later tells Louis that he cannot hang out with a woman at night and adds several other stipulations, such as the woman not being younger than her, could not weigh less than her, could not or ever wanted to be a gymnast, or be taller than her. After Louis assures her that he isn't interested in Tony other than someone to play pool with, Jessica offers a compromise: Louis could play pool with Tony, but it would have be at the Denim Turtle, under the watchful eye of Deb and the other women. Louis initiates a take-out service as Cattleman's Ranch Steakhouse, known as Cattleman's To-Go. As he returns home, his three sons gleefully announce his return and he tackles them, playing with them and presenting them with chocolate cake. Jessica instructs the boys to go to bed, although Louis allows them to eat the cake in their rooms; Jessica adds that they must brush their teeth afterwards, and Louis silently informs them that they do not have to. As Louis and Jessica discuss his parenting, Louis attempts to move away from the situation by showing off a dance move for her, although he ends up slamming his knee hard on the kitchen floor. Louis is then given a cast and a wheelchair, and as he cannot get dressed, Jessica offers to manage things at Cattleman's in his absence. Louis is reluctant given the bad nature between Jessica and his employees, although he eventually relents albeit with one caveat – she is not allowed to fire anyone whatsoever. While Jessica agrees, Louis goes a step further and pages Mitch to not only notify him that Jessica is interim manager, but that Jessica wasn't allowed to fire them. The kids return home from school to find Louis there, although Louis gets uncomfortable and leaves, telling his sons he was going out to a diner on a coffee break. Jessica heads to the diner after work to find him, and he tells her that he is the fun dad with the "tight two" tactic: dazzle and entertain his kids for two minutes before leaving, citing that his father did that and that he saw his father for "ten minutes" of his life yet idolized him. He goes on to add that he is the good cop while Jessica is the bad cop, and that he cannot spend all day with his kids without them realizing he was just a regular guy. Regardless, Jessica orders him stay home all the next day, and Louis starts off by rapid-firing multiple jokes. When they do not land, he decides to watch TV with the boys, although his mother is watching one of her Chinese programs. Louis decides to his own English dub live, although the boys do not find it funny, instead asking if they can draw on his cast. Louis agrees to let them do so, and upon finding out that they find the rash underneath the cast gross yet interesting, allows them to cut it off for fun. Jessica returns home and finds the cast-less Louis, taking him and the kids to the hospital. As she goes to speak with the doctor, Louis finds the kids being bored in his presence and, panicking, gives them $50 for the vending machines. Jessica returns and asks where the kids are, and he tells them where they went. She then tells him that the wait time is six hours and leaves to return to the restaurant; as Louis proclaims that she cannot leave him alone, she replies that he should spend the remaining hours with his children. As his boys return with a plethora of snacks, he confesses to them that he is not a fun dad, although to his surprise his sons reveal that they find his 'entertainment' a little overbearing at times and that they just want to hang out with him. Louis, surprised, asked if that meant he didn't have to entertain them or be a fun dad, and Emery replies that as their father, all he needed to do was be present and spend time with them, much to Louis' content. Some time later, Louis and Jessica returned to the hospital to have his new cast removed, although to Louis' shock the muscle mass in his right leg had deteriorated, prompting him to refer to as a 'baby leg', to which Jessica quipped that it did not smell like a baby's leg. As the North Orlando Chili Cook-Off was commencing, Louis signed up to compete, having dabbled in chili contests back in D.C. Louis was informed by Marvin that he, too, was competing, revealing that he had won the last five years in a row and had a hog ready in the shed to use in his pot. Louis then enlisted Eddie to be his chili apprentice, which Eddie was enthusiastic over. The pair headed to Cattleman's kitchen to work on their chili. However, after finally finishing it tasting it, and informing his father that it was "not bad", Louis dumped the chili in the trash, telling Eddie that "not bad" wasn't good enough to win. Eddie suggested they they toast cumin in some bacon fat, although Louis immediately cut him off, notifying him that the reason he never had Jessica come into the kitchen and help him make chili is because she too offers alternatives and attempts to modify the recipe. As a result of his opinions not being acknowledged, Eddie quits beings his chili apprentice. At the cook-off, Louis notices Marvin's table, where Marvin has displayed his winning trophies and is posing in case someone takes a photo of him. While looking at the contestants sign up sheet, Louis notices the name "Big Daddy Huang" and claims that they made a mistake, only to find out that Big Daddy Huang is not referring to him but Eddie. Louis scoffs at Eddie's decision to enter, citing that Eddie had only just learned how to make chili and had been doing it for only three days, although Eddie replies that he has learned the basics and must break the shackles that bind him to his father. Louis then replies: "Like the French candle says in Beauty and the Beast, "Be My Guest."" At the end of the cook-off, Louis approached Eddie's table, where Eddie offered him a taste. Louis was impressed by Eddie's chili, uttering in disbelief that Eddie could not have made it from scratch. Gus and Mey-Mey from Good Morning Orlando appeared to announce the winners, notifying that Marvin had been disqualified as he had used pre-cooked meat in his chili: a Whopper from Burger King, causing him to lose his five prior trophies as well and to be escorted off the grounds. The three finalists were then picked: Eddie, Louis and a woman named Gloria. Gloria won, but believing pride was a sin, relinquished the trophy to Eddie and Louis, who took it home and displayed it in front of their window to Marvin, who was led to believe that Louis had won the trophy. Louis and Jessica began to work on their "week in review", where they sat down and scheduled out the upcoming week. Louis likened himself and Jessica as a team, and prepared to help her when Eddie and Evan contracted lice, despite his mother asking him why he would help, citing that it was the mother's job and that the father was just supposed to work in order to provide financially. Louis claimed that it was the '90s and that parenthood should be a team effort, but when Jessica got lice as well, he decided to abandon her. Louis believed that his career was more important than Jessica's but added that he supported hers and that he babysat their kids while she focused on her career, prompting Jessica to retort that it did not count as babysitting since they were his kids; Louis additionally adds that he had cleaned, vacuumed and helped Emery out with a project, to which Jessica replies that he was merely being a parent. Louis, however, believed that the mother was held accountable more and fled to Marvin and Honey's house, not wanting to catch lice. Louis spoke with Marvin about his fight with Jessica, where Marvin spouted that he did not agree with men and women sharing the workload at home and that he thought the "it's the '90s" modern mindset would only last a decade at maximum. However, Louis then spoke with Honey, who reminded him that Jessica went above and beyond and that, as a team, he was to be there to support her. Since Jessica needed to have official photographs taken of the investment property, Louis had the pictures taken and brought them home to Jessica, informing her that he wasn't as evolved as he thought he was and that he wanted them to be equal partners. He then decided to hug her; when she protested due to the chance of him catching lice, he responded that they'd just have lice together, although Jessica reminded him that if he was to contract lice, she would make him stay outside of the house like she did to Eddie and Evan. Following the season finale of Melrose Place, Jessica, on Honey's suggestion, purchased an above-ground pool for the Huang house. Louis, Eddie and Emery went into the pool, where Louis did a handstand underwater. He then suggested his two sons try and see who can hold their breath underwater the longest. However, as they went under, Louis shifted his attention to that of a neighbor, admiring his vest and wondering if he could pull it off, all the while unaware that Eddie was constantly resurfacing for air. As he turned around, Eddie and Emery resurfaced, and Emery asked who had won. Louis then admitted that he had not been paying attention, and coupled with Eddie's blatant cheating, prompted Emery to fly into an uncharacteristic rage and exit the pool. The next day, Louis returned home with the vest he had idolized, and Eddie asked him how he could shrug off Emery's bout of rage from the day before. Louis then explained that when Emery was younger, he would simply bottle up his negative emotions until bursting at the smallest thing. After Louis brings home Wolfgang Chang's for dinner, Emery lashes out at Louis and insults his vest. Louis, upset, goes to his room and begins to pack the vest back in its box so that he could return it. Emery enters the room and apologizes for his outburst. Louis mentions how Emery hasn't had those moments in a long time, and Emery explains that it is due to his screaming jars. Confused, Louis follows Emery to his room where Emery reveals that he has empty jars underneath his bed, which he screams into whenever he gets angry; additionally, he carries a travel-sized jar on him at all times, but because he was unable to do so with his swim trunks, could not use a jar to unleash his anger at the pool. Slightly disturbed, Louis suggests they find another outlet to channel Emery's rage and suggests using the pool, although when they go outside, they find that the pool has been removed due to HOA by-laws. Jessica then insults Louis' vest, which infuriates him; Emery then asks him if he needs a scream jar, and Louis responds tat he knows where the jars are as he storms into the house. After their toaster breaks, the Huang family pay a visit to the bank so that Evan could open his own banking account, which comes with a free toaster. However, Evan is conflicted on whether to use 'Chih Fu', his Chinese name, or his American name, Evan; to make matters worse, Louis and Jessica notify him that the name was chosen at random, after Nurse Evans, a nurse present during his birth. Louis informs Evan that he got the name 'Louis' from Lou Ferrigno as he was a fan of The Incredible Hulk, although Eddie points out that it is a lie as Louis hates the Hulk. Louis then shares the true story of how he chose his American name: after moving to the United States from Taiwan, he answered a roommate listing by Barry, which is how they met. Barry got him a job working at a diner, where the pair spotted a guest named Louis, an aquarium owning 'gangster'. Thinking him to be cool and believing he had his life put together, he adopted his clothing style and name, referring to himself as Louis. While going out to dinner at a seafood restaurant with Barry, Louis received food poisoning and, while waiting in the line for the bathroom, met Jessica and introduced himself to her as Louis. He then came across the "Cool Louis", who was at the seafood restaurant as well, who did not like that Louis Huang had stolen his name and look. They went into the alley to fight, but Louis vomited due to the food poisoning, prompting Cool Louis to state that he could keep the name. At the bank, Evan chooses what name he wishes to use and the family heads back home with the new toaster, although Eddie drops it and breaks it into pieces. Evan writes a check for his parents to buy a new toaster and Louis points out that it is indecipherable, to which Jessica it is the signature of a doctor. Louis and Eddie play a game at the kitchen table, with Louis proclaiming that he loves spending time with him, although he immediately drops the ruse and cites it to be boring when Evan and Emery locate the television remote. As Louis pays the two for finding the remote, Eddie asks Louis to buy him a watch, which Louis refuses to do so believing Eddie would use it temporarily and discard it. In order to give Eddie a chance to prove his worth, Louis gives his own watch to Eddie to see if he could take care of it for a week. Eddie does so, but takes it off and leaves it on his bed before taking a shower. Seeing the watch on the bed, Louis believes Eddie has just left it out and takes it back, only to lose it himself. Louis enlists the "Huang Boys" (Evan and Emery) to find the watch, and at the end buys a new one. However, just then Evan and Emery come in with the identical watch and claim they have found it, and Jenny herself also wheels into the room with the same watch in hand. It is revealed that Jenny, not liking the fact that Louis had taken the watch from Eddie, took the watch from him; believing he had lost it, Louis purchased a replacement watch and left it in Eddie's room, while Evan and Emery used their own money to buy the same watch to 'solve the case' as they had never failed to solve one before. Louis went to the video rental store to rent Beethoven, although wanting be accepted by employee Corey as a cinephile, pretended he was looking for foreign "classy" films and rented a French movie called La Chouffe instead. Corey then informed Louis that the other rented videos on his account would be due Tuesday, prompting Louis to ask what movies and for Corey to respond that someone from his family, whom he was prohibited by store policy to name, had rented movies using his card. Louis then searched the house for the tapes, finding a framed photograph of Jessica under Evan's pillow, which disturbed him. He then found various cassettes of with shirtless men on the covers (action movies starring Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger) and believed that since they were hidden under his mattress that Jessica must have rented it. Louis goes to Marvin's house to talk about it, and helps him mount a deer head he had just recently hunted. Marvin tells Louis that he needs to be an action man that Jessica craves and Louis takes the advice to heart, parading around the house shirtless and crushing the cereal box with his arms. However, Jessica asks him what he's doing, citing that Louis hates being shirtless so much he wears T-shirts in the ocean. Louis mentions how he's trying to be like the action men on the cassettes she rented, and she states that she did not rent them. Knowing that the tapes are soon due, Louis hides in his closet and waits for the perpetrator to retrieve them from underneath the mattress; when he hears someone doing so, he springs out of the closet only to discover to his surprise that the culprit is none other than Emery. The pair sit on the bed as Emery tries to explain his reasoning. Noting the shirtless men on the cassette covers and Emery's attempts to hide the tapes, Louis initially believes Emery to be gay; as Emery asks if Louis is mad, Louis stammers that he is not and speaks about Broadway, attempting to tell Emery that a father's love knows no bounds but that their current state, Florida, would not be the best for him until Emery cuts in and clarifies he rented the tapes as research for school. Relieved, Louis claims that he had known it was homework-related, to which Emery clarifies it was not for homework. Emery then explains that his friends at school suddenly have deep voices and have dismissed their usual activities as being dorky, instead preferring to talk about cars, make farts jokes and throw things at other things. As a result, he found it hard to be around them and thus had rented the tapes to learn how to be like them. Emery declares he would write a poem for his class although Louis shuts the idea down, instead suggesting that Emery make himself more like his friends so that he could be more likable. Emery goes to school and ends up insulting his friend Chad, which results in Chad punching Emery and Emery receiving a bruise. As Louis is called to the school to pick Emery up, Emery blames Louis for the assault for trying to deter him from his usual course of action. However, Emery does not tell Jessica the truth of what happened, instead telling her that his bruise came from looking into a telescope too hard. Watching La Chouffe at home with his mother and Evan, Jenny tells Louis that he always changes who he is in order to make people like him instead of staying true to himself, unlike Jessica and Emery. Realizing he is like that, Louis goes to see Emery in his room, apologizing. He tells Emery that he is ahead of the curve and that the other boys at school are still figuring themselves out. He then goes to the video store to return La Chouffe and picks up the Beethoven rental he had wanted earlier, telling Corey that he finds the cinephile movies to be boring and that he wanted funny movies with animals instead. As Emery is graduating from fifth grade at Palms Elementary, Louis decides to host an all-you-can-eat chicken dinner at Cattleman's for his three sons, allowing them to bring a friend. Louis allows Eddie to bring his girlfriend Alison, which shocks Jessica as she was unaware Eddie had a girlfriend. Louis tells Jessica that he met Alison at the Fall Ball at that she was nice, and tells Jessica not to make a big deal out of the fact that she isn't Chinese. However, a Chinese girl shows up to their house as 'Alison', gaining Jessica's approval and Louis' confusion, although Eddie clarifies that the girl is Alison's friend Audrey, whom Alison sent as a panic response to Jessica wanting Eddie to have a Chinese girlfriend. Louis is also appreciative of Emery being class valedictorian and attempts to stress the importance of speeches to his son. He later goes to Emery's room and rips up the speech Emery had written, suggesting that doing so would stir the audience, after which he would give a 'heartfelt' speech that would be secretly written on his arm. At the graduation ceremony, Emery just does that, although he ends up giving an actual spontaneous speech rather than a pre-written one. While Louis is proud, he later finds out that every one in the class was made valedictorian as the school did not want anyone to feel left out. That night at Cattleman's, Louis tells Eddie to go easy on the chicken thighs as they are running low only to witness Audrey, who had been invited as Emery's date, taking most of them on a plate, much to his and Jessica's disapproval. Louis witnessed his three sons having a fight on the couch and attempted to break the fight up, citing that as brothers, they were all each other hand. Just then, Jessica notified him that his brother Gene was on the phone, prompting Louis to immediately reply "Tell that bastard to go to hell!". Louis was then told by Gene that he had big news and that he was coming to Orlando. Louis then spoke with his mother, referring to an incident at a hot springs, and Jenny told her son that he should set an example for his sons. In response, Louis took the whole family to the airport to pick up Gene. Gene revealed that he was getting married and had turned his life around, and took the rest of the Huangs out to a nice restaurant. Returning home for the night, Jessica told Louis that she paid Gene $200 as she owed him $200 after borrowing money from him to buy his engagement ring. However, Louis told her that she shouldn't have paid him, revealing that he had been sending money back home for years, and had given Gene thousands, paying for all the schools and career paths Gene pursued. A noise in the living room suddenly caused Louis and Jessica to go outside, where they found out Gene had broken their piano. Louis told Gene to pay for it, though Gene claimed he was financially tight. Louis and Gene got into a fight, with Louis citing that he had sent money back home, to which Gene replied that it wasn't because Louis was generous but because he was guilty, having accepted their father's decision to send one of them to the United States, believing that Louis should have let him go instead. Louis told Gene that his life still turned out okay, but Gene was angry, citing that his life was better now, but that it could have been better had he gone to America instead. Louis then decided to speak with Gene afterwards, but found a note claiming that he was disinvited from the wedding and that he had taken their mother back home to Taiwan for the wedding. Wanting to make amends, Louis informed his family of Gene and Jenny's departure and told them that they were going to Taiwan.
Season 3
Landing in Taiwan, Louis informed the Customs Agent his intention for visiting. Louis met up with his paternal family in Taiwan, including Big Auntie and Little Auntie, borrowing their car to meet up with Gene. Louis was shocked that Gene was having his wedding as a lavish location and that his wife-to-be, Margaret, was a beautiful model. While initially making up with Gene after revealing he flew economy plus direct with no lay-overs for full price, the jealous affected Louis, who believed that he would have a better life than Gene since he went to America, and began to regret that he left Taiwan. This strain caused him to send a lantern calling Gene an "ass pimple", although Gene tore it up. While attending Gene and Margaret's wedding, Louis suggested that they move back to Taiwan for a better life. Jessica, however, stated that she missed Orlando and wanted to have a bagel, and that while they could have a better life in Taiwan by using connections, they had earned their success on their own back in the States. Jessica added that no one loved the USA more than Louis and that he would miss it if they moved to Taiwan, with Louis stating that Jessica would miss Taiwan when she returned back to Orlando, prompting Jessica to solemnly declare that perhaps they would not feel at home in either location. The next day, Louis made amends with Gene, citing that they shouldn't wait so long until they see each other again. Gene then claimed that he was flying through Orlando the next week, although Louis claimed that was too soon. Following the wedding, the family returned back to Orlando. Louis and Jessica installed televisions at Cattleman's to show the 1996 Summer Olympics, which brought in more crowds and increased the restaurant's success. Returning home, the pair noticed a watermelon on the floor that Eddie had dropped, and Jessica lamented that she wished she had help cleaning around the house. As a result, Louis hired a housekeeper named Mary, although Jessica was extremely offended by it, crowding over as Mary cleaned. She got into a fight with Louis about it, but allowed Mary to clean as she was paid for it before driving her home. Jessica was soon called into Cattleman's so that Mary could clean once more, having been hired again by Louis. While appreciative of Mary's cleaning, Jessica explained that this is what she was afraid of, that they would hire people to cut their grass or do their taxes. Louis wondered why it was bad to do so if they could afford it, and Jessica explained that family are meant to do things for each other instead of hiring it; Louis added that he hired people at Cattleman's to do things he did not like, although Jessica iterated that she did not wish to run her home like a business and that, while she did not love cleaning up after her family, she liked that her family needed her, even if she would resent them for being unappreciative. Louis then told her that he would let her clean the house by herself from now on. Halloween season began, with Louis waking up in the middle of the night to scare his family, although this resulted in Jessica punching him. Jessica did not agree with the notion of Halloween and did not see the point in celebrating it. Louis tried multiple times to scare her to no avail. Jessica decided to spend the holiday attempting to write a horror novel, and was soon asked by Eddie if he could attend a high school Halloween party; while Jessica refused, Louis intervened and allowed Eddie to go, citing that Jessica did not have a say since she did not celebrate the season. As Louis, Emery and Evan prepared to go out for Halloween, Jessica received a call from Officer Bryson that they had to pick up Eddie from the police station, as he had been at a party with no adult supervision. Coming back home, Jessica berated Louis for not checking before agreeing to send Eddie. Louis mentioned how he wished to spend Halloween with Jessica much like how Jessica always wants Louis around during Christmas, stating that Halloween was to him what Christmas was to her. Realizing how much her family loved Halloween, Jessica woke up her family early morning on November 1st to go trick-or-treating, although they ended up going to Honey's house as they failed to exact candy.
•In the episode "How to Be an American", Jessica's Visa application reveals Louis's birth date to be March 23, 1955, making him 7 years older than Jessica, who was revealed to have been born on June 12, 1962.
•In the episode "Legends of the Fortieth", set in 1999, it was revealed Louis just turned forty, making him born in 1959 in Season 5.
•He is the former "Cha Cha king" of Taipei.
•Louis is a Democrat as revealed in "Citizen Jessica".
•http://abc.go.com/shows/fresh-off-the-boat/cast/character-louis-huang
•http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0502033/?ref_=tt_cl_t2
The real-life Huang serves as an executive producer of the series throughout its run as well as its narrator during the first season. Forrest Wheeler as Emery Huang, [21] the middle son of the Huang family.
Louis, TV-Eddie’s father, is hapless and good-natured — very different from Huang’s own portrayal of his father, who was abusive toward him and his siblings. “My dad, he’s a bad dude.
From 2015 to 2020, Park starred as Louis Huang, patriarch of a Taiwanese American family, alongside Constance Wu, in ABC's television show Fresh Off the Boat (based on Eddie Huang's memoir, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir), written and produced by Nahnatchka Khan and executive produced by Jake Kasdan.
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Feb 4, 2015 · ABC is be hoping that the Huang family will find a place in your living room. "The Huang family consists of the father Louis Huang, and his wife, Jessica. Louis is a starting a new restaurant in Orlando, he's moving his family down from Chinatown, DC and so he brings his three children, which include Eddie Huang, who is into hip-hop and ...
Feb 8, 2015 · But he'd already filmed the pilot, in which he starred as family patriarch Louis Huang, a Taiwanese immigrant and firm believer in the American Dream.
