<P> Steve Hightower (Steve Harvey) is a 1970s funk legend who is now a music teacher / vice-principal at Booker T. Washington High School on Chicago's West Side . Budget cutbacks meant Steve also had to teach drama and art, much to his surprise . Cedric Robinson (Cedric the Entertainer) is a coach at the high school, and Steve's longtime best friend . The principal of Booker T. Washington High is Steve's former classmate, Regina Grier (Wendy Raquel Robinson), who Steve affectionately calls "Piggy", because of the fact that she was overweight as an adolescent . </P> <P> Steve forms a strong bond with two of his students: Romeo Santana (Merlin Santana), a stylish, popular, self - absorbed ladies' man, and the equally vacuous Stanley Kuznocki, nicknamed Bullethead (William Lee Scott) - acting as their mentor, and gradually, accepts them as friends . </P> <P> In 1997, the show introduced a new character, a secretary named Lovita Jenkins (Terri J. Vaughn), a woman who is fundamentally good in nature, but nonetheless, considerably unrefined in terms of disposition . Cedric and Lovita begin dating, and eventually marry and produce a child . The show also featured a succession of young actresses who served as female foils to Romeo and Bullethead; the longest - lasting of these was Lori Beth Denberg as the overachieving, socially inept Lydia Gutman. She would also call Bullethead a "broke Brad Pitt" whenever he annoyed her, but would usually refer to Lydia as "Linda", "Lisa", or "Lucy" (correctly calling her "Lydia" only once). Rapper The Lady of Rage also had a recurring role as Coretta "The Ox" Cox, a physically massive, brutish teenaged girl in romantic pursuit of Romeo . </P> <P> Steve was part of a fictional singing group called "Steve Hightower and the High Tops," who would temporarily reunite to perform on occasion (the spelling of "High Tops" appears on a promotional poster that hangs on Steve's wall). The members consisted of Steve, T - Bone (played by T.K. Carter, later by Don' D.C.' Curry), Pretty Tony (played by Ronald Isley of The Isley Brothers), and Clyde (played by Jonathan Slocumb). Two of their signature songs (performed several times on the show) were "When the Funk Hits the Fan" (and later on Harvey's eponymous talk show), and "Break Me Off a Piece of That Funk ." Though Cedric was not an original member of the group, he usually sang with them on several events . </P>

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