Smart Guy
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Smart Guy is an American television sitcom that aired on The WB for two seasons from 1997 to 1999. It had reruns on The Disney Channel from 2001 to 2003.
The show's main character is T.J. Henderson (played by Tahj Mowry), an 11 year-old genius who is promoted from the fourth grade to the tenth grade. T.J.'s older brother Marcus (Jason Weaver) and friend Morris L. Tibbs aka "Mo" (Omar Gooding, younger brother of Cuba Gooding, Jr.) befriend T.J. and sometimes use his genius to their advantage while looking out for him. T.J.'s older sister Yvette (Essence Atkins) is a senior at the high school her two brothers and Mo attend; she is a vocal women's rights activist. Their widowed father Floyd (John Marshall Jones) is a contracter who only wants the best for his kids. The show begins with TJ's first day in high school and ends with Yvette's graduation.