'Black-ish' Season 1 Episode 6 Spoilers: 'The Gift Of Hunger'

ABC's new comedy series "Black-ish" continues to follow the lives of the Johnson family, a typical African-American sub-urban family caught in between tradition and the modern age. In the upcoming episode, the family patriarch Andre Johnson, feels that his kids are starting to become spoiled and tries to bring them back to earth by insisting that they all get jobs.

The Johnson kids, Zoey, Andre Jr., Jack and Diane all turned up their noses when their father Andre took them to his favourite restaurant. The place is a cheap joint located in his old neighbourhood where he grew up before moving down to suburbia. It turned out that his kids no longer connect with that kind of local cheap comfort food and their reaction makes Andre realise that he needs to do something to keep his kids from being spoiled brats.

Andre decides to teach his kids a lesson and makes them work in order to show them the value of hard work and the money that comes as a result. The two older kids, Zoey and Andre Jr., started working at his office, but their presence stresses him out because he can't help but hover over their work. Meanwhile, the twins Jack and Diane are also looking for small jobs around the neighbourhood and this results in some wagging tongues. The neighbours incorrectly assume that the family has fallen on hard times and Andre's wife Rainbow is humiliated.

Andre grew up during a time where being African-American meant something completely different than it does now. As the modern world becomes more and more tolerant and more people of colour are able to become successful and contributing members of society, Andre finds himself torn between the need to preserve traditions and the inevitable transition into a colourless society.

In the season premier, Andre was promoted to Senior Vice President in the Advertising Agency that he works for. Meanwhile, his wife is a successful doctor. Because of this, they have been able to afford to give their four children a much better live than they grew up in. They were also able to give their children opportunities that were never before available to African-American or other mixed race children from older generations. ABC Medianet provides the show's episode guides as well as the lead story behind the series. The series airs every Wednesday, back to back with "Modern Family" on ABC.