Season 8 - Episode Guide

Ella's mother comes to visit. Meanwhile, Janine texts C.J. a sexy picture of herself.

Calvin and Miranda salvage what they can from the remains of their burned condo, move in with C.J. and Janine, and gear up for a legal battle with Tracie over Calvin Jr.

Deshawn joins a gang. Ella and Floyd do everything they can to stop him. Calvin gets on C.J.'s nerves after he and Miranda move in with C.J. and Janine.

One of Deshawn's teachers has a radical idea about helping Deshawn at school: The gifted program. Calvin and Miranda hire a contractor to start the renovations of their condo.

Deshawn gets in trouble for bullying a kid at school. Miranda and Janine begin fighting over petty things.

C.J. forgets Janine's three year sober anniversary. Ella gets Deshawn an ugly outfit for school picture day.

After C.J. has to lay off firefighters due to budget cuts, Roland has to use his PR skills to avoid altercation.

Calvin and Miranda plan Calvin Jr.'s birthday party. Curtis and Ella have trouble with the HOA.

CJ hires Calvin, but Calvin's job performance fails to impress. Meanwhile, a bored Curtis brushes off retirement by taking up painting.

Curtis wakes up as a Jefferson.

Miranda frets over her unemployment; C.J. looks into firefighter response times.

Calvin is allowed supervised visits; Ella's friend Felicia visits.

Janine sponsors a young girl; Curtis and Ella become DeShawn's foster parents.

C.J. and Janine are not comfortable with Malik's roommate; Claretha tries alternative cancer-fighting treatments.

Malik gets hazed.

Ella becomes director of the center; Malik mulls dropping out.

Curtis becomes a contestant on Paynefully Fit, while Deshawn get advice about girls

Miranda's new client hits on her while the family honors Curtis.

Miranda takes over renovating the condo while Calvin and Deshawn bond.

The Payne's say goodbye while praising God in church.

Unaware that Calvin has been shot, Miranda takes out her fury on Curtis and Ella for Calvin missing Christian's christening and being unreachable.

As Calvin fights for his life in the hospital, Ella has had enough of Miranda's behavior, and Curtis and C.J. meet with the police to begin searching for the perpetrator.

Calvin is still unconscious from being shot, but his gap in health insurance places the family in a financial dilemma, while a detective begins investigating Travis Harris.

Calvin regains consciousness and begins his slow recovery, as Curtis and Ella's coverage of his astronomical medical bills forces them to give up moving into their new house.

With Calvin in pain, unable to remember his assailant and having nightmares about being shot, Curtis and Ella believe they are better equipped than Miranda to care for him.

Curtis and Ella are deeply concerned when despondent Calvin states he would have been better off dying, while DeShawn makes the decision to live with his mother again.

Now remembering who shot him, Calvin plans to take the law into his own hands, as Curtis fakes illness to attend a baseball game instead of going to a brunch with Ella.

Back in the condo with Miranda, Calvin doesn't have the heart to tell Ella she's no longer needed, while Curtis, C.J. and Floyd watch the twins during a big game.

Lethargic and unmotivated, Calvin gives in to Miranda and C.J.'s demands to return to work, and Curtis is convinced Floyd's new girlfriend is a former male firefighter.

During a gun buyback program at the Help Center, Ella diffuses a potentially fatal situation, and Calvin works up the courage to speak about his recent experience being shot.

When Curtis runs for president of the neighborhood watch, he's challenged by C.J., while Malik uses his emergency credit card irresponsibly to buy gifts for his girlfriend

When Malik brings his college girlfriend Summer home, the family has difficulty accepting her New Age energy-reading ways and Malik's plan to travel with her to Africa.

As Calvin and Miranda are evicted from their condo due to bank foreclosure, Floyd sells Curtis on a home security system, concealing the fact that it's not legitimate.

The opening of Ella's shelter for battered women is threatened when C.J. finds multiple fire code violations, while Curtis has Calvin at his beck and call for denting his car.

Curtis hopes to be honored by the mayor for his neighborhood patrolling prowess, as Malik works his school's crisis hotline and fields a call from a suicidal student.

While Curtis bonds with Miranda over man-centric activities, C.J.'s college buddy gives him a sports car and event tickets, expecting a significant favor in return.

Believing Janine's PR event idea doesn't have merit, C.J. overrides it with his own plan, and Ella is offended when Malik thinks critically about creationism and faith in God.

A television reporter twists Curtis's on-camera statement about C.J.'s job performance, while Malik tutors an illiterate football player and is asked to take a test for him.

Malik is arrested while leading a student demonstration to prevent the execution of an arsonist, whom C.J. helped convict 12 years earlier.

Unathletic Janine is thrilled to play on C.J. and Curtis's softball team, as Miranda fundamentally disagrees with Ella's philosophy of physically disciplining children.

Curtis and Ella grow tired of Calvin and Miranda taking advantage of them, while C.J.'s advisement to Malik and Summer not to have premarital sex has an unexpected result.

As C.J., Janine and Miranda throw a house party and agree to exclude Curtis and Ella, college newlyweds Malik and Miranda realize they don't know each other well.

Curtis's lackluster community service work at the Help Center aggravates Ella, while Janine is disappointed when Miranda chooses Calvin to go to a concert.

When Ella borrows $200 from Curtis, he makes the dubious claim to C.J. and Calvin that she'll pay it back, and Malik is shocked to find out his longtime friend Rashard is gay.

Malik is devastated when Summer acts evasive and insists they end their marriage, while Miranda makes Janine jealous with her overachieving temp skills in the PR office.

Curtis gets a new appreciation for Ella's management of the Help Center when he covers for her, as Malik gets hopped-up on caffeine pills to manage work and studying.

Janine and Miranda's clash of egos puts an important church sponsorship presentation in jeopardy, while Malik has trouble moving past his failed marriage to Summer.

C.J. and Janine are fed up with Curtis and Ella's unannounced visits, and Jazmine is caught with a cheat sheet at school.

Mobile technology overtakes the family, when Jazmine communicates only in text speak, Curtis discovers the functionality of his tablet, and Ella becomes glued to her laptop.

Curtis replaces C.J. as coach of Jazmine's winless soccer team, guides them to defeating the toughest team in the league and sets his sights on the state championship.

As Ella works with Jazmine to improve her baking skills, the family stages an intervention when Calvin's addiction to painkillers comes to light.

Jazmine's friend sends out email blasts with hurtful jokes about their classmate, while a pregnancy scare causes Miranda and Calvin's anger towards each other to surface.

Janine is in disbelief when C.J. gives her below-average scores on her annual performance evaluation, as Miranda worries that Calvin is no longer the man she married.

Hired by Ella to buff the floors of the Help Center, Floyd uses it as an opportunity to host a casino night, as C.J. and Janine teach Jazmine a lesson about talking in class.

Spending a day in C.J. and Janine's office, Jazmine is bored until she watches them handle a crisis, while Calvin and Miranda struggle to find a new place.

Ella shows great composure when her mother Eunice passes away, but she is stunned when Evie discloses a long-held family secret that affects their inheritance.

While Janine is away, Jazmine is asked by a boy to the school dance, and it's up to protective C.J. and Curtis to put him through an interrogation to earn their approval.

Floyd lists himself as the sole inventor of a product that Curtis helped him with, and Calvin discovers that Miranda has funds she intentionally hid from him.

With Calvin and Miranda constantly arguing, Calvin plans a special night to reconnect with her, however their marriage may be past the point of saving.

After Travis Harris's trial for the attempted murder of Calvin, the Paynes anxiously await the verdict and worry about the content of Calvin's victim impact statement.

Harboring resentment since his forced retirement, Curtis balks at C.J.'s request for him to return to the fire department, while Floyd finds out he has royal lineage.

Before a fancy anniversary dinner, Miranda confesses to Janine that she doesn't see any reason to celebrate her marriage to Calvin, and she later walks out on him.