In the third-season opener, Steve and Regina go on a cruise where he hopes to ""define"" his unconsummated relationship with Regina. While they're gone, Steve entrusts his apartment to responsible student Lydia Guttman. - - -

In exchange for allowing her to keep her lovebirds at the apartment, Lovita agrees not to visit for a week. To make amends for when the birds keep Steve awake all night, Lovita gives Steve a pair of tickets for a weekend cruise to Mexico. When Regina agrees to go along, Steve sets out to make his dream of a romantic vacation come true.

Coretta invites Romeo, Bullethead and Lydia to her Sweet 16 party. The boys look for a way out and think they find it when Steve asks Lydia to house-sit and to care for the birds while he's away. Seeing an opportunity for a party, Romeo gets Lydia to invite him over for dinner. Lydia expects a romantic evening alone, but he brings along his friends for a big party.

As the cruise gets underway, Steve can't think of anything other bei

Junior and Vincent, the two kids that Steve and Cedric mentored as ""big brothers"", return, and Junior asks Regina if she would go out on a date with his older brother. Steve dates a young coffee shop waitress. - - -

As Steve prepares to date Sheila, a young employee at his local coffeehouse, he and Cedric are surprised by the return of their ""Little Brothers,"" Vincent and Junior. While refusing Junior's request for a date, Regina does agree to go out with his older brother, Zack. And to make the blind date more comfortable, Steve offers to host a dinner party.

Romeo and Bullethead are assigned a report on jazz musician Theolonius Monk. Meanwhile, Romeo and Bullethead agree to give Vincent and Junior lessons how to pick up girls in exchange for help on their music assignment.

As the dinner party is getting underway, everyone is surprised by Sheila's age. But Regina has little room to complain after everyone meets the youthful Zack. To prove she's young a heart, Regina throws herself i

Cedric lets being named ""Teacher of the Year"" go to his head, angering fellow teachers, students and even Lovita. - - -

Steve and Cedric are both nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award. After eight consecutive nominations without a win, Cedric has learned not to expect too much. To cheer him up, Lovita prepares a special dinner, but it still doesn't keep him from being obsessed about it just the same. Meanwhile, in recognition of passing health class, Cedric agrees to take Bullethead and Romeo to a Chicago Bears football game.

In an effort to get Cedric the recognition he deserves, Steve takes himself out of the running. And as Steve convinces Regina to play along, Bullethead and Romeo make a plan to help Cedric win.

After learning he's been chosen Teacher of the Year, Cedric couldn't be happier. Yet, unaware of all the help he received, he can't keep his ego in check. As Regina offers to host a party in his honor, Cedric adopts a more sophisticated persona in order to maximize

Cedric and Lovita decide to live together before they get married; and Regina ignores Steve's school proposal to counsel at-risk students. Meanwhile, Bullethead and Lydia share a locker, and Romeo gets a mysterious lockermate. - - -

Though he's won the vice-principal's job, Steve's daring proposals for change at the school go unnoticed by Regina. And when Lovita suggests she and Cedric try living together before getting married, Steve seizes the opportunity to find them a new apartment. Meanwhile, a locker-sharing plan matches Bullethead with Lydia and leaves Romeo with a mystery lockermate who leaves behind sexy women's lingerie.

While Steve has decided against future roommates, Lovita and Cedric advertise for one anyway, prompting a change of heart after a pair of gorgeous twins arrive, ready to move in. Determined that Regina gives his proposal the attention it deserves, Steve submits it again, this time under Cedric's name. And when she's impressed, Steve decides he and Regina ca

Steve acts a like fool while pursuing a woman, and his friends intervene to save his dignity. Regina warns Steve the woman stole her college boyfriend and then dumped him. Meanwhile, an electric shock gives Bullethead the power to pick winning stocks. - - -

When wealthy software entrepreneur Simone Dupré offers to donate a computer lab to Booker T. Washington High School, Regina enlists Steve to give her old college rival a campus tour. Despite Regina's warnings, Steve is more than happy to accept when Simone asks for a date. And when Simone arrives, he's stunned when she insists on skipping their dinner reservations and heading right to bed. Meanwhile, an electric shock transforms Bullethead into an online investing genius.

After Simone's hasty departure the following morning causes friends to warn Steve about being unceremoniously dumped, although he feels vindicated when she arrives to apologize and offers to make it up over dinner. Once Steve happily prepares a romantic dinner fo

Regina sets Steve up with his dream date, while Steve finds a man for Regina who's not what he appears to be. Meanwhile, Cedric follows a bizarre pregame ritual to keep his basketball team's winning streak alive. - - -

The realization that neither of them had a date over the weekend prompts Steve and Regina to bet they can find someone for each other to go out with next Friday night. But once Regina comes through as promised with the lovely Margo Hampton, the pressure to make good forces Steve to enlist the aid of an escort service to get Regina's date, Julian. Meanwhile, the school basketball team's unprecedented two game winning streak makes Coach Cedric very superstitious about his game day routine.

On the night of their big double date, things seem to go well with Regina, Steve, Margo and Julian. But as the expense of keeping up the ruse taxes Steve's finances, Julian insists that Regina be told the truth. And once she learns what Steve has done, Regina enlists Julian to give Ste

Following a call from the school board, Regina is happy to announce that Booker T. Washington High has been chosen as the test campus for the city's new school uniform policy. As Chairman of the Uniform Committee, Lydia enthusiastically embraces the news, but Romeo and Bullethead do not. And taking Steve's lessons about the protest movements of the '60s to heart, the boys decide to stage a demonstration of their own against the uniform code. Meanwhile, after he and Lovita swear to never remove their wedding rings, Cedric loses his.

Learning of the boy's plans, Lydia turns to Regina with the news. In an effort to nip their protest in the bud, Regina asks Steve to stop it. Meanwhile, after finding Cedric's wedding ring in the refrigerator, Lovita decides to hang onto it in order to teach him a lesson. But when Steve finds the ring in her desk, he encourages Cedric to turn the tables on his new bride and show her who's boss.

In planning their protest, Romeo and Bullethead seek Steve's adv