The Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb

**The Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb** is the seventh episode of season one of *The Cleveland Show*. It is the seventh episode, overall.

## Synopsis

Cleveland tries to scare Roberta away from sex, but ends up effecting Junior.

## Plot

After Cleveland has `the talk' with Roberta, Cleveland Jr becomes scared and takes a vow of chastity. Meanwhile, Rallo becomes a church greeter.

## Characters

### Major Roles

* Cleveland Brown
* Donna Tubbs-Brown
* Cleveland Junior
* Roberta Tubbs
* Rallo Tubbs
* Federline Jones
* Reverend Jenkins
* Tim the Bear
* Arianna the Bear

### Minor Roles

* Lester Krinklesac
* Holt Richter
* Terry Kimple
* Raymond the Bear
* Lloyd Waterman
* Arch
* Brandi Young
* Joslin Biokepatuka
* Laura Davis
* Ernie Krinklesac
* Kendra Krinklesac
* Princess
* Velvet
* Mable
* Xianhanxinganwa
* Two-Vergine Merline
* Bert
* Ernie

## Quotes

*[A black girl and a white boy make out of the kiss cam]*
**Cleveland**: Ooh, chocolate vanilla swirl! Chocolate vanilla swirl!
**Terry**: Ha! You get it, man! Yeah, they're gunna make a baby Derek Jeter.
*[It turns out these people are Roberta and Federline, much to Clevrland's shock]*
**Terry**: Hee hee hee. Cleveland. It's your hot stepdaughter and her boyfriend ... hey, what year was she born, again?
**Cleveland**: *[angered]* She's not born again.

**Cleveland**: Roberta, do you know what a hymen is?
**Roberta**: That Jewish guy, that works at the video store?

**Junior**: Why's it so important, for Roberta to be a virgin, daddy?
**Cleveland**: Well, thank you, Cleveland Junior. If I gave you two soda pops. One was brand new, untouched, and unopened, and the other had already had sixteen other men and one woman take a sip out of it, which one would you prefer?
**Junior**: I would probably go with the new soda pop, cuz the other one might have germs in it, from all those other guys. And cooties from that one girl.

*[Rallo sees the flashy, elaborate outfits, people wear to church]*
**Rallo**: What are these people wearing? It's like they're going to a happy funeral.

**Reverend Jenkins**: May the peace of the lord be with you.
**Congregation**: Holla!
**Reverend Jenkins**: Today's word is about resisting temptation! About calming those fires that burn in our loins!
**Congregation**: Mmm-hmm.
**Reverend Jenkins**: Those fires that can lead to destruction in our lives, and turn promise into despair.
**Congregation**: *[singing]* Come on, get on down, get on down the roa-hoad!
**Reverend Jenkins**: Alright I-lo-look-look. At this point, I gotta ask the congregation to stop shouting stereotypical responses and catchphrases to everything I say.
**Congregation**: Awww, snap!

**Reverend Jenkins**: Alright, let us turn to a reading of the letter of Chlamydius to the Gonorrheans. Teenage sex is yuck city! It leadeth to pregnancy, obesity, illiteracy, and disease-issy!

**Reverend Jenkins**: All across this great land, teenagers are taking a pledge. The purity pledge. To hand over their virginity to their fathers, the high priests of the home.
**Cleveland**: Hear that? I'm the high priest of our home. I would like roast beef for dinner.
**Donna**: Shut the fuck up!

**Junior**: I Cleveland Brown, Junior, pledge my virginity to my dad, Cleveland Brown.
**Cleveland**: What!?
**Congregation**: Oh, no he di'int!

**Cleveland**: Junior, we're not going to that purity ball.
**Roberta**: What's wrong, Cleveland? You don't like *BALLS* as much as your son likes *BALLS*!?

**Junior**: You want my cherry, dad?

**Junior**: Daddy, do you *want* me to get herpes?
**Cleveland**: I want you to at least *try*!

**Cleveland**: Federline, will you help me?
**Federline**: Aw, blap! You flipped the script! Script flip! Oh ooooohhhh!
**Cleveland**: I don't ... what?
**Federline**: Script flip. See? Now you need something from me, pops. And it's gunna cost you.
**Cleveland**: What do you want?
**Federline**: I wanna be able to bring my brown sugar home at 11:00. Not no 10:30PM, yall.
**Cleveland**: Midnight. Take it or leave it.

**Federline**: Damn, ... Knick knack paddy whack crack-a-lack, Jack!

**Cleveland**: Wait a minute, if Cleveland Junior's not here,
**Lester**: And Ernie's not here,
**Tim**: And the rascal's gone,
**Holt**: And money designated, specifically for prostitutes is missing,
**Terry**: Then, Cleveland Junior must have overheard us, making fun of him,
**Kendra**: And he and Ernie decided to hot wire the rascal and take the money to the whorehouse,
**Donna**: So Cleveland Junior could lose his virginity, and regain your respect!
**Cleveland**: She's right! Good job, mystery bunch. Lester and I will take it from here.

**Cleveland**: Well, aren't we a regular Fred Astaire and Fred Astaire, Jr.?

**Junior**: Say, when did you lose your virginity, dad?
**Cleveland**: *[unhappy]* When I was 9.
## Trivia

* During the musical number "Straight Outta Stoolbend", Cleveland mentions a "Cleveland Steamer", a sexual act, wherein someone defecates on someone else.
* At the end of the episode, when the camera pans out to the moon, the balloons look like a giant penis, Followed by a few balloons that resemble cherries. In reference to loosing one's virginity is called popping the cherry.
* During the musical number 'Straight Outta Stoolbend'. Cleveland says "White boys do my voice", poking fun about Mike Henry voicing Cleveland Brown.
* Although Cleveland Junior maintains his, Ernie Krinklesac loses his virginity to a prostitute, known only be her stage name, Two-Virgine Merline.
* It's revealed that Cleveland lost his virginity, when he was 9, though given how sad he was, when he told him, it's most likely this happened inconsensually, and with a man.

### Continuity

* Federline tells Cleveland that he wants to take Roberta home later than 10:30, the official curfew set by him in "Cleveland Moves In". Cleveland bumps the new curfew up to midnight, even though Federline bargained for the earlier time of, 11:00.

### Cultural References

* Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street make a cameo appearance to make fun of the rumor that they are homosexual.
* "Straight Outta Stoolbend" is a reference to NWA's Straight Outta Compton.
* The crowd at the community church briefly sing "Ease on Down the Road" from the 1970's musical The Wiz.
* Holt compares Junior to the movies, *Brokeback Mountain* and *The Birdcage*, as well as the model, Rebecca Gayheart.
* Arnold's Whoreshack is a nod to the character Arnold Horshack from the television series Welcome Back, Kotter.
* In order to get to the Whoreshack, Cleveland summons a portal with a clap of his hands. This was a reference to the 2007 video game Portal.
* Cleveland refers to Cleveland Jr. as "a big fat Urkel," the character by Jaleel White in the television series Family Matters.
* "Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle plays during the dance.
* "Any Way You Want It" by Journey plays over the end credits.

## Navigation

Unaired Pilot

**Season 1**

Cleveland Moves In • Brawl in the Family • Birth of a Salesman • Good News Bear • The One About Friends • From Fatness to Fitness • **The Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb** • Ladies' Night • From Bed to Worse • Love Rollercoaster • Field of Streams • A Brown Thanksgiving • Father Figured Out • Once Upon a Thyne in New York • Da Doggone Daddy Daughter Dinner Dance • Gone With the Wind • A Cleveland Brown Christmas • The Curious Case of Jr. Working at the Stool • Buried Pleasure • Brotherly Love • Our Gang • Brown History Month • Crime Don't Pay • Cleveland's Angels • The Brown Knight • You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown

**Season 2**

Cleveland Live! • Harder, Better, Faster, Browner • Junior's New Class • Fat and Wet • Little Man on Campus • I'm a Midnight Joker • How Cleveland Got His Groove Back • Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin' • It's the Great Pancake, Junior Brown • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta? • Mother-In-Law Fiasco • A Short Story and a Tall Tale • Another Bad Thanksgiving • Beer Walk! • Terry Unmarried • Frapp Attack! • Murray Christmas • The Blue, The Gray, and The Brown • Roberta's Got a Brand New Boy • Back to Cool • The Essence of Cleveland • Like a Boss • To Live and Die in VA • Ship-rect • Your Show of Shows • Hot Cocoa Bang Bang

**Season 3**

The Hurricane • This One Thought at Bible Camp • Doctor's Disorders • Sex and the Biddy • Brown Magic • BFFs • Yemen Party • All You Can Eat • Mama Drama • Y Tu Junior Tambien • There Goes El Neighborhood • Dirty Dancing 3 • A Vas Deferens Between Men & Women • The Men in Me • Women in the Workplace • Mr. & Mrs. Brown • Nightmare on Grace Street • Das Shrimp Boot • 'Til Deaf • Skip Day • Turkey Pot Die • Jesus Walks • Dancing With the Stools • B.M.O.C. • Die Semi-Hard

**Season 4**

A Walk Down Cleveland Lane • Menace II: Secret Society • Pins, Spins, & Fins • The Way The Cookie Crumbles • Escape From Goochland • Hustle N Bros • To the Mex • Who Done Did It? • Flush of Genius • A General Thanksgiving Episode • Fist and the Furious • Grave Danger • Of Lice and Men • 'Tis the Cleveland to be Sorry • Brownsized • A Rodent Like This • A Theistic Environment • Wide World of Cleveland Show • Here Comes the Bribe • When a Man (or Freight Train) Loves His Woman • March Dadness • California Dreamin' • The Hangover: Part Tubbs • Squirt's Honor • Crazy Train • Wheel of Family!

**Specials**

Cleveland Moves Out