Brawl in the Family

**Brawl in the Family** is the second episode of season one of *The Cleveland Show*. It is the second episode, overall.

## Synopsis

Robert and Donna get into a custody battle over their kids, and it doesn't help Cleveland, to know the kids prefer the former. Meanwhile, Junior has trouble with making friends at his new school.

## Plot

Cleveland settles in his with new family, but Robert challenges him to a custody battle, believing that if Cleveland gets to take his wife, then he gets to at least keep his own kids. Cleveland is confused as to why Robert would even want this, and Robert says that he wants a second chance with the kids. Rallo and Roberta are on board with the idea, but Cleveland and Donna do not want their kids to be raised by him, especially seeing how horrible his living environment is. Nevertheless, the court gives Cleveland and Robert a temporary shared custody of the kids, and at the end of the trial, it's up to the kids to decide who they want to live with. Cleveland and Robert both try to one-up each other as the better father, during the intervals, when the kids stay with them. At the end of the trial, Rallo and Roberta decide to stay with Cleveland, but shockingly, Junior wants to stay with Robert. It turns out that Junior actually kind of liked how Robert treated him. Cleveland changes his ways and gets Junior to like him again. The court allows the kids to stay with Cleveland, but they're allowed to visit Robert, whenever they please.

## Characters

### Major Roles

* Cleveland Brown
* Donna Tubbs-Brown
* Cleveland Junior
* Roberta Tubbs
* Rallo Tubbs
* Robert Jones

### Minor Roles

* Tim the Bear
* Lester Krinklesac
* Holt Richter
* Meadowlark Lemon
* Principal Farquhare
* Gus
* Derek
* Laine
* Reggie

## Quotes

**Cleveland**: Morning, everybody. Last night, I had the strangest, most wonderful dream. I dreamed that I had a beautiful new wife and that Cleveland Junior had a beautiful sister and a really cool rascal of a little brother. Oh, dreams really do come true! Ha ha ha ha.
## Trivia

### Continuity

* This episode directly continues the events of the previous episode, "Cleveland Moves In".

### Cultural References

* The title of this episode is a pun on the sit-com, "*All in the Family*".

## 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