After coming home to find Rallo hanging out with his friends and Roberta on several phones with her friends,Cleveland, becomes concerned that Cleveland Jr has no friends, after catching him counting to 1,000,000. Cleveland takes Jr. out to find a friend, but only gets his wallet stolen by one kid and almost gets arrested for asking another to play with “Cleveland Jr.” over by his car for $30. On the way home, they spot Lester’s son Ernie playing kick the can by himself and Cleveland suggests the two become friends. Cleveland Jr. and Ernie begin spending every moment together, Ernie staying for dinner and a slumber party that night. Ernie decides to move in, so Cleveland takes him back home. After Ernie declares he’d rather live with The Browns, Lester decides to let him.

Donna suggests he call Child Services to have them talk out their problems, but after only a few moments in Lester’s house, he comes running back out with Ernie declaring that it’s no place for a child to live. Cleveland tries to help Lester get Ernie back with a hearing, but Lester seemingly doesn’t care, until Cleveland and Tim tell Lester that by getting his boy back, he’ll be fighting the government since they took Ernie in the first place. Lester agrees to get Ernie back, but states he isn’t going to the hearing, but to the foster family’s house with a posse of his redneck gun-toating friends. When they reach the family’s house, Cleveland convinces Lester to try and talk to the family instead. The Child Services man still refuses to give Ernie back, so Lester calls his posse instead and tries to leave.

The foster family, seeing Ernie as money in their pockets, pull out guns and the two sides begin shooting the house up. Cleveland hides behind a chair with the Child Services man as Lester and his redneck buddies continue to fight the foster family. Several of Lester’s friends are killed, one eaten alive by several other foster children the foster family released from a locked basement to fight, while Lester talks with Ernie. Ernie declares the only reason he wanted to live with Cleveland was because Lester seemingly never wanted him. Lester tells him he does want him, and Ernie tells him he loves him. The Child Services man, seeing this new family, decides to give Lester custody of Ernie after Cleveland volunteers to check in from time to time. However, he is killed by a stray bullet as he signs custody over to Lester, so Cleveland finishes signing for him. The foster family demands Ernie be given to them, so Cleveland pulls out a gun and shoots the chandelier, which falls down and traps them. Lester is surprised Cleveland has a gun, to which Cleveland remarks he wasn’t going to get into a truck filled with rednecks without packing heat. Impressed, Lester takes back all the racist remarks he said about Cleveland in the past.

The episode ends with Holt and Tim in Vegas, Holt unable to get into a club because he left his I.D. in Virginia and he’s too short to be taken seriously. Tim runs out of the club and tells Holt to hurry inside as the place is awesome.

“The One About Friends” is the third episode of The Cleveland Show. The episode aired on October 11, 2009 on Fox.

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