diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/tests/connect/test_parity_dataframe.py b/python/pyspark/sql/tests/connect/test_parity_dataframe.py
index 1575b8fe3a7f3..9293dd71c60d0 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/tests/connect/test_parity_dataframe.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/tests/connect/test_parity_dataframe.py
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
 
 
 class DataFrameParityTests(DataFrameTestsMixin, ReusedConnectTestCase):
-    @unittest.skip("Spark Connect does not support RDD but the tests depend on them.")
     def test_help_command(self):
-        super().test_help_command()
+        df = self.spark.createDataFrame(data=[{"foo": "bar"}, {"foo": "baz"}])
+        super().check_help_command(df)
 
     # Spark Connect throws `IllegalArgumentException` when calling `collect` instead of `sample`.
     def test_sample(self):
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/tests/test_dataframe.py b/python/pyspark/sql/tests/test_dataframe.py
index 55400c6c7f957..0266b641bfd21 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/tests/test_dataframe.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/tests/test_dataframe.py
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ def test_help_command(self):
         rdd = self.sc.parallelize(['{"foo":"bar"}', '{"foo":"baz"}'])
         df = self.spark.read.json(rdd)
         # render_doc() reproduces the help() exception without printing output
+        self.check_help_command(df)
+
+    def check_help_command(self, df):
         pydoc.render_doc(df)
         pydoc.render_doc(df.foo)
         pydoc.render_doc(df.take(1))