The Wayans Bros. is a situation comedy that aired from January 1995 to May 1999 on The WB. The series starred real-life brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Both brothers were already well-known from the sketch comedy show In Living Color that aired from 1990 to 1994 on Fox. The series also starred John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford.
Air date: 1996-09-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Shawn and Marlon let Grandma move in, then plot to drive her out after she cramps their bachelor lifestyle. The problem: she won't take a hint.
Air date: 1996-09-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Dumbfounded that his girlfriend would dump him for Marlon, Shawn convinces himself she's just trying to make him jealous. So he sets up a double date to show her that two can play that game.
Air date: 1996-09-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Shawn falls in with a yuppie crowd, spurning his old pals from the 'hood and masquerading as a business executive, until Marlon sets out to downsize his ego.
Air date: 1996-09-25
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Marlon achieves celebrity status by starring in a series of malt-liquor commercials, but there's trouble brewing when he portrays a ghetto stereotype.
Air date: 1996-10-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Contest-obsessed Marlon hits the jackpot. His prize is a vacation for two, but it's no day at the beach when Shawn, Pops and Grandma battle over the second ticket.
Air date: 1996-10-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: To win Mama a chair, the brothers concoct a family sob story and win $5,000 in a magazine's Wish of the Year contest, then have to stage an elaborate performance when a reporter checks up on them.
Air date: 1996-10-16
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A food fight breaks out when Uncle Nate parks his lunch truck across from Pops' diner, taking away his patrons.
Air date: 1996-11-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Dee flies off the handle when her sister Natalie thinks about giving up her promising Air Force career to be with airhead Marlon.
Air date: 1996-11-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Pops reunites with his old singing group for a comeback try, but it seems times have changed. And thanks to modern surgery, so has one of its members.
Air date: 1996-11-20
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Shawn falls for an older woman (Grier), while Marlon meets a young thrill-seeker and finds that love is just a hop, skip and bungee jump away -- unless he wimps out.
Air date: 1996-11-27
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Shawn becomes Marlon's agent and undermines his client's sputtering acting career by demanding the full star treatment. Meanwhile, Pops tries to foist spoiled food on the church mission.
Air date: 1997-01-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Pops browbeats the boys into going camping, but he's hurt to find their idea of ""quality time"" is partying with babes in the woods.
Air date: 1997-01-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: In a twist on the film It's a Wonderful Life, Marlon's guardian angel shows him how the family would have fared had he never been born. (Not half badly, actually.)
Air date: 1997-01-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Marlon suspects a friend in need is a friend with greed when his apartment is burglarized after he rebuffed T.C.'s plea for a loan.
Air date: 1997-01-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Shawn and Marlon decide to play a prank on a hated teacher from junior high -- but find themselves delivering his eulogy when he drops dead at his retirement party.
Air date: 1997-02-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Shawn figures he's movin' on up when he lands a job at the ad agency in the building, but he's knocked off the fast track when his boss Ted takes credit for his slogan. Meanwhile, Marlon is left to run the newsstand, where he hires Dupree as his assistant.
Air date: 1997-02-12
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: When Pops starts dressing in fine clothes, closing the diner early and staying out late, Shawn and Marlon suspect the reason is another woman.
Air date: 1997-02-19
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Marlon's relationship with his girlfriend is suddenly altared -- er, altered -- when her brother, a neighborhood bully, learns how close they've become and forces young Williams to propose.
Air date: 1997-02-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Dee delivers a woman's baby, and her maternal instincts surface.
Air date: 1997-04-30
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The boys fear it's a match made in hell after introducing a lonely Grandma to Fred, a smooth-talking diner regular who they later believe is a wanted murderer known as ""The Black Widower.""
Air date: 1997-05-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Marlon looks to even the score with an old Little League teammate who supposedly ruined his chances at a big-league career by hogging all the glory.
Air date: 1997-05-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Shawn's plans to expand ""Williams Brothers News"" are interrupted when Marlon lands a part in a national musical starring R&B artist Keith Sweat.
