The Wayans Bros. (1995)

Season 3

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.

Released Jan. 11, 1995 Episode 30 min 15+

Genres: Comedy

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Production Companies: Warner Bros. Television, Next to Last Productions, Baby Way Productions

Network: The WB

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb 3532

7.3

/6093/

Trakt

/125/

TMDb

/64/

Tomatoes

Glynn Turman
Director

Shawn Wayans
Shawn Williams

Marlon Wayans
Marlon Williams

Anna Maria Horsford
Deirdre 'Dee' Baxter

John Witherspoon
John 'Pops' Williams

Phill Lewis
T.C.

Mitch Mullany
White Mike

Roxanne Beckford
Stacey

Shari Headley
Dawn

S3E1 - Grandma's in the Hiz-House

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.

Sept. 4, 1996, midnight

S3E2 - Unbrotherly Love

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.

Sept. 11, 1996, midnight

S3E3 - Movin' On Up

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.

Sept. 18, 1996, midnight

S3E4 - Gots to Have a J.O.B.

Marlon achieves celebrity status by starring in a series of malt-liquor commercials, but there's trouble brewing when he portrays a ghetto stereotype.

Sept. 25, 1996, midnight

S3E5 - Trippin'

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.

Oct. 2, 1996, midnight

S3E6 - Drama for Yo' Mama

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.

Oct. 9, 1996, midnight

S3E7 - Family Business

A food fight breaks out when Uncle Nate parks his lunch truck across from Pops' diner, taking away his patrons.

Oct. 16, 1996, midnight

S3E8 - An Officer and a Homegirl

Dee flies off the handle when her sister Natalie thinks about giving up her promising Air Force career to be with airhead Marlon.

Nov. 6, 1996, midnight

S3E9 - The Return of the Temptones

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.

Nov. 13, 1996, midnight

S3E10 - Going to the Net

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.

Nov. 20, 1996, midnight

S3E11 - Do the Wrong Thing

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.

Nov. 27, 1996, midnight

S3E12 - Boyz in the Woods

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.

Jan. 8, 1997, midnight

S3E13 - Life Without Marlon

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.)

Jan. 15, 1997, midnight

S3E14 - Unusual Suspects

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.

Jan. 22, 1997, midnight

S3E15 - Goodbye Mr. Gibbs

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.

Jan. 29, 1997, midnight

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S3E16 - Risky Bid-ness

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.

Feb. 5, 1997, midnight

S3E17 - Pops' Secret

When Pops starts dressing in fine clothes, closing the diner early and staying out late, Shawn and Marlon suspect the reason is another woman.

Feb. 12, 1997, midnight

S3E18 - I Do...

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.

Feb. 19, 1997, midnight

S3E19 - Dee's Baby Daddy

Dee delivers a woman's baby, and her maternal instincts surface.

Feb. 26, 1997, midnight

S3E20 - The Black Widower

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.""

April 30, 1997, midnight