The BEST episodes of The Wayans Bros.
Every episode of The Wayans Bros. ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Wayans Bros.!
Comedians Shawn and Marlon Wayans (In Living Color, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood) star as Shawn and Marlon Williams, two brothers with little more in common than their family name, the one-bedroom brownstone they share in New York City and an innate ability to disagree, disrupt and dis'. The Wayans Bros. is a Next to Last Production and BabyWay Production in association with Warner Bros. Television. Phil Kellard and Tom Moore are the executive producers, Josh Goldstein and Eric Gold are co-executive producers, Maiya Williams and Robert Bruce are the consulting producers and Craig Wyrick-Solari is the producer. Shawn and Marlon Wayans serve as executive consultants.
#1 - The Black Widower
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/1997
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.""
#2 - Loot
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1995
Shawn, Marlon, Pops, Lou and Monique dream of the good life when they find $100,000 in an ashtray in the lobby. But Lou is determined to carry out the Niedermeyer Building rule requiring a classified ad be placed in the newspaper so that the owner can come forward -- and if it's claimed within five days, their dreams will go up in smoke.
#3 - The Return of the Temptones
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1996
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.
#4 - Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1998
Amazing as it sounds, Marlon has an acting gig and Shawn is the one hard up for cash. With the newsstand still out of circulation, Shawn has do some major maneuvering to get a little money out of Marlon.
#5 - The Kiss
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1998
Shawn and Dee get together at a concert by Missy ""Misdemeanor"" Elliott for dancing -- and more. They may or may not have slept together, but Marlon has a tape of them in bed and it's going to air on TV, on America's Video Bloopers.
#6 - Going to the Net
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1996
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.
#7 - The Liar's Club
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1995
Marlon gets jealous when Monique pretends to be married to Shawn in order to impress Otis Campbell, her college rival. When Otis takes the ""couple"" to a chic Moroccan restaurant, Marlon sneaks in and convinces Shawn to leave so that he can convey his strong feelings to Monique. Monique is surprised to see Marlon, but more horrified that he will ruin her cover by letting Otis know she really isn't married. When Marlon confesses his emotions, Monique is embarrassed, but then proudly sends Otis away, realizing that Marlon is sincere. In the end, she agrees to be friends with Marlon.
#8 - Pops Moves In
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/1995
Shawn and Marlon egg on Pops to defy their mother---but they wind up getting burned when he gets kicked out of the house and shows up on their doorstep. When his living habits begin driving the guys crazy, they devise a plan to drive him out by having a loud party -- but Pops gets into the groove and enjoys himself.
#9 - Unusual Suspects
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1997
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.
#10 - Hip Hop Pops
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/1999
Marlon and Shawn try to shake Pops out of his depression over his 50th birthday -- and in the process create a monster.
#11 - Six Degrees of Marlon
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1998
Marlon wants more exposure on his sitcom Everybody Loves Everybody, so manager Shawn gets Marlon a big romantic scene: with a guy.
#12 - The Sting
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1995
Shawn listens carefully to Pops' lecture on the evils of poker -- then risks everything on a single hand, losin g his newsstand to T.C. After T.C. takes over ownership, Shawn's pride is on the line, and he challenges T.C. to double or nothing, with Pops' diner as the prize.
#13 - Goop-Hair-It-Is
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/1995
Shawn and Marlon's latest scheme becomes a hair-raising nightmare when they take over the manufacture and marketing of a grooming product called ""Goop, Hair-It-Is."" While Marlon comes up with a concoction that makes his hair look great, Shawn decides to sell the hair goop on an infomercial. They shoot the infomercial live, with Gary Coleman acting as a celebrity spokesperson. While Gary is doing his pitch for ""Goop, Hair-It-Is,"" the chemicals from the product cause his hair to catch fire. Shawn and Marlon's dreams of becoming successful entrepreneurs also go down in flames.
#14 - Free Wally
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/1995
When Lisa and Shawn's relationship hits rough waters due to Marlon's constant interference, Marlon goes overboard to make amends -- sending them on a romantic ferry cruise on the harbor.
#15 - The Odd Couples
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1996
After an argument with Shawn, Marlon decides it's time for him to claim his independence and move out. Marlon ends up rooming with White Mike, while Shawn takes in T.C. Unexpectedly, Mike and T.C. dump Shawn and Marlon as roommates, forcing them back together -- something we later discover was engineered by Pops, who wanted the boys to reconcile.
#16 - Boyz in the Woods
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1997
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.
#17 - Can I Get A Witness?
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1997
The Williams family is placed under police protection after Marlon observes a bank robbery and the culprit sends his big brother to deal with any witnesses.
#18 - My Fair Marlon
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/1995
Shawn plays Cyrano to help Marlon win the woman of his dreams, whom he met at a poetry reading -- but winds up turning his own life into a tragicomedy when Lisa discovers his love poems.
#19 - An Officer and a Homegirl
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1996
Dee flies off the handle when her sister Natalie thinks about giving up her promising Air Force career to be with airhead Marlon.
#20 - Grandma's in the Hiz-House
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1996
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.
#21 - Unbrotherly Love
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1996
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.
#22 - ER
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/15/1995
After sitting on a staple gun, Marlon borrows Shawn's health-care cards to ensure immediate medical attention for himself, but the brothers' clandestine operation may be exposed when they learn that Marlon's doctor is Lisa's father.
#23 - A Country Christmas
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1998
Cousin Sheila invites Marlon, Shawn, Dee and Pops to spend Christmas at her farm, where they are shocked to discover she's in dire straits and may lose her property if she can't pay her mortgage.
#24 - Green Card
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/1999
When Shawn decides to marry an immigrant so she can be granted citizenship, the woman must live with him for six months. But he soon comes to regret the decision after the woman invites other family members to move in.
#25 - First Class
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/1995
Marlon is flying high when he's mistaken for basketball star John Starkes and scores the athlete's first-class airplane tickets.