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 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - It Takes a Thief
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1996
When Dee falls for a con man, a smooth-talking jewelry salesman who rips off lonely single women, Shawn and Marlon must find a way to open her eyes before the wedding.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Movin' On Up
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1996
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.
#9 - Gots to Have a J.O.B.
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1996
Marlon achieves celebrity status by starring in a series of malt-liquor commercials, but there's trouble brewing when he portrays a ghetto stereotype.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Raging Marlon
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1998
Marlon reluctantly steps into the ring with former boxing champ Hector ""Hot-Pepper"" Lopez after he brags about accidentally knocking him out at the gym.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Family Business
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/1996
A food fight breaks out when Uncle Nate parks his lunch truck across from Pops' diner, taking away his patrons.
#16 - Talk is Cheap
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/1998
Shawn and Marlon appear as guests on ""The Jerry Springer Show,"" and the host surprises the brothers by airing some dirty laundry about their new girlfriend Jasmine.
#17 - Big Brother
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1999
Shawn follows in Marlon's footsteps as a ""big brother"" to a youngster, but it turns out that his new little charge already has a jail record.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Scared Straight
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1995
Every Halloween, Pops puts out a cup of coffee and a doughnut to please the spirit of a dead woman, Cassandra Malloy, which he believes resides in the building. As a joke, Shawn and Marlon sneak in and eat the offerings. Soon, strange things begin to occur at the building and the guys admit their prank to Pops. To resolve the problem, Monique agrees to perform an exorcism.
#20 - I Do...
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1997
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.
#21 - Ho's on First
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1998
Shawn worries that Marlon is headed for a romantic fall because his new girlfriend is known for having a highly questionable reputation, and Shawn isn't sure whether to mention that after finding her alone with a handsome stranger. Marlon learns about it anyway, and though he claims not to be bothered by it, he really is.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Dreamgirl
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/1999
A famous singer finds Shawn's indifference irresistible, and he and Marlon find themselves competing for her affections.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.