The BEST episodes of The Wayans Bros. season 3

Every episode of The Wayans Bros. season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Wayans Bros. season 3!

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.

Last Updated: 8/19/2024Network: The WBStatus: Ended
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8.40
15 votes

#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.""

Directors: Buzz Sapien
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8.16
19 votes

#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.

Directors: Buzz Sapien
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8.06
16 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Glynn Turman
Writer: Phil Beauman
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7.95
20 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Scott Baio
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7.95
20 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Glynn Turman
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7.81
26 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Robert Bruce
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7.79
19 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Glynn Turman
Writer: Phil Beauman
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7.73
11 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: John Bowab
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7.67
24 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Gerren Keith
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7.67
15 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Buzz Sapien
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7.60
10 votes

#11 - Marlon Goes On the Road

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/1997

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.

Directors: Glynn Turman
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7.50
8 votes

#12 - Say It Ain't So Marlon

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/1997

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.

Directors: Buzz Sapien
Writer: Dennis Snee
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7.47
15 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Dennis Snee
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7.41
17 votes

#14 - Trippin'

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1996

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.

Directors: Rae Kraus
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7.35
17 votes

#15 - Drama for Yo' Mama

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1996

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.

Directors: Scott Baio
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7.29
14 votes

#16 - Risky Bid-ness

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1997

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.

Directors: Terri McCoy
Writer: Robert Bruce
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7.10
10 votes

#17 - Dee's Baby Daddy

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1997

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

Directors: Joel Zwick
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6.95
20 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: Scott Baio
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6.89
9 votes

#19 - Goodbye Mr. Gibbs

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1997

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.

Directors: John Bowab
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6.88
8 votes

#20 - Do the Wrong Thing

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1996

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.

Directors: Rae Kraus
Writer: Robert Bruce
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6.82
11 votes

#21 - Pops' Secret

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/1997

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

Directors: Glynn Turman
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6.80
15 votes

#22 - Life Without Marlon

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1997

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.)

Directors: Terri McCoy
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