The WORST episodes of The Wayans Bros.
Every episode of The Wayans Bros. ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Pops Gets Evicted
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/1999
Shawn's ideas on making better use of the lobby space catch the eye of the building's owner who offers him the chance to run a new cafe. But first he'll have to evict Pops.
#2 - 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.)
#3 - The High Life
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1998
Shawn has to weed out the truth about Marlon's involvement with an actor he admires who uses drugs, especially since Marlon has a big audition coming up.
#4 - The Ghetto Gourmets
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/1996
When the producer of a Regis & Kathie Lee type morning talk show invites Pops to cook his chili on the program, Marlon and Shawn tag along as his assistants. They're a hit and get invited back, only to discover that the show's hosts, Ken & Kiki, want the boys to do the segment without Pops, who they think is too old to appeal to the ""younger demographic."" Upset about Pops' firing, the boys sacrifice their budding TV careers and get even with Ken & Kiki by chiding the two hosts into an on-air brawl with each other. Meanwhile, street hustler T.C. becomes a security guard.
#5 - Three on a Couch
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1999
After seeing a successful old pal, Shawn becomes convinced his family is to blame for him never becoming a huge success.
#6 - Busta Saves the Day
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1998
Shawn and Marlon get busted while scalping tickets at a Busta Rhymes concert, so they throw themselves on the mercy of the rapper and tell him they were trying to raise money to save Dee's church.
#7 - Crazy 4 U
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1999
Marlon and Shawn get in way over their heads when they start competing for the attention of Dawn, an attractive psychiatrist who's just moved into the building.
#8 - Recipe for Success
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/1998
Shawn and Marlon try to warn an enthusiastic Pops that the chili he is entering in a high-class food festival has one ""un-gourmet"" ingredient -- dog food.
#9 - Bringing It All Back Home
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/1998
The boys plot to prevent Pops from selling his house.
#10 - Hearts and Flowers
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/1996
Shawn's romantic Valentine's Day plans go awry when his girlfriend wises up to his two-timing ways and spurns him for Marlon. Meanwhile, Dee thinks her secret admirer is Pops, but it's really Maurice the custodian.
#11 - A Hero's Story
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1996
Shawn rescues a boy hit by a car in front of the Niedermeyer Building. After reviving him with CPR, Shawn goes to call 911, leaving Marlon with the boy. When the boy regains consciousness, he thinks Marlon saved him. Before Marlon can contradict him, a crowd gathers, cheering his heroism. Caught up in the adulation and subsequent publicity, Marlon begins to believe he truly was a hero -- and to envision his own line of action figures -- until Pops helps him see the truth.
#12 - Unspoken Token
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1997
Upset when he learns he's been hired by a high-tech company simply because he's black, Shawn dreams that he's J.J. Evans on his favorite show Good Times, with Grandma as Willona, Pops as James, and Marlon as Michael.
#13 - 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.
#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.
#15 - Marlon's Return
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1997
Marlon returns home after a successful three-month tour in a musical starring Keith Sweat. But Shawn soon has to warn his little brother of fame's fleeting nature after Marlon's ego -- and debt -- explodes.
#16 - Rope-a-Dope
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1999
Shawn and Marlon sell Pops' boxing memorabilia, but when their dad's feelings are hurt, they try to retrieve the goods from the new owner.
#17 - I Was En Vogue's Love Slave
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1997
Marlon's gonna get it -- ""it"" being a $25 million lawsuit -- after a tabloid prints a false story about him being the ""love slave"" of the En Vogue singers. En Vogue performs ""Let It Flow"" in a cameo appearance.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Farmer's Daughter
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1995
Shawn and Marlon dread a visit from their rural cousin Sheila. When she arrives, they discover how distraught she is over losing her boyfriend. In an effort to cheer her up and improve her social life, the guys change her image and turn her from a plain girl into a hip-hop beauty. But her new ways turn off Shawn and Marlon, who wish they'd kept her down on the farm.
#20 - Fire!
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1998
Shawn feels the heat after a crooked accountant leaves him awash in debt. Then the newsstand suddenly burns down and all of his problems seem to be solved -- until he and the family are suspected of arson.
#21 - Pops' Last Hurrah
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1997
At first Shawn and Marlon are afraid -- then they're petrified -- after a series of misunderstandings lead them to believe that Pops has just a few weeks to live. Gloria Gaynor sings ""I Will Survive"" in a cameo appearance.
#22 - Mama, I Wanna Act
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1996
Marlon's acress friend Stacey convinces him to help her audition fot the Tisch School of Performing Arts. Marlon begins to consider an acting career for himself -- an idea that Shawn thinks is ridiculous and unrealistic. Pops helps Shawn come to see that he should be offering Marlon his support, not doubting his abilities. Meanwhile, Marlon uses the anger from his argument with Shawn to fuel his performance in the audition and ends up getting a scholarship. Special appearance by NBA star Brent Barry
#23 - 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.
#24 - Stand Up Guy
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1997
Marlon is hot on his first night as a stand-up comic, but jokes about Pops's cooking and Dee's love life cause the family to turn a cold shoulder toward the new comedian
#25 - Dee's Baby Daddy
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1997
Dee delivers a woman's baby, and her maternal instincts surface.