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' Campaign
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1998
Pops is used to slinging hash. But when he runs for city council against an unscrupulous politician, he winds up slinging mud instead -- with Shawn and Marlon as his campaign managers. ``Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.'' veteran Ronnie Schell appears in this new episode. He plays a politician known to be corrupt, and when he announces his candidacy for another city-council term, Pops (John Witherspoon) decides to oppose him. Marlon and Shawn become their father's campaign managers and consider devious tactics.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Jump!
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/1999
Marlon and Shawn's teasing about Dee's role as a security guard gets her suspended without pay and the duo must try to win her job back.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Marlon Joins A Cult
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1998
Marlon's family must rescue him when he falls in with a cult after signing up for a class. Marlon thinks he's signed up for an acting seminar to help with focus training, but he's really joined a cult called the Inner Light Institute.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.)
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Romeo & J'Leeta
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1998
The battle between restaurateurs Pops and Rick heats up in this new episode. Nasty rumors add extra heat to their ongoing feud, but a ""Romeo and Juliet"" situation arises. Shawn starts dating Rick's daughter, something that definitely doesn't please Pops. Family arguments then raise the stakes.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Bringing It All Back Home
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/1998
The boys plot to prevent Pops from selling his house.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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
#19 - 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.
#20 - Dee's Deelemma
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1998
Dee's relationship with a shy dentist starts to decay thanks to Marlon and Shawn.
#21 - Think Fast
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1995
When Marlon quits the family basketball team, Pops turns to Monique, who can make his son jump through hoops. It's the basketball game of the season for the Williams brothers when they go up against the Jones brothers -- their life-long arch rivals. But before the match begins, Shawn and Marlon begin arguing over strategies, and a disgusted Marlon storms off the court in disgust. A forfeit seems inevitable, until Monique steps in and convinces Marlon to express his own individual style while following Shawn's game plan.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Help A Brother Out
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1998
Marlon befriends a homeless man in order to study him prior to auditioning for a role as a vagrant in an upcoming film.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.