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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Shawn has to take a degrading BurgerFool job at the start of Season 5 to cover his bills, he doesn't want anyone to find out. Marlon and Pops overhear him talking to his manager, but the word choice makes them think he's selling drugs. When they beg him to give up this "shameful" job, Shawn figures out the misunderstanding, but he instead insists it's all true in exchange for a loan to help with his money troubles.
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* TokenMinority: In-universe, this is why Marlon was hired for a guest spot on ''Everybody Loves Everybody'', which is shown to have an otherwise white cast. He is aware of this trope, but he doesn't think anything of it or the goofy lines he was given for his scene. When the producers invite him back to be a recurring character, strangers start making light of his goofy antics, so he asks for more serious material to develop his character.
-->'''Marlon:''' Well, the producers said they're trying to attract an alternate, ''urban'' demographic.\\
'''Pops:''' Just say black people.
-->'''Marlon:''' Well, the producers said they're trying to attract an alternate, ''urban'' demographic.\\
'''Pops:''' Just say black people.
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* ThickerThanWater: Pops lands a cooking segment on a talk show in "The Ghetto Gourmets" as a way to promote the diner, but Shawn and Marlon have to step it to cover for his PerformanceAnxiety. The segment still goes over well, but Pops is fired on the grounds that he's too old for the show's target demographic. He's willing to step aside for his sons, but Marlon refuses to do it without him. Shawn has a different idea: doing one last segment in which they air the hosts' dirty laundry on live television and shame the show for how their father was treated.
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* ThickerThanWater: Pops lands a cooking segment on a talk show in "The Ghetto Gourmets" as a way to promote the diner, but Shawn and Marlon have to step it in to cover for his PerformanceAnxiety. The segment still goes over well, but Pops is fired on the grounds that he's too old for the show's target demographic. He's willing to step aside for his sons, but Marlon refuses to do it without him. Shawn has a different idea: doing one last segment in which they air the hosts' dirty laundry on live television and shame the show for how their father was treated.
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--> '''Shawn:''' ''(talking about Marlon's passion for art)'' It's about as real as Michael Jackson's wedding. ''(cue laughter and graons from the audiences.)''
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--> '''Shawn:''' ''(talking about Marlon's passion for art)'' It's about as real as Michael Jackson's wedding. ''(cue laughter and graons groans from the audiences.)''audience)''
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* TheRashomon: The episode "Fire!" [[spoiler:No one is telling the truth.]]
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* TheRashomon: RashomonStyle: The episode "Fire!" [[spoiler:No one is telling the truth.]]
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* PokeThePoodle: In an episode where Marlon [[ItsAWonderfulPlot is shown what life would be like if he was never born,]] one of the hardships is of Dee, who is stuck in a troubled marriage with a handsome actor who repeatedly cheats on her. At one point, he yanks the man's long dreads in "revenge".
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite favoring Shawn, Pops never hesitates to call him out for his antics or to encourage him to be more supportive of Marlon.
* FrivolousLawsuit: Marlon slips on Shawn's spilled coffee in "Trial and Error" and busts his leg, which causes him to miss a dance competition that he was favored to win in. After White Mike comes back with the trophy and gloats, a frustrated Marlon takes Shawn to court by arguing the accident was his fault. HilarityEnsues, such as T.C. being Shawn's shady lawyer (before the judge has the bailiff kick him out) and overly dramatic cross-examinations. Ultimately, Marlon says on the stand that he's motivated purely by Shawn always dismissing his interests and never even apologizing for the accident in the first place.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Shawn is skeptical of Marlon's desire to pursue an acting career, until Pops talks to him about the importance of family supporting one another even if they personally disagree with the given venture. Pops then lets it slip that Shawn's mother completely opposed him buying the newsstand and was certain it would be a failure. Shawn is not pleased to hear this.
* ParentalFavoritism: Shawn is consistently portrayed as Pops's favorite, regularly being praised (especially in comparison to Marlon). Pops freely admits it while under oath in "Trial and Error" (much to Marlon's displeasure). Incidentally, Pops also says that the brothers' mother doesn't favor either of them, with the family dog being her favorite.
* ParentalFavoritism: Shawn is consistently portrayed as Pops's favorite, regularly being praised (especially in comparison to Marlon). Pops freely admits it while under oath in "Trial and Error" (much to Marlon's displeasure). Incidentally, Pops also says that the brothers' mother doesn't favor either of them, with the family dog being her favorite.
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--> '''Shawn:''' ''(talking about Marlon's passion for art)'' It's about as real as Michael Jackson's wedding. ''(cue laughter and graons from the audiences.)''\\
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--> '''Shawn:''' ''(talking about Marlon's passion for art)'' It's about as real as Michael Jackson's wedding. ''(cue laughter and graons from the audiences.)''\\
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* ThickerThanWater: Pops lands a cooking segment on a talk show in "The Ghetto Gourmets" as a way to promote the diner, but Shawn and Marlon have to step it to cover for his PerformanceAnxiety. The segment still goes over well, but Pops is fired on the grounds that he's too old for the show's target demographic. He's willing to step aside for his sons, but Marlon refuses to do it without him. Shawn has a different idea: doing one last segment in which they air the hosts' dirty laundry on live television and shame the show for how their father was treated.
* ThickerThanWater: Pops lands a cooking segment on a talk show in "The Ghetto Gourmets" as a way to promote the diner, but Shawn and Marlon have to step it to cover for his PerformanceAnxiety. The segment still goes over well, but Pops is fired on the grounds that he's too old for the show's target demographic. He's willing to step aside for his sons, but Marlon refuses to do it without him. Shawn has a different idea: doing one last segment in which they air the hosts' dirty laundry on live television and shame the show for how their father was treated.
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* HalloweenEpisode: "Scared Straight" from Season 2. Every year, Pops leaves out a meal to pacify a ghost that allegedly haunts the building, but Shawn and Marlon try to prove there is no ghost by having the meal in secret. Then strange accidents begin to plague the building, much to Shawn and Marlon's increasing dread. It turns out to be a prank by Pops for messing with his annual tradition, but then everyone sees [[RealAfterAll a plate and cup float away amid a woman's voice]].
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* SantasExistenceClause: In the ChristmasEpisode, a BadSanta holds the group hostage to force them to get into the Christmas spirit. It's a miserable failure, until Pops touches everyone with the story of his father coming home from World War II in time for the holiday. All of a sudden, the BadSanta vanishes, but he left behind a sack that toys that Shawn, Marlon, Dee, and T.C. all really wanted when they were kids. After Pops said he already got what he wanted (spending the holiday with his sons), Dee wonders if the guy really was Santa all along. Shawn and Marlon doubt that, until they all hear Santa shouting the names of his reindeer.
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* BlameTheParamour: Marlon's new girlfriend in "Pulp Marlon" turns out to be married. The husband is a rather large and violent fellow with a history of being a notorious hitman. The guy fully acknowledges that his wife keeps cheating on him, and he's devastated by that, but he takes it out as violently as possible on the unaware guys she fools around with.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Shawn's girlfriend Lisa, Lou, Monique, White Mike, Dupree, T.C. and Pop's cook Bennie/Hop Sing.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Shawn's girlfriend Lisa, Lou, Monique, White Mike, Dupree, T.C. and Pop's cook Bennie/Hop Sing.
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* PutOnABus: Shawn's girlfriend Lisa from Season 1. "Fatal Subtraction" explains that she dumped Shawn for his assorted faults, vowed to never see him again, and took up with a more successful man.
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* TheCameo: In the first episode, Creator/GarrettMorris appears AsHimself and someone the brothers wanted to be celebrity spokesman for their new hair product. Morris refuses, both because of his standards and because Marlon essentially kidnapped him.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Marlon's attempts in "First Class" to get through airport security's metal detectors leaves him completely naked, and he's still setting the detector off. He realizes it's because of a Hot Wheels toy he swallowed when he was a kid, and he proves it by crawling through the x-ray machine. He continues to make a scene afterwards, prompting Pops to yell at him to put his clothes back on.
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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The theme for the last two seasons was produced by Shawn and Marlon themselves, with help from Creator/OmarEpps.
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'''Director:''' Alright, cut and print. Beautiful, guys. Dynamite! That is...\\
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'''Director:''' Alright, cut and print. Beautiful, guys. Dynamite! Dyn-o-mite! That is...\\
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'''Director:''' Alright, cut and print. Beautiful guys. Dynamite, that is...\\
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'''Director:''' Alright, cut and print. Beautiful Beautiful, guys. Dynamite, that Dynamite! That is...\\
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* TheAtoner: Marlon becomes this at the end of "Marlon's Back." After the play has a successful run across several cities, Marlon tries to take over the other actors' lines in a production in a local theater, and in frustration, they quit mid-show, causing the play to end its run. When Shawn states that it was Marlon's ego that shut the production down, Marlon responds that Shawn never had faith in him being an actor, to which Shawn shoots back that he gave the acting company the money he was going to invest in new newsstand so that Marlon could go on the road. At the end, Shawn and Pops find Marlon working as a pirate in a kid's birthday party, and when they ask why he lied about his new "acting gig," Marlon says he's trying to earn back the money Shawn spent on the play, and since he was a labeled difficult to work with, this is the only type of acting jobs he can take.
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* TheAtoner: Marlon becomes this at the end of "Marlon's Back.Return." After the play has a successful run across several cities, Marlon tries to take over the other actors' lines in a production in a local theater, and in frustration, they quit mid-show, causing the play to end its run. When Shawn states that it was Marlon's ego that shut the production down, Marlon responds that Shawn never had faith in him being an actor, to which Shawn shoots back that he gave the acting company the money he was going to invest in new newsstand so that Marlon could go on the road. At the end, Shawn and Pops find Marlon working as a pirate in a kid's birthday party, and when they ask why he lied about his new "acting gig," Marlon says he's trying to earn back the money Shawn spent on the play, and since he was a labeled difficult to work with, this is the only type of acting jobs he can take.
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* DoubleStandard: Pointed out by Marlon in "Ho's on the First," in which he dates a girl who, as the title suggests, [[ReallyGetsAround really got around]]. He realizes how he and Shawn have dated a bunch of girls in their day and they never got called on it [[TheUnfairSex just because they're guys]]. He still loves her no matter what and sees that it's in the past, but his suspicions get the best of him and they break up.
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* DoubleStandard: Pointed out by Marlon in "Ho's on the First," in which he dates a girl who, as the title suggests, [[ReallyGetsAround really got around]]. He realizes how he and Shawn have dated a bunch of girls in their day and they never got called on it [[TheUnfairSex just because they're guys]]. He still loves her no matter what and sees that it's in the past, but his suspicions get the best of him and they break up.
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''The Wayans Bros.'' is a {{sitcom}} that aired on Creator/{{The WB}} from [[TheNineties 1995 to 1999]], staring real life brothers [[Creator/ShawnWayans Shawn]] and Creator/MarlonWayans. The series' premise is pretty simple: the two brothers live in a shared one-bedroom apartment in New York. Said apartment is above their father's restaurant, called "Pops' Joint", which the two would visit on occasion during Season 1.
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''The Wayans Bros.'' is a {{sitcom}} that aired on Creator/{{The WB}} from [[TheNineties 1995 to 1999]], staring real life brothers [[Creator/ShawnWayans Shawn]] Creator/{{Shawn|Wayans}} and Creator/MarlonWayans. The series' series premise is pretty simple: the two brothers live in a shared one-bedroom apartment in New York. Said apartment is above their father's restaurant, called "Pops' Joint", which the two would visit on occasion during Season 1.
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-> We're brothers!
-> We're happy and we're singing and we're colored!
-> *beat*
-> Gimme a high-five!
-> (Shawn and Marlon look at each other in disapproval)
-> Alright, cut and print. Beautiful guys. Dynamite, that is...
-> (Marlon trashes the camera)
-> We're happy and we're singing and we're colored!
-> *beat*
-> Gimme a high-five!
-> (Shawn and Marlon look at each other in disapproval)
-> Alright, cut and print. Beautiful guys. Dynamite, that is...
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-> We're brothers!
->''We're brothers!\\
We're happy and we're singing and we'recolored!
-> *beat*
->colored!\\
*beat*\\
Gimme ahigh-five!
->high-five!\\
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->is...\\
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We're happy and we're singing and we're
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*beat*\\
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'''Director:'''' Alright, cut and print. Beautiful guys. Dynamite, that
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** In "The High Life", Marlon meets one of his favorite actors, who turns out to be a drug addict. The actor persuades Marlon to smoke weed to calm himself before a big audition. [[spoiler:Marlon gets high and blows his audition.]]
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** In "The High Life", Marlon meets one of his favorite actors, who turns out to be a drug addict. The actor persuades Marlon to smoke weed to calm himself before a big audition. [[spoiler:Marlon gets high and blows his audition.audition and we later find out that the actor who referred him was fired for the same reason.]]
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''The Wayans Bros.'' is a {{sitcom}} that aired on Creator/{{The WB}} from [[TheNineties 1995 to 1999]], staring real life brothers Shawn and Creator/MarlonWayans. The series' premise is pretty simple: the two brothers live in a shared one-bedroom apartment in New York. Said apartment is above their father's restaurant, called "Pops' Joint", which the two would visit on occasion during Season 1.
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''The Wayans Bros.'' is a {{sitcom}} that aired on Creator/{{The WB}} from [[TheNineties 1995 to 1999]], staring real life brothers Shawn [[Creator/ShawnWayans Shawn]] and Creator/MarlonWayans. The series' premise is pretty simple: the two brothers live in a shared one-bedroom apartment in New York. Said apartment is above their father's restaurant, called "Pops' Joint", which the two would visit on occasion during Season 1.
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''The Wayans Bros.'' is a {{sitcom}} that aired on Creator/{{The WB}} from [[TheNineties 1995 to 1999]], staring real life brothers [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Shawn and Marlon Wayans]].Creator/MarlonWayans. The series' premise is pretty simple: the two brothers live in a shared one-bedroom apartment in New York. Said apartment is above their father's restaurant, called "Pops' Joint", which the two would visit on occasion during Season 1.
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* LargeHam: Marlon is THE hammiest of them all, with Pops being a very close second. Shawn gets his licks in too.
