History YMMV / SisterSister

* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: Inverted in relation to Ray and Lisa after they become a couple in Season 4. The writers (led by then-showrunners Leslie Ray and David Steven Simon) didn't seem to know how to depict them as romantic partners, and Ray and Lisa's interactions afterward were mostly indistinguishable from how they treated each other as platonic co-parents. Although they kiss each other in separate dreams in Season 2's "I Do?", Ray and Lisa are not seen kissing or make very few romantic gestures during Season 4 ("Ski Squad" does have a B-plot involving them trying to have romantic time together at home while Tia and Tamera off on a ski trip with friends, but this issue even affects that plot). Possibly owing to this, the writing staff under new showrunner Rick Hawkins decided to have them go back to being platonic in Season 5, with Ray and Lisa mutually breaking up in "Designer Genes".

* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: Inverted in relation to Ray and Lisa after they become a couple in Season 4. The writers (led by then-showrunners Leslie Ray and David Steven Simon) didn't seem to know how to depict them as romantic partners, and Ray and Lisa's interactions afterward were mostly indistinguishable from how they treated each other as platonic co-parents. Although they kiss each other in separate dreams in Season 2's "I Do?", Ray and Lisa are not seen kissing or make very few romantic gestures during Season 4 ("Ski Squad" does have a B-plot involving them trying to have romantic time together at home while Tia and Tamera off on a ski trip with friends, but this issue even affects that plot). Possibly owing to this, the writing staff under new showrunner Rick Hawkins decided to have them go back to being platonic in Season 5, with Ray and Lisa amicably breaking up in "Designer Genes".

* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: Inverted in relation to Ray and Lisa after they become a couple in Season 4. The writers (led by then-showrunners Leslie Ray and David Steven Simon) didn't seem to know how to depict them as romantic partners, and Ray and Lisa's interactions afterward were mostly indistinguishable from how they treated each other as platonic co-parents. Although they kiss each other in separate dreams in Season 2's "I Do?", Ray and Lisa are not seen kissing or make very few romantic gestures during Season 4 ("Ski Squad" does have a B-plot involving them trying to have romantic time together at home while Tia and Tamera off on a ski trip with friends, but this issue even affects that plot). Possibly owing to this, the writing staff under new showrunner Rick Hawkins decided to have them go back to being platonic in Season 5, with Ray and Lisa amicably breaking up in "A Separate Peace".

* SpiritualSuccessor: There are shades of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''. Ray is much like Uncle Phil - a strict, bourgeois, Republican-supporting African-American patriarch who takes in someone from the hood (Will/Lisa and Tia), while Tamera (especially in earlier episodes) could be said to be an albeit somewhat watered-down version of Hilary. Another parallel is that both sitcoms featured theme songs that describe the upheavels in people's lives that started the respective shows in the first place. (As it happens, Tim Reid was married to Daphne Maxwell-Reid, the actress who replaced Janet Hubert as Vivian in ''Fresh Prince''[='=]s fourth season, who even guest-starred in one episode).

** Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a WholePlotReference to ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', has Tia and Tamera's friend Denise (who is white) emulate the twins, even changing her name to her middle name Tanya, leading Tia and Tamera to jump to the conclusion that she was insane.[[note]](Denise later reveals she modeled her new look after the twins because she liked their style, and the name change was a joke that clearly didn't land.)[[/note]] Not only does Denise start dressing exactly like Tia and Tamera, but in a later scene, she reveals that she got a tan to look more like the girls. Neither twin nor Roger[[note]](who was taken aback by Denise masquerading as their triplet, and received a "[[PhraseCatcher go home, Roger]]" from her after saying she looked like "that frumpy girl Denise" upon being introduced to her as "Tanya")[[/note]] thought anything about that, but such a plot element likely wouldn't fly today, as Denise would have been called out for "Blackfishing" (the act of a non-Black person pretending to be Black using tanning, makeup, or photo/video manipulation).

* ValuesResonance: Season 6's "Home Court Advantage", in which Lisa is accused of sexually harassing her intern Todd is actually quite bold and refreshing, in the sense that it treats an allegation made against a female boss for the crime with the same severity and seriousness that such an allegation made against a male boss would rightly do so. That said, Lisa never actually harassed him (Lisa does admire his physique for a brief moment when she has him step in as a replacement model for a men's swim trunk line she designed, and Tia, Tamera and Diavian did fawn over him, though neither made any overt advances); Todd made up the allegations to retaliate against Lisa for firing him because of his incompetence as an assistant, and he loses the lawsuit against her in an arbitration hearing.

* ValuesResonance: Season 6's "Home Court Advantage", in which Lisa is accused of sexually harassing her intern Todd is actually quite bold and refreshing, in the sense that it treats an allegation made against a female boss for the crime with the same severity and seriousness that such an allegation made against a male boss would rightly do so. That said, Lisa never actually harassed him (Lisa does admire his physique for a brief moment when she has him step in as a replacement model for a men's swim trunk line she designed, and Tia, Tamera and Diavian did fawn over him, though neither made any overt advances); Todd made up the allegations to retaliate against Lisa for firing him because of his incompetence as an assistant.

* ValuesResonance: Season 6's "Home Court Advantage", in which Lisa is accused of sexually harassing her intern Todd is actually quite bold and refreshing, in the sense that it treats an allegation made against a female boss for the crime with the same severity and seriousness that such an allegation made against a male boss would rightly do so. That said, Lisa never actually harassed him (Lisa does admire his physique for a brief moment when she has him step in as a replacement model for a men's swim trunk line she designed, and Tia, Tamera and Diavian did fawn over him, though, neither make any overt advances); Todd made up the allegations to retaliate against Lisa for firing him because of his incompetence as an assistant.

* ValuesResonance: Season 6's "Home Court Advantage", in which Lisa is accused of sexually harassing her intern Todd is actually quite bold and refreshing, in the sense that it treats an allegation made against a female boss for the crime with the same severity and seriousness that such an allegation made against a male boss would rightly do so. That said, Lisa never actually harassed him (Tia, Tamera and Diavian did fawn over him, though, but even they don't make any advances); Todd made up the allegations to retaliate against Lisa for firing him because of his incompetence as an assistant.

* ValuesResonance: The episode where Lisa is accused of sexually harassing her intern Todd is actually quite bold and refreshing, in the sense that it treats an allegation made against a female boss for the crime with the same severity and seriousness that such an allegation made against a male boss would rightly do so.

* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: Inverted in relation to Ray and Lisa after they become a couple in Season 4. The writers (led by then-showrunners Leslie Ray and David Steven Simon) didn't seem to know how to depict them as romantic partners, and Ray and Lisa's interactions afterward were mostly indistinguishable from how they treated each other as platonic co-parents. Although they kiss each other in separate dreams in Season 2's "I Do?", Ray and Lisa are not seen kissing or make very few romantic gestures during Season 4 ("Ski Squad" does have a B-plot involving them trying to have romantic time together at home while Tia and Tamera off on a ski trip with friends, but this issue even affects that plot). Possibly owing to this, the writing staff under new showrunner Rick Hawkins decided to have them go back to being platonic in Season 5, with Ray and Lisa amicably breaking up in "Working Girls".

* SpiritualSuccessor: There are shades of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''. Ray is much like Uncle Phil - a strict, bourgeois, Republican-supporting African-American patriarch who takes in someone from the hood (Will/Lisa and Tia), while Tamera (especially in earlier episodes) could be said to be an albeit somewhat watered-down version of Hilary. Another parallel is that both sitcoms featured theme songs that describe the upheavels in people's lives that started the respective shows in the first place. (As it happens, Tim Reid was married to Daphne Maxwell-Reid, who even guest-starred in one episode).

* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: Inverted in relation to Ray and Lisa after they become a couple in Season 4. The writers didn't seem to know how to write them as romantic partners, and their interactions are mostly indistinguishable from how they treated each other as platonic co-parents. Although they are seen kissing in a dream in Season 2's "I Do?", Ray and Lisa are not seen kissing or make very few romantic gestures during that season ("Ski Squad" does have a B-plot involving them trying to have romantic time together at home while Tia and Tamera off on a ski trip with friends, but this issue even affects that plot).

** Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a WholePlotReference to ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', has Tia and Tamera's friend Denise (who is white) emulate the twins, later revealing it was a joke that clearly didn't land as Tia and Tamera jumped to the conclusion that she was insane. Not only does Denise start dressing exactly like Tia and Tamera and changes her name to Tanya (Denise's middle name), but in a later scene, she reveals that she got a tan to look more like the girls. Neither twin nor Roger[[note]](who was taken aback by Denise masquerading as their triplet, and received a "[[PhraseCatcher go home, Roger]]" from her after saying she looked like "that frumpy girl Denise" upon being introduced to her as "Tanya")[[/note]] thought anything about that, but such a plot element likely wouldn't fly today, as Denise would have been called out for "Blackfishing" (the act of a non-Black person pretending to be Black using tanning, makeup, or photo/video manipulation).

** Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a WholePlotReference to ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', has Tia and Tamera's friend Denise (who is white) emulate the twins, later revealing it was a joke that clearly didn't land as Tia and Tamera jumped to the conclusion that she was insane. Not only does Denise start dressing exactly like Tia and Tamera and changes her name to Tanya (Denise's middle name), but in a later scene, she reveals that she got a tan to look more like the girls. Neither twin nor Roger[[note]](who was taken aback by Denise masquerading as their triplet, and received a "[[PhraseCatcher go home, Roger]]" from her after saying she looked like "that frumpy girl Denise" upon being introduced to her as "Tanya")[[/note]] thought anything about that, but such a plot element likely wouldn't fly today, as Denise would have been called out for "Blackfishing" (the act of a non-Black person pretending to be Black through the use of tanning, makeup, or technological means like filters and Photoshopping).

** Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a WholePlotReference to ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', has Tia and Tamera's friend Denise (who is white) emulate the twins, later revealing it was a joke that clearly didn't land as Tia and Tamera jumped to the conclusion that she was insane. Not only does Denise start dressing exactly like Tia and Tamera and changes her name to Tanya (Denise's middle name), but in a later scene, she reveals that she got a tan to look more like the girls. Neither twin nor Roger (who was taken aback by Denise masquerading as their triplet, and received a "[[PhraseCatcher go home, Roger]]" from her after saying she looked like "that frumpy girl Denise" upon being introduced to her as "Tanya") thought anything about that, but such a plot element likely wouldn't fly today, as Denise would have been called out for "Blackfishing" (the act of a non-Black person pretending to be Black through the use of tanning, makeup, or technological means like filters and Photoshopping).

** Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a WholePlotReference to ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', has Tia and Tamera's friend Denise (who is white) emulate the twins, later revealing it was a joke that clearly didn't land as Tia and Tamera jumped to the conclusion that she was insane. Not only does Denise start dressing exactly like Tia and Tamera and changes her name to Tanya (Denise's middle name), but in a later scene, she reveals that she got a tan to look more like the girls. Neither twin nor Roger (who was taken aback by Denise masquerading as their triplet, and received a "[[{{Catchphrase}} go home, Roger]]" from her after saying she looked like "that frumpy girl Denise" upon being introduced to her as "Tanya") thought anything about that, but such a plot element likely wouldn't fly today, as Denise would have been called out for "Blackfishing" (the act of a non-Black person pretending to be Black through the use of tanning, makeup, or technological means like filters and Photoshopping).

** Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a WholePlotReference to ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', has Tia and Tamera's friend Denise (who is white) emulate the twins, later revealing it was a joke that clearly didn't land as Tia and Tamera jumped to the conclusion that she was insane. Not only does Denise start dressing exactly like Tia and Tamera and changes her name to Tanya (Denise's middle name), but in a later scene, she reveals that she got a tan to look more like the girls. Neither twin nor Roger (who was taken aback by Denise masquerading as their triplet, and received a "go home, Roger" from her after saying she looked like "that frumpy girl Denise" upon being introduced to her as "Tanya") thought anything about that, but such a plot element likely wouldn't fly today, as Denise would have been called out for "Blackfishing" (the act of a non-Black person pretending to be Black through the use of tanning, makeup, or technological means like filters and Photoshopping).

** Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a WholePlotReference to ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', has Tia and Tamera's friend Denise (who is white) emulate the twins, later revealing it was a joke that clearly didn't land as this led Tia and Tamera jumped to the conclusion that she was crazy. Not only does Denise start dressing exactly like Tia and Tamera, but in a later scene, she reveals that she got a tan to look more like them. Neither thought anything about that, but such a plot element likely wouldn't fly today, as Denise would have been called out for "Blackfishing" (the act of a non-Black person pretending to be Black through the use of tanning, makeup, or technological means like filters and Photoshopping).

** Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a WholePlotReference to ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', has Tia and Tamera's friend Denise (who is white) emulate the twins, later revealing it was a joke that clearly didn't land as Tia and Tamera began thinking she was crazy as a result. Not only does Denise start dressing exactly like Tia and Tamera, but in a later scene, she reveals that she got a tan to look more like them. Neither thought anything about that, but such a plot element likely wouldn't fly today, as Denise would have been called out for "Blackfishing" (the act of a non-Black person pretending to be Black through the use of tanning, makeup, or technological means like filters and Photoshopping).