History Series / MeetTheBrowns

* NightmareSequence: "Meet the Nightmare," the entire episode is about Mr. Brown having a recurring nightmare about Edna, who tends to act like a frenemy archrival to him throughout the series, trying to kiss him. Plays into CatapultNightmare, AllJustADream, and PinchMe.

* {{Corpsing}}/ContagiousLaughter: In the episode "Meet the H.B.I.C.", when the Brown family accidentally thinks there is a fire in the house, they scramble around panicking and [[TheDitz London tries to do stop, drop, and roll]] (''even though she's not actually on fire''). They find out that it was never actually a fire but just Cora's pound cake burning in the oven. A little while later after everything has calmed down, London is still rolling across the floor, doing stop drop and roll. [[ContagiousLaughter Sasha then laughs first, then Cora, and then Mr. Brown starts laughing and giggling at her]] until finally Mr. Brown opens up to the French style backyard door in the kitchen, and tells London to keep rolling across the floor and roll outside to the backyard. Sasha is laughing so hard that she can't even get back into character [[EverybodyLaughsEnding and the rest of the characters laugh with her to the end of the episode.]]

* {{Corpsing}}/ContagiousLaughter: In the episode "Meet the H.B.I.C.", when the Brown family accidentally thinks there is a fire in the house, they scramble around panicking and [[TheDitz London tries to do stop, drop, and roll]] (''even though she's not actually on fire''). They find out that it was never actually a fire but just Cora's pound cake burning in the oven. A little while later after everything has calmed down, London is still rolling across the floor, doing stop drop and roll. [[EverybodyLaughsEnding Sasha then laughs first, then Cora, and then Mr. Brown starts laughing and giggling at her]] until finally Mr. Brown opens up to the French style backyard door in the kitchen, and tells London to keep rolling across the floor and roll outside to the backyard. Sasha is laughing so hard that she can't even get back into character [[ContagiousLaughter and the rest of the characters laugh with her.]]

---> '''(London tries to help Mr. Brown work out and exercise one day using pilates and then proceeds to punch him in the gut a couple times while she's trying to help him exercise)'''

---> '''(Brianna laughs as she goes over to Joaquin to shake him and wake him up.)'''

---> (''London tries to help Mr. Brown work out using pilates and then proceeds to punch him in the gut a couple times while she's trying to help him exercise'')

---> '''Mr. Brown:''' What in the world was that big lump I just rolled over on top of? (''He turns and looks over at Joaquin, down on the ground unconscious and panics'') ''(frightened and panicked yelling):'' OH LORD I DONE SQUASHED JOACOMB!''[Joaquin]'' to death! Brianna! Brianna help him! Wake him up!

---> '''Mr. Brown:''' What in the world was that big lump I just rolled over on top of? (''He turns and looks over at Joaquin, down on the ground unconscious and panics'') ''(frightened):'' OH LORD I DONE SQUASHED JOACOMB!''[Joaquin]'' Brianna help him! Wake him up!

---> (''London laughs'') '''London:'' 'Cuz you're so squishy, it's like punching a soft cuddly squishy pillow!

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Occurs in several episodes with several characters.
** Also used with GoshDangItToHeck, MouthingTheProfanity, NotInFrontOfTheKid, OhMyGods, and SophisticatedAsHell.

'''''Tyler Perry's Meet the Brown's''''' is an American sitcom that was created by Creator/TylerPerry as a separate but in-universe spinoff to Series/HouseOfPayne , starring David and Tamela Mann as "Mr. Brown" and "Cora Simmons" respectively. The sitcom is based off of Tyler Perry's two previous works, '''Meet the Browns''', the 2008 film, and '''Meet the Browns,''' the 2004 stage play. The show initially revolved around Mr. Brown running a senior citizen's home in Decatur, Georgia, with his daughter Cora, in honor of his deceased father's legacy. However, as the show progressed, the show then became revolved around Mr. Brown and Cora allowing his nephew and her cousin, Dr. William "Will" Brown (Lamman Rucker), his wife, Sasha (Denise Boutte), and their adoptive children, Brianna (Brianne Gould in Season 1, Logan Browning in Seasons 2-5) and Joaquin (Gunnar Washington), live in the house with them, and the crazy and humorous antics they endeavor on together with various friends and neighbors, such as Derek (Robert Ri'chard), Ret. Marines Colonel Cleophus Jackson (Tony Vaughn) whom they just refer to as "Colonel" or "The Colonel", Edna (Juanita Jennings), Daisy La'Rue(Katherine "K" Callan) Jésus (Antonio Jaramillo), Reneé (Terri J. Vaughn), and London Sheraton (Arielle Vandenberg). The show premiered in January of 2009 and finished its run in November of 2011 on TBS after five seasons. The show was second only to House of Payne in the largest number of episodes of an African American sitcom on TBS (although not the largest of any African-American sitcom at large), and was one of the the longest running African American sitcoms on TBS. The show is also currently syndicated through the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Network.

* {{Adorkable}}: Joaquin; Sometimes Will, Brianna, and Derek.

* AmbiguouslyChristian : Although most of the characters of the show are either professing or strongly devout Baptist Christians, a few of the characters, such as Renee, Brianna, Joaquin (although this is understandable for them because they are young adolescents and may not have strongly developed views either for or against religion themselves apart from following Christianity along with the rest of the family), Jésus, Daisy, London, and various others seem to be or are implied to be Christians, but they do not express strongly religious views. Some of them are even seen going to church, but is only because they go with their family out of obligation, and sometimes it is just for special events like funerals or weddings.

* WeddingDay: "Meet the Big Wedding." However, Edna and the Colonel have to have two weddings because he had a heart attack and went unconscious at the first wedding. Their actual successful wedding took place in the next season after his recovery from the heart attack.

* HypnoFool: In the episide, "Meet the Makeover", Mr. Brown acts as a magician to put on a magic show for Joaquin and his friends after he breaks their video game console. This ends up with Joaquin and his friends using his magic tricks against him to prank him. He also tries to use hypnosis on Brianna and accidentally hypnotizes her to start acting like him whenever she hears her name or Mr. Brown's name. This causes her to start hypnotically imitating Mr. Brown's personality, signature quotes and catchphrases, and mannerisms, and she even starts dressing like him until Cora and Mr. Brown intervene to correct the hypnosis.

* HypnoFool: In the episide, "Meet the Makeover", Mr. Brown acts as a magician to put on a magic show for Joaquin and his friends after he breaks their video game console. This ends up with Joaquin and his friends using his magic tricks against him to prank him. He also tries to use hypnosis on Brianna and accidentally hypnotizes her to start acting like him whenever she hears her name or Mr. Brown's name. This causes her to start hypnotically imitating Mr. Brown's Brown's personality, signature quotes and catchphrases, and mannerisms, and she even starts dressing like him until Cora and Mr. Brown intervene to correct the hypnosis.

* AbusiveParents: Joaquin and Brianna's biological mother, Tonya, played by Tasha Smith; [[ExportedCharacter whose character is loosely based off of other similar characters played by the same actress in previous works by Tyler Perry]].
* AbhorrentAdmirer : Tonya to Will; she knows Will is married to Sasha but always constantly flirts with him and makes advances at him. However Will would hate her and find her disgusting anyway even if he wasn't married.

* ExportedCharacter : Tonya, Joaquin and Brianna's biological mother, who is obviously and deliberately based on Tasha Smith's older characters from previous works by Tyler Perry. This is lampshaded a few times throughout the series with [[ActorAllusion actor allusions to her actress Tasha Smith]].

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tonya does eventually have a slight Heel-Face Turn and does eventually apologize and reconcile with Brianna, Joaquin, Will and Sasha, and asks them to forgive her for all the trouble she caused them. She plays into the HiddenHeartOfGold trope with it, and does try to come back into their life to be a better mom, briefly before she relinquishes her ties to them so that Will and Sasha can have full custody.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Subverted with Brianna. Both [[PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]] and [[PlayedForDrama Played for Drama]] with Tonya.

'''''Tyler Perry's Meet the Brown's''''' is an American sitcom that was created by Creator/TylerPerry as a separate but in-universe spinoff to Series/HouseOfPayne , starring David and Tamela Mann as "Mr. Brown" and "Cora Simmons" respectively. The sitcom is based off of Tyler Perry's two previous works, '''Meet the Browns''', the 2008 film, and '''Meet the Browns,''' the 2004 stage play. The show initially revolved around Mr. Brown running a senior citizen's home in Decatur, Georgia, with his daughter Cora, in honor of his deceased father's legacy. However, as the show progressed, the show then became revolved around Mr. Brown and Cora allowing his nephew and her cousin, Dr. William "Will" Brown (Lamman Rucker), his wife, Sasha (Denise Boutte), and their adoptive children, Brianna (Brianne Gould in Season 1, Logan Browning in Seasons 2-5) and Joaquin (Gunnar Washington), live in the house with them, and the crazy and humorous antics they endeavor on together with various friends and neighbors, such as Derek (Robert Ri'chard), Ret. Marines Colonel Cleophus Jackson (Tony Vaughn) whom they just refer to as "Colonel" or "The Colonel", Edna (Juanita Jennings), Daisy La'Rue(Katherine "K" Callan) Jésus (Antonio Jaramillo), Reneé (Terri J. Vaughn), and London Sheraton (Arielle Vandenberg). The show premiered in January of 2009 and finished its run in November of 2011 on TBS after five seasons. The show was second only to House of Payne in the largest number of episodes of an African American sitcom on TBS (although not the largest of any African-American sitcom at large), and was one of the the longest running African American sitcoms on TBS. The show was also syndicated through the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and is currently syndicated through the BET Network.

* ContinuityNod: In many episodes Mr. Brown, Will, Sasha, and Cora make allusions and references to older, previous works by Tyler Perry and characters from those older works, most notably like Madea, since she was one of Mr. Brown's former love–interests–turned–enemy, and Cora's biological mother.

** ''"What the What!?"''

*** An exception to this is Lamman Rucker who played as Sasha's husband, Brianna's adoptive father, and Mr. Brown's nephew, Will. In real life, Rucker is ten years older than Denise Boutte, and a combined 18 years older than Logan Browning. This can be considered an example of {{Dawson Casting}} in Lamman Rucker's case.

*** See the Real-Life Relative section below.

* RealLifeRelative: Mr. Brown and Cora's characters are played by real life Gospel singers and husband and wife couple, David and Tamela Mann, even though they play as father and daughter in the series. Can be considered a case of {{cast incest}}.