YMMV / Sister, Sister

• Awesome Moments: The series' most iconic line is delivered in the first episode at the end of Act 1 by the twins, causing the studio audience to go wild. These girls may be new at acting, but talk about a TV history twister!
  Tamera: Dad...
  Tia: Mom...
  Tia and Tamera: THAT GIRL HAS MY FACE!!
  [cue the audience going wild]
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In a Season 3 episode, Tia gets a crush on a boy and reschedules all her classes to be in his classes...including an auto repair class. Come Season 5, and she's fallen for Tyreke...who Ray would hire to be a mechanic in his limo garage. Seems like Tia has a type...
• Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading: 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".
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • A pre-stardom Brittany Murphy guested in several first season episodes.
  • Gabrielle Union was a 5th-season friend of the girls before she went on to movies like Bring It On and Bad Boys II.
  • A young Orlando Brown guest-starred once.
  • Taraji P. Henson, now known for Person of Interest and Empire, was a 5th-season classmate.
  • Regarding the dubs, in the Mexican Spanish one it's easy to recognize Alma Wilehelme as the VA for both twins, Nancy McKenzie as Tia's adoptive mother Lisa and Gerardo Reyero as Tamera's adoptive father Ray.
• Signature Scene:
  • The opening credits from Season 1.
  • "THAT GIRL HAS MY FACE!"
• Spiritual Successor: There are shades of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. 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 Season 4's "Double Exposure").
• Values Dissonance:
  • Season 2's "Single White Teenager", a Whole-Plot Reference to Single White Female, 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, comparing it to Tamera's jokes.) 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 "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 using tanning, makeup, or photo/video manipulation).
  • In Season 5's "The Laws", when the women leave their boyfriends after a big argument, Ray comes in and says "dim lights, soft music. In my day we used to do that with girls".
• Values Resonance: 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 he filed against her in an arbitration hearing.

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