The Wayans Bros.: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Wayans Bros. Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Grandma's in the Hiz-House
Sep 4, 1996 · 30 min
Shawn and Marlon let Grandma move in, then plot to drive her out after she cramps their bachelor lifestyle. The problem: she won't take a hint.
Unbrotherly Love
Sep 11, 1996 · 30 min
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
Movin' On Up
Sep 18, 1996 · 30 min
Shawn falls in with a yuppie crowd, spurning his old pals from the 'hood and masquerading as a business executive, until Marlon sets out to downsize his ego.
Gots to Have a J.O.B.
Sep 25, 1996 · 30 min
Marlon achieves celebrity status by starring in a series of malt-liquor commercials, but there's trouble brewing when he portrays a ghetto stereotype.
Trippin'
Oct 2, 1996 · 30 min
Contest-obsessed Marlon hits the jackpot. His prize is a vacation for two, but it's no day at the beach when Shawn, Pops and Grandma battle over the second ticket.
Drama for Yo' Mama
Oct 9, 1996 · 30 min
To win Mama a chair, the brothers concoct a family sob story and win $5,000 in a magazine's Wish of the Year contest, then have to stage an elaborate performance when a reporter ch
Family Business
Oct 16, 1996 · 30 min
A food fight breaks out when Uncle Nate parks his lunch truck across from Pops' diner, taking away his patrons.
An Officer and a Homegirl
Nov 6, 1996 · 30 min
Dee flies off the handle when her sister Natalie thinks about giving up her promising Air Force career to be with airhead Marlon.
The Return of the Temptones
Nov 13, 1996 · 30 min
Pops reunites with his old singing group for a comeback try, but it seems times have changed. And thanks to modern surgery, so has one of its members.
Going to the Net
Nov 20, 1996 · 30 min
Shawn falls for an older woman (Grier), while Marlon meets a young thrill-seeker and finds that love is just a hop, skip and bungee jump away -- unless he wimps out.
Do the Wrong Thing
Nov 27, 1996 · 30 min
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 mi
Boyz in the Woods
Jan 8, 1997 · 30 min
Pops browbeats the boys into going camping, but he's hurt to find their idea of ""quality time"" is partying with babes in the woods.
Life Without Marlon
Jan 15, 1997 · 30 min
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.)
Unusual Suspects
Jan 22, 1997 · 30 min
Marlon suspects a friend in need is a friend with greed when his apartment is burglarized after he rebuffed T.C.'s plea for a loan.
Goodbye Mr. Gibbs
Jan 29, 1997 · 30 min
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.
Risky Bid-ness
Feb 5, 1997 · 30 min
Shawn figures he's movin' on up when he lands a job at the ad agency in the building, but he's knocked off the fast track when his boss Ted takes credit for his slogan. Meanwhile,
Pops' Secret
Feb 12, 1997 · 30 min
When Pops starts dressing in fine clothes, closing the diner early and staying out late, Shawn and Marlon suspect the reason is another woman.
I Do...
Feb 19, 1997 · 30 min
Marlon's relationship with his girlfriend is suddenly altared -- er, altered -- when her brother, a neighborhood bully, learns how close they've become and forces young Williams to
Dee's Baby Daddy
Feb 26, 1997 · 30 min
Dee delivers a woman's baby, and her maternal instincts surface.
The Black Widower
Apr 30, 1997 · 30 min
The boys fear it's a match made in hell after introducing a lonely Grandma to Fred, a smooth-talking diner regular who they later believe is a wanted murderer known as ""The Black
Say It Ain't So Marlon
May 7, 1997 · 30 min
Marlon looks to even the score with an old Little League teammate who supposedly ruined his chances at a big-league career by hogging all the glory.
Marlon Goes On the Road
May 14, 1997 · 30 min
Shawn's plans to expand ""Williams Brothers News"" are interrupted when Marlon lands a part in a national musical starring R&B artist Keith Sweat.