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{{quote|''"That girl has my face!"''}}
The most famous show to feature a set of twins not named Mary-Kate and Ashley (at least, until ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' came along), ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' features [[The Danza|Tia and Tamera Mowry as Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell]], identical twins separated at birth and reunited 14 years later in a Detroit shopping mall. Their adoptive parents, Lisa (Jackee Harry of ''227'' fame) and Ray (Tim Reid, Venus Flytrap from [[WKRP in Cincinnati|WKRP]]), decide that for the good of the kids they should move in together. Since Ray is a successful limousine entrepreneur and Lisa is a down-on-her-luck fashion designer, they naturally move into Ray's place.
The girls themselves are, of course, [[Different As Night and Day|two sides of the same coin]]: Tia is a studious girl, somewhat shy and bookish. Tamera is a wild and crazy girl, prone to wild displays of emotion. Each one is quite the opposite of her adoptive parent: Tia under wacky Lisa, and Tamera under prudish Ray.
A frequent [[Drop
For the first four seasons, the girls experienced wacky hijinks and [[Twin Switch|twin switches]] galore. Starting in the fifth season, the show was [[Retool|re-tooled]] to separate the girls more: Each got her own style, Tia stopped wearing a fake mole to look exactly identical to Tamera, etc. The girls also got boyfriends that season: Tia had Tyreke (RonReaco Lee), while Tamera took Jordan (Deon Richmond).
The show ran for six seasons, the first two on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[Channel Hop|the rest]] on [[The WB]]. The show lives on in perpetual reruns on ABC Family and [[BET]].
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Cruelly snobbish rich-girl Rhonda all throughout in season three, who was always around any time the plot called for the girls to have a rival. Her last appearance early season four reveals she had a freak growth spurt and now looks like a man in a wig (as skillfully played by a man in a wig).
* [[Always Identical Twins]]
* [[Back for
* [[Big Eater]]: Lisa by far.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The show seems to get put on networks that edit it as if it were The Sopranos, or Jerry Springer. During its run on the [[Disney Channel]], even if you'd never seen the original show, the edits were extremely obvious, often times stepping on lines. A current network that runs it also mutes much dialog, as if it was [[Cluster F-Bomb|ClusterFBombs]], including small time insults. "Shut up" is a muted phrase for example.
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* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Of course, it's even highlighted in the theme song. Tia is the smart one; Tamera's the party girl. Each girl is the opposite of the parent that raised her: Tia by Lisa, Tamera by Ray.
* [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]]: During the final two seasons.
* [[Drop
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: "Sister Sister! Never knew how much I missed ya! Now that everybody knows, I ain't ever gonna let, you, go!"
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]
* [[Happily Adopted]]
* [[She
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Kenan and Kel]] annoy the twins.
** You could make a book of this with all the friends they went through, from [[Brittany Murphy]] to [[Gabrielle Union]].
* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]: The girls' brother, Tahj, appeared three times...
** [[You Look Familiar|...as three different characters...]]
*** [[Crossover|...including one from his own show,]] ''[[Smart Guy (TV series)|Smart Guy]]''
* [[Mistaken for An Impostor]]: Roger claims to know the lead singer of Immature and can get them to play a school party. When he can't get the band, he impersonates Batman (the lead singer)...badly. Then the real Batman shows up ([[Identical Stranger|played by Marques Houston]] [[As Himself]])...and everyone naturally thinks he's Roger.
* [[Opinion-Changing Dream]]: The episode "I Had A Dream" (1998) features one of the sisters ridiculing the deeds of her African-American ancestors and is reluctant to carry on with her own miserable life. In her dream she is visited by several historical Afro-American characters who all claim they want to give up and do something else. She convinces them to do otherwise and do the historical deed that they are famous for. When she wakes up she respects her ancestors.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: The sisters' biological parents throughout the series. Season 6's "Father Day" explained the circumstances. {{spoiler|Their bi-racial parents, Racelle and Matt, were unmarried and in different countries as part of their careers. They intended to get married upon their reunion, but Racelle died before then. Since they weren't married and Matt was white, [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You|he couldn't prove he was the girls' father and wasn't allowed near them]].}}
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: "Go home, Roger!"
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Lisa and Ray. They clash A LOT, but they're (usually) good at working together to raise their daughters and eventually form a friendship.
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Well, who do you think?
* [[Right Through the Wall]]: Lisa's mother doesn't approve of her living with Ray while they're not married, so she lies and says they are - then fakes sex noises at the wall when she stays with them, so she believes they really are newlyweds.
* [[Separated
* [[Skyward Scream]]: Ray's trademark "Tameraaaaaaaa!"
* [[Suck E. Cheese's]]: In the form of Buck E. Duck.
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