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[[File:The_Waynes_Bros_8515.jpg|frame|Marlon and Shawn]]
▲{{quote| ''We're brothers!<br />
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▲We're happy and we're singing and we're colored!''<br />
''Gimme a high-five!'' }}
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In the second season, Pops moved his restaurant to the Neidermeyer Building, where Shawn managed to acquire a newspaper stand and worked alongside Marlon. The rest of the series took place here. The newspaper stand came with a security guard (Lou in the second season, Dee for the remainder of the show) who became a close friend of theirs. The boys also moved into a brownstone which still had one bedroom.
''[[The Wayans Bros]]'' was generally a situation comedy with the brothers getting into silly hijinks and trying to figure a way out of them. If you were a fan of The WB back in 90s, no doubt you were watching this.
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* [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]]: Even though he always have been a bit arrogant, it happens to Marlon who, after becoming an stage actor and embarked on a successful tour with Keith Sweat, acts like a total dick until he screwed up and the play was cancelled.
** Shawn as well in the season one episode "I'm Too Sexy For My Brother", in which he steals Marlon's thunder and becomes a model. Of course Shawn then-girlfriend [[Put
* [[Actor Allusion]]: In one episode Marlon sees Shawn spinning records and says [[In Living Color|"Give it up for SW1!"]]
** There was one episode where the brothers asked their uncle, played by Antonio Fargas, what ever happened to those [[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka|platform shoes with the goldfish inside of them]].
** In one episode Marlon says, "I haven't see Dee this angry since they cancelled [[
* [[Age-Inappropriate Dress]]: the episode "Hip-Hop Pops" where Pops starts dressing and acting like someone in his 20's.
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* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Some of the cold openings in the first season had Marlon electrocuted from fixing a toaster, burning alive from trying to cook french fries and having his [[Your Head Asplode|head explode]] from blowing up the hundtreth balloon for a party. Usually Shawn reacts nonchalantly about these situations.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Marlon
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* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Shawn and Marlon do this when trying to lure a burglar back to their apartment to catch him.
** They also did it to sweet talk Pops to give his brother the loan.
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* [[BBW]]: Dee
* [[Big Applesauce]]
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* [[The Ghost]]: Shawn and Marlon's mother is mentioned, but never seen. This also applies to Dee's mother.
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Shawn. Although he has a healthy flow of women, it's revealed in one episode that he has a fear of commitment.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] / [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: John Witterspoon (Pops) is probably recognizable now as the voice of Robert Freeman on ''[[The Boondocks]]''. This also isn't the first time he and Anna Maria Horsford (Dee) worked together; they were Mr and Mrs. Jones in the ''[[Friday (
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* [[It's a Wonderful Plot]]: Marlon has one after gambling away the money for Pops' birthday present.
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Season 1 is available on DVD. No plans to release Seasons 2-5. However, it's shown several times a day on [[MTV 2]] and on Centric.
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* [[No Ending]]: The show never got a proper series finale, something Shawn Wayans' character lampshades in the first ''[[Scary Movie]]''.
* [[The Rashomon]]: The episode "Fire!" {{spoiler|No one is telling the truth.}}
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: For the first two seasons, the show used [[
* [[Running Gag]]: Pop's taking off his belt whenever the boys got out of line or twitching his eyes whenever he's lying.
** Marlon being unable to pay his half of the rent.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Done a few times, but the best example is in the episode "Unspoken Token" where Shawn dreams that he is on an episode of ''[[Good Times]]'', in which the brothers have referenced a few times before.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: In the later seasons, Marlon gets a job on the show ''Everybody Loves Everybody''.
* [[Sibling Team]]: Shawn and Marlon Wayans are this in the show and in real life.
* [[Take That]]: Several celebrity jabs made by the brothers.
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* [[Token White]]: White Mike
* [[Uncle Tomfoolery]]: Marlon sort of displays this in character on his show.
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