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.
Guest Stars:
Dionne Warwick, Jazsmin Lewis, Marianne Muellerleile
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 that game.
Guest Stars:
Monica Calhoun, Radmar Agana Jao
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.
Guest Stars:
Phill Lewis, Phil Morris
Marlon achieves celebrity status by starring in a series of malt-liquor commercials, but there's trouble brewing when he portrays a ghetto stereotype.
Guest Stars:
Kimberly Brooks
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.
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 checks up on them.
Guest Stars:
Meta Golding
A food fight breaks out when Uncle Nate parks his lunch truck across from Pops' diner, taking away his patrons.
Guest Stars:
Antonio Fargas
Dee flies off the handle when her sister Natalie thinks about giving up her promising Air Force career to be with airhead Marlon.
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.
Guest Stars:
Kene Holliday, Jazzmun
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.
Guest Stars:
Brook Kerr, Dominique Jennings, Pam Grier
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 mission.
Guest Stars:
Nika Futterman
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.
Guest Stars:
Phill Lewis
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.)
Guest Stars:
Phill Lewis
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.
Guest Stars:
Phill Lewis, Joe Lisi
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.
Guest Stars:
Sandra Ellis Lafferty
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, Marlon is left to run the newsstand, where he hires Dupree as his assistant.
Guest Stars:
Erik Estrada, Bruce French, Jack Plotnick
When Pops starts dressing in fine clothes, closing the diner early and staying out late, Shawn and Marlon suspect the reason is another woman.
Guest Stars:
Iona Morris
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 propose.
Guest Stars:
Reynaldo Rey, Phill Lewis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Melissa De Sousa
Dee delivers a woman's baby, and her maternal instincts surface.
Guest Stars:
James A. Watson, Jr
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 Widower.""
Guest Stars:
Bill Cobbs, Adam West
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.
Guest Stars:
Orlando Brown, Phill Lewis, Kenny Lofton