About this season
Brothers Shawn and Marlon are on the lookout for money and success, though the two are complete opposites. Shawn is responsible and conservative while Marlon is free-spirited and liberal. They are not immune to sibling rivalry, but frequently enjoy being each other's partner in crime.
Episodes (22)
1. Grandma's in the Hiz-House
Aired 4 September 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.
2. Unbrotherly Love
Aired 11 September 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 that game.
3. Movin' On Up
Aired 18 September 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.
4. Gots to Have a J.O.B.
Aired 25 September 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.
5. Trippin'
Aired 2 October 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.
6. Drama for Yo' Mama
Aired 9 October 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 checks up on them.
7. Family Business
Aired 16 October 1996 • 30 min
A food fight breaks out when Uncle Nate parks his lunch truck across from Pops' diner, taking away his patrons.
8. An Officer and a Homegirl
Aired 6 November 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.
9. The Return of the Temptones
Aired 13 November 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.
10. Going to the Net
Aired 20 November 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.
11. Do the Wrong Thing
Aired 27 November 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 mission.
12. Boyz in the Woods
Aired 8 January 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.
13. Life Without Marlon
Aired 15 January 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.)
14. Unusual Suspects
Aired 22 January 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.
15. Goodbye Mr. Gibbs
Aired 29 January 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.
16. Risky Bid-ness
9.0Aired 5 February 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, Marlon is left to run the newsstand, where he hires Dupree as his assistant.
17. Pops' Secret
Aired 12 February 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.
18. I Do...
Aired 19 February 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 propose.
19. Dee's Baby Daddy
Aired 26 February 1997 • 30 min
Dee delivers a woman's baby, and her maternal instincts surface.
20. The Black Widower
Aired 30 April 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 Widower.""
21. Say It Ain't So Marlon
Aired 7 May 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.
22. Marlon Goes On the Road
Aired 14 May 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.