Episode
The Wayans Bros.: Risky Bid-ness
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Wayans Bros.
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1997-02-05
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Risky Bid-ness is Episode 16 in Season 3 of The Wayans Bros.. It aired on 1997-02-05. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 15: Goodbye Mr. Gibbs
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.
Episode 17: Pops' Secret
When Pops starts dressing in fine clothes, closing the diner early and staying out late, Shawn and Marlon suspect the reason is another woman.
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Episode 14: Unusual Suspects
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.
Episode 18: I Do...
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.
Episode 13: Life Without Marlon
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.)
Episode 19: Dee's Baby Daddy
Dee delivers a woman's baby, and her maternal instincts surface.
Episode 12: Boyz in the Woods
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.
Episode 20: The Black Widower
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.""
Episode 11: Do the Wrong Thing
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.
Episode 21: Say It Ain't So Marlon
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.
Episode 10: Going to the Net
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.
Episode 22: Marlon Goes On the Road
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.