Episode
The Wayans Bros.: Drama for Yo' Mama
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Wayans Bros.
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1996-10-09
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Drama for Yo' Mama is Episode 6 in Season 3 of The Wayans Bros.. It aired on 1996-10-09. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 5: Trippin'
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.
Episode 7: Family Business
A food fight breaks out when Uncle Nate parks his lunch truck across from Pops' diner, taking away his patrons.
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Marlon achieves celebrity status by starring in a series of malt-liquor commercials, but there's trouble brewing when he portrays a ghetto stereotype.
Episode 8: An Officer and a Homegirl
Dee flies off the handle when her sister Natalie thinks about giving up her promising Air Force career to be with airhead Marlon.
Episode 3: Movin' On Up
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.
Episode 9: The Return of the Temptones
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.
Episode 2: Unbrotherly Love
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.
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 1: Grandma's in the Hiz-House
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.
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 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 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.)