- 8.6/1027 votes8.6/10(27)
#1 - Grandma's in the Hiz-House
Season 3 Episode 1
Aired 9/4/1996
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.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1022 votes8.4/10(22)
#2 - Unbrotherly Love
Season 3 Episode 2
Aired 9/11/1996
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.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1017 votes8.1/10(17)
#3 - Movin' On Up
Season 3 Episode 3
Aired 9/18/1996
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.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: Maiya Williams
- 9.0/1027 votes9.0/10(27)
#4 - Gots to Have a J.O.B.
Season 3 Episode 4
Aired 9/25/1996
Marlon achieves celebrity status by starring in a series of malt-liquor commercials, but there's trouble brewing when he portrays a ghetto stereotype.
Director: Glynn Turman
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1017 votes8.4/10(17)
#5 - Trippin'
Season 3 Episode 5
Aired 10/2/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1021 votes8.2/10(21)
#6 - Drama for Yo' Mama
Season 3 Episode 6
Aired 10/9/1996
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.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
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- 7.9/1018 votes7.9/10(18)
#7 - Family Business
Season 3 Episode 7
Aired 10/16/1996
A food fight breaks out when Uncle Nate parks his lunch truck across from Pops' diner, taking away his patrons.
Director: Glynn Turman
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1018 votes8.2/10(18)
#8 - An Officer and a Homegirl
Season 3 Episode 8
Aired 11/6/1996
Dee flies off the handle when her sister Natalie thinks about giving up her promising Air Force career to be with airhead Marlon.
Director: N/A
Writer: Maiya Williams
- 9.2/1038 votes9.2/10(38)
#9 - The Return of the Temptones
Season 3 Episode 9
Aired 11/13/1996
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.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Robert Bruce
- 7.8/1029 votes7.8/10(29)
#10 - Going to the Net
Season 3 Episode 10
Aired 11/20/1996
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.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Dennis Snee
- 7.4/1022 votes7.4/10(22)
#11 - Do the Wrong Thing
Season 3 Episode 11
Aired 11/27/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Bruce
- 7.8/1024 votes7.8/10(24)
#12 - Boyz in the Woods
Season 3 Episode 12
Aired 1/8/1997
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.
Director: Glynn Turman
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1025 votes8.2/10(25)
#13 - Life Without Marlon
Season 3 Episode 13
Aired 1/15/1997
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.)
Director: Terri McCoy
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/1025 votes8.7/10(25)
#14 - Unusual Suspects
Season 3 Episode 14
Aired 1/22/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1027 votes8.3/10(27)
#15 - Goodbye Mr. Gibbs
Season 3 Episode 15
Aired 1/29/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1022 votes8.4/10(22)
#16 - Risky Bid-ness
Season 3 Episode 16
Aired 2/5/1997
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.
Director: Terri McCoy
Writer: Robert Bruce
- 8.7/1024 votes8.7/10(24)
#17 - Pops' Secret
Season 3 Episode 17
Aired 2/12/1997
When Pops starts dressing in fine clothes, closing the diner early and staying out late, Shawn and Marlon suspect the reason is another woman.
Director: Glynn Turman
Writer: Maiya Williams
- 7.9/1033 votes7.9/10(33)
#18 - I Do...
Season 3 Episode 18
Aired 2/19/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Maiya Williams
- 8.2/1017 votes8.2/10(17)
#19 - Dee's Baby Daddy
Season 3 Episode 19
Aired 2/26/1997
Dee delivers a woman's baby, and her maternal instincts surface.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: Maiya Williams
- 8.3/1027 votes8.3/10(27)
#20 - The Black Widower
Season 3 Episode 20
Aired 4/30/1997
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.""
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Bruce
- 8.1/1021 votes8.1/10(21)
#21 - Say It Ain't So Marlon
Season 3 Episode 21
Aired 5/7/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dennis Snee
- 8.6/1023 votes8.6/10(23)
#22 - Marlon Goes On the Road
Season 3 Episode 22
Aired 5/14/1997
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.
Director: Glynn Turman
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Wayans Bros. Season 3
Every episode of The Wayans Bros. Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Wayans Bros. Season 3!
The Wayans Bros. is a situation comedy that aired from January 1995 to May 1999 on The WB. The series starred real-life brothers Shawn and...
Genre:Comedy
Network:The WB
Episodes
22
Avg. Rating
8.3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Grandma's in the Hiz-House" is the best rated episode of "The Wayans Bros." season 3. It scored 8.6/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by Gerren Keith and written by N/A, it aired on 9/4/1996. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Unbrotherly Love".