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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 Marlon Wayans. Both brothers were already well-known from the sketch comedy show In Living Color that aired from 1990 to 1994 on Fox. The series also starred John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford.

Genre:Comedy
Network:The WB

Season 3 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Wayans Bros." season 3 is "Grandma's in the Hiz-House", rated 8.6/10 from 27 user votes. It was directed by Gerren Keith and written by N/A. "Grandma's in the Hiz-House" aired on 9/4/1996 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Unbrotherly Love".

  • Grandma's in the Hiz-House
    8.6/10 27 votes

    #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

  • Unbrotherly Love
    8.4/10 22 votes

    #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

  • Movin' On Up
    8.1/10 17 votes

    #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

  • Gots to Have a J.O.B.
    9.0/10 27 votes

    #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

  • Trippin'
    8.4/10 17 votes

    #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

  • Drama for Yo' Mama
    8.2/10 21 votes

    #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

  • Family Business
    7.9/10 18 votes

    #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

  • An Officer and a Homegirl
    8.2/10 18 votes

    #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

  • The Return of the Temptones
    9.2/10 36 votes

    #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

  • Going to the Net
    7.8/10 29 votes

    #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

  • Do the Wrong Thing
    7.4/10 22 votes

    #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

  • Boyz in the Woods
    7.8/10 24 votes

    #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

  • Life Without Marlon
    8.2/10 25 votes

    #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

  • Unusual Suspects
    9.0/10 24 votes

    #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

  • Goodbye Mr. Gibbs
    8.3/10 27 votes

    #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

  • Risky Bid-ness
    8.4/10 21 votes

    #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

  • Pops' Secret
    8.7/10 24 votes

    #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

  • I Do...
    7.9/10 33 votes

    #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

  • Dee's Baby Daddy
    8.2/10 17 votes

    #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

  • The Black Widower
    8.3/10 27 votes

    #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

  • Say It Ain't So Marlon
    8.1/10 21 votes

    #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

  • Marlon Goes On the Road
    8.6/10 23 votes

    #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