FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T WATCH THIS SHOW. I JUST WANT TO GIVE MY IMPUT ON THIS GARBAGE. I DON'T LIKE SHAWN OR MARLON. THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF BUFFOONS WHO MAKE FUN OF BLACK CULTURE. THEY ARE ALWAYS IN SOME NEGATIVE BLACK MOVIE.{REMEMBER DON'T BE A MENACE TO SOCIETY WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE 'HOOD?} NEITHER ONE OF THEM IS ORIGINAL, WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE ALWAYS MAKING PARODIES. I'M SICK OF BLACK PEOPLE LAUGHING AT STUFF LIKE THIS. WE DIDN'T REALLY GET ON TV AND NOTICED UNTIL THE 70'S AND THIS IS THE WAY WE PORTRAY ARE SELVES? THE YOUNGER GENERATION DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SIDNEY POITIER AND HARRY BELEFONTE ETC. ALL THEY KNOW IS STUFF LIKE THIS. COONING IS MORE LIKE IT. IT IS TIME FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO HAVE SOME PRIDE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND STOP EMBRACING GARBAGE LIKE THIS.

And this post is productive.... how?

YES, this post is productive because I said so.

Originally posted by GARFIELDKOOL
THE YOUNGER GENERATION DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SIDNEY POITIER AND HARRY BELEFONTE ETC. ALL THEY KNOW IS STUFF LIKE THIS.

YES, this post is productive because I said so.



Why not post some info on older actors so that some of the younger generation in this forum might be interested in getting to know them? The younger generation might not know where to start. That may be a more productive way of suggesting that people watch something else instead of simply calling this show garbage.

Originally posted by GARFIELDKOOL
IT IS TIME FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO HAVE SOME PRIDE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND STOP EMBRACING GARBAGE LIKE THIS.


I don't know that I'd say this show was embraced by Black people.

I would say this show is embraced by black people because everything the Wayans do, people think it is funny. They coon too much. That is a good idea to do info on older actors. They have to want to. The young generation thinks everything old is bad, and that's not so.

I see your point that this show has a kind of lowest common denominator appeal to it (I think this is true of all of the Wayans family members' projects- at least the successful ones- Damon tried to do a drama about social workers called 413 Hope Street but it ran into political problems at Fox in 1997 and was quickly given the axe)

To enjoy something like this series you have to lower your expectations. Someone embraced this show because it ran for like 100 episodes over 5 seasons, although I wonder if something as crass as this series would make it now. This show ran as long as it did in part because it was the first series to premiere on the WB and that network wanted to establish itself.

What would have been more interesting would have been to keep the basic thrust of 2 adult brothers and a somewhat zany father who runs a diner but cut out the "coonishness" and bathroom and teenage boy type jokes and have more character development. I'm told Marlon can act when he really wants to, although Sean seems more like a limited talent poser than anything else.

:jig: Yay!!!!!! :clap: You saved me the trouble of making my own thread Kool. :lol: ;)

I agree with everything you said!!!!!!!!!

I should have known their would already be a thread addressing this very subject. :lol:

I figured, hey, let me look, chances are there are more WB haters out there. :lol: And I was right!!!!

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And what about that ******** a$$ opening them song in the beginning"WE BROTHERS AND WERE COLORED!!


WTF??

And what about that ******** a$$ opening them song in the beginning"WE BROTHERS AND WERE COLORED!!


WTF??
Colored STUPID!!!! :lol: :crazy:

The Wayans Bros. Season 1 is on DVD and Alice only has a best of set out. :ohno:

The Wayans Bros. Season 1 is on DVD and Alice only has a best of set out. :ohno:
You noticed that crap too? :rolleyes: SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.

Those idiots the Wayans Bros. don't have any film to make a BEST OF DVD.

I haven't really seen enough of it to give my true opinion about the show, but from what i've seen, it was alright. Nothing to dance about.:jig:

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This show was probably the best show that came out of the "WB".I still have yet to see anything good out of the "CW" either.I wouldn't say it's complete crap because it had its funny moments.

You really didn't think "Scary Movie" and "Scary Movie 2" were funny?

This show was probably the best show that came out of the "WB".I still have yet to see anything good out of the "CW" either.I wouldn't say it's complete crap because it had its funny moments.

You really didn't think "Scary Movie" and "Scary Movie 2" were funny?

I didn't watch them. Anything the Wayans do (Shawn and Marlon) does not appeal to me.

I apologize for the title. When I posted this thread, I was new and didn't understand the rules at the time. I wouldn't say the show is crap, but let's just say it is far from my favorite. Had I known the rules back then, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to bash a show I really didn't care about.

As if this board had a lot of activity in the first place. Outside of the miscellaneous boards, Sitcoms Online seems sort of dead these days. D:

It had its funny moments, I'd give it a 6 out of 10.

Totally not true GarfieldKool. One of the funniest, all around feel good shows. The Wayans brothers never fail to make a brother laugh! LOL.

Totally not true GarfieldKool. One of the funniest, all around feel good shows. The Wayans brothers never fail to make a brother laugh! LOL.

I am not a fan of Shawn or Marlon. But, when I posted the thread, I had a different feeling of the show than i do now. It is ok, but I wouldn't say it is crap.

I am not a fan of Shawn or Marlon. But, when I posted the thread, I had a different feeling of the show than i do now. It is ok, but I wouldn't say it is crap.

I know lol. I just talked to you on the PM, so I was partly joking, but was also telling what I thought of it and was seeing if you still thought this way of the show, 4 years later. It's alright, everybody has shows and things they like, and things they don't like. You don't have to like it and I won't make you, just was wondering. :eek: lol.

I see this show 3-4 times a week late at night when I get home from work. I watch it because Shawn and Marlon are great eye candy. IMHO, the comedy is good-natured but mediocre at best. Certainly not the best the Wayans bunch has had to offer. That would be "In Living Color", one of my all time favorite shows-- groundbreaking, innovative, irreverent with a superb emsemble cast and writing, and they made fun of EVERYBODY. Hooray for the Wayans for seeing the humor in the idiosyncrasies of every group and type of people, and then having the courage to show it to the nation. With ILC, the Wayans knocked the chip off everybody's shoulder and kicked political correctness in the pants. Oh for somebody to have the courage to do it today. People need to take a chill pill and let the Wayans do their thing. I admire them for it.

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I liked the show White Mike, Pops, and Dee were all funny characters. Scary Movie 1 and 2 were good films aswell the rest of the trilogy sucked though.

I don't care for this either, but why you mad? If other people like , than they like it.

I couldn't watch the show because the Father and younger son were borderline ********. Actually I;m not sure if Marlon was gay or ********, maybe he was both:lol: :lol:


Shawn was the only normal person on the show

Shawn was the only normal character on this sitcom but he was considered a goody two shoe square by his funny eccentric brother lol, the guy who made this post is right this show is crap but their are some nicely done episodes of this show for example the pilot episode we get to see gary coleman guest star the best scene was gary running around with smoking hair lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LSljsbpJ58

Wow, "Cooning"? That's a bit unfair. They didn't sign up to tear down the race barrier or send rockets to Mars, it's a sitcom.

The jokes were cheap, the situations were fun, it didn't have to be everyone's cup of tea, and people liked it a lot during it's run.

I love the show, but never saw how it ended, I need to investigate.

Most people are not into the cheap ghetto sitcoms that try to hard to be funny its a jump the shark from the start lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBTXyun5iH4

Is "The Wayans Bros" underrated or overrated? (http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=511327)

Wow, "Cooning"? That's a bit unfair. They didn't sign up to tear down the race barrier or send rockets to Mars, it's a sitcom.

The jokes were cheap, the situations were fun, it didn't have to be everyone's cup of tea, and people liked it a lot during it's run.

I love the show, but never saw how it ended, I need to investigate.
I just watched for the first time since it originally aired and I enjoyed it, it does not take itself seriously. I'm going to watch more often.

I liked The Wayans Bros. show. I think GarfieldKool was being too harsh about the show. Marlon is definitely funnier than Shawn but I like them. I met them when they came to Cleveland to promote the show. They came to Randall Park mall which is vacant now and it's been vacant for about 11 years. Marlon recently did a sequel to A Haunted House movie with Cedric The Entertainer and Jamie Pressly who plays his wife. I was thinking about checking it out and I didn't see the first one. I don't really like how Marlon and Shawn make fun of horror movies and black ghetto movies even though I did see Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood movie. Marlon and Shawn need to come up with some new ideas if they wanna continue to do movies. I haven't seen Shawn in awhile. White Chicks was the last movie I saw him in with Marlon.

It is not a troubled-like show like Martin, Living Single, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Parkers, City Guys and The Bernie Mac Show, but it didn't became well-known in popularity.

I would watch it out of boredom, it has funny bits but mostly the jokes are pop culture references that are outdated or sometimes Marlon and/or Shawn would jab insults at each other by using variations on popular celebrities.

I liked this show. I thought it was really funny! And the Wayans brothers (all of them) Damon and Keenen too , are good looking!

IT was an ok show for its time.

I'll watch reruns of it over most of the crap on TV today.

It is not a great urban sitcoms as Martin, Living Single, Jamie Foxx Show and Parkers, but it is not really troublesome as Martin, Living Single, Jamie Foxx Show and Parkers.

I doubt very much that they are playing for a black audience.

EDIT: There is no greater feeling then the feeling one can get from responding to a 13 year old thread. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I agree, this is not as popular as Martin, Living Single, The Jamie Foxx Show and The Parkers at all. It's more like a City Guys garbage type, TBH, IMO.