Brotherly Love Boned the Fish When...

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The series, set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, starred the Lawrence Brothers (Joey, Matthew, and Andrew) as an older half-brother, two much-younger half brothers, and a widowed mom/step-mom (Melinda Culea). Both stepmother Claire and big brother Joe were naturally take-charge types, and the late father had left Joe one-fourth of his car customizing business, so naturally there was some conflict. Another subplot involved Joe fighting his attraction to Louise "Lou" Davis (Liz Vassey), a female mechanic who worked at the business. The series is about a family of four, Joe, Matt, Andy, and Claire Roman; along with mechanics Lou Davis and Lloyd Burwell (Micheal McShane). They struggle through problems of their own due to running a small-time customizing business. It lasted 2 seasons from 1995-1997. The first season aired on NBC, while the second aired on the WB. After being cancelled, it aired reruns on Disney Channel for five or six years.

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• Other Thoughts:
  
  The show Brotherly Love "never" jumped. I mean, how could it? It had not only *one* Lawrence, not only *two* Lawrence "brothers", but THREE Lawrence "brothers"! THREE! That's three times as many as Blossom had, if my "math" is correct. This show was "as" fly as a Braniff aircraft, before they went "bankrupt", of course. I get tired of all these people "bagging" and (curse word)-ing on Joey Lawrence. You all are just jealous, "okay"! You guys couldn't hack "bein'" Joey Lawrence for one "day"!
  Who are the ad wizards who came up with THIS one? Even Aunt Nell couldn't save it.
  This show never jumped. I loved the sarcasm and I watching the sexual tension between Lou and Joe. This was cute show.
  This show sucked right from the start. Can you honestly tell me you wouldn't have wanted to nail that girl mechanic they had working for them. Joey Lawrence could have but he didn't. Loser. And his annoying little brother? They should have parked one of the cars they were fixing on top of that kid.
  The show is a bore part of Joey Lawrence's I have talent really really really phase. BTW Mr. Lawrence nice post above but you should really let your fans vote on the shows
  A bore from the very start Blossom was a horrible show with a horrible cast so they take the most useless alumni, Mr Lawrence, team him up with his equally untalented sibling (must run in the family) and try to give us a family show worth watching. Good Lord the creators of this show must have been whiting this out of their resumes as soon as it was canceled.
  I used to watch this show all the time! The only problem was that Andy (the little boy) had that ugly haircut that looked like someone put a bowl over his head and then cut it. Yuck! Even now that he is older and is doing movies on Disney, he has saggy man breasts!
  This show was a really good show. The littlest brother was really annoying, but other than that it was a good show. All three of the Lawrence brothers have a lot of talent. I wish that Joe had gotten together with that mechanic before the show ended. If the show had not changed networks to WB, I think that it would've lasted a lot of more seasons.
  Granted the theme song was terribly lame, the rest was pretty decent. They should've shut up about the dead father and did more about Matt - he was fairly interesting. I always wondered what happened with him and that girl he was friends with. The Joe/Lou thing was cool because Lou was the only strong female character that Joe was ever interested in, so he was afraid of her. I think that if the show had been given more of a chance to develop the plot, it could've turned out pretty well.
  This show jumped the shark from day one. Joey Lawrence was so annoying and stuck on himself. The show was corny, and the little brother was so irritating that you just wanted him to disappear.
  Brotherly Love jumped the shark when Jodie Sweetin of Full House guest-starred as a classmate of Matt Lawrence and he wasn't interested in her because of her dorkiness and so he didn't bang her.
  Brotherly Love never jumped. It wasn't on long enough to, for a start. This is yet another brilliant show that was cancelled far too soon. I seem to be one of the few judging from comments here, but I think Joey Lawrence has talent, certainly enough to star in a show like this, anyway, and the same goes for his brothers. My biggest regret with this show is that nothing ever came of the will they/won't they Joe/Lou relationship - my favourite thing about the show. Brotherly Love had so much potential as a show. I'd much rather watch reruns of this than some of the current crap on TV, that's for sure. It should've lasted much longer than it did.
  BROTHERLY LOVE was a gimmick show stretched to the limits of its paper-thin premise. Three real life brothers brought together to play three brothers on a sitcom. I just wish they could have found three brothers who could act. A decent writing staff might have helped also. This show jumped from day one.