The Wayans Bros.

After In Living Color ended, Marlon Wayans was broke and spent time at home writing on a computer, which led to the creation of what would become The Wayans Bros., built around the real-life chemistry between him and his brother Shawn.

The series was originally developed under the working title Brother to Brother before being renamed The Wayans Bros.

The show was originally intended for NBC, but the network wanted Danny Glover to play the brothers' father instead, so NBC passed on the project.

After NBC rejected the show, it was offered to ABC for a TGIF slot since it was produced by Warner Bros. Television, which made most of ABC's TGIF shows, but ABC did not respond, leading the newly formed WB network to pick it up instead.

The Wayans Bros. was the first of four sitcoms in the original Wednesday night lineup that helped launch The WB network, alongside Unhappily Ever After, The Parent 'Hood, and Muscle.

The series was cancelled in 1999 due to declining ratings without being given a proper series finale, a fact later referenced in the 2000 film Scary Movie, where Shawn Wayans' character breaks the fourth wall to complain that the show never got a final episode.

The show's theme song changed twice during its run: A Tribe Called Quest's 'Electric Relaxation' was used for the first two seasons, replaced by a four-second hip hop beat in season three, then by a hip hop instrumental produced by the Wayans brothers and Omar Epps for the final two seasons.

The opening title sequence originally parodied a 1970s-style 'urban' sitcom, showing Shawn and Marlon in afros and preppy attire on brownstone steps, before Marlon smacks the camera and it cuts to the 'real' modern-day opening.