works at the newsstand John Witherspoon as John "Pops" Williams, Shawn and Marlon's dysfunctional tacky father who owns his locally famed diner right by Shawn and Marlon's newsstand Anna Maria Horsford as Deirdre "Dee" Baxter (seasons 2–5), the tough security guard and Shawn, Marlon and Pops' close friend Lela Rochon as Lisa Saunders (season 1) Paula Jai Parker as Monique (season 2, episodes 1–11) Jill Tasker as Lou Malino (season 2, episodes 1–7) Recurring Phill Lewis as Thelonious "T.C." Capricornio (seasons 2–5) Mitch Mullany as White Mike (season 2) Ja'Net DuBois as Grandma Ellington (seasons 3–4) Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins as Dupree (seasons 3–5) Episodes Production The Wayans Bros. was the first of the four sitcoms that aired as part of the original Wednesday night two hour lineup that helped launch the network (along with Unhappily Ever After, The Parent 'Hood and the short-lived Muscle). While in development, the series' working title was initially supposed to have been Brother to Brother, before the name of the series changed to The Wayans Bros. In the show's second season, in 1995 Pops' Joint (the restaurant owned by Shawn and Marlon's father, John "Pops" Williams) was moved into the Neidermeyer Building, where the location was changed from Harlem to Rockefeller Center, Manhattan. The series was cancelled in 1999 due to declining ratings and was not given a proper finale. While the series at least did not end on a cliffhanger ending, in the film Scary Movie (2000), Shawn Wayans' character says: "And The Wayans Bros. was a good show, man. It was a good-ass show, and we didn't even get a final episode." Theme music and opening sequence The show's official opening title began with Shawn and Marlon on the steps of a brownstone apartment building, donning afros and wearing 1970s preppy attire, moving in rhythm to an accompanying satirical music piece that's supposed to have a 1970s style "urban" sitcom theme song feel. Marlon forcefully smacks the camera, and then segues into "the real opening" of The Wayans Bros. The scene then cuts to them with their normal clothes and trying to help an old woman who gets hit by a bus. The camera then shows the brothers inside the bus with the title of the show underneath them. The "second half" part of The Wayans Bros. theme song was changed twice throughout its four-year run (1995–1999). In the first two seasons, the