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Tyler Perry's See the Browns—"The craziest family ever created by Tyler Perry."—Part of the slogan on the Seasons 1-5 Bundle DVD/Blu-Ray Pack on Amazon

Tyler Perry'south See the Brownish'southward is an American sitcom that was created by Tyler Perry as a split up but in-universe spinoff to House of Payne , starring David and Tamela Mann as "Mr. Brown" and "Cora Simmons" respectively. The sitcom is based off of Tyler Perry's 2 previous works, Meet the Browns, the 2008 film, and Meet the Browns, the 2004 stage play. The show initially revolved around Mr. Dark-brown running a senior citizen'due south home in Decatur, Georgia, with his daughter Cora, in honor of his deceased male parent's legacy. All the same, as the bear witness progressed, the show and so became revolved around Mr. Brown and Cora allowing his nephew and her cousin, Dr. William "Will" Brownish (Lamman Rucker), his wife, Sasha (Denise Boutte), and their adoptive children, Brianna (Brianne Gould in Flavour one, Logan Browning in Seasons 2-v) and Joaquin (Gunnar Washington), alive in the firm with them, and the crazy and humorous antics they endeavor on together with diverse friends and neighbors, such as Derek (Robert Ri'chard), Ret. Marines Colonel Cleophus Jackson (Tony Vaughn) whom they just refer to as "Colonel" or "The Colonel", Edna (Juanita Jennings), Daisy La'Rue(Katherine "K" Callan) Jésus (Antonio Jaramillo), Reneé (Terri J. Vaughn), and London Sheraton (Arielle Vandenberg). The testify premiered in January of 2009 and finished its run in Nov of 2011 on TBS after five seasons. The show was second just to Firm of Payne in the largest number of episodes of an African American sitcom on TBS (although non the largest of any African-American sitcom at big), and was one of the the longest running African American sitcoms on TBS. The show is also currently syndicated through the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and the Black Entertainment Tv (BET) Network.

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This show provides examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Joaquin and Brianna's biological mother, Tanya, played by Tasha Smith; whose grapheme is loosely based off of other similar characters played by the same actress in previous works by Tyler Perry.
• Abhorrent Admirer : Tanya to Will; she knows Volition is married to Sasha only always constantly flirts with him and makes advances at him. However Will would hate her and find her disgusting anyway even if he wasn't married.
• Acting Your Intellectual Age: Joaquin plays out this trope sometimes.
• Acting for Ii: Denise Boutte plays every bit both Sasha and her identical cousin in the episode "See the Country Cousin."
• Player Allusion: Whenever Cora sings a Gospel solo on the evidence in some episodes, its almost ever an allusion to Tamela Mann's real life career as a Gospel vocaliser.
  • At the terminate of the episode, "Meet the Sugar Mama", Sasha's extra Denise Boutte pronounces "millions" every bit "MILL-ee-YONS", with heavy accent on the first and terminal syllables and on the heart "i" sound, only she does then intentionally as a pun, as an allusion to the extra who played as Claudia on the episode whose proper noun is Christina Milian. After doing so, David Isle of man and Robert Ri'chard try to keep their composure, until David Mann almost starts corpsing and bursting into laughter. Denise Boutte is also seen smiling and slightly shaking her head, trying to forbid herself from actually laughing out loud as well. This blooper was never edited out of the final cutting.
• Adult Fear : "Meet the Couch Potato", when Will is beingness investigated by his hospital's certification board for allowing ane of his patients to die under his care considering of personal feelings confronting him, he fears that they will question Sasha equally a witness, and she is afraid of how he volition react depending on how she responds to the interrogation. She eventually ends up telling the truth of everything she heard him say during the operation while the said patient was in the emergency room in the ICU, which leads to his suspension. He is eventually reinstated.

  • "Meet the Wills", when Sasha is diagnosed with a tumor on her breasts, she and the family have fears about whether or not she should seek traditional cancer treatment. She later finds out the tumor was benign.
  • "Run across the Lessons", Will and Sasha are worried that Brianna may be sexually active when they notice nascence command pills in Brianna'due south room.
  • "Meet the Thief", the characters get understandably concerned and afraid when a contempo rash of burglaries take place throughout their neighborhood. It is revealed later on in the episode that it was actually Brianna's best friend, Jamal, who was committing the burglaries, non-violently of grade, because him and his mother had lost their abode and were temporarily forced to live in their family auto.
  • "Meet the Form", Cora has fears and doubts almost becoming a substitute instructor. However, she somewhen becomes a full-fledged teacher at one of the local high schools in Season 2.

• Age-Gap Romance: Sasha's mother dates a man half her age in one episode. Even though she is not elderly, she is at least in her late fifty's or early on 60's, and her immature boyfriend is just in his mid-to-tardily xx's.
• Ageless Birthday Episode: Edna, Mr. Brown, Cora, Joaquin, Sasha, Reggie, and Will all get their own special Birthday episodes, but their new ages are never revealed.

  • Brianna does go her ain special Birthday Episode too only it is revealed that she is turning 18 in her episode.
  • Used with Forgotten Birthday and Surprise Party with Mr. Brown, Edna, Sasha, Reggie, Cora and Brianna

• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Will and Sasha to Brianna and Joaquin sometimes. Mr. Brown is also this way to Cora a lot, fifty-fifty though she is a grown adult.
• Ambiguously Christian : Although most of the characters of the show are either professing or strongly devout Baptist Christians, a few of the characters, such as Brianna, Joaquin (although this is understandable for them because they are young adolescents and may not have strongly developed views either for or confronting religion themselves apart from following Christianity along with the rest of the family),Renee, Jésus, Daisy, London, and diverse others seem to be or are implied to be Christians, but they do not express strongly religious views. Some of them are even seen going to church, only is only considering they become with their family unit out of obligation, and sometimes it is just for special events like funerals or weddings.
• An Aesop: Sometimes some of the characters acquire different Aesop Legend-like morals and life lessons in many different episodes
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Joaquin tends to human activity this way towards Brianna.
• All-Loving Hero: Virtually often Cora, Justified because of her deep Christian beliefs. Sometimes Mr. Brown.
• Attention Whore : Tied between London Sheraton and Daisy La'Rue. Mr. Brownish can also exist ane at times.
• Writer Appeal: Tyler Perry often put many references and allusions to African-American Baptist and Pentecostal Christianity and African-American Baptist and Pentecostal Churches in the serial because of his personal Baptist Christian beliefs.
• Axes at School: In the episode "Meet the Troublemaker," a schoolhouse bully terrorizes one of Cora's students so much that he brings a gun to the school to threaten to murder him in Cora's grade. Cora eventually calms him down and gets the bully to apologize to him but the male child who brings the gun to the school is eventually turned over to the police.
• Chivalrous Boss: Sasha who is the head nurse of the local Grady Hospital on the series that Renee, Will, Derek, and Mr. Brown work at, tries to be a benevolent boss to her employees, almost notably Renee, who is besides her all-time friend.
• Best Friend: Brianna with Jamal and Simone, Mr. Brown and The Colonel and sometimes Derek, Cora with Sasha and Edna. As well, Sasha with Renee.
• Bribery and "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Played for Laughs. Happens in a plethora of episodes but most notably with Derek and Brianna "Run into the Fake ID."
• Big Blood brother Cracking: Downplayed, Brianna sometimes does this to Joaquin just because she is older, but she isn't obnoxious with it.
• Large, Stupid Doodoo-Head: Mr. Dark-brown and Edna whenever they get into an insult state of war. They sometimes drift off into Lame Comebacks.
• Bratty Half-Pint : Subverted, sometimes you lot remember Joaquin will exist like this, but actually turns out to exist more of an Adorably Precocious Child than anybody thinks.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Brianna. And sometimes her female person best friend, Simone.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Occurs in several episodes along with some "theatrical asides" too.
• Keen Hunter and The Bully : "Meet the Bully." Episode where Joaquin has to use Mr. Chocolate-brown's assist to stand up to a bully from school; the swell eventually makes a Heel–Face Turn, while Mr. Brown tries to fight the nifty'southward father and almost loses.
• Burger Fool : Brianna in the episode, "Meet the Patience."
• Butt-Monkey : Mr. Chocolate-brown. Sometimes Derek, Jésus, and London Sheraton.
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: Lampshaded. "See the Deception." When Mr. Brown is harassed by an overzealous neb collector for the ability company that provides the business firm's electricity, he ultimately fails to pay the bill and the electricity gets turned off at the terminate of the episode. Mr. Chocolate-brown and Cora then shine dimly lit flashlights in their faces in the dark, and only the summit half of their faces are illuminated.

  (Later on the house lights have gone out and the power is off)

  Cora & Mr. Brown both dramatically shriek in fear

  Mr. Brown: (apologetically and dramatically) Cora, I'grand lamentable, I forgot to pay the low-cal bill.

  Cora: (angrily) Oh, Mr. Brown! What in the world!? How could you!?!

  (Mr. Chocolate-brown then takes a flashlight that was sitting side by side to them on the coffee tabular array in front of the couch that he had been playing with earlier, and shines the flashlight in his face from his chin and then shines it at Cora.)

  (Cora then takes another flashlight that was also sitting on the coffee table and shines it on her own face from her chin.)

  Mr. Dark-brown: (playfully) Hey Cora, we look like we on those cartoons on Boob tube where when the people be in the dark and you lot tin can merely encounter their optics on the Black screen.

  Cora: (angrily) That's not funny Mr. Chocolate-brown!

  (Brianna and Joaquin then dramatically and suddenly appear behind the couch also shining flashlights on their faces besides, to scare Mr. Brown and Cora.)

  Brianna & Joaquin together: BOO! (Brianna and Joaquin so both laugh)

  (Mr. Brown & Cora flinch violently and shriek in fearfulness from being startled; Mr. Brown jumps and so difficult that he drops his flashlight.)

  Cora: (laughing) Okay at present that was a little chip funny!

  (Cora, Joaquin, and Brianna then share one last laugh as the episode ends.)

• Campsite Straight: Downplayed. Sometimes Mr. Brown and Derek.
• Cast Incest: Mr. Chocolate-brown and Cora's characters are played by real life Gospel singers and married man and married woman couple, David and Tamela Isle of man, even though they play as male parent and girl in the series.
• Catchphrase: Mr. Brown's 4 famous catchphrases that he says in almost every episode of the show along with his malaprops are:
  • "The Devil is a Liar!"
  • "STOP BEING NASTY!"
  • "What the What!?"
  • "Same thing!/It's the aforementioned thing!"
    • (This is usually in response to when people correct him for his malaprops and/or mispronounciations and manglings of different words and phrases.)
  • Also used with Borrowed Catchphrase, because Mr. Brownish says "What the what!?" and so much, that even the other characters on the show who would otherwise use real swear words like "Hell" and "Damn" sometimes say "What the What!?" similar Mr. Brownish.
• Character Development : Brianna's character exemplifies this as she goes through the series. In Seasons i-2, she goes through the series as a mean ass bowwow, who'southward an overly sarcastic dumbass, and as the typical spoiled Bratty Teenage Daughter with a side of rude, cross and troublesome Hormone-Addled Teenager. This is justified however considering she did come up from an abusive, crime-ridden family and was tossed in and out of different foster homes. Withal, from Season 3 onward to the concluding Flavor 5, she grows into a more mature teenager and young adult who actually tries to be responsible and testify mature love and respect to her family and friends. By Season v, she has actually grown into a very good, model citizen teenager with a heart of gold.
  • The Colonel and Edna: Both of them start out the series as beingness like Dirty Former Man, Grumpy Quondam Man, and Mrs. Robinson-esque type characters respectively, merely equally the series goes on, they become much more loving, nicer, well-rounded, and complex characters and show off their heart of gold with their friends and family unit.
• Christmas Episode : "Meet the Christmas Spirit"
  • Used with Angel Unaware, when Joaquin meets and befriends a boy at the hospital and later finds out that the male child had died years ago.
  • Special Guest: Lavan and Cassi Davis from House of Payne guest star in this episode.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: A few of the characters from Season i and Flavour 2, about notably like the social worker lady, Carmen Martinez, who helped Volition and Sasha to adopt Brianna and Joaquin in Season 1, Milo from Cora's schoolhouse, and Dr. Troy.
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": This happens often with Mr. Brown, Edna, and The Colonel because they are elderly.
• Absurd Teacher: Cora generally tries to exist a cool, lovable, and lenient teacher with her students, although she is a bit stricter with the unruly ones.

  • Bad Donkey Teacher : Cora becomes this in the episode "Encounter the Grade" when 1 of the school's toughest students, Angie, gives her a run for her coin through her extreme aggressiveness and manipulation.

• Convenient Miscarriage: When Sasha gets pregnant and has a miscarriage.
• Continuity Nod: In many episodes Mr. Chocolate-brown, Will, Sasha, and Cora make allusions and references to older, previous works by Tyler Perry and characters from those older works, most notably like Madea, since she is one of Mr. Brown's quondam love–interests–turned–enemy, and Cora's biological mother.
  • Too used with Serial Continuity Fault in many episodes because sometimes Mr. Brown and Cora say things or accept flashbacks in reference to the plots and characters of earlier plays and movies by Tyler Perry, but sometimes their statements and memories are actually canonical contradictions.
    • One instance is when Mr. Brown and Cora are retelling old memories of their late father and grandad, Popular Chocolate-brown, and Cora is actually seen in the flashbacks equally having a close relationship with Popular Brown as her grandad. Nevertheless, in several plays and movies past Tyler Perry concerning Cora'south relationship with Mr. Brown, Cora is actually stated to have never known Mr. Brownish'southward father personally or closely, and information technology is even stated in one stage play that she never met him while he was live. In both the 2004 stage play and the 2008 motion picture, both of the same name, Cora's first time actually seeing her grandfather is at his funeral.
• Corpsing/Contagious Laughter: In the episode "Encounter the H.B.I.C.", when the Brown family accidentally thinks there is a fire in the house, they scramble effectually panicking and London tries to do stop, drop, and roll (even though she'south not actually on fire). They discover out that information technology was never actually a burn down but but Cora'south pound cake burning in the oven. A little while afterwards subsequently everything has calmed downwards, London is yet rolling beyond the flooring, doing cease-drop-and-roll. Sasha then laughs at London get-go (and laughs the hardest), then Cora laughs, and then Mr. Dark-brown starts laughing and giggling at London as well until finally Mr. Brown opens up the French style lawn door in the kitchen, and tells London to keep rolling beyond the floor and roll outside to the lawn. Denise Boutte is laughing so hard that she tin can't even get back into grapheme and the rest of the characters (David and Tamela Mann) express mirth with her until the episode ends.
• Absurd Onetime Guy: Sometimes Mr. Brown and The Colonel.
• Absurd One-time Lady: Edna and sometimes Daisy La'Rue
• Clothing Reflects Personality: Mr. Brown often wears vividly brilliant colored outfits, that are commonly simply exotic and brightly colored 1970's looking jumpsuits, but he wears them on purpose, despite their flamboyance and tackiness, considering they represent his foreign and unconventional personality; tin be compared to Custom Uniform and Distinctive Appearances.
• Cloudcuckoolander : Mr. Dark-brown, considering of his eccentric and weird behaviors, mannerisms, and his often dumb just lovable malapropisms.
• Dating Service Disaster: In the episode, "Meet your Match," Mr. Brown and Edna effort to use an online dating service to help Cora find a romantic interest. This ends badly.
• Dawson Casting : Brianna'due south actress, Logan Browning. Logan Browning was 21 years old when she started portraying Brianna in Season 2 and her character Brianna is just betwixt xv-16 in Season 2, and between 17-xviii from Season three onward. Past Season 5, Brianna'southward character who is about to graduate high school has just turned 18, and Logan Browning in real life was 23 years onetime by the end of Season five.
• Deep Due south: The show takes place in Decatur, Georgia, which is a city in the Fulton County of Atlanta.
• Don't Split Usa Up: Before their adoption is finalized, Joaquin and Brianna most get separated from each other.
• Don't Touch on It, You Idiot! : Played Directly — In the episode, "Meet the Couch Potato," when Mr. Brown gets a job as the hospital janitor, he is told by his supervisor to be particularly conscientious effectually a prized bust of an aboriginal Greek historical figure that was donated to the infirmary and by no means to bear upon it. He is so given a big flooring buffer by his supervisor to make clean the infirmary lobby and waiting room with, but he accidentally rams the floor buffer into the podium the bosom was on and it comes crashing down, shattering on the floor. He pays Derek, his neighbor to gear up information technology, and the bust really gets repaired decently enough to the bespeak where it looks like nothing happened to it, only ironically Brown's supervisor himself breaks it once again.
• Deadpan Snarker: Often Renee, sometimes The Colonel and Edna.
• December–December Romance : Colonel Jackson and Edna fall in dear and get married when they are both elderly and retired, presumed to be over the age of 70.
• Detention Episode : Mr. Chocolate-brown and Darnell attempt to make detention fun for the students in the episode "Meet the Old Fling."
• Dirty Old Human being : Downplayed; sometimes The Colonel.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Sometimes Played for Laughs or Played for Drama. It is unremarkably Played for Laughs with Mr. Brown and Cora, and sometimes Edna and The Colonel. On the contrary, it is also usually Played For Drama when information technology comes to the conflicts between Will and Sasha or them and their adoptive children.
• The Ditz : Mr. Brown more often than not, but sometimes London Sheraton, Simone, and Reggie.
• Drama Queen: Mr. Brown, Volition, Cora, and Sasha. Sometimes Brianna and Edna.
• Election Day Episode: "Meet the Church Board;" Cora and Mr. Brown compete against each other to run for a position on their local church's laity and clergy quango.
• Exported Graphic symbol : Tanya, Joaquin and Brianna'south biological mother, who is plainly and deliberately based on Tasha Smith's older characters from previous works by Tyler Perry. This is lampshaded a few times throughout the series with actor allusions to her actress Tasha Smith.
• Fatty Comic Relief: Mr. Brownish tin be considered this sometimes. Although he is a chief character, sometimes some of his actions and dialogue when he interacts with other characters on the testify when he'south not the main focus of the plot makes him seem and human activity more than like the fatty Barrel-Monkey comic relief of the testify more than a main graphic symbol at times.
  • In the episode "Meet the H.B.I.C.":

    Mr. Dark-brown: LONDON End IT, WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE You DOING, WHY YOU KEEP HITTING ME!?!

    (London laughs)

    London: 'Cuz yous're so squishy, it's like punching a soft cuddly squishy pillow!

    (She continues to exercise so until Mr. Brown yells at her to terminate again.)

  • Another example in that aforementioned episode:

    (Mr. Brown tries to teach Brianna and Joaquin about having a safety plan for if an emergency happens at the business firm and he tries to teach them stop, drop, and roll.)

    Mr. Brownish: So what y'all need to do is if the house ever catch on burn and if y'all or your apparel always catch on burn down, get downwards on the flooring or on the ground like this (he gets downwards on his easily and knees) and then lie downwardly on the floor (he lies down on the ground on his stomach) and just ringlet over similar this!

    (While he is demonstrating it with Joaquin and Brianna, Joaquin is lying on the ground downward adjacent to him trying to imitate him. However, Mr. Brownish accidentally rolls over on pinnacle of Joaquin, and does then twice, not realizing he is rolling over on pinnacle of him.)

    Mr. Dark-brown: What in the globe was that big lump I just rolled over on top of? (He turns and looks over at Joaquin, down on the ground unconscious and panics) (frightened and panicked yelling): OH LORD I DONE SQUASHED JOACOMB [Joaquin] to death! Brianna! Brianna assist him! Wake him up!

    (Joaquin wakes up and takes a deep breath from regaining consciousness)

    Mr. Brown: (relieved) Oh, okay never mind he good.

• Fake Relationship: In the episode: "Come across the Pretend Hubby," Edna asks Mr. Brown to pretend to be her married man when an quondam friendly acquaintance visits the Brown Business firm. She and Mr. Brown try to pretend to be a happy couple until Mr. Chocolate-brown has finally had enough pretending and exposes the truth.
• Flanderization: Mr. Chocolate-brown initially starts off as a more than reasonable and logical man at the outset of the series, although some of his quips and mannerisms are still quite foolish and eccentric. However as the show progresses, his weird quirks and his often stupid and unwise decision-making and statements eventually becomes who he is equally the primary character.
• Fainting: The Colonel has a heart attack and faints during he and Edna'southward starting time wedding. This could be considered an instance of Truth in Television, as although it is non always mutual, sometimes people do faint when they have heart attacks because of lack of blood menstruum to the brain.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Played Straight, Joaquin is the responsible one, Brianna is the foolish i. Sometimes this is inverted where Joaquin becomes the foolish sibling, and Brianna becomes the responsible 1, simply it is ordinarily the onetime.
• Foreign Cuss Word: In the episode, "Meet the Seoul Sister," with The Colonel'south ex-romantic involvement from Seoul, Republic of korea.
• Friendly Enemy : Played for Laughs, Mr. Brown with Edna and Reggie. Sometimes plays into Worthy Opponent.
• Family unit-Friendly Stripper: Subverted in " Encounter the Bump and Grind" when Derek accidentally hires a stripper for the Colonel's Bachelor Party, but she never actually does annihilation, as it was supposed to be a pocket-sized, Christian-themed bachelor party.

• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Justified and Enforced. I of Mr. Brown's catchphrases is "What the What!?" Usually in most contexts, people would say "What the Hell?!" or "What the F-Flop!?" to express acrimony or displeasure or daze, only because of Mr. Brown'south devout Christian organized religion, and because of the show being vaguely and ambiguously Christian in certain aspects, Mr. Brownish usually only says "What the What!?" He says it and then much that even the other characters on the testify who do normally cuss with words like "Hell" and "Damn" sometimes resort to just maxim "What the what?" similar Mr. Brown.
• The Ghost: Pop Brown, Mr. Brown's father and Cora's granddad who is mentioned and referred to obsessively and extensively in many anecdotes by Mr. Dark-brown. There is a painting of him on the wall in their firm. This can be considered Killed Offscreen, every bit he did dice before the events of the show occur.
  • Too Mr. Brown'southward deceased wife, who is mentioned and referenced merely also dies long before the events of the show occur. Withal, she is non Cora'due south female parent, as she and Mr. Chocolate-brown had no children together and died never having been able to give Mr. Brown any children. Cora is the girl of Mable "Madea" Simmons, whom Mr. Brown temporarily hooked up with on their high school prom night and had an unplanned pregnancy from.
  • Mabel "Madea" Simmons, Cora's biological mother, could be considered a ghost character as well, considering she is referred and alluded to in many episodes by Mr. Chocolate-brown and Cora, but is never actually seen onscreen.
• Ghost Extras : There are many of them in almost all of the episodes from Season ii to Season 5, at the local Grady Hospital that Will and Sasha work at, and at the local high school that Cora works at. Sometimes the main characters do interact with them, but they don't have any lines of actual dialogue.
• G-Rated Drug : "Meet the Intervention": Mr. Brown becomes fond to playing the lottery and causes the gang to have to stage an intervention.
• God Is Good: Information technology's a partially Christian-themed show from Tyler Perry...what did you expect?
• Halloween Episode: Averted in the episode "Meet the Hero," nosotros only know it is a Halloween episode considering Brianna and Jamal sneak into a Halloween-themed costume political party with Joaquin, however this is but used in the subplot of the episode. Likewise, the political party itself is only mentioned as a "Halloween-Themed" party, hinting at the fact that it may accept been in the month of Oct but not actually the Halloween holiday itself.
• Heel–Face Turn: Many of the troublesome and delinquent students that offset off equally Jerkass characters (mostly considering they are hormone-addled teenagers), later on get well-behaved and well-rounded students thanks to Cora being like a Mentor Archetype to them.
  • Wiggle with a Center of Aureate: Tanya does eventually have a slight Heel-Face Plow and does eventually repent and reconcile with Brianna, Joaquin, Will and Sasha, and asks them to forgive her for all the problem she caused them. She plays into the Subconscious Center of Gold trope with information technology, and does try to come back into their life to be a meliorate mom, briefly before she relinquishes her ties to them so that Will and Sasha can accept full custody.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Brianna to the max.
• Honorary Uncle/Absurd Uncle: Mr. Brown, The Colonel, Edna, and Cora all play into this trope with the mode they treat Sasha, Brianna, Joaquin, and their other younger friends and relatives who either live at or oft visit the Dark-brown Firm, similar cool, honorary aunts and uncles. However when it comes to Mr. Chocolate-brown and Will specifically, Mr. Brown is really his biological uncle on his mom'southward side.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners : Brianna and her female person all-time friend, Simone. Also sometimes Mr. Brownish and The Colonel.
• Happily Adopted: Most of the unabridged series storyline from Seasons 2-v is about Joaquin and Brianna adapting to being adopted into the aberrant Brown association, although they are happy and satisfied with beingness adoptive members of the Brown Family unit.
• Happily Married : Will and Sasha, and Edna and the Colonel.
• Holier Than Thou : Downplayed. Although well-nigh of the characters of the show profess to exist Baptist Christians, Mr. Chocolate-brown and Cora Simmons are the near devout and religious of all the characters, simply they do not take it to the extremes of fanaticism or obsession.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Brianna will ofttimes play into this trope when information technology comes to people mistreating and disrespecting her piddling brother, Joaquin, her adoptive parents, Will and Sasha, or Cora or Mr. Dark-brown (especially those 5 characters in particular), however when the family is at home, she oftentimes acts like a Jerkass and a Lovable Alpha Bitch to the family. Can exist compared to Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• Hypno Fool: In the episode, "Run into the Makeover", Mr. Brown acts as a magician to put on a magic show for Joaquin and his friends after he breaks their video game panel. This ends upwards with Joaquin and his friends using his magic tricks against him to prank him. He also tries to utilize hypnosis on Brianna and accidentally hypnotizes her to start interim like him whenever she hears her name or Mr. Brown's proper name. This causes her to start hypnotically imitating Mr. Brown's personality, signature quotes and catchphrases, and mannerisms, and she even starts dressing like him until Cora and Mr. Brown intervene to correct the hypnosis.
• Identity Amnesia: "Meet the Change Ego", Played with Easy Amnesia, Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-Guided Amnesia, and Split Personality. Mr. Chocolate-brown slips and falls at the local hospital he works at and when he recovers from the autumn, it causes him to have a temporary personality alter into a smarter, more intellectual and erudite alter ego. The characters have to help him become his memories of his real personality dorsum.
• Identical Grandson: Exaggerated and Played For Laughs. In one episode where Mr. Dark-brown and Cora tell the rest of the characters who alive in the Brown House nigh Brown's late father and Cora's grandfather, Pop Dark-brown, David Mann plays as Mr. Brown'south male parent in the flashbacks. Meet The Ghost trope section above.
• The Klutz: Mr. Dark-brown 90% of the time, sometimes Derek, The Colonel, and Reggie.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode starts out with "Meet the X" or "Run into X" because of the series title, "Meet the Brownish's".
• Informed Obscenity: In the episode "Meet the Seoul Sister", and in a few other episodes.
• Jesus Taboo : Averted, almost of the main and recurring characters are professing or strongly devout Baptist Christians, then references to God and Jesus and the Bible are made sometimes, but non obsessively.
• Lighter and Softer : Run into The Brownish'southward was ane of Tyler Perry'south much more than softer and lighter-hearted Television receiver serial, peculiarly compared to "Firm of Payne" (which even though it was a sitcom, it had a reputation for ofttimes drifting off into being a nighttime and edgy dramedy soap opera), "The Haves and the Have Nots", and "For Amend or Worse", which feature much more Darker and Edgier content.
• The Living Expressionless: In the episode, "Encounter the Torso," one of the elderly men that Edna tries to take sex with in the Brown residence after previously going on a appointment with him, dies from a eye attack during their intercourse, and her and the other characters try to disguise the corpse from Mr. Dark-brown until the coroner and paramedics come to pick up the body. Mr. Brown eventually figures out that it was a dead corpse though, and reveals that he was just playing along to make them think he was oblivious to it the whole time. The actor who was playing every bit the dead corpse was obviously seen changing facial expressions and animate throughout the scenes, although he did stay very nonetheless as the other actors moved him around.
• Locked in a Room : Mr. Dark-brown and Reggie become locked in the storage closet of the high schoolhouse they piece of work at with Cora in the episode, "Run across the Instigator."
• Love Triangle : Occurs in several episodes with Cora, Reggie, and Principal Gordon.
• Malaproper: This trope DEFINES Mr. Brown to the MAX! Almost every other sentence from Mr. Brown'south character on the show contains at least one or ii malaprops/malapropisms that usually either A. Leaves the characters dislocated as to what he means until they realize what he was really trying to say, or B. When another character corrects him, he retorts sarcastically past saying, "Oh, it'south the aforementioned affair!"
  • An instance is in the episode "Meet the Large Payoff" when Mr. Brown's cousin Clementine "Clem" Dark-brown (played by Rodney Perry) visits, Mr. Brown confuses the give-and-take "Invest" with "Incest", and "Stocks and Bonds" with "Socks and Balls."

    Clem: I really hope y'all mean "invest."

    Mr. Brown: Yeah that, same matter. Simply look, I have some good socks and balls that I'yard willing to invest with yous on too.

    Clem: Y'all hateful "stocks and bonds"?

    Mr. Chocolate-brown: Yes, aforementioned thing.

  • Another example is in "Meet the H.B.I.C."

    (Mr. Brown goes outside to the lawn to piece of work out and exercise until he sees London working out and exercising in the backyard.)

    Mr. Brown: Uhh, London you know this is my personal space out here in the lawn to work out and get some fresh air, what you doing out here?

    London: Sorry Mr. Chocolate-brown I merely needed to borrow it for a while because I merely wanted to come outside to get some fresh air and piece of work on my core.

    (Mr. Brown looks around confused.)

    Mr. Brown: I thought your core [automobile] was parked outside.

    London: No, I'm doing pilates.

    Mr. Brown: Well I don't know most none of those strange cars, I only practice U.S.-made cars and stuff.

    London: No, Mr. Brown, I'grand working on my body core doing this type of exercise called Pilates. Do you wanna join me?

    Mr. Brown: Well I guess, yeah sure, show me how to practise the pilates. I commonly just come out here to do push-ups and jumping jacks, and jogging in place.

    Mr. Brown: LONDON, WHAT IN THE World ARE YOU DOING, WHY YOU KEEP Striking ME!?

    (London laughs) London: 'Cuz you're and so squishy, it's like punching a soft cuddly squishy pillow!

• Moral Guardians: Cora often acts this way towards the residual of the characters serving equally their moral compass who tries to steer them in the right management. But she is non always 100% holy herself.
• Minor Injury Overreaction : In the episode, "Meet the Eastward.R.", Mr. Brown almost gets shot during a robbery at a convenience store to pick up some food, but the gunshot wound is just a pocket-size graze wound, no more a minor peel abrasion. Yet, Mr. Brown goes into a berserk fit screaming and crying from the injury as if a chunk of his leg and buttocks were blown off.
• Misunderstood Loner with a Middle of Gold: The elderly female person neighbor who keeps coming over to the Brownish house because of her loneliness (she'due south a widow, and her kids accept likewise all either died or moved away leaving her to alive by herself) starts creeping the Brown family out equally she offers to do certain chores and cook meals for them, but they somewhen realize she just wanted to befriend them all along and that she wasn't every bit weird or creepy every bit they idea. In the episode "Run across the Patience."
• Mrs. Robinson: Often zig-zagged with Edna.
• Manipulative Bounder : Mr. Brown sometimes concocts plans to separate Cora from Reggie and The Colonel from Edna, simply he usually ends upwardly dramatically apologizing and finding some kind of way to make it upwards to them and make amends for his actions.
• Nightmare Sequence: "Encounter the Nightmare," the entire episode is almost Mr. Brownish having a recurring nightmare about Edna, who tends to act like a frenemy archrival to him throughout the series, trying to kiss him. Plays into Catapult Nightmare, All Just a Dream, and Dream Reality Check.
• Nobody's That Dumb: Double Subverted. Mr. Brownish is not ever as dumb equally the rest of the characters thinks he is. Sometimes he does have his moments of Too Dumb to Fool, Dumbass Has a Point, and Obfuscating Stupidity, making you think the Nobody'southward That Dumb trope will occur in Mr. Brown'due south favor, simply ordinarily this is subverted again to only show that he really is as dumb equally the residue of the characters thinks he is.
  • This often causes the other characters to take I Can't Believe I'm Saying This moments with Mr. Brown
    • Cora and Mr. Brown sometimes take Nobody's That Dumb moments with Reggie. Lampshaded in ane episode when Cora and Mr. Brownish really said the phrase to each other regarding Reggie.
• No Theme Tune : The series has no theme vocal, merely does have a very short Jazz and Blues Music-sounding sting that is played at the beginning of each episode.
• Only Sane Woman : Cora, Sasha, and sometimes Edna.
• Obnoxious In-Laws : Although Cora and Reggie don't go married, Mr. Brownish being Cora'south father frequently acts rudely, selfishly, and disrespectfully towards Reggie because of his dislike of him. Mr. Brown sometimes becomes a big jerk considering of information technology. Also, Will'southward mother and Mr. Brown'south sister, Vera to Sasha.
• The Other Darrin : Brianna's graphic symbol is initially played past actress Brianne Gould, but Brianne Gould was pulled from the evidence for undisclosed reasons at the terminate of Flavour 1. Logan Browning was then brought in to play Brianna from Season 2 onward.
• Pædo Hunt: The entire episode of "Run across the Undercover" is about Joaquin's Little League baseball game jitney existence a pedophile who tries to make manipulative advances towards the young boys on Joaquin'southward baseball team. He is afterward arrested, put in jail and charged for his crimes, despite Will, The Colonel, Mr. Brown, and Derek trying to hunt him downwardly and shell him up, but in the episode "Meet the Great Guy" he is rushed to the hospital Will and Sasha work at, and ends up dying in Will's intendance. Will is subsequently charged with wrongdoing and malpractice for it because information technology is believed that he immune him to dice because of his personal resentment against him, leading to a temporary intermission in the episode "Meet the Burrow Irish potato."
• Precocious Crush: In the episode "Encounter the Cougars" Brianna's friend Pablo has a crush on both Brianna and Sasha, Brianna's adoptive mother. Also a younger homo named Bryce (presumed to be in his 20's or xxx's) has a shell on Edna and treats her equally a cougar because of the age difference.
• Platonic Life-Partners : Brianna with her best friend Jamal; can exist compared to The Not-Love Interest.
• Playing Gertrude: Mr. Brown's character is supposed to exist an elderly man at least in a higher place the historic period of 65 or lxx. The actor who plays every bit Mr. Brown in the series, David Mann, is over 30 years younger than his character role in real life. And Tamela Isle of mann who plays as his daughter Cora in the serial is the same age as David Isle of man in real life.
  • Another case of that is Brianna and Sasha'south actresses, Denise Boutte and Logan Browning. Boutte played as Sasha's adoptive mom on the show, and is supposed to exist at least in her late 30's or just getting into her early on 40's in age throughout the show. Browning played as Brianna who was a teenager between xv-18 throughout the bear witness. In existent life, Denise Boutte is merely viii years older than Logan Browning.
    • An exception to this is Lamman Rucker who played equally Sasha's husband, Brianna's adoptive begetter, and Mr. Brown's nephew, Will. In real life, Rucker is 10 years older than Denise Boutte, and 18 years older than Logan Browning.
• Prison Episode: "Run into London and the Contest"; Mr. Brownish goes to jail after a misunderstanding at the local Atlanta drome.
• Plucky Comic Relief; Renee and sometimes Mr. Brown.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Brianna and sometimes Joaquin.
• Put on a Bus: Played Directly. Many of the pocket-sized and recurring characters on the show that started out in Seasons i-two, disappear later Season 2 and from Flavour 3 onward, merely what happens to them is usually briefly explained or hinted at past other main characters in an allusory dialogue with other characters.
  • Some of the characters actually practice get removed from the prove through Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, see info on this above.
• The Bus Came Back: Jésus, London, Daisy La'Rue, and at one point, Edna and The Colonel before they were promoted to main characters.
• Rich Bitch: Downplayed and Played for Laughs. Sometimes London Sheraton plays into this trope, because she is the girl of a very rich CEO and business organization entrepreneur.
• Riches to Rags: In the episode, "Meet the Wills," London finds out her rich, CEO business entrepreneur father has lost most of his wealth through bad investments and legal penalties for fraud and white collar, financial crimes, and ergo she has to stay at the Brown House and learn how to be thrifty. She decides to do this through having a yard sale/garage sale and learning how to exist "lower middle form," and also getting a task. She really does proceed her job through several episodes.
• Retroactive Recognition: Tamela Mann'due south Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music career was partially made famous because of the glory stardom she acquired from acting in different plays, movies, and TV shows by Tyler Perry.

  • This also occured with David Mann, Logan Browning, and Denise Boutte.

• Same Wearing apparel, Different Yr: Played Straight. In one episode where Mr. Brown and Cora tell the rest of the characters who alive in the Brown House about Brown'southward late father and Cora's grandfather, Pop Brown (run into The Ghost trope section higher up) through a series of flashbacks, Mr. Brown and Cora's younger versions are played past younger child and teen actors who wear the same types of clothes as their older canon selves would wear. This is also used with Identical Grandson.
• Saintly Church building : The Church that the Brown family, particularly Cora, Mr. Brown, Edna, and The Colonel, goes to.
• Showdown at High Noon : Mr. Chocolate-brown and Derek in the episode, "Meet The Other Side," when they are vying for the new Head Janitor'due south Assistant position at the hospital.
• Sassy Black Woman: Played Direct with Renee, Sasha, and sometimes Cora and Edna.
• Slapstick : Happens in a lot of episodes with Mr. Chocolate-brown, Cora, Will, Sasha, Brianna London Sheraton, Joaquin, and sometimes Edna and The Colonel.
• Slapstick Knows No Gender: Sasha, Brianna and London Sheraton are often targets of the slapstick violence and injuries on the show.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts : Will and Sasha, Edna and the Colonel, and Cora with Reggie.
• Some of My Best Friends Are X: Inverted version of the Black Best Friend trope. Since most of the characters are African-American, sometimes some of them will have one or two White friends or acquaintances, but its usually a one-off grapheme who only appears in one or two episodes.
• Special Guest : Eddie Levert guest starred on the episode "See the Reunion" as a parodied version of himself, but his parodied version of himself was an quondam high school classmate of Mr. Brown. Compare to Celebrity Star.
  • Reginald Vel-Johnson, known from Family Matters, guest starred on the episode "Meet the Baby Daddy" as a gentleman claiming to be Cora'due south existent father.
    • Jo-Marie Payton who is besides known from Family Matters, likewise guest starred on the episode "Encounter the Gold Digger," as a fellow instructor of Cora who becomes infatuated with Mr. Brown. This almost becomes a December–December Romance, but it is subverted when Cora and Edna run her abroad and forcefulness Mr. Brown to break up with her, erroneously thinking she was a gold digger. Ironically, she never actually was one.
  • The Neely'due south from the Food Network series, Down Home With The Neely's and Kim Fields from Living Single invitee star in the episode "Run across the Neely's." The Neely's equally themselves, and Kim Fields as the nameless director and producer for their cooking evidence.
• Shared Universe: Shares their universe with House of Payne.
• Shouldn't We Be in School Correct Now? : Zig-zagged and downplayed with Brianna and Joaquin. About notably in the episode "Run into the Matchmaker."
• Stock Sitcom 1000 Finale: "Meet the Family Portrait." Parodied and Enforced considering the 5th flavour couldn't go syndicated by TBS for a full quota of episodes similar the previous Seasons one-iv. "Come across The Family Portrait." Lampshaded at the end of the episode. A few of the old characters from Seasons 1-two come back for the finale episode. Mr. Brown tries to get the Brown family and a few of their closest friends and neighbors to accept an updated family portrait together before Edna and The Colonel move away, earlier Sasha and Will find their ain house for Brianna and Joaquin, and before Cora moves away with Reggie, merely it gets messed upwards with everyone fighting and bickering, and comedically unfortunate circumstances.
• Sucky School : Downplayed; the loftier school Cora and Mr. Dark-brown works at can exist considered this sometimes, depending on what antics the students and teachers may be upwards to. This trope is sometimes lampshaded by the characters.
• Temporarily a Villain: Jamal, one of Brianna's best friends, becomes the misunderstood antagonist of the episode "Meet the Thief" when he is exposed as the culprit behind the recent rash of burglaries that takes identify throughout the neighborhood of the Brown Family house. Information technology is revealed later on in the episode that he was only committing the burglaries, non-violently of class, considering him and his female parent had lost their home and were temporarily forced to live in their family unit automobile. He makes up for his crimes by returning everything he stole and asking for everyone'southward aid and charity to aid him and his mom until they are able to get back up on their anxiety.
• Telethon : The episode is literally called "Meet The Telethon.
• The Tease: Edna sometimes does this to many of the men she flirts with before she really dates and marries the Colonel.
• Three-Calendar month-Quondam Newborn: When 1 of Brianna's pregnant friends has to rely on Mr. Brown to help evangelize her infant, the baby is quite plainly older than a newborn, and looks like it is actually betwixt 3-6 months old.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: Played for Laughs. Mr. Brown, Brianna, London Sheraton, and Derek.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Subverted with Brianna. Both Played for Laughs and Played for Drama with Tanya.
• Teen Pregnancy: Subverted in one episode, Played Straight and Played for Drama in another. Subverted in the episode "Meet the Bump and Grind," when Volition and Sasha mistakenly think Brianna is significant, and she reveals to them that she was only property the pregnancy test they found in her room for a friend. Played Straight in the episode "Meet the Confession," when Brianna'due south best friend Simone really confesses she is meaning to the Brownish Family and seeks their help during her pregnancy.
• Unequal Pairing : Cora with Principal Gordon, it most drifts off into Sleeping with the Boss, merely because of Cora's devout Christian beliefs, she doesn't take information technology as far as to sexual relations.
• Unexpectedly Dark Episode: Several throughout the serial, including the ane with Joaquin'southward pedophile baseball game passenger vehicle, the many episodes with Sasha and Will getting into conflicts, and the episodes dealing with Joaquin and Brianna's adoption and their estranged, abusive birth mother.
• Valentine's Day Episodes: "Meet the Not-So-Funny Valentine."
• Vitriolic Best Friends: Mr. Dark-brown with Edna, and Reggie, and his sis Vera.
• Wedding Episode: "Meet the Large Wedding." All the same, Edna and the Colonel have to accept two weddings because he had a middle attack and went unconscious at the first wedding. Their actual successful wedding took place in the side by side season after his recovery from the heart set on.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Mr. Brown sometimes has moments like these when he does something stupid or adds insult to injury while trying to be the hero whenever scandal or controversy ensues. He often has to clear his proper name, and disengage his wrongs, in gild to resolve the issues from his stupid and foolish decisions.
• You Wait Familiar: A few episodes feature this trope with a handful of minor characters and i-off characters that just appear in one or two episodes. It is likewise lampshaded in a few episodes.
• Zany Scheme : Played for laughs; Many of the episodes revolve effectually Mr. Chocolate-brown's elaborate schemes that usually backfire on him and he has to chop-chop brand amends for it if he gets defenseless or gets into trouble, or ready it himself or with one other person's aid so his schemes won't be fully exposed.

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