History Series / InLivingColor

A half-hour sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1990 to 1994, created by Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans and starring several of his brothers ([[Creator/DamonWayans Damon]], [[Creator/ShawnWayans Shawn]], and [[Creator/MarlonWayans Marlon]]) and one sister ([[Creator/KimWayans Kim]]). The series is largely known as the launching pad for the careers of Creator/TheWayansFamily, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/DavidAlanGrier, and Creator/TommyDavidson -- as well as Music/JenniferLopez and Carrie Ann Inaba, who were part of the show's "Fly Girl" dance troupe.

* WorstWeddingEver: One ''Dysfunctional Home Show'' episode has Grandpa Jack's daughter getting married. In addition to him being drunk, he hates her [[MalignedMixedMarriage black husband-to-be and tries to attack him]], her own grandmother makes fun of [[ReallyGetsAround her wearing a white dress]], she's heavily pregnant ''and'' she gives birth to a ''[[ChocolateBaby white]]'' baby at the altar, prompting several men, [[UpToEleven including the reverend]], to run out of the wedding after her husband angrily asks why the baby is white.

A half-hour sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1990 to 1994, created by Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans and starring several of his brothers ([[Creator/DamonWayans Damon]], [[Creator/ShawnWayans Shawn]], and [[Creator/MarlonWayans Marlon]]) and one sister (Kim). The series is largely known as the launching pad for the careers of Creator/TheWayansFamily, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/DavidAlanGrier, and Creator/TommyDavidson -- as well as Music/JenniferLopez and Carrie Ann Inaba, who were part of the show's "Fly Girl" dance troupe.

A half-hour sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1990 to 1994, created by Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans and starring several of his brothers ([[Creator/DamonWayans Damon]], Shawn, and [[Creator/MarlonWayans Marlon]]) and one sister (Kim). The series is largely known as the launching pad for the careers of Creator/TheWayansFamily, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/DavidAlanGrier, and Creator/TommyDavidson -- as well as Music/JenniferLopez and Carrie Ann Inaba, who were part of the show's "Fly Girl" dance troupe.

A half-hour sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1990 to 1994, created by Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans and starring several of his brothers ([[Creator/DamonWayans Damon]], Shawn, and Marlon) and one sister (Kim). The series is largely known as the launching pad for the careers of Creator/TheWayansFamily, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/DavidAlanGrier, and Creator/TommyDavidson -- as well as Music/JenniferLopez and Carrie Ann Inaba, who were part of the show's "Fly Girl" dance troupe.

A half-hour sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1990 to 1994, created by Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans and starring several of his brothers (Damon, Shawn, and Marlon) and one sister (Kim). The series is largely known as the launching pad for the careers of Creator/TheWayansFamily, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/DavidAlanGrier, and Creator/TommyDavidson -- as well as Music/JenniferLopez and Carrie Ann Inaba, who were part of the show's "Fly Girl" dance troupe.

A half-hour sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1990 to 1994, created by Keenen Ivory Wayans and starring several of his brothers (Damon, Shawn, and Marlon) and one sister (Kim). The series is largely known as the launching pad for the careers of Creator/TheWayansFamily, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/DavidAlanGrier, and Creator/TommyDavidson -- as well as Music/JenniferLopez and Carrie Ann Inaba, who were part of the show's "Fly Girl" dance troupe.

** ''The Dysfunctional Home Show'' had the funeral of Grandpa Jack's mother. He arrived drunk, tried to fight his son-in-law, tried to steal the watch off of her corpse (despite being willed her money) and told people that everyone was better off without her. [[spoiler: Subverted once she woke up, screaming at the family for not recognizing another of her alcoholic comas. This whole business had already happened twice -- just that year!]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: ''The Dysfunctional Home Show'' has [[SuddenlyShouting PORK AND BEANS!]] for host Grandpa Jack [=McGee=]. As he notes in the debut segment, "In a dysfunctional home, you gotta have 'em!"

** Possibly justified in the Magenta Thompson sketches: in addition to her "biggest hits" (which were little more than bit parts) being roles from the 1970s, her first skit has her in a studio set reminiscent to the decade, complete with a title card colored in orange, yellow, green and purple backsplash.

** ''The Dysfunctional Home Show'' had the funeral of Grandpa Jack's mother. He arrived drunk, tried to fight his son-in-law and told people that everyone is better off without her. [[spoiler:It becomes subverted once she wakes up, screaming at the family for not recognizing another of her alcoholic comas.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: ''The Dysfunctional Family Home Show'' is sponsored by [[SuddenlyShouting PORK AND BEANS!]] in part because host Grandpa Jack [=McGee=] regards it as the official food of dysfunctional families everywhere.

* WorstWeddingEver: One ''Dysfunctional Family Home Show with Grampa Jack'' episode has his daughter getting married. In addition to him being drunk, he hates her [[MalignedMixedMarriage black husband-to-be and tries to attack him]], her own grandmother makes fun of [[ReallyGetsAround her wearing a white dress]], she's heavily pregnant ''and'' she gives birth to a ''[[ChocolateBaby white]]'' baby at the altar, prompting several men, [[UpToEleven including the reverend]], to run out of the wedding after her husband angrily asks why the baby is white.

* YourHeadAsplode: At the end of the "When A Man Needs A Big Hit" music video, when Music/MichaelBolton (played by Jim Carrey) hits an incredibly high note, his head explodes into several pieces. Even better is how some fans [[BlackComedy even fight over a piece of his skullcap that landed in the audience.]]

* CampGay: Blaine Edwards (Damon Wayans) and Antoine Merriweather (David Alan Grier), the critics from "Men on..." who only focus on the masculine aspects of film, books, television, art, vacation, cooking, etc. Anything and everything that has to do with women (even tangentially) earns a unison response of "Hated it!"[[note]]Ironically, many of the things they hated, like ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', and ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', are actually ''very'' [[LGBTFanbase popular with gay men]].[[/note]]

* CampGay: Blaine Edwards (Damon Wayans) and Antoine Merriweather (David Alan Grier), the critics from "Men on..." who only focus on the masculine aspects of film, books, television, art, vacation, cooking, etc. Anything and everything that has to do with women (even tangentially) earns a unison response of "Hated it!"

* FreezeFrameBonus: In the skit featuring the wall of women that basketball great Wilt Chamberlain slept with, some names featured on the wall include comedienne/actress Ruth Buzzi (whose surname is misspelled with a "y"), Creator/DrewBarrymore and 1940s singing group The Andrew Sisters.

* [[GranolaGirl Granola Boy]]: Jim Carrey's Environmental Activist who is an over-the-top spoof of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad finding "PC violations" in virtually anything, ruining casual events like art galas and kids' birthday parties.

* SoapBoxSadie: A male example with Jim Carrey's Environmental Activist who is an over-the-top spoof of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad finding PC "violations" in virtually anything, ruining casual events like art galas and kids' birthdays.

** Homey D. Clown (Damon Wayans) rants about how [[TheMan the white man]] keeps him down while ostensibly performing as a hired entertainer for kids (which he has to do as part of his parole).

* TheMan: Homey's mortal enemy. In a two-part sketch that bridges the Season Two finale and Season Three premiere, he purposely sells out to the Man by starring in cereal commercials where little kids humiliate him just so he can infiltrate high society...and bop the Man in the head!

* {{Cliffhanger}}: In a rare sketch comedy example of this trope, the Season Two finale has two skits with cliffhanger endings: In "Men on..." Blaine is [[spoiler: turned straight by a blow on the head]], while Homey D. Clown appears to sell out to TheMan. Both are resolved at the top of Season Three.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Occasionally, there will be a something different for the show, like as a ClipShow or even a different mode of the opening with the Fly Girls, such as one memorable segment where Music/HeavyD appeared with the women and rapped the opening credits or where the three women stars took the place of dancing in the opening due to tying-up the Fly Girls.

It was effectively ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' for the black and Hispanic set (''SNL'' didn't have a lot of black cast members at the time[[note]]Back in the 1990s, they had Creator/ChrisRock [who left because of creative differences], Creator/TimMeadows [who didn't become popular until later in the decade], and Creator/EllenCleghorne [who was lost in the shuffle of white, male cast members but is considered the first black female repertory player who lasted more than one season]. Compare to Seasons 40-41, when they had five black cast members -- Creator/KenanThompson, Creator/JayPharoah, Creator/MichaelChe, Creator/SasheerZamata, and Creator/LeslieJones -- the most in one cast.[[/note]] and wouldn't get a Hispanic cast member until Creator/HoratioSanz was hired in 1998[[note]]Since then, ''SNL'' has had three other Hispanic cast members besides Sanz: Creator/FredArmisen, the longest-running Hispanic cast member [2002-2013], Creator/NoelWells, the first Hispanic female cast member, first to be Mexican, and the shortest-lived Hispanic cast member [was only on the show for the 39th season -- 2013-2014] and Creator/MelissaVillasenor[[/note]]), featuring R&B and hip-hop musical acts.

** An Equity Express credit card commercial where a Black man is forced to jump through hoops to use his card: "Kiss my butt, bitch! Approve my credit!"

** Tommy Davidson plays one named Shawn in Snow's "Imposter" (and is quite angry over how he got famous for stealing from Rastafarians and says he's only there because "you need a Black man to increase your credibility").

* WorstWeddingEver: One ''Dysfunctional Family Home Show with Grampa Jack'' episode has his daughter getting married. In addition to him being drunk, he hates her [[MalignedMixedMarriage Black husband-to-be and tries to attack him]], her own grandmother makes fun of [[ReallyGetsAround her wearing a white dress]], she's heavily pregnant ''and'' she gives birth to a ''[[ChocolateBaby White]]'' baby at the altar, prompting several men, [[UpToEleven including the reverend]], to run out of the wedding after her husband angrily asks why the baby is White.

** "...Hated it", the gay critics from ''Men on...'' whenever something featured women.

-->[[{{BrickJoke}} AAAAAAAAAH HAAAAAAAAA! Thank you very much!]]

* SanitySlippage: The [[Music/BoyzIIMen Boys II Wimps]] video for "End of the Road" had the soloist gradually become more unstable during the song due to a cheating ex-girlfriend. He was already on medication and placed in either a halfway house or a mental institution before he finally [[spoiler;lashes out at his back-up singers for cheating with the woman and ends up arrested again by the end.]]

** One of Anton's sketches, when he accidentally became part of a performance of ''Romeo & Juliet'' and the actress kept hitting him in the head with plates and finally departs: "Yeah, you better run, bitch!"

[[{{BrickJoke}} AAAAAAAAAH HAAAAAAAAA! Thank you very much!]]

** Chris Rock often did sketches as Cheap Pete, a bit part he played in Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka.

* GagPenis: Implied with the Cosby Condoms commercial, where Bill pulled out an oversized condom from the pack, calling it the [[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids "Hey-Hey-HEY!"]]

* KitschyLocalCommercial: One skit has Creator/JimCarrey playing an attorney specializing in accident settlements named Lony Parker. He is stilted, with poor inflection; he even pronounces the "H" in "Me habeas Espanol".

* UncleTomfoolery: ''Black Like Me with Tom and Tom'' which pits the two titular black Smothers Brothers parodies usually against an AngryBlackMan.

** Tommy Davidson plays one named Shawn in Snow's "Imposter" (and is quite angry over how he got famous for stealing from Rastafarians and says he's only there "to increase his credibility").

A half-hour sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1990 to 1994, created by [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Keenen Ivory Wayans and starring several of his brothers (Damon, Shawn, and Marlon) and one sister (Kim)]]. The series is largely known as the launching pad for the careers of Creator/TheWayansFamily, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/DavidAlanGrier, and Creator/TommyDavidson -- as well as Music/JenniferLopez and Carrie Ann Inaba, who were part of the show's "Fly Girl" dance troupe.

* {{Gonk}}: "Ugly Wanda" Wayne (Jamie Foxx).

* TwoDecadesBehind: Quite a few sketches reference '70s trends and pop culture, especially in Season Five. Sweet Tooth Jones is a [[InsistentTerminology fight choreographer]] (as opposed to karate master) with a {{Blaxploitation}} motif and theme music. Some of the RaceLift sketches spoof '70s TV shows like ''All in the Family'' and ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow''. "East Hollywood Squares" sketches feature a number of '70s celebrities (both guest stars and ones portrayed by the cast members) as panelists. Even parodies of recent pop culture could get a '70s twist -- the 1992 Creator/MelGibson film ''Forever Young'' was parodied as "Forever Silky", about a cryogenically-frozen pimp from 1971.

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