Shawn and Marlon Williams (Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans) are two brothers who live in an apartment on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Shawn owns a newsstand in the fictional Neidermeyer Building, and where he and his brother Marlon work on a daily basis. In the same building, their father John "Pops" Williams (John Witherspoon (actor)) owns a diner. In the same building, Dee Baxter (Anna Maria Horsford) works as a security guard.