Meet the Browns

Brown gets way more than he bargained for as he tries to follow Pop Brown's dying wish that he "take care of the old", by opening a retirement home for seniors. Husband & wife Will and Sasha, try to help Brown, but Brown is overwhelmed when the residents of a nearby seniors home are brought to the house after a fire.

Brown has been arrested at the airport for saying "bomb" and goes to jail. While he's in jail, Sasha and Cora interview people for the handyman position. When Will comes home with Brown, he talks about his experience in jail. Another handyman, Jesus, comes by to interview, fixes things around the house and gets the job.

Carmen asks Sasha and Will to be foster parents, and we meet Brianna (15) and Joaquin (8). Will and Sasha hesitate because they are so busy with their work, but Cora offers to help by letting the kids stay at Brown's house as long as they need to. We see the first signs that Brianna is very troubled. Precocious Joaquin fits right in at the house. London and Miss Daisy have a Battle of the Divas.

The Colonel's daughter, Karen, comes to see him. This gives Brown the idea to plan a Friends and Family day so all of the residents can have visitors. The Colonel is upset with Karen because she put him in a retirement home. She explains, her reason for doing so was because he seemed to become depressed and withdrawn from the world since the death of her mother.

After learning that her childhood friend has died broke and alone, Ms. Edna becomes very depressed and says she's lost the will to live. Cora is shocked and gets the residents to do a "This is Your Life" night to show Edna just how appreciated and cherished she is. Brown mistakenly thinks Jesús is gay after overhearing that Will found him "in the closet".

Brianna's very pregnant teenage friend, Tamika, comes to the house needing a place to stay. Brown ends up having to deliver the baby himself. Miss Daisy is missing and everyone spends all day looking for her. It turns out she was making a hip-hop video.

Sasha's past comes back to haunt her when an old abusive boyfriend, Teddy, is released from prison and comes to see her. When she rejects him, he abducts her. London loses Brown's winning raffle ticket for a Couple's Cruise to the Bahamas. Brown enlists everyone to help him find the ticket. Each resident woos Brown in hopes to be chosen to go on the cruise with him.

Brown enters a Gospel Choir contest. He's lost the contest six years in a row to the flamboyant Deacon C. Cecil Cleveland of the Greater Mount Mariah Missionary Built on a Rock Baptist Church. This year, Brown thinks he has a secret weapon, the legendary Mother Martha Lane. But the 93 year-old Mother Lane "goes home" before the competition.

Brianna has been acting out a lot at school and is suspended for threatening some kids who were bullying Joaquin. Sasha, Will, and Carmen try to find out what is bothering her. Will and Carmen aren't successful, but Sasha finally uncovers Brianna's secret...Brianna reveals to Sasha that she was sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend.

Cora and Russell have gone on several more dates. Cora is very smitten with him. London, Daisy and Edna spy on Cora and Russell whenever he comes over. Brown becomes afraid that Cora will fall in love with Russell, move away, leaving him all alone. Brown interrogates Russell, and Russell is scared away.

Will and Sasha try to find a way to get Brianna and Joaquin back, before the Turners adopt them. Brown and the Colonel hatch a plot of their own to get the kids back, once and for all. Brown also thinks the frat boys next door are growing marijuana and leaps into action.

Brown secretly sets Cora up on a date through an online dating website after he starts feeling guilty about causing Russell to flee. Elsewhere, Miss Daisy gets a little help for her audition from Jesus and London but, predictably, things don't work out quite as planned

Brown starts charging the residents (and Cora) for amenities around the house - and it gets WAY out of hand: pay toilet, vending machine in the kitchen, parking meters, etc. The residents plot their revenge on Brown. Meanwhile, Will feels threatened when Sasha is offered a job that pays more than he makes.

Cora gets a job substitute teaching, thinking she'll be teaching "little angels". But she is tested when she's assigned some of the toughest students in the school. Meanwhile, Brown and London compete in a "fashion showdown" for a NY designer.

Brianna and Joaquin's mother (Tanya) returns from jail. She finds out Will and Sasha are planning to adopt the kids, but she's determined to get them back so she can live off the welfare checks from her kids. Meanwhile, the Colonel starts taking the "little blue pill" to improve his romantic life only for Brown to accidentally take a handful and he's up all night.

Will and Sasha are determined to fight Tanya, and keep her from taking the kids. Meanwhile, London and Jesus continue their love/hate relationship.

Will convinces Brianna to let him come to "Career Day" at her class, since her real father is in prison. She agrees, but is terribly disappointed when Will can't come because of an emergency at the hospital. Brown tries to fill in for Will, and it's...interesting. Brown decides to change his flamboyant ways, after his Career Day appearance, and acts and dresses much more conservatively.

Will has a lot of explaining to do when Sasha discovers photos on his cell phone from a bachelor party. Meanwhile, Mr. Brown searches his family tree and finds out that Mrs. Daisy's ancestors owned his family.

Brown is driving everyone crazy, preparing for the arrival of a magazine reporter who's doing an article on the house. Right before the reporter arrives, Edna informs Brown that her lover has died up in her room, and the residents have to try to get rid of the body before the reporter finds out. Brianna rejects Sasha's mothering efforts, when Sasha buys her a fancy dress for the upcoming cotillion

Jesus gets himself in trouble when he lies to his father who is about to visit, telling him that he is a successful lawyer, who owns a house and servants. Meanwhile, London is expecting a visit from her wealthy father, and is heartbroken when he doesn't show up.