List of Sister, Sister episodes

Lisa's mother comes to visit, and she tells her mother she is married to Ray and persuaded Ray to pretend to be her husband. Meanwhile, Tia, Tamera, and Roger prepare for a talent show.

Ray puts the twins to work at the limo service, but the girls look for a way out when a handsome manager offers them jobs at a local burger joint. They want to do both jobs, so one twin goes to Rocket Burger and has to balance both, and so does the other twin at Ray's Limo Service.

Thinking they are the same person, a guy inadvertently asks both twins for dates; Lisa goes shopping for a handsome supermarket manager. What will happen when the twins figure out what's going on, and will Lisa find true love at long last?

On a school field trip, a cool teacher, loses his temper with the twins and gives them detention; Roger's crush leads him to thievery- and soon infamy. When the museum's love statue ends up with Roger, women suddenly find him irresistible. Meanwhile, Lisa and Terrance begin fighting once she catches him flirting with the clerk, Latina, at the mall, and he catches her flirting with the mailman.

Tia and Tamera take the S.A.T exams, and later when the results come back, the twins get surprising test scores; Lisa tries to sell some of her clothes at a boutique store, but the owner snubs her.

Lisa gets an unexpected inheritance from an aunt, and Ray tries to persuade her to follow her dream by opening her store with the money. Meanwhile, Ray agrees to be Tamera's extra-credit history project when the girls discover that he had been denied FBI clearance because he was arrested in the '60s - but does not tell them it was not for protesting but for streaking.

Lisa and Terrence were going to take Tia to a timeshare in Hawaii for Thanksgiving, but since their break up, things have been different. Lisa thinks Terrence will not go, and Terrence thinks Lisa will not go. Of course, they both do go. Lisa invites Ray and Tamera to join them for a family Thanksgiving while Terrence invites Tonya, Ray's ex-girlfriend. When they all show up at the condo, chaos ensues. The twins slip out and explore the island, only to find themselves on a sailboat drifting out to sea.

Tia gets accepted to the boarding school she has always dreamed of attending. Lisa is anxious because she has spent the savings on tuition on other things. When Tia goes to the school for a weekend orientation, she realizes that her family is more important to her than this school. Tamera, in the meantime, has already rearranged their bedroom and boxed Tia's things up. Tia does not know how to tell Lisa she does not want to go to boarding school, and Lisa does not know how to tell Tia she does not have the money to send her.

Tia lies about her age to her new college-boy beau Michael, making her popular with the cool coffeehouse set — and leaving Tamera out in the cold. Meanwhile, Lisa and Terrence seem on the way to a romantic reconciliation.

After an ugly encounter with last year’s prom queen Rhonda, the twins seem insecure about their looks and question Ray and Lisa about their birth parents. Meanwhile, Ray tries to think of a birthday gift for Lisa.

Tamera grows jealous when Tia begins spending more time with Ray. But when Ray invites Tia to a father-daughter dance, Tamera realizes there’s enough of her dad to go around.

Ray helps the twins bounce back after they try out for the cheerleading team and make the C squad, a.k.a. “the odd squad.” Meanwhile, Lisa’s gimmick to attract new customers backfires.

It’s time for the yearbook photo. Last year’s photo was a mess, and this year, Tamera plans to make it her best photo ever. But things take a turn when she tries an overnight moisturizer, and her face is red and blotchy the next morning. She begs Tia to take her photo; this time, Tamera’s photo came out great, thanks to Tia, but Tia’s photo did not present her best side. Tamera is nominated for a beauty queen and is asked to the school dance by the hottest guy, Pico, an egomaniac, while Tia goes with Elliot, a school nerd. Tim Reid’s wife Daphne Maxwell Reid guest stars as Charmagne.

When Tia and Tamera meet an online friend, Verique, of Tia’s in person, the twins learn that people online are not always who they claim to be — although they learn that lesson the hard way. Tamera sends Tia’s picture to him, and he replies he likes it and is a photographer. Tamera is excited; she thinks if Tia makes it big, she can too, and they ask their parents to go to Verique’s place for a photo session but are forbidden. However, Tamera pretends to be Tia and goes anyway. It turns out that Verique is a fake and he acts as many different celebrities to fool people. At home, Tia and Tamera promise to never fall for something like that again when Montell Jordan knocks on the door needing help for his car. However, Tia and Tamera don't believe him.

In exchange for tickets for a sold-out Boyz II Men concert — which Roger wasn’t successful in getting — Tamera promises Elliot, the school nerd, that she will get Tia to date him. During his makeover, Tamera starts to see Elliot as the perfect guy. Lisa goes different ways when she expands to dog fashion, which soon leads her to the top.

Tia and Tamera enter a double-Dutch contest for a family street fair, and Tia overworks Tamera, not letting her see her guy or even telling Tamera the reason why she is so driven. It turns out that after meeting an old childhood bully, Tia became obsessed with finally beating her at something. Meanwhile, Lisa convinces Ray to be Roger’s substitute dad for the baking contest at the fair.

Tia gets some new smart friends, making Tamera feel left out. Then, when copies of Tia’s journal are passed around to the other students, she accuses Tamera of stealing it, while Tamera accuses Tia of writing in her journal that the former cheating on her math test, landing them in Student Court, their lawyers being two “smooth-talking” new kids, Trevor (Kenan Thompson) and Todd (Kel Mitchell). It turns out that Trevor and Todd fooled them both in revenge for rejecting them in front of the entire student body.

The girls move into separate bedrooms after they insist that they are growing apart.

Tamera and Ray have a fall-out over his new girlfriend, Vivica (Rolonda Watts), who, she says, has turned him into a "gallivanting, promise-breaking Romeo". Meanwhile, Tia lands a job at a mall bookstore and becomes enamored with a mysterious customer.

Tia finds out that she isn't getting equal pay at her job, because she is a woman. Meanwhile, Tamera learns that even the best plans can go wrong when she decides to fight Tia's battle with her boss, who's paying a male employee more money; her decision to pose as Tia and demand equal pay gets her sister fired. So now Tamera has to get Tia's job back before she gets there. Will Tia lose her job, or will Tamera become "hero of the day" and get Tia her job back?

When it is SAT time at school, Tia starts freaking out, but Tamera is taking it easy. Not happy by this, the twins say they need a real tutor. After finding a tutor (Tahj Mowry), they get to work. They work all morning and Tia still does not feel prepared. So T.J. goes to plan B, making them relax. T.J. says he missed out on all the fun 'kid' stuff like riding a bike. This tempts Tamera, Tia, and Diavian to help him out. They then take him to "the place to have fun", and Tia finally chills out.

After Tia and Tyreke tire of Tamera tagging along on their dates, Tia decides to find her a boyfriend. Tamera has a fight with Jordan, the school newspaper editor and she has to do one of her articles over. Who will Tamera find as a boyfriend? Meanwhile, Lisa is asked to eulogize a woman she disliked. At the end, Tamera and Jordan have a heated argument which ends them telling they both like each other.

In the Season 5 finale, Tamera, Tia and their friends prepare for graduation. Lisa searches to find the girls a guest commencement speaker for the ceremony while Tamera and Jordan decide on a farewell song. Tyreke feels left out in the celebration, since he never got the chance to receive his diploma. He tells Ray that he wants to get his GED after receiving a promotion as full-mechanic and that he will need time off to study. After failing his exam, Tyreke gives up and decides to take Ray up on his promotion. When Tyreke visits Tia, they get into an argument and face a breakup. Once the girls learn of Tyreke's dilemma, he takes the GED exam again and succeeds. Commencement for the class of 1998 begins with Super Bowl XXXII MVP Terrell Davis giving a touching speech and ending with Roger performing a song for his friends.

It's a brand new school year and Tamera and Tia are entering college at the University of Michigan with high expectations. They meet up with Diavian, Jordan and Tyreke (who also attend) and learn that their new dorm room is an athletic dorm in which they must share a private bathroom with two college jocks. Wanting to find an available dorm room in the same building as their friends, they go to campus housing and find out that there are not any vacant rooms. Diavian meets her new roommate, Simone Flosser, a bossy senior whose first impression turns sour. Meanwhile, Ray tries to turn Tamera's bedroom into his personal den room much to the chagrin of Lisa.

Goof: Ray said that it was his den before it was Tamera's bedroom. But his den became Tia's bedroom.

A college talent contest turns to a battle of wills between the twins when Tia the perfectionist agrees to direct Tamera, Diavian and Simone's girl-group routine. Meanwhile, Tyreke and Lisa attend a time-share seminar in search of free gifts.

Lisa hires Todd Banks, her handsome new assistant, to help her run errands and schedule arrangements. When Todd forgets to hire a model for Lisa's latest designs, she uses Todd instead. After realizing that Todd is not reliable, she fires him and later is sued by Todd for sexual harassment. Meanwhile, the twins and their friends all sign up for a self-defense class and Tyreke's male ego is thrown for a loop when he is subdued by a mugger who falls afoul to Tia's self-defense skills. William Allen Young guest stars as Todd's father and lawyer.

Tia starts to feel that her relationship with Tyreke is not serious when he becomes overly affectionate. But when she meets Keith Brooks (Brian McKnight), her new calculus professor, she becomes enchanted and soon Tia and Tyreke break up. After learning that Keith has a girlfriend, she tries to reconcile with Tyreke, but to no avail. Maia Campbell Guest stars As Shayla.

Tyreke wins four tickets to "Ragtime"; Lisa is attracted to Ray's frat buddy, Victor (Richard Lawson). Tia gets a new boyfriend named Devlin, who has an annoying laugh. Tyreke and his girlfriend Ginger as well as Jordan and Tamera go to Ragtime together. Devlin cancels his date with Tia, leaving her alone until she goes to Ragtime with Ray. Victor and Lisa go to Ragtime as well, but must sit behind two-timing Devlin. Victor goes to complain about Devlin's laugh to the manager, and Tia eventually finds out the truth about Devlin.

Tia has Diavian partner with Tyreke for a drama class assignment, and Tia herself is stuck with the teacher. One day after class while Diavian and Tyreke are rehearsing their scene, they kiss in the heat of the moment. When Tia inadvertently walks in on this, she becomes furious with Diavian and they argue about the occurrence. Diavian tells Tia that the real cause of her anger is from still having feelings for Tyreke but will not admit it to herself. Meanwhile, Tamera and Jordan attempt to hook up cable in Tia and Tamera's room to watch a big Fight on TV, but clearly do not know what they are doing, and Lisa helps them out with the job. Lisa herself has a date that a friend of hers set her up with, but she ends up chasing him away.

Tamera gets sick and cannot do her radio show one night, so she asks Tia to cover for her but she ends up wimping out. Jordan saves the day but insults the callers on the radio station. Tamera cannot stand this so she goes down to the station and she Jordan have it out. The on-air arguments attract a lot of callers so Tamera and Jordan start to do the show together but cannot agree on one thing. Will Tamera and Jordan make up or will Pillow Chat be history?

Tia, Tamera, and Diavian fly to Atlanta to see FreakNik. When they get there and stay at the 4 star hotel, but the hotel is not exactly up to their standards. Tamera, enjoying her new-found freedom, gives herself 5 names, one for each guy she meets because she does not want to be tied down to anyone (except Jordan but not for the time being). Meanwhile Jordan and Tyreke drive to Atlanta and get lost. At FreakNik Mýa & Blackstreet perform "Take Me There" together. Also Tia and Tyreke try to rekindle a relationship lost. Will it be rekindled or just lost?

A music history lesson prompts Old Clarence (played by Brian McKnight) to talk about a 1940s (during World War II) nightclub where Tia, Tamera, Ray, Lisa and the gang are. The nightclub is going out of business so Ray (owner of the club) has to come up with some serious money. Will he do it?

In the series finale of Sister, Sister, it's Lisa's wedding day and she is really nervous. So nervous, in fact, that she runs out of the church and goes to a bar and meets up with her past friend Foxy Jones. Ray later finds her at the bar and talks her into marrying Victor. At the wedding, the twins' old friend Roger Evans (special guest star Marques Houston) returns and sings for Lisa at the wedding. Even though Tia and Tamera will be separated once more, this time they knew they'll always find a way back to each other. Lisa is happily married to Victor as the series comes to a close.

Finale Notes:

• Marques Houston was originally a main character from Seasons 1-5. He was written out when the girls went off to college in Season 6. He had started a successful singing career while acting on Sister, Sister.
• The girls and their parents return to the same store, with the same confusing results for the same sales clerk, where they found each other in Episode 1 of Season 1.
• Lisa is mistaken for someone named Sandra twice during the episode. Actress Jackée Harry, who plays Lisa, won an Emmy award for her breakout role as the sexy vamp Sandra Clark in the 1980s sitcom 227.