<P> In the pilot, the twins are reunited during a chance encounter shopping at a clothing store at the mall with their adoptive parents . The premise is similar to the movie The Parent Trap, in which a pair of separated - at - birth twins have a chance encounter at summer camp . </P> <P> Tia Landry (Tia Mowry) is the intelligent twin from inner city Detroit, where her adoptive mother, Lisa (Jackée Harry), works as a seamstress; Tamera Campbell (Tamera Mowry) is the boy - crazy twin from the suburbs, where her adoptive father, Ray (Tim Reid), owns a successful limousine service . After their unexpected encounter in the department store, Ray reluctantly allows Tia and Lisa to move into the house because Lisa was about to take a job in St. Louis, which would have separated the girls . The girls' neighbor is nerdy Roger Evans (Marques Houston), an annoying teenager who is infatuated with both of them, and who evolves into a perfect gentleman they both find attractive . In the final season when the girls go off to college, Roger ceases to appear in the series because he was still in high school, though he does return as a guest in the final episode . By the fifth season, Tia and Tamera ended up with steady boyfriends: Tia with a boy named Tyreke Scott (RonReaco Lee) and Tamera with a boy named Jordan Bennett (Deon Richmond). </P> <P> In the sixth - season episode "Father's Day", the twins meet their biological father, Matt Sullivan, and learn that he is white and a famous photojournalist . Matt never married their mother, Racelle Gavin, because they never got the chance: she had been asked to paint a mural in Florida and he had been assigned "the opportunity of a lifetime" in the Middle East . Also, Racelle told him that she would later join him in Tel Aviv without telling him of her pregnancy . After six months, Racelle suddenly stopped writing . When the girls' mother died, Matt was not allowed to see them because he couldn't prove he was their father . When he searched for his twin daughters, he never found them because they had been adopted by two different people . </P> <P> For the first five seasons, the series would often have Tia and Tamera, either together or separately, breaking the fourth wall by talking directly to the viewer . During the ABC run, Tia and Tamera would address the audience on some of the goings on in the storyline involving them and occasionally other main characters, usually Roger . After the series moved to The WB, the breaking of the fourth wall was limited mainly to certain episodes and usually only in the teaser scenes and featured increasingly less often by the fourth season . For some of the episodes in the fifth season, it was included but was dropped by the middle of the fifth season . The sixth and final season was the only season that did not include it . </P>

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