Half & Half

For once in her life Mona thinks she has won out over her spoiled half-sister Dee Dee when Dee Dee moves into the same building and Mona finagles a move into the penthouse apartment, but she quickly discovers her new living accommodations are not what she expected.

Mona neglects Spencer while she works on hooking up with Brian, the bug guy, and Dee Dee takes the opportunity to befriend Spencer in order to get closer to her sister. After Brian loves Mona and leaves her, Mona tries to get consoled by Spencer, but he's too busy hanging with Dee Dee which causes Mona to accuse Dee Dee of stealing her best friend.

Despite Mona's initial protests, Dee Dee throws a joint birthday party for the two of them. On the eve of the celebration, Mona discovers Phyllis' story of how Big Dee Dee stole her man, Charles, years ago is actually a lie, throwing Mona into a tailspin.

Mona encourages Dee Dee to become involved with a temperamental recording artist in order to keep him well behaved on a video shoot, but once the relationship starts to heat up, Mona's concerned she may be "pimping" her little sister out.

When Mona gets on Dee Dee's case about leading a privileged existence, Dee Dee decides to prove to her and herself that she can survive in the real world by landing a job at a waitress. Meanwhile Phyllis encourages Mona to go to a dating service to find a good man.

Dee Dee's desire to have everyone act as one big happy family backfires when Dee Dee insists on Mona coming to an award ceremony for Charles. However, this incident does prompt the family to deal with their dysfunction… to a small degree.

After Mona is dumped by a guy who accuses her of not being black enough, Mona tries to find her inner “sistah” until Dee Dee helps her realize that she should be happy with who she is. Meanwhile, Spencer helps pass Mona off as Scary Spice at the Shark Club in order to watch DMX perform.

Dee Dee starts dating a guy who, as it turns out, was Mona’s ex-high school boyfriend and her “first.” Eventually, things get tense when Mona demands that Dee Dee stop dating her ex.

Mona and Dee Dee's relationship gets sticky when Mona accuses Dee Dee of trying to change her just to fit in with her group of friends. Meanwhile, Spencer becomes a 'kept' man when he starts dating one of Dee Dee's wealthy friends.

It's a big Thanksgiving dinner at Big Dee Dee and Charles' house and the whole family is invited, including Spencer, but all is not well. Mona and Spencer have been fighting after Spencer accidentally divulged a very private secret about her.

When Mona and Dee Dee set Spencer up on blind-date, Spencer falls for her hard and fast. But when Mona finds out the girl is only using Spencer to get back at her ex, she tries to warn him, only he thinks Mona is jealous.

When Dee Dee becomes frustrated with her boyfriend because he does not seem interested in getting intimate, he divulges that he is celibate. Meanwhile, Mona is under pressure at work and takes up smoking again, but she is too embarrassed to admit it and tries to hide it from her family.

Spencer and his new girlfriend Olivia have sex, and Spencer reveals she might be pregnant because they didn't use protection. Mona and Dee Dee give him a talking to about his mistake and encourage him to get tested, too.

It's Valentine's Day, and while Mona ends up having two potential dates when her ex-boyfriends Brian and Miles show back up in her life, Dee Dee breaks up with Neil because he chooses work over spending Valentine's Day with her.

When Mona mistakes a dinner date with a reporter as a personal affair, she unwittingly gets quoted in a music magazine saying disparaging things about one of her company's clients, and the fallout gets her fired.

Conclusion: Mona struggles to find work while record sales for Big Phat Slim (the recording artist) go through the roof because of the publicity. When Hamilton (the reporter) comes by to makes amends, he grants her wish to get in to see Big Phat so that she can plead her case and get Phat to help get her old job back.

Ironically, while Dee Dee's life seems to turn unlucky at every turn, Mona's seems to have become charmed. So when Dee Dee gets assigned a mock-court competition at school, Mona tries to help in order to restore Dee Dee's waning confidence.

When Mona starts dating a model named Jamal, she realizes that they have great physical chemistry but she is embarrassed to have him meet her friends and family because he is not the brightest. Meanwhile, Spencer books singer Tyrese (who guest stars as himself) to perform his hit, "How You Gonna Act Like That," at the Lush Lounge

Mona takes care of Dee Dee after she accidentally hurts her in a boxing class, and when the girls start to bond much more than they have before, Dee Dee starts to lie about her injury to keep hanging out with her.

Mona's sexual dreams about Spencer have her unnerved and too embarrassed to reveal them to a prodding Dee Dee, which leads Dee Dee to the misunderstanding that Mona's gay.

When Mona has Spencer pretend to be her boyfriend at her friend’s wedding, Spencer realizes that he has had romantic feelings for Mona since college. Meanwhile, Dee Dee decides to break up with her boyfriend when she learns about his matrimonial desires.

Big Dee Dee and Dee Dee go to a fancy spa for the weekend, Phyllis, not the outdone, takes Mona to the same spa. While there, Dee Dee comes to envy the close bond she sees Mona has with her mom. Little Dee Dee witnesses a moment of caring and tenderness between Phyllis and Mona and denounces materialism for a closer bond with her mother.

Mona and Dee Dee have a major falling out over some petty neighborly issues, but when their father, Charles, has a heart attack, the sisters see past their selfishness. While waiting for Charles’s test results, Big Dee Dee shares some personal information about her marriage with Phyllis, creating a new bond between the two women.