We Can't All Be As Cool As These Guys

The first episode is such a brilliant tv movie. The show was unfortunately on Disney XD, a far smaller platform. Disney had Good luck Charlie, Wizards of Waverly Place, Suite Life on Deck, and Ant farm at the time of it's airing. Too many powerhouse shows were ongoing at the time. XD only had Lab Rats and Zeke and Luther as popular live action shows. There was far less incentive to watch XD - let alone a new show! It's sad to know such a great show had so little chance for success.

Let’s talk about the fact that Pair Of Kings had everything to be a great series and yet it wasn’t?

I mean, it had magic, space for racial diversity (Kinkow is literally in the Southern Pacific, and the main characters are biracial) and cultural diversity/differences, politics, war, it’s a coming of age story, and the base for the characters is good.

It had everything to be awesome, yet most of the writing in it sucked; there was little to no planning, which resulted in lots of inconsistencies in the story line; most of the characters didn’t really get character arcs except for – specifically in season 3 and not that well done either – Boomer, Lanny, and Boz; the lore wasn’t properly developed (the lore is literally one of the most important parts in worldbuilding); not to mention that the show was downright misogynistic various times. 

And it really hurts me that it was like that because it had so much potential, the character dynamics were great, the comedy was on point, the setting was amazing – how did Disney dare to waste it?

Wonder if Brady and Boomer had s'mores before....

All hail the true king of Kinkow.

Some good old Bra-Kayla moments to start your day out right.

Not even a random child, his distant descendant was groomed by him to help kill his other descendants - the kids cousins - and only the kid could hear him speak. Pair of Kings was such a fever dream kids show!

A friendly reminder that Lanny’s ugly Fish, Yamakoshi, was actually an Evil King turned into a fish who proceeded to groom a child into murdering the next kings for him so he could steal the crown for himself.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61723948

Hair and Power by Anonymous is such a good trans Brady fic, that I needed to recommend it with this post.

Pair of Kings never had the "guy character dresses up as a girl for - reasons" because they knew king Brady trans would be too powerful.

Actually, with Brady Potter, it probably was less challenging to remember

Real talk: The triplets parents were evil in naming all the kids with the same letter. I know people accidentally forgot/swapped Boomer and Brady's names all the time. Imagine if Boz had been in Chicago too. Just trouble

You were afraid of Pupaley? I can't judge you, I was afraid of that Zack and Cody episode where they went into the haunted apartment room.

My non-horror, media-related childhood trauma story is that I was scared shitless of a particular episode of that Disney sitcom with twin kings. The episode was about this Bigfoot-looking creature they found in the woods. The way it just looked like a goofy little guy, but would suddenly turn into a scary beast with glowing red-eyes was so fucking disturbing as a kid.

Happy belated 29th birthday (1 day off) to these two Goofy Gubers. I can't believe the show has been gone for this long.

The 10 Bromandments

1) Thou shalt not fetch food without bringing some for thy brother.

2) Thou shalt keep thy brother's secrets, no matter how embarrassing or personal.

3) Thou shalt not be friends with one brother, if you're not friends with the other.

4) Thou shalt be a sweetie and wipe the seatie, if thou sprinkles when he tinkles.

5) Thou shalt not covet thy brother's sandwich, chicken wings, or pizza.