Pair of Kings
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Pair of Kings is an American
United States
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 television sitcom shown on the Disney XD
Disney XD
Disney XD is a brand of children's TV channels worldwide targeting young males, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The channel was formerly known as Toon Disney and/or Jetix in most areas. According to Gary Marsh, President of Entertainment for Disney Channel Worldwide, "XD" does not "stand for...

 cable channel. It was created by Dan Cross and David Hoge and stars Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Tate Musso is an American actor, singer-songwriter and musician. Musso is best known for his three Disney Channel roles as Oliver Oken in the Disney Channel sitcom, Hannah Montana, Jeremy Johnson in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb and his role as King Brady in the...

 and Doc Shaw. The sitcom's target audience are teenagers. The series began production on February 15, 2010, with stars Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Tate Musso is an American actor, singer-songwriter and musician. Musso is best known for his three Disney Channel roles as Oliver Oken in the Disney Channel sitcom, Hannah Montana, Jeremy Johnson in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb and his role as King Brady in the...

 and Doc Shaw departing fellow Disney series Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana is an American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006 on the Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night, concealing her real...

and The Suite Life on Deck
The Suite Life on Deck
The Suite Life on Deck is an American sitcom that aired on Disney Channel from September 26, 2008 to May 6, 2011. It is a sequel/spin-off of the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody...

respectively, and premiered on September 10, 2010 on the Disney Channel. The show is filmed before a live studio audience.
On November 20, 2010 Disney XD announced that Pair of Kings has been renewed for a second season, which premiered on June 13, 2011. On October 17th, 2011, Mitchel Musso was arrested for drunk driving and charged with a DWI
DWI
DWI is an acronym which means:* Driving while intoxicated, see Driving under the influence* Driving while impaired* Danish West Indies* Diffusion-weighted imaging, a technique used in magnetic resonance imaging* Drinking Water Inspectorate...

. As a result of his arrest, the show's future has been put in jeopardy.

Premise

The series centers on brothers Brady (Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Tate Musso is an American actor, singer-songwriter and musician. Musso is best known for his three Disney Channel roles as Oliver Oken in the Disney Channel sitcom, Hannah Montana, Jeremy Johnson in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb and his role as King Brady in the...

) and Boomer (Doc Shaw), a pair of 16-year-old twin
Twin
A twin is one of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. Twins can either be monozygotic , meaning that they develop from one zygote that splits and forms two embryos, or dizygotic because they develop from two separate eggs that are fertilized by two separate sperm.In contrast, a fetus...

s raised by their aunt and uncle in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 who live a normal existence. However, when Mason (Geno Segers
Geno Segers
Geno Segers is a voice, stage and television actor best known for his role as Mason Makoola in the Disney XD television series Pair of Kings. Segers also guest starred in Zeke and Luther.- Early life :...

), the royal adviser to the throne of the island of Kinkow, arrives at their high school, they learn that they are the heirs to the throne of the island, and after Mason tells Brady and Boomer of their lineage, they begin to realize that their lives are about to change dramatically.

After making the discovery, the brothers relocate to the fictional Polynesia
Polynesia
Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are termed Polynesians and they share many similar traits including language, culture and beliefs...

n island of Kinkow to assume their roles as the joint kings
Diarchy
Diarchy , from the Greek δι- "twice" and αρχια, "rule", is a form of government in which two individuals, the diarchs, are the heads of state. In most diarchies, the diarchs hold their position for life and pass the responsibilities and power of the position to their children or family when they...

 of the island nation, which has many odd customs and superstitions – while trying not to cause problems. Actually, the oldest twin was supposed to rule alone but, since all records of which twin (Brady or Boomer) is the eldest were lost, the two of them must rule together. An interesting side note is that in an episode in early October 2011, there actually was a chance to find out who was older but the scroll that held the answer fell into a volcano so no one will find out who has the seniority to be the lone ruler. Boomer and Brady's efforts are often aided by Mason's teenage daughter Mikayla (Kelsey Chow
Kelsey Chow
Kelsey Asbill Chow is an American actress originally from Columbia, South Carolina, United States. She best known for her role as Mikayla in the Disney XD sitcom Pair of Kings...

) and hindered by Lanny (Ryan Ochoa
Ryan Ochoa
Ryan Ochoa is an American teen actor. He is most famous for his role of Lanny on the Disney XD series Pair of Kings and his recurring role as Chuck Chambers on the Nickelodeon series iCarly.-Early life:...

), a disgruntled cousin who's out to sabotage the boys and take the throne for himself, because he was supposed to be heir to the throne before they found out of Brady and Boomer.

Main characters

  • Co-King Brady King of Kinkow (Mitchel Musso
    Mitchel Musso
    Mitchel Tate Musso is an American actor, singer-songwriter and musician. Musso is best known for his three Disney Channel roles as Oliver Oken in the Disney Channel sitcom, Hannah Montana, Jeremy Johnson in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb and his role as King Brady in the...

    ) - The caucasian looking twin/king of Kinkow and one of the two protagonists of the series. Inherited his father's skin complexion. He has a crush on Mikayla, he asked her to marry him in the first episode. He is more illogical and in certain situations more serious than Boomer and he appears to be somewhat childish. He often uses his history of being bullied to help figure out how to solve a problem. He considers himself much of a ladies' man, though this is not true. In one episode, he becomes extremely jealous of Tristan, a yeti
    Yeti
    The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal, and Tibet. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology...

    -hunting exotic boy who is a friend of Mikayla, to the point where he goes to school to keep in eye on them, getting placed in the "Meerkat" group with kindergarteners. In the same episode, he declares a school holiday for an entire month, and then buys tickets for Tristan to go hunt yetis. Tristan refuses, despite Brady's insistence, and stays on Kinkow. Brady becomes an extreme sportsman to make Mikayla like him, but ends up getting stuck on a mountain ledge. In one episode it is shown he is scared of ghosts. Brady also has the "chime" or singing voice which Boomer lacks. In the episode, Tone Deaf Jam, he reveals his musical talent. He also play the electric and acoustic guitar. It is sometimes said that "looks are all he has." Brady is also very suspicious and is quick to judge, albeit falsely, which is shown when he and Boomer met Oogie and later The Squonks. He sometimes becomes a ninja when he sleeps, during which time he has proven capable of defeating a group of guards, and even Mason, although he usually attacks Boomer.

  • Co-King Boomer King of Kinkow (Doc Shaw) - The African-American looking twin/king of Kinkow and one of the two protagonists of the series. Inherited his mother's skin complexion. He likes making jokes and references to Beyoncé. He is funny and bit brave. Boomer has moments of carelessness and is rarely serious, unlike his brother Brady, however in Season 2 he begins to behave in a slightly more responsible and brave manner. In one episode, he is shown to be childish. After Brady takes them to school, Boomer gets placed in the "Meerkat" group, and loves it there with the kindergarteners. However, he leaves them to go be with Brady on the beach. He makes up with them though and had a hand in saving Brady and Mikayla live in that situation. It's shown in recent episodes that he is not scared of ghosts, unlike Brady. Boomer believes he has the chime but in reality it is actually Brady. He also owns a vase which has become a running gag in the series mainly because it gets broken mostly by Brady and always fixed up in the next episode. Of the two, Boomer is more friendly and trusting, befriending Oogie when they first met, and apologizing to The Squonks after they are insulted by Brady.

  • Mikayla Makoola (Kelsey Chow
    Kelsey Chow
    Kelsey Asbill Chow is an American actress originally from Columbia, South Carolina, United States. She best known for her role as Mikayla in the Disney XD sitcom Pair of Kings...

    ) - The Royal Adviser's only daughter who assists the twins. Brady often implies that he loves her, she also shows small hints of perhaps liking Brady back. In the episode Kings of Thieves, she was attracted to Sirocco, who is Brady, and asked Sirocco to kiss her but failed when Boomer interrupted. Also in the episode, Pair of Prom Kings, she decides to be Brady's date after seeing his kingly side. She is shown to catch on quickly and is skilled with a sword. She is also the best trained security member on the island, other than her father, Mason, and is left in charge whenever he must leave and must look after the kings and their mess and try to sort it out before she gets in trouble off her father, Mason. She was also briefly turned into a mermaid by Aerosol, an evil mermaid. Her mother is never mentioned or seen.

  • Lanny (Ryan Ochoa
    Ryan Ochoa
    Ryan Ochoa is an American teen actor. He is most famous for his role of Lanny on the Disney XD series Pair of Kings and his recurring role as Chuck Chambers on the Nickelodeon series iCarly.-Early life:...

    ) - Brady and Boomer's evil cousin who was heir to the throne until Boomer and Brady showed up. He is the main antagonist of the series. He usually spends his time trying to think of ways to get rid of Brady and Boomer; and attempts to cause them trouble. He even attempted to have them both killed during the first episode so he can inherit the crown. His best friend is Yamakoshi, a talking fish who advises on how best to foil the kings. He fell in love with the mermaid Amazonia in the episode "A Mermaid's Tail" even asking her to marry him. Surprisingly, neither Boomer nor Brady is aware of Lanny's evil intentions, thinking of him as either a minor pest or sometimes a friend, which aggravates Lanny even more. Lanny has a collection of evil ambassadors of the world along with a fish named Yamakoshi.
  • Mason Makoola (Geno Segers
    Geno Segers
    Geno Segers is a voice, stage and television actor best known for his role as Mason Makoola in the Disney XD television series Pair of Kings. Segers also guest starred in Zeke and Luther.- Early life :...

    ) - The fearless Royal Advisor and loyal friend to Brady and Boomer's parents. He is the overly protective father of Mikayla, and always threatens any boy who attempts to ask her out, including King Brady. This is shown when Mikayla says that the pool table in Brady and Boomer's room is made from the bones of the boys who asked her out. He is extremely skilled with a machete, as shown when he chopped a palm tree down in one slice and a table clean in half. But revealed in the episode "Revenge Of The Mummy" is said that he was scared of a white little bunny and Lanny showed a workout video that Mason and two guards made to teach men and women how to work out (Mostly women, just to impress them. Could have been how Mason met his wife, Mikayla's mother).

Recurring characters

  • Yamakoshi (voiced by Vincent Pastore
    Vincent Pastore
    Vincent Pastore is an Italian-American actor, often cast as a mobster and best known for the role of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on The Sopranos.-Early life:...

    ) - Lanny's one-hundred year-old pet fish
    Fish
    Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

     and only friend. He is malevolent and perpetually grumpy. It would seem that Yamakoshi is the true schemer against Brady and Boomer, but being confined to a fish-bowl makes it impossible to carry out his plans without Lanny. Surprisingly, no one but Lanny can understand Yamakoshi when he talks, despite the fact that he has yelled at the kings on two life threatening situations. He has little if no respect for Lanny.
  • Shaman (James Hong
    James Hong
    James Hong is an American actor and former president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists . A prolific acting veteran, Hong's career spans over 50 years and includes more than 350 roles in film, television, and video games.-Early life:Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His...

    ) - Kinkow Island's head Elder and Shaman who learned everything from Kinkow Community College and is the go-to guy for Boomer and Brady.
  • Aunt Nancy (Tichina Arnold
    Tichina Arnold
    Tichina Rolanda Arnold is an American actress and singer. She is best known for having portrayed the roles of Pamela James on the FOX sitcom Martin and the family matriarch Rochelle on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris....

    ) - Boomer and Brady's maternal aunt who's a former royalty and renounced her title so she can have a normal life.
  • Uncle Bill (John Eric Bentley) - Boomer and Brady's maternal uncle who's also having a normal life.

Guest stars

  • Hibachi (Martin Klebba
    Martin Klebba
    Martin Klebba is an American actor and stunt performer. Klebba has a form of dwarfism called acromicric dysplasia; he is 4'1" tall.-Early life:Klebba was born and grew up in Troy, Michigan, graduating from Athens High School.-Film:...

    ) - A midget
    Midget
    A midget is a short person with relatively average bodily proportions in comparison with other human beings. The term is often improperly used to describe a person with the medical condition dwarfism. The two terms are often used synonymously because both terms originate as words defining small...

     bully with 6 toes on each foot who was the Kahula of Shredder Beach before Boomer and Brady defeated him in a surfing contest over who would be the Kahula and it was discovered that he cheats in order to win, Shredder Beach a dangerous beach in Kinkow where the best surfer rules and not even the kings have jurisdiction. He also makes an appearance on Boomers Junga ball team
  • Oogie (Doug Brochu
    Doug Brochu
    Douglas "Doug" Brochu is an American actor, comedian and voice actor. He is best known for starring in the Disney Channel Original Series, Sonny With a Chance, as Grady Mitchell.-Career:...

    ) - An invisible tree person who befriends Boomer, making Brady jealous. They mistakenly think he's a cannibal, but he turns out to be vegetarian. After the kings apologize to him, they are still unable to stop Mason from blasting him (who still believed he was a cannibal).
  • Aerosol (Leslie-Anne Huff
    Leslie-Anne Huff
    Leslie-Anne Huff is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Penelope on Disney's Sonny with a Chance, opposite Demi Lovato.-Early life:...

    ) - An evil orange mermaid who is the leader of the mermaids. She wants to overthrow the kings and steal the castle. In the episode "A Mermaid's Tail" she almost succeeded when the kings gave her feet and she betrayed them, but she was foiled when doused with sea water, and transformed back into a mermaid along with her friends: Amazonia (the blue mermaid), Amnesia (the pink mermaid), Ammonia (the gold mermaid), and Anomatopoeia (the yellow mermaid).
    • Amazonia (Madison Riley
      Madison Riley
      Madison Riley is an American actress.-Filmography:-External links:...

      ) - A tall, dumb blonde mermaid with a blue tail who enjoys everything that has to do with feet. She fell in love with Lanny in the episode "A Mermaid's Tail".
  • Atog the Giant (The Great Khali) - A 7 foot human who was challenged by King Brady and King Boomer to a duel.
  • Rebecca "Awesome" Dawson (Logan Browning
    Logan Browning
    Logan Laurice Browning is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Sasha in the 2007 film Bratz: The Movie and Brianna in Meet The Browns . She is sometimes credited as Logan L...

    ) - Boomer's crush in school who thinks she said yes to going to prom with him. They wind up dancing anyway. She also comes to the island for a date with Boomer. When she visited Kinkow in "An Ice Girl for Boomer," she was taken away by a jealous caveman yet was rescued by Boomer and the caveman's girlfriend.
  • Chauncy (Davis Cleveland
    Davis Cleveland
    Davis Cleveland is an American television actor, rapper and singer. He is best known for his role as the mischievous little brother Flynn Jones on the Disney Channel original series Shake It Up.-Career:...

    ) - The leader of the meerkat group of school and Boomer's friend.
  • Parrot (voiced by John Tartaglia
    John Tartaglia
    John Nicholas Tartaglia is an American singer, actor, dancer, puppeteer.Tartaglia was born in Maple Shade, New Jersey, U.S.. He joined Sesame Street's puppetry team at the age of 16 part-time, performing as a right hand and many minor characters, including Phoebe and being the backup for Kevin...

    ) -
  • Sherpa Squonk (Mikey Post
    Mikey Post
    Mikey Post is an American actor. Mikey is a little person and is three feet two inches tall.He has appeared in the films Black Knight, Rest Stop, Rest Stop 2, Killer Pad, Skid Marks, Bedtime Stories, and on the TV shows MADtv, Boardwalk Empire & 90210...

    ) - A 3 foot tall, smelly, sarcastic and troll-like creature who lives underground.

Episodes

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Skin pigmentation in twins

Although it is unusual, it is not unheard of to have twins with different skin colors. Twins who have different pigmentation must be dizygotic, or fraternal twins, meaning that they came from two separate eggs. They can arise from either the same two parents, with the sperm from the same father impregnating both eggs, or from the same mother and two fathers impregnating an egg each. The odds of a birth of twins with different skin pigmentation both parented by the same father are 1,000,000:1. Brady even addresses this in the series' pilot: "The reality is our mom was black and our dad was white."

Twins and order of succession

That the diarchy was installed over their cousin seems to suggest that Kinkow observes some variant of Salic law
Salic law
Salic law was a body of traditional law codified for governing the Salian Franks in the early Middle Ages during the reign of King Clovis I in the 6th century...

; however, if the principle of agnatic primogeniture were to be strictly observed, the crown would have gone to whichever of the twins as could be demonstrated to have been born first (for example, through an examination of their birth certificate
Birth certificate
A birth certificate is a vital record that documents the birth of a child. The term "birth certificate" can refer to either the original document certifying the circumstances of the birth or to a certified copy of or representation of the ensuing registration of that birth...

s as to time of day). The younger twin would then be next in line, as would be the case of Prince Vincent of Denmark
Prince Vincent of Denmark
Prince Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander of Denmark, Count of Monpezat , is a member of the Danish Royal Family. He is the third child and youngest son of Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, the Australian-born Crown Princess Mary. He is also the sixth grandchild and youngest grandson of Queen...

 and his little sister
Princess Josephine of Denmark
Princess Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat , is a member of the Danish Royal Family. She is the fourth and youngest child of Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, the Australian-born Crown Princess Mary, and the seventh and youngest grandchild of Queen Margrethe II of...

.

International release

Country / Region Channel Series premiere Title in country
Disney Channel
Disney Channel
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September 10, 2010 (sneak peek) Pair of Kings
Disney XD
Disney XD
Disney XD is a brand of children's TV channels worldwide targeting young males, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The channel was formerly known as Toon Disney and/or Jetix in most areas. According to Gary Marsh, President of Entertainment for Disney Channel Worldwide, "XD" does not "stand for...

September 22, 2010 (premiere)
Family
Disney XD
Disney XD (Canada)
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September 17, 2010 (Family)
June 1, 2011 (Disney XD)
Disney Channel Korea
Disney Channel Korea
Disney Channel Korea is a television channel which is a local version of the Disney Channel for South Korea. It launched on July 1, 2011...

December 19, 2010 (sneak peek)
February, 2011 (premiere)
Disney Channel Asia
Disney Channel Asia
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Disney XD UK
Disney XD (UK and Ireland)
-Programming:Like the US Version it includes original shows minimium disney channel programming and shorts.-Original Shows:Aaron Stone Zeke and Luther Kick Buttowski...

December 16, 2010 (Sneak Peek)
January 3, 2011 (premiere)
Disney Channel UK December 17, 2010 (sneak peek)
Disney XD (India)
Disney XD (India)
Disney XD is a television channel broadcasting in India, owned by The Walt Disney Company. It is a merger between Jetix and Toon Disney as one channel, unlike Toon Disney which aired action shows under a block called Jetix and animated in the channel itself, Disney XD will have no action dedicated...

June 11, 2011 Pair of Kings
Disney XD (Turkey) January 1, 2011 Bir Çift Kral
Disney XD Poland December 25, 2010 (sneak peek)
January 1, 2011 (premiere)
Para królów
Disney XD Greece December 25, 2010 Δίδυμοι Βασιλιάδες
Disney XD Latin America December 5, 2010 (sneak peek)
January, 2011 (premiere)
Par de Reyes
Par de Reis
Disney Channel Russia January 3, 2011 (Sneak Peek),
February 26, 2011 (premiere)
Два короля (Two Kings)
Disney Channel Kazakhstan March 1, 2011 Хан жен
Disney XD Scandinavia December 3, 2010 Kaksi Kunkkua
December 3, 2010 (sneak peek) Et Par Konger
December 3, 2010 (sneak peek) To Konger
? Par i kungar
Disney XD Spain January 6, 2011 (sneak peek)
January 7, 2011 (premiere)
Par de Reyes
Disney XD France Summer and Winter 2010 (sneak peek)
January 16, 2011 (premiere)
Paire de Rois
Disney XD Germany January 14, 2011 Pair of Kings – Die Königsbrüder
Disney XD Japan February 27, 2011 KING兄弟
Disney Channel Australia
Disney Channel Australia
For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel . For the original Disney Channel, see Disney Channel.Disney Channel Australia is a television channel that is broadcast in Australia and New Zealand...

January 1, 2011 (sneak peek)
January 31, 2011 (premiere)
Pair of Kings
Disney Channel New Zealand January 1st, 2011 (sneak peek)
January 31, 2011 (premiere)

  Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

Disney XD (Netherlands & Belgium) April 24-25, 2011 (sneak peek)
May 1, 2011 (premiere)
Pair of Kings
Disney XD May 13, 2011 Pair of Kings
Disney Channel Israel 7/28/2011 (preview)
8/11/2011 (Premiere)
שני מלכים
Shneiy Melachim
Two Kings
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