Richie, a homeless friend of Shawn and Marlon, appears in the The Wayans Bros. Season 4 episode titled "Help A Brother Out". The part of Richie is played by Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, who is perhaps best known for his part as Freddy "Boom Boom" Washington on the 1970's ABC-TV series Welcome Back, Kotter, as well as his role in the film Cooley High (1975), the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and the ABC-TV Jackson Five biopic The Jacksons: An American Dream in 1992.
About Richie[]
The brothers, who feel a little compassion for homeless Richie, who said he got in that situation after dropping out of college and "sponging off of his parents for awhile, until they got tired of him, and kicked him out", agree to allow him to stay a night after Marlon, who was auditioning for the part of a homeless man in a play, enlists Richie to teach him the emotions of how it actually is on the streets; when Richie accompanys him to his audition, in trying to show Marlon, who, in a hilarious scene, flubs the audition badly, how to act as a homeless man surviving on the streets, he so impresses the producers and director, who catch him in his acting demostration, that they give him the part instead of Marlon!