Pair of Kings

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Pair of Kings is an American television sitcom shown on the Disney XD cable channel. It was created by Dan Cross and David Hoge and stars Mitchel Musso and Doc Shaw. The series began production on February 15, 2010^[1], with stars Mitchell Musso and Doc Shaw departing fellow Disney series Hannah Montana and The Suite Life on Deck 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^[2], which premiered on June 13, 2011^[3]

The series centers on brothers Brady (Mitchel Musso) and Boomer (Doc Shaw), a pair of 16-year-old twins raised by their aunt and uncle in Chicago and live a normal existence. However, when Mason (Geno Segers), 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 king's 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 Kinkow, an American island part of Polynesia to assume their roles as the joint kings of the island nation, which has many odd customs and superstitions – while trying not to cause problems. Actually, the eldest 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. Boomer and Brady's efforts are often aided by Mikayla (Kelsey Chow), Mason's teenage daughter and hindered by Lanny (Ryan Ochoa), a disgruntled cousin, who's out to sabotage the boys and take the throne for himself.^[4]

• Mitchel Musso as Co-King "Brady Duke" of Kinkow - The Caucasian 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 even asked her to marry him in the first episode. He is more illogical than Boomer and he appears to be somewhat childish. After becoming king, he became lazy. He often uses his history of being bullied to help figure out how to solve a problem. However, he considers himself much of a ladies' man, though this is not true. In one episode, he becomes extremely jealous of Tristan, a yeti-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.
• Doc Shaw as Co-King "Boomer Duke" of Kinkow - The African-American twin/king of Kinkow and one of the two protagonists of the series. Inherited his mother's skin complexion. He likes making jokes and Beyonce. He is funny and a bit brave. Boomer has moments of carelessness and is rarely serious, unlike his brother Brady. In one episode, he is shown to be childish and even a bit of a backstabber. 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.
• Kelsey Chow as Mikayla Makoola - The Royal Secretary's only daughter who assists the twins. Brady often implies that he likes her,she also shows small hints of perhaps liking Brady back. 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.
• Ryan Ochoa as Lanny Duke - Brady and Boomer's evil cousin and next in line for the throne. 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 an minor pest or sometimes a friend, which aggravates Lanny even more. Lanny has a collection of evil embassadors of the world along with a fish named Yamakoshi.
• Geno Segers as Mason Makoola - The fearless Royal Secretary 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, this is shown when Mikayla says that the pool table in Brady and Boomer's 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 video of Mason and two of the guards doing a workout for men and women how to work out (mostly to the women, to impress them).

• Tichina Arnold as Aunt Nancy - Boomer and Brady's maternal aunt who's a former royalty so she can have a normal life.
• John Eric Bentley as Uncle Bill - Boomer and Brady's maternal uncle who's also a former royalty so he can have a normal life.
• Vincent Pastore as Yamakoshi - Lanny's one-hundred year-old pet fish 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.
• Martin Klebba as Hibachi, a midget 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.
• Doug Brochu as Oogie - A 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.
• Leslie Anne Huff as Aerosol, Leader of Mermaids - An evil orange mermaid who 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).
• Madison Riley as Amazonia - 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".
• The Great Khali as Atog the Giant - a 7 foot giant who was challenged by King Brady and King Boomer to a duel.

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."^[5]

That the diarchy was installed over their cousin seems to suggest that Kinkow observes some variant of Salic law; 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 certificates as to time of day). The younger twin would then be next in line, as would be the case of Prince Vincent of Denmark and his little sister.

Country / Region	Channel	Series premiere	Title in country
United States	Disney Channel	September 10, 2010 (sneak peek)	Pair of Kings
	Disney XD	September 22, 2010 (premiere)
Canada	Family Disney XD	September 17, 2010 (Family) June 1, 2011 (Disney XD)
Republic of Korea	Disney Channel Korea	December 19, 2010 (sneak peek) February, 2011 (premiere)
Taiwan	Disney Channel Asia
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Bangladesh
Brunei
Hong Kong
Malaysia
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
United Kingdom	Disney XD UK	December 16, 2010 (Sneak Peek) January 3, 2011 (premiere)
	Disney Channel UK	December 17, 2010 (sneak peek)
India	Disney XD (India)	June 11, 2011	Pair of Kings
Poland	Disney XD Poland	December 25, 2010 (sneak peek) January 1, 2011 (premiere)	Para królów
Greece	Disney XD Greece	December 25, 2010	Δίδυμοι Βασιλιάδες
Argentina	Disney XD Latin America	December 5, 2010 (sneak peek) January, 2011 (premiere)	Par de Reyes
Chile
Colombia
Mexico
Venezuela
Brazil			Par de Reis
Russia	Disney Channel Russia	January 3, 2011 (Sneak Peek), February 26, 2011 (premiere)	Два короля
Finland	Disney XD Scandinavia	December 3, 2010	Kaksi Kunkkua
Denmark		December 3, 2010 (sneak peek)	Et Par Konger
Norway		December 3, 2010 (sneak peek)	To Konger
Spain	Disney XD Spain	January 6, 2011 (sneak peek) January 7, 2011 (premiere)	Par de Reyes
France	Disney XD France	Summer and Winter 2010 (sneak peek) January 16, 2011 (premiere)	Paire de Rois
Germany	Disney XD Germany	January 14, 2011	Pair of Kings – Die Königsbrüder
Austria
Japan	Disney XD Japan	February 27, 2011	KING兄弟
Australia	Disney Channel Australia	January 1, 2011 (sneak peek) January 31, 2011 (premiere)	Pair of Kings
New Zealand	Disney Channel New Zealand	January 1st, 2011 (sneak peek) January 31, 2011 (premiere)
Netherlands Belgium	Disney XD (Netherlands & Belgium)	April 24-25, 2011 (sneak peek) May 1, 2011 (premiere)
South Africa	Disney XD	May 13, 2011

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