Pair of Kings

Pair of Kings
Genre	Fantasy sitcom
Created by	Dan Cross David Hoge
Starring	Mitchel Musso (Seasons 1-2) Doc Shaw Kelsey Chow Ryan Ochoa Geno Segers Adam Hicks (Season 3)
Opening theme	"Top of the World", performed by Mitchel Musso and Doc Shaw
Ending theme	"Top of the World" (instrumental)
Composers	Niclas Molinder, Johan Alkenas, Joacim Persson & Geraldo Sandell
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	56 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Dan Cross David Hoge Matt Wickline
Camera setup	Videotape (filmized); Multi-camera
Running time	22-24 mins
Production companies	It's a Laugh Productions Disney XD Original Productions
Original release
Network	Disney XD
Release	September 10, 2010 (2010-09-10) – present

Pair of Kings is an American television sitcom shown on the cable channel Disney XD. The sitcom's target audience are teenagers. The series began production on February 15, 2010, with stars Mitchel 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, which premiered on June 13, 2011. In December 2011, the series was renewed for a third season, however Disney announced that Musso would be replaced with actor Adam Hicks who has worked with Disney on previous projects such as Zeke and Luther. The third season premiered on June 18, 2012.

Premise

The series tells the story of brothers Brady (Mitchel Musso) and Boomer (Doc Shaw), a pair of teenage fraternal twins raised by their aunt and uncle in Chicago who 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 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 drastically and will try to be brave and face their fears.

After making the discovery, the brothers relocate to the fictional Polynesian island of Kinkow 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 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. In an episode in early October 2011, there was a chance to find out who was older, but the scroll that held the answer fell into a volcano, so no one will ever 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) and hindered by Lanny (Ryan Ochoa), 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 about Brady and Boomer.

During the third season of the show, Brady overheard Mikayla and Candace talking. Mikayla won't date Brady because she finds him too immature; so Brady leaves a note to Boomer, telling him that he will be leaving the island for good to go back to Chicago. When Boomer was about to take a hot air balloon to bring Brady back to Kinkow, a storm struck. The storm was about to destroy the island. Mason, Mikayla, the villagers, and the guards were to bring Boomer inside. Lanny, instead, tried to get Boomer killed in the storm while Boomer was attempting to get Brady. The storm passed and the next morning, they discovered a crashed boat. Several people exited the crashed ship. The last person to exit was King Boz (Adam Hicks) of Mindu. The new arrivals told how their island was destroyed by the storm and how they crash-landed on Kinkow. The inhabitants discovered that King Boz had a Kinkow-shaped birthmark on his bellybutton. Boomer and Brady were revealed to be two of a set of triplets, not just twins. Boz was lost as a child and subsequently was raised by apes. Later, the king and queen of Mindu found him and raised him as their own son.

Characters

Main characters

• King Brady, King of Kinkow (Mitchel Musso) - One of the two protagonists of the series in seasons 1 and 2. Inherited his father's skin complexion. He has a crush on Mikayla. 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 plays the guitar. He moved back to Chicago in season 3 after he overheard Mikayla say that he was immature, and that he would never mature so long as he was a king.

• King Boomer, King of Kinkow (Doc Shaw) - One of the two protagonists of the series. Inherited his mother's skin complexion. Boomer has moments of carelessness and is rarely serious, unlike his brother Brady, but in season 2, he begins to behave in a slightly more responsible and brave manner than Brady. In season 3, he is still getting used to having another brother and has become the voice of reason between him and Boz. He was also revealed to know ballet.

• King Boz, King of Kinkow/Mindu (Adam Hicks; season 3–present) - One of the two protagonists of the series in season 3. He is Brady and Boomer's long lost triplet brother who was lost in a storm on Kinkow 17 years ago. He was raised by apes until he was ten, after which he was found and adopted by the king and queen of the island of Mindu. He also does not like Mikayla very much because he feels that she looks like his ex-girlfriend even though it is very clear they look nothing alike. He tends to act like a real monkey making him wild and unpredictable. It is made quite clear in the first few episodes of season 3 that of the triplets, Boz is the most intelligent. He is also the only one who appears to have at least average intelligence, if not over. The only time he appeared to be as un-intellegent as Boomer and Brady was in the episode O Lanada, where, after trying to distracting Lanny, by posing as a waiter with an Itallian accent, (albeit poorly done), he claimed that he was tired as posing as a Chinese waiter, although this could not be lack of intelligence, but incited cultural unawareness. As revealed in "I Know What You Did Last Sunday", Boz was revealed to have sunken Mindu by accident.

• Mikayla Makoola (Kelsey Chow) - Mason's only daughter who assists the triplets. She is fearless and can handle anything especially since she has inherited her father's fighting skills. She is shown to be very good with a Machete, which she calls "Stabitha". Mikayla is the kind of person who tells the kings everything that they need to know, not just what they want to hear. Brady has a crush on her, but she continuously rejects him when he wants to go out with her. In the finale of season 2, Mikayla believes she may actually like Brady after having a dream of them kissing. She questions this and eventually kisses him to break him from a spell placed on him by the evil king. In the first episode of season 3, Brady overhears her telling her friend Candace that she wouldn't date Brady unless he grew up, which resulted in Brady leaving Kinkow. Mikayla does feel guilty upon hearing that Brady had left Kinkow.

• King/Prince Lanny, King of Lanada/Prince of Kinkow (Ryan Ochoa) - Brady, Boomer and Boz's evil cousin who was heir to the throne until Boomer and Brady showed up. He is the main and inept 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. While at first indifferent to Lanny, the kings have built up an inexplicably large amount of love and trust for him and misinterpret any action he does as trying to help them. In the episode "O Lanada", Boomer and Boz give Lanny Lanada without realizing the gold-producing gopher of Kinkow lives there. In the end, Lanny keeps Lanada.

• Mason Makoola (Geno Segers) - The strong and 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. He is often nicknamed "Sasquatch."

Recurring characters

• Yamakoshi (voiced by Vincent Pastore) - Lanny's one-hundred year-old pet fish and only friend, though they are constantly at odds. 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. In the Season 2 1-hour finale "The Evil King," it is revealed that Yamakoshi is really Kalakai, the evil twin of Malakai, first king of Kinkow, who was transformed into a fish by his brother. He regained his human form when the twin moons appeared in the sky and he tricked Lanny into placing him on the throne of the evil castle, which restored his true form, so long as he did not leave his castle, which would result in the curse activating again. However, he was defeated by Brady and Boomer, and fell into the river, which caused him to leave his castle, and change back into his fish form. He then returned to being Lanny's pet.

• Shaman (James Hong) - Kinkow Island's head elder and Shaman who learned everything from Kinkow Community College and is the go-to guy for the kings, though he openly dislikes them.

• Tarantula People - A tribe of people who are recurring antagonists of the series. They reside on the dark side of Kinkow and have often attacked the Kings which often ended with some of them being incarcerated.

• Candace (Brittany Ross) - Candace is Mikayla's pretty, but naive gossip-loving friend. She was the most popular student in Mikayla's school. She is a girly-girl who loves gossip. She even has her own TV show about gossiping

• Hibachi (Martin Klebba) - A dwarfish 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 Boomer's Junga ball team, and as a bouncer in Brady's club.

• Rebecca "Awesome" Dawson (Logan Browning) - 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. She eventually dumped Boomer because he was too childish "and due to the fact that he sent her a painting of his butt".She then reappears and gets back together in the season 3 episode "Bond of Brothers".

• Oogie (Doug Brochu) - A Flaji 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). He later develops a crush on a Dirt Fairy named Priscilla (portrayed by Jennifer Stone).

• Poopalay (Ben Geroux) - A furry creature who Brady and Boomer befriended. It starts off well, but it gets worse when they start neglecting it and it turns into a large beast, kidnapping the kings in the process. He also makes an appearance on Boomer's Junga ball team.

Guest stars

• Aerosol (Leslie-Anne Huff) - 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), Iman (the pink mermaid), Ammonia (the gold mermaid), and Anomatopoeia (the yellow mermaid).

• Amazonia (Madison Riley) - A tall, ignorant 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.

• Chauncy (Davis Cleveland) - The leader of the meerkat group of school and Boomer's friend.

• Tough Poet (Walter Emanuel Jones) - An islander who wrote a poem about his mother and the host of the Poetry Slam.

• Parrot (voiced by John Tartaglia) - A talking parrot that insults the kings.

• Lucas (Doc Shaw) - Mikayla's ex boyfriend who was always her boyfriend, since they never performed the Kinkowian dumping ritual.

• Priscilla (Jennifer Stone) - She is a Dirt Fairy and Oogie's love interest.

• The Head Chef (Dwight Howard) - He is the king's head chef, but quit after the kings rudely wanted a steak cake. He got his job back after helping to fend off a giant ogre, but decided to leave the island and play professional basketball and then Boomer said a reference in the end "Who does he think he is, Dwight Howard?"

• Tarantula Witch Doctor (Greg Eagles) the only doctor for the Tarantula People and Mary-Ann's father. He made appearances in the first 3 episodes of Season 3. As of his first appearance, he claims Boomer has the luck of 1,000 pygmy chimps.

• Mary-Ann (Denyse Tontz) the only Tarantula female who made her debut in Season 3. In her first appearance, she tried to flirt with Boz but switched to Boomer to make Boz jealous. She also tried to kill Boomer over a waterfall when he found out her true intentions and that she had Brady's King Ring but was stopped by Boz.

• Aunt Nancy (Tichina Arnold) - The brothers' maternal aunt.

• Uncle Bill (John Eric Bentley) - The brothers' maternal uncle.

Episodes

Main article: List of Pair of Kings episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	20		September 10, 2010 (2010-09-10)	May 2, 2011 (2011-05-02)
2	25		June 13, 2011 (2011-06-13)	April 16, 2012 (2012-04-16)
3	22		June 18, 2012 (2012-06-18)	February 18, 2013 (2013-02-18)

Production

Casting

Mitchel Musso and Doc Shaw portray the two male leads, Boomer and Brady, the co-kings of Kinkow. After the second season, Mitchel Musso was dropped from the main cast, and was replaced by Adam Hicks, who portrays the twins' long lost triplet brother, Boz. After the premiere on June 18, 2012, any mention of King Brady (Mitchel Musso) was completely removed from the Pair of Kings website.

Taping location

Seasons 3-present are filmed at Sunset Gower Studios (which also housed production of the first season of That's So Raven).

International release

Country / Region	Channel	Series premiere	Title in country	Source(s)
Argentina Chile Colombia Mexico Honduras Venezuela	Disney XD (Latin America)	December 11, 2010	Par de Reyes
Brazil	Disney XD (Brazil)		Par de Reis
Romania	Disney Channel (Romania)	March 31, 2012	Perechea de regi

External links

• Official website
• Pair of Kings at IMDb
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