Twins Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell were separated and adopted at birth. Fourteen years later, they encounter each other by chance at the mall. After the families meet, Tia's widowed father agrees to let Tamera and her single mother move in with them.
No, but the family has a cat in the first season who appears for a few episodes and then is never seen or heard from again. There is no mention of the cat after he stops appearing in the show.
No, but there are a lot of homophobic jokes, casual homophobia, and "no homo" moments (where male characters express discomfort over being complimented by other men).
In season 4, episode 22, Tamera's adoptive mother shows up as a ghost. She is not threatening in any way. The first scene she's in, she just looks like a regular person. In the last scene, she's shown with a translucent filter
In S2E18 during a lesson on dissection in a biology class, the students are tasked with killing the frog they are meant to dissect. The protagonists free their frog, but it is implied that everyone else killed theirs.
There is a whole roast pig in one of the Hawaii episodes. In S3E19 the dad and grandfather go fishing. The fish are not shown dying, but dead fish are shown