Edited sentence: At the beginning of Season 5, Kyle moves to London without Maxine, Synclaire and Overton move into a basement apartment as husband and wife, and Tripp moves in with Khadijah and Regine.Each one of these plot twists, occurring at about the same time, have been considered "jump the shark" moments for the series.Interestingly, Max/Lynn are considered the "sex freaks" of the group, while Synclaire/Maya started out as clerical support who eventually branched out into successful careers of their own.John Henton (and his character Overton) hails from Cleveland, Ohio.Queen Latifah (and her character Khajidah) hails from East Orange, New Jersey.Similarly, the characters can also be compared to the show Girlfriends - Khadijah/Joan as the responsible one; Synclaire/Lynn as the odd one; Regine/Toni as the self-obsessed man chaser; and Max/Maya as the sarcastic one.The series also has some similarity to The Golden Girls where members of each cast were similar:  Khadijah/Dorothy as the responsible one; Synclaire/Rose as the odd one; Blanche/Regine as the self-obsessed man chaser; Max/Sophia as the sarcastic one.The set used in the pilot episode for the brownstone is the same as the one used for the Winslow home on the popular sitcom Family Matters.While the series is sometimes referred to as a "Black version of Friends", it is worth noting that Living Single premiered a full season before Friends by the same studio under the same studio president, Tony Jonas