Broken Tears: After powering her way straight through James's funeral and reception at their apartment, Florida badly worries her family as she just keeps on without blinking.Breakout Character: Jimmie "J.J." Walker.
Bottle Episode: Many episodes seem to take place entirely within the Evans' apartment.Big Eater: Nathan "Buffalo Butt" Bookman often tends to have a super-sized appetite to go along with his portly frame, occasionally attempting to raid the Evans' fridge once in a while.ends up getting arrested for a liquor store robbery he didnt commit on his 18th Birthday. (to Keith after he slaps Thelma) "You better have a good excuse for this, or I'm going to put you in every shot glass across Chicago." For all his goofiness and constant teasing of them, he makes it abundantly clear that the best way to press his Berserk Button is to harm either of them. Berserk Button : Try not doing your homework with James around.He's mostly just a politician, but is also a skilled (if very self-serving) civil rights leader. Bald of Authority: Alderman Davis plays with this trope.Bad Job, Worse Uniform: J.J 's uniform while working at a fried chicken restaurant.Babies Ever After : Thelma announces her pregnancy in the finale.Later, Penny is similarly assaulted offscreen. Attempted Rape: Willona's husband Ray makes advances to Thelma, eventually groping her (and he would likely have taken it further had Willona and Florida not walked in).For Michael, this pretty much vanished in later seasons. Though Michael was a much straighter example, with James being angry in the more traditional sense. Aluminum Christmas Trees: That song Michael sings at Thelma and Keith's wedding? It's a Stevie Wonder song, "You And I (We Can Conquer The World)" from the album Talking Book.Keith begins drinking heavily after his Career-Ending Injury and inability to find a job, but snaps out of it after slapping Thelma.Cousin Naomi and her parents in the Very Special Episode "Sometimes There's No Bottom in the Bottle." The Alcoholic: Ned The Wino and Fishbone.Affectionate Nickname: The youngest son Michael Evans is often referred to by the nickname "Gramps".
And vice versa: she calls him "Balderman" and he calls her "Fellow-na." Though on Willona's part, it's slightly less than accidental.
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Reruns can be seen daily on TV One, on Get TV (as of December 2017) and occasionally on Nick at Nite's TV Land.
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The series finale aired on August 1, 1979, with a Mega-Happy Ending. After her scheme is exposed, she leaves and Penny regards Willona as her real mother. In the sixth season, Lynnetta has remarried and starts sending Penny anonymous gifts while attempting to frame Willona as an unfit adoptive parent who throws wild parties with undesirable guests. When the fifth season started, an 11-year old Janet Jackson joined the cast as Millicent "Penny" Gordon Woods after Penny's abusive mother Lynnetta reveals that she was abused as a child after a fight with Thelma and Willona, Lynnetta tells Penny that she deserves better. She was brought back in the sixth and final season with promises to clean up J.J.'s act (and never reference her second marriage, which Rolle thought went against Florida's character in multiple ways). This led to Rolle quitting the show for the entire fifth season, her character having relocated to Arizona to be with her second husband. The writers didn't see it that way, seemingly ramping up J.J.'s foolishness (though it's worth noting that Jimmie Walker, who played J.J., was a stand-up comedian and not much of an actor).
Esther Rolle hoped this would bring a shift in J.J.'s character from the clownish Kavorka Man he had been, to a more responsible Man Of The House. The show's most controversial move was killing off patriarch James at the beginning of the fourth season. was not a good role model for blacks, and Amos felt the show was becoming more about his antics, than about its original intent to be about family values. And like most Lear shows of the time, Good Times wasn't afraid to moralize or bring up controversial topics.īoth Esther Rolle and John Amos grew dissatisfied with J.J's character. Despite the fact that those efforts usually ended in bitter disappointment, the show remained surprisingly positive and uplifting. Most episodes featured the efforts of the Evans to get by in the ghetto and make a better life for themselves.
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