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Love her beautiful mu mu

Fr she was busting a move on em 😂

James's behavior or comportment epitomizes what a man is to be. A real man!

Tell me about it.

have a father like him old school 😪

To this day, I can't watch any of the episodes where he's been killed off.

Good times was never the same when James died. Single parent hood for men and women can be a nightmare to not wake up to, if you are weak.

@@wallacemays4842 But another man came into their lives (a new husband).

And Jimmie Walker. You will never see acting quality like that again.

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Yes indeed. Every week it seems that maybe they have finally have some bit of progress moving upward then something goes wrong. If this show stayed true to itself focusing on family like season 1-3 then perhaps it could have stayed on until the 80s. By that time they should have been out of the projects.

I agree, the show wasn't the same after he went.

That my boo

🤣🤣🤣

Right for her man 😂😂😂

Ain’t that all poor people tho. Especially black men.

Even in the end.

🙄🙄🙄....always

Yelp all the time....they get excited because a job say they go hire him...then booooooooooooooommmmmmm......no job for him.....jj still saying dum shit..

When you are born into a social construct that is designed to exterminate you, this is the outcome.

Me too®™®🙏

i wasn’t alive to watch it when it first came out but my mom was and she always watched the reruns. I love this show

It was the saddest show all wrapped up in laughter. Every single time they got close to something good, it was snatched away. One step forward and get pushed 2 steps back.

​@@lifewithzinnah steve. and seoled, i do watch it often when not working. yep. great show (still) Good evening to everyone. you're right, best show, i still watch re-runs.

@@ellenhage3611 When I started watching these reruns in the late 90s it reminded me of my childhood and then the song by Notorious BIG Mo money mo problems.

He was on Sanford & Son too.

Rolle was throwing down at age 53 (then).

lmao, she was born with it.

Getting down!

Right she was getting it for her man 😂😂😂

When you have a family to support and face similar struggles....you appreciate the show all the more.

Amen to that..

Im a white man and I always felt angry for James.

I never thought of that.

In real life, Jimmie Walker was approaching 30 in this episode.

@Angel Johnson Yes, he was born in 1947.

@@Capcoor that's exactly what I thought

JJ was a an artist not a union worker. JJ would have hated it.

always, a true new york girl. brooklyn. she showed/acted/realistic ny girl, but yet, they are from chicago, in the show, so really is no difference really. lol she was awesome."

Florida dancing gets me everytime lol 🤣🤣🤣

That was so funny couldn't stop laughing 😂😂

It’s so obvious every episode was good tv but the family with disappointment after disappointment geez

@fair and balanced Not at all... many were Wins for the family... beating the odds to overcome... much of America, no matter their color, related and cheered for the Evans.

Norman Lear screwed up by giving Amos the boot...

If there is HONEST observation here, and we look at the time-line and progression of the Evans family, James was not educated and offered little in the job market beyond unskilled labor. And writers of the show ensured that Jame's biggest challenge was sustaining employment to provide for his family, yet his "saving grace" was voila!, that even though James was not upwardly mobile, that there was a father in the home. During this era, as in many black families, the father WAS the head of the family and the woman (unless single) was his help-mate. My own family mirrored this. And to be honest, my own father was very influential in our lives. The producer of this show, as well as many of it's writers, knew little about the culture of BLACK families that existed in the urban arena or "ghettos" as specific locales are still referred to today. When John Amos and then Esther Rolle called producers out, because they both did not agree with the direction of the show and the continual "buffoonish antics" of JJ, in the final analysis, JOHN AMOS VOLUNTARILY WALKED AWAY FROM HIS ROLE IN THIS SIT-COM, the show's "laughs" (and all laughs ain't good laughs) would not be enough to sustain the ratings. What black people were moving towards were the rewards of becoming middle-class families and in spite of societal challenges, supporting one another's visions. Some of the variables have changed in this "new millenium," but as with other challenges, black families will go the distance with this as well.

@@septiawoman2911 WELL SAID!!!!!

James told her to get the party together. He was over confident he had that job wrapped up.

True but it was James that gave her the green light to go ahead. He thought he had the job in the bag.

When you're in your 50s and unemployed....ageism becomes more apparent when you're struggling to become permanent within a company

@@3912James Absolutely!

@@3912James Ageism, ..a big " ISM" that a lot of people don't talk about, but it is very real within society

Lol

Wrong

and kept him poor 😂

Super gorgeous 🥰

Lol

Wasn’t Henry George Jefferson’s brother on All in the Family, and Florida Evans was Maude’s maid for a while.

Wayne Hoxit, my guess was due to all the bad luck he was having getting a good job and being disappointed time and time again that alone would anger anyone.

You actually ask that question or are you being sarcastic...lol Imagine being a poor black man living in the ghetto, trying to raise a family with only a high school diploma, just getting by, trying to do the right thing, staying out of trouble and still can't get a decent union job... And you ask why he has rage....lol Any man in his position would not have the best disposition.

@Frederic Wells Regardless.. During those days a High School Diploma or a person without a High School Diploma could still get decent blue collar type union Job. Employers didn't see too much of a difference between the two

@Frederic Wells I agree. Not graduating High School wasn't that big of a deal back then because many well paying union jobs were still around. James still struggled because many of those opportunities for those jobs weren't readily available in his area. However, having a college degree was a different story..

@Frederic Wells That is correct, and got a good job offer in Alaska. Florida didn't let him go though :(

yeah and messed up part is James told her to spend the money without knowing if he had the job or not.

@Angel Johnson AND you need to stop talking to me like I give a shit what you want me to do. I gave my opinion. It's based on the fact that if you look at their careers nobody under 55 years old even knows who Jimmy Walker is. Everyone knows John Amos. What the hell has Bernadette done? NOTHING! I am speaking for myself. I sure didn't watch because of them.

@Angel Johnson Watch your name calling. you don't know me. I can give my opinion like you can right? Amos is a respected actor that has been in a lot. Jimmie Walker and Bernadette? What have they done?

It was age discrimination however James was closed of getting hired but due to a computer glitch it was saying that James was 31 who was actually 41. The cut off age of the job program was 35.

No it didn't. Everyone who says they stopped watching after 2 seasons is lying.

It was

Stfu