I liked the PJs...it was a solid show, especially being part of the fox Sunday lineup. They had a hell of a sunday back then...king of the hill, simpsons, the pjs, Futurama, family guy.
@@marzdavinci5970 I saw that! After watching the show and then watching RU-vid vids about the show, I wondered if there was a blu ray set. THEN I saw the prices the dvds were going for and thought it was insane! definitely need to be on more streaming services or be able to buy at a reasonable price!
Thurgoode: "Nobody calls me bougie!!!" "Muriel, what is bougie?!?!" Muriel: "It means you think you're better than other people" Thurgoode: Well then hell, bougie as charge.. The PJ's was funny as hell. Too bad it didn't last long like it should have.
"Can I get a Amen?" "I say can I get a Amen?" "If I don't get a Amen I'm gonna whoop somebody ass up in here. Can I get a Amen?" That part of the show always stuck with me. 😂😂😂
"He was told this was gonna be cancelled because this show gave us a positive image of two black couples together with a family...which is what's missing in the black community today." 😎😎😎
People were bitching and complaining about this show BACK THEN. If this was on during the social media era they would have canned it after one episode. Thank goodness this was long before that time. Long Life The PJ’s. Dope show from my childhood.
Omg somebody finally covered this topic🙌🏾.. I grew up on the pjs and still watch it. I’ve always wanted to know what happened to such a great show. This is a big piece of my childhood. Thanks for this!
I really liked this cartoon. I never laughed so hard at all the characters, especially Thurgood. I was disappointed when it ended. I felt like the series should of ran much longer. I still watch its reruns whenever I find it, and introduced it to my grandchild.
Kid: "Super...Our hot water ain't working". Super: "Ya hot water ain't workin cause ya Daddy ain't workin. When ya Daddy get a job then ya hot water will start workin. Until then, gone and chill. Ain't that what you kids say...Chill. Now gone and keep it real".
I still be watching this show, I wish he would reboot it every time I watch it. Probably was helly expensive back then to make and I’m sure it would cost them even more now . (Or maybe not because of the tech we have) I def appreciated the culture that was in the show, there’s nothing like it !
I remember the PJ’s. Really interesting how it premiered along with Family Guy back in January 1999. And aired on FOX along with The Simpsons, Futurama, KOTH and also Family Guy. I have to watch the show again. Really beautifully animated in stop motion
This show was an absolute banger! I still watch it on this platform every now and again. Also, shoutout to The Brewster Douglass projects for giving me my first real experience of a non related family when I picked up and moved to Detroit, MI in my early 20’s trying to figure out how to adult! My parents raised me but y’all made me a man 🫡
I never knew Eddie Murphy was connected to this show. It was a show I only watched when I randomly came across it late at night. It was the strangest thing to me at the time but I'd always watch it when I came across it
I was 3 when the show came out but didn’t really get a chance to watch it until I was 5 or 6.. I watched it with my grandmother .. then all of a sudden like 5yrs ago people was watching it and I’m was like damn this show a classic I remember when theres was new episodes.. The PJ’s just bring back a few memories
My high school daughter and I loved the PJ show!!! We would be hooting and hollering because it was so funny and real!!! And her classmates loved it also!!!
I just started watching the PJs randomly a few weeks ago, there’s a channel that posts all the episodes. I hadn’t thought about the show since it was on!
I loved this show! Back in the day there was a crackhead in my grandparent’s neighborhood who looked just like Smokey! And the lady who had kids named Lasagna and Chevron! Classic! 😂
Wow. The PJ's is the best Black Animation sitcom that will ever be seen in history. Indeed, it was mostly for adults but kids love it too. In fact, there was nothing wrong with Living Color or the PJ's because all of it is true about being Black and struggling day to say just to survive. Yes, the Projects are Black People homes and we just have to face the fact that we are living in the real world with real discrimination, prejudice and racism.
I used to watch The PJs when I was a kid when it first came out on tv. Nice to know the background now. It was really good. Can’t understand why it was protested. I wish it lasted longer.
Back then the economy was a lot stronger and corporations were more willing to invest 1 million an episode for a show that would bomb. its the same thing with games like NBA Street Vol 2 and Def Jam FFNY, these types of media don't get made today because they are too risky and don't guarantee a profit.
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Watching the PJs together was a staple in the Bee family! Ppl in my family, to this day can quote scenes from the PJs line by line and we'd still laugh as if we've just heard it for the first time! That's how funny this show was. We hated to see it get canceled! The characters were spot on typical of many in the hoods of Detroit, not just the projects.
I was scared to watch it back then because of the claymation . Now that I gave it a chance, I find it so funny. Every line out of Thurgood’s mouth is a joke.
The Pj's actually stands for "The Projects". What a lot of people don't know is that Eddie Murphy and Charlie are originally from Brooklyn projects (Tilden houses to be exact), wich were (and still are) the worse and most dangerous projects in the country. His mother moved him and Charlie out at the age of eleven, not too long after their Biological father (who was a police officer) was stabbed and murdered by a woman, to Long Island where she met and married "Vernon" Eddie and Charlie's step father. So much of the pj's is most likely loosely based on Eddie and Charlie Murphys rough and chaotic early traumatic childhood memories while living the notorious Brooklyn projects. It's been a popular presumption that the show was originally based on The rough "Brewster Projects" of Detroit, but this is actually not the case.
i LOVED this show - set in the lawrence hilton-jacobs projects!! 😆😆😆 i wonder if he ever liked that nod from eddie murphy? not a bad episode was ever made. all were solid and funny af! when smokey had to take in borders and gave a tour of his “humble abode” sewer dwelling, omg nothing was funnier!!!!!
The streaming service I have, has a 24/7 station up there that plays nothing but The Pj’s back to back without any commercials. When 1 episode goes off, the next 1 comes right on.. I love it!! It’s actually A LOT of channels like that up there…
The best ever I want more... This was the best ever Eddie Murphy is genius he inspired everything now EVERYTHING BLK and more I miss it the most iconic projects are short lived 😢
The first time I watched the PJ’s I laughed constantly. I’m rewatching the whole series at the moment and I still enjoy it. Thurgood and smokey were my favourites.
I miss the PJs. Claymation seems like a death sentence for a tv show because it's so expensive and time consuming Edit: also spike lee is such a crybaby. "I'm not saying black people are above being made fun of" but really that's exactly what he's saying. He can't stand to see a joke being made about real black struggles without the punchline being an evil white man behind it all. Spike basically didn't get the joke eddie murphy was telling, because spike lee isn't funny and he has no real sense of humor. Also he's short.
