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Good Times

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Good Times	comment	Good Times was a Norman Lear-produced Sitcom that ran on CBS from 1974â€“79. The show, a Spin-Off of Lear's earlier comedy Maude (itself spun off from All in the Family), followed the lives of the Evans family, a poor black family living in the high-rise projects of Chicago: Florida Evans (Esther Rolle): Matriarch, occasional Mama Bear James Evans (John Amos): Patriarch with a Hair-Trigger Temper James "J.J." Evans, Jr. (Jimmie Walker): Catchphrase machine, Jive Turkey, The Wisecracker, Kavorka Man (cleaned up in later seasons) Thelma Anderson, nÃ©e Evans (Bern Nadette Stanis): The Heart Michael Evans (Ralph Carter), "The Militant Midget": male Soapbox Sadie, The Smart Guy Building superintendent Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown), derisively nicknamed "Buffalo Butt" or "Booger": Drop-In Landlord, Butt-Monkey And their neighbor, divorcÃ©e Willona Woods (Ja'Net DuBois): Sassy Black Woman, Drop-In CharacterMost episodes featured the efforts of the Evans to get by in the ghetto and make a better life for themselves. Despite the fact that those efforts usually ended in bitter disappointment, the show remained surprisingly positive and uplifting. And like most Lear shows of the time, Good Times wasn't afraid to moralize or bring up controversial topics.Both Esther Rolle and John Amos grew dissatisfied with J.J's character. Rolle felt that J.J. 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. The show's most controversial move was killing off patriarch James at the beginning of the fourth season. 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 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). This led to Rolle quitting the show for the entire fifth season, her character having relocated to Arizona to be with her second husband. 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).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. 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. After her scheme is exposed, she leaves and Penny regards Willona as her real mother.The series finale aired on August 1, 1979, with a Mega-Happy Ending. Reruns can be seen daily on TV One, Get TV, and Catchy Comedy (as of March 2023). All six seasons are available on DVD.
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Good Times / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Good Times / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Ernie Barnes, the artist behind J.J.'s paintings, appeared in a few episodes as one of Sweet Daddy's goons.
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Good Times / int_16838478	type	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named
Good Times / int_16838478	comment	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Semi-averted, an early mention of VD on American TV, but no mention of which or how it was transferred. Fair for Its Day: In those days, VD was used much the same way as "STD" is today: As a catch-all term (and then, there was a smaller range of diseases to refer to.)
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Good Times / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Good Times / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Thelma to James.
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Good Times / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Good Times / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost : J.J.'s elusive girlfriend Henrietta. Also a more literal example after James passes away in Season 4.
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Good Times / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
Good Times / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Thelma, the only daughter in the family. She is hyper-emotional where Florida is calm and stoic, but she's also the most compassionate.
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Good Times / int_1c6dc230	type	Dad the Veteran
Good Times / int_1c6dc230	comment	Dad the Veteran: James served in Korea.
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Good Times / int_1d0b43b0	type	Looks Like Jesus
Good Times / int_1d0b43b0	comment	Looks Like Jesus: In "Black Jesus", J.J. paints a picture of what Jesus would look like if he was black, basing his rendition on Ned the wino. As soon as the painting is hung in the living room, a number of good luck events start occurring for the Evans family and Willona.
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Good Times / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Good Times / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: This is a pretty regular occurrence on the show, something that bothered even the actors. Whenever James gets a better, more stable, better-paying job, something happens that gets him fired or laid off. Or killed off. Whenever J.J. gets the opportunity to make some money off of his art, something happens to make him turn down the deal or get the whole thing called off. Thelma gets married to a potential NFL star, only for him to blow out his knee at their wedding.
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Good Times / int_20314beb	type	Cousin Oliver
Good Times / int_20314beb	comment	Subverted with the child abuse storyline that introduced Cousin Oliver Penny. The Very Special Problem was resolved in no fewer than 6 episodes and Penny remained on the show until its end.
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Good Times / int_2472c017	type	Abuse Discretion Shot
Good Times / int_2472c017	comment	Abuse Discretion Shot: The infamous scene of Penny getting burned with a hot iron by her mother as she pleads not to do it. It cuts away but her next scene does have her arm bandaged up.
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Good Times / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Good Times / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: The Evans family will never make it out of the ghetto, will never be financially well off enough to do more than just survive, will never be any better off than they were in the previous episode.
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Good Times / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
Good Times / int_2882c8c1	comment	Keith begins drinking heavily after his Career-Ending Injury and inability to find a job, but snaps out of it after slapping Thelma.
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Good Times / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Good Times / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: James seemed to wear the same brown shirt and off-white corduroys every single episode. Lampshaded in one episode when he ponders whether to wear "my brown shirt, my brown shirt or my brown shirt?" Averted with Thelma, who had a much nicer wardrobe than the Evanses should really have been able to afford (reportedly at the insistence of Bern Nadette Stanis, who didn't want to look poor on television).
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Good Times / int_2ceee1dc	type	Head-Turning Beauty
Good Times / int_2ceee1dc	comment	Head-Turning Beauty: In one episode J.J. is hired to paint a portrait of a curvaceous neighbor nicknamed "The Wiggler." All the men react whenever she's brought up.
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Good Times / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Good Times / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: James was this when he got mad.
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Good Times / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Good Times / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: J.J. ends up getting arrested for a liquor store robbery he didnâ€™t commit on his 18th Birthday.
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Good Times / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Good Times / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef : Everyone makes fun of Thelma's cooking, especially J.J.
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Good Times / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
Good Times / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: About the only character who didn't hit it big in the finale is Bookman.
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Good Times / int_4128bc77	type	Broken Tears
Good Times / int_4128bc77	comment	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. But when all the guests, even Wilona, are gone, then and there she throws and breaks a large glass punch bowl, yelling "Damn! DAMN! DAAAAAMN!" as her family is finally able to comfort her in her darkest hour.
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Good Times / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Good Times / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: James in Season 4, Carl in Season 6.
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Good Times / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Good Times / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Bookman. Or maybe just call him Buffalo Butt Monkey.
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Good Times / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Good Times / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Florida, Season 5. The kids would "talk to her" on the phone once every other episode.
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Good Times / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Good Times / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: For as much as they struggled to make ends meet, James and Florida would readily turn down an opportunity if it went against their moral principles. Such as when James is offered a job from a televangelist friend, which heâ€™d initially accepted. But when he saw the impact his doing so would have on his children (he would have been feigning ailments so that he could be â€œhealedâ€œ), he changed his mind. Likewise, Florida turning down a TV commercial spot upon learning sheâ€™d be selling a product made mostly of alcohol; she also stated she wouldn't do it if she had to do "dialect" i.e. not speak proper English; as soon as Michael gets drunk from drinking the tonic, Florida wants no further part of it. Also when J.J. is making good money with a small-time gangster/gambling operation, Florida refuses to accept any of his "dirty money" and kicks him out of their apartment, until he comes to his senses.
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Good Times / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Good Times / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line:"We regret to inform you, that your husband, James Evans was...killed in an automo....(bile accident)"
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Good Times / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Good Times / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: J.J., who was somehow able to compete with the school quarterback despite being skinny and funny looking.
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Good Times / int_50eb1d8	type	Adopting the Abused
Good Times / int_50eb1d8	comment	Adopting the Abused: Penny (famously played by a young Janet Jackson) was a little girl living with an abusive single mother when she was adopted by Willona. Her mother did such things as burning her with a hot iron as a form of punishment.
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Good Times / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Good Times / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Keith, bordering on The Alcoholic.
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Good Times / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
Good Times / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Played with in the episode, "Sex and the Evans Family".
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Good Times / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Good Times / int_5fcedca	comment	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.
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Good Times / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Good Times / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Many episodes seem to take place entirely within the Evans' apartment.
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Good Times / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Good Times / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: J.J. to Thelma and Michael. 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.
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Good Times / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Good Times / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After : Thelma announces her pregnancy in the finale.
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Good Times / int_6eec6377	type	Soapbox Sadie
Good Times / int_6eec6377	comment	Soapbox Sadie: Michael, "The Militant Midget". Unlike most examples, he was a kid, male, and his views were generally relevant to the plot and the target audience. This part of his character was phased out completely as he got older, due to the show's writers thinking a teenaged black militant would be off-putting to white viewers.
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Good Times / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Good Times / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Sometimes There's No Bottom in the Bottle" (Season 1) has the Evanses visited by Cousin Naomi, who Thelma discovers has a drinking problem. "Penny's Christmas" (Season 5) has Penny stealing a necklace from a department store. "The Traveling Christmas" (Season 6) as the family holding a Christmas party at Keith's job, since he has to work the holiday.
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Good Times / int_74c3078d	type	TheRashomon
Good Times / int_74c3078d	comment	The Rashomon: The episode "Where's There's Smoke"; the couch catches fire and burns a hole in one of the pillows. J.J., Thelma, and Michael each tells Willona their version of what happened. Penny's version of the story is the truth.
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Good Times / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Good Times / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Florida, to Arizona during Season 5 with her new husband. The Bus Came Back: In Season 6, thanks to Esther Rolle's return to the series..
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Good Times / int_7833feeb	type	Sudden Name Change
Good Times / int_7833feeb	comment	Sudden Name Change: James was called 'Henry' for John Amos's appearances on Maude.
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Good Times / int_794cff5	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Good Times / int_794cff5	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: Remade for British TV as The Fosters (interestingly, the original show has never aired in the UK).
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Good Times / int_79a80b74	type	Fair for Its Day
Good Times / int_79a80b74	comment	Fair for Its Day: In those days, VD was used much the same way as "STD" is today: As a catch-all term (and then, there was a smaller range of diseases to refer to.)
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Good Times / int_79cf6c4e	type	Join or Die
Good Times / int_79cf6c4e	comment	Join or Die: This is why Michael joins a gang. Quote paraphrased. A couple of seasons prior, J.J. also fell victim to their "Health and Accident Insurance Program," as in "If I didn't join, they were gonna ensure that I had an accident to my health."
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Good Times / int_7eb03aee	type	Peer-Pressured Bully
Good Times / int_7eb03aee	comment	Peer-Pressured Bully: Michael joins the Junior Warlords gang purely out of a sense of self preservation.
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Good Times / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Good Times / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Ned The Wino and Fishbone. Cousin Naomi and her parents in the Very Special Episode "Sometimes There's No Bottom in the Bottle." Keith begins drinking heavily after his Career-Ending Injury and inability to find a job, but snaps out of it after slapping Thelma.
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Good Times / int_857abc33	type	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters
Good Times / int_857abc33	comment	Neighborhood Friendly Gangster: "Sweet Daddy" Williams was generally portrayed as one of these, despite being a racketeer, a loan shark, and a pimp. Although sometimes only in comparison to others who might take over the turf if he wasn't there. Sure, he's a crook and a con, but at least he's never killed anybody.
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Good Times / int_89283763	type	Insatiable Newlyweds
Good Times / int_89283763	comment	Insatiable Newlyweds: Thelma and Keith.
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Good Times / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Good Times / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: "A Place to Die" (Season 3) has the Evanses spending New Year's Eve without James, who's stuck out of town due to a snowstorm, but with an elderly man Michael has befriended who expects to pass on at any moment.
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Good Times / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Good Times / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "The Big Move," the episode where the family finds out James died on the way back from Mississippi.
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Good Times / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Good Times / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: In Season 6, thanks to Esther Rolle's return to the series..
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Good Times / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
Good Times / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: James's off-screen death.
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Good Times / int_9a747119	type	Drop-In Landlord
Good Times / int_9a747119	comment	Drop-In Landlord: Bookman.
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Good Times / int_a41f13e5	type	Bad Job, Worse Uniform
Good Times / int_a41f13e5	comment	Bad Job, Worse Uniform: J.J 's uniform while working at a fried chicken restaurant.
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Good Times / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Good Times / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: At the end of "The Big Move: Part 1" As the episode ends, the Evanses are hosting a going-away party, and are reading telegrams from other family and friends congratulating them and wishing them luck. The laughter and fun all come to a grinding halt when Florida reads one from Mississippi revealing that James has been killed, and everyone is stunned silent, as the episode fades to the credits.
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Good Times / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Good Times / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: J.J.'s "Kool-Aid Sour".
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Good Times / int_aec43c5f	type	Thanksgiving Episode
Good Times / int_aec43c5f	comment	Thanksgiving Episode: "Grandpa's Visit" (Season 4) has Grandpa Henry showing up for the holiday accompanied by his live-in girlfriend, much to Florida's disapproval.
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Good Times / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Good Times / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Alderman Fred Davis to Willona. 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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Good Times / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Good Times / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: J.J.'s "DYN-O-MITE!" and less frequently, "Well, you know, what can I say?"
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Good Times / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Good Times / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Thelma, a beautiful, shapely young woman who's still a regular on "hottest TV stars ever" lists. Also Willona on occasion, especially when she wore a skirt.
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Good Times / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Good Times / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Penny's mom Lynnetta. One of the show's most infamous scenes is of her burning Penny with a hot iron. And that actually happens off-screen; we see the iron about to be used and the bandaged wound afterwards.
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Good Times / int_b6e75430	comment	Bald of Authority: Alderman Davis plays with this trope. He's mostly just a politician, but is also a skilled (if very self-serving) civil rights leader.
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Good Times / int_bc2139f8	type	We Sell Everything
Good Times / int_bc2139f8	comment	We Sell Everything: Lenny. He would give the residents a rhyme about his merchandise and then open up his fur coat to display his (usually ill-gotten) wares.
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Good Times / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Good Times / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button : Try not doing your homework with James around. Or mess with Florida's family.
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Good Times / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Good Times / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: James and Florida.
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Good Times / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Good Times / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: When a young gang leader, Mad Dog, shoots J.J. and is put on trial for it, he is let off, but his mother coldly disowns him, going as far as to slap him and wish he had never been born. James, who was prepared to get back at Mad Dog, is almost brought to tears to witness this, and can't bring himself to do anything more.
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Good Times / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Good Times / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Carl Dixon. Florida got married to Carl at the end of the 1976-1977 season and planned to move to Arizona to tend to Carl's chronic health issues; the storyline was planned to explain Esther Rolle's coming departure from the show. At the beginning of the 1978-1979 season, Florida had returned ... without Carl, and with no explanation for his absence. The reason for this was that Rolle agreed to return to the show, but only if changes were made, one of them being that there would be no record of Carl having ever existed. (Rolle thought it was implausible for the devoutly Christian Florida to marry someone who was an avowed atheist, and also felt that Florida moved on much too quickly after James' death.) According to The Other Wiki, a deleted scene shows Willona asking Florida about Carl. Florida shakes her head, implying that Carl passed away from cancer during her absence. The reason for the move to Arizona was a spot on Carl's lung.
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Good Times / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Good Times / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: At the beginning of Season 4, James is about to get a promising job in Mississippi, and the family is just about ready to move down south... until, in the middle of their going-away party, they receive a tragic telegram: James has been killed in a car accident.
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Good Times / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
Good Times / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: J.J. and Michael have to share a bed. And by "bed", we mean "pull-out sofa"; they don't even have their own bedroom.
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Good Times / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Good Times / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: The show's breakout star Jimmie Walker graduated from a gang "with" combining the three children (with Tony-nominated Ralph Carter listed first) in season 1 to a triple-barreled and/also starring/as by season 5.
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Good Times / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Good Times / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: A number of episodes revolved around the characters trying to improve their situation and absolutely failing by the time the credits rolled. The most heartwrenching example, though, has to be in the fourth-season premiere: James has gotten a promising new job in Mississippi and the family plans on moving to join him, leaving the ghetto behind forever! Then James dies in a car wreck and they're stuck.
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Good Times / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Good Times / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: James, whose offscreen death at the beginning of Season 4 was at the time the most infamous example of this trope in a comedy series outside of Henry Blake's. Decades later, Charlie Harper's would take the cake.
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Good Times / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Good Times / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Two adult women and two teenage girls, yet the topic never came up. It's especially glaring in the episode when Willona refuses to have The Talk with Penny, insisting that she's too young, when Penny is clearly going through puberty and is bound to start any day now and needs that much explained to her at least.
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Good Times / int_d1919f1d	type	Special Thanks
Good Times / int_d1919f1d	comment	Special Thanks: The note "Ralph Carter courtesy of the Broadway Musical Raisin" was included in the season 1 closing credits.
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Good Times / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Good Times / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift : An in-universe example. J.J. has an Acid Reflux Nightmare where he's white.
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Good Times / int_d9eee868	type	Spin-Off
Good Times / int_d9eee868	comment	Spinoff: Second generation Spinoff: From All in the Family to Maude to this show. Oddly, this wasn't originally planned as one and Florida was added into the mix later in preproduction. This explains some of the odd and unexplained lapses in continuity between Good Times and Maude, including Florida and her family appearing to have lived in Chicago for quite some time, her husband's name being changed from Henry to James, and a lack of references to Florida having ever cleaned houses or James/Henry having ever been a firefighter. It's possible James/ Henry had told her to lie about his occupation to the Findlays to get a better maid position.
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Good Times / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
Good Times / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Jimmie "J.J." Walker. One of the biggest examples of the '70s.
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Good Times / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Good Times / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Carl Dixon, which was one of Esther Rolle's biggest problems with Florida marrying Carl.
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Good Times / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Good Times / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: The youngest son Michael is often referred to by the nickname "Gramps".
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Good Times / int_e07d3d72	type	Uncle Tomfoolery
Good Times / int_e07d3d72	comment	Uncle Tomfoolery: J.J. fell increasingly into this in later seasons. However, he did improve by the show's final season.
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Good Times / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: One doubled as a Christmas Episode while the plot of the other was a talent show to raise money for a daycare center in their building.
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Good Times / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
Good Times / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Willona stubbornly refuses to have this with Penny, insisting that she will decide when Penny is ready, even though it's obvious that she is—aside from the fact that one of her classmates is pregnant, Penny has clearly started pubertal development and is displaying the natural curiosity for a child her age.
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Good Times / int_ec71dc46	type	Wealth's in a Name
Good Times / int_ec71dc46	comment	Wealth's in a Name: Played with in the case of Penny, whose name was a pun on her full name, "Millicent". She was poor, as were all the families in that series, but she considered herself wealthy once adopted by Willona.
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Good Times / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: J.J. in Season 5, due to the absence of both parents.
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Good Times / int_f27ed419	type	Fairytale Wedding Dress
Good Times / int_f27ed419	comment	Fairytale Wedding Dress : Thelma gets one in the Season 6 wedding episode.
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Good Times / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Good Times / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: A great example of this; after spending the entire series struggling to make ends meet, the Evans family finally gets a break, with J.J. getting a job as a professional cartoonist, Keith getting a new football contract after knee is healed, him and Thelma having a baby, and moving in to a bigger apartment, bringing Florida with them to be their live-in nanny. Also, Michael goes to college, and Willona gets a promotion at her boutique, and she and Penny end up moving into the same apartment building as Keith, Thelma and Florida, thus continuing to be their downstairs neighbor.
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Good Times / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Good Times / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Willona's ex-husband Ray makes advances to Thelma, eventually groping her (and he would likely have taken it further had Willona and Florida not walked in). Later, Penny is similarly assaulted offscreen.
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Good Times / int_fbec97c9	type	Dog Food Diet
Good Times / int_fbec97c9	comment	Dog Food Diet: The episode "Social Security" deals with this, with one of the Evans' neighbors being forced to eat dog food for some meals to survive.
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Good Times / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
Good Times / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Discussed in the Season 1 episode "Florida, the Matchmaker." Willona points out that an unmarried man over 30 is a carefree bachelor, while a woman over 30 who is unmarried (or, in Willona's case, divorced) is considered over the hill. Willona remains happily unmarried throughout the series.
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