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Sanford and Son

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Sanford and Son	comment	An Americanization of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son, this series from Norman Lear is a Dom Com (of sorts) about a Grumpy Old Man and his long-suffering son who live in a rundown house situated in the middle of the Watts junkyard they operate. Hilarity ensues.Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson played the title characters of Fred and Lamont Sanford from 1972 to 1977 on NBC and shared the screen with a number of memorable supporting players (notably Whitman Mayo as the forgetful Grady Wilson and LaWanda Page as Bible-thumping harridan Esther Anderson). The father-son duo engaged in frequent arguments about everything under the sun and truly got on each other's nerves, but despite the loud fights and constant disappointments the two remained devoted to each other. The series was one of the highest rated sitcoms of the 1970s before internal strife caused both Foxx and Wilson to walk away from the show in the spring of 1977; subsequent spinoffs and revivals failed to recapture the magic.Redd Foxx's friend, Richard Pryor, co-wrote a couple of Season 2 episodes.
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Sanford and Son / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite the insults, Lamont would never leave his father to fare alone. Well, until he actually did in the Sanford revival in 1980 to work on the Alaskan pipeline. Additionally, despite their mutual disdain for each other, Fred and Aunt Esther would invariably put their differences aside in times of each other's needâ€“-such as the time Fred helped convince a by-the-book case worker that Aunt Esther would make a good mother to a young orphanÂ â€“Â or in the rare event they actually agreed on something they thought was an injustice.
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Sanford and Son / int_113472aa	type	Miles Gloriosus
Sanford and Son / int_113472aa	comment	He also usually warned Lamont or anybody he didn't like that he would give them "one across the lips" with his fists, but once you see Fred actually try engaging in fighting someone, the results are so over the top that he can't be taken seriously.
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Sanford and Son / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
Sanford and Son / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: The Sanford's neighbor Julio would randomly throw in Spanish in a regular conversation.
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Sanford and Son / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Sanford and Son / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Officers Smitty and Swanny (Season 1); Smitty and Hoppy (Season 2 onward).
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Sanford and Son / int_20314beb	type	Cousin Oliver
Sanford and Son / int_20314beb	comment	Cousin Oliver: Janet's son Roger, who looks up to Fred as his adoptive grandfather.
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Sanford and Son / int_209fd02	type	Sit Comic
Sanford and Son / int_209fd02	comment	Sit Comic: Redd Foxx, Slappy White, LaWanda Page, Pat Morita
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Sanford and Son / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
Sanford and Son / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: Fred once went to great pains to avoid the dentist when troubled with a bad tooth, even specifically requesting a white dentist to treat it.
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Sanford and Son / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Sanford and Son / int_22cf536c	comment	In one episode, for his birthday, Fred gets a new hat. Both repeatedly state how it would get spots if worn in the rain. After Fred rudely reacts to just about every other gift Lamont gives him, Lamont finally gets fed up and leaves him at a Chinese restaurant. When Fred walks out, wearing the hat...
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Sanford and Son / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
Sanford and Son / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" has "Big Money" Grip claim to be Lamont's father, only for the end to reveal that he mistook Esther for Elizabeth in the dark, and they apparently did the deed.
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Sanford and Son / int_23d3b406	type	Gay Bar Reveal
Sanford and Son / int_23d3b406	comment	Gay Bar Reveal: Rollo inadvertently leads Lamont to one in one episode; with an already-irritated Lamont even more furious upon the discovery. Unfortunately for them; Bubba spotted them coming from said gay bar while on a date of his own.
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Sanford and Son / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Sanford and Son / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Esther—as well as Lamont to a lesser extent—usually tossed Bible quotes out to Fred, either as a rebuttal or for reasoning. Fred usually replies with either a manipulated version of the same quote or a completely fake quote, which usually threatened to attack them or to turn down a request.
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Sanford and Son / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Sanford and Son / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Fred to Lamont, usually saying, "Shut up, dummy!"
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Sanford and Son / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Sanford and Son / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Max and Murray Steinberg, Gabey and Aunt Ethel from "Steinberg and Son". It is later revealed that Rollo was the one who based the show on Fred, Lamont, Grady and Aunt Esther and pitched it to the network executives. Ironically, there was an early character named Aunt Ethel, who was replaced by Aunt Esther.
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Sanford and Son / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
Sanford and Son / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: Bubba Bexley (the fat one) to Fred and/or Grady.
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Sanford and Son / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
Sanford and Son / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: It's the running gag where Fred â€“ when something doesn't go his way, he doesn't get his way or he's otherwise upset or surprised â€“ clutches his heart and does the "I'm coming, 'Lizabeth" routine. Lamont who wasn't fooled at least 20 times beforehand (per the series premiere) and dozens more throughout the course of the series â€“ would just roll his eyes and go outside to unload the truck as though nothing was wrong. At least once, Lamont took Fred to the doctor after another of his father's fake heart attacks to try to knock some sense into him and warn him that he may well be ignored when he is suffering an actual heart attack. (In real life, that's what happened to Redd ... and it killed him.) Both Bubba and Lamont each also have had "The Big One" at least once - Bubba when and Fred both see what appears to be Lamont strangling a white woman to death, and Lamont when Fred actually brings Lena Horne to the house; Lamont even says, "I'm coming, Mom! Your boy's coming to join you... with a mustache!" In one episode, Fred suffers an actual heart attack and has to be hospitalized. Afterwards, Lamont gives him an ultimatum: no more fake heart attacks. When Fred receives the hospital bill, he pleads for just one more, and Lamont reluctantly agrees.
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Sanford and Son / int_2c11d835	type	Kitchen Sink Drama
Sanford and Son / int_2c11d835	comment	Kitchen Sink Drama: It's an American remake of Steptoe and Son, which makes it one of the first sitcoms to get humor out of a poor working class environment, and it's one of the first shows to feature a predominately-black cast, within the working class environment.
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Sanford and Son / int_2d3f662b	type	Chained Heat
Sanford and Son / int_2d3f662b	comment	Chained Heat: In "The Defiant One", Grady's magic trick results in Fred and Esther getting cuffed together. At the end, when Grady removes the handcuffs, he then gets himself cuffed to Lamont.
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Sanford and Son / int_2ec6e90f	type	Yet Another Christmas Carol
Sanford and Son / int_2ec6e90f	comment	Yet Another Christmas Carol: "Ebenezer Sanford". Fred is visited by three spirits (all just Lamont in costume) and learns to be nicer for Christmas.
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Sanford and Son / int_2efcf2ac	type	Guinness Episode
Sanford and Son / int_2efcf2ac	comment	Guinness Episode: "I Dream of Choo-Choo Rabinowitz", where Fred tries to break the record for most time spent without sleep.
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Sanford and Son / int_2f1fa94c	type	Mysterious Middle Initial
Sanford and Son / int_2f1fa94c	comment	Mysterious Middle Initial: Whatever the "G." stands for â€“ usually "gonna get this" (showing a fist) or some other way to antagonize whomever Fred was trying to get his way with. In real life, his character's namesakes, his father and brother, whose respective names were Fred G. Sanford and Fred G. Sanford, Jr., with the "G" in both of these cases standing for Glenn.
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Sanford and Son / int_2fcd835a	type	Handbag of Hurt
Sanford and Son / int_2fcd835a	comment	Handbag of Hurt: Aunt Esther's way of dealing with people she doesn't like is to hit them with her purse. A line of handbags invoking Esther's likeness was sold while the show aired.
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Sanford and Son / int_331d9f32	type	Silent Snarker
Sanford and Son / int_331d9f32	comment	Silent Snarker: At Fred's award banquet given by the Watts Businessmen's Association, Esther manages to get the last word, in a manner of speaking:
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Sanford and Son / int_35b429f3	type	Weird Trade Union
Sanford and Son / int_35b429f3	comment	Weird Trade Union: In "The Hawaiian Connection", Fred and Lamont go to Hawaii to attend a "Junk Men of America" convention.
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Sanford and Son / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
Sanford and Son / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: "The Streetbeater", by Quincy Jones.
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Sanford and Son / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
Sanford and Son / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: "The Family Man", for Grady There was an episode where Lamont was about to marry longtime girlfriend Janet. Before they could wed, Janet's assumed dead husband returns and she and Lamont do not marry. This was the basis for the show Baby I'm Back, in which things were changed around and Demond Wilson played the role of the the presumed dead husband after Sanford And Son was cancelled.
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Sanford and Son / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Sanford and Son / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Until he mellowed out and became friendly with Donna in later seasons, Lamont constantly attempted to derail Fred's relationship with Donna; usually by instigating Fred's prideful attitude and/or arranging for other characters including Aunt Esther and her sisters to interfere with Fred and Donna's dates in "The Members of the Wedding Party/The Engagement", (and in one case, their actual near marriage). While he wasn't successful in the long-term, he usually did enough to set up brief roadblocks in their relationship, with Fred usually none the wiser half of the time, except at the end of "The Engagement", where Fred chases after Lamont with a baseball bat.
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Sanford and Son / int_39e12021	type	Induced Hypochondria
Sanford and Son / int_39e12021	comment	Induced Hypochondria: Happens whenever Fred fakes a heart attack. Of course, the other characters always catch on to the charade.
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Sanford and Son / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
Sanford and Son / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: The "wild parsley" in the "Fred's Treasure Garden" episode, which Rollo mistakes for marijuana, only for Aunt Esther to later recognize the plant as wild parsley by its taste, with hilarious results when Rollo and Lamont try to "dispose" of the evidence: Later on, when Grady is trying to dispose of the evidence: When the police are eating the salad:
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Sanford and Son / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Sanford and Son / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Where a fair amount of Norman Lear shows were either fairly idealistic or Maude, Sanford and Son is the most neutral out of all his shows.
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Sanford and Son / int_3e2c9d95	type	Rock Bottom
Sanford and Son / int_3e2c9d95	comment	Rock Bottom: After a disastrous camping trip, Lamont notes that it could be worse. When Fred asks how, Lamont notes "It could snow." Sure enough, it instantly starts snowing right there and then.
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Sanford and Son / int_404031ce	type	Property Line
Sanford and Son / int_404031ce	comment	Property Line: "This Land Is Whose Land?" Fred gets a surveyor to measure his and Julio's property line so he can get Julio to keep his stuff out of the junkyard. It turns out Julio legally owns most of the yard.
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Sanford and Son / int_411bd9ee	type	Body Wipe
Sanford and Son / int_411bd9ee	comment	Body Wipe: Done in "The Masquerade Party", when Fred walks offstage from the game show he was on, he walks into the camera, ranting all the way.
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Sanford and Son / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Sanford and Son / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Usually Fred, but Officer Hoppy frequently misused 'street lingo'. Not to mention Grady.
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Sanford and Son / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Sanford and Son / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Lamont is setting up an airline ticket purchase.
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Sanford and Son / int_4540f0b9	type	Mistaken for Dying
Sanford and Son / int_4540f0b9	comment	Mistaken for Dying: In "The Over-The-Hill Gang", thanks to a misunderstanding, Lamont believes that Fred only has six months left to live and gives him everything he wants.
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Sanford and Son / int_4766ca14	type	Volleying Insults
Sanford and Son / int_4766ca14	comment	Volleying Insults: Nearly every Fred/Esther scene ended this way.
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Sanford and Son / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Sanford and Son / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: In the early episodes (Season 1 and 2), Lamont is shown to be almost as greedy as Fred (sometimes more so) and having a great disdain for Fred's girlfriend Donna whom he calls "The Barracuda". Not much later Lamont becomes the more sensitive of the two and often acts as somebody trying to broaden his father's horizons and even becomes quite friendly with Donna. Grady starts out as Fred's slow-witted best friend who always forgot everybody else's names. Overtime, while he didn't usually forget other's names, his slow-wittedness did improve somehow. Then we get into the period where he took over in Fred's absence; during this period of time, he suddenly turns into a Suspiciously Similar Substitute by arguing with Lamont a lot more, and even feuds with Esther almost in the same manner as Fred.
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Sanford and Son / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Sanford and Son / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: After Redd Foxx got into an argument with the producers over his salary, the writers decided to have Fred go on a trip to St. Louis at the end of Season 3 (initially for a funeral, then for who knows what). He came back in the Season 4 premiere.
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Sanford and Son / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Sanford and Son / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first season, while having the same tone as most of the others, lacks many members of the show's memorable supporting cast (see Drop-In Character above for a partial list) that would give episodes their flavor. Most of these would be introduced in the second season. (Part of this the result of a number of first season Sanford episodes being adapted Steptoe and Son scripts.)
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Sanford and Son / int_5017da77	type	Church of Saint Genericus
Sanford and Son / int_5017da77	comment	Church of Saint Genericus: In "The Reverend Sanford", Fred buys a mail-order minister's license to avoid paying taxes, only to have the Church of the Divine Prophet's "bishop" declare that the Sanford's place is now the church's property, so Fred turns his property into the "Chapel on the Junk Pile of Seventh-Day Junkists" and holds an unusual service to convince the church's bishop to give Fred back the deed to his property, when he runs away, calling the attendants crazy.
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Sanford and Son / int_53e9e38a	type	White Bread and Black Brotha
Sanford and Son / int_53e9e38a	comment	White Bread and Black Brotha: Played With where Token White Officer Hoppy, in spite of using a lot of police jargon to sound like he's pretty smart, also seems desperate to appear cool by throwing what he thinks is hip-speak. But he always flubs it and gets corrected by his partner, Officer Smitty, who is black. Once, when they're leaving the Sanford home, Hoppy says:
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Sanford and Son / int_5591983d	type	Secret Compartment
Sanford and Son / int_5591983d	comment	Secret Compartment: The titular duo keeps any extra cash they have on hand hidden in a secret compartment of a side table in their living room. For it to open, the table must be struck with a fist in certain places in a specific order which makes a drawer pop out.
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Sanford and Son / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Sanford and Son / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: When Rollo led Lamont into a gay bar to be "adventurous", Fred and Bubba see them enter and begin thinking they are gay to Fred's panic. When they decide to investigate, Fred and Bubba enter the bar...only for Lamont and Rollo to see and begin thinking the same thing about them. Lamont likewise begins freaking out.
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Sanford and Son / int_5642c768	comment	Horrible Camping Trip: Fred and Lamont go camping together, and naturally they get into an argument. Lamont wants to leave and cool off ... that is, until the truck won't start. A girl scout troop, which had been camping nearby, arrives later and they figure out that Lamont had flooded the engine. Fred then pretends that he knew the engine was flooded and it was his way of getting his son to stay for some much needed father-son time.
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Sanford and Son / int_565ce678	type	Game Show Appearance
Sanford and Son / int_565ce678	comment	Game Show Appearance: Fred, Lamont and Bubba appear on Fred's favorite show - The Gong Show. Fred, Bubba and Grady also appeared on a Let's Make a Deal Expy called Wheel And Deal to win a prize for Fred to give to Lamont for his birthday.
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Sanford and Son / int_57bde9be	comment	Smart Cop, Dumb Cop: Smitty and Hoppy, in spades. Smitty is very much the Straight Man of the two, while Hoppy is more of a Genius Ditz whose unfamiliarity with ghetto slang makes him a Malaproper. In earlier seasons, their schtick would include Hoppy trying to explain a situation to Fred and Lamont using a lot of police jargon and terminology, prompting Smitty to "translate" for them in simpler, easier-to-understand words. Later, however, the routine was mostly Smitty constantly correcting Hoppy's misuse or mispronunciation of slang talk to relate to Fred and Lamont.
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Sanford and Son / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Sanford and Son / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Fred occasionally threatened Lamont with a Louisville Slugger, but hopefully only in jest. Otherwise, it's a bit disturbing. He also usually warned Lamont or anybody he didn't like that he would give them "one across the lips" with his fists, but once you see Fred actually try engaging in fighting someone, the results are so over the top that he can't be taken seriously.
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Sanford and Son / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Sanford and Son / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: As much as Fred and Esther despised each other, they teamed up on rare occasions, such as when Fred tried to help her win a beauty contest or to defend Elizabeth's honor or in the episode featuring "Big Money" Grip when they challenge him on his claim that he was Lamont's father.
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Sanford and Son / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Sanford and Son / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: "Superflyer" has Fred inheriting money from an uncle, with the hitch being that he has to fly home to St. Louis to collect it. Fred is afraid to fly in the airplane.
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Sanford and Son / int_617cf141	type	Consolation World Record
Sanford and Son / int_617cf141	comment	Consolation World Record: In "I Dream of Choo-Choo Rabinowitz", Fred attempted to set the record for longest time staying awake. He missed the mark by less than a minute, yet Bubba and Roger (the son of Lamont's girlfriend) each set their own records in their efforts to help Fred along (Bubba for most repetitions of one song, Roger for marathon basketball bouncing). Note how the man from Guiness took Roger and Bubba's word for how long they'd been at their particular tasks, but wouldn't give Fred the benefit of the doubt for a minute's worth of consciousness.
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Sanford and Son / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Sanford and Son / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: When Fred and Grady are having an argument:
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Sanford and Son / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
Sanford and Son / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: In the episode "Sergeant Gork", Fred tells several tall tales about his exploits in WWII, one of which includes his taking a cyanide pill after being captured by the enemy. (After writhing in pain for several moments, he reveals that he accidentally bit his tongue instead, earning him the Purple Heart.)
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Sanford and Son / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Sanford and Son / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: From "Pops 'N' Pals": An episode saw Lamont seek to ruin Fred's plan to marry Donna by having Donna meet her future in-laws, specifically Aunt Esther and co. With pronpting by Lamont, things swiftly escalate to near-violence. Lamont delivers an epic version of the trope when Esther declares (referring to Donna) "Her behind is MINE!!!" For added awesome points, the spit-take was unscripted and genuine on Demond Wilson's part.
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Sanford and Son / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Sanford and Son / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: In "Donna Pops The Question", Fred Sanford's "Elizabeth i'm comin' to join ya" bit takes a somber turn as he tearfully reflects on their time together and seeks her permission to move on with Donna.
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Sanford and Son / int_658854ee	type	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
Sanford and Son / int_658854ee	comment	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder:
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Sanford and Son / int_65bc52c5	type	The Key Is Behind the Lock
Sanford and Son / int_65bc52c5	comment	The Key Is Behind the Lock: In "The Suitcase Case", Lamont finds a suitcase full of money and hides it in a safe until he can turn it in to the police. Unfortunately, he ends up being unable to open the safe because Fred left the combination in the safe, and he doesn't remember what it was.
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Sanford and Son / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Sanford and Son / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Elizabeth, up in Heaven waiting for Fred to join her.
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Sanford and Son / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Sanford and Son / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Ebenezer Sanford" is the only such episode in the series, and it wasn't until 1975 that it was produced. Here, Fred plays the role of the miserly and grouchy Ebenezer, and is taunted in a Christmas Eve dream by Lamont, whom visits him three times as each of the ghosts (Past, Present and Future). In the end, Fred is enlightened and even has an Out of Character moment when â€“ during a Christmas party at Donna's apartment â€“ Redd Foxx sings "The Christmas Song."
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Sanford and Son / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
Sanford and Son / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: In "A Guest in the Yard", a bum who has been sleeping in an old bathtub claims to be injured. The Sanfords give him some beer, then pretend to leave the house; sure enough, he's faking it, and they catch him when he goes upstairs to use the restroom.
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Sanford and Son / int_7220ed55	type	Token White
Sanford and Son / int_7220ed55	comment	Token White: Officer "Hoppy" Hopkins is the only recurring white character.
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Sanford and Son / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Sanford and Son / int_754df088	comment	Grady Wilson, already an established character with a clear personality, for Fred himself, who took over the house and junkyard for part of the third season and some of the fourth while Fred was "in St. Louis"; consequently, he started acting a little more like Fred, bickering with Lamont and putting down Esther. He was eventually un-substituted when Foxx came back and given his own spinoff, Grady, lasting for all of four episodes.
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Sanford and Son / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Sanford and Son / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Julio Fuentes, Grady, Bubba, Rollo and Aunt Esther.
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Sanford and Son / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Sanford and Son / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Officer Swanhouser, Smitty's by-the-book partner in Season 1. His replacement, Officer Hopkins, was considerably more gregarious.
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Sanford and Son / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
Sanford and Son / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: Lamont is very patient with Fred's plots and schemes due to the father son relationship. During Season 3, Redd Foxx goes on strike and its written that Fred is visiting relatives in St. Louis. Grady goes to watch the house for Fred. Lamont doesn't extend his tolerance to Grady and is much more openly angered by Grady's plots than he is with Fred's.
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Sanford and Son / int_76e631bf	type	Mattress-Tag Gag
Sanford and Son / int_76e631bf	comment	Mattress-Tag Gag: An episode had Fred Sanford tearing a tag off a chair, reading out loud that it says "do not remove under penalty of law." He tears it up and quips "Well...power to the people!"
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Sanford and Son / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Sanford and Son / int_78d0ebcf	comment	At least once, Lamont took Fred to the doctor after another of his father's fake heart attacks to try to knock some sense into him and warn him that he may well be ignored when he is suffering an actual heart attack. (In real life, that's what happened to Redd ... and it killed him.)
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Sanford and Son / int_794cff5	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Sanford and Son / int_794cff5	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: Of the UK's Steptoe and Son.
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Sanford and Son / int_797d10	type	Celebrity Star
Sanford and Son / int_797d10	comment	Celebrity Star: The last two seasons are full of these, a number of different episodes featuring special celebrity guest stars, including Lena Horne, Della Reese, George Foreman, Don Ho, Chuck Barris, B.B. King, and even Redd Foxx in a dual role As Himself.
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Sanford and Son / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Sanford and Son / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: The last couple of seasons are often regarded by many fans as being weaker and sillier compared to its earlier seasons, mainly due to the departure of the show's original black writers and producers, and replacing them with Jewish writers and producers, causing the show to lose its original authentic urban edge and ethnic vibe that made it such a stand-out and groundbreaking series (for its day) and instead relying on standard sitcom fluff and hijinks.
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Sanford and Son / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Sanford and Son / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Junk dealer Fred Sanford meets Redd Foxx, nightclub comic and television star. However, Fred's the only one to see any resemblance.
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Sanford and Son / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Sanford and Son / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Aunt Esther's husband Woodrow. Whenever he visits Fred and Lamont, he always pours himself a drink before doing anything else.
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Sanford and Son / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Sanford and Son / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "The Hawaiian Connection", after the diamond smugglers are apprehended and arrested, Fred and Lamont are also taken into custody for their own misdemeanors in trying to elude the smugglers, including:
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Sanford and Son / int_828b231	type	We Were Rehearsing a Play
Sanford and Son / int_828b231	comment	We Were Rehearsing a Play: Inverted when Lamont is preparing for the title role in Shakespeare's Othello. Fred witnesses Lamont and his acting teacher Marlene rehearsing the scene where Othello strangles Desdemona, and mistakes it for an actual murder. Fred freaks out.
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Sanford and Son / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Sanford and Son / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Fred was a sexist, racist, misanthropic old coot...but somehow we never held that against him. And when the chips were down, he could be pretty decent. In a few episodes, Lamont took on this role, especially the early ones involving Donna.
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Sanford and Son / int_82e9aaba	type	Down in the Dumps
Sanford and Son / int_82e9aaba	comment	Down in the Dumps: The show takes place at a junkyard.
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Sanford and Son / int_83b464fb	type	Straight Man
Sanford and Son / int_83b464fb	comment	Officer "Swannny" Swanhauser, "Smitty" Smith's Straight Man partner, by "Hoppy" Hopkins, with hilarious results when Smitty frequently corrected Hoppy's malapropisms.
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Sanford and Son / int_8af2a61f	type	Camping Episode
Sanford and Son / int_8af2a61f	comment	Camping Episode: In "Camping Trip", Lamont takes Fred camping in an attempt to bond before with him before moving out. They end up getting stranded and it turns into a Clip Show.
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Sanford and Son / int_8d08960c	type	Two-Timer Date
Sanford and Son / int_8d08960c	comment	Two-Timer Date: This happens in an episode where Fred becomes a gigolo. He makes dates with three women and has them meet him in the same restaurant and goes from table to table without them noticing.
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Sanford and Son / int_8da65890	type	Commuting on a Bus
Sanford and Son / int_8da65890	comment	Bubba and Grady seemed to take turns Commuting on a Bus throughout the series; one season will feature Grady more than Bubba, while Bubba is seen more often than Grady in other seasons. Although rare, there are a few occasions where Bubba and Grady appear in the same episode, such as "The Surprise Party", "The Masquerade Party", and "School Days".
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Sanford and Son / int_916e370d	type	Unknowingly Possessing Stolen Goods
Sanford and Son / int_916e370d	comment	Unknowingly Possessing Stolen Goods: A rash of burglaries strike the home of Fred Sanford, which compels him to obtain a replacement TV set. He buys one from a shady discount huckster, and plunks it in the old set's place. When Fred's neighbor Grady comes for a visit, he sees the set that Fred has, and quickly identifies it as one that had been stolen from him. Fred, of course, is in denial, claiming Grady is crazy. Grady ultimately recovers his TV set, and Fred recovers his old set, which the thieves couldn't unload because it's so old.
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Sanford and Son / int_926425c8	type	Religious Stereotype
Sanford and Son / int_926425c8	comment	Religious Stereotype: Aunt Esther is portrayed as a judgmental, Bible-thumping loudmouth who usually wears a very unpleasant lemon-lips facial expression.
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Sanford and Son / int_92f863b6	type	Revival
Sanford and Son / int_92f863b6	comment	Revival: Sanford
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Sanford and Son / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
Sanford and Son / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: In one episode, Lamont steps into the kitchen to fix himself breakfast, Fred mutters to himself, mocking Lamont, "Pop, there's not a clean dish in the whole kitchen"; sure enough, Lamont calls from the kitchen, "Pop, there's not a clean dish in the whole kitchen!"
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Sanford and Son / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Sanford and Son / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Grady was actually named after Demond Wilson; Demond is actually his middle name, his full name is Grady Demond Wilson. A subtle example, but Fred was named after Redd Foxx'snote His birth name was John Elroy Sanford father, Fred G. Sanford, and his real-life brother, Fred G. Sanford, Jr. Bubba Bexley was played by actor Don Bexley.
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Sanford and Son / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
Sanford and Son / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: In "Fred the Activist", when an appliance dealer refuses to offer Fred a chance to buy a stereo on an installment plan due to his age, Fred leads a group of seniors known as the "Gray Panthers" to picket the store in order to convince the store management to change their policy.
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Sanford and Son / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Sanford and Son / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Possibly the Trope Namer; the episode has an old friend of Fred's claim that he had a one night stand with Elizabeth and that he's actually Lamont's father. Another friend of Fred's actually says the trope name verbatim, and it's even the title of the episode. At the end it turns out that the guy actually slept with Aunt Esther, and thought it was Elizabeth in the dark.
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Sanford and Son / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
Sanford and Son / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: Fred and Lamont go camping, where at one point, Fred finds a big-ass spider hiding in his coat pocket.
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Sanford and Son / int_9d2231a6	type	Hustler
Sanford and Son / int_9d2231a6	comment	Hustler: Lamont's best friend Rollo Lawson, who happened to be an ex-con and frequently enlists him in his outrageous schemes.
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Sanford and Son / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
Sanford and Son / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: S-A-N-F-O-R-D Period. Frequenty, he'd end this with "The G stands for ... " whatever "more-bark-than-bite" physical or legal threat met Fred's situation.
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Sanford and Son / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Sanford and Son / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Whenever Fred spells his last name "Sanford: S-A-N-F-O-R-D, Period."
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Sanford and Son / int_a1257d6	type	Fat Best Friend
Sanford and Son / int_a1257d6	comment	Fat Best Friend: Bubba. Fred lampshades this in, "Lamont as Othello", where he and Bubba both have "the big one", to which Fred exclaims, "I'm comin' Elizabeth! With a fat friend!"
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Sanford and Son / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Sanford and Son / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: When Fred is in St. Louis, Grady chases off some of Lamont's friends with a rifle. When Lamont talks to him about it the next day, Grady says he didn't load it and holds up a cartridge, then starts pointing it at the ceiling and says "you sure can scare people with an empty rifle", pulling the trigger in the process and shooting the ceiling, which startles Grady enough to let go of the rifle and flail his arms around.
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Sanford and Son / int_a4f81481	type	Circus Episode
Sanford and Son / int_a4f81481	comment	Circus Episode: In "The Greatest Show in Watts," a tenant at the Sanford Arms is unable to pay his monthly rent, and offers Fred his elephant as collateral to raise money until he can pay. A zoning inspector gives Fred a citation for possessing a non-domesticated animal, but when Fred finds a loophole in the paperwork, he decides to turn his junkyard into a circus to avoid paying fines and/or having the elephant taken away - complete with him posing as the ringmaster, Bubba as a clown, Esther as a fire-eater, and Lamont as a muscleman.
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Sanford and Son / int_a55454ee	type	Malcolm Xerox
Sanford and Son / int_a55454ee	comment	Malcolm Xerox: Lamont, in "Lamont Goes African"
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Sanford and Son / int_a8a0603e	comment	Juggling Loaded Guns: After Lamont buys an old musket, Fred starts explaining how his Revolutionary War-era ancestor fought the British. The gun goes off, and both Fred and Lamont begin thinking that he killed a neighbor across the street. Grady does nearly the same thing in a later episode, only he shoots the ceiling.
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Sanford and Son / int_aa23b8ee	comment	History with Celebrity: In "Fred Sings The Blues", Fred meets B.B. King, and finds evidence that he may have wanted to marry Elizabeth before Fred got to her. It later turns out that King was going steady with Esther, and became a blues singer after they broke up.
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Sanford and Son / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Sanford and Son / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: In his early post-retcon appearances, Grady repeatedly forgets Lamont's name and has to be prompted, despite the fact that Lamont is his godson and he is a frequent visitor to the Sanford home. Later, it is revealed that Lamont's middle name is in fact "Grady" and the running gag was dropped.
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Sanford and Son / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Sanford and Son / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Fred's "You big dummy!" (to Lamont), "...on account of my arthur-its.", and "S-A-N-F-O-R-D, period." Aunt Esther's "Watch it, sucker!" ...and of course: "This is the big one!/This is it! Hear that Elizabeth? I'm comin' to join ya, honey!" Later episodes often had Fred introduce himself as "I'm Fred G. Sanford, and the G is for (whatever the main setup for the plot was)" Grady had "Good goobely woop!".
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Sanford and Son / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: Whenever Fred and Lamont don't go with the Zany Scheme approach, they usually do this instead. For example, Lamont once brings home a rifle hoping to sell it, but Fred accidentally fires it in the direction of their Jewish neighbor's Goldstein's house, and they worry that they might've killed him.
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Sanford and Son / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Grady Wilson was originally Fred's cousin, married, and had a daughter with designs on Lamont. By his second appearance, the wife, daughter and blood relationship with Fred had been dropped, with Grady now an old family friend. This is also a case of The Other Darrin, as Grady was played by a completely different actor in his debut episode. Later still, Grady has a family again—Season 4's "Family Man" was essentially a Poorly Disguised Pilot for Grady's own spinoff, in which he visits and stays with his well-off daughter and her family.
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Sanford and Son / int_b4b006fb	comment	Pig Latin: Fred a few times throughout the series, most notably in "Lamont Goes African" and "The Puerto Ricans Are Coming!".
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Sanford and Son / int_b6c81d97	comment	Cue the Rain: During a disastrous camping trip, Lamont notes that it could be worse. When his father asks how, Lamont notes "It could snow." Sure enough, it instantly starts snowing right there and then. In one episode, for his birthday, Fred gets a new hat. Both repeatedly state how it would get spots if worn in the rain. After Fred rudely reacts to just about every other gift Lamont gives him, Lamont finally gets fed up and leaves him at a Chinese restaurant. When Fred walks out, wearing the hat...
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Sanford and Son / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Sanford and Son / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In "Pot Luck", when Fred objects to Lamont taking advantage of customers:
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Sanford and Son / int_b7209ae1	type	Beef Bandage
Sanford and Son / int_b7209ae1	comment	Beef Bandage: Following a fight with the ex of a girl he's seeing, crazy old Grady Wilson puts a slice of bologna on Lamont's black eye because, as he says, steak is much too expensive.
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Sanford and Son / int_b9a22821	type	Jive Turkey
Sanford and Son / int_b9a22821	comment	Jive Turkey: The local beat cops Hoppy and Smitty on Sanford and Son. Hoppy, the whitest of white guys, would try to speak jive and get it wrong, or would deliver a line of copspeak with a gratuitous big word or two for good measure causing Fred and everyone else to give him a blank look and then turn to Smitty for a translation.
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Sanford and Son / int_b9fb7790	type	When Elders Attack
Sanford and Son / int_b9fb7790	comment	When Elders Attack: Fred whenever he whips out his baseball bat.
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Sanford and Son / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Sanford and Son / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe", when Grip comes over to Fred's place, claiming to be Lamont's father:
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Sanford and Son / int_bc6c6c90	comment	Drop-In Character: Grady, Aunt Esther, Bubba Bexley, Officers Smitty and Hoppy, etc. In other words, the entire supporting cast.
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Sanford and Son / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Sanford and Son / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Bubba Bexley.
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Sanford and Son / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Sanford and Son / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Melvin (Fred's best friend, pre-Grady), Officer Swanhauser, and Aunt Ethel. Julio after Season 4, and for really no explanation (that's when the Sanfords bought his property and turned it into the Sanford Arms boarding house).
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Sanford and Son / int_c59c953e	type	You Just Ruined the Shot
Sanford and Son / int_c59c953e	comment	You Just Ruined the Shot: In "Lamont as Othello", Fred mistook Lamont's rehersal for a murder.
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Sanford and Son / int_c673210e	type	Informed Judaism
Sanford and Son / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: Explored in "Funny, You Don't Look It", when Fred has his family tree researched, and he believes that he's descended from Ethiopian Falasha Jews, and possibly descended from King Solomon. Later on, Fred goes down to a Jewish bookstore and finds out that the family crest is bogus. Later on, even though he's not revealed to be Jewish, Fred, Lamont, Bubba, and Esther close the episode by discussing the cultural similarities between Africans and Jews.
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Sanford and Son / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sanford and Son / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Both Hawaii Five-0 and Mission: Impossible in the 2 part "The Hawaiian Connection". Fred also mentions Deep Throat by name in "The Members of the Wedding".
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Sanford and Son / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Sanford and Son / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Usually Grady, but Officer Hoppy had his moments.
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Sanford and Son / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Sanford and Son / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: There are only three recurring characters who aren't black; The Asian Ah Chew, the Puerto Rican Julio, and the Caucasian Officer Hopkins.
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Sanford and Son / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Sanford and Son / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Compared to Steptoe and Son, this show is far less depressing, is brighter and more cheerful.
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Sanford and Son / int_d394829d	type	Frivolous Lawsuit
Sanford and Son / int_d394829d	comment	Frivolous Lawsuit: In the episode "Whiplash", Fred ends up getting rear-ended by a white man in Cadillac. He isn't injured, but when his friend Bubba tells him that a friend of his sued for injuries from whiplash injuries, he decides to fake being injured to the point of filing a false police report, getting "advice" from an Ambulance Chaser and finally confronting the hit-and-run driver himself. It all comes crashing down when the driver turns out to be a car thief who stole the Cadillac.
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Sanford and Son / int_d4f41294	comment	Lamont in both Aftershows. In The Sanford Arms, he and Fred have both moved to Arizona while in Sanford he's said to be working on an oil pipeline in Alaska.
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Sanford and Son / int_d7abaf48	type	One Crazy Night
Sanford and Son / int_d7abaf48	comment	One Crazy Night: In "Surprise Party," Lamont, Grady, Bubba, Rollo, and Esther throw Fred a surprise party on the night of his return from St. Louis. After Fred comes home and makes a mess of his own party, he overhears Lamont trying to mend Grady's broken feelings by telling him he was just as good a housekeeper and businessman as Fred; now with Fred's feeling's hurt, he wanders off into the night to a nearby bar to drown his sorrows, but returns later to pass out on the couch. The episode ends with the morning after and Fred's massive hangover. In "The Oddfather," Donna pays Fred a visit one night to discover he's been rushed to the hospital after getting involved with a crime involving an innocent bystander being killed by a notorious local mobster; the rest of the episode deals with Fred's night in the hospital being monitored and protected by the LAPD, and also receiving visits from Donna and Esther, and later the media for him to identify the mobster to have him convicted of his crime. Unfortunately, when it comes time for him to identify the man, he chickens out and Esther steps up and identifies him, and as a result, Esther gets the reward money while Fred gets charged for his hospital stay since he spent all that time in the hospital, only to miss out on the opportunity when receiving a threatening message from the mob.
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Sanford and Son / int_d7f6f486	type	The Other Darrin
Sanford and Son / int_d7f6f486	comment	This is also a case of The Other Darrin, as Grady was played by a completely different actor in his debut episode. Later still, Grady has a family again—Season 4's "Family Man" was essentially a Poorly Disguised Pilot for Grady's own spinoff, in which he visits and stays with his well-off daughter and her family.
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Sanford and Son / int_d8e40b47	type	El Spanish "-o"
Sanford and Son / int_d8e40b47	comment	El Spanish "-o": Fred was oft to do this in referring to or talking with Julio Fuentes, the Sanfords' next-door neighbor with whom he didn't like. The first such encounter came in "The Puerto Ricans Are Coming," where Fred is startled by Julio's goat, after which Julio comes to get his pet animal, speaking in Spanish: Done hilariously in the episode "Julio and Sister and Nephew", in which Julio's sister and nephew stay with him, but his nephew, Roberto, has problems at school, so Fred reluctantly tags along to translate the principal's words for them.
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Sanford and Son / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Sanford and Son / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Grady, The Sanford Arms, and Sanford, with the last one featuring older characters Aunt Esther, Rollo, Hoppy & Smitty, and Grady making frequent appearances alongside some of the newer cast members.
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Sanford and Son / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
Sanford and Son / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Grady Wilson, a one time character on the show that got so popular that he became the lead when Redd Foxx left, and starred in his own spinoff. Whenever the show is discussed, Aunt Esther immediately comes to mind, with most fans agreeing that she's the most enduring, memorable character outside of Fred and Lamont. A line of purses named after her was introduced during the show's heyday to cash in on her popularity.
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Sanford and Son / int_e236af66	type	Who Would Want to Watch Us?
Sanford and Son / int_e236af66	comment	Who Would Want to Watch Us?: In Steinberg and Son, A cousin of Rollo's creates a show about a Jewish version of Fred's life. When asked why he didn't just make it a black version, the cousin replied this trope's title as Fred turns to the camera in disbelief.
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Sanford and Son / int_e30c7674	type	Sliding Scale of Beauty
Sanford and Son / int_e30c7674	comment	Sliding Scale of Beauty: Aunt Esther, although certainly no all-American beauty, was in the very least tolerable to look at. But that didn't stop Fred from constantly making cruel comments comparing her physical looks to such creatures as King Kong and Godzilla. In "My Fair Esther", however, Fred decides to help Esther try to win the Mrs. Watts Businessman's beauty pageant, and Fred beats up the judges when they choose a younger, prettier woman as the pageant winner. To drive home the point (and to be fair to Esther), most of the other contestants were far less attractive than her. She had a more than legitimate shot at winning.
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Sanford and Son / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Sanford and Son / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: An antiques collector who hires Fred and Lamont to move a piano in "The Piano Movers". Fred spends most of the episode doing everything short of outright asking him to find out if he is or not.
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Sanford and Son / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Sanford and Son / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: Fred learned the new hot tenant at his motel Sanford Arms he has the hots for was a high-end fence. Through obvious means he gets him to confess, but the undercover cop staying at his house dismisses it due to the obvious legal matters. Best friend Bubba manages to successfully bust the crook by cross-dressing, winning the thousand dollar reward Fred and even Lamont were desperate for.
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Sanford and Son / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Sanford and Son / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": In one episode Lamont brings home two (hopefully not used) coffins which Fred refuses to let in the house.
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Sanford and Son / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Sanford and Son / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Not only is the entire series this for the British sitcom Steptoe and Son, but Norman Lear intended Fred himself to be the black expy of Archie Bunker.
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Sanford and Son / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Fred makes numerous jokes about how "ugly" Aunt Esther is.
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Sanford and Son / int_e6055047	type	Translator Buddy
Sanford and Son / int_e6055047	comment	Translator Buddy: Officer Smitty often translated Officer Hoppy's words in simpler terms:
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Sanford and Son / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: At the end of Season 3, while Grady was watching the house for Fred, who was taking care of business in St. Louis, in "Hello Cousin Emma, Goodbye Cousin Emma", Grady invites his cousin Emma to do some housekeeping, believing that she will fix meals for Lamont and Grady. Unfortunately, she never gets around to making the meals, and Lamont believes that her "help" is more of a hindrance.
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Sanford and Son / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: When the creator of Steinberg and Son (in the episode of the same name) explains that no one wanted to see a sitcom about an old African-American junk dealer and his grown loser son, Fred/Redd breaks the fourth wall to give the audience a shocked glance. In fact, the whole episode is full of Historical In-Jokes regarding the series. Fred does this far more often than one may think; he particularly will turn to the audience after another character says something ironic, or leaves him dumbfounded.
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Sanford and Son / int_eae0e9e0	type	From My Own Personal Garden
Sanford and Son / int_eae0e9e0	comment	From My Own Personal Garden: Grady serves a dinner with food served from the garden he's been growing. Rollo, after a quick inspection of the garden, espies what he thinks is marijuana that has supposedly been growing in the garden. Grady unknowingly mixes the plant in with the salad and invites two cops to have dinner. Hilarity Ensues. It turns out that the supposed "cannibis" was actually wild parsley.
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Sanford and Son / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Sanford and Son / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Inverted with Hawaii Five-O, of all shows. While none of the characters from the series are seen, there are several references to Steve McGarrett, even by the in-Sanford-universe Five-O's Chief of Police, implying that a McGarrett (famous hair and all) actually works for the actual Hawaii Five-O. Likewise, whenever detectives arrive on a scene, or enter frame, the then-current Hawaii Five-O theme song plays. Also inverted with the original series of Mission: Impossible, in the same episode, as Greg Morris made a guest appearance as one of the diamond smugglers; in two different scenes when he sneaks into Fred and Lamont's hotel room, the Mission: Impossible theme plays.
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Sanford and Son / int_eb9bc4b6	comment	Violin Scam: In "Pot Luck", Lamont buys a chamber pot from a woman for $20, only for her husband Mr. Osborne to object to Lamont's unscrupulous sales tactic of talking the wife out of selling the piece for a low price and then raising the resale price, with Lamont believing it's worth more than that because it supposedly once belonged to the Prince of Wales, and the man reluctantly offers $200 to buy back the chamber pot. Later on, Mr. Bonnetnote Pronounced "Bo-NAY", a rare globe-trotting antiques dealer comes by, offering $900 to buy the chamber pot Lamont acquired and that Osborne offered $200 to buy back. In the midst of the shady wheeling and dealing, Lamont discovers that Mr. Osborne and Mr. Bonnet are in cahoots, with Lamont paying $300 to buy it off of Osborne, with the original $200 check being bounced by the bank, and Bonnet has left the country, with the contact number belonging to a McDonald's restaurant, and the deal falls through, with Fred explaining that Osborne and Bonnet are running a fake chamber pot racket, with Fred hiring an antiques appraiser to find that the commode is worth $20 because it's a cheap reproduction being circulated throughout the neighborhood, and as a result, Lamont wrote a $300 check to Osborne, and the $200 check Lamont deposited is refused by the bank, with Lamont losing $320 dollars on the deal for a worthless chamber pot.
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Sanford and Son / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Fred's fake heart attacks.
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Sanford and Son / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Inverted in the earthquake episode, all throughout Fred's exodus to Las Vegas, the extras constantly break reality: as Fred walks down the street after departing the bus, other pedestrians around him have idiotic grins on their faces; when he encounters Steve and Eydie Gorme in the casino, a group of men in the background just stand there and watch the taping in progress (it doesn't help that they're all wearing matching white T-shirts with red hearts, making them stand out like sore thumbs); when Fred later walks towards an outdoor fountain, in the distance, we see a security guard clearly holding tourists back trying to take Fred/Redd Foxx's picture.
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Sanford and Son / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Grady Wilson, already an established character with a clear personality, for Fred himself, who took over the house and junkyard for part of the third season and some of the fourth while Fred was "in St. Louis"; consequently, he started acting a little more like Fred, bickering with Lamont and putting down Esther. He was eventually un-substituted when Foxx came back and given his own spinoff, Grady, lasting for all of four episodes. Aunt Esther for the twice-appearing Aunt Ethel, the difference being that Esther was much fiercer and could hold her own against Fred. Officer "Swannny" Swanhauser, "Smitty" Smith's Straight Man partner, by "Hoppy" Hopkins, with hilarious results when Smitty frequently corrected Hoppy's malapropisms. Averted in The Sanford Arms when Fred and Lamont are replaced by a widower named Phil Wheeler and his children, and averted even harder in Sanford where Lamont is replaced as Fred's business partner by Cal, a fat white redneck.
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