Good Times | Thelma's Pregnancy Announcement | The Norman Lear Effect
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- It's time to celebrate for the Evans: J.J. (Jimmie Walker) is moving out and Thelma (BernNadette Stanis) is pregnant!
From Season 6, Episode 22 'The End of the Rainbow' - The Evans Family, Willona & daughter Penny, have life-changing events that lead to their final day in the Chicago projects.
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About Good Times: Life in the Chicago projects is never easy, however, the Evans family never gives up trying to make the best of things.
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R.I.P Esther Rolle Ja'net Dubious and Ben Powers
Ja’Net Dubois is not dead
Unfortunately she passed from
Cardiac arrest in 2020.😢😢😢
@@judethaddeus9856 Sorry to break it to you but Ja'Net passed away on 2/17/2020.
I didn’t know Ben passed away he was so handsome
@@judethaddeus9856 she passed away last year
Proudest family moment for Florida becoming a grandmother and moving up moving forward thinking back to wish James was there for that happy moment
Its nice when a show gets a decent ending. It was rare back then.
Iknooo
That would have been a awesome ending to this Iconic show. To see James there too share this Special moment with Florida and JJ and Thelma and Keith and Michael and Wilona l. It brings tears to my eyes that he wasn't there. He deserved to have been able to share in this special day in Thelma's life.
@@angelicaridgeway4318 I agree 100%!
James would make a wonderful grandfather.
As soon as Thelma got lightheaded the audience knew what was up.
As a little kid, I watched this episode back in 1979. Yes, I knew Thelma was expecting😊
They really looked out for Keith, He went from Riches to rags and back, but the love was real! I love how they had a happy ending.
They came up
And got out the ghetto
And ended up still together
Beautiful
I am glad that the last episode of good times ended on a high note. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Still wanted James to be there.
“If it’s a girl we gone be aunts!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao ctfu
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Yooooo 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
The final episode was beautiful. It does _not_ get talked about enough.
That part
Such a shame that the only way for them to escape the ghetto is for Thelma’s husband to rescue them
Love from Africa
You absolutely right because they don't even mention this everybody still think they stuck in the ghetto they never made it out
@@yolandayb1 I wouldn't call it a rescue I would just say hey he's part of the family now she knew she married and athlete NFL pro football player running back for the Chicago Bears 😜
If only James was around to hear the announcement of Thelma pregnancy he would've been happy.
True but Keith would of been long dead when he slapped Thelma.
@@JamesJones-zq7pc That's what I was thinking. After he slapped Thelma, James would of beat him up, then convinced Thelma to leave him.
@@JamesJones-zq7pcwait what ?! what episode was that ?
@@mogottii it was the episode when Keith developed a drinking problem. There was a scene that he was drunk and he slapped Thelma out of frustration.
@@randyharris7289 even florida wasnt there in that episode when keith slapped thelma
I loved this moment. Florida was a hard working & praying woman and she deserved the BEST! I hate that James got killed he was a very devoted father as well.
Real talk
It's unfortunately James was killed off the show,he would have estatic about bring a granddaddy.
@@carolinaember It was John Amos (James) that decided to leave the show.
What about being able to move to a better neighborhood??? I think he would have been happier about that!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@storbokki371 According to John Amos himself , he said that he was written out of the script "permanently" because the script writers got tired of him always snapping , and going off on them re: how they always made J.J. look so clownish and doofus in practically every episode . He stated himself that these type of arguments got extremely hostile . He said that Norman Lear had came to the conclusion that the show could just as easily survive without him . For what it's worth , even Ms. Esther Rolle had said that Jimmy Walker's portrayal of J.J. was getting rather tiresome and irritating .
Yeah if he let his daughter date or get married-LOL!
@@clementjohnson2666 Actually, Mr. Amos said that he quit the show because he didn't like the way the characters, especially JJ were being portrayed.
I wish James would have been there to experience it ♥️😢 He would have been so happy to be a grandfather.
Too bad Good Times didn't stay on the air well into the 1980's. We could have enjoyed watching them finally live the good life 🧬 with no more struggling.
Then they would have to change the theme song.
EXACTLY.
@@LBF522 Facts 💯😃
I wonder what would be a good theme song to change it to, other than The Jeffersons theme song "Movin' On Up" 😃
That's a wonderful thought but the producers never intended to show this family doing anything but suffering in poverty. Most don't remember when Florida and James were on Maude before the spin-off. James was a fireman then but not on Good Times.
"And I'm gonna be a grand booga." I was weak 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bookman was always comic relief. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
😂😂😂😂
Love how jj stepped up and helped out when James passed
Even though I hated when they lost James, and the fine actor who played him, this show ended just right!
John Amos his name was. Sorry I had a senior moment yesterday!
His name was John Amos
I couldn't remember yesterday.
Yup!
Loved how this show ended!!! Beautiful 🤎🤎
Look at the interview on why he was killed off the show
Love this episode in that FINALLY this family was given a break and progressed upward and onward. Even JJ was financially stabled to find him a place of his own and Micheal in college. Glad Lear exposed Monte’s and Evans creative vision.
This is my favorite episode of Good Times.
@@idellboykin8149me too 😊
JJ still cracks me up with the Aunt line.
I love this episode when they all move up and I wish it was another part , love the part when Thelma ask her mom to move in.
the funny thing is Willona should have already left because she got the same promotion twice.lol
Keith’s reaction still cracks me up and I have seen it a bunch of times!!!
Wow this was great moment. Everybody doing their own thing n moving out of the projects. Also the fact that thelma was pregnant is a great moment also
#1) I would have love to see Thelma have the baby, announce it was a boy and give him her father's name, James, as possibly his middle name. #2) Life was much simpler back then. $60,000 was a lot of money back then but now it's not worth much at all today. 😥
but still nothing to sneeze at, if you're single.
Good Times love 😘😘😘
The only and final episode that fit the name of the sitcom - Good Times. In its entirety, Florida and Willona learned that they were gonna remain neighbors at their new residency. It ended with the two best friends happily hugging each other😊
1:15- Mike's reaction to JJ's idea of getting free tickets to the football game was priceless!!!
I was watching Thelma's reaction
RIP BEN POWERS, ESTER ROLLE, AND JANET DU'BOIS
Esther Rolle and Ja'net Dubois too.
@@MrJuly1990ish good look I keep forgetting Janet Du'bois has passed
@@MrJuly1990ish yes Esther has been dead for decades
@@Ostine8333 since 1998 she was 78 yrs old and Janet Dubois supposedly was 87 they lived long lives for sure
This show taught me a lot it loves taught understood at Joy through the good and bad times it's so much that it brought into lives of different homes and families
Ben Powers was a tall and handsome man😍 may he Rest In Peace 🙏🏾
Yass!
There will never be a show as Grand as real and his down-to-earth and true Delight is that show always was
Thanks for all you've done for television, Mr. Lear. "Good Times" is one of my all-time favorite shows. I wish we could buy it in HD. 🤩
Norman Lear should have allowed Good Times to flow into the '80s. It would have been awesome to see them live the good life 🧬
Lets not forget Mike Evans (original Lionel Jefferson) who helped produced Good Times
@@JamesJones-zq7pc
Let’s not forget Eric Monte who was the co-created of Good Times as well.
This is the best ending of a series I’ve ever seen in my life. Blessings on blessings! Everyone had good news to share.
Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning! Psalm 30:5
Ya gotta love sitcoms. Everything happens at the same time! The Ultra-Mega-Super Happy Ending!
LOL. I know. This is so over the top. They also should have had the Evans inherit a Hawaiian island. And also Michael becomes President of the World, and Willona is granted unlimited magical powers.
@@jaredjlinden LOL!!!
@@jaredjlinden Wouldn't bother me. It's good to see good folks strike it big once in a while, and actually hold on to it and pay it forward.
@@captainpharaoh yeah if there was a family that deserved some good luck it was the Evans family.
James would've been here for this magical moment to become a grandfather
I remember that day when she got from that she was pregnant I just wish her dad that she was here he would have been a grandfather I remember that I love that show
Florida, Willona, Penny and Thelma has the best and beautiful dresses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Late 70s and early 80s ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊
The series ended in 1979
@@MarvinParksAmericanJazzSinger then Mike Evans return to the Jeffersons
Jennifer❤
I always wondered if the Evans family ever learned to lock their front door in their new place.
it wouldn't have have mattered because Willona was the only person walked in without knocking.lol
@@1talldaddy They were always worried about the crime in their neighborhood, but yet they always left their front door unlocked.
😂
@@360whiplash 😂
@@360whiplash well they lived on the 17th floor and the elevator was always out so the were safe.lol
Shoutout to the original creators of this show: Eric Monte (born Kenneth Williams and Mike Evans. 😎💯💙
POINT BLANK!!!
Was that the same Mike Evan's that played as Lynol on The Jeffersons? Probably is since Janet Dubois sang the title song "Movin on up" shows are related in this probably.
@@Ladiesandgentlemen121 yes. Mike Evans, who co created Good Times was the original Lionel Jefferson.
@@BrotherDerrick3X I always suspected it as a kid growing up when the credits scrolled up at the end of each show but before i could put 2+2 together it was time for the Carol Burnett Show, then All in the Family, then Sanford and Son, now its time to watch The Jeffersons..... Next thing i knew 50 yrs went by , i'm still sitting in the same spot in front of the same TV and I'm only now finding this out. LOL. Thank you for the confirming reply.
Mike Evans, co creator of Good Times, also played the original Lionel, the handsome one, on The Jeffersons.
I felt awful when Keith died in real life, and way too young.
Bookman asked a legitimate question though 😂😭😭
James should had been there to share in the news!
I would have laughed my ass off if Penny would have said and I'm gonna be the one in Control. Que the music..
Penny had a wardrobe malfunction at the super bowl.
LOL
Naw. Janet would have shrugged and said it's "Alright."
They messed the faint scene up, they didnt give her a chance to almost faint before they reacted and her mom yelled her name lol
The show was never the same after James was removed from the show
Florida deserve this good news especially after what happened to James
Keith was a good addition to the show 😭 He was hilarious
I was so glad that Esther rolle came back to the show. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
I grew up with them. Much love, always!❤
A shame James wasn’t even mentioned.
James Evans should've been here for this moment 😔
Here's an odd idea: instead of killing off James, have him find a job in Alaska or in the south, where he strikes it big and becomes super-rich. Then he comes home to his family a huge winner. But instead of moving his family out, he rallies a bunch of people to invest in the projects. Over time, the projects transform from a ghetto neighborhood into one of the top hotspots in Chicago. The point: instead of moving to a nice, posh neighborhood, James Evans practices what he preaches: remembering and respecting where he came from, and paying it forward. Instead the Evans family turning their backs on the ghetto, they revamp it into a thriving region that becomes envy of Chicago. Kinda like what Captain Sisko did on Star Trek: DS9. When he got there, it was a run-down, abandoned worthless outpost. In a short time, he turned it into one of Starfleet's leading outposts.
This was a ground breaking show and I absolutely love it! 👏 Dyn-o-mite!!
60K, haha. wow, times have changed. As of 2019, The minimum annual salary for a rookie active roster player with a one-year contract is $480,000, according to the collective bargaining agreement the NFL signed in 2011 with the NFL Players Association, which will be in effect until 2020. That minimum increases for each year a player spends in the NFL.
I loved this happy ending
On behalf of James Evans Sr. HAVE MERCY!!!😂
they should of had a good times reunion show like 10 years later like a christmas special with jj and michael married with children
Would have loved to see JJ married to Penny!!! Penny always had a crush on JJ. She grew into a beautiful woman, and I would imagine JJ taking notice.
@@tammylewis2408 i think around the late 80s or early they were thinking about doing a reunion special. but esther rolle didnt want to do it. everyone else did
Incredible ensemble performance. Missing in today's so called entertainment
Watching this and realizing that I would be the same age as their baby, now. 🤣🤣🤣
Me too!! Lol
Keith eventually lost his job to Walter Payton.
Call it what you want but if James kept that 29k he found and Florida did that commercial years ago they would have moved on up a long time ago.
they all finally got out of the projects to a better life
💙💙
Great episode. This was the 2nd to last episode taped. They must have known the show would be cancelled. Everything for everyone went too good at the same time.
The way Keith jumped up, leaving Thelma hanging LITERALLY never fails to tickle me fr🙌🏾🤣🤣🤣🤣💚
This show is real teachings and blessings. ❤
Once John Amos left the writing went to shit. It suffered the same way Three’s Company did when Suzanne Somer left and Alice did when Polly Holiday left.
Let this episode be a reminder that we can all make it to the end of the rainbow
They made it out! Thank God!
They could have had Wilona's dude Frank show up and she FINALLY agree to marry him !
Even though there moving on up it's sad that the show ended.
It’s the walk Keith did when he said that he was having a baby. 😂😂😂
FLO: JJ , why are you moving out?
JJ: mom , I’m 42 years old and I’m too old for the pullout couch
I loved this show!!
Why would you ask a grown man why he’s moving out of your house????? Stop babying men.
They all loved and well missed God bless them all and Family😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
I'm gonna be a grand Booga 🤣😭🤣
"...and I'm gonna be a grand-booger" 😂😂😂😂
This shows how faith in God is. Florida kept her faith in the One True God Jehovah throughout the storms and finally the rainbow came.
"And I'm gone be a grand booga!" 😂😂😂
Keith: I’m going to have a baby 🤣🤣
Many years ago my husband would tell people that “we’re” pregnant. There is no WE in pregnant 🙄🙄.
He was trying to be supportive. Good grief! Men are damned if they do or don’t.
@@SheniceSays214exactly. Anything to push the man out of the picture. We need each other on this earth Misty! Man needs woman and likewise so stop the misandrist nonsense.
Best sitcom ever
I’ve watched Good Times all the time when I was younger, but I haven’t watched every single episode. Was this really the final episode?
This was a touching episode as always! I wanted to marry Keith!
Good to see this finally ended on a good note. They all moved up
Personally the remake done of this show last year was horrible. The original episodes can never be replaced this show is a classic sitcom
What remake? You mean that show where they redo a few classic episodes? It’s not supposed to be as good; I think it’s just reintroducing the show to new audiences, just with well-known current stars, since all those older shows are still on the air through reruns.
You hate reboots, too, Bobby. I'm with ya! 👍✌✊
Does anyone know where I can find the entire scene?This is missing at least 2 minutes at the beginning and 1 1/2 minute at the end.
I'm gonna be a Grand Booga. lol
That always killed me!
i hated keith 😭
I've heard the feeling was mutual.
I love this show so much❤️❤️❤️
Esther Roll's hair doo was at it's best in this episode.
Michael finally looked like he had his hair combed. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
I dig the show but Janes Was right. They went too far with the JJ stupidness, which took away from showcasing a strong black family.
That’s why Florida left as well
Weird, because I don't remember JJ's "stupidity" as much as them being a strong black family. He was being a pretty typical teen/young adult (we ALL have that one sibling or cousin or whomever who is just always acting a bit wild and crazy)... which would be part of a strong black family, so I don't get why that's always looked down on. Just seems weird y'all didn't expect the kids to act like, well, kids. A strong black family doesn't mean everyone is uptight and straight-laced. It means you love each other and help each other through thick and thin... that came through VERY well in this show or it wouldn't still be so beloved.
@@BooDotBoo come on, you know what I mean. Remember I dig the show but JJ was supposed to be a minor character but as his humour/silliness got popular, the scripts changed and shifted away from more meaningful storylines. Nothing to do with uptight or not. Cheers
Should Flo had read between the lines when Thelma told her "it's gonna blow your mind" between her and Keith.
Keith was scraping Thelma back out
And the think ironically the struggle continues
If he was going to be a professional football player, why would they have to live in a duplex apartment???
I always figure it's because they hadn't gotten a taste of the high life yet. They were coming from the ghetto so almost anything would have been better. I'm sure, if the show would have kept going, they would have upgraded to a bigger house, probably a mansion.
He was backing up Walter Payton.
In this last episode they could of show the place where they was going to move at then we could see that they made it.
We gonna be uncles...and if its a girl we can be aunts!!!. 😆 🤣 😂
If it's a girl, we can be Aunts! :D :D :D :D
I was so happy they all made it out of the ghetto. Norman wasn't so bad afterall
Keith almost dumped her on the floor 😂😅
They should have done a spin off.
THELMA REMINDS ME SO MUCH OF PORSHA WILLIAMS ♥️🌹💋
I didn't know Ben powers died
3:13….LOL