Chills indeed! I believe that selection was real. Although it's a TV show. She truly was singing praises and adoration to our Lord n Savior Jesus Christ! 🙏🏽 Yes indeed....Great episode! 😊
19:34 "Don't you dare start crying on me." Samantha didn't get to cry her way out of it. Nell shut her tears down so she could lay some truth. Powerful television.
christopher jacob The thing is how could Samantha not know that Joey would tell Nell it was her idea And not expect to get into trouble. Say Samantha had just tricked Joey into doing some goofy song that wasn’t racially offensive Nell would still be ticked off Maybe not as ticked off as she was about the black face but still pretty mad
Everytime I hear Nell sing, it takes my breath away! What a massive God given gift she had!!! Her singing moves me to such emotional awe that the tears flow cause it's so beautiful! She was a beautiful person inside and out! This show makes me laugh, and it makes me cry! The part of Nell being hurt by what Samantha done made me sob!, cause I could see and feel Nell's and the church congragation's pain. No one should ever have to endure that kind of pain! It is very insulting and painful! God bless you Nell Carter, and I want to hear you singing with the other angels someday!
My kids father.went to high school with her in Alabama..he talks about Nell Carter,all the time..he misses her wit,and the talent she was blessed with.i wish I knew,her..my aunt Chris,kinda favors her..fact...but,when she sings,it's like an Angel..rest in heaven...Nell Carter... Alabama bound..
@@jayceew.rabbit9358 ,yes,my 2 older kids,father.yes,he said,her father was strict and her mom was the nicest lady in the neighborhood.she made sure you never went,hungry.he moved back to Alabama,he lives in Selma..I binge watch Gimme a break,a lot..fun and a great show to watch.and telma Hopkins,is from My hometown... Detroit, MI....so is Robin Williams.r.i.p. ❤️
Also the episode of Valerie where one of the brother takes the car for a joy ride, damages it, the older brother is blamed and she tears into the younger brother for what he did when she finds out it was him.
2019 and I think I will forever watch this show. Neil reminds me so much of my mother, height, weight, and attitude. They both passed away from complications of diabetes, and they loved the lord. They were both tough as nails and sweet like honey on the inside, where it counts, I remember sitting on the floor in my mom's bedroom watching this as she rests from working too damn much and too damn hard for too damn little because she loved us too damn much...and I am left grateful. Thanks for all these uploads..I miss her (my mother) and Neil and I pray they both Rest in sweet peace.
... this made me cry 😢 I’m soo sorry dear. My condolences to u. 💐 I haven’t lost my mother, but I am a mother. I work too damn hard, & for too damn little, for too damn long! but Bc I love my kids that I Do Not damn! Your mom raised u right & bright! Until one day dear, u guys will reunite. 💗
Joey was okay but once he was getting older and they brought in his younger brother whom was basically a shorter clone of Joey, then relocated to NYC, and jettisoned the rest of the cast save for Sam, Joey, Addie, Nells Momma, and Grandpa that was a wrap for this show.
It's amazing that you say that because I tear up inside as well when I hear some of the theme songs from back then also. Simpler times.. Who knew that one day we'd wish for those days again!
@@daronray7921it was the summer of 84 she tried to end it with sleeping pills and wine . She went to see Liza Minnelli who immediately flew her to Hazelton Recovery centre and even Nell said in a interview out of all the places the tried that was the best one . She also had a lot of trauma growing up she seen her father electrocuted when she was 2 and half five or take then she was “ SA” at 16 and became pregnant because of this incident and had her daughter Tracy . Nell then asked her older sister if she could raise Tracy as she found it very hard given the situation . Nell never stopped loving her kids she fought hard all her life . May her soul finally be at peace.❤❤❤❤
There's only one thing to say about the late great Nell Carter she was a amazing Singer Actress and a Great Friend to all of us growing up in the early eighties and to watch the reruns of the show and hear that voice and motherly wisdom it just goes to show you the body May leave this world but greatest last Forever in Time. Rip Mrs.Carter
This is one of my favorite episodes along with Samantha's Imaginary Friend. I liked the way Joey sang Toot Toot Tootsie; his face could have been kept as is. Samantha was one piece of work; she was a good actress on this show. It wasn't the same anymore after the Chief passed away
@@classicstorm I know, but it could have been done even late in season 3. He had been with the show for a year by this point. They only taped 22 episodes in season 3, and from the way the shows were done that season - only 3 were filmed in early 1984. Nell may have gone to rehab during the hiatus and the show written, but not filmed until that fall.
@@millenniumman75 I agree...it should have never been this long...Sam looked crazy talking about I'm not the baby anymore...like girl if you don't move along...
😳 Oh WoW! I didn’t expect that! 16:40 My mouth just dropped! It’s insane what they got away with back then! Though this was a good episode, morals & family values. TV is Not the same anymore!😢
Joey wanted to sing Michael Jackson's Thriller,Nell didn't think it was appropriate. Grandpa wants Toot Toot Tootsie by Al Jolson. Kinda strange there's sheet music with picture of Al Jolson in blackface in house.
I really loved this show. The 80s had the best television shows. Nell Carter was perfect in her role. And this season was the first season that we saw Joey Lawrence .
Not Al Joelson in blackface!!!! 👀 The crazy thing about this is I grew up watching this, but this speaks volumes as to how much she knew that would offend and the impact that it would have. Samantha knew what blackface was. As a white woman she couldn’t get her way and she sacrificed everyone and the black person was her main target! She was manipulative and didn’t care. With her tactics she’d be the first one to scream I’m not racist, but her actions said other wise. This was an eye opener. This was well written and sends the message to black people. After years of being a part of their life and raising those kids you got to see what Samantha thought of Nell and others like her!
Sam was not a bright character. I remember the episode where she kisses a boy, asks how do women get pregnant the dad says by kissing boys, and she thinks is pregnant. She was a teenager in the episode. If she had been Joey's age it would have made sense.
Lara Jill Miller was 14 when she was cast as Samantha even though the character was written considerably younger especially in the first season. It makes some of the Sam stories especially awkward. Seeing a teenager play a character who has an imaginary friend was just the height of cringe.
Sudsy Sutherland I think she kinda spoiled him because of how they found him He was homeless I believe abandoned by his parents so she spoiled him with love because he hadn’t had that I’m guessing Remember the Jerry’s kids episode when he first showed up
This episode was right after Julie got caught on a ski trip with her boyfriend. Samantha just should have kept quiet about boys being on the trip or realized there was no way she was going after what just happened with Julie.
Networks were nothing like they are today. They did episodes on the hard topics. Even on the jeffersons amd archive bunker. It was about bringing things to the surface not being sensitive and afraid. That is why their was so much diversity because people were open and ready to see and talk about the difficult things. Now everybody is fearful, scared and sensitive. Instead of using things to open dialogue they just want to cancel things or people are on a uproar. Even going as far to mislabeling what they see. Sometimes its not what you see but the perceptions behind the sight.
When I was a young boy, I too was tricked into performing in blackface in front of a crowd of black people. I get embarrassed every time I think of it.
Al Jolson blackface was not meant to make fun of black people. In his day, talented black entertainers were not allowed to perform for white audience. He thought the only way to fight this unfair treatment was to make himself black on stage. It was his way showing white people that black people can be creative and entertaining. People today are quick to play the victim and pull the race card. It only exposed them as ignorant and low info. Al Jolson was a humanitarian, and throughout his life he did a lot to promote and support talented black entertainers.
@@LovesDavidCassidy It was one of the earlier episodes from Season One. I remember it very clearly. She was like, "How would you feel if I called you a N@#$!*". This was at a time when they would use shock value dialogue.
She also said some cringe worthy stuff in the episode where she went with Nell to Alabama when Nell's father was dying. THEN she made Nell's father's funeral about her when she ran and blubbered to The Chief when he walked in during the service.
when I saw this episode I'm not surprised that little Joey don't know a thang about who in the hell is al Jolson ? a little white kid in blackface is like vanilla ice does Migos and snoop dog grudling at the same time. LOL.
Bravo to Nell for yelling at Samantha! What she did to Joey was wrong. Nell's Church was embarrassed. Samantha didn't think about the consequences when she used Joey. Yes. Nell told her to apologize to her Church.
That word is absolutely horrible, Every time I hear others speak it, or use it in different ways, it makes me sick. I wish it hadn't been created. It's an ugly, insulting word. 🤢💔
They said Nell was like a mom to all the kids on the set. That’s good... Nell came from poverty, she was raped and had the baby... she died and someone was her domestic partner, lol. Nell was something else..
I know Samantha was mad at nell and getting jealous of joey but what she really sink to this level. Something more believable would be Nell Got angry at Samantha for not coming to watch Joey sing at the church or Sam Tricked Joey into doing a rap song
@@Toyotaboy497 Just singing that song might insult people at a black church. Nell should have nixed that idea right after the grandfather suggested it.
Wow did Neil remember the first time when she didn't listen Samantha, that was episode where she said The N word and then stole her father's police squad car she did those things because felt that nobody was listening to her
I remember that - only on that episode it was the Chief that got upset and not Nell. Sam was trying to tell them that some kid was bullying her in school and called her a dumb Polack, and when they wouldn't hear her, she blurted out to Nell, "Well how would you feel if someone called you a nigger?!!" Nell heard the context of what she said and didn't get mad, but the Chief only heard the "N-word" and flipped out.
I was a teenager when this series was on, so I don't remember if this was filmed in front of a live audience or they used a laugh track. Not that I was fully aware of America's long, disturbing history concerning race when I was 15, but even then I was shocked to see Joey Lawrence in blackface, and it's creepy to hear the laughter during that scene. I know it's a sitcom, and by the mid-1980s the pursuit for social relevance on American TV in shows like All in the Family and The Jeffersons was pretty much dead and had given way to fluff like Mork and Mindy, but part of me is disturbed that people in a studio audience would think this is funny, decades after blackface had ended as an entertainment feature in the movies.
Arjay, I Was Never Creeped Out When I Saw Joey Wearing A Blackface. He Only Wanted To Surprise Nell In A Cheerful Way. Although It Was Really Samantha's Idea That Backfired On Her, & She Got Grounded For 2 Weeks.
Samantha was a crybaby in this episode, she whined to daddy about nell not letting her go she failed to mention to her dad that there will be boys on that camping trip!
She was also a crybaby in a different episode, Sam's Imaginary Friend. Sam was about 13 when that episode aired. I have a cousin who was still having tantrums at 13. I told my supervisor from work about it; the supervisor and I agreed that this was not very good
Elements of this episode could’ve actually made separate episodes.,There could be a whole episode about Samantha lying about boys being on the camping trip and then Nell finding out and crashing it. If they wanted to do a black face episode they really shouldn’t have made Samantha be the person behind it. Totally unrealistic she would go as low as that just because she wasn’t allowed to go on a coed camping trip. A better idea would’ve been a racist friend of Joeys giving him the idea.
The writers already had Samantha go "that low" in the first season when she called Neil the N word, as comparison to being called a Polish slur. It was done both out of ignorance and maliciousness, as a way to get attention. Same with this episode. It was a way to punish Neil by having Joey, the newish "baby" of the family hurt her by pulling this stunt.
Nabinut She said how much you like it if someone called you a ****. In the three years in between the two episodes considering what Sam Nell went through Completely against their relationship she would stoop to what she did. It was still wrong but she didn’t directly call Nell that in the first season. Joey had been around a year so it’s a little unrealistic all the sudden Sam would act petty jealousy of him. Something a little more realistic would’ve been Samantha talking joey into doing a rap song Or any kind of goofy she would think would embarrass him. The grandfather bears some responsibility too because he’s the one who suggested Joey sing a song with such a racist roots. I would think a black church would be offended by just that song being performed even if it wasn’t in black face
"Are you gonna hit her?" 😆😆 Back then, i REALLY believed that Nell was their mother. i was actually a little afraid of Nell in this show because i thought someone was going to get beat in every episode. Honestly, i was only 5, but i vaguely remember the chief or grandpa ever being there. i just saw Nell Carter and a bunch of kids.
@@Michelle-pn9xt I never said racism is ok. You need to be careful who you tell people things. I absolutely dislike racism. Joey didn't know what Samantha was doing, he was young. Samantha was wrong & she knew it. When I hear people talking filthy, it makes my stomach ache. For future reference, choose your words carefully.
Nell singing How Great Thou Art gives me chills every time I hear it.
Yes
Chills indeed!
I believe that selection was real. Although it's a TV show. She truly was singing praises and adoration to our Lord n Savior Jesus Christ! 🙏🏽
Yes indeed....Great episode! 😊
19:34 "Don't you dare start crying on me." Samantha didn't get to cry her way out of it. Nell shut her tears down so she could lay some truth. Powerful television.
Indeed!
@Jessica Smith That HAS to be why she can cry cue!That has to be!!
@Jessica Smith really? I didn’t know that.
Nell is right Samantha making Joey put blackface is like saying The N word. Joey didn't know but she knew better. Good show & good subject matter.
iunderstand that samantha was upset but what she did was wrong
christopher jacob The thing is how could Samantha not know that Joey would tell Nell it was her idea And not expect to get into trouble. Say Samantha had just tricked Joey into doing some goofy song that wasn’t racially offensive Nell would still be ticked off Maybe not as ticked off as she was about the black face but still pretty mad
Absolutely
Actually Sam did say the N-Word in a previous episode
@@carmesundae2 Yes, she did, and Nell should have beat her tail for it. There are some things that go beyond grounding and shoveling pot holes.
to hear "How Great Thou Art" on a Nationally televised sitcom.. how I miss the 80s
jaredontv The 80’s were a radical decade, weren’t they?
Same here love that song also loved it when Nell sang amazing Grace 😇🙏
That was powerful
Every other episode they talked about teen sex. I don't see what's so righteous about the show.
@@Toyotaboy497 singing How Great Thou Art is radical?????
I always loved this show. Why can't they have shows n actresses like Nell Carter today. She was soooooo funny nobody could ever replace her.
Cause television industry has reality stars, and this era of television was the best! big sigh
Too politically correct.
Yep!!!
They got Tyler perry house of payne
Agreed... the 80’s and 90’s had the best tv EVERRRRRRR
I just started watching "Gimme a Break!" again after all these years. It's so refreshing, Nell Carter is just amazing!👍❤️
Thank you Lord for blessing us with Nell Carter and her beautiful voice. Rest In Power Nell Carter.
Nell had a beautiful voice
Yes she did
Indeed and may her soul continue to rest in peace
Nell was beautiful! She had a wonderful voice and a good sense of humor. 💓💖💯 That dress looked great on her! I miss the 80's.... RIP Nell😢
I think she was awesome also. And yes, the 80's were the best! I'm 51 now. I wish I could go back in time. 🙂
She sang beautifully!!
This beautiful lady is so talented
Rest Easy Ms Carter 🙏 ♥️
Everytime I hear Nell sing, it takes my breath away! What a massive God given gift she had!!! Her singing moves me to such emotional awe that the tears flow cause it's so beautiful! She was a beautiful person inside and out! This show makes me laugh, and it makes me cry! The part of Nell being hurt by what Samantha done made me sob!, cause I could see and feel Nell's and the church congragation's pain. No one should ever have to endure that kind of pain! It is very insulting and painful! God bless you Nell Carter, and I want to hear you singing with the other angels someday!
My kids father.went to high school with her in Alabama..he talks about Nell Carter,all the time..he misses her wit,and the talent she was blessed with.i wish I knew,her..my aunt Chris,kinda favors her..fact...but,when she sings,it's like an Angel..rest in heaven...Nell Carter... Alabama bound..
@@choriajackson9255 wow, that is awesome about your father knowing her, that had to of been a treat to hear her sing in a school choir!
@@jayceew.rabbit9358 ,yes,my 2 older kids,father.yes,he said,her father was strict and her mom was the nicest lady in the neighborhood.she made sure you never went,hungry.he moved back to Alabama,he lives in Selma..I binge watch Gimme a break,a lot..fun and a great show to watch.and telma Hopkins,is from My hometown... Detroit, MI....so is Robin Williams.r.i.p. ❤️
@@choriajackson9255 wow, that's so interesting! Thanks for sharing that! Sounds like you had some wonderful families living there including yours!🙂
Lord, a show this real would not see the light off day in this day an age. I love how she didn't pull any punches when Samantha started to cry.
Also the episode of Valerie where one of the brother takes the car for a joy ride, damages it, the older brother is blamed and she tears into the younger brother for what he did when she finds out it was him.
Always loved listening to nail Carter Sing!
I love to hear her sing and act. She is well missed R.I.P.
Nail?? Really?? Her name was Nell.
2019 and I think I will forever watch this show. Neil reminds me so much of my mother, height, weight, and attitude. They both passed away from complications of diabetes, and they loved the lord. They were both tough as nails and sweet like honey on the inside, where it counts, I remember sitting on the floor in my mom's bedroom watching this as she rests from working too damn much and too damn hard for too damn little because she loved us too damn much...and I am left grateful. Thanks for all these uploads..I miss her (my mother) and Neil and I pray they both Rest in sweet peace.
She Reminds me of my Grandma during this period when I was a Teenager, but Nell Carter In General Favors My Grandma's Sister ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful
... this made me cry 😢 I’m soo sorry dear. My condolences to u. 💐 I haven’t lost my mother, but I am a mother. I work too damn hard, & for too damn little, for too damn long! but Bc I love my kids that I Do Not damn! Your mom raised u right & bright! Until one day dear, u guys will reunite. 💗
I never liked child actors who were added to the show in later seasons, but I think Joey Lawrence was a great addition to the show.
@Chris Bradley I think he's talking about child actors on other shows. And I don't even see what's so great about Lawrence.
Joey was okay but once he was getting older and they brought in his younger brother whom was basically a shorter clone of Joey, then relocated to NYC, and jettisoned the rest of the cast save for Sam, Joey, Addie, Nells Momma, and Grandpa that was a wrap for this show.
Love how she sings HOW GREAT THOU ART I want her version played at my funeral
this actually made me tear up at the end... today's shows SUCK.. bring back the 80s
jaredontv Yeah. The 80’s rock!
Ther will only Nell Carter
IMAGINE GROWING UP THEN. I'M 53. MUCH MUCH SIMPLER TIMES THEN.
Yes Please!!❤️❤️
It's amazing that you say that because I tear up inside as well when I hear some of the theme songs from back then also. Simpler times.. Who knew that one day we'd wish for those days again!
R.I.P. NELL CARTER! SHE WAS SO FUNNY. SHE HAD A HEART ATTACK. SHE'S NEVER GOING TO COME BACK. 💔💙✝️
She tried to kill herself in the 80s or 90s and she had diabetes and developed a drinking issue and smoked cocaine wow crazy
@@daronray7921it was the summer of 84 she tried to end it with sleeping pills and wine . She went to see Liza Minnelli who immediately flew her to Hazelton Recovery centre and even Nell said in a interview out of all the places the tried that was the best one . She also had a lot of trauma growing up she seen her father electrocuted when she was 2 and half five or take then she was “ SA” at 16 and became pregnant because of this incident and had her daughter Tracy . Nell then asked her older sister if she could raise Tracy as she found it very hard given the situation . Nell never stopped loving her kids she fought hard all her life . May her soul finally be at peace.❤❤❤❤
There's only one thing to say about the late great Nell Carter she was a amazing Singer Actress and a Great Friend to all of us growing up in the early eighties and to watch the reruns of the show and hear that voice and motherly wisdom it just goes to show you the body May leave this world but greatest last Forever in Time. Rip Mrs.Carter
Nell Carter could sing any genre of music!!
Probably not death metal.
This is one of my favorite episodes along with Samantha's Imaginary Friend. I liked the way Joey sang Toot Toot Tootsie; his face could have been kept as is. Samantha was one piece of work; she was a good actress on this show. It wasn't the same anymore after the Chief passed away
This show should have been filmed right after Joey arrived on the show.....they waited a whole year.
I liked Joey's girlfriend, Molly. She was as cute as she could be
@@millenniumman75 I agree but then again Sam wanted them to keep him so it wouldn't make sense...
@@classicstorm I know, but it could have been done even late in season 3. He had been with the show for a year by this point. They only taped 22 episodes in season 3, and from the way the shows were done that season - only 3 were filmed in early 1984. Nell may have gone to rehab during the hiatus and the show written, but not filmed until that fall.
@@millenniumman75 I agree...it should have never been this long...Sam looked crazy talking about I'm not the baby anymore...like girl if you don't move along...
I remember watching this as a child and I didn't quite understand. I thought as an adult I would be angry but I was moved to tears.
You can raise a child all their lives and when they get mad they disrespect you
Her voice as just amazing
Why did Joey sing Michael Jackson song like that?!?! Pronouncing every syllable.😂
The look on the Allstate insurance guy's face when Joey came out.
Word Life That was Dennis Haysbert.
Omg..the rev is the all state man!
Dennis Haysbert.
You're in good hands with Allstate! LoL..
Charise Nettles That wasn’t in the episode. That was only in the commercials.
😳 Oh WoW! I didn’t expect that! 16:40 My mouth just dropped! It’s insane what they got away with back then! Though this was a good episode, morals & family values. TV is Not the same anymore!😢
Thank you to whoever posted this video I miss Nell Carter singing
POWERFUL EPISODE! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This episode taught me something when I first saw it at 9 years old.
I go to this episode just to hear that song. I love hearing her sing it
Nell has a great and beautiful voice.
I used to love this show
Joey wanted to sing Michael Jackson's Thriller,Nell didn't think it was appropriate. Grandpa wants Toot Toot Tootsie by Al Jolson. Kinda strange there's sheet music with picture of Al Jolson in blackface in house.
thank you, why did Nell think it was ok for him to sing the song AT ALL
Something Joey could’ve sang that would’ve been all right at the church would’ve been what a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong
msdoza I know these days just the controversy with that song would have made it a big no-no
Nell should have known having a white kid sing a black church was not a good idea
@@zt1053 Or maybe a hymn something about Christ.
Nell Carter was something else.
This show had serious matters, too!
Sam actually did drop a n-bomb on an earlier episode. It wasnt in offense to anyone in particular, but to get the adults attention.
I really loved this show. The 80s had the best television shows. Nell Carter was perfect in her role. And this season was the first season that we saw Joey Lawrence .
Not Al Joelson in blackface!!!! 👀
The crazy thing about this is I grew up watching this, but this speaks volumes as to how much she knew that would offend and the impact that it would have. Samantha knew what blackface was. As a white woman she couldn’t get her way and she sacrificed everyone and the black person was her main target! She was manipulative and didn’t care. With her tactics she’d be the first one to scream I’m not racist, but her actions said other wise. This was an eye opener. This was well written and sends the message to black people. After years of being a part of their life and raising those kids you got to see what Samantha thought of Nell and others like her!
Kasey B.
You do realize Samantha is a character on a tv show and not the writer.
Edie ... Starbucks, Yale, BBQ Becky and the real life examples just keep coming in 2018..
So true!
Kasey B. Heh. The first documentation of White Woman Tears
You Got Triggered what's your point?
RIP Neill Carter!
Julie sitting in the kitchen with the cake burning and said nothing 😂😒
This was a powerful episode for the 80s. I can’t imagine the reaction it would get today.
It sure is needed. I loved shows that have a message.
Sam was not a bright character. I remember the episode where she kisses a boy, asks how do women get pregnant the dad says by kissing boys, and she thinks is pregnant. She was a teenager in the episode. If she had been Joey's age it would have made sense.
LOL Actually, it was her older sister, Katie who was the "Dumb Blonde."
Lara Jill Miller was 14 when she was cast as Samantha even though the character was written considerably younger especially in the first season. It makes some of the Sam stories especially awkward. Seeing a teenager play a character who has an imaginary friend was just the height of cringe.
Exactly 💯, she was supposed to be 14 and acted like a toddler having a tantrum! Her character was an unstable spoiled brat
Sam's jealousy of Joey got the better of her I'm not condoning her actions but she'll know better next time, this is great acting from Neil and Lara.
Nell Carter was someone you could look up to as a second mother
Exactly I miss the 80s
Why did grandpa give Joey the song to learn in the first place...he didn’t see that black face on the front cover 🙄🙄🙄 #SFL
I wondered the same thing. Thank you!
Is it just me or did Nell and Joey get from the church to home pretty quickly 😂🤣
How did joey get to the church without neil seeing him like that. Even if he put the paint on at the church neil would have seen him carrying it.
Did you actually think all this happened in 24 minutes?
@@zt1053 I think Samantha snuck hi. In
Nell Carter was cute.
She was the Aunt Jemima of the house.
Dennis Haysbert as Rev. Winfield!
You know this episode Baby of the Family is left out in rotation on COZI TV
@Chris Bradley and Joey in blackface
It's still out of rotation on COZI that only episode.
RIH NeLL CarTer.. Amazing
The All State guy.
Nell was like A Mother to all of those kids 😢
I realize it's a tv show but they scripted Nell to spoil Joey like a spoiled brat.
Sudsy Sutherland I think she kinda spoiled him because of how they found him
He was homeless I believe abandoned by his parents so she spoiled him with love because he hadn’t had that
I’m guessing
Remember the Jerry’s kids episode when he first showed up
A couple of seasons later they find younger brother and he gets dethroned as the baby.
@@marqueslittle1677 It was worse. Mom was dead, dad was in the navy, conman uncle took him out of state and his father had no idea where he was.
What does that have to do with Samantha putting him up to do a black face routine?
Judy Chang I know the whole thing was a big unrealistic leap
That's one of my favorite hymns!
This episode was right after Julie got caught on a ski trip with her boyfriend. Samantha just should have kept quiet about boys being on the trip or realized there was no way she was going after what just happened with Julie.
zt1053 And that’s exactly what just happened in this episode.
Yes
ICONIC! NELL💓🙏🏼
That episode was an eye-opening . I’m surprise the network let it go that far?
Networks were nothing like they are today. They did episodes on the hard topics. Even on the jeffersons amd archive bunker. It was about bringing things to the surface not being sensitive and afraid. That is why their was so much diversity because people were open and ready to see and talk about the difficult things. Now everybody is fearful, scared and sensitive. Instead of using things to open dialogue they just want to cancel things or people are on a uproar. Even going as far to mislabeling what they see. Sometimes its not what you see but the perceptions behind the sight.
Addie remember You're in good hands with all state
I miss these shows
What a great talent! Thank you Nell Carter! May you rest easy👑.💯👊🏾❤️
Love those shows
Addie's outfit at church is really pretty, I would wear that now, some of the 80s had cute clothes
Oh how I miss this show
When I was a young boy, I too was tricked into performing in blackface in front of a crowd of black people. I get embarrassed every time I think of it.
😮 that's terrible, but I'm sure the adults knew it wasn't your fault
They had Nell moving around like a skinny woman in every episode!! She was always outta breath.. lol... remember Thea? lol
That's why I don't eat everybody's cooking 😮💯
Chills chills chills. Love to hear her saying that.
I hope they put gimme a break on netflix,hulu, tubi, peacock,roku,tv one
Al Jolson blackface was not meant to make fun of black people. In his day, talented black entertainers were not allowed to perform for white audience. He thought the only way to fight this unfair treatment was to make himself black on stage. It was his way showing white people that black people can be creative and entertaining. People today are quick to play the victim and pull the race card. It only exposed them as ignorant and low info. Al Jolson was a humanitarian, and throughout his life he did a lot to promote and support talented black entertainers.
but samantha put him up to it it was not his fault
One of the thumbs down is from Megyn Kelly....
This show was what I thought of during that whole fiasco. I remembered it when it was new... or at least recent reruns at the time.
wow this episode was deep they dont make shows like this anymore
R.I.P Dolph and Nell
this isnt the only episode that the youngest girl was racist toward nell
what other episode is it that was called?
What other episode?
@@LovesDavidCassidy It was one of the earlier episodes from Season One. I remember it very clearly. She was like, "How would you feel if I called you a N@#$!*". This was at a time when they would use shock value dialogue.
@@Supremmo that was samantha steals a squad car
She also said some cringe worthy stuff in the episode where she went with Nell to Alabama when Nell's father was dying. THEN she made Nell's father's funeral about her when she ran and blubbered to The Chief when he walked in during the service.
Good lord this is how you sing.
when I saw this episode I'm not surprised that little Joey don't know a thang about who in the hell is al Jolson ? a little white kid in blackface is like vanilla ice does Migos and snoop dog grudling at the same time. LOL.
Vanilla ice never made fun of black people!!!!!!!!!!!!! He does not have to know about Al Jolson. Nobody needs to know who he is to understand racism.
I’m surprised Nell didn’t object when grandpa said he wanted him to sing that song. He would have been better off singing Thriller. Blackface. Oh God.
@@Gunngirl How would he have been better off singing Thriller in a church??? Nell did not know what he was going to sing.
Wow Nell could sing
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Bravo to Nell for yelling at Samantha! What she did to Joey was wrong. Nell's Church was embarrassed. Samantha didn't think about the consequences when she used Joey. Yes. Nell told her to apologize to her Church.
That word is absolutely horrible, Every time I hear others speak it, or use it in different ways, it makes me sick. I wish it hadn't been created. It's an ugly, insulting word. 🤢💔
They said Nell was like a mom to all the kids on the set. That’s good... Nell came from poverty, she was raped and had the baby... she died and someone was her domestic partner, lol. Nell was something else..
I’m sure they won’t forget her influence in their lives
Watch Ashley say so on Nell .Nell was mean to Joey Lawrence after a while
I know Samantha was mad at nell and getting jealous of joey but what she really sink to this level. Something more believable would be Nell Got angry at Samantha for not coming to watch Joey sing at the church or Sam Tricked Joey into doing a rap song
zt1053 Actually, he sang a song from Al Jolson.
Jacob Wilkes But Nell New Joey was going to sing that because she was in the room when the grandfather suggested it
zt1053 That’s when the song “Kiss Me Tootsie” came on the show.
@@Toyotaboy497 Just singing that song might insult people at a black church. Nell should have nixed that idea right after the grandfather suggested it.
zt1053 She would never lived to see the day that Samantha would use the word, “Nigga”.
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Wow did Neil remember the first time when she didn't listen Samantha, that was episode where she said The N word and then stole her father's police squad car she did those things because felt that nobody was listening to her
I remember that - only on that episode it was the Chief that got upset and not Nell.
Sam was trying to tell them that some kid was bullying her in school and called her a dumb Polack, and when they wouldn't hear her, she blurted out to Nell, "Well how would you feel if someone called you a nigger?!!"
Nell heard the context of what she said and didn't get mad, but the Chief only heard the "N-word" and flipped out.
@@averythecoolcat yep he said You're gonna get the spanking of your life!
I was a teenager when this series was on, so I don't remember if this was filmed in front of a live audience or they used a laugh track. Not that I was fully aware of America's long, disturbing history concerning race when I was 15, but even then I was shocked to see Joey Lawrence in blackface, and it's creepy to hear the laughter during that scene. I know it's a sitcom, and by the mid-1980s the pursuit for social relevance on American TV in shows like All in the Family and The Jeffersons was pretty much dead and had given way to fluff like Mork and Mindy, but part of me is disturbed that people in a studio audience would think this is funny, decades after blackface had ended as an entertainment feature in the movies.
Arjay, I Was Never Creeped Out When I Saw Joey Wearing A Blackface. He Only Wanted To Surprise Nell In A Cheerful Way. Although It Was Really Samantha's Idea That Backfired On Her, & She Got Grounded For 2 Weeks.
They were laughing at the awkwardness of the situation. They sure as hell weren't laughing when Nell confronted Sam.
Samantha was a crybaby in this episode, she whined to daddy about nell not letting her go she failed to mention to her dad that there will be boys on that camping trip!
She was also a crybaby in a different episode, Sam's Imaginary Friend. Sam was about 13 when that episode aired. I have a cousin who was still having tantrums at 13. I told my supervisor from work about it; the supervisor and I agreed that this was not very good
@@kachoo2135 She did lose her mother at a very young age
Every time she sings...i cry
this episode was deep
Elements of this episode could’ve actually made separate episodes.,There could be a whole episode about Samantha lying about boys being on the camping trip and then Nell finding out and crashing it. If they wanted to do a black face episode they really shouldn’t have made Samantha be the person behind it. Totally unrealistic she would go as low as that just because she wasn’t allowed to go on a coed camping trip. A better idea would’ve been a racist friend of Joeys giving him the idea.
The writers already had Samantha go "that low" in the first season when she called Neil the N word, as comparison to being called a Polish slur. It was done both out of ignorance and maliciousness, as a way to get attention. Same with this episode. It was a way to punish Neil by having Joey, the newish "baby" of the family hurt her by pulling this stunt.
Nabinut She said how much you like it if someone called you a ****. In the three years in between the two episodes considering what Sam Nell went through Completely against their relationship she would stoop to what she did. It was still wrong but she didn’t directly call Nell that in the first season. Joey had been around a year so it’s a little unrealistic all the sudden Sam would act petty jealousy of him. Something a little more realistic would’ve been Samantha talking joey into doing a rap song Or any kind of goofy she would think would embarrass him. The grandfather bears some responsibility too because he’s the one who suggested Joey sing a song with such a racist roots. I would think a black church would be offended by just that song being performed even if it wasn’t in black face
They made Samantha seem so malicious
I never liked Sam! So disrespectful!
Don't Worry, Samantha's Nasty Attitude Smells Like Her Feet.
This wasn't the only racist thing Sam did to Nell. She called her the N-word one time too.
"Are you gonna hit her?" 😆😆
Back then, i REALLY believed that Nell was their mother.
i was actually a little afraid of Nell in this show because i thought someone was going to get beat in every episode.
Honestly, i was only 5, but i vaguely remember the chief or grandpa ever being there. i just saw Nell Carter and a bunch of kids.
Is it me or does Samantha look like Weird Al Yankovic haahhahahaa
There IS a resemblance, lol.
And why does Joey have to get permission to go to the bathroom?
cause nell said no I think
@@LovesDavidCassidy cause she knew that letter was bad and she didn't want him to leave without her reading it
This episode had some funny issues, Samantha pulling the nasty prank on Nell using Joey was horrible. 😢 Joey didn't know any better, Samantha did. 😢💔
Didn't know any better. Please stop pretending that racism is okay.
@@Michelle-pn9xt I never said racism is ok. You need to be careful who you tell people things. I absolutely dislike racism. Joey didn't know what Samantha was doing, he was young. Samantha was wrong & she knew it. When I hear people talking filthy, it makes my stomach ache. For future reference, choose your words carefully.
@@Michelle-pn9xt Bruh... The little kid thought that Al Jolson was actually black. He was just naive.
@@blakemcnamara9105 Yeah. He did not understand, but Samantha did. Bruh, she was being racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was old enough to understand that!
My question is this...why wasn't that song brought up at the house? They didn't look at the cover.
Sam shouldn’t never did that 2 Joey,
Am I the only one that sheds tears the first 21 seconds?