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- Thelma (BernNadette Stanis) comes home one day with an engagement ring, so it's time for James (John Amos) and Florida (Esther Rolle) to meet her fiancé (Louis Gossett Jr.). Little do they know that they're in for a surprise!
From Season 2, Episode 6 'Thelma's Young Man' - Thelma shocks the family when she brings home her much older boyfriend and announces their plans to marry.
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Man I'm 42 and I would never think to get together with a 17-year-old girl. In any decade that is just wrong.
Tell that to hugh hefner
@@rthompson9652 I rest my case
R Kelly drug dealer and any other fool in the hood
Me too💀💀💀💀
They like that young stuff. Perverts
James was too real for tv. This how all dads need to be in the household.
Not these days. Most men are emasculated and let their wives run everything. Mothers are letting their daughter move unemployed boyfriend into their bedroom in high school.
Exactly!! 💯
That's how they used to be. And yes, Amos was too real. He scared me. LOL!
God bless you ❤
This is why they terminated the contract with Amos. He wanted a comedic show but with a serious confrontation with social subjects. But already in the 70s producers had a preference for clown acting and catchphrases, so they gave more and more room to Walker.
James could speak volumes with just one look.
He certainly did when he looked at the intervening JJ!
James spoke with action. He didn't play. He knew when he had to put his foot down
"Dirty old man".. "BINGO Jack "🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
haha!
That part
17, 42?! i'm surprised JAMES EVANS didn't beat the dirty old man within an inch of his life in the hallway, much less let him into his home.
@@SIKE01 Exactly. Especially when he kissed her..
@@SIKE01 they wanted her to check him out 1st.
“Forty-two?!?!”
“Laaawd have mercy”
I died 😂😂😂
Girl mee too 🤣😂🤣😂
Bingo Jack😂😂
@@busterzigler7530 😂😩
WHAT YOU SAID FR FR 💯🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There's not too many actors who can accurately recreate the face of a father who has had enough bulshit for one day, John Amos is one of those actors!
@angel johnson the problems come later . shes 17 for goodness sakes. when she sees her young friends enjoying themselves. going out with boyfriends, going to work and other platforms of learning, or doin other things shell wonder why she married. shell regret why she didint listnen to her parents. an older man cant always do the things a 17 year old wants an d does. hell also be jealous a younger man will steal her away. A father knows these things. he s only protecting his baby girl.
i like your post
Lol
John Amos had the classic "Dad who took no BS" kind of face lol 😆
@@leighwright3450 he was unanimously voted TVs best dad. that says it all.
James Evan's was a real father..
He reminds of my father to this day
Yes he was
He was a father all kids can look up to black or white or whatever they are.
John amos left because he was tired of the dynomite and the chicken hat. That's what he says in an interview. John amos made this show, without him it just wasn't the same. Esther rolle was ok in lead, she wasn't john amos though.
Yes he was my father was the same way
James Evans is what a man supposed to be, loves his family, does what it takes to make sure they are provided for, corrects them when they screw up. Looking back on it now I thought of him as a role model.
Truth Indeed AMEN. Sadly we don't have these days type of Father's like these days.
well obviously he didn't do a good job she's dating a man with 2 patches in his head
and sticks with his family no matter what.
Every daughter needs a dad like James Sr.
Yes!!! David Preston 100% agree with your comment
Agree!!
Yes lord
I'm am blessed to say my father is this way 👏🏾👏🏾
For Sure
That James Evans Sr. stare still scares me today. 😳
Right
Yesh dat was thy way it was back den. All dey had to do was give you dat look and you knew an ass whooping was coming now tings changed can't do dat no more.
😂
ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!
Him and the dad on gimme a break
James Evans. The Goat of Tv Fathers
Yes Lawd!!
In my James Evans voice: HAMMERCY lol 😆
Facts
Facts! 👍🏾!
It makes sence that they kicked hm off the show. They hated having a strong Black male figure.
Lear WAS a massive fool to have fired John Amos.
He didn’t fire him, John Amos quit because they show began to focus on the JJ character and he felt the show also was getting a bit ridiculous
He chose to be written out of the show...
The show died when James left
@@judethaddeus9856 he was told "I've got some good news and some bad news, good news is the network has picked up the show for another season, bad news, you won't be in it "
@@judethaddeus9856 John literally has a video on TH-cam saying that he was fired
@@brandoncamper2420 haaaaaaaa 😃🤣
James Evans can teach alot of men how to be real leaders, fathers and step up
The whole entire truth
Yes sir absolutely I grew up during this era and my Dad was just like James Evan's in fact all of my friends Dad's were the same way, no nonsense no BS. Times sure have changed. God Bless everyone
Truth Indeed AMEN
100
Ain't that the truth
She was always getting engaded!😂😂😂
Who wouldn't want Thelma!
From all those engagements, her real love was Keith Anderson (Ben Powers)
I wished she would have married Larry he was sooo fine!!
Thelma still hot 🔥
LMAO.....
John Amos’ reactions were perfect!
When james make those angry looks it makes me laugh,cause you know he ain't playing around He means business.
He is an Army Veteran.
can you imagine a staring contest between him and uncle phil from fresh prince no one around will be safe
"James RULED his roost." IMO, I wish that there were more men/fathers of his character/character today.
EXACTLY
They were in a scene together when will and Lisa were trying to get married
Yo James and Florida were no joke 🤣🤣
@angel johnson facts Thelma definitely did.
The Greatest TV Dad Ever!!!!
Sike01 your are absolutely 100% correct James Evans Sr was the best TV ever!!
No he wasn't 🙅🏾♂️🙅🏾♂️
"We the two with the surprised looks on our face" Florida always had the BEST lines!
LOL. I love the look that John Amos always gave J.J.
they hated ea other n real life.
Had him SHOOK!!!
Dat was thy way it was back in thy day old school parents just had to give you dat look. And you knew an ass whooping was coming. Now des days no more. Tings changed.
That look was like, "Boy, if you don't get outta here now, your ass is grass!"
He didn't even have to use any words. LMAO!!!
Whenever Lou Gossett Jr. showed up on a sitcom, as a guest star, just know the BS was gonna jump off!😂😂😂
Remember him in the Jefferson's.
Lol
That's facts. ! 😂
Yep!!! Lol!
@@jcbentleyalley154 "Brown Suga" !!!!! George almost broke his neck lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My 17 year old daughter can NEVER bring home a 42 year old man. It's gone end BAD 💯💯🙏
Yea, he will be ended lmao
It's also against the law.
My fiance was 17 years younger than me. She was 29 and I was 46. She fancied older men, and so did her mom. Her dad was 20 years older than her mother. They both gave us their blessings, but members of our church disapproved, and discourage her from marrying me. I later reconsidered our marriage. She was a feminist who wanted to wear the pants, and lead me, but I wouldn't allow it.
@@docdee770thelma isnt even legal, this is not even comparable
@@obsesstivereader21 depends on the state...in illinois the current age of consent is 17..which is the setting for this show
Back when sitcoms were good!
I do fully agree with you! I had grew up with Good Times , Sanford and Son , The Jeffersons , All In the Family , Different Strokes and many more in my childhood.
Dont you mean black when sitcoms were good😂😂😂
Classic TV
@@maryhudson3727 Back then all sitcoms were good.
@Sharon Hudson Yeah there are a few but I don't think any of them would make me laugh 45 years later.
"Well...what we really want to know is---"
"WHAT DA HELL'S AN OLD MAN LIKE YOU, DOIN'....." 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha 😭😭😭‼️
He looked like he is old enough to be her father
He does. He is old enough to be her father
Exactly
He was. There had to younger actors in Hollywood!
@Charles Lyon This is something wrong with a grown man dating a teenager, especially when he is in his 40's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is not that hard for a man to find women. It is gross. He was older than her dad! That is not natural.
@Charles Lyon She is a kid not woman
Idk how James kept a straight face when J.J. acted a fool. Even to this day John says it was hard for him to keep a straight face
He also said the show had JJ doing to much sterotype stuff. They were into it about that. Then they end up killing him off.
@@andremack6041 Yeah, JJ was funny when he clowned, but they took it too far and John Amos had enough of it (Esther Rolle did, too, and she left for a while, only to return right at the end). I liked laughing at JJ's antics and the shade he and Thelma threw at each other, but it always bugged me that they had him playing Boo Boo the Fool instead of getting real with his artistry and getting an apprenticeship while going to school to ease the burden for his family.
The series needed the balance of humour..
@@andremack6041 James saw and recognized Jimmie’s ability to be a “walking cartoon” and he’d do whatever was needed to get a laugh- no matter his crazy it was. But he didn’t like that it focused on JJ and not that family and their struggle of black families
James Evans wasn’t scared of no one he stood up for his family
I love the fact that James doesn't play about his family! He was a real man
Agreed, I just wish he could have gotten them out of the projects.
That’s the way a father is protecting his family .
Thelma was one of the prettiest actresses of the 70s..what a figure
It's a shame she couldn't find other acting roles when good times went off the air.
She actually did she was on the cosby show and parent hood and now she's one of the lead on bet network sitcom drama family business bernadette is doing great!!!
“He’s young dad, just working around those chickens 🐓 makes him look old!” JJ Evans 😂
"If looks could kill" = John Amos stare
He was just missing heat vision lol
He's a protector of the family. Good bless his soul 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
James Evans is the ultimate caring Father
Donald is 25 years older than Thelma. Lawd it's a miracle James didn't kill him
In real life, Donald was 38, James was 34, and Thelma was 20
I shouldn't be laughing because I have daughter's but James reactions are priceless. "Mister, you ain't got the foggiest idea how I feel" 😂😂😂😂
The show lost its energy a lot when they killed off James Evans Sr. Producers bit their noses off despite their faces. Having a strong father presence on a black tv show was great to see. As a kid, I stopped watching after the first few episodes after James’ death because it was no longer the same show. John Amos is an amazing actor
They sure did mess up. Even the mother ended up leaving the show for awhile because she didn’t like the direction it was going.
True why did they kill him off
John Amos hurt himself. He shouldn't have been jealous of Jimmie walker. Threatened he'd outshine him.
The show ended up failing horribly later after he left I heard and the same from Sanford and son. I wasn't born during it but I watched it later in the 80's as a young kid with my pops.
@@visaormastercard He wasn't jealous, JJ was a CLOWN and his schtick got old real fast. There was no depth in his character and the show died because of it
Every child should have a daddy like James Evans.
RIP Lou Gossett Jr. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
back when all you had to do was give your child "the look" 😁
Still exist in my house
Go hed Florida. "It's time you and my husband have a man to man talk."
"Yes Lord!"
Lol
Both of you.
More daughters need dad's like James Evans he's not afraid to tell the truth he's got a backbone
Every 5 minutes, Thelma had another "fiancée ". Donald, Larry, Jerry, and Ibé.
She was really trying to get out the projects.
LOL
I get it'.. she was TRYING to find a man who had the SAME qualities as pop's. James is a good man.
🤣🤣🤣 By the time Keith came along we were wore out of engagements.
Ebay
Kunta Kinte and Fiddler on Good Times.
AWESOME!!
On tyler perry's,' daddy's little girls'.
How about that!!!
Completely forgot about that!
That Guinea Man givin Ol' Fiddler grief, nothing changed in the intervening century.
I cried 😆 laughing when he said Lord have mercy and Mister you ain't got the foggiest idea of how I feel😆😆😆
Bingo jack
Florida: it’s time you and my husband have a man to man talk
James: yes lawd 😂😂😂
Louis Gossett Jr. was trying to hang on to what little hair he had remaining at that point...lol
and then he cut off and came back as Florida's brother Wilbur.lol
I think that was for the part to make him look older
😂
That's an actual style you know? Lol
@Howard the Duck yup. Lol
1:55
Thelma: Ma he has no right to give my ring back
Florida Evans: You're right honey, that's a mother's job!
Love me some James Evans! He kept it real! Florida too!
A 42 year old dating a 17 year is beyond disgusting
But 17 is a adult!!!!
@@AngelHoll-pr8fz idc
@@KingChaddi it's young though I see what you mean
Definitely different times back then but it was f...ed up
@@AngelHoll-pr8fz18
JJ said " Now that we men are all alone together let me offer a few words". James Evans Sr. face is priceless looking at JJ. Then JJ says " Bye!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
👀😭😭😭👍✌
"Ain't no sense in fat mouthing" 😆
John Amos was CLASSIC in that role. Norman Lear made a BIG mistake.
Norman Lear's shows had the opposite effect that he was trying to create. The problem with John Amos is that he had this idea that he would know how to play a black father better than the white writers on the show 🤔.
If all fathers were like James there would be no trouble in the world
The two most realistic TV fathers were James Evans and Jack Arnold. Dan Lauria once said "other sitcoms had the dad you wanted, but we had the dad you had!"
BINGO JACK
The power of Total agreement between a wife and husband ❗️
That’s how it’s supposed to be 💯💯
“HES YOUNG DAD JUST WORKING WIT DEM CHICKENS MAKE HIM LOOK OLD” LMFAOOO
Jimmie Walker had the funniest lines on the show.
James wasn't having it!!!!!!!! Period!!
Thelma was engaged like 13x on the show😂
😃😃😃😃
Louis Gossette..and That Guy who played Sweet Daddy..They had really funny episodes on this show..Ned The Wino visiting while Florida was trying to spruce up the house for the Housekeeping award was funny too.
Lou Gossett Jr played Florida's cousin when Michael failed that class. James was out of town.
Her brother Wilbert
I wished they kept him in a recurring role as the uncle
Yep, he was good as uncle Wilbert
So Thelma had previously been engaged to her relative & Flordia didn't notice?
@@MightMouse2174 As an uncle, that would have made more sense.
James Evans just had that face. Good Times wasn't not the same after he left.
John Amos is only 8 years older than Jimmy Walker in real life. That's Crazy
And I think 20 year difference between John Amos and Esther Rolle.
@@vintagetvandexciting you are correct
I don’t blame James I get hostile too. Thelma is very unseasoned and naive. A man 42 years old does nothing for a 17 year old girl but treat her like a girl she is.
I can't believe James let Thelma go out with someone he had never met. When I started dating before I went anywhere the guy had to meet my father . If he didn't approve there was no date.
.
@angel johnson she may as well been 10 years old messing around with a over grown and over seasoned man. Dirty ole man should be ashamed messing with a child.
"42???!!!" James was about to introduce dude to these hands!!!
🥊💥🥊💥🥊
I know James Evans should have done him AL Bundy and uncle Phil style. Dis guy looks older den James. James should have trown hands.
So she married Keith's dusty ass. Living in a cramped project. & Getting her ass beat. She picked a real winner.😃😄😂🤣
Damn did james only had 1 pair of pants
Pretty much lol.
Thelma was engaged atleast 10 times on this show and 42? with a teenage girl? eww
Yeah. He said Thelma was "a lot of fun to talk to," but what can you converse about with a 17 year old if you're 42?
He ain't r kelly type
Eww..is right!
They are called pedophiles
Bingo, Jack!
😂😂😂
that was R Kelly uncle
Lol
BINGO JACK! 😅🤣
LOL
I can’t 😅😅😅😅🤣😅
His great grand-uncle 🤣🤣
Who remembers Donald aka Louis Gosset Jr., and James Evans aka John Amos would go on to star in the 1977 production of Roots. Louis Gosset was "Fiddler", and John Amos was "Kunta Kinte".
James Evans and Uncle Phil are the best TV dads
Don't know what was more funny James expression to JJ or JJ facial expression 🤣😂
James played no games
Chyeee.... bruh was treading on thin ice with that kiss he gave Thelma in front of James😳
The good old days back when you would not have someone actually standing around defending some old pervert with a young girl like that.
We will just say "older" pervert, because there is NOTHING "old" about 41 unless you are talking about sports, because the average 41yo will absolutely crush any average punk within the range of 20 something year old, with the same height and weight, background etc, and thats coming from a 54yo, hell...I WISH I can go back to the age of 41 LOL
@@markfloors6988 Yeah, I'm 57 and would love to go back to the age of 41. I was already going downhill a little At that age, but, If my health falls off as much the next 10 years as it has the last 10 years, don't expect to be around much longer.
@@ONTHEEDGEFRED Oh ok, I am fighting weak knees, inflamation of my joints, stiffness, but mines sounds lite compared to how you sound, hope that you don't mind my asking, is it that bad?
@@markfloors6988 Actually we sound exactly alike. Just recently I started fighting a heart condition called A-Fib. Getting old sucks. I guess it beats the alternative though.
@@ONTHEEDGEFRED Yes it does suck! but just make sure that you eat right and drink plenty of water, as I looked that up, if you have diabetes or high blood pressure it can be much worse for you
He is an old looking 42 also. He looks more like mid 50's
That's because of the balding pattern.
To think that Louis Gossett Jr was about 38 at the time. He only played a little older.
Yeah. He is that old, but still dating a teenager.
@@lwmson That is because he was old enough to be her dad in real life.
@@BrotherDerrick3X Are you kidding? She was a teenager, so he was MUCH older than her! Too old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The greatest TV father of all time , James Evans senior !!!!
James always reminds me of my late Dad. It's one of the reasons that I loved watching this show. Dad would just laugh when I'd say, "that's you Dad".
That’s beautiful man.
JJ a whole fool with that in the worst of moments😂😂😂
I'm not ashamed of my age i'm 42 florida:42 james: lord have mercy 😂😂😂😂😂
My Parents would have reacted the same way.😏
Anybody noticed Lou gossett Jr. dated thelma the first time he was on the show n then he come back n become there uncle on the other show that was weird n crazy lol🙏❤😂😎
Just like Ron Glass first played a blind salesman/con man, then further into the series he played the principal from Michael's school. And Theodore Wilson, who had a recurring role as Sweet Daddy Williams, first played the role of a nightclub owner earlier in the series.
@@lwmson yea i remember that i believe they do because they probably run out of actors or something because they do the same thing on family matters Sanford n son Martin n fresh prince n the shows also
@@calvinwoolfolk324 They did that in a lot of sitcoms. There was an actor named Allan Melvin and he played about half dozen different characters on the near 10-year run of the Andy Griffith Show.
@@lwmson o yea i think i remember him now
@@calvinwoolfolk324 I didn't watch family matters. I thought they only did that on 70s that ran into the 80s shows.
My own father used to give us that exact same look, which never needed any words and was always enough.
That man James Evans is a LEGEND!
42yo looking more like 62
Every day I would come home from school, make peanut butter toast, and watch Good Times for an hour. I started watching in the hopes of seeing Janet Jackson, but ended up loving the show.
I’ve had to talk to a therapist about how I wanted Florida to be my mom. Haha
It sure must have been such a great honour and a privilege to have Mr Louis Gossett Jr on the set of Good Times. I wish I was born before Good Times... 🤗
I was. (Smug look on my face)
lolol this was classic. James was a Boss.
Thelma STAYED bringing home a fiancé now that I think of it lol
yeah and they avoided the Evans family curse,
Ironically, John Amos is now married to a much younger Latina woman
hes old now! hes not a young girl. or young boy..
I could care less what partner he chose to grow old with. He's still funny and a good character actor. HE always made me laugh🤣
@@jacquelinerussell8530 He's a HUNK, Too!😋🔥
@@jamesfox2579 👍
@@jacquelinerussell8530 i love jon amos too . hes quite a straight forward person with strong convictions on the show and off....he was voted TVs best dad at one time. many people then loved the show and the discipline both he and his onsreen wife dealt to the children. Not the belting. i dont like that. but they were a strong family. Then next one i love is james avery , Uncle phil of FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR.
Television in the 70s and 80s was great!
I would love to see Good times on Pluto TV
I grew up watching this...one of the best TV shows in the 70s
Thelma fell in love so easily, it was ridiculous
it was, part of her c h a r a c t e r....
My parents felt the SAME WAY when they found out about the man I was dating and married. I was 22 and he was 35.
Got you beat I was 38 my wife was 19 and we are still happily married with four beautiful children.
My Mother was 23 when she married my 34 year old dad.
Atleast 22 is legal.
@@mayday-tz4dv 17 is legal depending on the state your in like Texas it's 17..... Now I'm really about to shock you go look up Georgia age for consent
She was a teen, and he was a much older grown man!
Hold up!!!.... didn't Louis Gossett Jr played Florida Evans brother Wilbur and one episode of Good Times
Yep 😁‼️
That was common on tv shows back then. Not just Good Times
I loved James’ character
He don't play.
Wait a minute 42!!!! . Going after a 17yr . They live in a high rise write. Express route going down the elevator shaft or put him out the window.
If she were a mature 17 year old she would understand that being with a 42 year old man is crazy. Like I just mentioned before, there's probably somebody standing around waiting to defend a situation like this.
@@ONTHEEDGEFRED at that time it wasn't a big deal much older men back then married younger women for example Ta- Tanisha (Mary Ann Thomas) she was the girl in the VD episode on Good Time's. She was 18 when she married Lee Weaver he was 41 he made appearances on The Jefferson's and Good Times
High rise? Dude that's the projects! Lmaoooo
@Damon Clifford fucking around and marriage is two totally different things
Exactly, he getting his ass kicked.
Thelma stayed falling in love😂😂
😃😃😃😃😃
That look 👀 said this not the time J.J.....😂😂
Or in one word with a death stare: Junior? 😠
Speaking of a 42 years old grown man tryna marry a 17 year old teenager, how does neither of them not know what statutory rape is? I don't care if this was back in the 1970s, they should already know better about the law, Thelma's a minor tryna marry a man that's almost the same age as James.
@Angel Johnson EXACTLY
@Angel Johnson you got to be insane to say that or you are a victim of an old man too. She's still a child no matter how she looks or think she's mature. She can't even drink until 21. Maturity comes with age and these old ppl know how to manipulate younger ppl who don't know better.
@@thankthelord4536 Drinking age back then was 18 here in Texas till 1981.
We need more father's like James Evens. Just maybe these young women nowadays wouldn't act the way they do, wild and unlady like.
These young men as well....
Father of 1 daughter right here...💯
@@daystar73 Right On!!!👍👍
Yeah both young girls and young boys.
Not really.
How can a man teach a female to be ladylike? & Say *you* need more fathers like crazy James. Most Don't.
James look was priceless! 🤣😂😭