Me too it was so sad the got rid of big john amos cant have an intact black family
Yeah it sucked when they killed James Evans Sr off..really..who even knew he got a job in Mississippi that came out of no where. Good Times to me was a pretty Conservative show..they never wanted to be on welfare, in fact the episode “Getting Up The Rent” Florida said that being on welfare was embarrassing..the only episode that trended left was the one where James bought a gun and Florida said that they should be banned
It was John Amos’s decision to leave the show. He didn’t like that Walker was becoming the “star” and thought it was too much clowning. You might remember that even Esther Rolle left the show for a year (her character married Moses Gunn and they moved to Phoenix) and Ja’net DuBois had top billing during the 4th season. Rolle only agreeing to come back for the final season if they agreed to tone down J.J. a bit.
By today’s standards, it’s a remarkably Conservative, pro-family and pro-Christian show with a strong father figure. It’s held up better than the other Norman Lear show, “One Day At A Time”, whose premise would never have happened in reality (meaning no way the two teenage daughters would’ve left their comfortable middle class home where their life was and uproot it to move with their flaky, confused feminist mother to a cramped apartment in a seedy part of a city).