If only the family unit of today was as strong as that family was.
she really is movin’ on up now. RIP!!
Dyn-o-mite! Oh, wait...
RIP
Liked the show.
Rest in peace, Ja’Net, Thanks for the memories..................
I never did watch this show but I saw little teeny moments of it back then. You could tell it was a really good show. The people were likeable.
But did NOT know she sang Movin’ on up. Well, girl, I STILL cannot get that song out of my mind.
Must’ve done a good job, lol.
So, here’s to your ‘movin’ on up’ RIP. You were beloved.
I had no idea she sang the theme song for rival show The Jeffersons. Very interesting. Did she ever make a first appearance on that show?
I watched Good Times and What’s Happening and The Jefferson’s, etc. reruns every day as I was growing up in the late 70s and early 80s. I loved those shows so much.
I met Jimmie Walker last year.
Nice guy, he’s on our side.
https://newsone.com/3820766/good-times-jimmie-walker-trump/
Lear would not bend and Rolle also did not appear for the last season.
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It would seem that Lear did in fact bend because that is not how they wrote the father out of the show. I believe he went to work on the Alaskan Pipeline and was killed in an accident there. I was a big fan. I preferred it over MASH at the time.
I never knew that. Good for Esther Roll,standing up for what is right. And may this beautiful lady RIP
Esther Rolle did in fact return in the final season when her daughter Thelma was about to get married to football player Keith.
Rolle’s Florida was especially poignant in the finale when Thelma and Keith celebrated their first anniversary—and Thelma announced she was pregnant.
Loved the episode in which Florida implored Winona (DuBois) to tell her adopted daughter Penny (played by Janet Jackson) about the facts of life/sex. Winona woke up after Penny was attacked in their apartment building.
Moreover, the finale revolved around how Florida was joining Thelma and Keith in moving to a better home that just happened to be in the same building in which Winona and Penny were relocating.
J.J. announced he was taking his own apartment (after giving Thelma and Keith a gift of tickets to The Bahamas IIRC) and Michael said he was going to moving into his school’s dorm.
Loved Good Times and always believed John Amos left because he couldn’t stand how Jimmie Walker basically stole the show.
The news of James’s death in a Mississippi car accident, revealed in a telegram read at the going away party and Florida’s stoic demeanor (not reacting to grief) until she smashed a punch bowl was extraordinary!!!
Good Times bump
That was a great, great show, I used to watch it all the time, and Thelma was dyno-MITE! I thought she was a good looking lady.
A different article stated that she was 74 years old.
I didn’t know that was why Ester left the series.
I’ve not hear that before just now. I could believe it, though. Easy to imagine Norman Lear having hard-fast stereotypic notions of how all black families operate.
She finally got her piece of the pie.
I loved one line her character said on the show:
“I like my coffee like I like my men - black and strong!”