![]() Later, Penny is similarly assaulted offscreen. Attempted Rape: Willona's husband Ray makes advances to Thelma, eventually groping her (and he would likely have taken it further had Willona and Florida not walked in).And Starring: The show's breakout star Jimmie Walker graduated from a gang "with" combining the three children (with Tony-nominated Ralph Carter listed first) in season 1 to a triple-barreled and/also starring/as by season 5.Keith begins drinking heavily after his Career-Ending Injury and inability to find a job, but snaps out of it after slapping Thelma.Cousin Naomi and her parents in the Very Special Episode "Sometimes There's No Bottom in the Bottle." The Alcoholic: Ned The Wino and Fishbone. ![]() Affectionate Nickname: The youngest son Michael is often referred to by the nickname "Gramps".And vice versa: she calls him "Balderman" and he calls her "Fellow-na." Though on Willona's part, it's slightly less than accidental. Accidental Misnaming: Alderman Fred Davis to Willona.And that actually happens off-screen we see the iron about to be used and the bandaged wound afterwards. One of the show's most infamous scenes is of her burning Penny with a hot iron. Abusive Parents: Penny's mom Lynnetta.It cuts away but her next scene does have her arm bandaged up. Abuse Discretion Shot: The infamous scene of Penny getting burned with a hot iron by her mother as she pleads not to do it.Reruns can be seen daily on TV One and Catchy Comedy (as of March 2023). The series finale aired on August 1, 1979, with a Mega-Happy Ending. After her scheme is exposed, she leaves and Penny regards Willona as her real mother. In the sixth season, Lynnetta has remarried and starts sending Penny anonymous gifts while attempting to frame Willona as an unfit adoptive parent who throws wild parties with undesirable guests. When the fifth season started, an 11-year-old Janet Jackson joined the cast as Millicent "Penny" Gordon Woods after Penny's abusive mother Lynnetta reveals that she was abused as a child after a fight with Thelma and Willona, Lynnetta tells Penny that she deserves better. She was brought back in the sixth and final season with promises to clean up J.J.'s act (and never reference her second marriage, which Rolle thought went against Florida's character in multiple ways). This led to Rolle quitting the show for the entire fifth season, her character having relocated to Arizona to be with her second husband. The writers didn't see it that way, seemingly ramping up J.J.'s foolishness (though it's worth noting that Jimmie Walker, who played J.J., was a stand-up comedian and not much of an actor). Esther Rolle hoped this would bring a shift in J.J.'s character from the clownish Kavorka Man he had been, to a more responsible Man Of The House. The show's most controversial move was killing off patriarch James at the beginning of the fourth season. was not a good role model for blacks, and Amos felt the show was becoming more about his antics, than about its original intent to be about family values. And like most Lear shows of the time, Good Times wasn't afraid to moralize or bring up controversial topics.īoth Esther Rolle and John Amos grew dissatisfied with J.J's character. Despite the fact that those efforts usually ended in bitter disappointment, the show remained surprisingly positive and uplifting. Most episodes featured the efforts of the Evans to get by in the ghetto and make a better life for themselves. And their neighbor, Willona Woods (Ja'net Du Bois): Sassy Black Woman, Drop-In Character.Building superintendent Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown), derisively nicknamed "Buffalo Butt" or "Booger",. ![]()
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