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No, no. Now, Willona, you got to watch one more time, hear?
Okay. You are gonna get this Rock
for the community center dance,
I'm gonna turn on the radio, and we gonna dance.
Okay. All right.
[DISCO MUSIC PLAYS]
Now, watch me.
Thelma... Thelma, I don't think I want to do that.
Without music, you can get arrested.
Do you understand? Oh, no, you can't.
Come on. I'll try, I'll try.
Hips, hips. Wait, wait, wait.
That's it. That's it. That's it. Whoa...
Watch me, now.
All right.
Whoo-whee!
Oh...! Ow! All right, swing it, Thelma!
All right!
[LAUGHS]
Whoo!
Hey, Miss Woods, what you call that?
The Rock.
The Rock? This is the Rock.
Bookman, when you do it, it looks more like a landslide.
We got us some cookies.[MUSIC TURNS OFF]
Hey, did y'all hear about the big fight last night
at the supermarket? Uh-uh.
"Boom Boom" Belinda and J.J. had it out something awful.
Ooh! What for?
Over the dance Saturday.
"Boom Boom" said she's tired of J.J.
dressing fancier than she does.
So J.J. said...
[IMITATING J.J.] "Well, what can I say?
"When it comes to fashion, I'm a model from heaven.
In the clothes you wear, you're a 747."
Yeah, but I'm surprised that J.J. broke up
with "Boom Boom" Belinda before the dance.
Hey!
Hey, maybe this is a chance for T.C.
Right on. Wait a minute.
What's my helper got to do with J.J.?
T.C.'s hot to trot for J.J.
Hot to trot?
[CHUCKLES]
I think it's time for you to do your homework. Come on.
Every time the good stuff comes around, I gotta go study.
Mm-hm.
Don't worry about it.
We can play gin at your house later.
[IMITATING MAE WEST] Come on over to my place, big boy.
We'll finish the gin,
and after that we can play cards.
Penny, you better go... [LAUGHS]
Well, I guess I better get ready to fix this sink for y'all.
Oh, can you imagine that?
A tub fixing a sink?
Bookman, we told you about that leak three months ago, you know.
Yeah, but I didn't have the things I needed to fix it.
Here's your helper now, hamburger.
Hi, Willona. Hi, T.C.
THELMA: Hi, T.C.Thelma, is, uh, J.J. here?
No. Oh.
Well, are y'all going to the dance Saturday night?
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
We're gonna go. Is J.J. going?
Well, T.C., J.J. just broke up with the girl
he was gonna take to the dance.
Really? Yeah.
Oh, that's too bad.
Okay, T.C., that's enough of that chitchatting.
You want to chase after J.J., do it on your own time.
And another thing, young lady,
you don't see me letting my love life interfere with my work.
How could nothing interfere with nothing?
T.C., get that sink fixed.
Oh, by the way, Miss Woods,
don't you have a shower for me to fix?
No, no, no, no, no. That was five months ago.
Who needs hot water anyway?
I know what you mean.
I've been taking cold showers
ever since the day I got married.
MICHAEL: Mm-hm.
Hey, T.C., I thought J.J. was gonna take you to the dance.
Haven't y'all been going out for a month now?
Yeah, Michael, but it's only on weeknights.
We watch the hockey games,
the basketball games, the wrestling match.
I would like to be something more than just one of the guys.
What's wrong with me?
Oh, T.C., it's not you.
You know, when it comes to women,
there's something you must know about J.J.
Oh, no. J.J.'s gay?
[LAUGHS]
Whew. No.
No, no, no. That's not what I mean at all.
Well, see, his taste in women...
Well, how can I say this?
You know, well, it runs to... Trash.
Well, let's say "flash." I mean...
What she's trying to say is, his girls have nicknames.
He gives them all nicknames. Like "Boom Boom" Belinda. Mm-hm.
[PANTING] Myrna the Burner.
And Nikki the Quickie.
[THELMA LAUGHS]
Hey, everybody.
THELMA: Hey, Keith.
How you doing? THELMA: How you doing?
Baby, I told you I'd remember to pick up my suit.
You were supposed to pick up my dress at the cleaners.
Where is it? J.J.'s got your dress.
Don't worry. He'll be up in a minute.
He was just hustling the girl down at the cleaners
for a date to the dance.
J.J. is going to take a perfect stranger to the dance?
She turned him down.
But J.J. wouldn't take no for an answer.
When I left, she was pressing his shorts...
[SNICKERS]
...with him in them.
J.J., will you look at my dress? What are you doing?
It's got 50 creases in it.
Willona, I'm lucky that I'm not creased.
You know, running through the ghetto with a dress
is not exactly easy.
I had a wino wink at me,
I had a construction worker whistle at me,
and some guy asked me to go to a dance.
Why didn't you go? Yeah...
Hey, T.C., my main man. What's happening, brother?
Hi, J.J. [LAUGHS]
J.J., I heard you broke up with "Boom Boom" Belinda last night.
Uh... Uh, it's not gonna be easy to get another date
for the dance.[SCOFFS]
No big deal, Thelma.
All I got to do is pick up the phone,
make one quick call,
and with my reputation,
girls'll break down the door just to get a look at me.
[CHORTLES]
J.J., and when they do get a look at you,
they'll break down the walls to get away from you.
Oh, yeah? I'm gonna make one girl real happy tonight.
Yeah?
Yeah, what I'm gonna do is go get my little black book,
and let my fingers do the walking
through the Yellow Pages of L-U-V... love.
T.C., you better do something.
What?
Take the initiative.
Ask him out for a date.
Well, I don't know.
Hey, look, this is the age of the liberated woman.
I mean, I always enjoy it when a girl comes on to me.
[CHUCKLES]
Before you were married, right?
Yeah, yeah. Long time ago.
Girl, you better hurry up before J.J. calls some bimbo,
and you'll be out on the limbo.
Mm-hm.
Who is going to be the lucky girl?
[J.J. CHUCKLES]
So, J.J., this is your little black book, huh?
Uh, that's only from A to G, Keith.
I couldn't carry the rest of it out here.
Let me look at this mess you got here.
I've got it all indexed and everything, see.
I got it according to height, weight, hair color,
hairstyle, hair length.
Even got a little extra star down there for experience.
[LAUGHS]
J.J., did you go out with a girl who's 38?
Uh, that's not her age, Keith.
[CHORTLES]
That's her IQ.
[MOCK CHORTLES] [LAUGHS]
Yeah, Keith.
I even got dates according to present dates,
current dates and future dates.
Mm-hm. "Future dates: Lola Falana,
"Donna Summer, Princess Grace"?
I like a little challenge.
[LAUGHS]
J.J., do you think that, um...?
Uh... I wonder if you'd like... "Chello?"
Fifi?
Yeah, this is J.J. here.
Yeah, kiss, kiss to you too, lover.
Look here, I know this is a little far in advance
to be calling you,
but there's a dance tomorrow night.
You think you can make it? Oh, you gotta babysit.
Oh, yeah, you gotta babysit for little Timmy Johnson?
Oh, oka... Little Timmy Johnson?
Wait a minute, that dude's 22 years old!
[GROANS]
J.J., if you need a date for the dance,
you don't have to call those girls.
There's a sexy lady right here in this living room
who would love to go to the dance with you.
Willona, don't you think you're a little too old for me?
You want a slap across your nose?
[MOUTHING]
Uh, J.J., I have something very important to ask you.
Oh, yeah, I got something important to ask you too, T.C.
But you go first.
Oh, no, it can wait. Y-You go first.
Well, you know, there's a big dance Saturday night.
Uh-huh.
And we been going out a little bit lately...
You know, going to the football game, basketball game,
over at Hansen's, right?
Yeah, I have so much fun.
I always have a good time when I'm with you, J.J.
Yeah, yeah. We laugh.
Ha-ha-ha-ha. [LAUGHS]
And we laugh.
Ha-ha-ha-ha. [LAUGHING]
Whoo!
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Remember that waitress who spilled the drink on you?
Oh, you mean that overdeveloped, orange-haired hussy?
[LAUGHING] Yes, yeah.
Yeah, what was her name?
Oh... Oh, they called her, uh, Dottie... "Dizzy" Dottie.
Dottie! "Dizzy" Dottie!
What a name! Oh, my goodness.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[HOWLS]
Hansen's Bar? Let me speak to Dottie.
Yeah, Dottie? Yeah, this is J.J.
Yeah, I was down there about a week ago.
Yeah, you spilled a drink on us.
Yeah. No, that wasn't my girlfriend.
That was somebody else...
[SNIFFLING] I just don't understand J.J.
I mean, even when the cocktail waitress turns him down,
he goes to a singles bar to try to hustle a date.
What's wrong with me, anyway?
Hey, T.C., you finished in here yet?
Please, buffalo butt.
You might say I'm finished, yeah.
Bookman, can't you see she's upset?
She wanted J.J. to ask her to the dance, and he didn't.
Oh, that's too bad, T.C.
I know how you feel.
There's nothing in the world worse than being dumped.
You feel... You sorta feel lower than dirt.
You just want to crawl in a hole and die.
Booger, don't ever apply for a job at Hallmark.
You know, T.C., one way to get rid of a broken heart
is to just throw yourself into your work.
Bookman, I'm a plumber.
I fix toilets.
I know that. But you'll get over it, kid,
because you're a tough guy.
See what I mean?
I am tired of being one of the guys.
I am a woman.
Right on, T.C.
And, T.C., don't be ashamed to show it.
J.J.'s like every other man.
If you wanna cook his goose, you gotta catch his eye.
There ain't no shame in shakin' before bakin'.
What do you mean?
Honey, you got to be feminine.
There's a definite feminine walk, okay? Now watch.
Now, that would, uh, turn the heads of most men.
Yeah.
And a few rhinos.
Gee, I just put one foot in front of the other.
The girls that turn J.J. on walk like that?
No. They walk like this.
[SCATTING]
Plop!
Well, there are other ways, T.C.
You see, a woman can say a lot of things with just her eyes.
And her gestures. Watch.
[GIGGLES]
[SNICKERS]
I didn't know there was anything between us, Miss Woods.
There always is. Your stomach.
I'll see y'all later.
Hey, T.C., where are you going?
I gotta take care of some business.
[DISCO MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
Hey, I beg your pardon.
Uh, I was just noticing that you happen to be, uh, Aquarius.
Oh, you're an Aquarius too?
[CHUCKLES] Are you kidding?
[SNIGGERS]
Whoo!
Right there.
Well, honey, you know, my moon is in the seventh house.
[LAUGHS]
I know what you're talking about.
We've been evicted a couple of times ourselves.
Uh, are you into ESP?
Well, of course.
Well, then, uh,
would you happen to see us spending the night together?
Hm. Well, I have a vision.
Hm?
It's a moonlit night.
Mm-hm?
And you and I are alone.
Mm! Mm.
Oh, and you lean over, and you whisper.
Mm... Oh, you whisper
another one of your lines, and... And I...
[GROANS] Oh...
And I just smack you upside your head, chump.
You're no Aquarius.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Uh, goodbye there, mama.
I'll call you later.
[LAUGHS]
Yeah, my polo injury... My knee...
[LAUGHING] Yeah...
Hey, hey, string bean, you struck out, huh?
Me, strike out? What gives you that impression?
Well, if that phony smile of yours was any wider,
your ears would be inside your mouth.
I mean, look, brother, you cannot be phony.
Girls are too hip for that.
You got to be honest. Honesty is the key.
I mean, you got to be, like, yourself.
Yeah, honesty, huh?
Guess you're right. Honesty is the best policy.
J.J. Evans. Robert Redford, here.
Listen... Listen, brother. Let me tell you something.
You want some women? I mean, just stick with me.
I have not slept alone in years.
Yeah, neither have I, thanks to Michael.
Matter of fact, the last time I slept alone,
I was in this incubator.
And the nurses was standing all on the outside
making eyes at me.
[LAUGHS]
You see, I got this big, big problem with women.
I just cannot seem to get rid of them.
Oh, yeah? Well, if you're doing so good with women,
what are you doing in a spot like this alone?
Well, you see, I just haven't, uh,
seen what I wanted yet, you know?
Ooh, until now.
Hey, that is one hunk of woman there.
You know, I feel like I already know her.
Yeah, me too. Uh, no.
[LAUGHS]
No, no, no, no, brother.
That fox is gonna be displayed in my trophy case tonight.
Hey, sugar, sugar, where have you been hiding yourself?
[CHUCKLES] I didn't know I was hiding.
Well, not that much.
T.C., I... I hardly recognize you.
Well, if it isn't little J.J. Evans.
Say, uh, you know this dude, here?
[SCOFFS] Only by reputation.
He's supposed to be a real ladykiller.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Him?
Well, you know, what can I say?
Well, you could say arrivederci, toothpick.
Uh, wait a minute here. Hold on.
Uh, T.C., how about me and you going down
and skipping this place and have a little hamburger?
[LAUGHS]
Can you dig this?
The great lover here wants to have a hamburger.
[ALL LAUGH]
And I suppose Billy Dee is gonna want a chocolate shake too.
Yeah, with two straws.[ALL LAUGH]
He probably has to be home at 10:00.
[ALL LAUGH]
J.J., listen. I have a better idea.
I happen to know that there won't be anyone home
at your place tonight,
so why don't we just go back there and have dessert,
if you know what I mean?
J.J.: Uh...
[CHUCKLING] yes, I do know what you mean.
[SNICKERS]
That would be very, very nice.
Oh, uh, just an average night for the kid.
[LAUGHS]
Close your mouth there, bro. You gonna let the flies in.
[CACKLES]
Well, we're finally alone.
J.J., why don't you fix me
a little something?
Why? Is a little something broken?
A drink.
Oh, a drink. Yeah, a drink.
Uh, some Kool-Aid? Some root beer?
Some ginger ale? Some Fernet Blanca?
Forget it, J.J.
Uh, let's not waste any more time.
[SIGHS]
Uh, T.C., are you sure you wanna be here?
It was my idea, wasn't it?
Yeah, uh... [CLEARS THROAT]
Couldn't we, uh, turn on the radio
and get the final sports scores?
The only scoring I'm interested in is right here.
[GROANS]
T.C., you know, you really surprise me.
I... I always thought of you as just one of the guys.
Oh? Do I still seem like one of the guys?
Not any of the guys that I know.
You know, T.C., this is really surprising.
I mean, you think you know a guy...
I mean, a woman... a Miss.
You go to the football game with them.
You go to the basketball game with them.
And then all of a sudden... Well, you know,
I never dreamed...
I never dreamed you were this type of girl.
J.J., you're so nervous.
Is this your first time?
[CLEARS THROAT]
Are you kidding?
It's just that I was expecting a changeup,
and I got a Vida Blue fastball.
But, uh, I can't wait to see your curve.
[LAUGHS]
J.J., you're so funny and so cute.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Well, uh, let me go, uh,
take off my jacket here,
and get ready for the real action.
Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Where exactly, uh,
were we?
Now... J.J., I was...
Oh, J.J... J.J., please.
J.J... J.J., stop.
T.C., what's wrong?
[PANTS]
Look, J.J., I gotta level with you.
This isn't me.
The hair isn't me. The... The dress isn't me.
This whole night isn't me.
Well, then who are you?
Don't you see, J.J.? It's an act.
I did this because I really like you,
and I wanted to attract your attention.
You're too nice a guy, J.J.,
and I... I feel guilty about fooling you.
Uh, would you mind fooling me just a little while longer?
Is that what you really want, J.J.?
Uh, no, hold on, T.C.
Uh, I'm not sure what I really want,
at least from you.
But, uh, I think we should take the time to find out.
How much time, J.J.?
Well, uh, as much time as we need.
And we can start tomorrow by, uh, going to the dance if you...
If you want to. I'd love to.
That is, if you're sure I won't spoil your reputation.
It's really not that much reputation to spoil.
You mean, what they say about you
on the ladies' room wall isn't true?
Not only is it not true,
I'm sorry I ever wrote it.
[LAUGHS]
[♪♪♪]
♪ Keepin' your head Above water ♪
♪ Makin' a wave When you can ♪
♪ Temporary layoffs
♪ Good times
♪ Easy credit Rip-offs ♪
♪ Good times
♪ Ain't we lucky We got 'em ♪
♪ Good times
ANNOUNCER: Good Times was videotaped before a studio audience.