Good Times: The Evans Family

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Good Times is an sitcom about a poor African American family who lives in the ghetto. The Evans family is family of five living in a small apartment on each others back. James Evans the man of the house is bouncing around from job to job while his loving wife Florida Evans is a school bus driver and trying to maintain things around the house. Their first child JJ Evans is not your typically type of son. JJ is a smart, outgoing, and a hustle man. Thelema is the only girl. She is spoil and the type of sister that everyone has. Whatever she wants she gets and that makes her brothers mad. Lastly there is Michael. He is the baby and is the nerd of the family. Michael is all about his books and making his parents proud. Good Times was released in …show more content…

While Florida and James struggle to provide for their family, their sons J.J., an aspiring painter, Michael, the undying political crusader, causing trouble while their sister, Thelma, stands between them as the voice of reason. Living in the same building were Willona Woods, Florida's best friend from High School who provided support, love and gossip and Nathan Bookman, the overweight janitor who gave them grief and was the butt of a lot of fat jokes, especially Willona who often referred to him as Buffalo Butt or Booger. Life, at least, is never boring while they fight to keep their heads above water and one day leave the projects, which they did in the series finale. Sadly, it was without James who was killed off in the 4th …show more content…

Being an young parent and then to become an young parent is something they didn’t have to deal with because parents didn’t play that. There are a lot if things you couldn’t get away with back then that you can now. People just don’t how to act when it comes down to respect and having to raise a family. The family that prays together stays together and that’s what the Evans family did. They had the support of friends and you can’t get that now. The Evan’s family trusted people and our first ones are “I don’t trust them or I don’t know”. The Evans family didn’t know a lot of people, but still trusted them and were very nice to

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