It’s worth watching an episode of Good Times just to hear the audience, especially whenever they gasped at a dramatic moment. The studio audience’s reactions are also great. After the family offers their support to “Keith,” he finally feels optimistic about his family’s future.Īside from Bow’s fantastic Thelma outfits, the best part about the Good Times dream sequence is seeing Marcus Scribner’s awkward attempts at J.J.’s famous strut. They have to have faith in “Keith” and let him work everything out. “Florida” reminds him of his own difficulties providing for a family, but that he found a way to do it. “Keith” eventually confesses that his football career is over before it even really started he blew out his knee.
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“James” is furious because he knows how futile it is to rely on the hopes and dreams of a football career, but soon everyone begins fantasizing about how “Keith” joining the NFL would give them everything they’ve never had: a full night’s sleep, art supplies, glasses, and fresh strawberries. She’s afraid to let her parents know, but “J.J.” overhears her, then “Penny” finds the pregnancy-test box. In Dre’s dream world, “Thelma” has just learned that she’s pregnant with a huge lab kit of a pregnancy test. Zoey and Diane are Willona and Penny, and Charlie is Bookman. Stuffed with Ruby’s biscuits and gravy and his own worries, Dre falls asleep in front of the television at the start of a Good Times marathon and … well, you know what happens next.ĭre and Bow become Keith and Thelma. He doesn’t want his family to think he can’t provide for them.
And so, Dre doesn’t bring up the layoffs this time. The kids have expensive summer-school plans - including Junior’s wizarding school and the twins’ Hunger Games camp - which Bow desperately wants to happen because it will mean two whole weeks of child-free quiet.
Reeling from news of more layoffs to come, Dre begins to worry if the family can afford for Bow to take time off. Lucy was pretty much the only person at Dre’s office with any sense, but at least Charlie isn’t leaving again. Stevens only wants to compliment him on the Forever 21 campaign that’s doing extremely well … but that was actually Lucy’s work. Stevens that all he has left is his God and his goatee, then he throws papers, rolls a coffee cup, and tries in vain to flip the table. Stevens is about to fire him, too, so acts like a mini-Godzilla in the middle of a conference room. Unfortunately, Dre was wrong - the layoffs are far from over, and Lucy is on the chopping block. It’s time he stops holding Dre to a standard he couldn’t meet himself. Again with the tiresome prescriptions of manhood? We’ve seen enough flashbacks to know that Pops wasn’t exactly there for his family. When I heard that, I barely kept my eyes from rolling out of my head. Of course, Pops praises Dre for being man enough to look after his wife and family. Ruby offers to carry the baby because she has the uterus of a 16-year-old Latina girl, but hopefully it won’t come to that. It’s time for her to take care of herself, especially since her doctor mentioned her advanced maternal age. She worked so hard with the other kids, he says.
Nevertheless, it’s certainly refreshing to see that creator Kenya Barris didn’t feel the need to end the season with a dramatic cliffhanger.Īs “Good-ish Times” begins, the layoffs at Dre’s work have ended, so he suggests to Bow that she take some time off during her pregnancy.
A flashy episode like “Good-ish Times” needs more than nostalgic winks to truly stand out. It was fun to see the gang in late ’70s attire (especially Tracee Ellis Ross, who makes everything look great), but unfortunately, this finale lands below the high expectations Black-ish set for itself. Laurence Fishburne as Pops/James, Yara Shahidi as Zoey/Willona, Marsai Martin as Diane/Penny, Jenifer Lewis as Ruby/Florida.Īs we’ve known for quite awhile, Black-ish closes its second season with a half-hour tribute to Good Times.
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