I didn;t really care for the Mrs.Thomas character being seen in every episode. I think she was better has a character who made occassional apperances. I preferred seeing Raj, Rerun and Dwayne in School or the soda shop. The low points of this show was seeing the Mother and hearing annoying ass Dee. As long as I saw

Shirley
Rob
Raj
Rerun
Dwayne

I had no problems.

I liked all those characters too but i do feel Mabel added an important element to the show. I think she should have stayed on all the way through. I don't remember what the explanation was for them not showing her in the last season. Did they say she was out of town or was she just always out of the house when they showed the house? Also in the new series, had she moved away or had she passed away?

Originally posted by jamesanthony
I liked all those characters too but i do feel Mabel added an important element to the show. I think she should have stayed on all the way through. I don't remember what the explanation was for them not showing her in the last season. Did they say she was out of town or was she just always out of the house when they showed the house? Also in the new series, had she moved away or had she passed away?


I think the explanation on the show was supposed to be visting Mrs. Thomas visiting a relative

Oh OK. BTW this has absolutely nothing to do with this topic, but if all the evidence you presented about Good Times is true then I agree with you that it was not a spinoff from Maude, although the term seems to be applied to it by even people who worked on each of those shows.

As for What's Happening, it's one of those shows that was never not entertaining, but I'd have to say that the first season was probably the best and the subsequent years and the successive seasons of the spinoff or sequel or whatever you wanna call it are all just a bit not as good as what came before it.

It would be something if they did a new generation of this show with the Raj and Rerun's children or something.

I liked having Mabel around in small doses. She was a great character. Sure Rerun, Raj and Dwayne were the stars, but a little of Mama is fine by me.

Originally posted by TVShow Analyzer
I didn;t really care for the Mrs.Thomas character being seen in every episode. I think she was better has a character who made occassional apperances. I preferred seeing Raj, Rerun and Dwayne in School or the soda shop. The low points of this show was seeing the Mother and hearing annoying ass Dee. As long as I saw

Shirley
Rob
Raj
Rerun
Dwayne

I had no problems. Annoying ass Dee:lol:

I enjoyed MRS. Thomas's character and I felt the show suffered without her. The last season wasn't as enjoyable to me as the first two.

I didn't really miss the Mabel character when she wasn't around, but I liked her. I think I was used to the show focusing more on the younger characters, so it didn't bother me much when she wasn't around. But that's not to say I didn't enjoy seeing her on the show.

I felt the 3rd season suffered because rerun wasn't seen that much.

I wish I could have seen less of Dee and lots more of Mama.

I didn't like the job they gave Mabel. It didn't seem right. The coule wasn't rich, I don't think. And she did no cooking. Only cleaned???

Originally posted by nerrad
I didn't like the job they gave Mabel. It didn't seem right. The coule wasn't rich, I don't think. And she did no cooking. Only cleaned???

These message boards make me think too much.:)

Her job was not only stereotypical but made no sense. How could a domestic single mother of two afford a two story house?They should have given her a different line of work, like a civil service employee or something.

Or a nurse. The 70's were the decade where blacks had opportunities. Why they had her cleaning white folks home for under-the-table money was beyond me.