Here's the story....

I started this thread because I thought something was weird with the Black Jesus episode.

Check out my post (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?p=2619263#post2619263)

Anyway, I decided to go through my first season DVD to find any other discrepancies. People I'm definitely going to need your comments on this one.
Ready.....OK

All Season 1 episodes have an announcer say something like "From Television City in Hollywood"...I have no problem with that.


I addressed the Bernadette Stanis first name only in some of the episodes' opening credits issue in another thread (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?p=2619251#post2619251).

I have an issue with episodes 2, 3, and 4 (Black Jesus, Too Old Blues, and God's Business Is Good Business, respectively). During the closing credits for these episodes, there is a "blackout" between the time they show "Executive Producer: Norman Lear" and "Associate Producer: Camilla Dunn".

In episode 4, the words to the closing theme song "..thinking how it's almost hand-me-down" is completely missing.

For some reason, I think the alternative ending song (shown on TV Land's version of Black Jesus) was initially used, and maybe Sony edited that version out and replace it with the original version we've grown to love.

Comments and suggestions please

I have to review my DVD, but that isn't an announcer that says "From Television City in Hollywood" it is John Amos.

There is a closing them to one of the season 1 eps and it's sounds completely different, it was defintely a CBS version . TV ONE played it and i will check and see what ep had this closing theme. I was in complete shock because i have never heard that version before in my life. It kind sounded like a REMIX of the closing theme

There is a closing them to one of the season 1 eps and it's sounds completely different, it was defintely a CBS version . TV ONE played it and i will check and see what ep had this closing theme. I was in complete shock because i have never heard that version before in my life. It kind sounded like a REMIX of the closing theme

Yeah, I like that closing theme song. When I owned the columbia house tapes, that theme came on when the black jesus episode went off. I actually tape recorded {audio} that version because I knew I probably wouldn't hear it again.

Yeah, I like that closing theme song. When I owned the columbia house tapes, that theme came on when the black jesus episode went off. I actually tape recorded {audio} that version because I knew I probably wouldn't hear it again.

I don't like that version....
It was the Black Jesus episode, and I heard it on TV Land. It's not the same closing theme song used on the DVD.

If you have the Season 1 DVD, check out the "blackouts" I was talking about earlier.

There is a closing them to one of the season 1 eps and it's sounds completely different, it was defintely a CBS version . TV ONE played it and i will check and see what ep had this closing theme. I was in complete shock because i have never heard that version before in my life. It kind sounded like a REMIX of the closing theme


You are right. I was shocked to hear that ending theme myself. It played after the "black Jesus" ep.

I wonder if it played on any of the other episodes in the beginning of the season.
Which brings me to my next question.
Was Black Jesus filmed first before Getting Up The Rent??

I wonder if it played on any of the other episodes in the beginning of the season.
Which brings me to my next question.
Was Black Jesus filmed first before Getting Up The Rent??


No Getting Up the Rent was Filmed first

There are times when episodes are filmed in a certain sequence and then they are played on-air in a diff. order, whether this was the case, I don't know. For example, I love "Drew Carey" and there is one particular season where some of the episodes are out of sequence for one reason or another. They were filmed in a particular order but end up moved around.

Whatever happened to the Black Jesus portrait after Season 1? It wasn't on the wall when Carl was talking about being an atheist. If Florida really loved Jesus, then what in the heck happened to his picture?

Again, this is one of those things that bothered me abt this show and a whole lot of other shows. I wish that picture was still on that wall. I put a thread on this board abt. the episode abt the apartment contest. Why didn't the apt. stay the way Florida had decorated it? It looked so damn good.

Again, this is one of those things that bothered me abt this show and a whole lot of other shows. I wish that picture was still on that wall. I put a thread on this board abt. the episode abt the apartment contest. Why didn't the apt. stay the way Florida had decorated it? It looked so damn good.



Florida had stated that the Black Jesus would only stay up on the Wall from Black Histoy Month. So that's why it was no longer seen

Actually in the beginning of the episode she said it was okay to leave it up for "Black History Week". There was no black history month. Then later in the episode when JJ was going to put it back in the closet, Florida changed her mind and said it was good to have both of them on the wall

Well, we all knew that Florida was not fond of Ned the whino being depicted as Jesus, so maybe she had a change of heart.

Has any1 checked their Season 1 DVD's yet to confirm what I mentioned above???

Has any1 checked their Season 1 DVD's yet to confirm what I mentioned above???



hat are you trying to confirm?

Refer to my first post on the endings of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th episodes.

Here's the story....

I started this thread because I thought something was weird with the Black Jesus episode.

Check out my post (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?p=2619263#post2619263)

Anyway, I decided to go through my first season DVD to find any other discrepancies. People I'm definitely going to need your comments on this one.
Ready.....OK

All Season 1 episodes have an announcer say something like "From Television City in Hollywood"...I have no problem with that.


I addressed the Bernadette Stanis first name only in some of the episodes' opening credits issue in another thread (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?p=2619251#post2619251).

I have an issue with episodes 2, 3, and 4 (Black Jesus, Too Old Blues, and God's Business Is Good Business, respectively). During the closing credits for these episodes, there is a "blackout" between the time they show "Executive Producer: Norman Lear" and "Associate Producer: Camilla Dunn".

In episode 4, the words to the closing theme song "..thinking how it's almost hand-me-down" is completely missing.

For some reason, I think the alternative ending song (shown on TV Land's version of Black Jesus) was initially used, and maybe Sony edited that version out and replace it with the original version we've grown to love.

Comments and suggestions please




You are right

Retro.....
You saw it right???
What the hell happened???

Retro.....
You saw it right???
What the hell happened???


i have no idea-lol

By the way, I can't stand that alternative ending theme song. It's off rhyhm and almost off-key to me.
I woudn't be surprised that they placed it on the episodes that list Bernadette Stanis as "Bernadette".

This is just as awful to me as Three's Company's logo during it's first season...YUCK!!!

There is a closing them to one of the season 1 eps and it's sounds completely different, it was defintely a CBS version . TV ONE played it and i will check and see what ep had this closing theme. I was in complete shock because i have never heard that version before in my life. It kind sounded like a REMIX of the closing theme


I'm just bumping this up because I just heard this alternate closing theme for the first time. I just happened to watch the Black Jesus episode on TVOne and noticed that the song sounded different and remember somebody posting something about it here. It was interesting to hear.

I'm just bumping this up because I just heard this alternate closing theme for the first time. I just happened to watch the Black Jesus episode on TVOne and noticed that the song sounded different and remember somebody posting something about it here. It was interesting to hear.


I remember being extremely confused when I first heard that closing theme-lol

I remember being extremely confused when I first heard that closing theme-lol


That's how I felt. I wasn't expecting it and sometimes I don't even pay attention to the end credits when a show is going off and it just caught me. I said "whoa, that sounds different!"

That's how I felt. I wasn't expecting it and sometimes I don't even pay attention to the end credits when a show is going off and it just caught me. I said "whoa, that sounds different!"


Maybe that's how all the closing credits sounded on CBS and the one we heard slipped into syndication by an accident-lol

Maybe that's how all the closing credits sounded on CBS and the one we heard slipped into syndication by an accident-lol
No they didn't. I seem to recall that one episode having that one ending. The rest remained as we know it.