My boyfriend said something abt that episode that I have always thought. What did those girls think they were gonna do when they left with the $$$$? Go to the Bahamas and never be seen again? $2500 was somewhat alot of $$ in the 70's, but still it wasn't going to last, considering these girls were supposedly poor. And besides, they would have gotten caught because the Evans family knew them. DUH!!!!! Bad writing here you think? How do you think you could have changed this episode?

My boyfriend said something abt that episode that I have always thought. What did those girls think they were gonna do when they left with the $$$$? Go to the Bahamas and never be seen again? $2500 was somewhat alot of $$ in the 70's, but still it wasn't going to last, considering these girls were supposedly poor. And besides, they would have gotten caught because the Evans family knew them. DUH!!!!! Bad writing here you think? How do you think you could have changed this episode?


Yeah usually when someone is robbing, they have masks on-lol So yes they would have gotten caught anyway

It was funny how one of the girls (Tamu) chumped up Willona, snatching her purse from her. Saying something like how "rich" she was. "I'm poor people", she says.

It was funny how one of the girls (Tamu) chumped up Willona, snatching her purse from her. Saying something like how "rich" she was. "I'm poor people", she says.


I liked TAMU performance on the Jeffersons-lol

My boyfriend said something abt that episode that I have always thought. What did those girls think they were gonna do when they left with the $$$$? Go to the Bahamas and never be seen again? $2500 was somewhat alot of $$ in the 70's, but still it wasn't going to last, considering these girls were supposedly poor. And besides, they would have gotten caught because the Evans family knew them. DUH!!!!! Bad writing here you think? How do you think you could have changed this episode?


I would have kept it the way it was. Some teenaged kids do dumb things. They were incredibly stupid. They should have left town. Their fingerprints were all over this. Wilona wasn't playing any games. Wilona was, "freeze", "freeze"!

Florida: Thelma, call the police.
Michael: We'll never get the police in the neighborhood.
Florida: Ohhhh, yes we will. You tell em' WE WHITE!

I would have kept it the way it was. Some teenaged kids do dumb things. They were incredibly stupid. They should have left town. Their fingerprints were all over this. Wilona wasn't playing any games. Wilona was, "freeze", "freeze"!

Florida: Thelma, call the police.
Michael: We'll never get the police in the neighborhood.
Florida: Ohhhh, yes we will. You tell em' WE WHITE!


But wouldn;t the police know from the Evans address that they were not white?-lol

But wouldn;t the police know from the Evans address that they were not white?-lol


The police could have bought the fact that they were if Thelma lied about it. I know on another post that there was a topic about this line being edited. You know, the line "tell them we white." It was edited out of the TV Land ep, but it was seen in the syndicated version. I remember it as a young child.

Wasn't Shirley Hemphill in this episode, and wasn't it around the time of What's Happening?

The police could have bought the fact that they were if Thelma lied about it. I know on another post that there was a topic about this line being edited. You know, the line "tell them we white." It was edited out of the TV Land ep, but it was seen in the syndicated version. I remember it as a young child.


But how could thelma lie if they really needed the police?-lol Once again, another dumb statement by the writers

Wasn't Shirley Hemphill in this episode, and wasn't it around the time of What's Happening?


What's Happening started as a summer show and picked up again in November, so she proabably was in between Jobs(shows) when she did this episode

no the police wouldn't know their address because back in those days, the 911 system wasn't implemented yet, the operator had no way of knowing where the call was originating from. Nowadays with the computers and 911 system, the dispatcher can tell where you are calling from.

no the police wouldn't know their address because back in those days, the 911 system wasn't implemented yet, the operator had no way of knowing where the call was originating from. Nowadays with the computers and 911 system, the dispatcher can tell where you are calling from.


Irene what I mean is If I was to call the police station tonight here in philly, they would know where I'm located because the operator/dispatcher lives in philly too. So i figured it was the same with Thelma. Whoever she was going to talk to on the phone was going to know where they were located because they lived in Chicago too.

Irene what I mean is If I was to call the police station tonight here in philly, they would know where I'm located because the operator/dispatcher lives in philly too. So i figured it was the same with Thelma. Whoever she was going to talk to on the phone was going to know where they were located because they lived in Chicago too.
oh, okay, gotcha Soloman. :crazy:

This has bothered me for a long time. How did the Evans win the Lottery? On a network called GSN, they had a show called "Anything To Win", and one episode was called, "The Pennsylvania Lottery", and the show said that Lottery started in 1988, which would make the Lottery episode of GT 10, 11, or 12 years earlier........That reminds me. In another episode where JJ becomes a bookie for gambling horse bets, one guy says, "The state runs the Lottery, how is this any different?" I thought GSN said that Lottery started in 1988.:confused:

This has bothered me for a long time. How did the Evans win the Lottery? On a network called GSN, they had a show called "Anything To Win", and one episode was called, "The Pennsylvania Lottery", and the show said that Lottery started in 1988, which would make the Lottery episode of GT 10, 11, or 12 years earlier........That reminds me. In another episode where JJ becomes a bookie for gambling horse bets, one guy says, "The state runs the Lottery, how is this any different?" I thought GSN said that Lottery started in 1988.:confused:


The Evans didn't live in Pennsylvania-lol

My boyfriend said something abt that episode that I have always thought. What did those girls think they were gonna do when they left with the $$$$? Go to the Bahamas and never be seen again? $2500 was somewhat alot of $$ in the 70's, but still it wasn't going to last, considering these girls were supposedly poor. And besides, they would have gotten caught because the Evans family knew them. DUH!!!!! Bad writing here you think? How do you think you could have changed this episode?
Yeah, they were totally stupid. The first girl should have told the second and she should have gone with someone else. But, it would have been nice to see them get caught, lol.

I laughed at the overall stupidity of those ghetto sisters trying to rob Florida and JJ of the lotto money... :lol: :happyface
It was so hilarious, especially with the fact that one sister was an uneducated jailbird before the age of 18, and the other sister was just FLAT OUT DUMB.

As my buddy Fred Sanford would label 'em, readily, "THOSE BIG DUMMIES..." :lol: :lol:
:cool: :wave: