Thelma and Florida was singing in Part one of the Big Move-"Mississppi here we come, right back where we started from" But I heard the same song on One Day at a Time which was also in the 76-77 TV season but on that show it was-"California here we come, right back where we started from"


So what is the real song?-lol California or Mississippi?

Thelma and Florida was singing in Part one of the Big Move-"Mississppi here we come, right back where we started from" But I heard the same song on One Day at a Time which was also in the 76-77 TV season but on that show it was-"California here we come, right back where we started from"


So what is the real song?-lol California or Mississippi?


The real song is "California here I come."

The real song is "California here I come."


Thanks Brian. Julie and Barbara were singing CA here we come when they thought they were heading west. It made me think of the Big Move Ep

Good Times had a knack for changing around songs. The best one they did in my opinion was when they changed, "For he's a jolly good fellow" into "For he's a groovy dude." lol

Yeah, they ALWAYS use to cut that first part out of "The Big Move" in syndicated reruns. The show would always begin with MICHAEL coming into the apartment with a box singing "Mississippi Here We Come"-lol For YEARS I thought that's how the show actually began until I got the season 4 Dvd. That's when I saw the first scene and finally heard them say EXACTLY why James had originally gone to Mississippi. Thank God for the unedited season set-lol

Yeah, they ALWAYS use to cut that first part out of "The Big Move" in syndicated reruns. The show would always begin with MICHAEL coming into the apartment with a box singing "Mississippi Here We Come"-lol For YEARS I thought that's how the show actually began until I got the season 4 Dvd. That's when I saw the first scene and finally heard them say EXACTLY why James had originally gone to Mississippi. Thank God for the unedited season set-lol


Not TBS-lol I think the TBS version begin after Michael comes in. I think it's when J.J comes in

DAMN TBS DID cut the crap out of their shows-lol. I think I first saw Good Times on WGN-Chicago(we had cable) in the early 80s and they always started it there-lol

Yeah, they ALWAYS use to cut that first part out of "The Big Move" in syndicated reruns. The show would always begin with MICHAEL coming into the apartment with a box singing "Mississippi Here We Come"-lol For YEARS I thought that's how the show actually began until I got the season 4 Dvd. That's when I saw the first scene and finally heard them say EXACTLY why James had originally gone to Mississippi. Thank God for the unedited season set-lol
Quoted for truth, I'm also glad for the unedited season sets.

The show would always begin with MICHAEL coming into the apartment with a box singing "Mississippi Here We Come"-lol For YEARS

Anyone care to guess how long the Militant Midget would have kept singing that song after they left their familiar Chicago setting for the segregation- and-sharecropping in recent raw memory Mississippi? Even with James having a steady garage job, I can't help but think Michael and the others would have soon had a culture shock!:eek:

Anyone care to guess how long the Militant Midget would have kept singing that song after they left their familiar Chicago setting for the segregation- and-sharecropping in recent raw memory Mississippi? Even with James having a steady garage job, I can't help but think Michael and the others would have soon had a culture shock!:eek:
Like living in the ghetto in those projects wasn't a shock already for them...like Michael once said, "If you can survive it in the ghetto...you can survive it anywhere."

A poster here told me once during an IM conversation that those projects the Evans' lived in (it really existed in Chicago) was so notorious for many things. It was dangerous, seedy, violent, etc. What he told me gave me shivers.