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Originally Posted by Skywalker
The problem I have with Good Time being called a spinoff is this, if it is indeed a spinoff as Norman Lear says then why was there no backdoor pilot or even a remote connection between Good Times and Maude? Were the writers and Norman Lear so lazy that they couldn't make 1 reference to Maude? Why did Henry leave what I assume was an ok paying job as a firefighter in NY and take his family to live in the projects in Chicago? I don't really care about definitions, Good Times was the only so called spinoff which Norman Lear was involved with that didn't have a backdoor pilot . Maude had one. Jeffersons had one. Even Checking In had one. It's obvious to me that the creators of Good Times, not Norman Lear, didn't want their show to be connected to Maude.
I can accept some tweaking with a spinoff like Family Matters where they say something about living in an apartment on PS and later on it's said that they've lived in a house for several years on FM, but not an extreme makeover.
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Lear said they did a pilot episode LOL I wanna know where it is