GOOD TIMES a spin-off of MAUDE

[treky]

the last thing I want to do is start this well-worn debate again (but I'm sure I will) but last night I saw an interview on TV with Norman Lear and he said that GOOD TIMES IS a spin-off of MAUDE.

There, that's all I'm saying on the subject, but like I said I know a lot of you are gonna chime in with your own opinions.

[king of comedy]

It is and you can put it to rest.

[Dr. Thong]

Good Times is indeed a spin off from Maude.

That is an undeniable fact.

But you know those deniers!

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by treky

the last thing I want to do is start this well-worn debate again (but I'm sure I will) but last night I saw an interview on TV with Norman Lear and he said that GOOD TIMES IS a spin-off of MAUDE.

There, that's all I'm saying on the subject, but like I said I know a lot of you are gonna chime in with your own opinions.

I wish I was the interviewer so I could ask him how

[Babalu]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

I wish I was the interviewer so I could ask him how

Esther Rolle was Maude's maid, Florida Evans. That's how.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068103/...=tt_cl_sm#cast

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Babalu

Esther Rolle was Maude's maid, Florida Evans. That's how.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068103/...=tt_cl_sm#cast

But how she end up poor in the ghetto on the other side of the country?

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

But how she end up poor in the ghetto on the other side of the country?

Since they put Maude back on, I've been watching it sometimes. I've noticed Florida is different in Maude than in Good Times ! She is more wisecracking and more assertive ! In Good times she's more docile and housewife - ish!

Same name ,looks the same. But she's in a whole new location, different personality. Husband's name is different, and he is a poorer man than Florida from Maude's husband!

I guess technically it's a spinoff? But realistically it is very debatable !

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

Since they put Maude back on, I've been watching it sometimes. I've noticed Florida is different in Maude than in Good Times ! She is more wisecracking and more assertive ! In Good times she's more docile and housewife - ish!

Same name ,looks the same. But she's in a whole new location, different personality. Husband's name is different, and he is a poorer man than Florida from Maude's husband!

I guess technically it's a spinoff? But realistically it is very debatable !

That's what I want to ask Norman Lear. LOL

1. Why wasn't the husband kept the same?

2. Why were they in a different city?

[Svenfan1234]

Good Times is definitely, 100%, positively a spin-off. If Norman Lear calls it a spin-off, it's a spin-off.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Alan Brady's Hair

Dictionaries, encyclopedias, media sources all give definitions for what a spinoff is. What Norman Lear says can only evidence what he intended, but the show either is or isn't a "spinoff" depends on what the industry considers to be a spinoff.

Good Times is a sitcom about a black family living in the ghetto

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by Babalu

Esther Rolle was Maude's maid, Florida Evans. That's how.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068103/...=tt_cl_sm#cast

Correct and Esther Rolle was a different Florida Evans on Good Time. :

[Svenfan1234]

Originally Posted by Alan Brady's Hair

Our education system and political parties are going to love you, but you're going to be useless to literally everybody else.

What would you say if Mr. Lear called it a spinoff some days, but said some other days that it's not a spinoff?
What would you say if Mr. Lear called it a spinoff, but someone else in the creative or production chain said it's not?
What if Mr. Lear called it a gobo? Would you go around saying if Norman Lear calls it a gobo, it's a gobo?

If you want to state whether a show is a spinoff or not, you really should require yourself to have some idea of what a spinoff is.

I know more than you do. And obviously you have no better thing to do than to act ignorant.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Alan Brady's Hair

Our education system and political parties are going to love you, but you're going to be useless to literally everybody else.

What would you say if Mr. Lear called it a spinoff some days, but said some other days that it's not a spinoff?
What would you say if Mr. Lear called it a spinoff, but someone else in the creative or production chain said it's not?
What if Mr. Lear called it a gobo? Would you go around saying if Norman Lear calls it a gobo, it's a gobo?

If you want to state whether a show is a spinoff or not, you really should require yourself to have some idea of what a spinoff is.

Don't take that poster, he/she has a history of drug use

[Svenfan1234]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Don't take that poster, he/she has a history of drug use

Reported thank you

[treky]

see, I told you my post would stir up this debate again! Just like the debates of: Ginger or Mary Ann, Jennifer or Bailey, which is the better Darrin...etc. this will go on and on and on....