W.J Griffin, Do you think that The characters of Good Times could have made a

[TVFactFan]

reference to Sherman Hemsley like they did to REdd Foxx? I remember one episode when Thelma says just like "Redd Foxx is not really a junkman he is just playing a part of a man who owns a junkyard".

Could she have said-

Just like Sherman Hemsley is not really a man who owns 7 cleaning stores, he is just playing the part of a man who owns 7 stores.

[Brian Damage]

They couldn't do that because George Jefferson is in the same sitcom universe as All in the Family, Maude and Good Times...because Good Times is a spinoff of Maude.

[W.J. Griffin]

Originally posted by Brian Damage
They couldn't do that because George Jefferson is in the same sitcom universe as All in the Family, Maude and Good Times...because Good Times is a spinoff of Maude.

Well, not really...as I posted on another thread, while "Good Times" is indeed a spin-off, it inhabits a different reality from "Maude", i.e. those subtle differences I catalogued earlier.

So it would be quite logical for Thelma to make refernces to George Jefferson, as he would probably exist as a fictional character in this universe, because there is no correlation betweent the characters on "Good Times" and the characters of "The Jeffersons", as they've never crossed paths. (By the same token, George and Weezie could have an argument about wanting to watch Florida and J.J. on GT on Tuesday nights, because it's a seperate reality. But on "Maude", one would assume that Maude Findlay would contact the REAL Florida Evans in Harlem and tell her that someone stole her name and put it on tv! Wouldn't THAT be a hoot?)

Then again, they hardly ever did that sort of self-reference on tv back then, so it's all a moot point, anyway. But then, we wouldn't have anything to argue about on the internet...

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by W.J. Griffin
Well, not really...as I posted on another thread, while "Good Times" is indeed a spin-off, it inhabits a different reality from "Maude", i.e. those subtle differences I catalogued earlier.

So it would be quite logical for Thelma to make refernces to George Jefferson, as he would probably exist as a fictional character in this universe, because there is no correlation betweent the characters on "Good Times" and the characters of "The Jeffersons", as they've never crossed paths. (By the same token, George and Weezie could have an argument about wanting to watch Florida and J.J. on GT on Tuesday nights, because it's a seperate reality. But on "Maude", one would assume that Maude Findlay would contact the REAL Florida Evans in Harlem and tell her that someone stole her name and put it on tv! Wouldn't THAT be a hoot?)

Then again, they hardly ever did that sort of self-reference on tv back then, anyway, so it's all a moot point, anyway. But then, we wouldn't have anything to argue about on the internet...

I don't know if you ever caught this but in the episode-J.J in Trouble, J.J is reading a EBONY Magazine with the Jeffersons on the Front Cover and it's visible

[Brian Damage]

It was just an oversight.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Brian Damage
It was just an oversight.

And why do u say that?

[W.J. Griffin]

Yes, that just proves my point about "The Jeffersons" being fictional characters in the "Good Times" universe.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by W.J. Griffin
Yes, that just proves my point about "The Jeffersons" being fictional characters in the "Good Times" universe.

Guess I came up with a good example.