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Good times, anytime you need a payment. Good times, anytime you need a friend.

Good times, anytime you're up and under.

Not getting hassled, not getting hustled. Keeping your head above water.

Making a way when you can.

Temporary layoffs.

Good times.

What should I paint today?

I think I'll paint a family portrait.

Yeah!

Michael studying, Dad fixing the radio, and Mom baking biscuits.

The whole family.

Hey, what about me?

Said I want to paint a family portrait, not a horror picture.

I was just checking the light bulbs out there, and I heard somebody yelling in

here. It was nothing, Mr. Bookman, nothing.

Hey, man, you know me. I don't mean to make any trouble.

Yeah, we know.

Hey, but you know excessive noise is prohibited.

Boy, it sure broke my heart to have to evict the admins because of that.

But that's clause 11 of your lease. But you folks know about that clause.

That's the, oh, yeah.

suppose you would want some?

Nah, I couldn't, really.

Oh, maybe a few. Make it a dozen.

Did you say a dozen? That'll be enough.

Hi, y 'all.

Hi, Miss Woods.

Hi, Mr. Booger. That's Booker.

Hey,

that sure is sweet of you, Thelma.

See you guys later.

Oh, and, um, you know about the noise.

You know me. I don't like to make no trouble. Forget it.

What did the Gestapo of the ghetto want?

He must have ripped off a chicken in apartment 12 because he wanted some hot

biscuits to go along with it.

Honey, I'm hip to that routine.

You know, the other day I had a couple of flies in my apartment, and he warned

me about no pets.

And that little visit cost me a six -pack of beer and two beef jerkies.

You know, before that fat rascal got this job, he didn't weigh but 120

Oh, really?

almost finished, Wilona. If you can fix that old radio on mine, you are the

electronic genius of all time.

Wilona, we had an old toaster and the toast never popped up, but James fixed

Yeah, once Dad fixed it, the toast popped up so good, we had to go up on

ceiling and butter it.

night disc jockey get down brown that dude keeps you jumping

I got the same thing. Oh, you're driving. Turn it on.

I don't hear nothing, James.

That's it for the local news.

Now on the national front.

In Washington tonight, President Ford, speaking on the increase in

said... Absolutely nothing.

Well, there you go, Walona. You're a stone genius.

Here. How much do I owe you? Oh, no way. No way, Walona. Well, James, if I took

it to a store... they would charge me? Look, pretend that you are a department

store and I am a customer, okay? Treat me like you treat a customer. You sure

about that?

My seconds thought I deserve a better fate than that, huh?

Hey, Dad, since you're so good with electronics, how come our TV don't work

better than it does?

Your daddy is good at fixing things, J .J.

Nobody said nothing about raising the dead.

talent you got in your hands, you should be in business for yourself.

Yeah, you should open a massage parlor.

Well, I was thinking of a fix -it shop.

Hey, that's a fantastic idea. James, you could do that.

A fix -it shop. Yeah, that's a great idea.

Everybody I know has a TV set that breaks down, radios, toasters,

It's planned that way. I know. You have got that right. You know I had a car

once, and the warranty and the motor both ran.

I could lead you to a small fortune and busted hot combs.

Oh, James.

Now, you know, we've always dreamed that someday you would own your own

business. Maybe this is the way to get it started. You know, I read an article

where Jesse Jackson said more blacks should have businesses of their own.

That's right, Michael. That's exactly what he said.

How would you know? You don't read nothing but the wall.

to give it a try. You fix that?

What y 'all talking about? I ain't got no place to run no business.

Main thing is I ain't got what it takes to make money in the end. And that's

money in the beginning.

Borrow it from the bank. Oh, yeah, right. Just like that, huh, baby?

You see me going down to the bank saying, hey, I need a few thousand.

Just give it to me.

Fat chance.

Oh, Dad, you got the wrong attitude.

You got...

But once you are precisely right, little sister, you are looking at the only

person that took Henrietta out for a night in the town with exactly one

Purchase and consume two Big Macs, two order of fries, two strawberry shakes,

saw a double peach at the lock while nibbling on a jumbo giant snicker bar

watching Blackula Bites Boston.

There's prices going up, people getting laid off.

No, this be a hell of a time to open a business.

James, this may be just the time to open a business.

People ain't buying nothing new, so they got to fix what they already have.

And you be your own boss, Daddy.

Yeah, Dad.

And if you goofed off, the only one who could fire you would be you.

And you wouldn't do that because you wouldn't stand for that.

Because you are you, and you would never go for that.

No, sir.

Well, it sounded good when it was in my head, but it lost something when it came

out of my mouth.

It doesn't everything?

You know something, baby?

You may be right. This might be the right time to go into business.

Boy, wouldn't that be something?

Running my own business.

Our business, James.

We're all in it together.

It'll be Evans and Evans and son.

I don't know, baby. I don't know.

You know, maybe I do need a few thousand dollars to get this shop open.

So ask him for it.

Florida ain't no way in the world that people are going to give me that kind of

money. No, no, no, James. That ain't no way to think. You've got to think

positive. You're right, baby. I think positive.

Good. I'm positive there ain't no way in the world that people are going to give

me that kind of money.

You know, all this business stuff sounded good at the house, Florida, but

don't like this borrowing stuff. I just don't like it. James, stop worrying.

Like J .J. said.

Well, yeah.

If you want to borrow money from the bank, you got to act big.

Like you're doing them a favor, like you don't even need their money.

That's the way the big businessmen do it.

I guess you're right, baby. I mean, if I'm going to be a big businessman, I

might as well start acting like one, huh? There you go. Won't you come in,

please? Oh, thank you.

I'm Mr. Dawson.

Evans. James Evans.

This is my wife and business associate, Florida.

How do you do? How do you do? We don't need your money, but we'll take $2 ,000.

Thank you.

Now, you say you'd like $2 ,000.

Right.

Have you ever borrowed any money from us or any other bank?

No. We've never borrowed any money from anybody.

But we don't owe nobody nothing either. That's right. Oh, that's bad. That's

bad. You see, if you had borrowed, then you would have established a line of

credit. This way, we don't know if you can pay it back.

Oh, well, look, that's very simple.

You lend me $2 ,000. I give it right back to you. Then you know I'm good for

$2 ,000, so you lend it right back to me.

Yes, Mr. Evans, but I think we need something a little more concrete.

Now, let's go over your assets.

Yeah, let's go over my assets.

What do you own?

Real estate, stock, bonds, anything you need.

You name it and we ain't got it.

Well, look, folks, I'd like to help you out, but we can't loan you money unless

you have collateral.

I know that, man, but how am I going to get the collateral unless you make me

the loan?

Do you have someone who would co -sign for you?

Yeah, maybe Willie Washington. Now, Willie would co -sign for me. Yeah,

No, Willie. Willie Washington.

Good. What's his financial condition?

Oh, hell, he owed me $12.

Oh, I sympathize with you very much, Mr. and Mrs. Evans.

But you see, you have to understand the banking system.

You see, we can't loan you money unless we know we can get it back.

We ourselves borrow money from the Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve gets their money from the government. The government gets

their money from the people.

Hey, well, in that case, all I'm doing is borrowing my own money. Well,

not so loud, Mr.

Evans. You may give the whole system away.

Well, I'm sorry. There's nothing we can do.

It's professional, doesn't it? Uh -huh. And you ain't seen nothing yet.

That's beautiful.

Except you made a mistake.

Where? It should read Evans and Evans and fool.

I didn't make a mistake, Thelma. I left you out on purpose.

JJ, we won't be needing that.

The bank turned us down.

Oh. Oh, how could they?

They did it, Thelma.

One more good idea that didn't work.

Now, wait a minute, baby. Hold it, hold it.

Now, you the one that got me fired up about this business stuff in the first

place. Now, just because the bank turned us down, that don't mean it's the end.

Well, James, we ain't got no money.

have to run a store. I mean, it's supposed to be a family business, right?

why can't we conduct a family business right here?

Oh, you know we can't run no business here. It's against the lease.

And you know that old Snoopy Bookman.

He's always on top of us like white on rice.

Yeah, but we just make sure old Snoopy Bookman don't come up here for a while.

By that time, maybe I have enough money to rent my own store.

If that one hits, hell, and I rent another one, and another one, and

one. Florida, this could be the start of a whole chain of fix -it shots.

is just my first thing to fix, that's all.

Yeah, and look at Colonel Sanders.

He only started off with one chicken.

Hey,

look

at all this business we got, Florida.

Everything's going along just right. Won't be long before we have our own

Well, it can't be too soon. I'm getting a little bit nervous, James, and all

this... Secrecy.

It's like selling booze during prohibition.

Only instead of a speakeasy, we got a fix -easy.

Yeah, that's the right signal. Get that one.

Hi! Hey, Daddy, we got some more things for you to fix. All right. Good.

Yeah, we're doing so much door -to -door business, we're leaving the Avon lady

in the dust.

All right. And from the 10th floor, Mr.

Garrett's alarm clock. He says he wants it back by Wednesday so he can get up on

time to collect his unemployment insurance.

You didn't run into Mr. Bookman, did you? We did, but he didn't suspect

Won't be long before we'll be able to afford our own pickup service.

And wait a minute, Dad. That ain't all I got for you to fix.

Well, where in the world did you get that?

From old Mrs. Benson.

She says our heating pad doesn't heat up like it used to.

Neither does old Mrs. Benson.

I'll get it. Wait, wait, wait. That's the wrong signal.

Cover this stuff up.

Yeah,

just a minute, just a minute.

Michael!

What's the wrong signal?

Mama, it's hard to remember the right signal when you gotta go to bed.

to ask you. Looks like Mr. Fixer's got a role going here.

James, you look tired.

Between this and that job down at Brady's, you must be worn out. Honey,

don't you take a little rest?

After a while, baby.

I got a pile of stuff here to finish, and it don't pay to miss the promised

delivery date. I wish the stalker missed the delivery date on Thelma.

ostrich head? All right, now. All right, now. Didn't I say all right?

I'm sorry, Dad.

What can the son of Evans' son do to help Evans?

Well, you can deliver that toaster to Mr. Jackson.

Okay. We're going to have a slight problem, Dad.

How come?

I can't put this under my hat.

Well, put it in a shopping bag, J .J.

And don't forget, Ms. Jackson is on our easy payment plan.

One half on delivery and 50 cents a week, okay?

You know, Daddy, We should get running those receipt pads so that when you

deliver things to people, they can sign for them. We'll get around to that,

Michael. We ain't got quite that organized yet.

That's all right. You can get it, JJ.

Oh, that knock is getting so popular, pretty soon it's going to be in the top

40.

If you want this stuff repaired right, bring it to the follow -up, kid.

anybody to get upset.

I just wanted to find out if the Evans family was doing fine.

Hey, what have we got here?

Oh, I just picked the right curtain on Let's Make a Deal.

Hey, man, you know me. I don't like to make trouble.

You know, I'm on your side all the way.

However, it clearly states in Clause 11 that it's unlawfully used these premises

for commercial purposes.

Well, what you want now, man? We fresh out of biscuits, balloon belly.

come here to give you something. To give us something?

Yeah, I have a few things that need some minor repairs, a tea kettle, an iron.

And if I don't?

Do you know how cold it gets in the park this time of year?

Yeah, bring them in. Hey, it's nice of you to make the offer.

Hey, boy, I always said you guys are nice tenants.

but don't worry about it. I can handle him. We've come too far to be stopped by

that ham, huh?

James?

James?

Morning, baby.

Honey, didn't you get any sleep?

No, baby.

I got a pile of stuff here to finish for Fatback Bookman.

Seems like as soon as I finish one pile of stuff, he brings in another one.

An iron and a tea kettle, huh?

James, he is wearing you down.

He brought you everything he got. Now he's got you fixing things for his

relatives. Yeah, you're right, baby.

I'm so busy working on this stuff, I ain't even got time to take care of my

paying customers.

Damn. Hey, what's going on here?

Sorry, kids. I didn't mean to wake you all up.

Oh, that's all right. The chick I was dreaming about was getting away anyway.

Hey, what's going on? What's happening?

Your daddy is overworked. That's what's going on.

Mr. Bookman brought another load of stuff in here last night.

Oh, James, you can't keep going on like this. You're falling off your feet.

Yeah, I know, baby. But how much more stuff can he bring in here? He got to

out of relatives sometime.

What? I guess he has discovered a couple of long -lost uncles.

and some more stuff.

You must have one hell of a big family, huh, partner?

This ain't family. I've told all of my friends about the good work you've been

doing. I'm going to bring some more later.

Now, hold it, Buckman. That rips it. You find yourself another donkey, because I

ain't dealing with you no more, man. And I mean that no more. Hey, wait a

minute, Emmett. No, you wait a minute, hog head.

See, I can see what kind of dude you are. You ain't going to be satisfied if

don't fix everything that's broken in Chicago, including Mayor Daley's

toothbrush.

You know, plus I got the feeling you're lying in your pockets with my work.

Hey, that's a terrible thing to accuse me of. Well, it's the truth, ain't it?

Yeah. I'm going to run you through that door, and I ain't going to charge to fix

the hole you're going to make.

Hey, cool it. Come on.

You and your whole family will be cooling it outside.

You know, I'm afraid I'm going to have to report you for violation of... Go

right ahead, and we'll tell the manager how you've been bleeding us. Who'd

believe you? You don't have any proof? Yeah, well, I don't care, man. Now, if

you're going to report us, report us. If you're going to evict us, evict us.

Daddy. Michael, stay out of this. And I got something else to tell you, buffalo

butt.

This family don't get on their knees to nobody.

Daddy. Mike, I done told you. Now, stay out of this. Now, if you're going to go

down to the manager's office, please just slide on down there and report us.

ahead. Daddy, I have proof. Now, Michael, stay out. You got proof?

Yeah. Proof of what?

Proof that he's been getting things fixed here.

How, baby?

How?

Well, the other day when I was here by myself, Mr. Bookman came by to pick up a

few things.

I didn't know what to do, so I asked him to sign a receipt, and he did.

What do you mean? It's a silly baseball card.

I was only going along with the kid.

You didn't keep it, did you, little fella? I sure did, Mr.

Buffalo.

Bookman, Bookman.

Here, Daddy.

I'll take that, Hawks.

Receive two kettles and an electric blanket. Signed, Mr. Bookman. Well, how

that grab you, Mr. Bookman?

Well, clause 11 ain't the only clause ever.

Hey, look, Evan, why don't you close your business, I'll close mine. We'll

like a Mexican fandoff.

Olé!

All right, I want you to get all the stuff in here that you brought. Take it

and out of here. And you will need a truck to do it. Sure. Hey, you know me.

don't like to make any trouble, man. Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You

don't want to leave without your TV, do you? What?

I got it all fixed up and waiting for you. Hey, I'm not going to pay for it.

that's all right. This one's on the house, brother.

Hey, you know you're all right. I'll be back to get the rest of my stuff.

Yeah, you do that.

Get out of here.

Thanks,

darling.

James, how could you be smiling about fixing his TV?

And for nothing.

Very simple, baby.

That TV ain't going to work too good without these tubes.

Just looking out of the window, watching the asphalt road,

thinking how it all looks, can we die?

Good times, good times, keeping your head above water, making a

wave when you can, temporary layoffs, good times.

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