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Good time, anytime you need a payment. Good time, anytime you feel free.

Good time, anytime you're up and under. Not getting hassled, not getting

hustled. Keeping your head up for water.

Making a way when you can.

Temporary layoffs. Good time.

Can't you turn the oven up? I can't wait anymore.

It won't be long now, Michael. All right.

Oh, boy!

I smell meat!

Well, one thing for sure, there's nothing wrong with your nose.

Just wanted to introduce you to my stomach, because y 'all going to be

later for dinner.

Will you get out of my kitchen and stop acting silly?

Nobody talks to a...

I'm sorry, baby.

Ma, I hope you're cooking that roast right, because I like my meat just like

Brown on the outside and rare on the inside.

If that meat looked just like you, it'd be all bones.

Well, if the meat looked like you, it would have come with a flea collar.

Junior.

Hey, baby, how much did you pay for this roast anyhow?

Dollars and 49 cents.

Huh?

$12 .49.

What? He's just supposed to buy a piece of the cow, not the ranch he grew up on.

Now, come on, James.

We had some extra money this month, and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't

give ourselves a treat.

Mama, where'd you buy the roast?

At Borgen's Market.

And I want you all to know, that meat was marked prime.

which usually in Borgans, the meat is marked choice, which means take this

because you ain't got no choice.

Roast beef?

Sorry, folks, I must have the wrong apartment.

Oh, come on back here, girl.

How you doing?

Terrible. Just came back from Borgans Market. And, girl, is that place a

This is what you get for one week's paycheck, one day's worth of groceries.

There ain't a thing in that place that ain't expensive.

And getting more expensive.

19 cents crossed out and 23 cents stamped on. 23 cents crossed out and 26

stamped on.

26 cents crossed out with a note saying, continued on the other side of the

camera.

Mama,

all this talk about food is making me hungry. What are we going to eat?

Right now.

Everybody, come on.

Hey, JJ, I better warn you, man. I may be your little brother, but once that

roast hits this table, it's every man for himself.

Hey, Asiola, enjoy your dinner. Oh, come on, Lilona. There's enough food for

everybody. Oh, I could not be intruding.

Really had to twist your arm, didn't you?

Oh, blow.

That looks delicious and smells gorgeous.

Bring it. Well, if everybody is ready, I'd like to present the guest of honor.

and take your hat off.

Thank you, Lord, for taking the time to send us all this hunk of pride.

Amen!

Hey, Ma, if you're taking ours for breakfast, I'll start with

toast, grits, bacon, waffles.

Same to you. I think I'll skip breakfast this morning.

Why, Michael? It's safe to eat. That one didn't make it.

What's the matter, Michael? Don't you feel well?

Not really, Mama. My stomach feels like I swallowed my history book.

How about you, JJ?

I feel fine, Ma. Just great.

Matter of fact, I dreamt I was trapped in a room with a thousand Big Macs and

had to eat my way to freedom.

Hey, JJ, man, please don't mention food. My stomach can't take it.

In that case, I'll have Michael's breakfast, too. Oh.

Tell you the truth, kids.

I don't feel too hot myself.

Good morning, Ma.

Good morning.

Thelma, are you all right?

Oh, Ma.

Oh, I feel like J .J. looks.

Oh, brother, then she's sicker than I am.

I'd better go and... see how your daddy is.

Don't worry about dad.

He's tougher than nails.

Hi,

James. How you feeling?

Is it any better than last night?

Honey, do you think you'll be able to go to work today?

What happened here?

My stomach feels like King Kong is inside tap dancing.

You know, it has got to be.

I made yesterday from Borgans. You mean it hit everybody?

Everybody except for yours truly.

I ate all the roast beef and slept through the night. Now you're looking at

fine and healthy kid.

Dynamite!

That's because his stomach is just like his head. Cast iron.

For once, I wanted to serve a decent meal from that rip -off market, and look

what happened.

and beef my foot.

Hey, Dad, maybe the trouble is you don't have nothing down in your stomach.

Why don't you try and eat some of this oatmeal in here? Get some of this down

there. That's what you need.

Hi, y 'all.

Just came over to thank you for that dinner.

Wilona, honey, I am sorry.

As a matter of fact, I was up all night thinking of a way to thank you.

It was the roast, Wilona. Everybody got sick except JJ.

Oh.

yourself, sweetheart.

It's that old rotten Borgens Market.

Mama, why do you shop there in the first place?

Daddy, we got no choice.

They ran everybody else out of business. Now they're the only market around here

that we can get to without a car.

Boy, that's some market. Made all of us sick.

Cost me a day's pay a time and a half.

Well, Lona, you know, our women's club have always wanted to do something about

that market.

Yeah, we've been talking about picking it a long time.

Well, I can't think of a better reason than we got, nor a better time than

now. Right, Ma.

We are going to let Borgens know that we care about our families, too.

Right now?

Right now. Now, the walk and the fresh air will do us both good. Come on. Well,

it may take me a little time. I got two things I got to do.

to keep the situation under control?

I'll try, baby. I'll try.

I'll try and keep it under control, but right now, I ain't all that sure I'm in

control of the situation myself.

I'm not just gonna move!

Dad, is there anything I can get you?

No, baby girl. I just need some peace and quiet.

Okay, then I'll keep J .J. out of here.

TV, you know, this is hard to believe, Thelma. I mean, here we are. We all ate

the same thing.

Now we're all better.

Now a big, healthy guy like that is still laying there like a wounded

like a helpless baby, like a 98 -pound weakling.

Uh,

could have happened to anybody, Dad.

Just shut up your mouth and plug in the set.

Okay. How about peanut butter and hot sauce sandwich, Dan?

Well, while we're getting all this together, Dan, the set's tuning up. Oh,

you. I guess we ought to get something for you to eat, Dad. That's the real

thing we got to do. First, we'll start you off with some of those chicken legs

that Ma got in there.

Then we'll get some of that bologna, which goes great with this pickle. Yeah.

This is definitely what you're doing.

Get out of town.

Yeah. No, Junior, no, no. Maybe I'll be better off going to work today.

We shall not be moved.

We will not be moved.

Hey, Junior, look.

Hey, kids, come in there quick. Your mama's on TV.

Because look at them taking your mom away in a patrol wagon.

Come on, sit over here. All right. Now get a hold of yourself.

Everything is going to be all right.

I got a hold of myself.

Good. I'm cool.

Flo? Yes.

Don't you fall honey.

How about you, Ilona? You okay?

I'm okay now, thanks.

James, of course, it's some bread. How much do I owe you? Oh, Ilona, forget

that. Most important thing is that you're all right. Now, you sure you're

Oh, yeah, I'm fine.

Good. You owe me $25.

James, let's go home.

All right, but we got to make one stop first, Florida. I swear that market is

going to hear from me. Oh, James.

Well, y 'all can help yourself. I'm going home to get this nightmare ever

happen. I don't even want to think about it. They had it on the TV news, Ilona.

If we go to that supermarket, I want you to promise me you'll be reasonable.

I don't want to have to come back down here to bail you out.

Baby, I'm not going to be nothing but nice and reasonable. I just want to talk

to the dude.

Good. Then I'm going to squeeze his shaman.

Yes, yes, Mr.

Borger. Yes.

Yes, there was a little demonstration here. Yeah, but I called the police and

they cooled it out.

No, no, no, Mr. Borger. Hey, listen, remember me.

I'm on your side.

No, there's nothing to worry about, Mr. Borger. Mm -mm. Everything is... Right.

Wait just a minute. Someone's out there. I'll call you back. Come in.

You the manager of this Tomei Tabernacle?

Yes, I'm Mr. Gage. Please have a seat. What can I do for you? No, skip that,

man. How come you had my wife thrown in the slammers?

Hey, believe me, brother. I'll be the last man to call in the police.

I mean, it was Mr.

Borger. I mean, I tried to tell him to cool it, but no way. I mean, I really

felt terrible about it, Mrs., uh... Evans, and this is my husband, James.

How do you do, sir?

Mr.

Gage, I wouldn't have been out there picketing in the first place, but I

a roast here yesterday, and it made my whole family sick.

Oh, you don't know how sorry I am to hear that, Mrs. Evans. And I'll try to

your money back.

Look, Mr. Gage, you are the only market the people around here have.

got in this store is bad mrs evans i'm gonna lay it right on the line you are

absolutely right and believe me if i was the owner of this

place things would be different but you don't seem to understand that this store

is a small part of a big chain and me hey i'm brand new myself

Yes, and if I have my way, there's going to be a lot of changes. And I mean big

changes. Hey, I'm going to make improvements all the time, even if I

fight Mr.

Borgin every inch of the way.

Well, you understand, we're not blaming you personally. The hell we ain't.

Please, give him a chance.

Hey, man, I feel for you, too. Hey, listen, I'm one of you.

But there's just so much I can do. Oh, man.

Hey, I'm working here 24 hours a day. Do you know, I don't know when I had my

last home -cooked meal.

Yeah, well, I can't forget mine.

James, I think he's on our side.

That's what you think, baby. I think he's piling it as high as his canned

Oh, James.

Hey, that's all right, Mrs.

Evans. I can understand your husband being upset.

I mean, I would be uptight, too.

But listen, with good people like you on the outside working with me on the

inside... Hey, we'll be able to get something done.

Well, I guess you're doing the best you can.

And thank you for your time.

Oh, I appreciate those kind words, Mrs. Evans. And feel free to come back any

time. Well, you made me feel better.

Oh, that's what I'm here for.

And remember, hey, I'm on your side.

Look here, ma 'am.

You better shape this store up and fast.

Because if you don't, they're going to find you stretched all the way from

frozen foods to canned goods.

Is you hip?

I said, is you hip? Then say I'm hip. I'm hip. All right.

James.

James.

James,

how can you talk like that to a man that was trying to

help us? Baby, don't you know a line when you hear one?

Well, I believe him. Yeah? And I don't think we should leave here until you go

back and apologize.

You're going to be awful lonesome at home without you.

Well, then I'll apologize for you.

No, no, no, no, Mr. Borger. No problems. Yeah, I had a couple of pests in here,

but I got rid of them real easy.

And if I have any more trouble out of them, I'll call the police again.

Hey, everything is under control.

James. Huh? You were right. He is a phony. I just heard him talking to

the phone. He was putting on an act for us. I'm going to roast his rump right

now.

Oh, come on, Flo. Let me pound that dude in his face just one time. Make it look

like round, round.

Wait a minute, James.

Huh? I think I know another way.

What? We still have some of that roast left over, right?

Yeah, so what?

Well, it's a shame to waste it, isn't it?

Mr. and Mrs. Evans, we meet again.

Yes, Mr. Gage.

And this is Mr.

Coggin, an interested friend.

Well, how do you do, Mr. Gage? Nice meeting you.

And what can I do for you this time?

Nothing, Mr. Gage.

This time, we want to do for you.

Right.

Well, what's happening?

First, I want to apologize for the way I behaved, Mr. Gage. I was really out of

line. Oh, that's okay.

Yeah, and we got to thinking about what you told us, you know, about how...

Margie work and not being able to remember your last home -cooked meal?

So we thought we'd bring you one hour.

Oh, you didn't have to go through that much trouble.

Oh, it was no trouble, Mr. Gage.

It was already cooked.

Yeah, go ahead, Mr. Gage. Dig in.

That's awfully nice of you.

Would you folks care to join me? Oh, no, son. You go ahead and eat it all up.

We get our pleasure out of watching you.

Well, here's to good eating.

Uh, Mr. Gage, before you start, we've got two little surprises for you.

One, Mr. Corgan here is from the Food Administration Office.

And two, that's leftover meat from the roast we brought here in your market.

Oh, uh, hey, man.

Hey, hey, buddy.

Oh, no, no, no. Go ahead and eat.

You know, but I got a lot of things to do. I got to take care of a whole lot of

things. Well, I'm sure it can wait.

I really like this good food.

But I just can't neglect the store. You understand, Mr. Evans. I got work.

I got a little place to stay. I'm a manager. I got to do what I can. Well,

Gage, if you're not going to eat it, I will.

You know, there's nothing like a first -hand taste of the product.

Give me something to report down at the Food Administration Office.

Oh, no, no, no.

much for coming, Mr. Coggins. I'm sure you have other appointments.

Oh, you're right, Mrs. Evans. Anytime.

You know, it was nice to meet you, Mr. Gage.

Well,

I'll be seeing you, Mr. Evans. Thank you very much, Mr. Coggins. All right.

Yummy, isn't it?

administrating job has made me late for my job at the garage.

I'll see you later, now. All right, Warren. Take it easy, man.

All right.

Well, we did it, baby.

Yeah. But you know, Morgan, ain't gonna change nothing because of that, don't

you? Yeah, I know.

But, Florida, we got even.

Just for once, we got even. Yeah.

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

thinking how it all looks when you die.

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

way when you can, temporary layoffs, good times.

Good Times is recorded on tape before live.

body.

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