All language subtitles for Good Times s04e01 The Big Move 1

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

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.

Don't you know the words? Sure, Ma.

How did I forget?

Mrs. Hampton, here we come.

Oh,

Ma.

What's the matter?

Ma, you wrapped a gravy bowl in Clifton
Davis.

I was going to frame it. Why would you
want to frame a gravy bowl?

Oh, Ma, you know what I mean.

Now look at it. Clifton's all wrinkled.

Well, now you know what he's going to
look like when he gets old.

Ike and Tina Turner.

I'm going to use the Help Wanted
section.

You know, we won't be needing that
anymore.

Amen to that.

I knew your daddy would do it for us. I
just knew it.

When I got that letter from James
telling us that his uncle had offered

half interest in the garage business, it
was like Martin Luther King saying,

Why don't we buy new dishes there
instead of taking these old ones?

Oh, Thelma, these dishes are precious to
me.

I served your daddy his first breakfast
on them the morning after we got

married. Was he hungry enough?

Have mercy.

He was hungry.

Mississippi, here I come.

Hey, Ma, this is the only box I could
find.

Well, you sure couldn't have looked too
hard.

I looked and I asked everybody for empty
boxes, including Mr. Ferguson.

The mortician? Yeah, but he said he
didn't have any empties.

You know it's not easy moving on two
days' notice. I know, Michael, but your

daddy is getting impatient.

The last letter I got from James was so
full of love, it could have steamed

itself open.

And we're going to party tonight and
goodbye telegrams are coming in. Yeah, I

wrote three of them myself.

Oh, I wonder what it's going to be like
being rich. Now, wait a minute. We're

not going to be rich, but we will be
better off than we are now.

We can be poor and still be better off
than we are now.

we were traveling light, I didn't mean
your head.

Looks like you got cornrows only the
crop failed.

Are you going to talk that way to Otis
Sistrunk, Kojak, Isaac Hayes? For your

information, little girl, this flip side
of an afro has a certain daring, a

certain presumption, a certain baldness.

What is that?

JJ, you're not wearing earrings.

Because one is a sign of macho.

Two is a sign of latida.

I think it's silly.

Now his head is perfect all around.
Empty on the outside and empty inside.

Hey, that's my earring.

That's right. That's right.

All right, JJ, give Thelma her earring.

Yeah, you goldfish.

Tell me you're going to pack those
dishes.

And JJ, do something about your head.

All right, y 'all ask me to do something
about my head? Check this out.

There you go.

fun and games. Now come on and help us
with the movie.

Saved by the bell!

I'll get that. It's probably your daddy.

Hello?

Who do you want to speak to?

Mr.

Goosebumps.

That's for me.

Partonois.

Mr. Goosebumps here.

Oh, uh, that Mr.

Goosebumps.

Thanks,

turkey.

Hey, did you want to mind your business?
This is private.

Hello?

Oh, hi, Luann.

Well, I'm helping around the house right
now.

Well, I'm the only one here who's
working.

What?

Oh, okay. All right. See ya.

Ma, Luann wants to see me. She got to
tell me something. Thanks, bye.

Our little brother is growing up, J .J.
We're going to have to teach him about

the birds and the bees.

Well, I'll deal with the birds and
you'll deal with the bees.

You deal with anything, you get those
paintings off the wall.

I don't know if I should trust my life's
work to those moving men, you know?

They're always dropping things, breaking
things, bumping into things.

You think President Ford started out as
a moving man?

Just put them in a cart.

As long as you don't mark it fragile,
they'll be all right.

This apartment has so many memories.

You think I'm going to miss it?

Not me.

The way Daddy writes about Mississippi
sounds like the promised land.

Oh, yeah? If that's the promised land,
what are all those Jewish folks doing in

Tel Aviv?

I remember when my folks left the South
to come here.

Chicago was going to be the golden
opportunity.

I guess a lot of black people felt that
way when they came up north, huh, Ma?

Well, it seems the only right move at
the time. Do you know when we left

Mississippi, they still had separate
facilities for blacks and whites?

Yeah, but all that's changed now. Now
when you got to go, all you got to do is

raise your hand and they bust you to
another John.

Wouldn't it be awful if on our way down
to Mississippi, we met some sisters and

brothers on their way to Chicago, and we
both said, go back, go back.

Well, have no fear, because once J .J.
gets there, the South shall rise again.

Bookman up here.

Hi, y 'all. Hi, Lorna.

Here's the suitcase I said lend you.

You know I was saving it for my next
honeymoon, but the hinges are getting

rusty, and so am I.

Lorna, we gonna miss you.

I'm gonna miss you and James and Thelma
and Michael.

Something wrong?

You almost forgot the unforgettable me.

Oh, you know I was just jiving.

Honey, if you was just 20 years older...
Then you'd be 20 years older, too,

Malona. Wrong.

Wrong. I'd only be 10 years older.

Malona, you got a lot to learn about
arithmetic.

J .J., you got a lot to learn about
women.

Well, then how come I got coming to the
party tonight Samantha the Human

Panther, Wendy the Wonder Woman, and
Olivia the Octopus?

That ain't no guest list. That's roll
call at a circus.

You're going to have the biggest,
bumpinest, foot -stoppinest splash I

threw. Hey!

Oh, by the way, Wilona, thanks for
holding the party at our apartment.

Wilona, don't make the party too
terrific, or we won't want to leave.

That's the general idea.

You'll make friends with the people who
move in here.

How am I going to make friends with
people I hate?

Wilona, you don't even know the people.
It don't matter.

I'm not going to like anybody that tries
to take your place.

Oh, Ilona.

I'm so happy for you.

I don't know what I'm going to do
without you.

Who is it?

Me. Me who?

Me, the janitor.

Oh, good. I finally get a chance to tell
this dude off. J .J., if Hookman finds

out we're moving, he'll find a way to
get us out of here before we're ready to

get us out of here. You mean I can't get
even with this dude for ripping us off

for all these years? Later. Now get
these boxes out of sight.

Coming.

Good afternoon, folks.

Well, it was good till you got here.
What do you want, Bookman?

Do I detect a note of hostility?

You detect a whole symphony.

Yeah, well, um, you'll change your mind
when you hear the good news. You're

going to Angola as a mercenary.

The hot water's coming on again the
first thing in the morning.

What do you mean, again?

Well, it's being turned off again
tonight.

Oh. Hey, what are we going to do about
bathing?

Why don't you folks learn to take cold
showers like me?

Because we're not married to Mrs.

Bookman.

I'll remember that remark the next time
your old man asks for a

favor. Look here, Bookman. I've had the
final straw. Not now, J .J.

Bookman is just leaving.

Arrivederci. Arrividerci, Lardo.

Who do you think you're calling
Arrividerci? I was born right here in

Oh, Mark, I mean, let me tell that dude
off. Because we still got two more days

to live here.

So unless you want to sleep on a
concrete mattress, don't make waves.

And when I get my chance, I'm going to
make a typhoon.

Typhoon what?

Michael, are you all right?

Michael,

wait a minute now. What happened with
you and Luann out there?

Because if I think what happened
happened, this calls for a celebration.

Wait a minute. Could it be that Graham's
got his nose open?

I don't care what anybody says. I'm not
leaving Chicago.

Michael, if this is supposed to be some
kind of joke like J .J.'s wig, I don't

think it's funny. And you're upsetting
Ma.

Michael, you can't stay here by
yourself. Where would you live?

I can stay with Walona. You can't stay
with Walona. I can still stay with

Walona. Doesn't anyone want to ask
Walona?

What's this all about?

Well, Mom, I'm in love with Luann, and
she's in love with me.

That's what she had to tell me.

Oh, Michael, don't you think you're a
little young for all this?

Romeo and Juliet were young.

Michael, you want to end up OD'd like
them?

J .J., please don't make jokes.

You've had many girlfriends before, but
this is the first one for me.

Michael, don't be juvenile. Now, there
are a lot of... pebbles on the beach.

Except all the beaches are closed
because of pollution.

Well, I don't care. I'm not going.

Oh, I don't believe this.

Everything's set for us to go. The party
is tonight.

Telegrams are coming in. And Michael's
worrying about his Little League

Now, stop that. I'll tell them.

This is important to Michael.

That's right. It's the first time I've
ever been in love. And it took me 14

years to get to it.

I'm going to wait another 14 years for
the next one.

Michael, nothing will ever again be as
sweet as your first love.

But you're going to fall in love so many
times, you won't be able to keep up

count with it.

Michael, sweetheart, the reason your
father went down to Mississippi is to

a new and better life for his family.

Now, I know how important Luann is, but
your father wants us in Mississippi.

And where your daddy wants us to go is
where we're going.

So you're just going to have to tell
Luann.

Mama, I don't know how.

Oh, the words will come.

You'll see.

Don't worry, Michael. I'll help you. We
can tell her and Olivia the octopus at

the party tonight.

I just hope with all that crying
Olivia's going to be doing, she don't

down the Kool -Aid.

I don't know, Michael.

We can't pass up this opportunity to get
out of the ghetto because it may never

come again.

Now, if you don't want to come along
with us, that's tough because you're

anyway if I have to drag you back.

This sure is a nice little cotillion you
all fixed up for us all, and us all

sure appreciate y 'all going through the
problems.

JJ, are you high? Or is your mouth out
of order?

No, well, I just brought it up on how to
talk Southern. Oh, they don't talk like

that anymore.

Show you how much you know. I got that
from Jimmy Carter's acceptance speech.

Luann ain't here yet.

Oh, she'll be here, Michael.

Girls like to make an entrance.

They sure do. In the meantime, I'm going
to get me some ice cubes, okay? All

right, partner. And if Luann comes while
I'm gone, you lay off J .J. and no

funny looks, Thelma. She can't help it.
She was born with that face.

Watch how cool it is. I told her we were
a nonviolent family.

How about you do that?

No, no, you show up and I'll spread.

Oh, thank you, sugar.

You just better be talking about that
food.

This happens to slip my mind. Yes, that
is funny.

Just give me the initials. I'll come
right up with it.

I doubt it.

Hold on. Then just give me your name.
I'll come up with the initials.

Nancy, Mary, Edie, Roxanne, Teresa,

Linda, Michelle.

Am I getting warm?

No, you're getting cold.

I'd come out with it.

Hey, want to dance?

All right. All right. Hey, J .J., when
are we going to tell the girl? Later,

later.

Hey, Ralph, over here. Hey, J .J.

Hey. You have not danced with me all
night.

Olivia, you see what's happened?

There's so many boxes here that I can
dance with them in alphabetical order,

I'm only up to the G.

Well, just call me.

Hey, J .J., when we gonna tell the
girls?

Later, bro. The night is young and I am
so beautiful.

I've had some complaints about the music
and the noise. What?

From as you are, unless you are the
janitor.

Right.

You know, on top of all the other
trouble you've caused around here,

top of all the trouble you've caused
around here, now this.

You know, I've had complaints from two
tenants.

Mrs. Evans, you know the rules. Three
complaints and you're out.

You said you only had two complaints,
Maxie. The third complaint was when Mrs.

Evans said she couldn't understand what
I was saying. Oh, that's it. JJ, he's

all yours. Tell him.

Mr. Bookman, Mr.

Bookman, or as you more affectionately
know, Buffalo Butt.

We read it. You are so dumb that if you
tried to flush the toilet, you couldn't

even if the instructions were written on
the handle.

Furthermore, your dumbness is only
exceeded by your fatness.

Whenever you have to go to the movies,
you have to get two tickets, one for

side.

Okay, that's all right.

You guys have had it. You're out. Spell
O -U -T.

Evicted. Gone.

By. Oh, yeah? Well, you can't fire us
because we quit.

What are you talking about? That's
right. We're moving to Mississippi, and

know how that's spelled.

and stuff it in your furnace.

Maybe some of the other tenants will get
some heat.

I'm appalled.

Oh, J .J., you were great.

You couldn't have done it better if you
were James himself.

Hey, J .J., now do we tell the girls
that we're leaving them?

Well, now's as good a time as any. Well,
let me do the talking.

Ladies, me and...

Michael has something very, very, very
important to tell you.

Yeah.

See how hard she's taking it, Michael?
Yeah, I see.

See, our whole family, which encompasses
Michael and myself, are moving to

Mississippi.

Check this out. She's in a state of
shock.

She looks like she don't care to me.

Michael, that's the worst kind of shock.

If you don't want me to go, then I don't
know what I'll do.

Michael, of course I don't want you to
go. But I know you have to be with your

family.

I'll write to you every day.

And I'll come visit you when school's
out.

Come visit me on Easter, too.

Hey, it's almost due.

on your sofa for me.

Signed, Grandpa.

Sounds like a great party, but wish it
was somewhere else. Signed, the people

downstairs. I got one, I got one. It
says here that

ten votes in your name have been stuffed
in a ballot box in Chicago.

Signed, Alderman Fred Davis.

Now, this is a cute one.

Chicago's loss is Mississippi's gain.
Signed,

Mississippi is mine.

Probably one of your daddies.

Have mercy.

Oh, Mrs. James Evans.

That's me.

We regret to inform you that your
husband, James Evans, was

killed in an automobile.

Mmm, just looking out of the window,
watching the asphalt roll,

thinking how it all looks and it dies.

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

making a wave when you can, temporary
layoffs, good times.

Good times is videotape in front of a
studio audience.