All language subtitles for Good Times s04e10 Rich Is Better Than Poor Maybe

Good times! Good times! Good times! Good
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times! Good times!

Good

times!

Congratulations, Thelma. So far, you've
made burnt oatmeal, loose oatmeal, but

this is the first oatmeal I've ever seen
that you can plaster the ceiling with.

Mom made it. Oh, as I was saying, it
looks good enough to eat.

Hey, Michael, you try some of that
oatmeal, and if you make it through the

then I'll try some.

Okay, I'll make you some fresh oatmeal,
all right? Forget it. I'll settle for

this.

I think I'll have breakfast down at the
club.

Any club with Thelma don't do the
cooking.

Anyway,

being a future millionaire, I might as
well join a club or two anyway.

How you plan to become a millionaire?

By selling your body to Believe It or
Not?

Simple, Waffle Face.

By winning the lottery.

Oh, now that's a nice, original way to
get rich.

Wouldn't want nobody else ever thought
of that before.

But no, Waffle, you win the lottery. No
kidding.

Oh, JJ.

You know how I feel about gambling.

It's illegal.

But that's not illegal.

The lottery is won by the state of
Illinois.

That's right, Ma. And the money is used
for important things like health,

education. And politicians' girlfriends.

JJ, you buy a ticket every month and you
haven't won yet.

Well, it's time for my luck to change.

You know, I got one of these in every
color of the rainbow.

One of these babies gots to come
through.

Oh, one of these babies.

Yeah, oh, one of these babies.

What a big waste of good money. Do any
of you really think you got a chance?

You all got your hopes way up, and for
what?

There's one in a million that you're
going to win. Now, you think there's a

fortune around every corner and a pot of
gold at the end of every rainbow, but

there is no way in the world you're
going to win.

Not long as I got this.

Richie and the Rockefellers. How you
figure that? Take a couple extra dollars

delivering ribs.

Oh, and I have my job at the store.

And Thelma can give remedial reading
lessons.

Oh, that reminds me. Enda's due here in
a half an hour for a lesson.

Yes, Thelma. How's she doing? Oh, she's
doing great. I only gave her one lesson,

but she still can't read. But she's
beginning to know that alphabet.

Yeah, that's very important.

You must know your ABCs if you want to
make some M -O -N -Y.

Maybe you should take class, too.

Hey, Michael, I was just jiving. You
know, I can spell money in ten different

languages. You know, dinero, peso, rubo,
like in Ruby Begonia. You know what I

mean?

Oh, hi, Edna. Come in. Hi, Thelma.

You're a little early.

Oh, Edna, I ain't got no watch.

Oh, ain't got no is a double negative.
It really means you do have a watch.

Honest, Thelma, I...

When you use two negatives in one
sentence, they cancel each other out.

remember that, okay?

In that case, I ain't got no million
dollars.

Which means I really do have a million
dollars. But every time I reach in my

pocket, I come out with lint.

So that means that somebody's ripped me
off.

Come on, let's try to ignore tall and
dark.

Uh, you forgot handsome.

Well, in your case, I wasn't the first.

Mrs. Evans. Hello, Edna. Have you had
breakfast yet?

Yeah. Well, not really. I had a cup of
coffee.

Oh, that's no breakfast. Sit down. I'll
feed you some oatmeal.

Um, hold on, Ma.

Edna, a great person to sacrifice.

Have my.

Hey, Flo.

Honey, put on the television prompter.

Take it easy, Wilona. Captain Kangaroo
ain't on yet.

Negro, please.

I got no time to watch television.

Today's laundry day.

Oh, well, if you're going to do the
laundry, you got to go downtown and do

All our machines were ripped off
yesterday.

How long does this thing take to warm
up? Let me put it to you this way,

If you want to watch a Saturday night
movie, you got to turn it on Thursday

night. Oh.

Malona, don't worry. I'll fix it. I got
the magic touch. Then touch.

Malona, what is so important on TV?

Giving out the winning lottery numbers,
honey.

Honey, am I set quick? Soon as they
start... Rollins. No kidding. Well,

are those tickets yours?

They sure are. And if I don't win
something, I'm going to have to

bedroom with them.

Hey, what's coming on?

Oh, well, Lona, you remember Edna. Oh,
hi, Edna. How's the reading coming,

honey? Okay. Good.

7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3.

That's red.

7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3. Look at this, Lona. I
had the 7. 8, 7, 5, 9, 8, 0.

6, 1, 0.

6, 1.

7, 6.

Hey, man, slow down.

my lucky keychain.

Oh, it's a good thing you're not
superstitious.

by getting me a new pair of professional
basketball sneakers.

I'll be playing pro ball in no time.

Hey, hey, hey.

Now get me some new paints and brushes
and get rid of this tired old canvas in

here. Well, Ma, the world's your oyster.

Pick a perm. All right.

Oh, yeah, oh, there's this coat, a big
fur coat. Oh, I just got to get it. Get

it, baby, get it. Sure.

They got these bad dresses that came in
the boutiques the other day that are so

out of sight, they make Whistler's
grandmother jump up and do the hustle.

use a new sofa bed.

I saw a great one in the window at
Marshall Field.

Buy it, Ma, buy it. We are rich. All
right.

And don't worry, you've been studying
Spanish out of those tacky old Spanish

books. From now on, you ain't get the
real thing. You're going to Spain. All

right!

And, Ma, you need a new winter coat.
What do you like, ermine, mink, or

Well, what about all three?

I can wear the mink for the laundry, the
ermine for the bus, And the sable for

putting out the gabard.

Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Listen to us.

We sound like a bunch of pigs at a
trough. All this buying and spending.

Kids, your daddy and I had big dreams
for you.

Thelma and Michael were going through
college.

and J .J. was going to have an art
career.

Now, I'm not about to give up on those
dreams.

That's what that money is for.

We'll just have to make do like we
always did, because that money belongs

bank.

Well, J .J., it's your money.

Well, all right.

Well?

Well?

Well, Cal, you're like we're riding...

Oh, JJ, put that thing down and stop
acting silly.

The way you carry it on, anybody will
think we were millionaires.

What can I say, ma? When you got it, you
show it.

Well, JJ, we ain't got it, so stow it.

Mrs. Evans, here is your bike book. Oh,
good.

Just sign here, please, so that we may
have a copy of your signature.

All right.

Wait a minute, Ma.

Don't sign nothing.

Look here, man. You ain't showed us no
whistling tea kettle, no combination hot

cone dryer, no pop -up toaster. You call
yourself a bank?

We don't give premiums, but we do pride
ourselves on our fiduciary

responsibility.

Yeah?

Well... If we can't get one of them pop
-up toasters, lay one of them

fiduciaries on us.

J .J., what Mr. Woodruff means is that
this is a very safe conservative bank.

Yes, each account is insured by the
United States government.

Well, these days, who's insuring them?

J .J., I've had just about enough of
you.

You've had enough of them.

I'm way beyond.

Mrs. Evans, I want to thank you for
doing business with the neighborhood

hope that this is going to be the
beginning of a long and lasting

Well, it sure is a beginning because we
never had a savings account before.

Well, bro, thanks a lot.

By the way, do you validate parking?

JJ, we don't have a car.

In that case, you mind stamping our bus
transfer?

I always gotta dry the dishes.

Because with sharing the work, I wash,
you dry. Well, I think there should be a

new system around here. Like maybe one
day you wash and dry the dishes, the

day Mama washes and dries the dishes,
and the third day JJ washes and dries

dishes. And what about you, mister?

I can't do me and your work like that.
I'm too busy making out the schedule.

I almost got some fiduciary when I was
down there.

Oh, hello, Edna. I didn't know you were
coming over today.

Edna, we don't have a lesson today. Oh,
I know. Me and my kid sister, Rozzy,

just thought we'd come by.

Oh, that's nice.

Come on in, kids.

Come on, Thelma. I better put that away.

All right.

You made your deposit.

Now we're here for the withdrawal.

in the world do you children think
you're doing?

Well, we ain't delivering Girl Scout
cookies.

Look here, Mama, you just doing up and
down. Shut up and sit down.

Now, just hold on there. You can't talk
to my mother like... There ain't much of

you to put a hole in, but I can do it.

Lock the door, stupid.

All right.

Not you, stupid.

You, stupid.

Dummy. Don't call me dummy either.

Just because I never went to school
don't mean I'm dumb.

And I can't believe you're really doing
this. But you're just kids.

Well, we grow up fast around here, Mama.

Yeah, everything I know I learned from
Edna, didn't I?

Listen, let's stop the yakking. We're
here after the money.

We don't have the money. It's in the
bank.

We know that.

That's why you and Rob... Ozzie are
going to go down to that bank, and

going to bring the money here.

And just to make sure you do, men, my
friend, we're going to be keeping an eye

on black pride, black beauty, and the
creature from the black lagoon.

There's no way in the world I'm going to
leave you here with my children.

of my children right i know close the
door stupid

now everybody be cool and nobody gets
hurt i don't want no tricks

it's like a nightmare i can't believe
this hey man what we gonna do don't

i've been watching this chick eyeballing
me every time she come over here all i

gotta do is make a couple of moves and
voila

Don't worry, we're talking to the black
Casanova of the project.

Hey there, sweet mama.

Anybody ever tell you you were
beautiful?

Well, no.

Hey, did anybody ever tell you you were
handsome?

Oh, you know. What can I say?

Playing hard to get, huh, Mama?

Look here, why don't you just relax and
let Amor take over your two jobs?

Listen, you keep running that line of
jive on me and you're going to be one

turkey served up before Thanksgiving.

What's taking you so long?

Why can't you just get the money?

I've got to fill out this withdrawal
flip first.

Oh, yeah.

Well, you better make it out for the
whole 2 -5 -0 -0, because I'm not as

as Edna makes out.

I can read numbers.

Uh -huh. See? See, this is 7 -5.

This is me, Joe Green's number, and my
dress size.

That's what Edna said.

You're smart enough to read numbers.

Why don't you learn reading like Edna
did?

She only did it because her probation
officer made her.

Edna was smart to play along.

I don't think either one of you are so
smart.

In fact, what you're doing is downright
dumb.

You think we're dumb? You're the ones
giving up the $2 ,500.

I give up $25 million when my children
are concerned.

If you didn't have that gun, I'd give
you 25 million licks upside your head.

Hold it. You're writing too much.

Those are letters.

Now, you make out a new one, and I don't
want to see nothing but nothing.

Thelma, I'm scared on what can happen to
Ma.

Don't worry, Ma will be all right. All
right, that girl wouldn't dare try

anything with her. Hey, shut up, y 'all.

Hey, what's going on?

Anybody in there?

No.

Well, nobody, what's going on?

Nothing, Walona. Open the door.

There's no one here, Walona.

JJ, open this door.

Hey, listen, you better open the door
before she gets jumpy. But y 'all better

act like nothing's wrong, because I'm
going to have this covering you all the

time. And if you think of doing anything
slick, you think of your life.

I can't help but think of my life.

It's flashing right in front of me.

Well, well, well, how's everybody doing?

You know, I've seen a warmer greeting
given to John Wayne by the Indians.

What's going on in here? The door's all
bolted and you're all sitting around

like you're in a cemetery.

She's downstairs doing the laundry.

Laundry? I already told her the
machine's... Oh,

today is laundry day.

Well, I'm going home to change my shoes.
I'll be right back. You ain't going no

place, fancy pants.

Don't wave that old toy in my face,
girl.

Well, it's not a toy. It's a Saturday
night special.

But I don't mind using it on Wednesday.

Wednesday. I'm glad you reminded me. I
got to go get my license. Sit down. I'm

counting to three. Lona, she means it.

Oh, well, in that case, I'll make it in
one.

What's, uh, happening?

Well, Lona, she's holding us here
hostage while her sister's down at the

making mine take all the money out. Lord
have mercy.

Where do you get off robbing poor
people? Where do you get off robbing

Oh, poor... Hey, with this great crib,
listen, you got everything.

And you with your fine threads.

Ooh, la, la, mama, look -a -here.

Expensive perfume, huh?

I ain't never had nothing like this.

And you talk to me about poor people?

I'm poor people.

Well, little girl, I got news for you.

We're all poor people. But maybe the
difference is we all don't pick up a gun

and rip off our friends.

Your mother must be real proud of you,
Edna.

Well, when she sobers up, I'll ask her.

Edna, it's me, Ross.

Are you kids all right? They're okay.

They're okay, Flo.

They're okay. They're all right, honey.
Oh, nobody touch nobody.

Hey, where's the money?

cheat me, but I stopped her.

Come on, let's get out of here. Hey, uh,
Rozzy. Huh? How do you know Edna won't

cheat you, too?

Uh -huh. What do you mean?

Well, when she was here, she said she
was gonna wind up with all the money.

did. That's not so. Hey, they're lying.

No, we're not lying. That's right.

Look, you wouldn't believe these giant
turkeys, would you? My kids don't lie.

I don't know, Edna. You're all the time
calling me dummy. And stupid.

But I wouldn't cheat you, come on.

Rosalie, see that? She called you a
dummy again.

Rosalie, that's two dummies and one
stupid.

this one up. I'm sorry.

And for some fast money. You know you're
going to wind up in jail again?

Well, at least I'll smell rich.

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

wave when you can.

Temporary layoffs, good times, easy
credit.

Good times is videotape in front of a
studio audience.