All language subtitles for Good Times s04e18 A Friend in Need

Good times, any time you need a payment.
Good times, any time you feel free.

Good times, any time you're up and
under.

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

Making a way when you can.

and you turn a 17th -floor apartment
into a pig pen with a view.

Well, Thelma, to tell you the truth, I
like it. It's got that lived -in look.

Look, if you don't clean up this mess,
you're gonna have that stomped -on look.

Thelma, don't get overheated. Your face
will melt.

Michael, look, now, we all agreed to
share the work where Maya's at on

right? Now, I did my part.

Oh, yeah?

What have you done?

Who do you think cooked dinner around
here?

I don't know, but I'm sure the health
department would give plenty to know

Michael, don't get smart with me. Now
get up and clean this place like you

promised. Hold on now. I cleaned this
room up yesterday.

All right, well, look at it. The news is
going to be a party tonight. All the

chicks can come boogie down with Kid
Dynamite.

Well, you better put that stuff away
because if Alona finds out about the

we're not going to have one. Yeah,
you're right. And I got a big surprise.

What one thing could guarantee making
this party a huge and utter success?

You're not.

But so will Robin Simpson!

Hey, Superstar Simpson, out of sight,
man. He was my hero. The best basketball

player our high school ever had. All
city, all state. All the chicks that he

could handle.

You know, he took me out once.

Nobody's perfect.

Yeah, but then he got a scholarship to
college.

What's he doing back?

I don't know. You know how these big
superstars are. You know, they come in

out of town.

Anyway, I saw him out there in the
street, and I asked him to come, and he

he will. Boy, I tell you, everybody's
going to be knocked out when they see

You know, JJ, you're saying this thing
really good.

You hated him in high school because he
was your main competition, and he always

won. Yeah, he got all the fine foxes,
and you got all the leftovers.

Hey, Michael, ain't nothing wrong with
leftovers if you know how to reheat

ran for senior prom chairman.

He won that one, too.

Yeah, but it was a close election.

Real close.

120 to 1.

Hey, Thelma, that was my fault. I
forgot. When you go to a ghetto school,

gotta win the black vote.

Okay, but if you two do not clean up
this place, there's not gonna be a

Remember, Ma put me in charge around
here. Oh, no, she didn't. Ma said

specifically before she left, JJ, you
are in charge because you are the

the smartest, and the... pretties.

Ma never said that. How do you know?

Because she doesn't drink.

She must be doing something weird. She
had you.

As I was saying, Walona is

still the most beautiful woman in the
project.

Save it, J .J. If I need any of that,
I'll buy a bag full of it and spread it

over top of the lawn.

And listen, your mother told me to keep
my eye on you this weekend. You promised

me individually and collectively there
would be no arguing, no fighting.

We're sorry, Wilona. All right.

Yeah, Wilona, from now on, we're going
to be so good, we're going to look like

the Brady Bunch with tans.

Well, don't strain yourself.

I hope we get through this weekend
without having to call the SWAT team out

here.

You know, I was going to go to the Blue
Frog tonight, but I better stay and keep

my eye on you three.

Oh, no, Wilona, you can't do that.

Why not?

Well, because, um, well, um, Thelma's
going to tell you what. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, you know, we're not going to be
here, Wilona. We're going to the movies.

Oh, that's good. It'll keep you out of
trouble. What are you going to go see?

Uh, we're going to see the gay version
of King Kong.

Called Queen Kong.

Oh, he's just driving, Wilona. You know,
we're going to that double feature at

the Colony. Oh, yeah, you know, Wilona
Deep Down. in your heart that you can

trust us.

Now have a nice time at the movie. I'll
see y 'all later. All right, Ronald.

Bye.

Well. We pulled that one off. The part.

and Robert Superstar Simpson gets here.
Hey, you know, this is the first time

the three of us came to party together.
Hey, dummy, you know, that's great. I

don't mind partying with your friends,
but when Michael's friends come here,

they'll probably turn from Soul Train to
Sesame Street.

Oh, yeah?

I'm going to have to start checking out
Sesame Street somewhere.

I am JJ, ready to spend the whole
evening together.

Well, well, well.

And so we will.

And so we will.

My little African violet.

First, I want you to meet my sister.
Thelma, this is Marcia. Marcia, this is

Thelma. How you doing?

Hand on this, gal.

I want you to meet my brother over here,
Michael.

As you can tell, we are brothers.

Same lip technique.

Ain't nobody here from the Guinness Book
of Records. Y 'all can break this up.

Hey, JJ, man, don't be stepping in on my
action. I can't help it if you ain't

getting any. Come on.

I have created a monster.

Wow. Look here, my little buttercup. I
will talk to you later on during the

evening. I'm just going to pick up the
door. Me and you are going to be

Superstar. All right, man.

Oh, wow, man. I didn't know that many
people was going to be here. Look, I

wanted to talk to you. Come on in.

all that.

The truth.

All these people are Thelma's friends
and they held me here hostage.

Truth.

The truth is, well, Winona, we were
afraid to tell you because we thought

say no.

Oh, honey, I don't care if you have a
party, but if you do, you got to have a

chaperone. Well, Winona, we don't hardly
need no chaperone.

Oh, no?

Well,

not only the chaperone, he needs a
scorecard.

A superstar's supposed to be meanin'. J
.J., knock off the superstar job, okay?

Hey, what's wrong, man?

I mean, uh, talk on it. I know you, man.
It ain't that same old vroom, vroom.

Is there something wrong?

Yeah, man, everything is wrong.

Hey, what could be wrong for the old
basketball hero?

J .J., I am not a basketball hero
anymore.

Last week, man, I got cut from the team,
right?

Cut from the team? You? But you're the
greatest, man. Yeah, in high school.

And so is everyone else who plays
college ball.

But someone's got to wash out, right?

And I was spending so much time trying
to stay on the team until I was flunking

out anyway.

Hey, man, I'm sorry to hear that. That's
awful.

But look here, man.

Basketball ain't everything.

Hey, man, for me, it is.

Superstar, remember?

JJ, it's all I've ever dreamed of being.
I mean, haven't you ever wanted

anything that bad?

Yeah, but she moved to Cleveland.

Basketball is my whole life, man.

Without it, I am nothing.

Yeah, Yvonne, this is him, Superstar
Sexton. Hi, I'm Michael, JJ's brother.

I'm your number one fan. I've seen every
game you've played.

Michael, not now. Not now, Michael. I'm
finished, JJ. Remember that game you

played against Hyde Park and you scored
42 points?

Michael, why don't you and Yvonne go
over here and wait for Ma to come home?

We won't be home for another two days.

I know that. Go ahead.

I'm sorry about that, Robert. It's all
right. I want to buy a cup of Kool -Aid.

Look, Jay, I don't want to put a damper
on the party, so let's keep this between

us, okay?

Solid, bro.

Hey, Robert, have a good game. We're all
rooting for you.

Yeah.

Time for a little air.

Oh, my dear.

Hey, oh, I'm sorry, ma 'am. That's all
right, honey. You better be careful.

A person your age could get hurt on the
dance floor.

You gotta be careful, honey. A person
your age could get hurt on the dance

floor.

Have you told Ellen yet?

No. Have you told your folks?

I can't. Her father's a great school
coach, you know.

He always wanted me to be a big star.

Hey, Ellen! Levi! What are you doing
here with Levi?

Robert's here.

I've been going with Levi for a month.

No, no, Robert is here now.

Well, look, he was going to have to find
out sometime, so I guess it's just

going to have to be tonight.

Robert, there's Ellen over there. I know
you said you couldn't face her, man,

but now's a good time to tell you got
cut from the basketball team, man.

I'm sure she'll understand, man, and
you'll feel a whole lot better.

Yeah, maybe you're right.

Go ahead, I know I am.

Ellen, baby, how are you?

Hey, look, I got to talk to you. Hi,
Robert.

Listen, you remember Levi Walker, don't
you?

Oh.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, how you doing?

Robert, I'm sorry.

time, J .J.

Ah, you just love squeezing these bones,
don't you, Mama?

Who wouldn't? I mean, it's like dancing
with a double order of ribs.

Cool dude.

Yourself.

Oh, girl, am I tired.

What's going on in this closet?

Uh, nothing, Wilona.

See for yourself.

Uh, Wilona, they can't be getting too
romantic. Both smelling like moth balls.

Well, isn't it time for the little moth
to fly away from the flame?

Well, I guess it is time for me to be
leaving.

Good night, Yvonne.

Good night, Michael.

I just want to kiss a good night.

What do you think you was doing for the
past three hours, honey?

Practicing. The practice is over.

Good night, darling. Good night. Good
night. Good night.

Woo, child.

Wasn't that a great party? Yes.

Oh, yeah, it was great.

I got enough strength left to go over to
the Blue Frog and have my own partini.

All right.

Hey, Wilona, if you're lucky, you can
chaperone our next party. Call me. If

crazy, I'll do it.

And let's clean this house up later.

All right, Wilona.

this place.

Yeah, Thumb, you got a lot of work ahead
of you.

Hey, JJ, man, this door's locked. I
can't get it open.

What are you talking about?

That must be crazy. Let me check this
thing out here. What's going on here?

just took a whole bottle of pills.

Robert!

Waiting to die?

Now, the only kind of pills we have in
there are vitamin C. The worst thing

can happen is that he comes out looking
like an orange.

Wait a minute, Charles. I think he may
have brought his own pills.

TJ, what are you talking about?

Well, Robert was really down tonight.

He just flunked out of school and got
cut from the basketball team.

Oh, no, and on top of all that, his
girlfriend. quit him?

He's trying to kill himself.

Mom!

No, no, no.

Don't do this. There's a million reasons
to live. Come on. Name one.

Lola Valetta!

Throw her away!

Oh, no. What are we going to do now?

I got an idea.

Well, I guess I'm just going to have to
knock the door down.

And how are you going to do that?

Bruce Stretch, young lady. Brute strip.

Robert, come on out now.

Back off, young lady. You never know
which way these splinters are going to

Just leave me alone.

I wasn't hurting you.

Hey, well, we're not going to sit around
here and let you hurt yourself.

Hey, it says here in case of an overdose
of pills, you have to try to make the

patient throw up.

How are we going to do that?

No problem. Tell them to cook something.

JJ, you're wasting your time. This man
took a whole bottle of sleeping pills.

the patient awake at all times. Get up,
Robert. And call the rescue ambulance at

the fire department. Oh, yeah, we should
win in the first place.

Well, Michael, what do you think of your
big hero now?

Hey, Robert, man, don't worry about it.
He's still number one on my list.

Don't jive me, Michael.

I don't have it anymore, baby.

And nobody likes a loser.

Hey, Robert, man, that's not true.

JJ has millions of friends.

I'm just trying to cheer him up.

They said to do the same as the books
and keep him up.

Okay, I got to wait outside so they
won't miss the play. All right, Michael,

go with them. All right, J .J., don't
let her fall asleep, man.

Shouldn't have come here.

Should have just driven off a bridge.

Don't say that, Robbie.

Wouldn't have worked anyway, though.

With my luck, I'd have gotten mugged on
the way to the car.

For a guy that's dying, you really got a
negative attitude.

J .J., I got to lay down. I feel so
groggy.

No, bro, I think you better keep on
moving here and we better go for a

walk, man.

I mean, how could anybody want to kill
himself?

You know, when I wake up in the morning,
I don't know whether it's going to be a

good day or a bad day till I look in the
mirror.

Then I know one thing for sure.

There is a God.

J .J., you don't know how bad.

Things can really get... Hey, man. How
bad can things be?

So you're not a basketball hero anymore.

You know, when I was in high school, I
wanted to be a football star.

But the coach told me, unless you're
going out for the goal post, we don't

you.

Damn, man. Get some of this coffee down
in you. Come on. I got to sit down. Come

on, man.

teachers. I call it blood, sweat, and
tears.

You know, I owe this whole thing to
Michael.

That's right, Michael, man. When he was
four years old, it was him the one who

gave me the idea to move on to
watercolors because he ate up all my

fingerprints.

Come on, man. Wake up, man. Don't fall
asleep, man. Come on. We got to keep

moving, man.

Come on now.

Let's go here, man.

You know, Robin, when you get right down
to it, painting is really the only

thing that I can do well that you get
paid for.

You better sit down, brother. You're
getting heavy here.

Come on, man.

Hey, come on there, Robin.

Wake up, man. Wake up. Let's do it
together.

Come on, man. Come on.

Hey, Robin. You know, you know, when you
talk about painting, man.

Come on, Robin. Wake up, man. When you
talk about painting, man.

Like, that's really the only thing that
I can do well, man.

But if I don't make it in the art world,
man, I am not going to give up, man.

I'm not going to give up, man. I'm going
to keep on going.

And I'm going to pick myself up and just
dust myself off and try something else,

man. That's all it is.

I'm scared.

Man, hey, Robert, don't talk, man. Don't
talk. Just try to stay loose, man. Let

me do all the talking here. You know,
maybe you ought to give a shot to go

to school again, man. That's what you
ought to do. You know, a lot of people

flunk out of school, man. If you can
remember, I wasn't the most brilliant

student in the world myself, brother.

Matter of fact, one semester, my mother
promised to pay me $5 if I could raise

my grades up to an F.

to school, too, man. Like, one semester,
I got two Ms and a K -minus.

Try to explain that to your folks, man.
Come on now, Robert, man. Let's get it

together here.

You know how I spent my senior year? As
a junior.

I guess I joke around a lot, don't I?

Well, Robert, I had to, because that
made me the class clown instead of the

class fool, man.

That's changed, man. Now I'm in art
school, man, getting straight A's, man.

just finding your niche in life, Robert.
That's all it is, man, just finding

your niche, brother.

No doubt about it. You know what you got
to do, man? You got to find yourself a

good woman.

That's it, Robert. You got to find
yourself a good woman, man.

You know, Robert,

matter of fact, a good woman, that's
what I need.

I remember my first date, man. Laura Lee
Henderson.

You remember her, don't you, brother?

She wasn't the brightest girl in the
world, man.

But, man, if she didn't have a nose on
her face, man, she would have had

between her ears.

Come on, Robert, man. That's funny, man.
Laugh it up, man.

That's your problem, man. You don't
laugh anymore, brother. You got to

Why'd you take those pills here anyway,
man? It's almost like you wanted us to

catch you, man.

Gee whiz.

Come on, Robin, don't die, man. Get on
up here.

Wow. Now, where was I at?

Chicks. Yeah.

Well, I'm always there. You know, Robin,
I can remember my first day.

That's right, man. My first day. I feel
like Edgar Bergen here. Come on, man.

I can remember my first day. My first
kiss.

My first hug, brother.

Matter of fact, I can remember the first
time, well, let me put it to you this

way. I can remember the night the legend
was born.

Hey, man, I got to admit something to
you. I lied, brother.

That's right. I lied, man.

Laura Lee Henderson, get up here, man.
Come on, brother.

Get up.

Laura Lee Henderson wasn't my first
date, man. She was the first chick I

to go out.

I asked her to go out. She said, no,
man.

Five times.

Which goes to prove to you, brother, the
best of us get turned down, man. The

best of us, man.

That's right.

All it takes, man, is a little
confidence.

You know, I learned that from my father,
man.

That's right. My father. You know, I
really miss him, man.

That's right. I do, man. I really miss
him.

Yeah. You know, you can't talk to your
father about your problems now, man. But

I just wish, man, that for five minutes
I could talk to my father.

Hey, Robert, come on, man. Wake up.

Look here, man.

There's a whole damn world out there to
live for, man.

And not a damn thing to die for, man.

Robert, don't die, man. A lot of people
care, man.

easy, but the rest is up to him.

Hey.

Hey, thanks, man.

All of you.

Hey, man.

We'll be around.

You're gonna be all right.

You're gonna be all right. You're gonna
be all right.

Hey, JJ.

Man, did you see that?

He smiled.

Yeah, I taught him that.

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

thinking how it all looks when we die.

Good times, good times, keeping your
head up for water,

making a wave when you can.

Good times is videotape in front of a
studio audience.