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Good times, any time you need a payment. Good times, any time you need a friend.

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

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

Making a way when you can.

Temporary layoffs. Good times, easy credit ripoffs. Good times,

scratching hands.

Just think, Thelma, JJ's on his way to New York for his first advertising

convention. Yeah, I hope he finds that sandwich I put in his jacket pocket.

Yeah, I hope he finds it, too, because if he doesn't, the plane will never

the ground.

Funny, Michael, funny.

Hi, Thelma. Hi, Michael. Hi. Hey, where's Gary?

Yeah, aren't you supposed to be keeping an eye on him?

He's coming.

Legs are just too short.

Legs are too short.

Woman,

that's no way to talk to your man.

Gary, you're not my man.

We're just good friends.

He's impossible.

lost without them.

Now, why don't the two of you go in my room and play for a little while, okay?

Okay, Penny. To the room.

Boys.

Hey, Thelma, how's that suit coming along?

Well, let me taste and see.

Some cash, huh? Yes.

And as of today, I'm officially off of welfare.

Congratulations, Joyce.

Well, I am kind of excited.

Kind of excited?

Honey, we got on the bus with a $5 bill and we need a change. Yeah. And before

the bus driver could give us change, Joyce had washed, set, and blow -dried

hair.

Honey, maybe you just misunderstood.

Are you serious?

Oh, no, it can't be.

Not now.

How can they close down the center?

Not enough money, I guess. Look, why don't you talk to Alderman Davis? He's

one who makes these decisions.

Are you kidding?

Alderman Davis, that's like playing a jukebox.

You don't hear one sound until you drop in the coin.

If the daycare center closes, I'll have to hire a cedar for Gary and...

By the time I pay for a sitter, I'll be taking home less from my job than I was

making on welfare.

Ms. Daniels, maybe you can find another daycare center. I was on the waiting

list for six months before I got Gary into this one.

Hey, Ms. Daniels, you can probably get back on welfare.

I don't want welfare.

I want to make it on my own.

It just seems like every time I manage to pull myself out of a hole, somebody

waiting at the top to kick me back in.

What's going to happen to me now?

Hey, does this mean you're not going to give me a new look?

While you're here, you know, the lock on the door is just not working. Can you

fix it for us, please? Sure, yeah. Thank you so much.

Working fine, y 'all.

Hey, I can't get back in.

I know.

Who you calling, Walona?

Alderman Davis.

This is Walona Wood speaking.

Now, listen, you jive, time turkey.

What is this I hear about you closing down the daycare center?

Now, you listen. The same...

can vote you right out. You got that?

Chrome, don't.

You call him. You call him.

What did Oliver Davis say? Honey, he did not say a single solitary word.

He didn't say a word? Because I was talking to his answering machine.

Well,

I guess I better go collect Gary.

I've got some heavy thinking to do.

Hey, baby, look.

Hang in there, okay?

Sure. Something will work out. Bye. See you, Joyce.

Catch you later.

I guess it's hard being a single parent and trying to raise a kid and make ends

meet all at once. Amen to that.

But we've got to think of something to help Joyce out.

I just wish I knew what.

Hey!

Look who's here.

Alderman Davis.

Hi, Alderman Davis. What can you do us out of this time?

election time, so I thought I'd drop in on my favorite project people, the Evans

family. And, of course, my warmest and heartfelt greetings and salutations to

you too, Winifreda.

Alderman Davis, what is this I hear about the daycare center closing down?

I have one question I'd like to ask you. Do you have any idea how important that

daycare center is to the working women? Now, how can you let them close the

center down?

I'm glad you asked that question, Winsomnium.

My name is Wallona, Baldy. Let me make one thing perfectly clear.

You see, you got a new couch.

The alderman Fred C.

Davis supports daycare. In fact, some of my favorite small people are children.

That's only because they're too young to vote against you.

Nice chair, too.

Let me assure you I'm doing all I can to expedite matters.

You see, the center depends on funds from the federal government that are

channeled in through the city payroll.

Unfortunately, those funds are temporarily frozen.

Frozen?

I suggest somebody look in your pocket. I bet they find some icicles.

I'm going to let that one slide, Wyoming.

Well, we have to find a way to raise some money to keep that center open. And

thought of a cake sale.

Cake? No, Thelma, no, no, no, no.

If you make a cake, only half the money will go for daycare. We'll need the

other half for Medicare.

Oh, wait, wait, wait a minute.

I got an idea.

Yeah? We can put on a show and raise some money because we got enough talent

right here. Good idea.

This is fantastic.

And, dear friends, the owner of the Slipdisk Disco will gladly donate his

facilities for a worthy cause such as yours. You will?

How could you be so sure?

Well, either he cooperates or, as chairman of the building commission,

found a new site for a municipal parking lot.

That's a good idea. I tell you, for a politician, he's not a bad guy.

Alderman Davis.

Alderman Davis, I have misjudged you.

Anybody can make a mistake, world office story.

What is that, a hand

calculator? No, this is my remote control answering service. I merely push

button, and the machine in the office plays back all the messages people left

while I was out.

Every message?

Every last one.

Oh, here's one from you.

Please stop walking on the back of my shoes.

I told you it was not on the program.

Hey, Miss Woods, give me a shot. I know I can knock him dead.

Only if you fall off the stage and on somebody's head.

Now, will you please go away?

Tony, have you seen this?

What's that?

Save the Daycare Center benefit starring Harry Belafonte, Wolfman, Jack Carroll,

Channing, Tony, Ben and John.

Girl, where did you buy this? Right outside. But these are all...

Well, Joyce, don't you worry about nothing, because the people that came

tonight came to give to a very worthy cause. They did not come here to see any

celebrities. No problem.

We want Belafonte!

We want Belafonte!

We want Belafonte!

We want Belafonte!

Lord, shut up, and you've got a problem.

I better get out there. I better go out there now.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Hi.

Look, we got a great show for you. Cool it, cool it. Now we got a great show for

you tonight, I'm telling you.

It is my pleasure to introduce to you the newest singing sensation, the

thing on honey in Chicago, you hear me?

Our one and only Michael Evans and my own adorable, talented Pennywood.

to be worth what you have within now I don't

need no superstar cause I'll accept you as you are you

won't be denied cause I'm

If it don't mean I'm your number one.

There'll be no tears.

will knock the Duke right off the back of his horse. You hear me?

Peace out.

It's obvious that most of you came into not expecting to see some big -name

stars Well, like how your brother Fonte and those kind of people well look the

truth is

pay tribute to some of the greats like Nat King Cole.

May I just found joy.

With another brand new choo -choo toy.

With our married sweet Lorraine.

been kissed.

Not on the hat anyway, Pilgrim.

Let's take it away.

The man who left his heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett.

you're going to wish you had never learned.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am not here tonight to campaign for public office,

though the election is a scant six months away, and I'm sure you will

the name of the Honorable Fred C. Davis, incumbent when you step into the voting

booth.

Miss Wilma... Oh, Miss Wilma... Miss Wilaney...

As long as you need me.

For once in my life I have someone who needs me. Someone I've needed

so long.

For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me.

like it hurt me before.

For once I have someone I know won't desert me.

I'm not alone anymore.

will pull you out.

Friends, neighbors, and constituents, I want to make one thing abundantly clear.

I am not a schnook.

That's why I have decided, out of the kindness of my heart, to donate from my

own pocket the 300 votes...

your name, sucker?

To the Fred C. Davis Daycare Center, right? No, no,

no, no, no, no.

Modesty prevents my accepting such an honor. I insist you name it after you

people. Name it the Friends of the Honorable Fred C. Davis Daycare Center.

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

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, easy credit ripoffs, good times.

Good times is videotaped in front of a studio. audience.