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♪ Good times ♪

♪ Anytime you meet a payment ♪

♪ Good times ♪ ♪ Anytime you need a friend ♪

♪ Good times ♪ ♪ Anytime you're out from under ♪

♪ Not gettin' hassled Not gettin' hustled ♪

♪ Keepin' your head above water ♪

♪ Makin' a wave when you can ♪

♪ Temporary layoffs ♪ ♪ Good times ♪

♪ Easy credit rip-offs ♪ ♪ Good times ♪

♪ Scratchin' and survivin' ♪ ♪ Good times ♪

♪ Hangin' in a chow line ♪ ♪ Good times ♪

♪ Ain't we lucky we got 'em ♪

♪ Good times ♪♪

You know, Michael, I still can't believe it.

Tomorrow... that Keith and Thelma will be celebrating...

their first wedding anniversary.

Yeah, Ma, and it seems like they've been only been married for a year.

I see you're in your funny phase.

Ma, I'm just jivin'. I'm just jivin'.

- Hi, y'all. - Hi, Willona.

I got some stuff for the party tomorrow night.

Oh, girl, you didn't have to bring all this.

Flo, I told you I'd help out. Most of the stuff was in my freezer anyway.

Here's some Swedish meatballs from the year 1971... New Year's.

And these are some shrimp from the party I had when Ali beat Frazier, 1975.

Willona, did you have any Pepto-Bismol, 1979?

This stuff is older than the children's marriage.

Honey, these containers keep everything fresh. Don't you worry about it.

- Got something else, real special for you too. - Hey, Willona. What's that?

Imported Russian caviar... $37.

Thirty-seven dollars! Mm-hmm.

The sturgeon who put the eggs up for adoption would not take less!

You have gone wild, Willona!

Oh, Flo, "delirious" is the word.

I got a big promotion today. You are now talking to the head buyer of the boutique.

Hah! Oh, Willona!

That's great, Willona. That's great. Oh, my goodness.

I got more good news. Guess what. What? What? What?

I got an apartment on Baker Street.

Hey, Willona.

Hey, that's on the north side. Uh-huh.

- You're moving? - Yeah, for Penny's sake.

This is a good opportunity, Flo... better schools, better living conditions.

Oh, look. You don't need to apologize.

You're doing the right thing.

Besides, I have other friends.

And I'll make new friends.

We'll hardly miss each other.

Not at all.

Yes we will.

Ladies, ladies, here's your weeping towels.

All these years we been together. I don't know what I'm gonna do without you.

Flo, we been through so much together, you know? I mean...

Don't talk about it. Look at us, actin' like a bunch of kids.

What are we cryin' for?

I don't know.

I don't know about you,

but I'm cryin' because I'm being stuck here.

Oh.

Oh, I'm only kidding.

That's really great news, and I'm happy for you.

Oh, thank you, baby. But first we gotta celebrate.

The anniversary party is gonna be really special.

Yeah. Well, I wish I could be sure of that. You know they've...

both been acting so strange lately.

Oh? Thelma's so edgy.

And then Keith... He's so preoccupied.

Yeah. J.J.'s been acting weird too.

Mm-hmm. J.J.? How can you tell?

Tell you. This outfit wasn't easy to arrange, 'cause, see,

I couldn't find a telephone booth in which to change.

Here's Dummy-Man.

Willona, that's Dyno-Man.

Okay, so who's Dyno-Man? Didn't the comic book company reject that character?

Willona, Dyno-Man's able to leap tall piles...

of rejection slips in a single bound.

You know, there are other comic book companies.

Son, do you have to wear this outfit?

Ma, it helps me paint.

See, all I need is one more character for my Dyno-Man family,

and when I get it, it's gonna be somethin' else.

I can sell this thing. I can feel it in my bones.

Of course you could feel it in your bones. There ain't no flesh to get in the way.

Do you see what I mean by "acting strange?"

That's perfectly normal... If you're voting.

Well, if it isn't the lovebirds.

Whoo! Looks like this lovebird's about to lay an egg.

You know, a man's gotta exercise.

Now, J.J., what is this sheet doing off of our bed?

Cooling off, Thelma. Cooling off.

This is part of your anniversary present.

I'm using this sheet to keep it a surprise.

What are you gonna do for our next anniversary, take the mattress?

And look at this outfit.

Now I know you have flipped now.

I've flipped? Mm-hmm.

Hey, come on, Thelma. You made a sponge cake the other night...

and used a real sponge.

And you ate all of it.

Yeah, but it was the best thing you ever cooked.

Watch it, beanpole.

Oh, yeah? Hey, look here, Keith.

You know, you can't walk 10 feet lately without going...

It's called exercising, J.J... something you don't know anything about.

You know, you're the only guy I know who gets a hernia pouring cornflakes?

You got some nerve. I got muscles right here. Muscles in your lip.

All right, all right. Stop it. Stop it, all of you.

Listen, this is supposed to be a celebration.

Y'all have managed to turn it into a battlefield.

Now, all of you've been acting strange.

Who, me? I'm cool.

I'm the same solid rock I've always been.

Get out of the way!

Get off that phone! Get outta there!

Oh, yes, there they go... Mrs. Calm, Mr. Cool and Mr. Collected.

Give me the phone. Give me the phone! Gotta be for me!

Yes?

- This is the Evans household. - They wanna talk to me, Ma.

Michael. It's for you, dear. Michael?

Hello? Oh, hi, Cindy. How ya doin', baby?

Say what? Oh, no, baby. I can't take you...

to the dance tomorrow night.

Well, because it's my sister's wedding anniversary.

Come on, baby. Now, don't beg.

Don't beg. Don't beg.

What? Yeah, it's cool. It's cool.

But you know, I'll talk to you later, mama.

Yeah. Ciao.

Why do I feel like I'm in The Twilight Zone?

Happy anniversary, you guys. Aw.

Thank you, Bookman.

Your first anniversary.

And everybody said you wouldn't make it.

Booger, you've got about as much diplomacy as...

a rhino who can't find his water hole.

Hey, I went a way out for that. I could eat for

a whole week for what I spent for that gift.

Oh, you must have got us diamonds, Bookman.

Well, thank you, Bookman. We'll open it tomorrow, okay?

Hey, Bookman. What time is it? 2:30.

I gotta get outta here. I got an appointment downtown at 3:00.

- Let me tracks here. - Hey, hey! Dyno-Man!

Sweetheart, haven't you forgotten something?

Huh? Uh-huh.

Oh, my cape! I can't fly without my cape.

I gotta get outta here.

J.J., will you look at what you're wearing?

You can't get on a bus like that.

Go and change. Go change.

I don't have time, Ma. I gotta get outta here.

Bookman, can you drive me downtown? Are you kidding?

I wouldn't be seen in public with you like that. What'll people think?

They'll think we're Fatman and Robin.

By the way, J.J., where we goin'?

I can't tell ya where we're goin', Bookman, but I can tell you one thing.

Huh? If this thing works out the way I plan on it workin' out...

♪ This could be the start of something big ♪

Pow! Pow! Pow!

Boy, I sure am looking forward to that anniversary party.

If it's as half as nice as the wedding, it'll be terrific.

That's one wedding I'll never forget. Yeah.

Boy, I walked in, and I saw a vision of loveliness in white.

- Oh, Bookman. - Sweet. Delicate.

- Thank you, Bookman. - It's the best sour-cream dip I ever had.

It was a fantastic wedding. I know that. Wasn't it beautiful?

Oh, yes. Everybody looked so nice all dressed up like that.

Hey, yeah, look at Bookman in that tuxedo.

What? Is that him? I thought it was a pregnant penguin.

And there's J.J. adjusting one of the bridesmaid's garters.

Yeah, and look at her boyfriend readjusting J.J.'s face.

Hey, wait a minute. I don't remember that picture.

That's Keith laying flat on the ground.

Turn the page.

No. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I remember.

That's the shot that J.J. took and tripped you...

when you came down the aisle and busted your knee.

Thank you, Bookman. Don't mention it.

It sure was a rough way to start out a marriage.

There you were... No pro football contract,

no decent job.

But did you complain? No. You dealt with it in your own quiet way.

You hit the bottle.

Bookman!

Yes, we had our problems, but we worked them out together.

Now there's no need to look back. We'll just look forward to the future.

It'll probably get worse.

Well, now we're on the brink of...

What happened here?

Goodness gracious, I've seen happier faces in a lobster tank.

I don't know. I was trying to cheer 'em up.

Well, Bookman, let's get our rear in gear and get on outta here.

Come on now. Let's move on.

Mm-hmm.

Thelma, I gotta go jogging.

Uh, you don't wanna come, do you? Uh, I'll see you later.

Oh, I know why Keith didn't want me to come. He's gonna get me a present.

Oh. And what are you gonna get him?

Well, Ma, I can't tell you just yet.

But when I do, it's gonna blow your mind.

All right, Thelma. Come on. What is it? Thelma!

Tomorrow, Ma. Tomorrow.

What could it be?

Fine anniversary party this is.

Keith and Thelma are not even here.

Well, Mama, we can't have everything.

Oh, honey, where have you been?

Out. Of course.

That's why you weren't in.

J.J., come out here and give me a hand please.

Coming!

Open that bottle of champagne for me.

Sure, Ma.

Mmm.

Fine "boo-ket."

Yeah, look at this.

"Aged on the back of a truck."

Ah, let me give this a shot here.

You need some help there, Bro, man?

No.

J.J., I think we can get the cork off together, Bro. Come on now.

Wait. Let me... It's starting to move, Michael.

Yeah, Brother. That's my thumb!

Michael, it's no use. This thing ain't gonna open ever.

- I wonder what's keeping Keith? - Oh, now, don't worry. He'll be here.

I loosened it for her. Yeah. Okay.

Hi. We're back.

Cake's here, Aunt Florida. Oh, Penny.

You're a sweetheart. Thank you.

Here, baby. Put this over there. Okay.

We would have been back a long time ago, but you know Booger around food.

Mm-hmm. We were about to leave the bakery, and he went...

in the back, asking the man, could he lick the brownie pans.

- Well, where is he now? - Hey, Ms. Woods.

How dare you close the elevator door on me. I drove you down to the bakery.

Booger, I had to do it. That was the only way to keep the cake in one piece.

I only wanted to peek at it. Peek at it? Peek at it?

You was clawing at the cardboard box.

And there was icing under your fingernails by the time I stopped you.

Oh, look at th... Isn't it beautiful? Look, everybody.

Ooh! Look at that. Watch Boog...

Bookman! Get outta the way!

- Hi, everybody! - Oh, Keith, you're home.

Of course I'm home. I'm not gonna miss my own anniversary, am I?

Happy anniversary, baby.

This kiss could last till the next anniversary.

Hot stuff.

Come on and give me a hand.

And miss all the action? No way!

You better come on, José.

Have I got a gift for you. Uh-uh! I've got the gift for you, and I gotta go first.

Let me go first. I gotta go first!

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I'll go first.

See, since this is your first wedding anniversary,

which is your paper wedding anniversary...

Mm-hmm? I will give you something commensurate...

with the occasion.

And here it is.

A newspaper? Just what we needed if we were training a puppy.

- If you wanted to buy them a gift, I could've... - No, no. Take it easy.

Take it easy. Turn to the travel section.

Why is this ad circled?

"A trip to the Bahamas."

That's right. That's my gift to you.

A trip to the Bahamas from the millionaire.

Hey, he's not kidding. First-class tickets to the Bahamas.

I don't believe... Thanks a lot, J.J.

Think nothing of it.

Oh, J.J., I don't know what to say.

Oh, J.J., that's so generous.

But, honey, where did you get the money?

Well, folks, that is the real surprise.

Ladies and gentleman, friends and family,

peoples and "peep-ettes,"

I'm glad y'all gathered here for this news,

'cause I want y'all to know that now you are looking at...

a famous working cartoon artiste. All right.

That's right!

I signed the deal today. Got a big cash advance.

J.J., are you sure this time? Positive.

- You... You sold Dyno-Man? - Not exactly, Willona.

From this fertile imagination,

springs forth another character...

One more dynamic and flamboyant than Dyno-Man.

'Cause if you dug Dyno-Man,

you can definitely dig... Dyno-Woman!

Oh, my goodness.

That's Thelma.

Um... Ah! Did you see it?

J.J., after all these years you have been calling me ugly,

and you did not even tell me...

you were gonna put my face on your cartoon-strip character.

Now, I think that's pretty...

Pretty fantastic.

J.J., I love you.

I love you too, catfish face.

Oh, J.J.!

J.J., we always knew you'd make it. Yeah.

And I knew him when he was a nobody.

Well, Ma, now I'm moving up, and I'm moving out.

I'm getting my own pad.

- But, J.J., why? - Well, there's three good reasons, Ma...

Joanne, Judy and "Boom Boom."

Okay, J.J. Now for my anniversary gift.

Thelma, Mama...

Now, you've all been probably wondering what I've been doing with my spare time?

Why I've been acting so strange?

- No. - Not at all.

Actually, I was in training.

You joined the army?

No, Penny. In training with the Chicago Bears.

But, Keith, what about your leg?

I know they said my knee was gone, that I was through.

But, babe, I couldn't give up on you. I exercised. I never gave up.

Well, maybe they say miracles can never happen, but it did.

The team doctor checked it out, and my leg has healed fine.

Oh, Keith!

Keith, brother-in-law, this means you can play football again?

Maybe better than ever, Michael. All right.

I signed on as a free agent... 60,000 for the first year,

with an option for three more years.

Do you all know what this means?

That means we can all have free season tickets to Chicago Bears games!

I can see it now. Three, 39.

Three, 39. Hut! Hut, hut!

Not "hut, hut." How about, uh, "house, house"?

We're getting out of the ghetto.

You know that duplex on the north side you and I dreamed of having?

Yeah. I just leased the top apartment.

Oh, Keith, Thelma, I'm so happy for you.

When do we move in? And what time do we eat?

Hey, let me congratulate you two. Good luck.

Thank you, Willona. I'm so happy for you guys.

Baby, you haven't said anything. Why, Keith...

Thelma! Watch her!

Keith, get her to the couch.

Are you all right? Yeah, I'm okay.

I'm fine. I just got a little dizzy.

Here lay down, lay down. I feel kind of embarrassed, ya know?

Lay down, babe.

I can understand. Some people just react that way to big news.

And that was big news, Keith.

It's the biggest news I've heard since Sani-Flush.

Thelma, it's a great place and all, but I didn't think it would hit you that hard,

even though I knew you wanted it that bad.

Well, I just hope it has an extra bedroom for the baby.

Are you kidding? It's got three bedrooms. It's got a sundeck, a porch...

A... A baby?

A baby! Oh, Keith!

A baby!

A baby?

Yes, Keith. That was my gift to you. You're gonna be a daddy.

Oh, my baby girl.

I'm so happy. Oh, Ma.

I'm going to be a godmother.

And I'm gonna be a babysitter.

Hey, man, this mean we gonna be uncles!

Yeah, if it's a girl, we can be aunts!

I'm gonna be a grandmama!

And I'm gonna be a grandbooger!

I'm gonna have a baby! Whoo! I-I'm gonna have a baby.

I'm gonna have a baby.

Look here, Keith. You may be a big-time running back,

but I think you should let Thelma make this carry.

Thelma, babe, this is the best news yet.

You comfortable, huh? You want a pillow, huh?

- You hungry? Want something to eat? - I do!

Thelma, why didn't you tell me?

Well, I thought I was pregnant about four days ago,

but the doctor called and confirmed it just in time for our anniversary.

Ahh, so that's why you were acting so strange.

Well, I'm gonna get to see you as often as I can.

Well, you won't have far to travel. You'll be living with us.

Oh, no. No, Keith. Mm-hmm.

No, no, no. I... I couldn't. Ma, you have to. You have to.

Because this is my first baby. I don't know what to do.

You take it easy. You just do what comes naturally.

Yeah, Ma, but I'll feel so much better if you're there with me.

To tell you the truth, baby, so would I.

So would I.

Thank you, Ma. Oh.

Michael, come live with us. What do you think?

Thanks. But I'm getting tired of sleeping on couches.

I'm gonna stay at one of the dormitories at school. Mm-hmm.

But I'll come by to visit. By the way, where is this place? Baker Street.

Baker Street? That's where I'm movin'.

What address?

- 743. - 743?

I just took an apartment there this morning on the first floor. Well, we're upstairs.

♪ Watchin' the asphalt grow ♪

♪ Thinkin' how it all looks hand-me-down ♪

♪ Good times Good times ♪

♪ Keepin' your head above water ♪

♪ Makin' a wave when you can ♪

♪ Temporary layoffs ♪ ♪ Good times ♪

♪ Easy credit rip-offs ♪ ♪ Good times ♪

Good Times is videotaped before a studio audience.

♪ Ain't we lucky we got 'em ♪

♪ Good times ♪♪