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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   In article <281220230042062656%nope@noway.com>, nope@noway.com wrote:   
   > Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >> nope@noway.com wrote:   
      
   >>> I absolutely hated Good Times, and for all the right reasons.  The   
   >>> series was supposed to be about a strong family making its way forward,   
   >>> even in Cabrini Green.  Then the dad left, and the show became a farce   
   >>> headed by a nearly talentless young actor who was armed not with a gift   
   >>> for comedy or acting but with one of those unfunny stock phrases that   
   >>> became all too common in the TV of the era.   
   >>   
   >> If memory serves, Jimmy Walker wasn't very popular on the set. The actor   
   >> who played the father quit and the actress who played the mother   
   >> constantly complained about being secoind-fiddle to his buffoonery.   
   >   
   >"Buffoonery" is a good word for it.  It surely wasn't comedy.   
      
   I think Esther Rolle or John Amos used that word to describe it.   
      
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