Y'all can... (inspired by Cantankerous)
 

...kiss mah grits!

Sincerely,

g.

Urghhhh!The thought of it.......

That reference will be lost on 97% of the people here, my man.

You should have pmed the reference to the remaining 3% then.hehe

Everybody else who is old enough to get this joke is from Europe, and hopefully were not watching American TV in the late 70s/early 80s.

Against_The_Grain would get it, but he is not on all that often.

What are they teaching kids in school, anyway? This is Mel's Diner we're talking about, for God's sake, a cornerstone of American popular culture! No wonder China and Japan have the competitive edge on us these days.

I used to love that program as a kid.

I watched it with my parents.

I also watched Kung Fu with them.

In retrospect, Kung Fu was much cooler.

Did anyone ever watched The Jeffersons?My,i miss that sooooo much!

She's Lenny Kravitz's mum,you know?

^ HA! Classic....

Funny story... (maybe). For a while in college, I dated a very nice woman who just so happened to be black. We were pretty "serious," actually, so I invited her to my parents' house for dinner one night over winter break. My dad turned on The Jeffersons', and to my great embarrassment, and I'm sure to my friend's, we sat through this stupid show while my dad laughed at the pathetic stereotype humor. God, I was uncomfortable. I've never forgiven him for that.

just a word of advice... don't rip off my schtick. that schtick is MINE.

But The Jeffersons wasn't pathetic stereotype humor!!!

yeah, well, I will if I want to. And if you don't like it, you can jest kiss mah grits, honey...

you're not a very good imposter.

Well, it wasn't reality. I always thought it was racist because the characters were "types," they certainly were not noble or sophisticated, and the show "dumbed down" race problems, gave it a comic gloss that ignored the terrible state things were really in at that time.

So what.

just saying.

What are you saying?

hahahaha

hohohoho

Yeah but their upstairs neighbours(Helen and Bill,remember?) were a happy mixed race couple and,c'mon,Mrs Jeffersons was the sophisticated lady and a good caracheter.Oh,Florence was my favourite,haha!

Mr Jefferson:'Florence,your cooking tastes like dog food'
Florence:'Of course,that's because i cook for one'.

hehe

I can see how the show is funny. But maybe it was the times and my situation. I just remember feeling really uncomfortable sitting there with the black woman I loved while my dad sat glued to this show--I swear he did it on purpose. He could have turned to, oh, I don't know, The Brady Bunch or something.

I don't know this show. Was it an American version of Love Thy Neighbour?

isabel sanford is not lenny kravitz's mom. it was the other actress, the one marrie to wilis, the white neighbor. i think her character was named helen. Oh uyeah, her real name is roxie roker.


when i was little, me and my bro were latch-key, and we woudl wait for our folks to get home from work. My mo m would get home and start to cook dinner and she would always ask me or my bro to set the table just before the food was ready. it always seemed to be that I was setting the table or hearing someone set the table while the end credits rolled (where the song was hummed not sung).

ever since then, when I hear the end credit's song of the jeffersons I get instantly hungry, no matter where or when, and I salivate like pavlov's dogs. It is truly a pavlovian experiment gone wrong.

The jeffersons is great.

jefferson's was a spinoff of All In The Family.

i know that.

I think the info was for me.

oh. well now you know that too/

I feel better for it.

twas for poookie.

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Oh yeah you're right,the one who played Helen.

I think they should have made a spinoff show for the tranny character Beverly from All In The Family, but they decided to kill her off instead.

Kiss my bumper, just kiss it!!!