When the Evans family hangs JJ's painting of a black Jesus in the home against Florida's protests, everybody suddenly gets a run of good luck.

Good Times: Created by Mike Evans, Norman Lear, Eric Monte. With Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis, Jimmie 'JJ' Walker. A poor African-American family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.

Diane's pusher(the kid) is selling drugs in this episode... he's also the lookout kid for Cleatus in the episode 'Cousin Cleatus'.

"Requiem for a Wino" is one of the fifth season's most celebrated episodes, with mainstays Looting Lenny (Dap Sugar Willie, fourth of seven) and Weeping Wanda (Helen Martin, fifth of seven) joined by Robert Guillaume, then riding high in his breakout role as Benson the butler on SOAP, in his sole appearance as resident wino Fishbone (Ned the ...

Good Times: Created by Ranada Shepard. With Jay Pharoah, Marsai Martin, Gerald 'Slink' Johnson, Yvette Nicole Brown. The Evans family must manage the challenges of contemporary life, like social issues.

The Witness: Directed by Gerren Keith. With Esther Rolle, Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis. J.J. could pay dearly for witnessing an auto accident.

I Had a Dream: Directed by Gerren Keith. With Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis, Johnny Brown. JJ feels like he is not going anywhere at his job with responsibilities or a promotion. He thinks it is because he is black. He dreams he is white and we see what he thinks can happen for him.

In this episode, Michael refers to Medgar Evers. Medgar Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi who served as field secretary of the NAACP in the state, and who was assassinated in 1963.

The Big Move: Part 1: Directed by Gerren Keith. With Esther Rolle, Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis. With James getting a better job in Mississippi, the Evans family begins to pack up their things in preparation for their big move. Michael falls in love for the first time and is reluctant to leave Chicago.

While the plot of this episode's undeniably funny, this (and an episode of the The Attractive Nuisance (1978), were actually inspired by a national scandal (instigated by a report on 60 Minutes (1968)) which said that due to the effects of the high inflation rates (especially on the retirement incomes of the elderly), many weren't able to ...