Father on Good Times would not shuck and jive

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“He’s eighteen and he doesn’t work…He can’t read or write. He doesn’t think. The show didn’t start out to be that. Michael’s role of a bright, thinking child has been reduced. Little by little…they have made J.J. more stupid and enlarged the role. Negative images have been slipped on us through the character of the oldest child.”

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