December 21, 20214 yr I recently watched some episodes of Sanford and Son after never really watched the show other than a few reruns as a kid. LOL This show is hilarious. Redd Foxx kills it was his expressions. There was an episode where Lamont was rehearsing a scene from Othello and he was pretending to strangle a white actress and without context Fred sees what's happening. His reaction was hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing at that scene. A lot of content probably wouldn't fly today like the Puerto Rican neighbor with a goat or the gay jokes. What was surprising was Lamont's friend talking about going to the movies to watch Skin Flicks. That was a little weird but probably not unusual for that time. I'll probably start working my way through the series.
December 21, 20214 yr Never gets old. Even the Fred-less Grady era was awesome. Lamonte: "Karate is one of the oldest forms of self-defense." Grady: "It ain't older than runnin'..."
December 21, 20214 yr Sanford and Son is genius. Fred is fantastic, and his tit-for-tat with Aunt Esther is finominle.
December 21, 20214 yr 15 minutes ago, F250 said: I recently watched some episodes of Sanford and Son after never really watched the show other than a few reruns as a kid. LOL This show is hilarious. Redd Foxx kills it was his expressions. There was an episode where Lamont was rehearsing a scene from Othello and he was pretending to strangle a white actress and without context Fred sees what's happening. His reaction was hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing at that scene. A lot of content probably wouldn't fly today like the Puerto Rican neighbor with a goat or the gay jokes. What was surprising was Lamont's friend talking about going to the movies to watch Skin Flicks. That was a little weird but probably not unusual for that time. I'll probably start working my way through the series. Gregory Sierra .. also had a role on Barney Miller .. died earlier this year.
December 21, 20214 yr I was a kid when series first ran and didn't get into it much, but one episode stayed with me for over 40 years. Lamont brings a latchkey kid home that Fred wants nothing to do with. What struck me that I recalled over decades was their chicken dinner was made up of backs and necks. I think the scene before the below Fred says they have three backs and four necks to split for dinner.
December 21, 20214 yr Classic! I ran through the series in order a few years ago. The show took a huge dip for me when Grady was the lead role. Did not care for those episodes. Fred and Esther's banter was hilarious. It is pretty much what Martin and Pam did on Martin.
December 21, 20214 yr This show was on my regular rotation as a kid. One of my buddy’s parents had 8 tracks of Redd Foxx’s stand up routines so we figured that was probably him just being Fred Sanford Spoiler It wasn’t
December 21, 20214 yr csb/ saw Redd staggering around The Mirage gaming floor many years back /end of csb.
December 21, 20214 yr The series ran when I was between 3 and 8 so I'm sure some of the humor was above my head. But as a kid it was great watching Fred and Esther fight, and Fred always having the big heart attack. Loved the theme song as well. What's tough to accept now is that I'm older (52) than Redd Foxx was at the start of Sanford and Son.
December 21, 20214 yr i used to watch this with my dad. damn we used to laugh so hard. the cops - Smitty and Hoppy - were hysterical. Rollo cracked me up. Shady Grady, Bubba Bexley, Leroy, Skilley. what a great cast. and Fred had no problem dropping n-bombs.
December 22, 20214 yr Love me some Sanford and Son. Watched it as a kid growing up and still catch the occasional episode today. Funny is funny.
December 22, 20214 yr I wish I could find a clip to post, but one of the funniest side characters was Melvin, played by Slappy White. He was only in a couple of episodes, but Melvin was hilarious. The bit about why he wondered there weren't black people in Godzilla movies. "They could send Sammy Davis Jr. over there to make one." "Yeah, it could be Godzilla vs. Sammy Davis Jr!" But it was all in the delivery and that whole conversation, just side splitting stuff.
December 22, 20214 yr Author 4 hours ago, DougO said: That was one of the episodes I recently watched. That gorilla cookie line was hilarious.
December 22, 20214 yr Loved Sanford & Son. Always wanted to try Holey Moley. But as great as it was, apparently they tried a Fred only sequel just called Sanford. Stumbled across it on Amazon the other night. Good God it was bad. Couldn't make it through the first 1/2 of the 1st episode.
December 22, 20214 yr Aunt Esther in the opening scene of Friday almost caused me to rupture a spleen from laughing so hard
December 22, 20214 yr The episode where Grady finds Rollo's "wild parsley" and puts it in a salad for the two cops is an all-time great.
December 22, 20214 yr 20 hours ago, Jive Turkey said: Shady Grady, Bubba Bexley, Leroy, Skilley. what a great cast. Yeah, when they were all together in a scene it was typically comedic gold.
December 22, 20214 yr This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. When Julio takes Fred and Lamont to a Puerto Rican restaurant.
December 22, 20214 yr 43 minutes ago, Hermanator said: This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. When Julio takes Fred and Lamont to a Puerto Rican restaurant. Ahhh sangria.....
December 23, 20214 yr Also, to note a great TV moment: the culmination of Conan O'Brien's search for Grady in the 90s with Whitman Mayo's coming on stage and dancing under a huge, lighted sign that read "Grady."
December 23, 20214 yr On 12/21/2021 at 4:48 PM, F250 said: I recently watched some episodes of Sanford and Son after never really watched the show other than a few reruns as a kid. LOL This show is hilarious. Redd Foxx kills it was his expressions. There was an episode where Lamont was rehearsing a scene from Othello and he was pretending to strangle a white actress and without context Fred sees what's happening. His reaction was hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing at that scene. A lot of content probably wouldn't fly today like the Puerto Rican neighbor with a goat or the gay jokes. What was surprising was Lamont's friend talking about going to the movies to watch Skin Flicks. That was a little weird but probably not unusual for that time. I'll probably start working my way through the series. How did you not watch that show before now you big dummy?!
December 23, 20214 yr What I love about this show is that my god father does a lot of things that remind me of Fred. After years of calling him that, he's finally accepted and embraced it.
December 23, 20214 yr Without a doubt one of the greatest TV shows of all time. It was cutting edge before cutting edge was a thing. The characters were fantastic and Redd Foxx was a damned treasure.
December 23, 20214 yr Just a PSA. If you are into torrenting, and would like to obtain/acquire every episode, it's available. All 6 seasons, 136 episodes. Around 50GB.
December 23, 20214 yr On 12/22/2021 at 3:33 PM, Hermanator said: This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. When Julio takes Fred and Lamont to a Puerto Rican restaurant. The waiter drank most of that pitcher before it got to the table.
December 24, 20214 yr 19 hours ago, Deej said: The waiter drank most of that pitcher before it got to the table. Guess that's the only way they could empty it fast enough for Red to throw out that "hey negro come here" joke. If nobody has heard this yet it's an interview with Lamont from a decade ago on Dallas radio. Gone down in history as one of the wild interviews from that time on the station. https://www.theunticket.com/bad-radio-demond-wilson-aka-lamont-sanford-gbl/
December 24, 20214 yr to get you in the Christmas spirit, how about the Ebenezer Sanford episode featuring him singing at the end:
December 25, 20214 yr 5 hours ago, Hermanator said: Guess that's the only way they could empty it fast enough for Red to throw out that "hey negro come here" joke. If nobody has heard this yet it's an interview with Lamont from a decade ago on Dallas radio. Gone down in history as one of the wild interviews from that time on the station. https://www.theunticket.com/bad-radio-demond-wilson-aka-lamont-sanford-gbl/ fuck that motherfucker. I didn't listen, but I hate that prick. Redd Foxx had a salary dispute with NBC when this show was hot. They were paying him something like $20,000/week, he wanted twice that. Fucking "LaMont" did this whole bullshit thing about how "the studio is acting like the master and they think that Redd is the slave". I mean, fuck that motherfucker. How dare he compare somebody making a shit-ton of cash to a fucking SLAVE? Fuck that motherfucker.
January 16, 20223 yr Fred: "...and take this faggoty jacket with you!" Damn, I forgot about that one. LOL
December 9Dec 9 I use "You Big Dummy" a lot and of course this is where I got it from, but I really never watched a whole episode because it came out before I was alive. I would see parts of reruns in the 80s, but was still too young to really care to watch it. So the other night I decided to start it from the beginning. Not sure how far I will make it through the whole series, but I love the non PC comedy lol.
December 9Dec 9 On 12/22/2021 at 3:33 PM, Hermanator said: This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. When Julio takes Fred and Lamont to a Puerto Rican restaurant. Crazy to think that the actor playing Julio asked to be written out of Miami Vice after the first four episodes because he didn't want to live and work in Miami - they replaced him with Edward James Olmos.
December 12Dec 12 How about Fred singing The Christmas Song from Season 5, Episode 12 'Ebenezer Sanford'
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