Good Times (TV Series)

J.J.'s New Career: Part 1 (1976)

BernNadette Stanis: Thelma Evans

Quotes 

• Michael Evans : Well, you know, there's gotta be something we can do, and the only thing we can do without is the telephone.

  Thelma Evans : Hey, hey. Maybe you can do without the telephone, but not me. None of my boyfriends can reach me.

  Michael Evans : Thelma, I seen them creatures you call your boyfriends, and you should be begging to have that phone yanked out of here!

• Willona Woods : Flo, I have just solved your problems financially. Come on over here, everybody. Take a look.

  Florida Evans : Oh, great.

  Thelma Evans : Oh, let's see this!

  Willona Woods : You are about to get a crash course in the Willona Woods School of Home Economics.

  Florida Evans : All right.

  Willona Woods : Now, these are your bills, right?

  Florida Evans : Right.

  Willona Woods : All you got to do is put a $5 payment on each bill. That's all.

  Florida Evans : [Points to a bill with no payment]  Well, that's great, Willona, but there's nothing on this one, which means they just repossessed the refrigerator!

  Willona Woods : Oh, just hold on, honey. That's the beauty of the system.

  [Places a payment from one bill to the other] 

  Willona Woods : Look at that. Now your refrigerator is back on and you can eat again.

  Florida Evans : On the floor? They just took the furniture.

  Willona Woods : I ain't never told nobody the system was perfect, did I?