Good Times (TV Series)

The I.Q. Test (1974)

Jimmie 'JJ' Walker: James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.

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Quotes 

• Florida Evans : [J.J. painted a picture of Michael]  Why'd you paint him in a nightgown?

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : That's no nightgown, that's a Supreme Court judge's robe.

  Florida Evans : Why's it purple?

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : That purple symbolizes something.

  James Evans, Sr. : What's it symbolize?

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : It symbolizes that I ran out of black paint.

• Michael Evans : One question asked "a mother, father and two children live in a residence with 5 bedrooms. The mother and father sleep in one bed and the two children each have their own bedroom. How many guest bedrooms are there?" How many kids in the ghetto are going to know what a guest bedroom is?

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : Yeah, the only time we get a guest room around here is when somebody puts a sleeping bag in the bathtub.

  Florida Evans : And a lot of kids in the ghetto don't have their own bedrooms either.

• James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : [Thelma hits J.J] 

  [points] 

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : Hey Ma, you see that?

  Thelma Evans : [mocking J.J] 

  [points] 

  Thelma Evans : Hey Ma, you see that?

  James Evans, Sr. : Hey Junior, you see this?

  [raises fist]