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Even though it was totally unrealistic ending with everyone having great fortune at one time, you couldn't help but feel good. Everyone was getting out of the ghetto. JJ landed a comic book deal. Thelma's husband became a running back with the Chicago Bears. Willona became the head buyer for the boutique. A lot of the shows in this series were depressing and hit home with social issues, but this show was aptly named and will always stay in my memories as one of the best endings to a great sitcom series. I always appreciated how the family was always jabbing each other with great insults, but when the going got tough, they always stuck together.

"The End of the Rainbow" ties up all the loose ends from this sixth season for a series finale that equals Good Times for all. It's Thelma and Keith's first wedding anniversary, and Willona announces her promotion to head buyer, enabling her and Penny to move to a better apartment on Baker Street. JJ is ready to demonstrate his Dyno-Man character once again (introduced in "Florida's Favorite Passenger"), asking Bookman to drive him downtown wearing his costume: "are you kidding, I wouldn't be seen in public with you looking like that, what'll people think?" "they'll think we're Fatman and Robin!" JJ's gift to the happy couple is a trip to the Bahamas, courtesy his new job as a working comic book artist, having sold a new version of his cartoon character, rechristened Dyno-Woman, bearing Thelma's lovely face. Keith's surprise is a clean bill of health and a brand new, $60,000 free agent contract with the Chicago Bears, topped by Thelma's news, pregnant with their first child! As if that isn't enough, their new abode on the North Side, with Florida as live-in grandmother, just happens to be the same building where Willona and Penny will live on the ground floor (Michael will live on campus). After all the trials and tribulations, and the shocking demise of father James, the series deserved to end on a high note, and somehow they actually came through with flying colors.