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Let's Be The Jeffersons!

I'm beans that don't burn on the grill.

by Anonymousreply 65August 4, 2024 11:09 AM

I’m Billy Dee Williams? Billy Dee Williams?!?

by Anonymousreply 1August 1, 2024 5:10 AM

I’m the second Lionel. The gay o d. who was, allegedly, at the Stonewall riots.

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by Anonymousreply 2August 1, 2024 5:12 AM

I’m the nickname “Weezy.”

I was used because “Phlegmy” was already taken.

by Anonymousreply 3August 1, 2024 5:16 AM

I’m Mother Jefferson and I’m going to have a Bloody Mary and then take a nap, if I can find a clean spot to sit down in this pigsty of an apartment Louise keeps.

by Anonymousreply 4August 1, 2024 5:19 AM

I'm the acromegaly that afflicted Mr. Bentley.

by Anonymousreply 5August 1, 2024 5:22 AM

I'm Weezy answering the phone at the Help Centah!

by Anonymousreply 6August 1, 2024 5:30 AM

I'm Weezy's old friend Edith Bunker. When the Jeffersons moved on up Weezy cut me out of her life.

by Anonymousreply 7August 1, 2024 5:51 AM

Didn’t Edith show up at a party at the Jefferson’s new pad (the same party where Archie referred to Mother Jefferson as Mammy)??

by Anonymousreply 8August 1, 2024 6:11 AM

That was a flashback episode where the Jeffersons met Tom and Helen Willis. Lionel revealed he was dating Jenny and neither family was pleased.

by Anonymousreply 9August 1, 2024 6:34 AM

Why are people into old tv shows? They sucked, shows are better now.

by Anonymousreply 10August 1, 2024 6:47 AM

I'm the building in the opening scene when George and Louise arrive to move in. My husband's cousin lived there and starved herself after her mother died. She definitely moved on.

R10= killjoy youngblood. Shoo🖕

by Anonymousreply 11August 1, 2024 6:54 AM

I'm George's cocky strut as he walks through the front entrance. Because not long before the only way a black person came in was through the service door.

by Anonymousreply 12August 1, 2024 7:00 AM

I'm me watching The Jeffersons as youngster and thinking that while George and Weezy's apartment was perfectly nice, it wasn't very big or very "deee-luxe."

by Anonymousreply 13August 1, 2024 7:00 AM

I'm the actor who played Bentley, years late later, appearing briefly alongside Tom Cruise in Cocktail as a curmudgeonly business professor.

by Anonymousreply 14August 1, 2024 7:02 AM

I never realized how big the apartment was. I'd call a three bedroom four bath with a terrace in NYC deee-luxe.

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by Anonymousreply 15August 1, 2024 7:05 AM

We are the token ugly white folks who are treated like black folk down the hall.

by Anonymousreply 16August 1, 2024 7:53 AM

I’m the 21 year age gap between Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley…

by Anonymousreply 17August 1, 2024 8:11 AM

I’m George’s fussy demeanor, colorful outfits and explosive persona leaking out of the closet edges.

This young gaylings knew, George, oh, and very much appreciated you. RIP.

Years later as a teenager I had to hire our family lawyer who was a white, Jewish version of George Jefferson, and he gave me very sound advice about leaving our small town and never coming back.

I realized only years later it was because he was in the closet and didn’t want me to wind up like himself.

I got to thank him twenty years later when I had to hire him for my mother’s trust.

by Anonymousreply 18August 1, 2024 8:29 AM

R5

“I’m just as God made me.”

by Anonymousreply 19August 1, 2024 8:53 AM

I'm the viewer wondering what Helen could have seen in whitebread Tom.

by Anonymousreply 20August 2, 2024 2:12 AM

I'm the "TOOK A WHOLE LOT OF TOILING JUST TO GET UP THAT HILL".

by Anonymousreply 21August 2, 2024 2:30 AM

He was kind man, a loving father, and a good provider… and ate pussy like it was his last meal on earth.

by Anonymousreply 22August 2, 2024 2:36 AM

I’m Florence, and it’s my break time, Mr. Jefferson! Get it yourself!

by Anonymousreply 23August 2, 2024 2:38 AM

I'm Ralph the doorman giving off molester vibes.

by Anonymousreply 24August 2, 2024 2:42 AM

Side bar - Paul Benedict (Mr. Bentley) was gay

by Anonymousreply 25August 2, 2024 2:58 AM

I'm the trans friend episode.

by Anonymousreply 26August 2, 2024 3:04 AM

There's a clip in the show's opening where George is dancing on the bed. It looks to be a teeny tiny full-size bed.

by Anonymousreply 27August 2, 2024 3:06 AM

I am the "disco" episode .....

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by Anonymousreply 28August 2, 2024 3:18 AM

I’m Florence in the unemployment line if THE JEFFERSONS were real life.

by Anonymousreply 29August 3, 2024 1:03 AM

R12 I never ever made that connection of the opening clip. Now it makes so much sense ! Thank you for sharing this.

by Anonymousreply 30August 3, 2024 1:57 AM

It's because of the Jeffersons that I always wanted a surly maid.

by Anonymousreply 31August 3, 2024 2:00 AM

It's because of the Jeffersons that I BECAME a surly maid.

Live your dreams!

by Anonymousreply 32August 3, 2024 2:02 AM

I'm Mr. Whittendale.

by Anonymousreply 33August 3, 2024 2:03 AM

[quote] I'm the actor who played Bentley, years late later, appearing briefly alongside Tom Cruise in Cocktail as a curmudgeonly business professor.

He was also the theatergoer mistaken for the title character in WAITING FOR GUFFMAN.

by Anonymousreply 34August 3, 2024 2:03 AM

[quote] I'm the viewer wondering what Helen could have seen in whitebread Tom.

$$$$$

He was a wealthy publisher.

by Anonymousreply 35August 3, 2024 2:04 AM

I never knew the actor who played Mr. Jefferson was gay for decades later.

Although looking back Weeze does look like it was more of his faghag than a wife.

by Anonymousreply 36August 3, 2024 2:09 AM

I'm Tom and Helen Willis's son Allan. I was rarely-seen because I've been studying in Europe. I can also hold my own at "the dozens" vs. George

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by Anonymousreply 37August 3, 2024 2:27 AM

I'm Ja'net Dubois...

by Anonymousreply 38August 3, 2024 2:48 AM

I'm Tom and Helen's kitchen and bedroom, which I don't think were ever shown beyond season two. We even had a service entrance that Louise used when she visited.

by Anonymousreply 39August 3, 2024 2:56 AM

I'm the competing dry cleaner's jingle that is SO catchy, Weezy and Florence are singing it.

by Anonymousreply 40August 3, 2024 3:08 AM

No way Lionel would have been normal and nice with parents like those.

by Anonymousreply 41August 3, 2024 3:09 AM

I'm Mr. Bentley's tighty whities he wears in the opening.

by Anonymousreply 42August 3, 2024 3:55 AM

I'm Roxie Roker's affected accent.

by Anonymousreply 43August 3, 2024 3:57 AM

I’m “HONKY!”

by Anonymousreply 44August 3, 2024 4:22 AM

I’m the whole lot of of tur-a-hin that it took to get up that hill

by Anonymousreply 45August 3, 2024 4:43 AM

I'm the toilet right by the front door.

by Anonymousreply 46August 3, 2024 4:43 AM

I'm the 70s when sitcoms could be controversial.

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by Anonymousreply 47August 3, 2024 4:52 AM

I’m the only film or television program in human history in which the wife is played by an actress 20 years older than the actor playing the husband.

by Anonymousreply 48August 3, 2024 5:22 AM

R48, hold my beer

by Anonymousreply 49August 3, 2024 8:00 AM

I'm the collection of Emmys Sherman Hemsley never won during is time on the show playing George Jefferson. He was one of the best comedic actors on television. He was nominated once - in 1984 - and didn't win. He was nominated for a GG once - in 1985 - and didn't win.

by Anonymousreply 50August 3, 2024 2:45 PM

[quote]I'm beans that don't burn on the grill.

what the muthafuck does that mean? green beans? Baked Beans? I love soul food like anyone does but are you really grilling these things? or is it a "Griddle"?

by Anonymousreply 51August 3, 2024 2:49 PM

I’m the fish that don't fry in the kitchen.

by Anonymousreply 52August 3, 2024 2:59 PM

I assume the beans were heated in a can hobo style.

by Anonymousreply 53August 3, 2024 4:02 PM

I'm the few satisfying times that Louise clapped back at Mother Jefferson's shade.

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by Anonymousreply 54August 3, 2024 5:45 PM

My sister's cousin won a Weezy Jefferson lookalike contest in Orange, Texas

by Anonymousreply 55August 3, 2024 6:06 PM

And Mother Jefferson could dish out the shade. "I just knew it was you Louise."

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by Anonymousreply 56August 3, 2024 6:10 PM

My George has wonderful taste... in most things.

by Anonymousreply 57August 3, 2024 6:13 PM

I’m sexy Lionel. I return.

by Anonymousreply 58August 3, 2024 8:15 PM

Mother Jefferson should be a DL icon, if she isn’t already.

by Anonymousreply 59August 3, 2024 8:45 PM

Mother Jefferson took over where Endora left off as 'mother in law' of the TV sitcoms.

by Anonymousreply 60August 3, 2024 9:32 PM

I’m Henry Jefferson, George’s brother, who appears several times on All in the Family and never on The Jeffersons.

by Anonymousreply 61August 3, 2024 9:47 PM

I sympathize with Mother Jefferson.

by Anonymousreply 62August 3, 2024 11:26 PM

R55 sister’s cousin? Was she in blackface?

by Anonymousreply 63August 3, 2024 11:43 PM

R55. Your sister's cousin isn't your cousin?

by Anonymousreply 64August 4, 2024 12:04 AM

r63 / r64 Oops - wow, I left out quite an important word there - step. My STEP sister's cousin......

r64 Not sure what 'welfare' has to do with it - was a sitcom-themed event!

by Anonymousreply 65August 4, 2024 11:09 AM
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