Let's Be The Jeffersons!

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

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

I’m the nickname “Weezy.”

I was used because “Phlegmy” was already taken.

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.

I'm the acromegaly that afflicted Mr. Bentley.

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

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

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)??

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

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

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🖕

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.

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."

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

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

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

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

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.

R5

“I’m just as God made me.”

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

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

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

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

I'm Ralph the doorman giving off molester vibes.

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

I'm the trans friend episode.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Live your dreams!

I'm Mr. Whittendale.

[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.

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

$$$$$

He was a wealthy publisher.

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.

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

I'm Ja'net Dubois...

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.

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

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

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

I'm Roxie Roker's affected accent.

I’m “HONKY!”

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

I'm the toilet right by the front door.

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

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.

R48, hold my beer

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.

[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"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m sexy Lionel. I return.

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

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

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

I sympathize with Mother Jefferson.

R55 sister’s cousin? Was she in blackface?

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

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!