Amos 'n Andy - Quo Vadis (1951)
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- When an old school chum visits New York, the Kingfish poses as a millionaire in order to perpetuate a hometown myth that he's an extremely successful New York businessman.
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One of the best shows to ever be on TV
We couldn't wait for the show to come on the whole family loved Amos and Andy
I grew up with Amos and Andy. loved the show. Watching it again I can see why. Well written and clean natural comedy.
So thankful these are still being made available to watch.
THAT was really comedy! Wonderful talent, great writing. What today passes as comedy is nothing more that fully blown emotional, deranged psychosis. Amos and Andy the world has become to vitriolic to appreciate such innocent comedy. BLESS ALL that produced those shows.
I love the show......!
I'm Mexican and been watching this delightful show since 1956!!!!
What a Joy. Our family.looked forward to watching Amos & Andy every week..How time time flies, That was PRICELESS!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
My father and I couldn’t hardly wait for the Amos and Any show to come on the television . I really miss that show
Crazy
And you have to remember, all their shows were Black and White, no Color TV in those early 50's
@@gsallison1 Were you trying to make a pun (B&W)? If not, you succeeded anyway! LOL I remember seeing them in the early-'60s, before the despicable NAACP forced CBS to take them off by '66. This series showed blacks as middle class or upper-class (ex, lawyers) people, not the usual janitors and maids! So how the hell could it be considered "racist" by the overly-sensitive, race-baiting NAACP (who should disband their outdated org.) when it was far classier (a better pun!) than when they were shown as typical, working-class janitors/maids. The show had superb writers to complement the fine actors. The horrid, race-baiting NAACP allowed "All in the Family" to air (Jan. 1971), without a peep of protest, although Archie Bunker frequently made negative references to them using terms that should have made the NAACP explode! Why the double standard? Did Archie Bunker's idiocy on race make all whites the same as he? Of course not! In many respects, the 1950s to the late-1960s had far higher quality tv series than the mostly junk stuff that is promoted today! The NAACP should relent, and finally allow people to see this series, at least on (cable) television, and then stop meddling in every other tv series! Let the ratings (and now social media) guide which tv series stay or go, instead of pressure from this one long outdated and now un-necessary, and despicable, ugly race-baiting organization!
Those of you today do not know or appreciate Amos and andy...no racism just great show
I remember Queen for a Day would come on and after Amos and Andy, soooooo funny 🤭
Loved Amos N Andy, it was one of the funniest show on and no racism, just a funny show, it is amazing that it is still available.
I heard it was the families of the actors that won’t allow them to be shown. That people (whites?) laughed at them not with them? No one I have ever known has said that about them. They are funny!
@@elizabethapfelbaum1240 Hello, this is the first time I have ever heard this accusations. It is not true. The families had no power to do anything about the A&A series. Please fact check and research for the truth. It is all online.
But I'm glad you think
they are funny as they are
great and wonderful comedians.
@@maldijaili6799 Good to know, thank you!
As a teenager. I enjoyed watching Amos & Andy
Very happy to have discovered these video's
Amos N Andy , was the best in the 50 s . Clean, respectful, and full of laughter. Let’s not forget ...momma, Sapphire and the rest of the Best !!
I love every Episode of Amos and Andy
What beautiful childhood memories. Thanks.
All of the characters, including Kingfish, even Mama-in-law were were endearingly represented in a wonderful and entertaining way. We've lost our innocence.
I've been watching "Amos N' Andy" since I was a kid, in the early 1980's. I hadn't seen this episode, but it continues to prove what I've always believed: the writing and comedic timing on this show was EXCELLENT!
How are you doing today my name is Eric
I have always loved this show, even as a child. I have the whole series. So funny and entertaining to me.
@ Felicia Riley Hello,
Would like some info on this whole series. How good is the video and audio? How many of the episodes are in your series?
Thank you for your help
I grew up watching these guys. Though born white I loved the program. A little child knows laughter, not race. I still feel like they are old friends.
@Baadass Mofo - A 5 year old child does not know race, but does recognize laughter. The Amos & Andy cast were my friends, though I didn’t know you couldn’t befriend a television character. They were very funny and a talented cast. It maybe hard for you to believe, but I laughed with them, not at them. We laughed at their antics and predicaments. As I grew older and would hear of the passing of the cast my heart would sorrow, as if I lost a friend.
“Beulah” was another program featuring a black star. I loved her as I loved my own grandmother.
Rocked my world? Yes, in the most favorable way. They were part of my childhood family and I love them dearly. Now, at 73, that has not changed. And when I die, I will look them up if I can, and thank them for making my world a better place. I cannot say that about any white TV personality. Why? I think it was a matter of talent. My black TV friends put their hearts in what they were doing. Everyone else just seemed to be a performer.
@Baadass Mofo Every main character on every sitcom ever created, black or white, is a damn stereotype. That's why it's comedy. There are intelligent black people on this show, too. But we don't want to see them in a comedy.
@@BrotherApexx There are and have been black sitcoms in the late 60’s and 70’s. But this show I watched with my grandparents. They were funny. Great memories seeing this again. Just can’t believe they were taken off the air and kept off. Talented actors all.
What a funny show ! I used to watch this all the time .
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Just a great show Luv it more now than when I was a kid!!! LOL
My Grand Dad used to lay on the couch and laugh with this Show. Da King-fish was always scheming and Andy always got the short end of the stick. No play on race just good comedy for all.
This show has great script writers and a top notch cast to deliver the material. As good as it gets.
The Amos and Andy show were always theBest. Although time has gone by it’s still the best
Watched it faithfully as a child. My father loved it.
What a wonderful flashback, never missed a show!!!
Just for laughs and giggles I would like to see some of these programs again. They are really funny.
Better than I love Lucy I always thought
Agreed. Far more interesting and less predictable.
NO !
I was born in March 1951. I enjoyed seeing the check written in November 1951 when I was only 8 months old. I watched this show with my mother and father in childhood. I never understood why Amos was considered the star with Andy because it was rare that an episode focused on him. The Kingfish was definitely the star. I hope to see Sapphire's mother Mama in another episode because she always gave the Kingfish a headache which he usually deserved. She was a Madea figure way before Tyler Perry's creation. Thank you for sharing. This show always makes me laugh out loud.
The very early radio shows from the 30's and 40's did feature Amos and Andy, with Kingfish an extraneous character. Kingfish did begin dominating the show, especially in the early 50's when it was put on TV. They kept the old name, however.
I was 10 months
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@ Denise Hardy. Hello,
May I ask what check you are talking about?
@@maldijaili6799 Hi, it's the check written for cash by Kingfish at :38 seconds in the video and dated in November 1951.
This show and its entire cast was an absolute classic - and still is. Laughs, predicaments, and always gentle justice served to the devious Kingfish. Along with "Gun Smoke," and "Gillette's Friday Night Fights" this was a show my family never missed.
Yep the good times😂👍🤣
I was very young when this show aired .I really enjoyed watching it .the show was very funny.
How are you doing today my name is Eric
I also grew up with Amos Amos and Andy and never thought about them being black. They were a great comedy team and could make you laugh that's all that mattered.
BLACK LiVE MATTERS
@@metrometro4248 All lives matter.
I love this show still. And grateful that the show still Aires and they still make us laugh.
I loved watching the show when I was a kid. Long time ago.
Me too, a long time ago, great performers...
Love the show my dad loved it so so so much like to hear more of it thank you God-bless
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@@alvinthomas1018 got to whiz on over somewhere, loved to hear Lighting say that...still makes me smile
Humor we sorely need today.
Thank You I never saw this. Sad this generation does not have such great clean comedy as my parents had. Love it
A a a
My favorite show growing up. Tim Moore, Spencer Williams, Ernestine Wade and the rest were exceptional performers. Never understood taking them out of circulation. They are truly a great tribute to Black Americans.
Never thought much about color just loved the show
@@larrytyndall3536 946
I really don't think it was about black people. It was just about people.
I loved this show I was a young child but I will not forget it ever
It really doesn’t matter these days what COLOR the actors were back then, funny is funny, period. God bless Amos, Kingfish, Sapphire and the Kingfish!
I loved the interaction between kingfish and his mother inlaw
@Herb- Please don't forget 'Mama-in-law'.
@@prudencehorvath8466 Hello, she should have stayed in Brooklyn and minded her own business.
She didn't like George and said as much often and she was also a very bad name caller. She was always telling Sapphire how to manage the marriage and it was not comedy, it was meddling.
By the way, how did she earn a living? Looks like she was healthy enough to be out doing some kind of work!!!
i have all these shows on discs. i watched and loved them when they were on tv.
I was born in 1953 and my Dad was born in 1907.Only program that both children and adults both laughed at. Best comedians that ever lived.
Yep. My father was born in 1906, I was born in 1947. My grandparents were born in the 1880s as I recall. Three generations of white folks gathered around our Muntz cabinet style TV, all enjoying the antics of Amos and Andy, How we loved that show. Momma was after The Kingfish, Calhoun the lawyer gave him unsound advice. Lightning was slow and steady on that broom. Sapphire was trying to make it all work while Andrew H. Brown, always the victim, never learned a thing. Amos, the taxi driver, was the straight man who narrated the show while doing his best to be an honest, even-handed pal to all.
When that show ended I felt like someone in my family had died.
@@rascal0175 Great memories
@@rascal0175 Hello,
How fortunate you are to have a story to tell like that---three generations!!!
Right down my alley as genealogy is one of my hobbies.
But I must not leave the wrong impression as I did not care for Sapphire and Mama's womanhood. It was too demeaning and insulting and over the top.
I did love sapphire's singing voice, so beautiful and sweet. I wish she had made recordings but I don't know if she did.
My favorite was the lovable, likeable, intelligent, beloved national legend comedian and actor Tim Moore.
Again, thanks for your story.
@@maldijaili6799 Tim Moore and I were big pals, though we were on opposite sides of the TV screen. I was only 4 or 5 years old, and that didn’t seem to matter. As a child I wasn’t ready to consider social issues. I only knew them as they were presented and I shamelessly admit that I loved them as I did my own family. Maybe more because they never corrected me, spanked me or made me go to bed. There were other characters that were black thar came into our home via electronics. There was Beulah, who I now know was a maid, who seemed the only one with any sense in a white household. She was forever saving the day. And there was Willie the Handyman, who helped out Stu Erwin and his family. I remember him getting electrocuted harmlessly while putting up a TV antenna on a roof. I laughed as he appeared on the TV screen while getting shocked.
I had a big male Tabby cat whom I loved dearly. One day he was gone and I was (and am) brokenhearted. How I missed him. It was, and is, the same for Amos, Andy, and all the others. Now at 73 my clock is ticking and I will be gone. I hope to see my cat again and tell him how much I missed him. Again, it is the same with my black TV family. As an adult I hope to thank them for what they gave me as a child. They were a large part of my childhood and they, those black folk, made my life better for 70 years. Life, I was to learn, can be short of laughter and happiness, but no one can steal your memories.
My favorite comedy series.
Used to watch Amos and Andy when I was a kid. I had forgotten many of the episodes and some I never got to see. So it has been a great joy to watch them again. I can't remember the last time that I laughed so hard. There's no question that Amos and Andy is one of the best TV comedies of all time!
Always enjoyed watching this series. Good clean comedy.
I'm Black and loved Amos & Andy. Classy compared to the trash we have now.
Amen to that, Jim !
KIngfish was the man
Too true.
I'm white Jim but white or black this is just one of the best shows ever.
I'm white and at the age of 6 I watched this show with my Grand Dad. It was pure comedy for all to enjoy.
I used to watch this as a kid. Way ahead of its time. This stuff will be funny forever and it's not Racist ! Just pure humor.🙉🙈🙊 🎼VG.
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When I was a kid we would watch. We love it it was funny. This was a great show
I just love George Kingfish. Always pulling schemes and the faces he makes is priceless.
One of the best shows ever made.
My father and I used to watch Amos and Andy every week. Kingfish was always getting into some sort of scheme. We didn't miss a show.
What a great lesson and story. Decades from when I watched this sitcom as a child. I appreciate them so much more.
Thanks for posting.
How are you doing today my name is Eric
I so seeing Amos and Andy again. Kingfish reminds me a lot of my dad when I was a child. Dad was a wheeler and dealer for years 'til he settled later in life. And he actually had a good friend who was a lot like Amos and he actually drove a taxi cab for a living. My mom, like, Sapphire, was a faithful wufe who put up with dad's shenanigans for years. Thanks for sharing this show. It's great to see all the different personalities. These stories brings to mind so many memories of my childhood - a great variety of persoalities of both family and family friends. Most have passed now just like, I guess, most of the show's cast. Thanks again.
How are you doing today my name is Eric
@@ericmoore6716 Doing fine, thanks. Trust you are, as well. 🙏♥️✝️✡🇺🇸🇮🇱🎺📣
@@shirleybowers7251 okay cool
@@shirleybowers7251 so where are you from
This is a great comedy and our people did a great job. We are small minded and insecure, great actors during the 50’s. Enjoyed this episode so very much. Thank you.
How are you doing today my name is Eric
I loved "Amos 'n Andy." The actors and the writing are pure genius. Each show is ostensibly a light-hearted Harlem-esque situation comedy -- but in reality, a morality play, a tradition which goes back at least to the Middle Ages and Piers Plowman.
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Someone told me this was the first network television sitcom that the main characters were black (I think that’s what it was) and that it was one of the funniest shows they’ve ever seen. So I’m here watching it and this is surprisingly funny even after all these years. This is great!
Watched as a child,good,clean fun for the whole family!
I watched this show as a kid and we All loved it.
I remember this episode perfectly... almost 70 years ago. Those guys still make me laugh. Thank you for posting this brilliant show !
My first time watching these guys. I remember my mom, telling me about them when I was a kid. VERY FUNNY!
great stuff..clever story, fine acting..and Andy- great voice!
I liked this show because it’s about us all.
@ Paul kunz. Hello,
Yes, exactly correct.
About life and the human condition no matter what ethnicity you happened to be.
And everyone needs some comedy now and then.
Still as funny now as it was when we watched this show so many years ago.
I remember this show when I was a kid-it was one of the best shows ever on TV.
I used to watch Amos and Andy all the time. It started the year before I was born.
Timeless Classic Comedy from Back in the Days
I watched this on tv as a young child. Good actors and good clean fun!
Moo
Unbelievable this had to go because some say it is not ok, yet watching sex and violence is all fine as long as they don't show stereotypes. Insane world.
Can buy
In the 80s my dad would rent these on VHS from silver plum video in rosedale, queens, NY.
Kingfish rules.amos and Andy the best.these guys were.pure funny and this is what we need on tv today.
Awesome watched as a Child still funny
I came up watching King fish an i watch it all the time, love it
Yes sir o love them actor back in those days 👏 yes sir they made me laugh
I have all the videos of Amos & Andy and I love them!! They are classics and are so much better then a Jerry Lewis or Abbott & Costello. Real talent!!!
@@karenlarralde2736 , Hello,
Please tell me where you got the videos from and are they good as far as audio and video are concerned?
I loved the show and would still watch it again if shown.
Amos and Andy was a great show
If CZcams actually starts putting ads on non-monetized videos by creators who never asked for them, that just goes to show how greedy this corporation can be. This thought is disgusting. CZcams is essentially making free money off small channels and not paying them a single penny. Yes, these are small channels, but since there's so many of them, CZcams will still make a huge profit off of this new policy. I don't care if CZcams hates us now, it must be said by someone. I urge to our subscribers that we spread the message to all creators, and urge CZcams to immediately repeal this new policy.
- Father
Listened to them in England when a small kid. Loved it as did my Dad.
Oh how I remember famous and Andy show it was really funny I looked at it every night that it would come on TV thank you.
Loved Amos and Andy back in te 50s. Stories so satisfying and old-fashioned. I even named our CB handle names, Kingfish and Sapphire altho I doubt if any of the young people got it lol......
Frank Zappa had a 1983 album called "Thingfish" in which his black singer, Ike Willis, took on the character of Kingfish.
He had grown up in a family where his siblings used to mimic the Kingfish. His characterization is spot-on and hilarious. You can hear parts of the album on CZcams.
This is my first time ever seeing these two guys and it's brilliant 😂🤬
Glad to finally see this show. I’ve heard my grandmother mention it several times in my life but never thought much of it. Wait till I call her! Lol
Nephew Tommy about the kidney
So funny! These shows are better than any cr*p that passes for comedy these days!
My next door neighbors the Gould family in 1951 watched this show. They were black.Their grandson is Bill Gould a law professor at Stanford University.
I'm an Amos & andy fan they were hilarious the were highly underrated my entire family loved watching them in the 50s
Andy & King fish what a classic as a kid me and my father loved watching them.
Great TV from the past, a shame they will never allow it on airways again.
Perhaps not but ... for what irrational reason?
They should.... it wouldn’t do any harm ; no one is cursing, no one is killing but someone using his whits
I am 78 years old and loved Amos and Andy .Was really sorry when they took them off the air.
Such good memories brought back from watching these old A 'n A episodes. I used to watch them with my dad when they were in rerun in the 60's. We would watch and almost double over with laughter. It's sad that humor like this doesn't exist any more. The reruns were pulled off the air for "stereotyping" black people, some were of the opinion that the show made fun of them..The fact is that it was a groundbreaking show, the first ever with an all black cast. I saw an old documentary some years ago that showed Jesse Jackson talking about the show and what a huge step forward it was for black actors.
Not one white face anywhere,try doing a show of any kid without a coloured or asian and you'd be slapped with a writ so fast your head wouldn't stop spinning.Funny thing about racism,it's a one way card always pulled from the pack.Different strokes for different folks hey Arnold.??
Now this really brought back memories of my childhoodI remember watching episodes of this when I was ten or 11 years old now I'm almost 70 , and they are expanding today when I was a kid in the south now I live in California 7/12/2020
@@bobbythorman7421 Hello,
If you mean there were no white people in the Amos and Andy TV episodes, look again. I see them all the time.!!!
My dad used to love this program - on the radio and on TV.
Best series comedy of all time , even I Love Lucy …We grew in the best generation , best music , food , cars , family diners , baseball , and best of all : no phones & computers …I am Blessed to be from this wonderful generation ! 1950s & early 60s
This is my favorite episode.
How are you doing today my name is Eric
This show was funny as hell, Why is it not on anymore?
@I8thumper Make that the hate filled NAACP who have about as much a sense of humor as a rattlesnake.
Cause of the freaking NAACP said it was racist!!! Pure ignorance ... Killed careers for a whole cast of black actors. This show may have gone on for at least 3 or 4 more years too.
I rememeber watching my dad vcr tapes of this show back in the early 90s. Love this show
Why can't everybody just get along , like George and Safire ?
this show needs to be on TV regularly
Thank you so much for posting. This was a show EVERYBODY loved.
I can remember plots of these shows that I saw over 60 years ago. One I remember may have had the same actor who played Sam the Wolf here. Kingfish is applying for a job, along with another candidate, and he's required to take an extensive IQ test; including pegs in the right shaped holes (his competitor just routinely breezed through it, Kingfish got out his whittling knife), and drawing a horse (the other guy produces a pencil rendering worthy of Remington, Kingfish draws a crude image of a horse with racing colors).
It was a crime the way they took this show off the air.
You can watch almost all of the episodes on CZcams. The one you refer to is called "The king fish finds his future". Enjoy!!
@@maldijaili6799 Hey, good man! Thank you.
You are very welcome. Happy to help.
(Sorry I did not know how to reply to your Gmail. I tried but it didn't work.)
@@TheRealDrJoey Hello,
I see that I have already replied to you but I will just add a little bit more to it.
Wow!! What a great memory you have!! At the end of this episode I remember that the Kingfish is painting the end of a barn while singing and humming ,I believe, " A hundred bucks a day".
The episode being entitled The Kingfish Finds His Future. The other actor's name is Roy Glenn. He is also in a few more episodes.
Recently I was reading another post about this episode and this person said that if only Kingfish really composed those drawings, signed and dated them, there's no telling how much they would be worth today.!!
Anyway, I know you can't tell by my name on the post that I am not a male but I am a grandma and need to get one of my grandchildren to fix that name for me by adding first name.
And yes, I would say it was a crime what they did to the show and how they treated the actors. Kingfish
received a last residual check in January of 1958 for $65.00.
Enjoy A & A
@@maldijaili6799 Okay, then. Correction: good Grandma!
I was about 5-7 years old when I saw these, but that's how good they were. I remember when Kingfish sold Andy a really imposing looking building that turned out to be a stage flat, and then I think somehow Andy cashed in on it anyway. And I remember Kingfish taking his painting and, I think a fish trophy or something, when Sapphire kicked him out, and he moved to the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge.
Watched them when I was young, i really enjoyed them. They were so funny it made my worries go away. Its a shame that black people are ashamed of them.
I have LOVED Amos and Andy for years and still do😂❤😅
The script writers and the players were good! I watch these shows like they are new-- to me, they are, since I've not seen them before!
I would love to see this again Amos and Andy
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@ Dennis Day, Hello,
All that is available can be found on CZcams.
I first saw Amos and Andy back in the early 1950s when I was a young child living in a Bronx tenement. Although I was less than five years old, I loved this comedy including the wonderful cast and their hilarious antics. I understand how some people might be offended by the Kingfish's exaggerated dialect, but the show was basically a situation comedy performed by brilliant actors. In that same time period, I enjoyed The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy, which also included beloved characters engaged in buffoonery. I have the fondest memories of those innocent times; even when my father caught me sneaking a peak at the Friday night fights, and sent me off to bed!
I remember my dad watching this show on Friday nights followed by boxing after a long week of work. I was about 2 or 3. I loved to hear the opening of the show with the choir. It brings back so many memories. Mom and Dad are gone now and I’m in my late 60’s but the choir in the intro.... so many memories.
I know white people in The Bronx with (real) equally exaggerated dialects!
The greatest comedy show ever made!
That was quite surprisingly good! Can't believe that it didn't have that much showings!
This show can match up with any show that is in production today.
I this one of my favorite shows to watch as a kid. The actress an actor's were so of most wonderful talent ever!
Thanks for keeping them alive!
These people made a living went just about impossible to earn real money any place in in the country. The open the doors for alot of talents to come.
I remain a big "Amos and Andy Show" fan and credit them with helping people that looked like me break into the entertainment industry. Thank you. Also, I remain non-supportive of the NAACP because of its aggressive role in destroying the careers of these people.
I never understood why people today think this show was racist. The original radio was using white actors to portray the characters but this is an all-black cast. This show reminds me of shows like "The Honeymooners" and "The Flintstones". In fact, Amos and Andy came before them.
If u notice Amos was not black...his face/ hands were painted brown
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@@latrieceb3619 he was black. He played the Reverend on Sanford and Son, too.
@@latrieceb3619 there’s no way this man was a (painted) black man! If so, they did a wonderful job in 1951 🤣
LaTriece B Hello! Happy new year and I hope you’re doing well and that this year will be the best one you’ve had! Amos was played by Alvin Childress and yes, he was a black gentleman but very light complected. So make up was indeed added to make him appear darker. At least, that is what my books on the Amos and Andy state . Just google in the name Alvin Childress for more information.
Wow Amis and Andy I watched the all the time as a child...
Thus show was so uplifting they were so respectable & funny as heck
I was in 5th grade when this was produced. I’m 81 years old now. I’m enjoying every one of these shows everyday.
@@anniel.marshall9563 there’s other shows you can watch that has black people doing more than always poor not finding work and not being Caricatures there’s a reason why the naacp had it canceled just like why John Amos left good times...
@@vidaldiddy Hello,
The NAACP did not have it canceled. They did play a role but that's not the full story. First you should find out who was controlling the NAACP at that time.
Then read deeper and you'll find out who all was involved besides the NAACP.
Fact check and research.
@@maldijaili6799 hello all though you may be right i am sure it wasn’t completely the naacp who got the show off the air. I was simply saying that there’s better tv for black people now a days that is not offensive to us. This show had no class no up bringing value or progress for black people. It’s a complete mockery as most of the shows we’re back then and the writers and producers were all white.
This was one of our family's favorite shows. I was just 6 years old when this episode was made. I don't remember it, but I find it very funny today.
How are you doing today my name is Eric